It was all over a lousy twenty dollar bill.
Whether the verdict is innocent or guilty, it will not bring George Floyd back to his family, nor will the lives of the officers involved ever return to normal.
Change is necessary in methods, laws, procedures, practices but most of all, in the hearts of men. Those who police have to see their fellow citizens as human beings, not enemy combatants or potential threats.
Will anything be different when the trial is over? Probably not. Many, to protect themselves, are simply becoming numb. The “if only they would comply” crowd will continue to ignore the number of deceased people who lost their lives in spite of doing nothing to justify or hasten the loss.
Paranoid people itching for a civil war will continue to instigate. Politicians will continue to pay lip service. Angry, fed up citizens will continue to take to the streets. More lives may be lost; more neighborhoods burned and looted, and the cycle continues.
There’s no disputing the problem of racism and inequality in America, or the terror that fearful people want others to feel because the lies they’ve been fed, and the stereotypes they’ve embraced. have made them afraid. Once again, the uncontrollable, superhuman, big Black brute/buck is being blamed for his own death.
America’s greatest problem, since its inception however, is hypocrisy, lack of integrity, denial, and the hardened hearts of those who fail to see the humanity of others. The fact that yet more people have been killed, even as the trial plays out, speaks volumes. Nothing has changed in America except the quality of the moving images we see as equality and justice is denied again and again.
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