Climate activist Greta Thunberg says people are starting to find their voice. (File)
London:
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said Saturday that the Black Lives Matter protests have shown that society has reached a “tipping point” where the injustices are finally corrected.
“It looks like we have crossed a kind of social tipping point where people are starting to realize that we cannot look away from these things,” said the 17-year-old in a BBC interview.
“We cannot continue to sweep these things under the carpet, these injustices.”
Thunberg’s interview aired as world capitals prepared for another weekend of protests against racism following the death at the hands of a white, unarmed African American policeman George Floyd.
British protesters overthrew the statue of a 17th-century slave trader and the Church of England and the Bank of England expressed remorse for profiting from the sale of Africans to the Americas.
On Friday in Washington, a statue of a general from the South who defended slavery during the American Civil War was thrown down and burned.
Thunberg said that “people are starting to find their voice, to somehow understand that they can really make an impact.”
She also described being amazed at the depth of poverty in the United States that she discovered while traveling with her father in an electric car they had borrowed from former California governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“It was very shocking to hear people say that they could not afford to put food on the table,” she said.
Other protests were slated for Saturday in London and in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital.
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