I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.

We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.

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