This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.On Tuesday morning, black square after black square replaced the selfies and puppies and tall cans of beer that normally populate Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app. They were intended to amplify the voices of black people, but had the opposite result, highlighting the complicated nature of allyship.
A week and a half since the death of George Floyd, a black man whose last words were “I can’t breathe” as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, black people have asked the white and non-black people of colour around them: What are you going to do to help us and how will you do it effectively?
The last widespread protests in response to anti-black violence by police were in 2014. That summer, Michael Brown, an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. His death triggered months of racial unrest in the city and international media coverage.
In Toronto, a protest was organized last weekend after the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a black woman who died after falling off a balcony in the presence of police in a case that is now being investigated by Ontario’s police watchdog. The 22-year-old black woman who co-organized the protest said she noticed a lot of non-black protesters on Saturday, but, “I don’t think they should necessarily be congratulated.
She theorized that the video of Mr. Floyd’s death, as well as videos of other violent interactions between police and black people, is what has mobilized those who had until this point ignored the messages of groups such as hers. by Robin DiAngelo was Penguin Random House Canada’s top-selling book at major retailers this past weekend, according to the publisher.
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