It’s been three years since a white police man killed Gorge Floyd, and the viral video of the 8 minutes and 36 seconds with the officer’s knee of Floyd’s neck prompted a reckoning with racism across the United States. Now, three years to the day since Floyd’s murder, African Americans still await signs of change.
Across the U.S., black Americans have been lived in fear of armed white police personnel, who helped launch centuries of violent and racist behavior towards black Americans. According to the Map of Police Violence, in police killings between 2013 and 2022, Black Americans were 2.78 times more likely to be killed by police than white people, and unarmed Black Americans were 1.3 times more likely to be killed by police than whites.
However, police violence is but one of many forms of “chronic diseases” propagated by structural racism.
People raise their fists as they march during an event in remembrance of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 23, 2021. /CFP
People raise their fists as they march during an event in remembrance of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 23, 2021. /CFP
Rising hate crimes and widening social economic gap
Hate crimes based on racial bias in the United States increased dramatically between 2020 and 2022. According to Pew Research released in 2022, a total of 81 percent of Asian Americans say violence against Asian communities is surging.
In May 2022, a teenaged white supremacist shot 13 people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, and killed 10 African-Americans. In May 2023, a mass shooting in a Texas mall, which has killed 8 people, was the second-deadliest in the U.S. in 2023. The Latino shooter, Mauricio Garcia, targeted the mall, not specific types of people, according to the local authority, which also said he had “neo-Nazi ideation.”
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