Serena Williams has voiced her feelings of dread about police viciousness, composing on Facebook: “I won’t be silent”.
The US tennis star posted that she ended up feeling careful about law authorization amid a late trip with her high school nephew.
Williams said that when they drove by a watch auto she recollected a lady whose sweetheart was lethally shot by police.
She is the most recent competitor to stand up about erosion between law implementation and the dark group in the US.
In Tuesday’s Facebook post, Williams, 35, wrote:
“Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he’s black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safetyfirst. In the distance I saw a cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Then I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all “the others”.
I am a total believer that not “everyone” is bad it is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.
Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.
I than wondered that have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters? As Dr. Martin Luther King said “There comes a time when silence is betrayal”.
I
Won’t
Be
Silent
Serena”
Williams was obviously alluding to the 6 July deadly shooting of Philando Castile, whose sweetheart live-gushed the showdown with police in St Paul, Minnesota.
Williams stood up in the midst of an influx of hostile to police ruthlessness donning challenges in the US, activated after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick declined to remain for the national song of praise.
Nearly 214 dark individuals have been slaughtered by US police this year out of an aggregate of 821 individuals, as indicated by Black Lives Matter checking bunch, Mapping Police Violence.
