Like Kendi, Coates, and others, she had her own origin story. And where Kendi has the tale of the girl with her hand up and Coates has a story of a woman getting into a lift, Khilanani’s tale is a terrible story of a fallout with a boss over scheduling vacation time. Building on this traumatic origin story, she used her talk to express visceral and violent racism against white people. For instance, at one stage in her talk, she fantasized about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively
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