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It keeps running through my brain what my grandmother, father and mother said to me when I was a child; no one can ride you if your back is straight, and they can't put their foot on you neck if you're standing up. #GeorgeFloyd was a big, strong man.
It keeps running through my brain what my grandmother, father and mother said to me when I was a child; no one can ride you if your back is straight, and they can't put their foot on you neck if you're standing up. #GeorgeFloyd was a big, strong man.
His death at the knee of a cop would never have occurred if the cop had acted alone. So it took an entire group to bend him, bring him down, and keep him there.
That's real but it's also symbolic. In the moments when Mr. Floyd's life is being squeezed away, you workings...
That's real but it's also symbolic. In the moments when Mr. Floyd's life is being squeezed away, you workings...
...of the entire system of structural, institutionalized racism works to squeeze the live out of black America, and it captures the entire history of this nation in 8min, 46sec.
If systemic, structural, institutionalized racism is hard to understand, just remember that picture.
If systemic, structural, institutionalized racism is hard to understand, just remember that picture.
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