It doesn’t prove that Black lives are valued or being heard.
, “I think that the optics of seeing older white people wearing a traditional African pattern, kneeling for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the time period which George Floyd was killed, it was kind of…a little traumatizing to see white people kneeling the same amount of time as a police officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck.” HeIn addition to drawing criticism, the display appeared to overshadow the relevance of yesterday’s news conference.
To further explain the kente cloth and kneeling, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a statement to NBC News that, "Today, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus joined their Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate to introduce the bold new Justice in Policing Reform Act.
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