The incident with African American Gorgem Floyd, who died on May 25 in the Minneapolis after the brutal appeal of the police during the detention, caused a real storm of protest. Not only ordinary people participated in it - every day the publications of celebrities appeared on the network, indignant by the fact that in a free country, a person suffered only because of the color of the skin. The star of the series "Superherl" Melissa Benoist was also unable to stay aside.
The actress published in Instagram a great post with his reflections, in which he admitted that for a long time he believed that he had no right to talk about the problem of white privileges, "since she had no experience that people receive people with different color of the skin in the day .
I felt helpless, I did not know what to do. I was afraid to spoil everything, say something wrong, but pretty. This week I promised that I would no longer be silent,
- said Melissa.
She said that after Floyd's terrifying death spoke with her friend, who could also become a victim of racial discrimination, and found him completely crushed happened.
He said that he could not worry about coronavirus, about protecting the environment and much more, while he lives in a country that terrorizes it,
- Benoist shared. She added that he was going to "bring the child to this world," and this is clearly not the world that he should see.
I want to be part of the generation, which stands at the origins of change, so that the generation of my son learned the truth about White privileges and how to deal with them,
- wrote an actress and made his speech with the words that he would teach his child to the most correct things, with him becoming better.
