Out Of The Borders Freedom
Black Lives Matter The movement that changed history by Katarzyna Ciszewska
Last year the whole world experienced the anger, passion and determination for the ongoing police brutality targeting mostly black people. The Black Lives Matter protests started on 26th of May in the United States and continued up until September gathering people from all over the world.. What pushed people to their limits was a deadly attack on a 46-years old African-American man, George Floyd. The protests without a doubt marked a huge historical event. The unification from people all over the world no matter their race was truly remarkable.
How to use your white privilege
What a lot of white people don’t necessarily re-
ies which made police less aggressive or even stopped them from doing anything at all.
alise is how lucky they are to be white in certain “White privilege was granted to us situations. We can’t even imagine what it’s like at birth. It allows us to believe that to have others see us as suspicious or danger- because we have grown up in the ous simply because of the color of our skin. We same country, we all have had the don’t have to teach our children how to stay alive same chances and have the same if they’re ever confronted by the police. This alconsequences for our choices.” ready counts as a white privilege. In no way does it mean that white people don’t struggle with their lives, but it means that the color of our skin This privilege was granted to us at birth. It aldoesn’t make it harder. lows us to believe that because we have grown in the same country, we all have had the same During the protests, many videos were circulat- up ing over the internet where white people were chances and have the same consequences for guarding the black protesters with their bod- our choices. It allows us to think that we’re all “the same,” without acknowledging that the color of one’s skin actually makes a huge difference in how a person experiences the world and how that person is treated. It’s difficult to say if we could end the white privilege but what we, white people, can do is LISTEN. Listen to the people of color when they’re talking about their struggles. We could never experience the same difficulties as them. It’s important to name your own privilege and use your position or platform to educate people. SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT. © Martin Meissner
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