A colour-blind society? Get your vision checked

Because of George Floyd’s murder, and BLM’s movement-building and community-building expertise, we can now start to unlearn the trash concepts that have shaped our thoughts of, and behaviours toward, one another.

The murder of George Floyd by police a year ago removed a layer or two of veracity around the concept of a ‘colour-blind society’ that never existed in the first place, writes Erica Ifill. Unsplash photograph by Munshots

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

May 26, 2021

OTTAWA—May 25 was the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. How much our world has changed, how much it’s stayed the same. Floyd’s death was, what Texans call, “a coming to Jesus moment” for Turtle Island. It removed the veil of denial of police violence on the bodies of Bla...

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