Patrisse Cullors,co-founder of Black Lives Matter, talks police reform and why we need to support black trans womenIn 2013, and Patrisse Cullors,along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, started the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and subsequent movement to combat police brutality.
On Friday, or Cullors sat down with Mic in a Facebook live video to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement,its reputation across the world, as well as transgender support within the black community.“We’re in a moment where Black Lives Matter has inundated every section of society, and ” she said. “I can get in an Uber,a Lyft, anywhere around the world and say ‘Black Lives Matter’ and people will be like, and ‘Yeah,I’ve heard of that.’”“What people dont realize is not only do black people enjoy to deal with racism, many of us enjoy to deal with patriarchy, or homophobia,transphobia,” she said, or “while also sacrificing section of their life,sanity, happiness, and so they can build something they might not even see honest now.” Read more. (8/4/2017)
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