A white police officer murdered unarmed George Floyd in Minneapolis four years ago tomorrow, May 25, 2020.
The murder of Mr. Floyd broadened the Movement for Black Lives to a global reckoning, another cycle of history repeating itself over more than 400 years. In February 1965, 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson was part of a protest in Marion, Alabama, against the arrest of a local civil rights activist. An Alabama state trooper shot Jackson, who was shielding his mother from attacks. The killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson was the spark that led to the march from Selma to Montgomery, said the late Congressman John Lewis.
Like Jimmie Lee Jackson, George Floyd forever changed the world. His sacrifice shifted our nation’s – and the world’s – consciousness on race. But we have far to go to transform that consciousness so that there is no turning back to status quo ante thinking.
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Keith Kamisugi 