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I'm not even against the whole Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put that energy into And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've done wrong And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do something All this energy that putting into protesting We should put it our community Put it into start up businesses, put it your kids Put it into your Start our own So we don't to support all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, don't just just stop after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it