White community members protested against the killing of black civilians by white police officers, HNGN reported.
Fifty demonstrators blocked the Oakland's federal courthouse to protest against the killing of black people by white police officers. The group's message is "white silence equals violence, black lives matter."
A protester named Jason Wallach of Showing Up For Racial Justice shared the details of fighting for the rights of African-American people and sending a message to his fellow white citizens.
"As white people, we are outraged by the constant and ongoing violations against black people's lives from Ferguson to Oakland to San Francisco to Cleveland to Staten Island," Wallach said, Huffington Post reported.
Wallach further discussed how he managed to show his support for the victims and the rest of the black members of the community.
"I actually have to swallow my pride and say, 'You know what, sometimes it's embarrassing.' The ignorance that some white folks show in their attitude is embarrassing to me, and it makes me want to distance myself," Wallach said, according to Washington Post.
Wallach's skin color does not hinder him from declaring his views but he understands that it may not be the same for other people.
"For me, at a certain point, I realize that I have to have patience and recognize that for some folks it's going to be a process of developing understanding and empathy of inequality and of injustice in our society."
Protesters such as the SUFRJ have demonstrated for weeks after grand juries decided not to indict two white police officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Last August, police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown though he was unarmed in the midst of a confrontation in Ferguson, Missouri. On the other hand, New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo was accused of using a chokehold to kill Garner in an attempted arrest.
The latest incident sparked racism controversy. Black Americans believe that the decision is a social injustice while white people don't.
This is further validated by a survey that showed 58 percent of white people favored the lack of indictment of the two police officers while only 9 percent of black Americans agreed with the decision.
Meanwhile, the group Showing Up For Racial Justice is currently engaging more white people in the US and Canada to join them against their fight for police brutality and murder, and for black lives and humanity.
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