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The legacy of George Floyd: Here’s how business can address inequality and promote justice
Jun 5, 2020
The killing of an unarmed African American man by a Minnesota police officer has sparked global outrage leading to protests in the US and other cities worldwide. The business community has responded in a number of ways, with some firms actively engaged in rolling out tangible initiatives to address injustice. The urgency of the issue, coupled with the post-COVID momentum for a Great Reset of capitalism offers the prospect of a society and a business world with renewed principles of equity, diversity and inclusion at the fore.
The shocking killing of George Floyd by a police officer last week was captured on camera and shared widely on social media across the world, before it even made the headlines. It has ignited political and social uproar both within and beyond the US. It is one of many acts of aggression over time by the police against the African American community – but on this occasion it was captured on film and shared – bringing institutional racism to the top of the agenda.
Only in the last few months, two other cases – that of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor – drew the spotlight. These killings sparked fury, but followed a common cycle of initial indignation and subsequent neglect or failure to act. As protestors worldwide have taken to the streets over the past week, will the killing of George Floyd mark the moment to break that cycle, and how will the business community rise to the occasion to take the lead?
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