reflections after George floyd

George floyd is a black man who was accused of using a counterfeit note. a policeman caught him for this, pushed him on the floor and kneed him for more than 8 minutes. George was saying I cant breathe.  the policeman did not let up. he kept his knee there till he died. the whole thing was on video . passers by were telling him to let go. 

this is murder 

in the case of George floyd and others, one is presumed guilty until proven innocent. 

same applies in SG, two employers of maids at least are made to feel like criminals and treated like criminals though they protested their innocence. 

from the time of ramayana to now, it is enough for an accusation to mar your reputation and your life. regardless of guilt. 

that policeman must have thought he could snuff out his life and it wouldn't matter. like how I step on an ant. that ants life is gone its family would be devastated but I wouldn't normally think about. 

if I think about I care, even about destroying that ants life. 

but the police see a black man and he is just another black man. dispensable. 

a college professor was called aside coz he fit the description. of a man accused by a white woman of stealing her purse. so he had to wait for her to come and say it wasn't him.

his work his I'd cardx nothing mattered.only the white woman's word. 

another black man only feels safe walking around with his daughter and dog. with them he is seen as a loving father, harmless dog owner .otherwise he is a threat. 

a white woman said she would call a cop and say an African American man was threatening her. that she could say that with no basis speaks volumes for her power and privilege and the lack thereof of black people