AFRICANS IN AMERICA: GAZA MATTERS

Africans around the world have been criticised (often by others in the community) for coming out vocally in support of Palestinians - with people asking why they aren’t out demonstrating just as hard against the genocide underway in Darfur instead.

While more global attention should definitely be brought to the plight of civilians in Sudan’s civil war - including by diaspora Africans - that doesn’t mean the Palestinian cause isn’t one that deeply matters to us.

In this clip, one of the participants of the massive pro-Palestinian rally in DC at the weekend explains why he took part - and brought his kids along.

While ending the bloodshed is the priority, there’s more to it than that: many of the injustices Palestinians have faced at the hands of Israelis remind us strongly of the injustices diaspora Africans in the US (for example) have felt at the hands of the authorities there.

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