Black Parkland Survivors want to be Heard
The African American students and survivors of the parkland shooting are speaking up about their misrepresentation and lack of representation in this new movement. Several have said their voices have not been heard. They’re proud of their classmates, many of whom are white, and they have acknowledged their work and successes. But now it’s the turn of African American population of this school to speak up. Since 2012, the Black Lives Matter movement has been delegating on the topic of gun control with the murder of Trayvon Martin. One student said, “yet never have we seen this kind of support for our cause, and we surely do not feel that the lives or the voices of minorities are valued as much as those of our white counterparts.” Prior to the March for our Lives, student David Hogg, said the media has made a great mistake in under-representing the black students and not giving them a voice.
This is similar to in WWII, how African American soldiers fought alongside white soldiers, but were not held to the same level of esteem. They were sacrificing just as much, but were not getting their due credit and were forced into segregated units. Their voices were not heard as they were overshadowed by the white soldiers held up to be American heroes, when in reality it was the team effort. White soldiers were idolized in American homes while the voices of the black community were nearly silenced, until the civil rights movement began to take shape leading to a shift in America’s social climate.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/03/29/parkland-school-black-students-orig-llr.cnn
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