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EIGHT FORTY SIX

  • Vernalee
  • Jun 11, 2020
  • 1 min read

By Vernalee

In outrage, a nation watched Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin holding his knee on George Floyd for Eight Minutes and Forty Six seconds as Floyd said, "I can't breathe" and called upon his Mother.

People of all colors have protested and Floyd has been laid to rest.

We have witnessed injustice being dished out to our Black men for years ... long before Emmett Till's lynching in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. We have marched with Rev. Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Glen Allan's own Jake Ayers, and other civil rights activists who have fought for our rights in every category as "minute" as being able to drink from the same water fountain as Whites.

Now, the proof is in the pudding.

"Is a change gonna come?"

The call to action is upon all of us.

What happens from here?

Time and what we do will tell!

 
 
 

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dembry3100
Jun 11, 2020

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gckidney24
Jun 11, 2020

Last night I watched a documentary on Neflex "What Happened Miss Simone.' It featured her life from a child learning how to play the piano to becoming one of the best muscial artist of her time during the civil rights movement. How the civil rights movement affected her life as an artist.

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