OPINION: George Floyd is all black folks
On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Department of Police in America’s State of Minnesota, knelt on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who died after nine long minutes.
Those who focus only on Floyd’s killing on a Minneapolis street in 2020 should remember the Yoruba proverb that explains why the load that is carried by a man with knocked knees will never sit pretty. Start with the image of cleric Bartholome de Las Casas, engraved in the belfry, or dome, of the rotunda of the Capitol, even if British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and French President, Emmanuel Macron, don’t seem to agree.
The point here is that Europeans of the Old World and colonialists of the New World have always conspired to literally and metaphorically stay on the necks of Black folks. Rev Al Sharpton, a Black American civil rights leader, reels a chronicle of injustices to the Negro. So, even if apologetic American President Donald Trump appoints African-American Gen Charles Brown, Jr., who remembers the “many African Americans that have suffered the same fate as George Floyd,” as the United States Air Force chief, it is probably too little, too late.
By foisting the evil neocolonialism on Africa, the Western metropolitan powers, , inflicted on Africans, the most unkindest cut, to borrow a double superlative from William Shakespeare.
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