GEORGE FLOYD MARTYR USA has been championing the cause of human rights all over the world .For the first time the protest on killing of George Floyd has drawn sympathy from across the Nations and sportsmen to the brutal killing. The whole of USA is engulfed in flames , riots and protests are unparalleled. The President remarks have only added fuel to fire and was sheltered in bunker for self-protection. Floyd was unarmed ,neither violent or behaviour threatening and crowd and videos prove it. The murder was of white supremacy and sadistic pleasure. Earlier an elderly Indian as a tourists was subjected to similar pin down and is now paralyzed for life. For nine minutes his neck and back compressed ,as he pleaded that he could not breathe and finally succumbed to asphyxiation .What was his crime that officers had the gumption to take law into their own hands against a hapless citizen. ?The other officers stood in mute silence as abettors and accessories to the crime of murder and cannot go scot free as innocent
Too long the African Americans are subject of hate crime of extreme racism and in many such past incidents have not received justice, so that such acts continue with impunity. USA President was assassinated in attempt to bestow civil liberties. Another African American served as the President of USA lately .The movements by Martin Luther King has had little impact. Nelson Mandella has dismantled apartheid in South America but it has not improved the climate of racism in USA .African Americans are confined to certain places, institutions and work preferences. The hate is ingrained in psyche of the population. Their schools are segrated though law does not encourage this practice. Inter marriages between whites and African American are a sign of softening stands of integrating with community. The violent protests, riots are fall out of inhuman treatment and all sections of Americans want to stop the scourge of discriminations, racism culture. Many African Americans today are Mayors, Governors, law makers holding high offices in private and Government and hence their lives and social participation is on the rise .USA has won laurels through their sportsmen ,Musicians military personnel and yet do not receive human rights justice and acceptance on par with USA citizens. Decades of slavery might have ended, but even in this century their life of dignity is denied by subtle means. Many countries racism exists in different forms .The Nazis and Hitler used Nationalism, others use caste system ,Pseudo Nationalism and patriotism in disguise to same effect. The Martyrdom of George Floyd must serve as barometer to end the social injustices of racism against African Americans once and for all .The review of law , deterrent punishment must put an end to these inhuman barbaric practices by those who are supposed to provide protection .Merely sacking one officer and suspension of others will not pacify and soothe the fraying tempers anymore The death of GEORGE FLOYD must not go in vain and must serve as flag post to end racism in USA once and for all when USA is championing the human rights all over the world and has different yardsticks in its own background Nelson Lopes C