After the second week of protests in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign, the anger has travelled across the Atlantic with protests in Belfast and Derry.
The size of the demonstrations has been an indication of the strength of feeling that exists when it comes to inequality and discrimination of minority communities.
The horrific and very public killing of George Floyd was the catalyst, but deaths like his, along with systemic discrimination and racial profiling, are not just the preserve of the USA.
In England tens of the thousands of people took to the streets in protest.
In Bristol protesters tore down a statue of 17th century slave owner Edward Colston and threw it in a river.
That a statue of a man who helped in stealing 80,000 men, women and children from their homes to be worked as slaves, still stood in the city is nothing short of shocking.
Colston an employee of the Royal Africa Company, which shipped more slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, many Irish names can be found among those working for the RAC.
Closer to home and a petition has been launched to remove a statue to John Mitchel in Newry.
A member of the Irish Confederation, he was sent to the British colony at Van Diemen's Land but escaped making his way to the United States in the 1850s, where he became a pro-slavery advocate and fought on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War.
Campaigners also want John Mitchel Place, in Newry to be re-named.
We often hear that history, especially here in Ireland, is contested. But there are few people with any credibility who would still try and contest the history of slavery.
When Britain finally abolished slave ownership, less than 200 years ago, there were almost 100 Irish slave owners paid compensation for their financial loss.
Many of the fine old buildings, financial institutions, and inherited wealth of the aristocracy can be traced back to the shameful trade in people.
Money that was made off the back of human misery.
In school I was never taught about slavery, those involved and what streets were named after the people who profited most.
I'm not in favour of destroying monuments and statues, they have historic worth, but I do think that their presence in a modern setting should come with an explanation for the next generation.
The statue of Edward Colston should be fished from the river and placed in a museum alongside other relics of that time as a detailed and honest learning experience about the past and the impact of that on our future.
The young people who are standing in protest with placards do not need protected from this harsh reality, but they would benefit from knowing accurate information about that time.
Something that would hopefully make them view each other in a different way to the generations before them.
And as for those who say this was in the past and should be left there.
Just this week Labour has accused the government of “covering up vital recommendations” that could help prevent black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying from coronavirus.
There are accusations that a government-commissioned report on the disproportionate effects of Covid-19 on BAME people had been censored.
People of Bangladeshi heritage in England are twice as likely to die if they contract the virus than white people, while other BAME groups face an increased risk of up to 50 per cent.
In Belfast and Derry thousands of people, many of them young, also gathered in protest.
They were loud and were heard, on Saturday organisers tried to enforce social distancing as best they could.
Despite this the PSNI handed out fines to almost 80 people, in a very different tactic to that used against crowds gathered at beaches, parks and even large retail premises.
This paper has often covered the religious make up of the force, but ethnic minorities make up 0.57 per cent of uniformed PSNI officers, with 0.75 of the civilian police staff coming from minority ethnic groups.
And so the image of a police officer fining a young woman of colour for protesting for her civil rights was optically not good for the force.
These past few weeks have resulted in some horrific scenes being shown on both news channels and on social media.
But along with every protest movement there comes opportunity for learning and the history of discrimination and violation of people of colour needs to part of our children's learning experience.
