George Floyd's death at the hands of police seemed to mark a turning point in America's race relations, but politics has overtaken the response.
  • hark@lemmy.world
    202·
    5 months ago

    There was an opportunity to change things, in fact there is still plenty of opportunity to change things, but that would upset the current power structure so you’re supposed to be satisfied with this empty gesture instead:

    • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
      162·
      5 months ago

      That’s all they ever give, hollow empty platitudes.

      The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.

      Malcolm X.