Medium: I Can’t “Keep Calm.” He Couldn’t Breathe!

Most African Americans are familiar with the colloquial term, “Get your foot off my neck,” but the Minneapolis Police Department recently served up a more graphic and literal version. The officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for six minutes is a real-life manifestation of how people who don’t have access to resources and power — disproportionately those of color — are both proverbially and literally stepped on and forced into the submission of an inequitable and inhumane racial caste system.