Civil Rights Activist on Protests over George Floyd’s Death: ‘There’s a Trauma That Has Settled Within People’

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MALLORY: “You know, it's too much. And there's a trauma that has settled within people and I'd like to say America has caused a level of mental illness within people within this nation, and not just black people but a lot of different people from different walks of life. So we're dealing with a bubble-over at this point, and people have tried to warn about this. We can go back and say Dr. King tried to warn us, Rosa Parks tried to warn us. Ida B. Wells tried to warn us. We've had people over and over again trying to warn us, reverend Jesse Jackson and so many others, and here we are in this moment and it is a moment that America is literally responsible for on its own."