BLM

Rhokaya Kozáková

I am sure that all of you know something about the situation in the USA. But why are African Americans so angry?

As you know the demonstrations started with murder of Floyd. But these all racist experiences were in the USA all the time before.

I've started to be interested in the african americans at the summer holidays when I was watching Fresh Prince. This serial is not only a goofy sitcom it points to the discrimination against the black people. In one episode Will is arrested because he accidentally fell down on the car and the car started to drone loudly, the police officers thought that he wanted to steal the car and arrested him cruelly without any asking what he was doing. That made me think about it, because even if I live in Czech republic and it is not easy for people of my colour here, I've never met such bad and racist behavior. So I've started to ask questions. Why is it so different in the USA? Why do people think such things?

The organisation Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 in response to Trayvon Martin's murdere. Trayvon Martin was followed, shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman on the night of February. 26, 2012. "I've always fought for my family. My community. For Black poor people.

That's why when Trayvon Martin was murdered and in 2013 when George Zimmerman was acquitted my body and spirit was moved into action. I couldn't imagine how in 2013 a white passing person could kill a young boy and not be held accountable. I didn't want George Zimmerman to be the period to the story. I didn't want his name to be the name held up over and over again by the media, by his fellow white supremacists."

They are fighting for equality for all people. Everyone says "All lives matter". Yes, all lives matter but white people have never been through racism they don't need to fight for their rights. And it is not happening only in the USA, it is happening all over the world.