Not All Black Lives Matter
There is a consensus that however chequered his past, George Floyd did not deserve to die the way he did. The same cannot be said however for every black man who falls foul of the law. When Granville Ritchie appeared in a Florida courtroom for his sentencing hearing, the family of his victim were unanimously in favour of him dying, and the sooner the better. It was left to his white attorneys to argue that he was not to be numbered among “the worst of the worst”.
