One White Liberal’s Lens on This Moment
5 min readJun 11, 2020
People keep asking what it is about George Floyd’s death at the hands of police that has caused so many of us to have more of a reaction than did past crimes that just as horrifically amplified systemic racism in law enforcement.
I’ve been thinking about this for over a week and I’ll tell you what the answer is for me: the juxtaposition of Floyd’s death with the other high-profile racial…