“As a Nigerian woman living in America, I am broken by these two isolated but comparable events.” BLM Racism
Uwaila’s rape and murder did not have a compassionate audience, but her death stung all the same. The promising University of Benin student was described by her father as “intelligent and disciplined”, and the celebration of her recent admission into the university was still fresh in their memories. What was supposed to be a private study time in a quiet church turned out to be a blood bath.
shrugged off the unfounded stigma that is still unfairly connected to victims of rape and are calling out their abusers, demanding justice, actively seeking prosecution of rapists. From Benin to Minneapolis, from the oppressed to the oppressor – and everyone in between – the world is choosing a radically different path forward that would definitely make its mark in the books of history.
Racism and police brutality in America is not the exception, it has for centuries been uncomfortably regarded as the norm. Remember Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and countless others whose names speak to the shame of the American slave history. Prior to this wave of protests and social media hashtags calling for justice, the news was saturated with the importance of avoiding mass gatherings and large community events as a recommended action for preventing the spread of COVID-19. To enforce this, cities were shut down, borders were closed, governments implemented stay-at-home orders for much of the world’s population in an effort to flatten the curve of infection.
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