Homage to George Floyd

Posted on May 25, 2021December 17, 2023illustration

In memory of George Floyd and some thoughts on segregation.

May, 2020. Radio news say that from Minneapolis, protests against police brutality are spreading outside the city to the entire US and other countries, as New Zealand.

June 6th, 2020. Two days after George Floyd’s service. Protests have begun in other countries in Europe, like France.

This is to remember George Floyd and all victims of police brutality, it’s also my contribution in support to all people who’ve taken to the streets to protest for putting an end to the racism and inequality in the States. I’ve painted these pictures from memory, from back when I was in Florida. Our school was just a block away from that area defined as the black ghetto. The road going East-West through it is called MLK rd, Dr Martin Luther King road, and these pictures show where MLK meets Old Bradenton Road, near our school. In the USA, I had no car and I cycled everywhere. I remember feeling that some intersections were not so much road connections, as more of perimeter marks to contain cultures, borders of segregation. This crossroad below marked one of the West-most points from the neighborhood called Newtown, one of the hearts of the ghetto.

I think it’s crucial to end the neighborhood segregation because it is the structure which causes cultural isolation and increases xenophobia and racism. In memory of all the victims of police brutality, American and not, and of all those who are standing up for the right to end the United States of segregation.