This week’s protest march in Dublin against the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis was notable for a number of reasons. It might be more accurate to take a word more associated with the fluffier corners of social media and call them “influencers”. That’s where young Irish people were watching the news from the streets of US cities, along with personal testimonies of racism experienced by people of colour both in America and here in Ireland. African-American culture – music in particular – rooted in black pride and resistance to racist oppression has an extraordinary resonance across the world. And it provides an inspiration for people of colour here and in other countries to articulate their own experiences.

Source: The Irish Times June 06, 2020 03:56 UTC