Listen, not Lecture America- George W. Bush

The death of George Floyd has America outraged at the continuous injustice faced by black America.

Former President, George W. Bush went to the internet to express his thoughts about the current state of America. He was sure to emphasize how he did not have a solution to how America should move forward with systemic racism.

"We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised," the 43rd president said.

He also said, it was time for Americans to recognize “the repeated violation” of the rights of Black Americans who didn’t get “an urgent and adequate response from American institutions”. This statement was posted on the George W. Bush Presidential Center website.

“Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we have resisted the urge to speak out, because this is not the time for us to lecture. It is time for us to listen. “It is time for America to examine our tragic failures ― and as we do, we will also see some of our redeeming strengths.”

Bush, being the second president, after an essay Monday by Barack Obama, to speak out about George Floyd, also had in his statement that peaceful protest “make for a better future”, when protected by responsible law enforcement.

George Floyd, 46, a Black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, presses his knee ontoFloyd’s neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed on the ground.

The video that spread around the nation of the arrest, over a suspected counterfeit $20 bill, shows Floyd repeatedly telling officers he couldn’t breathe.

The death of George Floyd has ignited fervid protests and unrest across America over racial injustice and police brutality.

Bush, who The New York Times made note that Bush never made any public statements against police brutality during his two terms in office, also stated that Floyd’s death ― one of “a long series of similar tragedies” — raises the long-overdue question of how does America end its systemic racism…

“The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.”