George Floyd - One Year Later
Some Still Refuse to Believe What Happens in Broad Daylight
One year ago, George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight. After years of BIPOC telling our white friends about our experiences and being disbelieved, Floyd’s death, for whatever reasons, cracked through the hardness of heart and head of many of our white friends. I received messages and texts from people in my past apologizing for their complicity with systemic racism and their personal disbelief.
George Floyd was murdered. Pure and simple. And that murder was codified as murder by a jury. His story is extreme, but only insofar as the murder. His story is common in the prejudice, unequal treatment, unsubstantiated fear, and other mistreatment POC receive from white America and white Christians. For some, after George Floyd, their racial thoughts began to change. Which is important, but a lot of what happens to black and brown people is the result of their thoughts.
”I thought s/he had a gun.”
“I thought it was my apartment.”
“I thought we were entering the right apartment.
“I thought it was my taser.”
The most dangerous place for black people to be might be the thoughts of white people.
So, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, our church wanted to share stories about the gospel and our own experience of racial injustice. We produced this video, not for people of color, but for white Christian — who profess to love us — to know what it’s like being us and what they could do, if they did really love us.