George Floyd — Black Lives Matter

After witnessing the death of George Floyd, to say that the world is a volatile place right now would be an understatement. Not only is it fighting one of the worst pandemics in the recent history of the human race, but there also seems to be no end to other un-wanted issues around us.

Let’s count a few, shall we?

The trade war between the US and China, the border clash between China-India, suppression of Muslims in Chinese camps, suicide by actors hard hit by depression (Sushant Singh Rajput), religious conflicts, unaddressed poverty, corruption in governments worldwide and destruction of nature to name a few.

Amid all this, there is one country that is fighting an issue which is not of today, yesterday or yesteryears… it’s an issue that has been there for centuries. And that country is the United States of America, fighting the same old fight — black people and their lives, their rights, ever since, George Floyd was killed by white cops.

On May 25th, George Floyd, a black man in his 40s was killed by white cops during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit bill for buying some stuff. Derek Chauvin a white cop knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes after handcuffing Floyd who was begging for his life and kept saying “I can’t breathe”,

This led to outrage not only in the USA but across the globe with many people taking it to the streets in protest of this unwanted death which resulted in the existence of a new hashtag #BLM a.k.a. #BlackLivesMatter.

Now, I have nothing against this hashtag, but what it did make me think was — why only say Black Lives Matter, why not other lives too? Why restrict a slogan to a race or community instead of going after the subject as a whole. This thought in itself sounded subjective to me, so I decided to talk to some knowns faces and take their view on that.

This is what they had to say:

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