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| Best ever Black Lives Matter picture (Erin Haynes, right) |
So how do I know that the Tavares, Florida, Black Lives Matter is the best one ever? I’ve only been to this one but it’s the only one I need to go to. Here’s why. No one was killed, no one was overtly angry, no marchers were bussed in from Orlando, there was no hatred, no yelling, no riots, no guns, no danger – not even a hint of it – and no incivility on anyone’s part. It didn’t make the nightly news across the nation but Tavares’ Black Lives Matter March was a first rate act.
People were friendly, smiling, kind to each other, excited to be able to have a march to express their rights and their thoughts. It was well organized by 26 year-old Erin Haynes, who attended Florida A&M University for two years and plans on studying broadcast journalism at Lake Sumter State College in the fall.
Marchers began assembling in the park by the lake at 6pm (Sunday, July 31) where Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” played through speakers. At 6:15 Erin made a short speech where she insisted that the march was to be peaceful, saying, “We want to relay a message of peace, unity and equality. That’s what it’s all about. No acts of violence will be tolerated.” In addition Haynes said that she wanted people to know that while the march is focused on the Black Lives Matter movement, she believes that all lives matter and blue lives matter. All races, religions and ages of people were welcome in the march.
People were friendly, smiling, kind to each other, excited to be able to have a march to express their rights and their thoughts. It was well organized by 26 year-old Erin Haynes, who attended Florida A&M University for two years and plans on studying broadcast journalism at Lake Sumter State College in the fall.
Marchers began assembling in the park by the lake at 6pm (Sunday, July 31) where Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” played through speakers. At 6:15 Erin made a short speech where she insisted that the march was to be peaceful, saying, “We want to relay a message of peace, unity and equality. That’s what it’s all about. No acts of violence will be tolerated.” In addition Haynes said that she wanted people to know that while the march is focused on the Black Lives Matter movement, she believes that all lives matter and blue lives matter. All races, religions and ages of people were welcome in the march.
