I realize I forgot some very important issues that happen this year and I feel they should not be lost in the shuffle and or ever forgotten.
2020 United States racial unrest
The
2020 United States racial unrest is an ongoing wave of
civil unrest, comprising
protests and
riots, against
systemic racism towards
Black people in the United States, notably in the form of
police violence. It is a part of the nationwide
Black Lives Matter movement, and was initially triggered by the
killing of George Floyd during his arrest by
Minneapolis police officers on May 25. Following the death of
George Floyd, unrest broke out in the
Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, and quickly spread across the entire United States. Within Minneapolis, widespread property destruction and looting occurred, including a police station being overrun by demonstrators and set on fire, leading to the
Minnesota National Guard to be activated and deployed on May 28. After a week of unrest, over $500 million in property damage was reported in the Minneapolis—Saint Paul area (read more at the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_racial_unrest
this is an issue that affect each and every American not just Africa Americans. i feel
we all should be ashamed after all you think we are the example for the rest of the world.
people look to us for help and like the big brother and big sister they look up to us.
how can we tell the people of the world to not be prejudiced and accept others as they are when we can't even do that with our own people. do you think we should try to accept people regardless of their race, religion, color or what country they are from.
we claim to be a God fearing country and yet we only believe when it is convenient for us.
as long as it don't interfere in our life as we go on day to day.
Racial injustice and perceptions of the United States
In recent months, the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police has led to massive protests both in the U.S. and around the world. All countries polled in Pew Research Center’s summer 2020 Global Attitudes Survey have experienced protests in response to these events. Many demonstrations took place during or directly prior to the fielding of our survey.
Certainly, these events may have had an impact on how people think about the U.S. Our survey did not include questions about the protests, Floyd’s killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality or racial injustice. However, Pew Research Center has conducted some research relevant to these issues in recent years.
A recent Center analysis showed the extent to which the debates sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread beyond America’s shores. The study examined legislators in four predominantly English-speaking countries and found that many had tweeted about Floyd or used the phrase “Black lives matter” or the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. This includes roughly six-in-ten British members of Parliament (59%), 44% of Canadian representatives and about a quarter (26%) of Australian lawmakers who tweeted during the study period. And 14% of legislators tweeted about this subject or used the phrase or hashtag in New Zealand, a country not included in the current survey.
Concerns about racial injustice fit into a broader pattern of decline in the belief that the U.S. government respects the personal freedoms of its people. We first saw a decrease on this measure between 2013 and 2014, as news broke about Edward Snowden and National Security Agency surveillance around the world. We saw further declines in 2015 following protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in response to the police killing of Michael Brown in August 2014. And we observed continuing erosion on this measure through 2018, the last time the question was asked.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/
i think it is time for us to start getting along and examine ourselves as a person and start setting the example and learn to love one another and do away with racial injustice and hate.
instead of just talking about it in the papers and from Politian's who claim to make a stand against racial unjust in the police force then how come it is still happening. did we forget what happened to Rodney king in 1991.
how many times since then has it happened and we keep hearing we are going to put a stop to it.
how many more riots are we going to go through and innocent people getting killed from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
we keeping hashing over this this year after year and maybe just maybe we will eventually get it right.
