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A Woman , her face protests against George Floyd ' s death

As protests rock the US After the death of the African-American George Floyd in police custody Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo writes covered by a Kenyan flag on the racism he has experienced in the country.

In my first week in New York City Last Summer , I was invited to dinner at a friend's penthouse on the wealthy Upper West Side.

I took a few fruits for her and came into her house with a Plastic Bag to wear.

The Front Desk sent me through an open courtyard to the rear of The Building , past residents, garbage bags and in an amazingly dirty Elevator.

When I top, my host opened The Door , humiliated, all the color completely from her face.

"thought My racist bouncers, you're a delivery guy, and made you use the lift," she said, as she apologized.

Larry MadowoThe incident to me pre-warn that America is The Land of opportunity for many, but it would still be the color of my skin to reduce me and Find Me unworthy. " Larry Madowo
Kenyan journalist

I have worked in the complex racial hierarchy of South Africa and the United Kingdom, and traveled around The World , but it didn't hurt that an American, butler knew that reaches White People like my girlfriend and your husband, you could have a Black Dinner Guest .

The early micro-aggression warned me that America is The Land of opportunity for many, but it would still be the color of my skin to reduce me and Find Me unworthy.

It didn't matter that I negotiate from a Black -majority African nation, people who look like they have me here to, for your humanity with a system that is constantly alienated, erased and punished you.

This Man painted a portrait of George Floyd tribute

In Kenya to pay tribute to him, I could disappear in The Crowd , but In America I always have a target on my back for Black .

according to a Harvard-educated Black Man ask to follow her, Parking rules, and leash with your dog, a white Police Officer knelt on George Floyd's neck, because for so long it finally killed him.

I was inconsolable.

As the protests demanding justice for Floyd and countless other Black People killed by the police broke out nationwide, I held my breath.

How could I mourn someone I don't know? How could I, myself, a pain I had lived as an African "fresh off The Boat " - In America ? I wondered if I would be the appropriation of the Afro-American struggle in a favorable moment.

Then I saw a video shot at a protest in Long Beach , California, that was clear about loyalties.

"The Best way, the Africans In America can support the Afro-Americans , is, With Us , and understand that we are all the same," said a protester.

I asked Tom Gitaa editor, which serves the African immigrant in the middle West of the USA, what he made of the protests and subsequent riots and looting that began in his city of Minneapolis.

"Many of us grew up with some of these civil human rights in Africa, so that sometimes, our understanding is there.

"But with issues such as police violence and discrimination in the workplace, we run into a lot of the same things, the Afro-experienced Americans in the course of The Years ," said Mr. Gitaa, who moved to the U.S. from East Africa about 30 years ago and their American-Born 24-year-old daughter was one of The People heard on The Streets .

George Floyd died After a Police Officer knelt on his neck for More Than Eight Minutes .

There has always been tensions between Africans and Black Americans .

Two years ago, when the superhero film Black Panther came up.

The Paper in the Global opinions editor, a daughter of African Immigrants , Born in the USA, but deeply Connected to their parents ' home continent.

George Floyd's death,

Karen said to me, her parents are now discussing, race, and racism of the white, especially in a way that does not hear you and your siblings while Growing Up .

"I think we were actually almost keep the distance from The Black Americans , because we are Immigrants , we were different," she said to me This Week .

"And now we understand that if a Police Officer sees, the color of their skin, he is not to ask whether you are from Ghana or Nigeria or Zimbabwe, or Atlanta, or the South Side of Dallas, you just a Black person. "

African celebrities such as the actress Lupita Nyong'o and comedian Trevor Noah with their powerful platforms to support the movement for justice and the hypocrisy in some of the criticism of the protests.

condemnation of the death of Floyd, and asked the US government to "secure the complete elimination of all forms of discrimination".

The First enslaved Africans in the United States, arrived in the then British colony of Virginia 401 years.

Last Year , some of their descendants were to be the way Back To Africa to mark the "year of return" to where their ancestors were stolen from four centuries.

One of the major events of the Afrochella Festival was in Ghana last December, the idea of Abdul Karim Abdullah.

When I called, he was recovering from a Long Night After protests hit his home-borough of The Bronx in New York City.

"many Africans are ignorant to the fact that this is also your Fight ," He Said .

"injustice to Black People everywhere injustice. We should stand up and Fight together in solidarity. "

the African people in the USA marched alongside Black Lives matter activists supported the protests against white domination, money donated to social justice causes, and organizes its own events, in order to show unanimity in The Black community.

Black men are The Most abused,'

the protesters with African flags or holding signs in the languages of The Continent were also spotted at events in various parts of the United States.

"people of color, especially Black men, are The Most abused, MIS-rated and misunderstood community on this planet", a tearful Jada Walker told a crowd of protesters outside the City Hall of Dallas, Texas.

she was worried about what to expect your Two -year-old nephew, who has Special Needs when he grows up.

"As a cop treat him when he stands 6ft 8in, like his father, is not communicative, and looks, like someone looking for you?"

prison inmates per 100,000 people, by race source: U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Justice Statistics

the parents Because of the violent history of American police work for The Black and brown communities, always on the edge.

a Udgoon, a Somalia-Born high-school Science Teacher in Columbus, Ohio, living with this fear for your 13-year-old son.

"Every day that passes brings with it the knowledge that soon, if not already is, he goes to be seen as cute seen as a threat. And my heart breaks for his innocence,"

Ms Udgoon recorded a battle of many other African Immigrants feel: "I expected, I'm grateful to be here. But I sold my soul to The Devil ?"

GettyI' ve been pulled over were by stop-and-frisk and racial profiling. This Fight is my Fight ," Abdul-Karim Abdullah
Afrochella Festival

Mr Abdullah looks Afrochella as a platform for the unification of The Black diaspora, as with seemingly unsolvable obstacles such as this.

"I checked in with Black friends from Haiti, Benin, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, because discrimination has no nationality. Systemic racism affects all of us.

"For a long time, I had not realized that it was an injustice is, until I began to search for language. I pulled over, were by stop-and-frisk and racial profiling. This Fight is my Fight . "Mr Abdullah said.

It is not only his Fight for African-Americans like him, it's a Fight for The Right to be Black is, for sure In America .

I Karen played ' s Voice Note to me, because you had a strong conclusion: "I think, now, what is on display is anti-blackness, and it is the increase in the consciousness about the interconnectedness of so many of our fights, not the same but very much Connected . "

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Source of news: bbc.com