George Floyd’s home was Houston Texas not anywhere in Africa. He was killed by one officer and the negligence of three others, not the entire Minneapolis Police Department. The whole country had nothing to do with the killing.
Majority of us Americans were busy dealing with the complexity of our own lives trying to feed ourselves and our families, barely having time for our interests, much less have time to be systematically oppressing someone. But make no mistake, we were extremely bothered by what happened and we wanted answers and justice. And I mean WE. REGARDLESS OF EVERY TRAIT YOU CAN THINK OF!
The pandering Democrats in the photo have a combined tenure in government of over one hundred years. That party has been running cities like Minneapolis where these killings occur. To be fair Republicans pander and fold as well. However, the photo-op, and THIS was a photo-op, illustrates the problem clearly!
Most members of both parties don’t see us as individuals anymore! They look at us as members of groups. And because they don’t see us as individuals, each with a complicated array of traits that makes us unique, they’ve reduced everything to – if one member of the group does X, then all members behave the same way.
They take ONE trait and make it essential to that individual instead of just incidental. I’m proud of my heritage as a Filipino, but that’s just one aspect of me. George Floyd was black, also, just one aspect of who he was. How insulting that he’s reduced to just a color.
Then adding insult to injury, he’s not even considered just American! He had to be African. Ask most blacks and they’d tell you that if you would have to characterize them, characterize them as black. That’s it. No hyphenated descriptions.
When we’re not seen as individuals, our accomplishments and our failures are not our own. It belongs to whatever group we’ve been assigned to.
So, punish the individual(s) who were responsible for the wrongdoing and leave the rest of us alone. We don’t need to check anything. My white friends, and I have many, did not do anything to George Floyd or anyone like him. They’re all just trying to live the best life they could. Most of us are.
So spare us the fake concern and do the main job we elected you for. Protect us! All of us! That’s really the only job that matters. The rest, we can figure for ourselves. We do that day in day out. How do you think we’ve become the most powerful and righteous nation on the face of the earth? Yes, I said righteous! Deal with it.
Grateful Immigrant 