I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.

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• DeRay Mckesson:

  When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  I'm not desensitized to death.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.

• DeRay Mckesson:

  Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.