Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of civil rights activist, Malcolm X has said she believes President Donald Trump’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter protests has helped to shine a light on the racism that black people have had to endure for centuries.

In an interview with Sky News on Monday, Shabazz, 57, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City said she feels Trump’s response to the protest was good in the sense that it ‘awakened’ people to the ‘kinds of people that actually exist out there’.

She said, “To have him spewing some of the things that he says and then to see an officer steal someone’s life the way he did and that continuing, people are understanding the challenges that blacks have experienced for the last 500 years.”

She likened the younger generation participating in Black Lives Matter protests similar to those who called for change in the 1960s.

‘My father said that it would be this generation that would get sick and tired, that they would recognize the people in power have misused it.