Arrested for tearing down Confederate statue

Taqiyah Thompson gave this speech about right and wrong, just before she was arrested for tearing down a Confederate statue.

Transcript

00:00There are only two sides in this struggle. There's right and there's wrong.

00:20I chose to do that because I'm tired of living in fear.

00:23I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the neck of people who look like me.

00:29All of the statues in North Carolina and all the statues throughout the South and all the statues in America have to go and they will go.

00:37The statue in Durham, North Carolina said, to the boys who wore the gray.

00:41And if we understand history, we know that those boys who wore gray today, they wear blue and they wear sheets over their heads

00:50and they beat up black people and they beat up Latino people, Latinx people, excuse me, and they beat up queer people.

00:57There are only two sides in this struggle. There's right and there's wrong.

01:01There's the side of anti-racism. There's black people's side.

01:05There's the side of oppressed people and there are the side of people who are Nazis and people who defend them.

01:11Last night, I saw a tweet by Roy Cooper who said there is a better way to tear down these statues.

01:18Well, if there was a better way, the statue wouldn't be standing for almost 100 years.

01:23Right. I think what we did was the best way.