BLACK LIVES MATTER
Personal Anecdote
CATCHING UP IN CRISIS A GHANAIAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
By Rebecca Amonor
“S
hould Africans be concerned about social justice?” This was the headline of a flyer that my church sent out about a Zoom panel they were hosting on Sunday, June 28, 2020. Two thoughts immediately jumped to my mind: why is this even a question, and further, why are we just now having these conversations? Even in my own home, I have seen my family talk about racial injustice in a way that I have never witnessed before. The mass revival of the Black Lives Matter movement, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, has not only opened the eyes of non-Black people in America to racial injustice, but it has opened the eyes of my community of African immigrants in Columbus, Ohio. In this time of COVID-19 and racial injustice protests, my community has finally realized that the ir ethnic differences do not exclude them from the racial injustice that threatens every Black American.
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