In light of #BlackLivesMatter protests across the country, people have been reflecting on the nature of race in America and how deeply entrenched racist values & practices are within the fabric of American society, history & culture. How would Martin Luther King Jr. have responded to the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray and many other black men and women who have been killed by police? 19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O'Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction,” where she speaks about Dr. King and her frustration at having to defend the protests/protesters.
Sarah O'Neal is a student activist from the Bay Area. She graduated from the Middle College program at Santa Clara Unified & is now attending Mills College in Oakland where she plans on creating her own major. She is also an athlete on the Mills College swim team, and believes real education is a powerful tool for the liberation of oppressed peoples. She is involved with Youth Speaks Inc., which you can find out more about at www.youthspeaks.org.
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