(June 7 2020) episode of "The Story of the Rest", wondered how how did the murder of George Floyd affect the political scene in America some months after the presidential elections? Will the right-wing currents in the West begin to decline in light of the protests against racism?
It is an institutional racism - as some call it - using state tools, including the police, which demonstrators demand the necessity of reform. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the process of reforming the police forces began, during which the rate of spending on them and their financing increased, without decreasing crime rates.
George Floyd was not the first victim of US police violence against African Americans, but the protests over his tragic death seemed to be the most powerful and diverse in the groups involved in different races united by the values of equality and justice.
Floyd's words became a slogan for demonstrators throughout the United States and in many western capitals, rejecting racial discrimination, marginalization and the exclusion of people of African descent, as well as an invitation to review a Western history that venerates people involved in the enslavement of human beings and installs statues for them.
David Alan Pratt, a former Virginia congressman, said some were dragging America's protests into a riot and a desire to destabilize the police. He pointed to the need for a solution to the problem of racism in the country by teaching moral principles and human values.
On the other hand, Nyambi Carter, a professor of political science at Howard University, said that the structure of the American police makes blacks the most vulnerable to abuse, noting that there are differences in the level of income and lifestyle as well as the way to deal with the country's judicial system between whites and blacks.
She added that the proportion of drug consumption may be equal between blacks and whites in America, but legal accountability affects blacks more than white.