We cannot stay silent: queer woman and grassroots activist Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
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I am angry, I am hurting, I am sad. My heart weighs a ton. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. We are living in turbulent times. Whenever I turn on the TV, open the newspapers or walk down the street, I hear about lost black lives. Lives lost to racist officers of the law who police black men and women with impunity. Everyday racism in America.
But here in the UK my black sisters are grieving too, for women like Sarah Reed who died in a police cell in January, so I have joined the mass movement here to protest, take to the streets, chant: “Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace. No Racist Police.”