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Midwest Diary — George Floyd
My personal journal entry from two years ago (May 2020)
And now, everything has gone crazy. I haven’t written any journal entries for a few days or more and it is because the world fell into a black hole. I started keeping a journal when the Covid-19 pandemic started. Saving images. Text messages. Emails. Anything.
The pandemic and the troubles of the world.
I wanted to make a historical record. It felt necessary. But now, I am reminded that even in a pandemic some things don’t change much. The United States of America, the country where I was born, goes about the business of killing black people like it is nothing. Like smoking a cigarette.
First, it was the pandemic, and now a 46 year old black man named George Floyd was murdered by the police in Minneapolis in broad daylight in front of an ocean of witnesses.
Mr. Floyd, according to reports, and videos was held down, knee on his throat, and he died. Four police officers. It was filmed by a person with a mobile phone. And someone else with a mobile phone. Store cameras caught some of it.
The movie spread like the coronavirus only faster. Happened on Memorial Day. A day for the dead. A day to remember those who have died. For a cause. And on that day, the man who is President of…
