I’m still trying to find that video where black people kneel, ask forgiveness from the community that was looted, people were maimed and killed in that community.
Just learned that they're having a "gathering"/"protest" in Marble Falls on the 13th. It's being organized by one Parks employee and a bunch of HS students; they've already started working with the MFPD to make sure all is copacetic. I'll be there, I'm very curious what the locals have to say about the police in the various counties around here...we do have a sizable contingent of Katrina refugees (a whole church congregation+) and of course there's the Hispanic population.
I wrote this this morning about George Floyd coming home. Happy for George Floyd's family to see him return home but very sad under these conditions. Houston is my home town too and a place I still think about a lot I was just thinking again that not that long before George Floyd and myself were born Houston was still a legally segregated city and the legacy of segregation was still there in our lives. Yates high where he graduated from had been a colored school and named after a former slave. Lamar where I graduated from was a white school named after a secessionist. One of the sad ironies of this whole situation is George left Texas to Minnesota for a new start only to face and ultimately die from the same issues that were in the South. Minnesota was the first state that volunteered to fight for the Union in the Civil War while Texas was part of the Confederacy and Houston is the part of Texas with the most confederate legacy. In many ways though race relations are as strained here in Minnesota as it is in the South. It might be more so as the South has been forced to confront it openly on a national stage. The life and death of George Floyd showed that..
I'm still amazed at all the small world connections this man had and how his death created the perfect storm of anger that sparked the simmering rage ready to boil in so many people. That the protests have gone global and are still ongoing is surreal -- and none of this would have happened if the cop would have just moved his leg a few inches to Floyd's back.
As he's laid to rest... "Mama!" "Mama!" Mama Floyd & "Big Floyd" in heaven. Rest easy. Rest in peace George Perry Floyd Jr. Gone but not forgotten. SAY & REMEMBER HIS NAME: GEORGE FLOYD R.I.P ❤
Sorry if I missed this here but where is the mural again? I’ll be in H next week and would mind stopping by to check in out.
I think it was the way he died. Agonizingly and in public. It's also the timing. Trump being in office added to it given how divisive the US was and many around the World are towards Trump. I have the feeling if Obama was still in office we would've seen protests but maybe not the worldwide phenomena. I think there was a lot of pent up energy from the COVID-19 lockdowns and this incident helped channel that into protests.
I'm not a big Al Sharpton fan, but I caught most of his sermon/speech/eulogy today. He said it's important that the Lord picked a man who was not a famous athlete or celebrity, who was not rich, who was not well-educated with fancy degrees and schools. Just a man, not a perfect man, not a bad man, just a man like many, loved by friends and family. He said that's a big reason this has crystalized people's sentiment and support, and I think it's an interesting point. Something about the Lord has chosen the passed over stone to build the next bridge.
I'm not a fan either. I can't stand his news shows and appearances but he has done a good job at the memorials where I have seen him speak.
