BLM Movement creating change.
BLM Movement creating change.
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Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson
"No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."
The BLM movement has created a title wave of change worldwide.
Surfacing from immense pain and ongoing injustice, people of all race sex and age globally have supported and aided much needed change. My name is Megan Hunter-Hylands, a 20-year-old female from Montreal, Canada and my goal is to showcase how voices coming together as one changed the world.
Personally, I've never experienced racism directed towards me, but I've witnessed the pain it caused to people I love and care about. I've witnessed how injustice and ignorance can cause a deep fear and psychological trauma, how much it can wound a person. It makes me sick to my stomach how people choose to hurt instead of love, when love can heal everything.
The BLM movement allowed us to combine our voices and create change. Globally, the world has started a path towards equality. it might take a lifetime and more to even catch a glimpse at true equality, but here are some positive changes that came out of the injustice of the heroic names we will never forget.
Buffalo, NY: Two police officers were suspended without pay and later charged with felony assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester, who was hospitalised with a head injury.
Dallas: On June 4, Dallas Chief of Police Renee Hall implemented a new order instructing officers ‘to either stop, or attempt to stop, another employee when force is being inappropriately applied or is no longer required’.
New Jersey: A state official cited George Floyd's death as he announced the state will update guidelines to police governing the use of force for the first time in two decades
Los Angeles: The City Council introduce a motion to reduce the LAPD’s $1.8 billion (£1.4bn) operating budget for the coming year.
Maryland: Days after Floyd’s death, Maryland lawmakers said that they were forming a workgroup to address police reform and accountability.
New York City: Members of the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control board have refused to transport arrested protesters from demonstrations.
On Sunday June 21, the New York Police Department suspended a police officer who was involved in the arrest of a black man in Queens, after a video emerged showed an officer appearing to use an illegal chokehold.
Canada: Demonstrators have been protesting against police brutality and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old black woman who recently died in Toronto after falling from her balcony during a police investigation.
New Zealand: Senior ministers denounced Donald Trump as racist over his response on Twitter to protests over the death of Floyd.
Mexico: On Thursday June 4, Mexico held a candlelight vigil for Floyd and portraits of him have been hung outside the US embassy with roses and candles.
Syria: Syrian painter Aziz Asmar and his two friends created an eight-food-high mural on a bombed Idlib building to show solidarity with anti-racists in the US. It features the words: ‘I can’t breathe.’
Conclusively, the BLM movement has aided to spread more awareness than ever before. Ripping the curtains off of the stories that went unseen, through the aid of community and power of the people. We as a collective are still far from justice, still far from the end of discrimination, but with every voice we become one step closer. I believe love is the cure and answer to division and all hateful acts. Underneath our skin we are all but bones, created the same. We are all human, biblically bound as brothers and sisters. It is time to stand as one. -MH
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