I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions.

Now, this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Okay, today we are talking about George Floyd.

This is a, not a part two, but we kind of tease this episode at the end of the last episode.

So if you didn't listen to that, make sure to go back to the one before this and take a listen. And yeah, I'm sure everybody listening to this is probably

aware of the name George Floyd and knows some degree of maybe the story of what happened. But

Garen, take us what do we need to know? So I wanted to do this episode because even for myself, I know of George Floyd and didn't

really know his story or his life and I wanted to know who he really was and more of his

story.

Robert Samuels and Tulouse-Auluru-inipa from New York Times did a biography on his life

called His Name is George Floyd. So I would love for you guys to pick up his biography because it

goes into a lot more detail than we'll have time to do here and is a great book. But I was

excited for the opportunity to look into his life and find out more of

who he was because right now I think he's more of an icon than somebody who he can actually

directly relate to. And this biography really helped me to see more who he actually was. And that's

what I hope to introduce you guys to and bring to you through this episode.

Great.

So I'm going to start with a quote from that biography.

It says,

When George Floyd took his first breath in 1973,

the strictures of Jim Crow-style discrimination in America

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