From George Stinney To George Floyd: The Evolution Of Systemic Racism In The US

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From a 14-year-old George Stinney’s flawed state execution in 1944 to George Floyd’s murder by policing, has much changed?

On May 25, George Floyd, an African-American man became the latest victim of the raging racism that has been flaring under the Republican regime of Donald Trump. He was arrested and accosted on the basis of an alleged forgery, after which he was pinned to the ground by the neck, held immobile by the knee of officer Derek Chauvin, for approximately seven minutes. In the video that subsequently went viral, George can be seen repeatedly requesting the officer to get off him for he cannot breathe, to no avail.

George Floyd died. He did not get the chance to plead his case. The judgement was already passed due to his race.

George Floyd is not an isolated case. But this is surely the one which has caused everyone to look up and look within, especially the ones with privilege. The racism against native Americans, African-Americans, Americans of different origins and ethnicities has been systemic since the colonial era, wherein the white Americans sanctioned all the rights and social capital to themselves. This should have seen the finish line a long time ago. Sadly, it did not. Society evolved and with it racism too. The white supremacists’ lust for power increased multifold and the hatred for other minorities did not die down. The hunger for cultural and racial supremacy and the want for declaring other citizens secondary only flourished.

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It led to some of the most dastardly practices of all time, such as internment camps, separate educational institutions, biased working laws, so and so forth. This further led to the creation of a suppressed particular race. They were denied social capital, basic respect, education, voting rights, and much more. It led to revolutions and retributions.

So, while we do not know yet know whether George Floyd was indeed committing forgery, we cannot deal it in isolation with racial discrimination he and countless other blacks face on a daily basis in the USA.

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