When They Call You a Terrorist

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors. When They Call You a Terrorist

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, organiser and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker and an NAACP History Maker. asha bandele, author of the bestselling memoir, The Prisoner's Wife, has been honoured for her work in journalism, fiction, poetry and activism. A mother and a former senior editor at Essence magazine, asha serves as a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance.

For Nisa and for Aundre and for all of our children, the ones who survive, the ones who do not.

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Did Alton ever say sorry for leaving us, for us being hungry? Did GM ever apologize to him or the hundreds of others whose lives were entirely disrupted by its closure—with no plan for what they could do next to support themselves and their families, no plan to continue a life with dignity? But here is Gabriel apologetic and public and I have no context for it. My mother is secretive. Ours is a home where grown folks’ business is grown folks’ business. Gabriel is public. Even in the moments of shame. He always returns to truth and honesty. He talks to the audience but I know he is really talking to me, talking to his family. He praises us. He thanks us for not throwing him away, for staying by his side when he went to prison, which is how our society responded to his drug use.

Later, when I get home no one asks me, How did it go? What was it like? Who else was there? I don’t remember any conversation at all, as though there wasn’t this whole universe growing just outside our door. I remember going into my room, going to sleep, getting up the next day and heading to school. And everything was everything.

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