Detroit – How did we get here in America? How did we become so divided along so many lines – racial, cultural, political, socio-economic, religious?
The honest response: We’ve always been here.
That’s the dispiriting reality after one of the saddest weeks in American history. It began last Monday with the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, his final breaths squeezed out by a despicable man masquerading as a police officer, captured in a nine-minute video in which Floyd desperately narrated his own death, ending with, “Please, I can’t breathe.”
Three other white cops stood around as bystanders pleaded, while wielding the most-reliable vehicle of justice, the cell phone camera.