A Run Against Injustice
A Stand Against Injustice: Check out my article and video on a group running to honor the memory of a lost life Ahmaud Arbery. If you participated in this movement please comment and post a picture of you and your own contribution and share this article. As always please like my page WYDK Minority News
A few members of the provo/orem community supported the movement for Ahmaud Arberry, a young black male who lost his life, just jogging down the street, due to being shot at by two white males who perceived he was a criminal. I was able to join them in completing out 2.23 miles to create awareness and honor the Arbery’s lost life. Some of the participants met up at Provo High School at 4PM to show their support, they shared why they thought the cause was important and what aspects of the incident meant to them.
Gina Dorsan advised she was running “to bring awareness of daily injustices that happen on the daily for black people in this country and I am running to create change”. She completed her walk/run in honor of Arbery’s memory.
Taylor Munlin created these great flyers to document the experience of this group today.
Deborah Alexis stated the Arbery experience made her “look at her surrounding different, like running through the suburbs and not thinking to much about it, and then, realizing that in a split second that everything can change and I can lose my life, for no reason at all, and it just made me really, really, nervous about my existence, and just in normal places, in places where my life shouldn’t be in danger”. When asked what could cause a person to commit an act like this she thinks “people don’t realize how deep their biases run, because I’m sure they didn’t wake up that morning thinking I’m going to kill a black person. But the fact that a young black person and your first thought was, “this is a criminal”.
Kirstie Weyland wanted to spread a little light and suggest what little we may be able to do in our own liv
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