Protests continue across the United States after the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by police, a week ago. The historian François Durpaire noted on Europe 1 that "it is a multicultural America, black and white, which manifests".

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Anger takes hold of all of the United States. Protesters across the country take to the streets, sometimes with riots, to protest the death of George Floyd, an African American who was killed by police a week ago in Minneapolis. "It is a multicultural America that manifests, black and white," notes historian François Durpaire, Monday noon on Europe 1.

"There are two examples, the daughter of Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, is black. She was arrested this weekend after her father had said to stay at home. And then the platform of a gentleman white a few hours ago in a large American newspaper, which said it was afraid for his Métis son ", added the specialist of the United States.

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Not the same America as in the 1960s, "there is more and more mixing"

François Durpaire notes, however, that if the problem of racism persists in American society, the situation has changed significantly compared to the 1960s and the struggle for civil rights. "There is this phenomenon which did not exist in the 1960s from an increasingly important interbreeding of American society. It is difficult to say one day of racial riots, but it exists in the United States" , judged the historian. 

Another difference: the very moving images of police joining the demonstrators. "We saw the police kneel down, a very strong gesture, and take demonstrators in their arms. Kneeling is the gesture of African-Americans to claim their rights, and that's new. These images have toured America to say that we are not in the 1960s. "