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Keke Palmer Urges National Guardsman to March at LA Protest: 'Let the Revolution Be Televised'

Multihyphenate Keke Palmer attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Hollywood on Tuesday, where she was recorded speaking calmly to a National Guardsman instructed to keep the peace. Suggested Reading A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion Cardi B, Offset and the Real Reasons Celebrities Recycle Each Others’ Partners Trigger Warning…All of the Shocking…

Multihyphenate Keke Palmer attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Hollywood on Tuesday, where she was recorded speaking calmly to a National Guardsman instructed to keep the peace.

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The actress, singer and talk show host encouraged the guardsman to walk with her and the other protesters and tried to explain that nothing bad is happening since theyโ€™re all joining together as Americans to disavow racism.

โ€œYou have to understand whatโ€™s going on,โ€ she explains to the guardsman, who was armed with a weapon while Palmer spoke to him. โ€œWe have a president whoโ€™s trying to incite a race war. We need you. So march with us. March beside us. You get your people. March beside us. March beside us. Let the revolution be televised.โ€

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When the guardsman explained he couldnโ€™t leave his post, he did offer an alternative: he would march with the protesters down the street. When Palmer said sheโ€™d love for him to walk with them further than that, he passed on her plea. He also kneeled down on one knee a la Colin Kaepernick, as one person in the crowd suggested he does to show solidarity. However, Palmer says โ€œthat ainโ€™t enough.โ€

In a video posted to her Instagram page earlier this week, Palmer got out a few thoughts about the protests and the public response to it. She says, โ€œIโ€™ve always been against violence, not wanting to be violence, because I donโ€™t want violence to overtake my spirit, but now here I am, watching material things burn, and I feel a sense of comfort.โ€

โ€œTo those who may not be looking close enough, all they will see is looting or people who donโ€™t really care about the movement or anarchy without a purpose,โ€ she continues. โ€œBut what I see is society responding to the oppressor how the oppressor has responded to usโ€ฆthe establishment hasnโ€™t shown respect to the people.โ€

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