BLM Collage

Rye, NY

Note: Collage created from images on a social justice wall created to express solidarity with Black persons in the United States, who have been oppressed since 1619 through slavery and discrimination and to display our demands that the United States be transformed into a more perfect union where the human rights of ALL people are respected and protected, instead of the privileged few. There was one poster that fittingly read, because of the COVID-19 pandemic -- "If [you] think it is hard to breathe with a mask, imagine what it must be like to be Black."

The protests and movement must continue until much needed change is enacted to ensure this time will not be the same as the other times when people forget, apathy sets in and the status quo endures.