Hartford Courant. A prejudiced woman named Candace Owens suggests that George Floyd was a bad person and not a martyr. As if he deserve four white cops to murder him. There was a teenager store clerk claiming a phony $20 bill was passed; while so far nobody's shown any such item, and it is largely irrelevant anyway.
Yes, Floyd was not one as exemplary as Ali or Kapernick giving up massive pecuniary career benefits upon acts of conscience. But, so what. He did not deserve to die on a street, under a cop knee. NOBODY DESERVES THAT. THAT IS THE POINT.
Has this Owens person given up anything as an act of conscience? Websearch has not shown it, if it happened at all. All I could find is shallow hustle.
King and Malcolm lost their lives based upon conscience. If George Floyd was cuts below the four, the two athletes and the two activists, gee, he deserved to be murdered by sick cops, right Candace? Malcolm had been incarcerated, as had George Floyd. Perhaps Floyd lacked the abilities Malcolm displayed, but both are now dead.
What a brick. All that crap she blathers is irrelevant. THE MAN WAS MURDERED IN THE STREETS WITHOUT ANY TRIAL OR EVIDENCE HEARD IMPARTIALLY IN A COURTROOM AND NOBODY'S LIFE IS SO CHEAP THAT IT SHOULD HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENS TO BLACK MEN NOT WHITE MEN, DONE IN BY WHITE COPS. What part of that does she fail to understand and take to heart. Kapernick understands. And sacrificed and sacrifices still. Owens goes on YouTube and pontificates. At no cost, with no sacrifice. She talks too much and says too little and it is a shame anyone takes her seriously.
The headline is a King quote. If Owens even knows it she does not understand it and should be better educated.
To diminish Floyd's murder - the way it happened, on camera so that denial was foreclosed, is to say what, cops represent order, and that's not a license to kill but orderly good manners matter most and Floyd lacked such? I cannot understand that silly shallow woman. She lacks the leavening experience of growing up in a housing project. Neither did Kapernick, but somewhere along the line he figured things out better. FURTHER: One more link.