George Floyd's Murder - The Tipping Point

The Black African American race had entered the USA about 401 years ago as discussed in earlier chapters. These people have tried hard to merge themselves completely into the american mainstream in these 4 centuries.  But despite their hard attempts and support given by quite a few good-hearted whites, who believed in the principles of equality and justice, these attempts of the black community have not been very successful. A clear "division" is visible, especially when incidents like that of the murder of George Floyd at Minneapolis, happen. Suddenly the brotherhood and the good vibes disappear. They are replaced by patterns of thoughts filled with discrimination, which would generate bad vibes, obviously. An air of suspicion gets created between the two communities all of a sudden. The whites start suspecting each and every black citizen, wherever they meet - on the road, in the pub, at a dinner party, in a populated market... everywhere. In this situation, suppose a whi...

In order to go to eradicate an age-old problem, it is very important to go to the crux, the central part of it. If we want to eliminate Racism from the planet, we should think why it is caused. It all starts from mindsets.  Let us have a look at what the White Americans think about the Black Americans, so as to go closer to solving this problem.  A survey conducted by a leading american daily, after the murder of Floyd showed that  25% white americans would not like to have black people, living in their neighborhood. 35% think that blacks are less clean and have less sense of health and hygiene compared to themselves. 18% literally hate the blacks and term them as "wild animals" as on today. 38% of them would not like to have their kids being taught by a black teacher any where from kindergarten to college level. 55% of the whites would not like to have a black partner for marriage.  What do all these figures suggest? They suggest that after 401 years of th...

In 1619 a.d., a group of Portuguese sailors took 20 black men from Angola, a country located inside the continent of Africa, geographically located in the southern hemisphere of the planet. These Portuguese, then  sold these 20 men to the britishers as slaves. At that time America was under colonial rule and not an independent nation. It was occupied by the British.  Those britishers who bought those 20 Black Africans as slaves, brought them America. These black men were assigned different jobs as their slaves over there which included farming in the fields, raising and looking after cattle, daily household chores etc. Gradually the population of blacks increased, most of them located in the southern part of the country of America.   Discrimination with them existed right from day one over there. They were asked to bow down to their white British masters every time before a conversation. At the grocery shops they had access to purchase a very little number o...

Few days before the day of the funeral of George Floyd (9th June, 2020) and on the day of his funeral, lots of significant events took place around the world. The most significant of them was the demand for the removal of statues of those who supported slavery across the globe in the last couple of centuries. Another important event was that the demonstrations spread more and more globally to countries like France, Spain, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Australia, Newzealand etc. People came out with huge banners of "BLACK LIVES MATTER", "I CAN'T BREATHE" and "WE CAN'T BREATHE". Inside the US, the demonstrations spread to newer cities like St.Louis, Raleigh, San Francisco, Tennessee etc. Although there was anger as regards to what happened at Minneapolis, most of these protests were peaceful.  Protests and Demonstrations spread all across the globe in June On June 7, protesters in Bristol, in the south-west of England,  tore down a 125-year ...