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Saturday, June 13, 2020

What if There Were No George Floyd Video?

By: Nicholas Kristof
6/6/2020
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/opinion/sunday/george-floyd-structural-racism.html?searchResultPosition=2


Imagine that no one had shot video of George Floyd being killed by the police in Minneapolis. There would have been a bland statement that he had died resisting arrest, and none of us would have heard of him.
Instead, the horror of that video has ignited protests around the world. Racism in that video is as visceral as a lynching.