Yusra Khogali is a spoken word artist and the co-founder of Toronto's Black Lives Matter movement. In 2017, she resigned as the leader of Toronto's Black Lives Matter movement for her controversial remarks.

In July 2020, a social media post resurfaced from Khogali in which she apparently argues that white people are "sub-human" and are "recessive genetic defects."

Yusra Khogali is a daughter of a Sudanese diaspora from Regent Park.^[16]

Khogali completed her Master of Arts degree in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with a research focus on Black diaspora, Black African, anti-colonial, Trans*feminist Liberation thought.^[16]

Khogali is a black feminist multi-disciplinary educator, writer, performance artist, activist, public intellectual, emcee, and grassroots community organizer.

She co-founded the Black Lives Matter Toronto movement that has shifted the current political landscape of Canada by actively working to dismantle all forms of anti-Black racism.

Khogali also co-founded the Black Liberation Collective Canada, a Black student movement which works to create infrastructure for Black students around the globe to build power, using an intersectional lens, to eliminate anti-Blackness on campus.^[16]

Khogali has been criticized for controversial remarks.

In April 2016 Khogali tweeted "Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.

Plz Plz Plz."

^[13] After being criticized for the tweet Khogali responded by saying, "I am not a public official.

I am not a police officer.

The state does not entrust me with violent weaponry.

I have never contributed to the mass targeting of a community.

All I have done is used a turn of phrase, a rhetorical flourish, to voice my frustration and dared to be a person calling for justice."^[14]

In 2017, James Di Fiore called for Khogali to resign as the leader of Toronto's Black Lives Matter movement for her remarks.

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In July 2020, a social media post resurfaced from Khogali in which she apparently argues that white people are "sub-human" and are "recessive genetic defects."

She wrote the post on what appears to be her Facebook and attempted to use a genetic explanation involving melanin production to explain why white people are "defects." It went viral after it was shared by scholar James Lindsay.^[14]

"Whiteness is not humxness," reads the statement.

"in fact, white skin is sub-humxn."

"White ppl are recessive genetic defects.

this is factual," the post later says.

"white ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves.

black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to."^[14]

Khogali says that white people have a "higher concentration of enzyme inhibitors" which suppresses melanin production adding that melanin is important for a number of things such as strong bones, intelligence, vision, and hearing.

She adds, "melanin directly communicates with cosmic energy."^[14]

Her Twitter was later deleted following the heavy backlash.^[14]