In the fifth episode of our “Youth Organizers” video series, we take a look at Orange County, California and the youth-led work being done by Zoe-Raven Wianecki of OC Protests
White supremacy really runs rampant in Orange County and it’s my home. There are so many Black and brown people who reside here as well. Within Orange County, Anaheim and Santa Ana have the eighth and ninth most-violent police departments in the country. The fact that we have a primarily white community in OC, but we are still seeing such rampant brutalization and disproportionate brutalization of BIPOC shows us how much of the work we have to be doing here.
We had been talking so much about how heartbreaking everything was. While people were angry and up and arms, we also wanted to give people an opportunity to mourn. As we are heading into this election, we are talking a lot about incarcerated people who are not given the opportunity to vote for who represents them and ultimately who sets the standard for the humanity that we give them. This idea that saying Black Lives Matter is exclusionary, I think is so silly.
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