just white people. All I was hearing
was some white lady shouting
about how white people beat us
before and they’ll beat us again. I
said, “You will never stop us again,
lady”—and here’s where I played
the trump card—“You’ll never stop
us, because now we have Nelson
Mandela on our side! And he told
us we can do this!”
“What?!”
She was so confused. I’d had it.
I started cussing her out. “Fuck you,
lady. Fuck your program. Fuck your
school. Fuck your whole people.
Let’s go, guys! We’re out!”
We didn’t walk out of that