Meghan Markle Addresses Death Of George Floyd In Heartfelt Graduation Address
Meghan Markle addressed the police killing of George Floyd as she delivered a virtual graduation speech to her old school.
Markle, in her address to students at Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School in Los Angeles, described “what is happening in our country and in our state and in our hometown of LA” as “absolutely devastating.”
“And I wasn’t sure what I could say to you,” she said. “I wanted to say the right thing. And I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart, and I realised, the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.”
“Because George Floyd’s life mattered, and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered, and Philando Castile’s life mattered, and Tamir Rice’s life mattered, and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know. Stephon Clark. His life mattered,” Markle continued.
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Floyd, a Black man, died after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin faces a charge of second-degree murder, and three other former officers face other charges in the killing.
Markle said she was “so sorry you have to grow up in a world where this is still present,” recalling her own memories of living in Los Angeles during the riots of 1992, when she was around 11 years old, calling on students to harness their values to rebuild “because when the foundation is broken, so are we.”
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