WE CAN LEARN FROM HISTORY IF WE WAKE UP

Spike Lee on race and rage in America.

Interview

TWO BLACK MEN KILLED BY THE STATE 250 YEARS APART.... March5 1770, Boston. Eight British soldiers fire into a group of protesters. Five fall. The first to die – the first American to die for the nation’s independence – Crispus Attucks. In his mid-40s, of African and Native American descent, Attucks became a symbol of the American Revolution, the abolitionist movement, then was largely forgotten. May 25 2020, Minneapolis. Arresting a man suspected of using a fake $20 bill, an officer restrains 46-year-old George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd repeats “I can’t breathe” and pleads “don’t kill me”. In the wake of his death, nationwide protests break out, cities burn. The exceptional thing about George Floyd’s killing is that it is not exceptional. He was just the…

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