Opal Tometi, one of three co-founders of Black Lives Matter, is taking me back to the birth of a movement that this summer inspired the largest anti-racism protests in half a century. The year was 2013 and, “like everybody else”, she was following the trial of George Zimmerman, who was ultimately acquitted of the murder of an African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida. “Watching the case cold broke my heart,” says Tometi. “It hit me particularly hard because my youngest brother was 14 years old at the time.” She feared that something similar could happen to him one day.
奧珀爾?托梅蒂(Opal Tometi)是“黑人的命也是命”（Black Lives Matter，以下簡稱“BLM”）運動的三名聯合發起人之一，她把我帶回了這場運動的誕生之時——該運動在今年夏天激發了半個世紀來最大的反種族歧視抗議。那是2013年，她“和其他人一樣”關注著喬治?齊默爾曼(George Zimmerman)的審判動態。齊默爾曼最終在佛羅里達州非裔美國少年特雷文?馬丁(Trayvon Martin)謀殺案中獲判無罪。“看著這個案子不了了之，我心碎了。”托梅蒂說，“這對我的打擊尤其嚴重，因為我最小的弟弟當時只有14歲。”她擔心將來某一天他也會遇到類似的事情。