Student at sc state has taken charge in her hometown of milford michigan starting protests and conversations about black lives matter it’s talk her hometown hasn’t had before our matt dow caught up with her about what she learned in sc and took up north don’t shoot don’t shoot megan schwartzek is a rising
Senior at sc state she’s one of the few white students on campus plays for the school’s soccer team and is a member of a black sorority delta sigma theta so when schwarzeck went back to her hometown of milford michigan that is 96 percent white she knew she couldn’t stay
Silent people are making this about choosing sides and it’s not this isn’t about bringing politics and you know what i mean this isn’t this isn’t a democrat thing you know this is everybody birthed racism sorcheck teamed up with power detroit an activist organization to spread the topic of racial injustice and police brutality
And she made it clear in our interview that she didn’t want this story to be about a white girl that saves the day she wants this story and these protests to be about amplifying black voices that’s the very reason that we decided to go because we feel like milford is
The type of city that you know all the racism out there all of that needs to be addressed at this time we’re all in this together this is one race a human race so if you see your brothers and your sisters that are down pick them up and
Help them out and move them forward our conversation about the milford protest lasted about 45 minutes and all three women kept emphasizing the need for americans to learn true black history to better understand why this movement is happening why is it that black history is being fact-checked now why is it the black
History that’s always dollar why is always the black man that is always out they never get the benefit of the doubt first when it comes to what sc state can do moving forward sporchex says they’ve always done a great job at spreading awareness and that it’s time for people
To start paying more attention to what they’re saying in columbia matt dowell watch fox you
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