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Ben Crump On The Killing Of George Floyd And Establishing The Value Of Black Life – Guest Column

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25.05.2021 - 18:43

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Editors note: On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police, renowned civil rights attorney and Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump examines the history and the legacy of that horrific day in a guest column for Deadline.Today, on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s horrific death, it’s worth remembering that from the moment Black people set foot on American soil, we had a price tag attached to our backs.

Black lives had value only as the property of their owners, as a source of labor, and as a means to produce more for the future by bearing children.

Black life had no intrinsic value. Our worth came only from our work, as we spent the whole of our lives in fields, doing back-breaking and inhumane labor, finding

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