George Floyd

In spite of the hysteria generated over the killings of black Americans, as pointed out here recently the police kill more whites than blacks, far more. Unjustified police killings in the UK are far, far less frequent, not just because of its far smaller population but because we are not obsessed with guns. Here as in the US, the deaths of blacks generate far more outrage than those of whites, but there was one notable exception, and the parallels with the death of George Floyd (pictured) are striking.

As Indians and people of Indian origin in the United States, we stand in solidarity with Black communities and their allies who are protesting this racism, and demanding structural change.

If the events currently unfolding in cities across the United States were happening in any other country in the world, a lot of us would already have said that the US Deep State was behind it. All the hallmarks are there.

Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state…
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After a week of civil unrest and random violence, residents across America have woken up to more neighborhoods in shambles, stores looted and set on fire – all as political leaders continue to dither, with some simply denying anything serious has been happening. The civil vacuum that is now forming is truly breathtaking.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
— Martin Luther King, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)

I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein, Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss scripted claims on CNN, made by Obama mouthpiece Susan Rice, that “foreign actors” and “the Russians” could be behind violent riots throughout the United States.

Tamika Mallory addresses a protest in Minneapolis May 2020     Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Let America Be America Again Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) … Continue reading In solidarity with #Blacklivesmatter – Tamika Mallory, Langston Hughes →

The corporate media and corporate politicians are paralyzed with indecision.  Which fake myth do we adhere to?  “Black people burning down their own neighborhoods” or “outside agitators”?  What if it’s both, and more…?

In the United States, riots that began due to the death of African American George Floyd are gaining strength.
On May 25, an African American, George Floyd, was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. The white policeman Derek Chauvin pressed his neck with his knee and held it like this for more than 7 minutes while George was lying face down on the road.