Amber Gill Deleted Instagram After Black Lives Matter Backlash
By Cara Dudgeon
3 years ago
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'I went to the Black Lives Matter protest because it means a lot to me, and I feel very passionately about it. To be honest, anything to do with people's human rights...
'I stuck to the government guidelines heavily but I felt, like, people's human rights were more important than social distancing at that point. I just did. And that's how I felt and that's how a lot of other people felt.
'I was trying to be safe, so I wore a mask, I was handing out hand sanitiser, I had my gloves on, I was doing everything that I possibly could but it was just something that had to be done then and there because it needs to be heard'.
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'I had to turn it off because I wanted to fight these people and be, like, "No it's not about all lives matter, it's about all lives do matter but when black lives start to matter more then all lives can matter... but now the focus is on black lives matter".
'But then I felt like I was just repeating myself to people that didn't want to hear it so, yeah, deleted the app'.
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