Okafor and her brother discuss the global reaction to George Floyd’s murder and interrogate why it’s taken so long for white people to get this angry. She partly attributes this to Covid-19, with people sitting at home being forced to confront what’s actually going on. Continuing the debate on
, Okafor calls for further galvanisation. “Anger is what we need to make it through this,” she writes. “Anger is what we need to get things moving.”first rose to prominence in 2016 when she staged a Black Lives Matter silent demonstration during Men’s Fashion Week in New York, in response to the many unlawful killings by police officers in the US.
Since the killing of George Floyd, Stoudemire has made an open call to the fashion industry to break its silence and stand in solidarity against racial injustice, with the hashtag“The fashion industry is one of the most influential industries and must use their platform responsibly,” she said on. “The police brutality and murders of unarmed black men and women is not a black issue, it is a human justice issue. The fashion industry must take a stand and speak up for justice.