NeNe Leakes had a few words to share about some of the celebrities’ false claims that they are concerned about the protests following George Floyd’s death. Check out what she posted on her Twitter account.
01.06.2020 - 23:57 / wmagazine.com
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“Silence = violence,” reads a slogan you’re almost guaranteed to find at a protest against white supremacy and police brutality. And while celebrities have the platforms to speak the loudest, it’s not always for the best. In the week since a white police officer killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd, sparking a nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests, some have done more harm than good (see: posting videos of looters’ faces, remixing Martin Luther King
NeNe Leakes had a few words to share about some of the celebrities’ false claims that they are concerned about the protests following George Floyd’s death. Check out what she posted on her Twitter account.
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