Poet slams white privilege, police violence in viral Facebook video
A spoken word poet's Facebook Live video calling out white privilege has more than 7 million views and counting in the wake of two viral videos depicting fatal police shootings of black men.
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"I wasn't born rich, but don't get it twisted -- see how I look, my white skin is my privilege," she begins, and goes on to elicit details from infamous police shootings that have taken place across the country over the past several years.
Those two videos showed the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both black men. Sterling was pinned by two officers and shot multiple times in the chest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this week, outside a shop at which he sold CDs. Castile was shot by an officer in St. Anthony, Minnesota, reportedly while he was following an officer's direction to retrieve his driver's license."
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