BU Caribbean African Student Association
2600 Rue College J1M 0C8 Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Hey everyone! This year CASA will be partnering with the @bufashionshow and we will have our very own line modelled by you. Join us at the gait from 3:00pm to 4:30pm October 14th for your audition. Bring that walk with you!

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Some people believe that’s it’s over, that they’ve done their due diligence. Companies, schools, celebrities have made their personal statements on the matter and have gone back to posting their regular content. BlackLivesMatter is not a trend it’s an actual fight for all of us. First of all nothing will change unless we as black people accept that a lot of our mentalities have been poisoned for centuries and we carry generational trauma. We are always so competitive with e...Continue reading

What I’ve come to realize about the BLM movement is that it has awakened a great deal of the trauma that we, as a people, have been forced to suppress in order to survive. I’m ashamed at the instances in which I could have stood up for my brothers, my sisters & myself but simply did not because of how normalized so many forms of racism have become. Those efforts I made seemed lackadaisical, with no real intent to enact real change. But this moment in history marks a differenc...e. Not a temporary difference to placate the black community, but the real difference to transform the world. There is an evident rise in the temperature with an atmosphere full of passion. No longer will we, not only as the black community but we as humans, tolerate racism at any level. The stain it has left of our souls is being permanently removed as we step into a progressive future. The promise we are making to ourselves and to our posterity is that this will no longer form part of our identity. We have reclaimed our birthright to beauty, self-love, success & freedom. Our oppressive history will no longer serve as an excuse to feed into the victim mindset. From this moment onwards, we will march forward hand-in-hand with our heads held high. We march to create a better & fairer life for all in order to remind the world, but more important ourselves that BLACK LIVES MATTER! ~ Kevin Veyi