George Floyd: The martyr who viralized the world anti-racist fight, arriving in the Basque Country

Today is the funeral of George Floyd, who was assassinated on May 25, 2020, by a racist cop in Minneapolis (USA), Derek Chauvin, who suffocate placing a knee on his neck. His murder was re-broadcast live on social media, while saying to his executioner "I can't breathe" that he was going to kill him, without even flinching. The same indifference has showed agents; Thomas Lane, JA Kueng and Tou Thou . Today everyone is in jail, accused of murder.

The murder of George Floyd, has marked a before and after in the political and social life of the United States. He has returned to take  to public light, visceral racism and festering of one white supremacist society, which has not known combat racial virus , or perhaps not interested , who still lives anchored in the past and live in the remembrance of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Is demonstrated the racist doctrine and police violence exacerbated on the African American population . It has evidenced what is already known, that President Donal Trump, with his silence, and threatening to militarize the country, is also a racist and justifies violence against the African-American population.

His murder made anti-racism in that country catch fire. The lama that spread rapidly worldwide, to the cry of "Black Lives Matter " (black lives matter), thus becoming a worldwide anti-racist movement, which was born in the US in 2013, following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the death of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin from a gunshot. Another symbol of homage and rejection, which has been staged is kneeling for 8,46 minutes, time that lasted the agony of George Floyd . It is being done by police and military Americans across the country, citizens around the world.

Famous stars of American sports, Hollywood, Republican senators like Willard Mitt Romney has n Sall do to the streets to support the protests, and the latest addition has been the former general Republican Colin Powell, who has said he will vote for the candidate Democrat Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden to the next  American presidential election .

The Minneapolis City Council has announced that it will dismantle the current police system, creating a more social one. In some states, the use of knee suffocation on the neck and on the back is being reviewed and abolished as a means of reducing a detained person . It is an important step, but it does not attack American structural racism.

That flame and movement antiracist , also arrived or to Spain from the hand of l to organization Community Black, African and Afro - descendants in Spain (CNAAE ), adding to the l as the Basque Country / Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, Euskadi, Comunidad Autónoma Vasca,  in the three capital cities (Bilbao, Donostia, Vitoria Gasteiz), and also in Pamplona (Navarra), the city where the Autonomous Police of Navarra, in 2016, would have suffocated the Senegalese man named Elhadji, although the autopsy apparently diagn or stic or his death from narcotics, specifically cocaine, according to the press at the time. Thousands of African, Afro-descendant, racialized , Basque and other people participated in the marches and gatherings, carrying with them banners in which some noted “Basque racism also murders, and your silence is complicit”.  Hopefully the flame is still alive. 

#BlakLivesMatter #JusticeForFloyd #AllAfricaLivesMatter

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