RAPID CITY, S.D. — A bunch of group members gathered outdoors to protest the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City Wednesday afternoon.
Organized by NDN Collective, the picketers carried indicators encouraging the group to boycott the resort and all companies owned by the Uhre household.
Some 20 individuals stood on the sidewalk on Lacrosse Street sporting matching shirts. A person with a megaphone requested passing site visitors to “honk in the event that they’re towards racism,” and acquired many honks and waves from motorists.
NDN Collective’s Director of Racial Equality, Sunny Red Bear, says they’re encouraging the native Indigenous group to leverage their shopping for energy towards these sorts of companies.
“I need to say that it is a time that we’re drawing a line within the sand asking individuals ‘the place do you actually stand?’” Red Bear says. “To me, it’s a transparent reply of the place individuals ought to stand, however individuals want to have the ability to be vocal about it as a result of that is going to be affecting companies; that is affecting lives each single day.”
Red Bear says they’ll be outdoors the resort each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday till they attain their purpose.
She invitations group leaders to return be part of and work on addressing systemic racism.
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