Call me sentimental and patriotic, but on Memorial Day 2026, I believe we have better people to remember than George Floyd, and almost anyone is more appropriate to honor.
We can and should blame President Trump, along with the foolish voters of Georgia, for the fact that someone as unqualified and ethically inert as Sen. Warnock is in Congress today and not haunting a ramshackle church somewhere. You will recall that Trump made the two 2021 special Georgia Senate elections into referendums on the January 6 riots and his claims of a stolen election, and managed to snatch two defeats from the jaws of victory.
Still, using Memorial Day to extol a lifetime street punk who was overdosing on fentanyl while resisting arrest demonstrates a special kind of sick priorities. There is literally nothing, zero, nada, to admire, respect or honor George Floyd for. He was in the right wrong place at the right wrong time, and an audacious cabal of race-hustlers exploited his accidental death by bad cop to extort all manner of weak principled businesses and institutions into white guilt seizures, causing extensive, perhaps irreparable harm to the nation, society, race relations, the justice system and more. Poor dumb, useless George wasn’t at fault for any of this, but Senator Warnock and ethics villains like him were.
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Well said. Nothing to add except sincere gratitude from me. His generation exemplified what it really means to fight for democracy and our inalienable rights. It is a shame that many today think tweets and posts in the security of one’s own bubble is what a fight against fascism is.
Here’s remembering my dear, late mother’s favorite cousin, Bud Brannon. Bud loved to drive. He enjoyed trying to beat the train from Chicago to Miami in his car. Bud was an ambulance driver in India killed when the DC-3 he was flying in was shot down by the Japs. And here’s to the son of a cousin of my father’s whose house in West Virginia we stayed in during a summer two-week vacation. He was their only son and killed in an ammunition loading accident in Oakland. It may have been the big one in Richmond, California. I’m not sure. We were at the house in the ’60s, and there was an eerie stillness in the house even then. It was never spoken of. And remembering Steve Gomez. A grade school classmate of my brother, and Mr. and Mrs. Gomez’s only child. Steve didn’t go to college out of Miami High School and was killed in action in Vietnam. A really sweet, guy, he lived on the next street over from us. Mr. Gomez sold his barber shop after Steve was killed. I’m not sure he wanted to talk to people all day anymore.
God, these Commies are relentless.
Honoring George Floyd today is signature significance for a lack of taste and basic moral confusion. Your father deserves to be remembered much more than Floyd.
Alternately, some wags on TwitteX have noted that Derek Chauvin was the first to kneel for George Floyd.
Mayor Jacob Frey from Minneapolis says “Hold my beer!”, as witnessed by the asinine tweet below. He had to be shamed into also posting a tweet honoring our fallen soldiers.
The ancient Romans had a practice called “Damnatio Memoriae” which was an official decree to erase the history of a disgraced person from memory, which happened to notorious emperors as Caligula, Commodus, and Geta; this involved the destruction of depictions, removal of monuments, and a rewrite of history. In the United States we saw something similar happen with removal of statues of Confederate generals, and also the forced removal of a mural of murder victim Iryna Zarutska in Providence.
I hope all those murals of George Floyd are either removed by local governments, and I do not care if they are destroyed by vandals; I know the latter is against the law and unethical. Those murals stink up the place, and communicate squalor in both the physical and moral sense. George Floyd is one of those people that needs to be actively forgotten and memory holed. His legacy is hundred percent negative. This is a man who broke into somebody’s house and held a loaded gun to a pregnant women’s belly. He died of fentanyl while resisting arrest. This is supposed to be the martyr for black civil rights; the man that is supposed to make black people proud. In his wake many people died in BLM related riots, making a miserable period of COVID even more miserable. Get those murals out of everybody’s sight, and never mention him again!