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In the United States, police brutality and awful death of Mr. George Floyd, brought instinctive indignation and rage to the countless communities and cities, all over the country.
In Hong Kong, anti-Beijing riots are based on speculations such as "what if China acts a certain way, and uses absolutely legitimate laws in a certain manner?" While in the United States, fears are not just fears - they are reality: overcrowded, often privatized penitentiaries, holding the highest number of prisoners in the world! Unimaginable police brutality. Thousands being gunned down by police, many of them members of the ethnic minorities.
And if you take it to the global level: millions directly and indirectly, through proxies, butchered in all corners of our Planes, to satisfy political and economic interests of the Western Empire: in places like DR Congo (watch my film Rwanda Gambit on the topic), West Papua, the Middle East to name just a few. Because human lives in those places matter nothing. Because they are not white.
The United States and Europe are creating or at least supporting genocides. China does not. China is building hospitals, schools, railroads, highways, and factories. It is obvious which system is scarier. And against which our planet should be rebelling against!
EO: What happens next in Floyd's actions? What predictions can we make?
AV: Protests may eventually wind-down. Or they may not. It depends on who will join; how many people will get inspired.
Death of Mr. Floyd is both real, terrible death of a human being and a symbol.
Recently, I wrote an essay "The world cannot breathe!" Squashed by the US - A country built on genocide and slavery". Murder in the city of Minneapolis became a big international issue. It appears that it could trigger a global uprising against Western imperialism.
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