Asbury Park Press
When Felicia Simmons organized what became the largest George Floyd rally at the Jersey Shore last June, she tasked each speaker. “I’m not going to tell you what to say,” she told them, but you must offer the demonstrators at least one tangible thing they can do: register to vote, learn the names of their local officials, join a community group.
“When you stand with somebody who is in the midst of those emotional places, you can either pour hate into them and unleash something ugly,” Simmons said in an interview. “Or you can pour something into it that is mindful and powerful. That directs them towards something. That s what leaders do, right? Not just get people out there in the streets to cry.”
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