That's what I mean when I say that the systems we have in place are woefully inadequate, because we tell women to leave, but where are they going to go in the dead of night with young children in tow? Housing is not available. Affordable housing is not available. Domestic violence pushes women into poverty. Domestic violence is a health risk. We cannot think about tinkering. We cannot think about doing things piecemeal. We cannot think about putting a bandaid over a cancerous sore. It won't work. We need to be bold. We need to be courageous, and we need to remove ourselves from these current systems that were not created for us, or by us. They were created by men.
I talk about white supremacy. It was created to benefit white men and, by extension, white women. Black women and indigenous women—we are on the margins. We are the ones who are dying at unacceptable rates. If people are not outraged, they're not paying attention. If people are not ready to do something differently they will suffer the consequences because this violence will hit home. It will touch them. The time for tinkering is over. We need to be courageous and we need to do things differently.