Young people call for an end to systemic racism

Summit told of the need for Irish people to be anti-racist

Zoey Nyoni, a student of Sacred Heart Secondary school at the anti-racism youth led summit in Cork City Hall on Friday. Pictures: Chani Anderson

With fists in the air, the youth of Cork took several turns around the room in silence, in an effort to be seen and listened to as they declared the need for change and to be anti-racist in Ireland.

With masks on their faces, each bore a word in silver marker: Freedom, solidarity, change, justice, anti-racist, George Nkencho, while one person wrote on a cardboard placard: “Racism is a Pandemic.”