Victoria Bradley
- Interviewer
- Lyberti Bradley
- Date
- November 28, 2023
- Location of the Interview
- Zoom, Ms. Bradley was in Atlanta, Georgia at the time of the interview
- Length
- 31 minutes, 49 seconds
- Abstract
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Victoria Bradley was born on May 16, 1984. She is 39 years old and is part of the Millenial generation. She was raised in Brewton, AL but currently resides in Atlanta, GA with three of her children. She is a Records and Information Specialist/ Assisstant to the Assissiant Director of the Office of Lewis Brisbois law firm. She is a University of the South alumna, where is earned a degree in Religious Studies. She spoke about growing up in Brewton, AL, a town she describes as a having a “subtle undertone of racism” that she feels isn’t as prominet in Atlanta, a city that is predominately black. She also notes that she feels the climate of the city is changing as it becomes more gentrified. After gathering this information about her background and upbringing we moved on to questions focused on the Movement for Black Lives and impact it has had on her life.
The interviewer asked about her age and the generation she grew up in to have better understanding of her introduction to social media and her interaction with it. Ms. Bradley is millennial and was introduced to social media in late-teens/ early twenties, she remembers having a Myspace and Facebook as her first forms of social media. She also says that she gets the majority of the news through social media particularly Snapchat Stories, though she often follows up with her own research.
Ms. Bradley speaks about her opinions and encounters with the movement, she says that she initially encountered the movement in 2020 following the death of George Floyd. She says the she understands the meaning of Black Lives Matter and its purpose. She also recollects that she was in Los Angeles following the death of Trayvon Martin and had to flee a riot. She believes that the movement has been successful in terms of garnering awareness, however it has lacked the ability to create actionable change and thus has failed in that aspect. When asked about her hopes for the future race relations in the United States she stated “I don't necessarily, I don't know, I don't want to say sound defeated myself, but to me it's like dealing with a narcissist. You have to cut them off cold. And I feel like America is the narcissist, right? And until we literally cut them off, either by way of the black dollar or moving out of here, will they really hear us?”
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