However, this brave young woman, Darnella, however, does speak through her tears and a damning, self-imposed shame and guilt, a shame and guilt experienced by black people coming up on 402 years now. Her shame, our shame, her guilt, our guilt, grows out of her and our inability to help the many thousands of George Floyds sacrificed and martyred at the hands and knees of killer-cops, their dogs and horses, their guns and ropes, their whips and chains, their slave catchers and slave patrollers, the masters and mistresses, the overseers, their auction blocks, the racist banksters and evil slumlords, the heartless “employers,” their “democratically” elected governors, mayors and presidents, their school boards — and all of their agents and subalterns — who just flatly refuse to believe that black people are human beings.
Herbert Dyer, Jr.
