The 'right' man or the appropriate group can be
irrelevant but they can be rehabilitated in surprising
ways to remind ourselves that social requisites
like law, order and justice may be the prevailing issue
of fundamental necessity in quelling inborn instincts
to mayhem but their proponents, representatives and
forces of public order will not escape violent dissent
from a public married to a concept of equality that
forgives disorder, chaos and criminality. And so it
was that a committed criminal became an icon of a
people oppressed and discriminated against whom
the law held accountable for their many misdeeds
when George Floyd was lionized as a victim of an
unrelenting mission to degrade and humiliate the
underbelly of civilization's misbegotten underclass
distinguished by colour and whose penchant for crime
brought him to the misfortune of an untimely death
in a struggle for life cruelly denied him, a scenario
that found empathy on a universal scale that elevated
the man to heroic dimensions and the law to a deplorable
weapon against people innocent of all but their shade
of skin. The resultant mass mourning and global rash of
condemnation elevating a criminal to celebrated martyr
impelled a social movement of blame and shame
catapulting George Floyd in death to memorialized fame
rationalizing the resulting lawless criminality throughout
the public domain of those piloting a social movement to
riot and pillage, denigrating White and elevating Black.
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