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19th June 2020
02:48pm BST

"When things started to pick up around the conversation around police brutality, I felt - and a lot of the black people I've spoken to have felt - exhausted," she says. "It was like this really deep seated grief that hadn't really left.
"It felt overwhelming but not necessarily shocking, because this is something we see in the news cycle all the time and we as a community react to, and are pained by.
"The only way it seemed appropriate to process it was online, and by live tweeting this grief and prove it was upsetting to me. The initial response felt like a lot of people were being judged quite harshly for not having an immediate take, but I don't think you can 'hot-take' black death."
Yomi says that although the attention Floyd's death garnered is considerable (and at times overwhelming), she remains concerned that the need for change is being overshadowed by guilt.
"So much of it is fuelled by guilt rather than a genuine engagement with the issues," she says.
"And that's where the problem lies because guilt can only take you so far, which is why I think we have this cyclical approach to police brutality and to instances of racism.
"It can be quite stressful watching people scrambling to prove an understanding of something they haven't necessarily grasped. And that puts us in a position where we fear: when are we going to go back to business as usual?"
You can listen to our full interview with Yomi on Girls With Goals below.
Read her article 'We Need To Rethink Our "Pics Or It Didn't Happen' Approach To Activism" in British Vogue here.
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