A nine-year-old Minnesota student has spoken out against the school board for hanging Black Lives Matter posters on the school's walls. According to the girl, the presence of the posters contradicts what the school board said at a previous meeting that "there is no politics in the school."
In the video, which went viral this week, we can see the nine-year-old student's speech at the board meeting of the Lakeville district elementary school.
The girl said she had previously informed the principal about the BLM posters and asked that they be taken down, but the principal denied her request.
When the girl cited school board policy — which prohibits BLM posters in the district's schools — the principal allegedly told her the posters were made by school board members.
The girl clarified that she does not judge people based on the color of their skin, but " based on the way they treat me ". He then quoted a line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech about judging someone not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
" I don't care and I don't look at skin color, but you make me think about it, " he said.
The school district mentioned in the article is located in Lakeville, a suburb of Minneapolis, where the death of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer last summer sparked a wave of global protests. The autopsy report, which was later made public, revealed that the victim suffered from heart disease and Covid-19, and also had a lot of drugs in his system. A judgment was passed in the case in the past few days: the competent American court sentenced the former Minneapolis police officer who caused the death of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, to twenty-two and a half years in prison.
As protests in major cities turned into riots, much of the public blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for fueling the more radical elements.
Source: hirado.hu
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