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The Plague, the Murder of George Floyd…& A Failed State
In the words of the late writer, Kurt Vonnegut, “and so it goes.” And it’s going. Straight to chaos, as was easily predicted on November 8, 2016, when the country, divided economically, racially, and ideologically, elected the worst person it could have ever considered to find a common way forward through a touch stretch of history: Donald Trump. Last thing I heard from friends in Washington D.C. who had protested was he was rumored to be in the White House bunker. The White House itself was completely dark as protestors outside the White House continued to show their displeasure with reckless and incompetent leadership and the brutal murder of George Floyd on May 25 by the Minneapolis police.
Currently, there are protests and curfews currently ongoing in multiple cities in the U.S. — Minneapolis, of course, but also in Detroit, Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Salt Lake City, and many others. International protests have begun as well. The nation that has always sought to hide behind its inherent racial ugliness and origins for two centuries is naked and on display before the world.
