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Opal Tometi é uma ativista pelos direitos humanos, escritora, estrategista e organizadora comunitária dos Estados Unidos de ascendência nigeriana. É co-fundadora do Black Lives Matter. Ela foi a diretora executiva da primeira organização nacional de direitos dos imigrantes dos Estados Unidos para pessoas de ascendência africana - a Aliança Negra por Imigração Justa .

Tometi chamou a atenção para as desigualdades raciais enfrentadas pelos negros. Antes disso, Tometi era uma organizadora comunitária em sua cidade natal, em prol dos direitos humanos. Ela participou de campanhas pelo avanço dos direitos humanos, direitos dos migrantes e justiça racial para o mundo todo.

Ela já apareceu em várias mídias, incluindo as revistas Glamour, Essence, e os canais CNN, MSNBC, e BET. Seus artigos foram publicados por múltiplos meios de comunicação, incluindo The Huffington Post e Time. Tometi continua a colaborar com comunidades em Los Angeles, Phoenix, Nova York, Oakland, Washington, D.C. e comunidades nos estados da região Sul do país. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Agosto 1984
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Opal Tometi: Frases em inglês

“We finally had time to sit at home and reflect on how our society functions and whether or not it's functioning well for all of us. The overwhelming consensus was that it is not, it is insufficient – in fact, it's been unsustainable for decades, if not generations.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We are finally achieving a mass consciousness. We're seeing a widespread awareness and commitment to anti-racism that we have long needed. People are now alert and active because the pandemic demonstrated how interconnected our lives are.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“I'm extremely gratified that people have heard and are taking ownership of Black Lives Matter. People now know that in their respective industries and countries, they have the responsibility to ensure that Black people are respected, protected and affirmed.”

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Fonte: Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We also believe that we cannot truly become free when marginalised Black communities are kept at the margins and are forgotten. We don't believe that there can be a trickle-down social justice. We believe that people on the margins must be brought centre.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“We are now in a moment where people have no excuses to deny the injustice that's happening in the middle of a global pandemic. Things feel different this time because we were able to tap into a sense of our own agency, our own power and our genuine love for each other.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“When you're sitting at home or living at a slower pace and you see that Black folks in your community are attacked, killed, murdered by vigilantes and by the police, you wake up, you rise to action, and you rise quickly.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“People have begun to engage in mutual aid and support for their neighbours. Even if people didn't have much, they were still looking out for each other. Through this, we began to see the ways in which new webs were being constructed.”

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Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

“One thing I just want to underscore is that the world is watching us. We see these rallies in solidarity emerging all across the globe, and I have friends texting me with their images in France and the Netherlands and Costa Rica, and people are showing me that they are showing up in solidarity.”

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A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, (3 June 2020)

“And so my belief and my view of these protests is that they are different because they are marked by a period that has been deeply personal to millions of Americans and residents of the United States, and that has them more tender or sensitive to what is going on.”

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A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, (3 June 2020)

“I was interested in giving folks like black, poor people who’ve been marginalized, brutalized, an opportunity to have more visibility. Before seven years ago, we could barely get the news to talk about police violence, let alone police death.”

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How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, (16 June 2020)

“I probably was the one out of the three of us that was like, ‘Let’s go, let’s get big, let’s get everybody.’ I wasn’t necessarily thinking about organizational structure... I was mostly thinking about building a mass movement that people can be a part of and feel an identity around.”

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How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, (16 June 2020)

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