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George Floyd’s Death Is Symbolic to The Atrocity Of privileged Across The World
“I can’t breathe.”
T he exact words uttered by the man when his windpipe was put in a chokehold by the uniformed man on top. The supremacy of the uniform was overwhelming. The power of his privilege was flabbergasting. We saw the former Minneapolis uniformed officer sitting there, blinded by smugness, with no regard to the man dying under the grip of his knee. Those simple words . And our inner fear, threatened by the deadly virus, gushed out with an untamed rage. It was an outburst of pent-up anger of a long drawn political stance of racial, ethnic, and cultural division. And these have been the instrument of the current regime’s white-supremacist march.
Not only in the US, the consonance of the phrase resonated somewhere deep down in human beings across the world. The protest against racial supremacy has gained momentum globally. Maybe, somewhere down the line, the protest has risen much above the racial aspect and is pointing towards a political shift that the world has witnessed in the past decade — the resurgence of right-wing politics. Count in India, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, Hungary, Poland — the upswing marks a stark similarity across borders.
