Multiple community groups came together to celebrate World Cultures Day on Saturday. This is the 2nd year the cultural event has been hosted on the 400 Block in Wausau.
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Reggie Jackson, a Milwaukee historian, is head griot of America s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee:
The wait is nearly over, but it will be two months before the judge sentences former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As people around the country rejoice in the verdict, I remind them that the sentencing might disappoint them, and Chauvin will likely appeal the verdict. To celebrate now makes some sense, but it is a premature celebration of the effort to fix policing in America.
It is in many ways like a baseball player who hits a homer on the first pitch he faces in the first game of spring training celebrating as if he has won the World Series. It feels good to see an officer who killed an unarmed Black civilian be found guilty. Let’s keep in mind how rare this is. It is rare for officers who kill unarmed Black people to be charged. A conviction is even more rare. An appropriate sentence even more rare.
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Community leaders
LaTanya Campbell, of Wausau, founder of LPRC Diversity Consulting Services and coordinator of Transitional Living Program at The Women s Community:
As I anticipate the verdict, I have feelings of chills and nausea. I am busying myself, but I find, at times, I am not breathing. The verdict should be guilty on all counts. This is a no-brainer; after all, it was caught on camera and viewed by millions of people from all over the world. This was not the first unarmed African American man killed or brutalized by the police on camera, but it was the first time I heard others in blue acknowledge and condemn this dehumanizing behavior. Although it is a no-brainer to me, history shows the lives of black people do not matter.