A local take from the George Floyd story

FRITZ H DAUSAB, LPM LEAD MANAGER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS WRITES:“. . . Charter by adopting the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, a clear statement of common standards of behaviour for the entire world, in which it recognized that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. (Mathieu Faupin, the UN Chronicle).The world is in uproar! The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25th of May 2020 in the USA, was an act of premeditated murder as called by some. In general, police in the United States of America has through the years been on a killing spree against people of colour, and nothing is being done.The Landless People's Movement (LPM) condemns the killing of an innocent black person by a white policeman as an act of racism.In Namibia, after living through German oppression, followed by more than 70 years of Afrikaner racism through Apartheid, we thought we gained independence in 1990, only to be caught up in racism of black against black. Through a false sense of security and made-up history, just like South African Afrikaners who still rule the economic life in Namibia, or the Germans before them, who believed that the colour of their skin makes them superior. Economic racism is still practiced in Namibia.LPM wants to call on president Trump to do more to stop the killing of unarmed black people by American police forces. President Trump's way of addressing black people in his administration or famous black people in general, is at the heart of how he will respond to the frenzy of protests against racism. Perhaps president Trump will learn, through the protests spreading around the globe, that he can decide how his administration can safeguard the lives of black people.Not just the police are racist, but the whole system. The protests around the globe must prove to Trump and allies that ordinary people are angry at tyranny. Trump should calm the people of the United States and change the approach of police, by changing the laws that protect white people and their privileges.Racism was only made a crime against humanity in 1952, mostly due to the fight against Apartheid. Yet the same United Nations could and would not take a stand against the USA, with their long history of segregation, the Ku Klux Klan and pure racism against people of colour. Is this silence because the UN was born in the USA? Or the fact that UN is situated in the USA? Or that the majority of the UN budget is paid by the USA?Racism is evil, as people of the world currently emphasise. The UN needs to take a stance against these abuses.The United States is caught up in a system of corporatism, where human beings are used as fodder to slave away their lives in making corporations richer and richer, caring less about people, communities and the environment.LPM stands in solidarity with all black people in the USA. It is high time that the distorted histories of the world are corrected, and no-more written by the victors. We should have a history that is written by the people, a history of the contributions by all the people towards our world.Just as there was an Arab Spring in North Africa, a revamped and differentiated Arab Spring is needed to make America more humane; while the same Arab Spring should happen across Africa, to rid ourselves of our corrupt regimes.Black lives matter.Racism is self-hate perpetuated against people of colour. It does not need to be white against black, but can be black against black as well. As in Africa where the corrupt, politically connected people with power enrolls security forces to protect them against their own people.

A local take from the George Floyd story

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