Black Lives Matter Movement
At St Michael's Church School, we believe everybody matters and we are all children of God. However, in response to the media and events during 2021, we decided we needed to look into the Black Lives Matter Movement and Black History Month as a school. We took the opportunity to learn about famous people in the past whom have overcome adversity due to the colour of their skin or their background. One of our children wrote a poem in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement:
#blacklivesmatter
Can somebody help me I don’t understand
Why are they killing an innocent man
I never really knew they did this before
Ordinary people being shot to the floor
Mum had to explain what this was about
Some people hate colour is what I found out
How did this start I ask every night?
400 years of this kind of fight
Why does it matter the colour of your skin?
I need some answers, who made it begin
This needs to stop, we end this soon
We cannot let racism resume
The protesters are there just look at the crowd
All humans together we stand up proud
Police should protect not hurt and kill
Black lives matter and they always will