Meghan speaks out on racial divisions in US
Framegrab from a video address by the Duchess of Sussex to leavers at the Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles in which she shared her "absolute devastation" at racial divisions and the death of George Floyd in the US, telling girls graduating at her old high school: "I'm so sorry you have to grow up in a world where this is still present." PA Photo. Picture date: Wednesday June 3, 2020. See PA story ROYAL Meghan. Photo credit should read: The Duchess of Sussex/PA Wire
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LONDON (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has shared her sadness about racial divisions in the United States, telling students at her former high school that she felt moved to speak out because the life of George Floyd mattered.
Meghan told graduates at the Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles that she wrestled with the question on what to tell them given the days of protests after the Floyd’s death in police custody.
She says “I realized the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing, because George Floyd’s life mattered.”
Floyd, an African-American, died after a white officer pressed his knee into his neck in Minneapolis on May 25.
The incident sparking days of protests and riots in the United States.
