Vas said he had been 'traumatised' by some of the messages
: ’I had to close off my DMs. I haven’t opened them now in maybe three weeks, because I was getting the worst death threats from white supremacists.https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4yk0VJr8e/
‘The majority of my friends are white, and I have white people who I consider my family. I’ve never thought it was us against them, I’ve always thought it’s [all of] us against racists. By us, I mean the world against racists, every race against people who are racist.’ ’it’s literally about 900 people on my block list now,’ he continued. ‘I think it’s just opened the floodgates to the racists.
Vas was spurred on to act following the death of George Floyd – who died during an arrest when police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, despite his insistence that he couldn’t breathe.dedicated to giving black communities a safe space, as well as free access to mental health resources.
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