Vegan Senator Cory Booker spoke to MSNBC about the death of George Floyd, systematic racism, police brutality, protests, and the meaning of justice.
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“It’s gut-wrenching and deeply painful,” Booker said to see “another unarmed Black man” killed at the hands of police officers.
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“It’s not enough not to be racist,” Booker said, paraphrasing 76-year-old civil rights activist and fellow vegan Angela Davis.
You have to be anti-racist. You have to…actively confront the truth within our society, raising it up so there can be a deeper healing,” Booker said. “And finding a constructive language for our country to have conversations not only after some horrific act of violence, but in the aftermath of that to prevent more acts of violence.”
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Artwork by Rachel Stone. The Hebrew text reads, “Lo tirtzach” – “Do not murder.” (Exodus 20:13)