Although the televised murder of George Floyd momentarily diverted media attention from COVID-19, the plague-like virus continues to spread.
The United States, always quick to tout its status as number one in everything, has the dubious distinction of leading the world in cases and deaths.
Not only have the protest crowds been bigger and more diverse than following other recent incidents of police violence, we’re already seeing state and local governments adopting police reform measures, like banning chokeholds, which should have been enacted years ago.
The race for the cure
Governments around the world are racing to find a cure for the coronavirus.
When we begin to teach the truth about American history, indeed world history: That the civilization we enjoy today is built upon the contributions of many earlier civilizations and not just from the so-called “Enlightenment”; that ancient Greece got many of its ideas and its architecture from the earlier civilizations of ancient Africa; that cultures dating back thousands of years in China and Persia (Iran) gave us poetry and literature; that religious concepts from India, like Trimurti or Trinity, informed what became Christianity in Europe; that Arabic numerals gave birth to modern math.