George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.
News Flash: Your body can be full of cancer and if there is a video showing you getting shot in the chest and bleeding to death, the cancer didn’t kill you, the hemorrhagic shock did. I don’t care what underlying conditions Mr. Floyd had. He had one cause of death—Derek Chauvin.