Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters gathered in front of the White House on Thursday before Donald Trump’s presidential nomination acceptance speech, shouting with anger and demanding his resignation. “We need to get Trump out, we need to destroy the whole system. We need a revolution,” said Keheirra Wedderburn, 18, above the sound of banging drums and chants of “Trump/Pence out now!” “These presidents are not gonna do anything ’cause they are not the people of color in the streets being shot,” the black student from Houston, Texas told AFP. “There are more people who are ready for Trump to leave office,” said Washington native Michael Legend, a 33-year-old black man. Just a few yards away, shielded by large metal fences, the billionaire Republican was gearing up to accept his party’s presidential nomination for re-election with a speech on the South Lawn of the White House.
