Minnesota Teen Activists Push for CHANGE After Death of Daunte Wright
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In neighboring St. Paul, more than 100 students took their grievances over police brutality to the Capitol, where lawmakers inside the fenced-in statehouse could be seen peeking out through the curtains to look at protesters outside.
The student protests were organized on Instagram by Minnesota teen activists, a local group founded after the George Floyd protest last summer.
Students from at least 110 schools.
You hear that?
You could cry.
Students from 110 schools should be singing the National Anthem and taking the Pledge of Allegiance to the least racist multiracial country in the history of the world.
That's what they should be doing.
Have planned protests to honor Dante Wright.
Honor Dante Wright.
I read to you, they don't know a damn thing about Daunte Wright, except that the press told them he's black and the officers were white.
That's all that mattered.
At 1.47 p.m., the time Daunte Wright was shot eight days before, hundreds of Minneapolis teenagers sat together on the ground to mark three minutes of silence.
Ray Sean, 16, a student at the Fair High School for the Arts.
Said he had spent those three minutes thinking about, quote, the change we're going to make.
Isn't that great?
That's what America needs, change.
As a young black man, he said he had come to the protest even though his mother, worried about the risk, had tried to convince him not to.
It's interesting that his mother warned him about that.
It's an extremely fair...
I think the only or one of the only compassion questions to ask, is there a dad in his life?
He wanted, quote, to fight for what I believe in, he said.
What does he believe in?
Ending genocide against blacks?
What does he believe in?
It's a shame that the children have to come out and fight for our lives.
Fight for our lives.
Wow.
Meanwhile, the president is telling kids their age to get vaccinated so that they don't die of COVID. Chance of a 16-year-old dying because he's black or dying because of COVID are close to zero in both cases.
But it does fill your life with meaning.
I gotta say that.
What is it?
Nothing like gallows to focus the mind?
Make-believe world that we live in.
It's a shame that the children have to come out and fight for our lives.
A student from North Community High School told a crowd of at least 600 young people.
After George Floyd's killing, quote, America will never be the same again, said Kimberly Bernard, a New York organizer with the Black Women's March.
See, that's what they want.
They want America to never be the same again.
Blacks are the tool to use to do this.
There's no going back to the way it used to be.
Really?
Why was so bad in 2015?
What it used to be.
I don't mean used to be 50 years ago, 150 years ago.
Used to be 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.