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Opal Tometi est une écrivaine, planificatrice et militante associatif nigériano-américaine. Elle est également cofondatrice du mouvement Black Lives Matter, pour lequel elle est apparue dans plusieurs médias tels que Glamour, Essence, CNN, MSNBC Libération, et l'Obs.

Tometi est directrice exécutive de la Black Alliance for Just Immigration . Elle collabore avec les équipes et les communautés de Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, Oakland, Washington DC et certaines communautés des Etats du Sud. Son travail a été publié dans Le Huffington Post. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. août 1984
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Opal Tometi: Citations en anglais

“We finally had time to sit at home and reflect on how our society functions and whether or not it's functioning well for all of us. The overwhelming consensus was that it is not, it is insufficient – in fact, it's been unsustainable for decades, if not generations.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We are finally achieving a mass consciousness. We're seeing a widespread awareness and commitment to anti-racism that we have long needed. People are now alert and active because the pandemic demonstrated how interconnected our lives are.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“I'm extremely gratified that people have heard and are taking ownership of Black Lives Matter. People now know that in their respective industries and countries, they have the responsibility to ensure that Black people are respected, protected and affirmed.”

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Source: Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We also believe that we cannot truly become free when marginalised Black communities are kept at the margins and are forgotten. We don't believe that there can be a trickle-down social justice. We believe that people on the margins must be brought centre.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We are now in a moment where people have no excuses to deny the injustice that's happening in the middle of a global pandemic. Things feel different this time because we were able to tap into a sense of our own agency, our own power and our genuine love for each other.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“When you're sitting at home or living at a slower pace and you see that Black folks in your community are attacked, killed, murdered by vigilantes and by the police, you wake up, you rise to action, and you rise quickly.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“People have begun to engage in mutual aid and support for their neighbours. Even if people didn't have much, they were still looking out for each other. Through this, we began to see the ways in which new webs were being constructed.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“One thing I just want to underscore is that the world is watching us. We see these rallies in solidarity emerging all across the globe, and I have friends texting me with their images in France and the Netherlands and Costa Rica, and people are showing me that they are showing up in solidarity.”

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A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, (3 June 2020)

“And so my belief and my view of these protests is that they are different because they are marked by a period that has been deeply personal to millions of Americans and residents of the United States, and that has them more tender or sensitive to what is going on.”

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A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, (3 June 2020)

“I was interested in giving folks like black, poor people who’ve been marginalized, brutalized, an opportunity to have more visibility. Before seven years ago, we could barely get the news to talk about police violence, let alone police death.”

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How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, (16 June 2020)

“I probably was the one out of the three of us that was like, ‘Let’s go, let’s get big, let’s get everybody.’ I wasn’t necessarily thinking about organizational structure... I was mostly thinking about building a mass movement that people can be a part of and feel an identity around.”

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How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, (16 June 2020)

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