After a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman,who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, Alicia Garza said it sent a message that “our lives don’t matter.” Garza and two others co-founded Black Lives Matter, and a very contemporary civil rights movement built on the power of social networks to shape the national conversation. In a conversation with David Remnick,Garza discusses the aspirations of Black Lives Matter beyond the issue of police violence, and her own strange upbringing as a black Jew from Marin County, or California. Garza admits that she is disappointed in Hillary Clintons treatment of Black Lives Matter activists,and questions Clinton’s changing stance on mass incarceration. Garza says that if Clinton is nominated, she will remove her vote elsewhere.
Source: wnyc.org