Two generations of Kings spoke on the Lincoln Memorial Friday as fragment of the March on Washington that honored the 57th anniversary of MLK’s “I Possess a Dream” speech.
The wide image: Dusky folks are reeling after a summer season that opened with the police killing of George Floyd and is closing with the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who became once horrified and frolicked handcuffed to a health center mattress after being shot seven instances in the relieve.
Rev. Al Sharpton coordinated the tournament after Floyd’s death alongside Martin Luther King III and the National Motion Network, called the “Commitment March: Rep Your Knee Off Our Necks.”
- The group anticipated tens of thousands of attendees, but many groups from far-away states canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What they’re announcing:
- Jacob Blake’s sister talked about, “Dusky The United States: I again you guilty. You would possibly want to stand. You would possibly want to fight. But not with violence and chaos, with self bask in.”
- Blake’s father Jacob Blake Sr. spoke on the shooting of his son: “We’re gonna again court on systemic racism … And we’re not taking it anymore. I seek records from each person to get up. No justice, no peace!”
- Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, talked about: “I’m marching for George, for Breonna, for Ahmaud, for Jacob, for Pamela Turner, for Michael Brown, Trayvon and anybody else who lost their lives.”
- Breonna’s Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer also spoke to the crowd, which answered by chanting her daughter’s name. Taylor became once killed by Louisville law enforcement officials on a no-knock warrant in March. No person has been charged in her death.
- Sharpton: “We are going to talk towards the looting, but when will you talk towards depraved police shooting?”
Between the traces: On a D.C. summer season Friday with a excessive of 92 levels, volunteers were taking temperatures on the entrance, and media stories indicated masks were the norm among the many crowd.
The underside line: King’s granddaughter Yolanda Renee King, 12, suggested a crowd of thousands that they “are the wide needs of our grandparents. … we’re going to satisfy my grandfather’s dream.”
- His son Martin Luther King III, 62, talked about that “we should always never put out of your mind the American nightmare. … We restful struggle for justice, demilitarizing the police, dismantling mass incarceration.”
