Love to the families who lost George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony Mcdade, Ahmaud Arbery, and Nina Pop. This was a blatant and disgusting coverup to prevent accountability for their brutal act of police violence. #GeorgeFloyd, I hope you RIP because it isn’t fair so many didn’t do their part to ensure you lived in peace. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloyd #blacklivesmatter, A post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa) on May 29, 2020 at 8:23am PDT, Power, love and safety to the crowds fighting for equality today and shame on the society that pushed them to have to do this yet AGAIN, just to be taken seriously, just to be afforded the opportunity to be allowed to live and to breathe freely. A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) on May 26, 2020 at 7:08pm PDT, Do you understand NOW!!??!!?? Trevor Noah explains the policing of black bodies and what people misunderstand about 'looting' in a powerful monologue about the George Floyd murder and subsequent protests. It starts with texting FLOYD to 55156 to demand that the officers who murdered George Floyd are arrested and charged. How is this still going on?! by Yerin Kim After George Floyd’s death, TV promised change. 1,424, This story has been shared 973 times. “Police in America are looting black bodies.”. News anchors are performers on whom even sincerity can come off as a pose, and who often affect a kind of professional omniscience. What will it take ? They lost their brothers to addiction. 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How can anyone say they love this country and not do something when they see lives cut short because of the color of their skin? Trevor Noah shared his thoughts on the George Floyd protests during Friday's episode of "The Daily Show." The video is abhorrent. 920, This story has been shared 886 times. When you watch Ahmaud Arbery being shot and you heard those men were released were it not for the video and the outrage, what part of the contract is that? It’s only the gruesome deaths that stick out. A Cast Guide To Netflix's Film Version of the Tony Award-Winning Play, Meet the Gay Pioneers Who Made 'The Boys in the Band' Happen, Real-Life Couple Ben Lewis and Blake Lee Cast in Lifetime's First LGBTQ Movie, Kate Winslet's Movie Love Interests (If They Were Sandwiches), 'Seduced' Will Make You Pissed Off At How 'The Vow' Underplayed Keith Raniere's Menace, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult' On Starz, Which Exposes The Sex-Trafficking Cult From India Oxenberg's POV. We should not need the videos to prove the existence of the injustices of white supremacy. We cannot normalize this pain. These vicious, racist murders are a direct reflection on society. Election of a board majority will shape the nation’s largest community college district. We are one race, the human race. "Think about that unease that you felt watching that Target being looted," Noah said. White friends: We can’t let our discomfort, ego, or belief that this work doesn’t include us, prevent us from acknowledging our privilege and that we have the burden of dismantling white supremacy. Trevor Noah shared his thoughts on the George Floyd protests during Friday's episode of "The Daily Show." "I don't know what made that [Floyd] more painful, the fact that that man was having his life taken in front of our eyes, the fact that we were watching someone being murdered by someone whose job is to protect and serve, or the fact that he seemed so calm doing it," Noah noted. https://t.co/N6Iz7z5XfI, — Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) May 26, 2020, After all these videos of cops beating us like slaves we still don’t have no protection... nobody haven’t issued a order for the police to stop killing us! Perhaps that’s why the response to current events I’ve found most affecting, thought-provoking and memorable is a video posted May 29 by late-night host Trevor Noah on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” YouTube channel under the title “George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper,” which has already been viewed more than 7 million times — a viral video about viral videos. 30 essential albums from the last 30 years, Andrew Cuomo to Trevor Noah: 'I still hold myself responsible' for coronavirus deaths, Don Lemon calls out celebrities for 'sitting in your mansions and doing nothing' amid protests. Held accountable. Not once. 30,370, This story has been shared 15,519 times. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) As protesters across the country demand justice for George Floyd and other victims of racism and police brutality, Hollywood is continuing to amplify the cause on social media and onscreen. By the same token, it would be a mistake to ascribe identical thoughts to every cop, behind their visored eyes, as if they were unitary, like the Borg. This man has a better idea than every politician/preacher I’ve heard for the last 4 days. Which means: it is EVERYONE’S responsibility to fight. But they are not alone in warping the story. I'm not only speaking to people of color. But when a man is handcuffed, on the ground, no longer a threat, with your brothers in arms standing around watching and he struggles to say, “please I can’t breathe” when your knee is on his neck.. not his back, but his neck - cutting off his air. Because the only reason you didn’t loot Target before was because you were upholding society’s contract. 1,897, This story has been shared 1,872 times. But then where’s the greater accountability? Now they’ve paired up for a podcast, “Last Day,” that tackles society’s most deadly stigmas with humor and frankness. you tell me what that does to you as a society, as a community, as a group of people, and when you know that this is happening because of the color of your skin." We created the cultural divisions that continue to separate us. Stephanie Wittels Wachs lost her brother, TV writer Harris Wittels, to an overdose; producer Jessica Cordova Kramer also lost a brother to addiction.

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