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MLK’s granddaughter says Gen Z will fulfill her grandfather’s dream

by Joseph Guzman | Aug. 28, 2020 | Aug. 28, 2020

Story at a glance

  • “We stand and march for love and we will fulfill my grandfather’s dream,” King said while standing beside her father Martin Luther King III.
  • Yolanda said her generation will put an end to gun violence, police brutality, systemic racism, poverty and climate change.
  • Thousands of protesters turned out for the “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” rally Friday.

The granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. says her generation will be the one to dismantle systemic racism once and for all as thousands of people gather on the National Mall to commemorate the 57th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and demonstrate against racial inequality. 

“My generation has already taken to the streets peacefully with masks — and socially distanced — to protest racism,” Yolanda Renee King, 12, said at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday. 

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“And I want to ask the young people here to join me in pledging that we have only just begun to fight and that we will be the generation that moves from ‘me to we.’ ” she said. 

Yolanda said her generation will put an end to gun violence, police brutality, systemic racism, poverty and climate change. 

“We stand and march for love and we will fulfill my grandfather’s dream,” Yolanda said while standing beside her father, Martin Luther King III. 

Thousands of people turned out for the “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” rally Friday. 

Demonstrators are calling for criminal justice reform and racial equality as the nation is in the midst of a reckoning following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans at the hands of police. Members of Floyd’s family also participated in the event and gave remarks. 

The march was organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network after Floyd’s death.

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