Honoring George Floyd by continuing the fight ❤
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Honoring George Floyd by continuing the fight 🖤
We often hear impatience about the pace of change in the wake of George Floyd's murder one year ago on May 25th, 2020. Floyd's murder took place in the wake of 400 years of systematic violence and oppression of Africans and later African Americans. The idea that we could see a measurable change after just one year is challenging.
We have to keep going.
We can be inspired by the change happening at local levels, with pressure on local governments to enact meaningful legislation while communities engage in important discussions with neighbors and friends. (Want to engage with a friend? Try sharing our 15-min short film + PDF)
We need to acknowledge that our system of policing is born of White Supremacy. The culture echoes slave patrols and White Supremacy remains ever-present in police teaching and procedures. We see this in the resistance to adding more social workers to emergency response teams, where the need lies in social breakdowns due to poverty—something the average White American has no conception of. Add to this the outlandish budgets for tactical gear and few officers being held accountable and we're left in our current policing reality.
Four years after the release of The Long Shadow, we're still hosting events with community groups who pound the pavement, working hard to learn how we can make a difference. We will continue to encourage you to not lose sight of the goals that inspired the film: eradicating income inequality and increasing access to education, medical resources, and housing for our BIPOC communities.
In George Floyd's honor, we are better together.
-Frances Causey and The Frances Causey Films team
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