Krista Knight, a playwright who protested this weekend in Manhattan, was among the many demonstrators wielding signs with slogans like "complicity" to indicate their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of the white man who shot dead Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black youth, in Florida. "I've done a lot of marches for other things, but this is the first time I've come out" for Black Lives Matter, said Marianne Macrae, 58. One, "White People for Black Lives," is aimed at helping white people detect and combat insidious forms of racism. "For all my life, when I thought of white supremacy, I thought of neo-Nazis and the KKK," the 47-year-old said.

Source: Daily Nation June 08, 2020 08:15 UTC