Jane Fonda Pens Incredible Blog Post Regarding George Floyd [View all]

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

My heart breaks for what’s happening, for the pain and grief and rage caused by George Floyd’s murder. And grief for his family. I beg people reading this to understand that his murder is a match thrown on the dry tinder of racism. There have been at least two other previous murders in Minneapolis with officers not being held accountable. The one time an officer was convicted of murder in that city the victim was white, the officer was Black. Imagine you are Black and let that sink in. Apparently, George Floyd had tried to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit bill when cops were called. Female Senator, Kelly Loeffler was being investigated for insider trading on the Covid information she’d received but her husband gave $1 million to a Trump PAC and the DOJ dropped the investigation. Imagine you are Black and let that sink in.

Hundreds of Black men and boys and women have been murdered at the hands of police who have never been held accountable. Add that onto the decades of black people being incarcerated for things that white people are never charged for—like possessing an ounce of marijuana or holding a cell phone the wrong way—that’s the new Jim Crow. That’s added on to the century of the original Jim Crow, when Black men were arrested for made-up crimes and sold to factory owners to work in factories and mines under unbelievably brutal and inhuman conditions and Blacks were deprived of any rights. And that was after slavery had been outlawed. Add that onto the centuries of black people being considered not human, sold like animals, beaten, tortured, raped, castrated, lynched. If white people had been subjected to this history of unspeakable violence they would be burning things…or worse.

More at: https://www.janefonda.com/2020/05/george-floyd-a-centuries-old-history/