Millions participated in anti- racism, anti- police- violence protests around the world today. Looks like George Floyd just may have changed the world (click on images to enlarge).
Washington, D.C. (this is just a small fraction of the crowd, which overflowed downtown from the Lincoln Memorial to the 16th Street corridor and beyond):
Brisbane, Australia:
(Glenn Hunt via REUTERS/ AAP Image)
Seoul, South Korea:
(Heo Ran, REUTERS)
Marseilles, France:
(Denis Thaust, SOPA Images)
Copenhagen, Denmark:
(B-Joe)
Hamburg, Germany:
(Fabian Bimmer, REUTERS)
3 comments:
Breathtaking! The sustained protests make a huge impression, hopefully so powerful that change will happen. I don't know how much racism and unfair treatment we can get rid of, but this tells everyone that it must be done. The time is now.
donnah -- the upside is that there's been a historic awakening (as the polls demonstrate) to the racism in general and in policing in particular, and that change is much more likely to happen; the downside is that this is the America the world has been seeing decay under the malignant Trump regime, and that's a stain that will be harder to remove, if ever.
When the president is calling up the military to attack our own citizens, that's a tipping point. When the president brags about how many troops “he” has, that's a tipping point. He doesn't own our soldiers like a big box of toys. They are here to protect us, as are the various types of police we have, police, sheriffs, rangers, etc. This chowderhead of a president still believes he can run the country as a dictator and one wonders if he hasn't gotten guidance from Putin again in his recent phone conversations. If Putin mocked him about the turmoil goingnon, one can easily imagine that Trump would be pressured to respond.
Trump's followers are so blind and tragically loyal that they can't see how deranged he is. But when the respected leaders of our armed forces are speaking up, they had better pay attention. Pretending that there are not a million people standing outside his temporary fence will be more and more difficult. We demand action.
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