Johnson Reagon

The speech by Johnson Reagon for me was a little confusing. She talks about coalitions and coming together in unity instead of being separated by the "X's" or staying inside of "barred rooms". It seems as she was saying that we live in a time where we try to find and separate people who are like us or similar to us. But it's not good to do that, and instead we must break down and live outside of the barred doors, or to live outside of the box. I think she's attempting to say that the century is turning and times are changing, therefore, calling for us a s a people to change. There's a portion where she talks about killing and babies and putting them in the forest to die. What does that have to do with anything? It seems she using it metaphorically, but what exactly she's trying to compare it with is a unclear.