China News Service, Beijing, June 5 Question: Anti-racial discrimination protests global fermentation, US public opinion worries about "special threat"
China News Agency reporter Wu Xu
George Floyd, an African-American man, has been fermented by police violent law enforcement. Dozens of protests in the United States have escalated, and dozens of cities including Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles were forced to impose a curfew. Nearly 20,000 members of the National Guard in the United States assisted in dealing with the chaos.
Global anti-racial discrimination catalyst
In addition to the intensification of the United States, large-scale protests triggered by this incident have also spread rapidly in many countries. Many demonstrators not only expressed support for American protesters, but also condemned their own racism.
In London, thousands of demonstrators shouted loudly in front of Trafalgar Square and the US Embassy in Britain, holding signs that read "silence is violence" and "let racial discrimination go away." When asked about the protest demonstration in London on the 3rd, the British Prime Minister Johnson said: "What happened to Freud shocked and disgusted me." He also stated that "racism and racist violence have no way out."
In Canada, many cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal have staged demonstrations in recent days. These demonstrators claimed to seek justice for the deceased and to pay attention to everyone who was treated unfairly by the police and the judicial system. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau said frankly that Canadians of African and ethnic minorities are facing discrimination every day, which has become a reality.
In Paris, the demonstrators included the sponsor of the advocacy group "Returning the Truth of Adama". In 2016, 24-year-old African-American youth Adama Traore was arrested for extortion and was killed in detention. "Returning the truth of Adama" wrote on social media: "His name is George Freud. Like Adama, he died because he was black."
This incident was unanimously condemned by the politicians of the United Nations, the African Union and many African countries. In addition to the political arena, influential celebrities from the sports and fashion industries also expressed their opinions through their own methods.
The well-known sports magazine "Aspen" published an article saying, "Mbappe, Vinicius, De Jong, James, Jordan, Williams, Hamilton... The entire sports world seems to support Freud." Nearly a hundred European and American celebrities such as Mariah Carey, Beckham, Tom Hland and other European and American stars spontaneously issued pure black pictures on social platforms, supporting the "black man's life is also a life" activity.
U.S. public opinion worries about "special threats"
Large-scale protests have clearly triggered a chain reaction. The US National Interest magazine published an article saying that the three crises of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic, Economic Recession and Ethnic Conflict have brought continuous heavy blows to the United States. The New Crown epidemic is still spreading, but the protests continue to spread and escalate. From US government officials, health experts to the public, they are all worried about the possible second round of the epidemic.
Behind the "Freud incident" is the long-standing racial discrimination in American society. The Mayor of Minneapolis chanted, "The resentment in four hundred years has erupted." The British "Guardian" commented that before "Freud's death", similar tragedies had frequently happened to African Americans, stirring the extremely sensitive nerves of American society again and again.
The difference in skin color is replaced by the status of the society. After the abolition of apartheid in the United States, although the social status of black people has greatly improved, the conflicts caused by racial discrimination continue.
According to the latest statistics from an American institution, in the United States, about three-quarters of African and Asian descent, and more than half of Hispanics said they had suffered discrimination. In contrast, two-thirds of whites think they have never experienced racial discrimination.
CNN pointed out that the "Freud incident" once again reminded people of the special threats facing the United States today.
Since the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, many Americans have recognized their multi-ethnic identities. The racial boundaries of the United States seem to be increasingly blurred. However, the deep divisions such as identity and cultural psychology have not disappeared. Today, when racism is once again an issue that cannot be ignored in American society and global politics, how should the United States choose to “reconcile” with itself and the world? (Finish)