Black Lives Matter
Call To Action Day
“We honor the dignity and sacredness of each person” (Hallmark Two). After what we heard about the brutality of police officers to the African-American community, Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement founded by three brave women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. The movement first started in 2013, when Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old student, brutally got shot by a police officer in Florida. BLM movement was first started on the social network website Twitter by the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.
I heard the whole keynote that was presented by Bobby Vaughn. Actually, his last words moved me “All lives matter, black lives matter, LGBTQ lives matter, Muslims lives matter.” It made me realize that it is not only my life or my family’s lives but also every human being. His words also follow one of the Catholic Church teaching’s themes, “The dignity of every person and human rights.” In fact, We need to be treated equally by the government, whoever has authority or even among each other. We also have discrimination problems in Saudi Arabia. I think it is a universal problem.
Group discussion is a really perfect idea for people to share what they think about in order to be better as a community. It also fulfills one of the hallmarks that was written by the Notre Dame De Namur sisters “We embrace the gift of diversity.” In my group discussion, I was able to talk with people who have different points of view about the Black Lives Matter movement and discriminations in general. I know that could sound normal to you, but to me it was not. Any problem related to politics is illegal to discuss it in Saudi Arabia. The government tries to control what people say or think.
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