Rihanna Says Tell Your Friends Of Other Races To "Pull Up" For Black Issues | NAACP Image Awar
Feb 24, 2020Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Derrick. -WOMAN: I love you, Rihanna! -(laughter) (cheers and applause) Thank you, Derrick, and thank you to the NAACP staff, board, and community, including all of you here in this room and all of you at home watching who dedicates
your
lives and efforts to support people of color. -(cheers and applause) -Yes. Yes. I can do that. (laughs) Okay, I'm going to try to keep this simple because, um, tonight isn't really about me. Because the purpose is bigger than me, right? Know? It is not bigger than us together, but it is bigger than me because my part is a very small part of the work that is being done in this world and the work that is yet to be done. (cheers and applause) Thank you.I am lucky to have been able to start the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, and if there is one thing I have learned it is that we can only fix this world together. -(cheers and applause) -We... We can't do it divided. I can't emphasize that enough. We cannot let insensitivity creep in. -MAN: Yes. -MAN 2: Yes! -(applause) -WOMAN: Rihanna! (screams) The "if it's
your
problem, then it's not mine." MAN: Correct. Good. It's a women's problem. It's ablack
problem. -WOMAN: True! -It is a problem of the poor. (screams and applause) I mean, how many of us in this room have colleagues, partners andfriends
ofother
races
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Show of hands. (applause and shouts) Well, then, you know, they want to break bread with you, right? Do they like you? Well, then this is your problem too. (applause) So when we're marching, protesting, and posting about the Michael Brown Juniors and Atatiana Jeffersons of the world,
tell
yourfriends
to stop. MAN: Yes! (cheers and applause) Thank you to the NAACP for all your efforts to ensure equality for our communities. Thank you for celebrating our strength and tenacity. We have been denied opportunities since the beginning of time and yet we prevail. So I feel honored. Imagine what we could do together.Thank you for this honor. (cheers and applause)
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