19 Year-Old Princeton Student: Being Black in the US is Like Suffocating
The death of George Floyd, a black man who died on Memorial Day after he was pinned down by a white police officer, has sparked protests across the United States and even abroad.
In France, the event has even revived anger over the death of Adama Traore a black Frenchman who died in police custody 4 years ago. Some 20,000 people demonstrated in Paris on Tuesday.
I met my guest at the Kneel for justice protest yesterday in Princeton.
She was one of the speakers.
She is a Prospective Molecular Biology Major at Princeton University. Welcome to Back in America Imani Mulrain
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From the conversation:
"Being Black in the US is like suffocating—we're so used to all this trauma and seeing things so often that it's not really surprising anymore, and we shouldn't normalize that." -- 19 Year-Old Princeton Student- Being Black in the US is Like Suffocating
"Just because Biden is in power doesn't mean that everything is going to magically change, that racism is going to end—there needs to be proactive change and active steps done to mitigate these things." -- 19 Year-Old Princeton Student- Being Black in the US is Like Suffocating
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