One of these struggles, apparently, is climate change. Last week, Black Lives Matter’s UK chapter chained themselves together on Britain’s London City Airport runway—shutting the airport down for several hours. On social media, the group explained that they were protesting against climate change, saying:
“Climate crisis is a racist crisis. 7/10 of the countries most affected by climate change are in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050 there will be 200 million climate refugees. Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis.”
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In fact, if Black lives Matter UK is adamant that the movement is a global struggle, BLMTO maintains that the movement is a multifaceted struggle against systematic racism, systematic sexism, and systematic homophobia. For instance, the group describes its Black Lives Matter-Toronto Freedom School as a program designed to “engage children in political resistance to anti-black racism and state violence” — through a trans-feminist, queer-positive lens — and offer “an entry point into the #BlackLivesMatter …show more content…
Then he delivered a speech at the University of Toronto, saying, “Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North Star – the star followed by the Underground Railroad. We sang of ‘heaven’ that awaited us and the slave masters listened in innocence, not realizing that we were not speaking of the hereafter, Heaven was the word for Canada.”
Nearly 50 years after Martin Luther King’s words, when race-relations are even better than they once were in Toronto, Black Lives Matter Toronto maintains that the Canadian government, particularly the Toronto Police Service, is anti-Black.
At the heart of Black Lives Matter Toronto’s campaign against the Toronto Police Service’s carding policy, which the group claims, “is racist and anti-black.”
The Toronto Police Agency initiated the carding policy to stop, and document citizens for intelligence and investigative use. Black Lives Matter allegations concerning the policy, however, stems mostly from the uncomfortable reality that Black Torontonians are apparently three times more likely to be carded than White