Kennesaw State Student Lavora Vincent on Protest and Injustice

Lavora Vincent.

And how do I spell that?

L-A-V-O-R-A V-I-N-C-E-N-T.

Perfect. And then how old are you?

I'm 18 years old.

And are you a resident of Atlanta or what would you say?

Uh, I am a resident of metro Atlanta.

Awesome. And do you go to school out here?

Yes, I do. I'm a student at Kennesaw State

University.

Tell me a little about what made you come out here today and be surrounded by the

other hundreds of people that are here today.

I think the answer is really obvious.

These are my countrymen, this is my country, and my entire life I

was told

that I have the right to protest, that I have a right to care, and I do

care. And not only do I have

a right, it's my duty.

It's my duty to care about what's going

on. It's my duty to stand up.

People have been talking about, about injustice since this country was

built. This country was

built on indu- on, uh, on

injustices. We killed Native

Americans, then we built it off the backs of

slaves. And, uh, and they wanna talk about how reparations

and that's just,

it happened 100 years ago and we shouldn't talk about it.

We see the effects today.

America was built on bigotry.

America was built on hate.

And it doesn't have to be

that way. I do not live in a country, I

do not pay tax dollars to murder innocent people.

These are people. This is the country for us.

This is the country of my parents and my children and my neighbors.

And this is the country of immigrants.

Of the, the colonials did not pay thousands of

dollars.

They did not wait eight years to have citizenship.

They didn't do that. I am not going to sit here

while my people suffer.