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Play The Video


 

Play the video,
 
for all those who refuse to believe.
 
Play the video,
 
for all those who whose names we can not say.
 
Play the video,
 
for those who were blamed for their own innocent deaths.
 
Play the video,
 
so we never forget.
 
Injustice and racism will not be delivered to you at your leisure. 
 
A revolution requires unrest,
 
 it requires disturbance, 
 
it requires us to be so uncomfortable that we can no longer tolerate injustice even in its slightest form. 
 
SO PLAY THE VIDEO....
 
Like the Holocaust  museums we attended on school trips .
 
Like the trail of tears we’ve learned about in history books.
 
Our plight is American history, and it must never be forgotten.
 
Play the video.

 

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