History George Floyd

A black man looked in pain when his body was crushed by the police. The man named George Floyd tried to catch his breath but the more he resisted, the greater the pressure felt.

Shortly after being rescued, George just breathed his last. The BBC reports his life was helpless even though he was rushed to hospital. Public outrage culminated in this incident.

Minneapolis is again witnessing how racism continues to undermine America.

Demonstrations over the death of George Floyd could not be dammed, the crowd huddled in front of the White House and began locking up government offices, where President Trump led his country. They demand justice for Floyd's death.

This case is not as simple as another murder case. Insulated Floyd's breath is a vivid portrait of how the black race stood in the shadow of fear.

Keisha N. Blain, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh wrote in the Washington Post that the violence against Floyd was only two months after the death of a black woman named Breonna Taylor.

Keisha revealed that the threat of black people in Minneapolis was not a pandemic virus, but police violence.


Based on history, violence like this has happened for centuries in America. For a long time, black people were only considered slaves and their rights were limited by white people who felt confident, their position was higher than black people.

Long before George Floyd was born, around the 20th century, capital punishment did not appear as a new tactic for controlling the lives of black people.

Anti-lynching fighter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett revealed in 'The Red Record' that the lynching of American blacks was not only planned beforehand but was also fully supported by the local police.

During the summer of 1919, massive racial violence erupted in America. In Chicago, Eugene Williams, a black teenager was killed on July 27, 1919 for swimming in a special section of 'white' Lake Michigan.

Just like anger after Floyd's death, the crowd was also furious when William was killed.

The demonstration continued for about a month and ended in August 1919 with the deaths of 15 white people, 23 black people and at least 500 people injured. This number does not include thousands of black families who lost their homes.

Continuing Keisha's writing, the police assault on black activists during the 1963 Birmingham campaign and the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march were the racist roots of the American police. The violence targets black men, women and children.

Sprinting away in 2009, for the first time America had a black president. He is Barrack Hussein Obama, who was installed on January 20. Of course this is a breath of fresh air for black citizens.

Unfortunately, even though Obama has many achievements in the field of government, he is still called the root of the increasing racial problems that have occurred throughout his administration.

Back to the murder of George Floyd, if Marthin Luther King Jr. was still alive, maybe he would stare blankly at the phenomenal speech paper 'I Have Dream'. Will justice for black people forever be a dream?