Full of anguish, her body shivered with rage. The hot day sizzled with the anger of the crowd. How could this happen again!
Trayvon Martin’s murderer was walking the streets! Robeson was right: “The battlefield is everywhere.”
What she did next changed everything!
In LA’s Leimert Park, the people, some crying, others hugging, began to move. What could they do to make the establishment listen? To make them stop killing us?
Choking back tears, Melina Abdullah grabbed her bullhorn.
Her words empowered all who listened.
“Go north!” Melina Abdullah yelled. “Let’s take the fight to them!”
Enough was enough! She was sick and tired of police officers and so-called law enforcement getting away with killing Black men and women indiscriminately!
What she did next will blow your mind!
“Go north!” she shouted. The mass of bodies shifted, heading like a Black wave into Beverly Hills, down Rodeo Drive shouting, “No justice, no peace!” Stunned whites in restaurants and shops watched the marchers in fear!
Abdullah’s first LA-based Black Lives Matter protest set a precedent for marches across the country, becoming a powerful beacon in the fight to end anti-Black crime and police brutality.
Her strategy forced them to confront their own white privilege in the face of Black death!
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