Prompted by the police killing of George Floyd, American culture has radically transformed in less than three weeks. Here are seven key shifts.
Up and down the pop scale, from late-night comedy news shows to local broadcasts in Los Angeles, the term “defund” or “defunding” entered the lexicon. Both terms hit what is referred to as peak popularity according to Google Trends on June 5 and 6. Media figures of every stripe are already chiming in.
The theater of the possible has gone even further. Core among the ideas dancing closer to the mainstream is imagining a world without police — at all. “Absolutely this is about abolition,” Melina Abdullah, one of the leaders of the police-reform movement in Los Angeles and organizer with Black Lives Matter-L.A., told cheering demonstrators at the George Floyd memorial in downtown L.A. on Monday.
Thousands of protesters gathered on June 3 at the Los Angeles Civic Center to demonstrate for justice after the George Floyd killing by police. sent a memo to staff members pledging even more changes aimed at hiring and promoting more journalists from underrepresented communities.The editor also said that effective immediately, The Times would change its style to capitalize the term “Black” when referring to people of the African diaspora.
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