For instance, Kirk had claimed that 4 prominent & successful #BlackWomen, who all went to Ivy League universities — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the fmr first lady Michelle Obama, the TV host Joy-Ann Reid & fmr Rep Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas — did not “have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” & had to “go steal a white person’s slot.” He’d argued that “Black America is poorer, more murderous, more dangerous” than when #Black people were living under #JimCrow.
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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 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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