[Lekooks] Black Lives Matter Learn & Take Action January 2021 #2

[Ginger G]

Black Lives Matter - Learn & Take Action for January 2021 #2
LEARN – Dylan Roof murdered 9 African Americans who welcomed him to their bible study at church. After the murders, police treated him to Burger King. Brandon Bernard, a Black teen, was implicated in the murder of two white Christians. He was not the shooter and was a model inmate. He was executed in December.

Kalief Browder, a Black 16-year-old, allegedly stole a backpack and spent 3 years at Riker’s Island without a trial. Riley Williams, a white 22 year old, is accused of stealing a laptop from Nancy Pelosi’s office and was released to her mom.

Read about Wisconsin’s law enforcement system and racism HERE. <https://www.postcrescent.com/in-depth/news/2020/11/11/racial-justice-wisconsin-blacks-jailed-high-rates-statewide/3519176001/>
TAKE ACTION – “Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it…” —Kareem Abdul-Jabar in an LA Times Op-Ed. <https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge>
Watch Remembering Bronzeville, a free 57 minute film focusing on a Milwaukee Black neighborhood. Then join Clayborn Benson from the African American Historical Society Museum for a discussion Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7pm. Film link, discussion guide, and lecture sign-up HERE. <https://www.baybridgewisconsin.org/events-projects/racial-justice-film-series?fbclid=IwAR0rzzHtXerNOA-mJIrMUG95GWFQ2U65u377o1mcWiFZQp53KQR4l4nSFU8>
Ginger Goral, Social Justice committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church, lcuuc.org <http://lcuuc.org/>
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