BREAKING: Black Lives Matter walk out on Marsh
Names were read of all those who were killed, and the crowd repeated them
“No justice, no peace! No racist police!”
Right now at Marsh Plaza, a crowd has gathered in a Black Lives Matter walk-out protest.
Through a Facebook event, students were asked to come together today to protest police brutality.
According to the page, the goal of the walk out is, “to incite action and demand change in our immediate and broader community around police brutality and systemic racism. Our goal is to disrupt the mundane everyday routine in a way community trauma, such as the senseless murders of black people, has in places such as Ferguson, Baltimore, Tulsa, and so many more.”
People of all ethnicities have come together to do just that.
The first speaker said, “we are not scared of calling out racism and bigotry.”
In a mention of “Imprisonment of a People,” Oren Nimni, is quoted, “There is one good thing about oppression, and that is that it brings resistance.”
“Back up back up, we want freedom freedom, all these racist ass cops we don’t need em need em!”
Tae’shoana Matthews, an organizer of the event lead the crowd in a chant.
Strips of fabrics were passed around to tie together in a big long chain, as a symbol of unity.
Another speaker, senior Kevin Smith said, “this is important to me beyond other events that happen around the nation. In returning to campus this fall, I found out there were a handful of black males who didn’t return to campus this year. When I say black lives matter, it’s beyond the interaction with police, it’s about how the way we support communities has to change. We have to consciously make change until the change becomes unconscious.”
Essen Harris, a BU junior explains why he came out today: “There are things that need to be addressed in our community. There are bad stigmas and the basic foundation of this is for the greater good. Being someone who has experienced racism and being treated different I owe it to be people who have been affected far greater than I have, to show respect. It’s my duty as an older brother to make sure they are treated equally.”