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People are fed up and need to step up after George Floyd’s death, Raptors agree

It is the silence that has to be broken, and broken by many, and the time has come for that to happen.

Norm Powell knows it, he knows people feel racism and discrimination, but now they must speak to it. And act on it to correct it.

“I think a lot of people see the prejudice and discrimination, the racism that’s going on, and they don’t agree with it but they also don’t speak up,” the Raptors forward said Monday. “Speak up, use your voice, use your platform no matter what it is.