The George Floyd Index
Here’s what you wrote about the racial reckoning of 2020
When George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin, the world watched. Over and over and over, we watched. Some watched in glee. They enjoyed it. Others watched in horror. They hated it.
Floyd’s killing was captured on camera a year ago this week. And once again, the casual, callous nature of a White man taking a Black man’s life shook the country to its core. Medium’s writers were front and center after this murder, documenting the ensuing moral and spiritual backlash, the protests, the legal issues, and the police. You all analyzed the situation and exchanged important ideas about an important issue. You tried to make sense of things as we reeled from the renewed horrors of modern-day lynchings. Reviewing what you wrote this last year is a real-time slice of history. Your Medium posts show how a nation processed and continues to process one of its largest challenges.
This following George Floyd Index captures a lot of what you said both in Momentum and across the entire Medium universe.
Racial justice isn’t political — it’s human. And friendship rests on a shared respect of the other’s humanity. —Brianna Holt
