‘BLACKOUT TUESDAY’
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they got a call that I was moving from house to house. I was parked one place. She (the officer) asked for my licence, checked it, everything was OK. She gave it back but she stood there for a few minutes. She was perhaps not satisfied and so she came back, asked me who owned the motor car; I told her. It was his nickname because I didn’t know his would like scorn you and not use the bathroom yuh use or look at you like yuh a thief or supmn, and so I know it (racism) still exists, it nuh gone nuh weh,” she said. “All of the things happening lately have just made me realise even more that I need to come together with my black brothers and sisters and join in on this. I am black and I know the injustice. I have experienced it so I wouldn’t feel like myself if I see dis ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement and nuh join in.”
Popular selector Tony Matterhorn, who resides in the
US, says although he has never let racism affect him, he has experienced it and thus supports any movement that denounces the act.
Matterhorn, who would normally host his Instagram live party dubbed Tissue Tuesdays last night, called off the event in support of ‘Blackout Tuesdays’.
“I have travelled over the world and I have faced it (racism), especially when I was younger, and although it never bothered me because in my mind I was superior, I know that not everyone is that strong-minded,” he said. “I have children who are growing up in the US and I have to ensure that I teach them that the colour of their skin doesn’t determine who they are, and that people will feel threatened by them because they’re black. I support this movement for them.”