On june 2nd 2020 there was literally a social media blackout where users posted black squares on various social media platforms in protest of the treatment of black people all over the world/wanting change in how things are...
I wrote a piece on it at the time - https://spiela.co.uk/community/detail/142 - and at the time I was quite emotional
In it was an impassioned response on what it was meant to symbolise and what change could/would happen after this protest...and if we are honest in that time has anything really changed? In my eyes, not really...there's always seems to be a current of movement in the waters but never a wave crashing down to break the cycle of racism.
In the article it says that a year from now I will read the article and I may regret what I wrote in the emotional state I was in at the time...and to be honest having read it again after everything that has happened in the last year, do I regret it?
Nope...not one bit.
And has anythinhg changed? If we are all honest, not really? But we must not give up, this is a fight we must continue to front up on. As the day we give up, is the day hate wins. We all need love...not hate.
Fantastic read Ruben, thank you for posting
Raphael
Posted 9 months agoGreat post!!!