A video showing an intense conversation between three generations of black men regarding the ongoing protests in the U.S. is making waves on social media and shedding light on the intergenerational trauma of police violence against black people.
Protests and riots have been spreading across the nation for days following widespread outrage over the death of a black man named George Floyd, who begged for air while a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 8 minutes.
A 31-year-old man, identified in a Twitter thread as Curtis Hayes, from Charlotte, N.C., says to him, “And you the older generation than me. And I am too!” U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he’d spoken to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and that the military “is with him all the way. “So what I need y’all to do right now, at 16, is come up with a better way. Cause how we doing it, it ain’t working.”“He angry at 46, I’m angry at 31, you angry at 16. […] Putting yourself in harm’s way is not the way.”The video has been viewed more than 18 million timesThe conversation speaks to the ongoing crisis of police treatment of black people in the U.S., and the trauma of going through protest after protest with no real change.
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