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CHRISTIAN FOLEY:

It doesn’t sound frightening does it, a 10-year-old boy writing a poem entitled, Black Lives Matter? Do you know how many people were frightened by that to the point of hate and death threats? Many.

That is the country that we live in, and it’s a country that is kind of like a parallel world. You might not even know it exists. This is one of the best things I’ve ever read. One of the most necessary pieces of work that’s been written. We have to share this. It’s sad that it’s had to have been written, especially by a child.

We were even getting comments on BBC Bitesize, which is a website for children, by white supremacists who would come there, specifically to write these long essays. I learned a lot about white supremacy by responding to these comments. They were talking about the wildest theories I’ve ever heard and attacking a young boy because they were scared of him. And it showed every single point that he was trying to make about the racism that he felt and experienced growing up. It completely proved his point.