Are black people human beings as well as us? Why other people sometimes bully and take offence to black people? How do you think we should act to this violence? In my opinion, we can solve this problem together. Everybody with any colour skin can live together peacefully.
As we have seen and heard on the news about the killing of George Floyd (a black man), this incident is very brutal and unacceptable. (https://nyti.ms/2XMtUMa) He just used a counterfeit 20$ bill to buy cigarettes in the grocery store, which is not a severe case. But he was killed while he was under police custody by a white police officer named Derek Chauvin. He knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost 9 minutes until he died. I think the police officer used unnecessary excessive force, he should be aware that Floyd is a human as well as him. Some people even thought that it was homicide and were angry with this incident. They realized that they should do something, so they went outside their houses and gathered on the roads in many cities to protest against the violence even though the country was facing with COVID-19 pandemic situation.
The protest was initially peaceful. There were so many public memorial of George Floyd in many cities of the US, but very soon it became a vandalism of stores and some protesters stole goods inside the stores and destroyed public supplies. I think the people that protested peacefully and asked for human rights were reasonable, but some that took advantage from the situation were unacceptable (including some police officers who needlessly hurt peaceful protesters were unacceptable as well). What they did was against the law and as days went by the situation seemed to be uncontrollable. There were fire settings throughout the cities even at the police station, so the government deployed the national guard and applied a curfew to control the situation. However the protest situation seemed unstoppable, and it was also harmful, because the COVID-19 was spreading among the US people at this moment. In my opinion what some protesters did were not the right things. Although some police officers used force against them to control the situation previously, they should find the other peaceful way to demand what they wanted and fight against those police officers.
So what the protesters should do next? Actually, there have been many campaigns about human rights and against racism for a long time, such as, FIFA’s “Say No To Racism” campaign (https://cnn.it/3g8DDnD), etc. There are many organizations to work for human rights and nowadays all people around the world realize about the problem of systematic racism. I think these days black people have more rights and better quality of life than in the past. Although there are quite a lot of racists still out there and they believe in using violence, we need to change their attitude. If we cannot do it in a peaceful way, we need to use a law to protect the black people’s rights. To issue the law, we need a government leader, who gives priority to human rights especially for black people. Therefore, all that the protesters can do is push thier politicians to support their demands by issuing some essential laws.
Finally, everybody has human rights as well as the others. Whatever race they are, their rights have to be protected equally. People also have the right to protest, but the protest should be under proper control. If they want to change something, they need to use a peaceful way, which is a vote to avoid a violence that may be occurred. By using this way everybody in the world can live together peacefully.
