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And rightfully so. In 2020 —- black people are still terrified of law enforcement and still being ruthlessly murdered by overzealous and otherwise racist cops who more often than not believe they’ll get away with it.

Financial settlements don’t bring back lives. Real change prevents lives from being lost.

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George Floyd for those who may just now be clocking into the story was an African American man in Minneapolis who was killed by a white officer after he was suffocated to death (intentionally we might add.) Floyd ‘s murder is not only the latest in a long line of murders of unarmed Black American citizens — it is the shining example of how many Black Americans are often forced to live in fear.

The truth about these murders is that it could’ve been any of us. It could’ve been my brother; your brother, my sister, your sister, or even your cousins or god forbid your or my parents. The saddest truth about it all is that all it takes is one encounter with the wrong cop and it effectively would be the end.

There are some who argue that he should’ve complied, er, but refuse to watch the footage shared yesterday that confirms he did comply and wasn’t resisting. The murder of George Floyd is an example obliterating the often white-led argument that Black people should otherwise “comply.”

It proves (the video) that often we do comply but even that isn’t enough to be spared from literal murder.

America is now faced with a grim future that must result in the larger discussion of why we the people like George Floyd aren’t afforded the same plausibility and rights during an arrest (or similar) when it comes to cops as white Americans are. We now must ask what is going to take to be afforded those rights?

Is it going to take a complete and total uprising? Is it going to take a complete and total turnover of America as we know it? Is it going to take a complete flush of the people in power who have helped these police departments catapult themselves into powerful unions and orgs?

Truthfully, all of the above. But this can’t be achieved until white people and black people realise that we are no different than the person standing next to us. There is no reason in 2020 that we should still fear each other when we quite literally wouldn’t exist without each other. Remember that we as humans literally would not exist without each other. But these police departments and the U.S government — want us to fear each other. But why?

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