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GEORGE PERRY FLOYD, JR                                                     breakdown of racial divisions, intolerance, and discrimination, the
                                                                                          failure to act to end systemic racism hurts those who are victimized

               Daddy Changed the  World  “When George Floyd’s six-year-old                and denies all of us the opportunity to benefit from the gifts of
               daughter made the powerful statement about her late father’s               diversity.“Mass protests and mayhem continue against the murder

               impact on the world; I felt compelled to create  A  Tribute to             of George Floyd and police brutality within the African American
               George Perry Floyd, Jr.. This could be the catalyst to unite the           community, an act of social conscience and protest meant to bring

               world to seek equality for all mankind. The hardest job is to come,        people together in their shared incense at the inhumane treatment
               because the enemies of equality are alive and well in America              of American citizens” Black Lives Matter George Perry Floyd, Jr, he

               and the World. So time will tell if George Perry Floyd, Jr. is the         will never be forgotten, he is the face of the new movement that not
               straw that breaks the racist back.                                         only crossed North America, but the whole world, in brutal brilliance

               I only hope that Georges’ daughter’s heartfelt announcement                he was portrayed as an angel, ghost, a martyr from Syria to Belfast.
               becomes a reality.” George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’  “A Change Is Gonna Come” is a song by American recording artist

               to ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago.   Sam Cooke - sung at Floyd’s funeral. Cooke felt compelled to write
               His death in police custody is powering a movement against police          a song that spoke to his struggle and of those around him and that

               brutality and racial injustice. (NY Times) Racisms’ not about black        pertained to the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans. The
               players or brown fans, it’s about all of us. Racism corrodes society       song contains the refrain, “It’s been a long time coming, but I know a

               and we are all hurt by it. Racism can only end if we confront the          change is gonna come.” Floyd was remembered by family members
               policies and institutional barriers that perpetuate and preserve the       as a man everyone wanted to be around. Philonise Floyd, George’s

               inequality, economic and social, that we still see all around us,  the     brother, said he was like “a general” that everyone wanted to follow.




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