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My Thoughts on George Floyd’s Murder
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police officers. He was suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, but even if he was guilty of this, it never justified him being asphyxiated by a knee to his neck for over 8 minutes leading to his death.
It was wrong. There is no justification. Period.
Police officers watched a man dying, crying out for his mother (who was dead by the way, just think about that for a moment). They did not serve and protect the community, they murdered a man in broad daylight.
As a black man, I am hurting. I am angry. I am sad.
The days after George Floyd’s murder, I have become even more conscious that I am a foreigner living in Germany. Life is difficult for everyone. We are living through a pandemic, and most, if not all of us, know of someone suffering in some way from Covid-19 (sometimes we see them in the mirror), and sadly even people who have died from this virus. But the murder of George Floyd, and the aftermath of his death, is making life for many people much more difficult, myself included. And I find life more difficult because I am a black man.
Racism is a very real thing and exists everywhere. Racism includes negatively pre-judging people, and discrimination based on ethnicity and culture. Ethnicity and culture involves not just colour…
