Benjamin Crump has been busy, particularly with Gov. Ron DeSantis waging a warfare towards Black tradition.
On the 2023 NAACP Picture Awards, Crump’s exhausting work was acknowledged. The ceremony, held at Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California, Crump was awarded the Social Justice Influence Award. Crump gave a passionate speech.
“I settle for this award as larger motivation to proceed to be an unapologetic defender of Black life, Black liberty, and Black humanity. I promise I’ll use this Social Justice Award as larger incentive to struggle towards the legalized genocide of coloured folks, and vow by no means to cease preventing racism and discrimination when it rears its ugly head.”
Crump additionally spoke about DeSantis banning of books: “And now that they’re attempting to ban our most celebrated Black authors and AP African-American Research. We should advocate for our kids and our tradition within the lecture rooms and demand that they acknowledge that the instructing of Black historical past issues. Harriet Tubman issues. Frederick Douglas issues. Ida B. Wells issues. Thurgood Marshall issues. Dr. King issues. Rosa Parks issues. Malcolm X issues. Charlie Chisholm, John Lewis. They weren’t mere footnotes within the historical past books. They have been the heroes.”
He additionally spoke about Black historical past: “And as Carter G. Woodson prophetically warned, “If a race has no historical past, if it has no traditions which might be revered and taught to the younger folks, then it turns into a negligible issue within the considered the world and thus at risk of changing into exterminated.” We is not going to let elected officers exterminate our historical past, our literature, or our tradition. Not in Florida or any of the opposite 50 states as a result of it’s so essential that each Black youngsters and white youngsters, and all youngsters, know that Black historical past issues as a result of Black historical past is American historical past. And all of our kids should know that their tradition contributed to the progress and the historical past of the USA of America.
“As a result of if we don’t struggle for our kids’s future, we are able to’t count on anyone else to struggle for our kids’s future. And we as a folks care to struggle for our kids’s future till hell freeze’s over. After which we’ve to be able to struggle on the ice.”
