Here in Philadelphia, more than a dozen members of the group Showing Up for Racial Justice dropped a banner this morning from an overpass over Interstate 676 reading “White people say: Black lives matter!” This is Rebecca Subar.
Rebecca Subar: “We’re standing here on the Vine Street Expressway in Philadelphia over the interstate. This is I-676, and this is the highway that leads from Valley Forge—you’ll recognize the name—where a lot of the delegates for the Democratic convention will be driving right now. And as they pass, they’re now seeing a sign that we’ve just put up. It’s five feet high and 30 feet wide. It’s black on white. And it says '#White People Say: Black Lives Matter!!!' Black lives matter is a message for all of us. And it’s work out in the world to change the system, and it’s work internally to get with our own fears and to try to overcome them, so that we can help to be part of changing the system.”