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Why I Protest
Why I Protest
Ylan Isaac, 18, poses for a portrait at 14th and Broadway during a George Floyd protest in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last week. Isaac, originally from Washington, DC, currently lives in Oakland, and is an undergrad student focusing on drawing and painting at the California College of the Arts.
“It is a responsibility everybody has whether they’re willing to take it on or not. Once you acknowledge that something is wrong, you are part of the issue when you don’t act on it. That’s it. Everybody’s scared, but everybody needs to be here. There’s power in numbers.”
“It is a responsibility everybody has whether they’re willing to take it on or not. Once you acknowledge that something is wrong, you are part of the issue when you don’t act on it. That’s it. Everybody’s scared, but everybody needs to be here. There’s power in numbers.”

