They used Floyd and took advantage of his death to spread their systemic racism narrative because the circumstances of his death checked all of the boxes.
I want to learn more about the life that Floyd lived. I am tired of hearing about his death. The slaves were emancipated because the abolitionists appealed to their decency, humanity, reasonableness, and spiritual faith, which were all incompatible with the vicious, inhuman, brutal, and satanic practice of enslavement. Emmett Till’s murder unleashed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s because Emmett Till was just a student trying to visit his family in the South when he got killed. Check Wikipedia, and you can learn all about Emmett Till’s life.
But even now, we know very little about George Floyd’s life. Even worse, his family and his community have no means to privately grieve and find consolation and resolution as a community. And now people will only remember Floyd for how he died, not for how he lived.
They used Floyd and took advantage of his death to spread their systemic racism narrative because the circumstances of his death checked all of the boxes.
I want to learn more about the life that Floyd lived. I am tired of hearing about his death. The slaves were emancipated because the abolitionists appealed to their decency, humanity, reasonableness, and spiritual faith, which were all incompatible with the vicious, inhuman, brutal, and satanic practice of enslavement. Emmett Till’s murder unleashed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s because Emmett Till was just a student trying to visit his family in the South when he got killed. Check Wikipedia, and you can learn all about Emmett Till’s life.
But even now, we know very little about George Floyd’s life. Even worse, his family and his community have no means to privately grieve and find consolation and resolution as a community. And now people will only remember Floyd for how he died, not for how he lived.