“If you can’t see the inequality, the wrongness in what’s going on in our country, then that says a lot about who you are as a human being,” the Washington Mystics guard said in the wake of George Floyd's death.
, where activists decrying police brutality clashed with U.S. Secret Service and Park Police officers Saturday afternoon, the second such violent confrontation in a little more than 12 hours.pandemic had circled the perimeter of the White House grounds, which had law enforcement vehicles, metal barriers and members of the Secret Service, D.C. police and U.S. Park Police in place for protection.
“I was glad I was able to take my emotions and turn them into something productive,” Cloud said. “I’m a believer in Martin Luther King in that darkness can’t drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can’t drive out hate; only love can do that. “You’re seeing the Malcolm X of people come out, and when you push people, and you push them, you push them to their limits and nothing’s being done. George Floyd isn’t the first person murdered. He won’t be the last black man murdered. He won’t be the last black person murdered, and that’s the scary thing about the society that we live in.
“That for me is you’re conscious of what’s going on, but because it doesn’t necessarily affect you, it’s not your problem, and that’s part of the problem with where we are at right now.”
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