Since George Floyd’s murder, on the 25th May 2020 due to police brutality, a roar has been heard across the United-States and spread through the western world. This murder was the last straw, the one that would start a riot and would rekindle the flame of the Black Lives Matter movement, created in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi following the discharge of George Zimmerman, the organizer of a white neighborhood surveillance, who shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old teenager.
A wave of protests took the world by storm, showing an essential solidarity towards victims of police brutality but first and foremost towards victims of institutional racism. déf
Now, more than ever, it is essential to turn the tables, but for that, we have to work together. As white people, we need to forget about what we have been taught in order to educate ourselves on what institutional racism is and how it affects people concerned.
Only then we will truly be able to listen to racialized people and to help them the best we can. We need to put them in the spotlight so that society does the same. By educating ourselves we can educate others, our family, our friends (hi racist uncles). And if you don’t know where to start, don’t worry, we have found 5 books that have taught us a lot on the matter and that will be useful for you as well. Good reading !