Biggest crowd yet comes out for third anti-racism protest in Red Deer
“It’s 2020 and we will be silent no more.”
Those were the words of Dieulita Datus, a central Alberta woman born in Haiti, who passionately addressed a crowd of approximately 1,000 on Saturday at a third anti-racism protest in Red Deer this week.
They come on the heels of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Floyd’s neck was knelt on for nearly nine minutes before he died. The four officers involved have all been fired and face criminal charges.
Addressing everyone as brother and sisters, Datus spoke directly to Black people, saying, “We are here together because when we heard the voice of George Floyd in that video, every single Black woman was summoned, every single Black mother was summoned, every girlfriend, every fiancée, every brother, every single one of us was summoned to come together because this is the last time that this happens.