I havent seen any posts mentioning it yet, i dont want the event itself and the movement it generated and bolstered to be forgotten.
For 8 minutes a servant of the government wedged his knee into the neck of george floyd until he died. For months and years after that, the people decried the injustice highlighted by floyds death but which take place everywhere, and resisted apathy, and fought and won meaningful changes to the system.
That murderous servant is now in a low security jail for the next 22 years, and has 22 stab wounds too.
The world implemented multiple changes to policy and culture following the black lives matter movement.
There is still too much inequality, too much instability, too many psychos masquerading as servants, but today is a day to be remembered, and a name and movement to not forget
George Floyd - Black Lives Matter - May 25 2020
I think it was the Roast of Kevin Hart where those bitch-ass comedians (especially Tony Hinchcliffe) that made George Floyd jokes.
Comedians said, “well, we laughed at Charlie Kirk jokes so we should be cool with George Floyd jokes.”
Charlie Kirk is a shock jock saying and doing provocative shit in his day-to-day spreading hate. Whether he deserved to die is one thing but he was in the public sphere in a hateful and controversial context. George Floyd was just some random dude – living his day-to-day and was murdered. He didn’t want to enter any public sphere. Tony is also a right-wing piece of shit so it’s not like he’s being tongue-in-cheek about his jokes. He openly hates George Floyd.
MAGA or right-wingers also went through George’s past and claimed his drugs is what killed him and then openly mocked him after his death by putting knees on each other’s necks lightly and shared photos of it online.
He was just a fucking man trying to live.