Is the United States losing the Never-Ending Race Against Racism?
The Future of American Race Relations
Over the past weeks, US race relations continue to run full steam ahead towards her racist past into the future. However, the never-ending race against racism does not end there.
The Minneapolis police arrested a 46-year old black man, George Floyd, after a convenience store employee called 911 and told the police that Floyd had bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes later, Floyd was video-taped pinned on the ground and held in that position with a police officer’s knee on his neck for more than 8 minutes which rendered him unconscious after he repeatedly shouted “I can’t breathe”. He was already dead for more than 4 minutes when the ambulance finally arrived.
Exactly 4 years ago in 2017, Minneapolis police shot dead a black man after being pulled over while driving and which was captured in a video viewed by millions of people, after a similar incident in Louisiana. The latest George Floyd killing and the previous police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota are grim reminders of the consequences of losing the never-ending race against racism in a modern and, arguably, civilised human society.
