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BWW Exclusive: Konverstations with Keeme Celebrates Juneteenth
Oct 27, 2022
This Konversations with Keeme showcases the protest and a celebration of black culture on June 19th, 2020 or 'Juneteenth' that Keeme and his newly formed Youth Leaders Council organized. The protest was in New Haven CT and marched to City Hall. There were performances led by local artists, speakers, and activists. The march continued to protest down to the New Haven Police Department (NHPD).
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I'm Jibola Tajuddin, but you can call me Kemi, and today you're watching Conversations with Kemi
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a show where we usually ask stuff and make stuff. But because of this year's circumstances
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and the Black Lives Matter movement, and also COVID-19, we've been kind of staying home and
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staying social distancing through the internet. So you've seen some past episodes where I've
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talk to people through Zoom. For this episode, we'll be going behind the scenes of my own
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protest that I led in New Haven with the Youth Leaders Council. I hope you guys enjoy the
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protest and everything that happened today. Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter
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Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand true to our God, true to our name
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My name is Ruth Green and I one of the organizers of this protest First thing I would like to say is thank you for coming out today and being a part of the movement But these protests and these marches cannot stop until a real change in this country has been made Until they actually start hearing us
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It's amazing how these protests have been going on for about three weeks now, and yet another black man was shot and killed by a cop for sleeping in his car at a Wendy's parking lot
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These protests have been going on for three weeks, and four black men and a pregnant black woman were found hanging from a tree
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They were lynched. These protests have been going on for three weeks, and Breonna Taylor's murderers have still not been arrested
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and they released one of the men involved in George Floyd's murder from prison. Clearly, we are not being heard
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They're not taking us seriously, and they're not putting any real effort for change
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The system has to be taken down. You can't try. I wanted to hold this protest because we need to understand that as young black people
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we are important and we have the power to create change. and we need that change for a better future
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We will not stop fighting until real justice has been served. We won't quit until Breonna Taylor's murderers
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are rotting in prison where they belong. And we will not allow the Black Lives Matter movement
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to die down until black people no longer have a target on their back
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My life matters, your life matters, Black Lives Matter. Thank you What part of your family Ahmaud Arbery Ahmaud Arbery Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter Why do we have to protest to have equal human rights
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Apparently, we have to so we can have justice, we can have equality
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My name is Brianna Gilbert and just a few days ago I graduated and so did Ruth Green
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Tamir Rice was the class of 2020 as well and he should be graduating with us
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The reason why we're out here today is fight for all black lives. Black women, black children, black men, especially the black trans women community and just the
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trans community in general. But yes, black lives matter. Black lives matter
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Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Again, I appreciate you all for coming out
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I'm sure they do as well. This is their protest. We appreciate you all for being here, but continue the conversation
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Don't stop here. And if you can, they are doing a March on Washington 2020, August 28th
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Make sure you come up if you're able to. Find a way carpool gather up some friends whatever you can do But make sure the fight continues And this the fight is not just for the government the police the people who have power over us it right in our face as we were marching my nieces and
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nephews were following behind the crowd and the man on the green said all lives matter this fight
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is staring us right in the face it's not just the police it's not just the people in the government
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not just the wannabe POTUS. It is everywhere. It is surrounding us
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Keep these conversations going. I love you all. Happy New Year. Alright, thank y'all so much for watching this episode
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I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you guys learned something from this episode. We have protesters over there still lingering
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We're going to go finish protesting and go protest somewhere else. But right now, we just finished protesting in front of the New Haven Police Department
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So I hope you guys remember that your voice is your power
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So use it. Kimi out
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