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Durant did not want his daughter thinking that because her friends were grieving him that the things #Kirk had claimed were acceptable or right.
It was a difficult & heart-rending conversation, grappling with how his daughter’s classmates could admire a man who’d said such hurtful things. “I said it’s natural to be sad & I don’t want to change your opinion about being sad,” Durant recounted.
Durant did not want his daughter thinking that because her friends were grieving him that the things #Kirk had claimed were acceptable or right.
It was a difficult & heart-rending conversation, grappling with how his daughter’s classmates could admire a man who’d said such hurtful things. “I said it’s natural to be sad & I don’t want to change your opinion about being sad,” Durant recounted.
Durant continued, “But I am explaining to you that the gentleman who just got shot was under the impression that you, as a young #Black #woman, don’t have brain processing power. So I am explaining it to you to let you know what he said was wrong & not true.”
As a Christian, Durant also felt he had to address #Kirk’s version of #Christianity, which condemned & disparaged people who are #gay & #transgender.
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