What if George Floyd was a White Man?

The civil rights movement began in the 1960s with a black man's dream. He dreamed of a colorblind meritocracy, where black people's skin color didn't matter, but the content of their character did.

His dream proved to be both prophetic and counter-intuitive. Prophetic in the sense that his dream not only became true within the eyes of the law, but was also written into the narrative of the culture. Counter-intuitive from the perspective that when black people are judged by the content of their character, their character usually leaves much to be desired. In fact, judging black people by the content of their character typically results in an individual being socially ostracized for “racism.” So much so, that it's one of the few times we've witnessed a reversion of change, and returned to the days of black people being judged by the color of their skin. It's just more politically correct (and peaceful) to blame white people when black people's content of character is lacking. That is to say, it's more representative of our values. Nowadays, the apostates have a dream of equity, not equality.

An appropriate illustration of this can be seen in the current George Floyd saga. When George Floyd is judged by the content of his character, it can be empirically concluded that he was a thief, counter-fitter, drug addict, drug dealer, armed robber and ex-convict, who, at the time of his death, had just resisted arrest, was positive with COVID-19 (and not wearing a mask), high on methamphetamine and had a fatal level of fentanyl in his system. Contrarily, when judged by the color of his skin, he was yet another innocent black victim of a racist white society.

The latter opinion can be observed in a recently published Washington Post piece titled: How right-wing media keeps smearing George Floyd with the racist ‘no angel’ narrative:

But some in right-wing media keep doing their utmost to make this tragedy about Floyd’s drug use and troubled life, in what seems like an attempt to absolve Chauvin long before the jury reaches a verdict. In effect, they are putting Floyd on trial.

It feels all too familiar. This is the “well, he was no angel” narrative, obliquely blaming the victim for his fate. It’s a narrative all too often applied to Black men who die at the hands of police.

The “no angel” narrative, and its variations, are racist smears. Unlike George Floyd, they deserve to die.

Innocent or not, everyone (even the jurors) knows the outcome of a Chauvin aquittal. This scenario was already played out 30 years ago with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. People can have faith in the justice system all they want (does anyone?), but Chauvin was found guilty long before the jury reached a verdict. So save me the, “racists want to absolve Chauvin long before the jury reaches a verdict” nonsense.

In any case, as you can see, when black men “die at the hands of police” it's because they're a “victim of fate.” In other words, they're not being held accountable for their actions, they're being judged by the color of their skin. In the opinion of the average “woke” leftist, George Floyd would still be alive if his skin had been white, instead of black.

But would he?

Since 2015, there have been more than 5,500 fatal police shootings in the US, and of those, 2,801 were white people. As a matter of fact, there were more white people killed by police than all other groups combined (2,801 white – 2,729 non-white; Note of interest: if Hispanics were included as “white,” like they are in FBI crime data reports, the figure would be 3,832 white – 1,466 black). The “wokist” would counter with, “yea, but blacks are only 12% of the population and account for 25% of all fatal police shootings.” To which a rational person would say: “yea, but blacks are 12 % of the population and commit over 40% of violent crime” (murder, robbery, rape, aggravated assault; over 50% if you just include murder and robbery). Therefore, it only seems logical that if a group commits roughly half of all violent crime, there would be a significantly higher statistical representation of that group when it comes to fatal encounters with the police. In other words, police probably aren't as likely to have a shootout with a staggering drunk driver (81% white) facing 6 months probation as they are a trigger-happy murderer (52% black) looking at life in prison.

So, this begs the question: what if George Floyd had been a white man?

Well, like over 35,000 other white people who die every year from an opioid overdose, he would have been another forgotten statistic, instead of another “murdered by racist cop” martyr. When white thugs overdose in police custody, or die by cop for not complying with demands, they're never made into heroes. Particularly when the autopsy says:

“Chief medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker, who listed Floyd’s death as a homicide, thought the amount of fentanyl in Floyd’s blood was “pretty high” and could be “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.”

“If Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.”

Nevertheless, the most obvious answer to that question is that we would have never known who George Floyd was. Furthermore, there have been literally thousands of white George Floyd's, we just can't remember their faces or names. Because when white thugs get killed by police, nobody seems to care. Or maybe they just choose to judge white people by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin.