Lest We Forget!
R.A.G.E
Representing All Genuine Expressions
Because every voice matters!
As our country is burning remember these people who were unarmed and died. Say their names. Say prayers for their families. And please contribute to the cause to bring about change in your own unique way. Every voice matters!
May 25, 2020 George Floyd 46 (Minneapolis)
March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, 26 (Louisville)
February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, 25 (Georgia)
February 26, 2012 Trayvon Martin,17 (Florida)
April 30, 2014: Dontre Hamilton (Milwaukee)
July 17, 2014: Eric Garner (New York)
Aug. 5, 2014: John Crawford III (Dayton, Ohio)
Aug. 9, 2014: Michael Brown Jr. (Ferguson, Missouri)
Aug. 11, 2014: Ezell Ford (Florence, California)
Aug. 12, 2014: Dante Parker (Victorville, California)
Nov. 13, 2014: Tanisha Anderson (Cleveland)
Nov. 20, 2014: Akai Gurley (Brooklyn, New York)
Nov. 22, 2014: Tamir Rice (Cleveland)
Dec. 2, 2014: Rumain Brisbon (Phoenix)
Dec. 30, 2014: Jerame Reid (Bridgeton, New Jersey)
March 6, 2015: Tony Robinson (Madison, Wisconsin)
March 31, 2015: Phillip White (Vineland, New Jersey)
April 2, 2015: Eric Harris (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
April 4, 2015: Walter Scott (North Charleston, South Carolina)
April 19, 2015: Freddie Gray (Baltimore)
July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32 (Minnesota)
February 2016 Akiel Denkins, 24 (North Carolina)
February 2016 Gregory Gunn, 58 (Alabama)
(Sadly note that this is only a fraction of the people killed)
Yes this has been a problem for centuries. Now is the time to stop it! Thank you for the history lesson!
Thank you so much for placing the current situation in a historical content. In reality in our worst hour of fighting for social justice and equality, we are no match in behavior to the historical record of race relations in America. Let me go back even farther:*
1891 Omaha, NB: Joe Coe, an African American worker, was attacked by a white mob for allegedly attacking a white woman. Approximately 10,000 white people, mostly ethnic immigrants, swarmed the South Omaha courthouse, set it on fire, took Coe from his jail cell and lynched him. Reportedly 6,000 whites visited his corpse during a public exhibition, at which pieces of the lynching rope sold as souvenirs. (www.wikepedia.com/mass racial violence in USA)
1898 Wilmington,…