'I think what the Americans are doing is brave and they should be angry, but rioting is not the solution.'
Whether in Baghdad's Tahrir Square or on Twitter, Iraqis are closely watching the unprecedented street protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis as a police officer knelt on his neck.
Violence left more than 550 people dead, but virtually no one has been held accountable -- mirroring a lack of accountability over deaths at the hands of security forces in the US, Iraqis say."Don't set anything on fire. Stay away from that, because the police will treat you with force right from the beginning and might react unpredictably," Alaa told AFP."If blacks and whites were united and they threw racism away, the system can never stop them," he said.
"Our racism is different than America's racism," said Ali Essam, a 34-year-old Afro-Iraqi who directed a wildly popular play about Iraq's protests last year. In one video, an elderly Iraqi is seen reciting a"hosa" or rhythmic chant, used to rally people into the streets last year and now adapted to an American context.
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