It had been two days since the country’s greatest athletes refused to take courts and fields, to entertain a country that, to many of them, did not value their Black lives as much as White ones. The reason we had and we still have to say ‘Black Lives Matter’ is because we get less health care, like we don’t matter. We go to jail longer for the same crimes, like we don’t matter . Black lives matter, and we won’t stop until it matters to everybody.”ADADWhat followed was a procession of anguished Black men and women whose loved ones had been killed or maimed in recent years. After the speeches, many activists marched to King’s granite statue and Black Lives Matter Plaza while others shut down streets and bridges as thunderstorms rolled in.

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2020 15:24 UTC