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Curfew and corona

I'm sorry, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. But right now, it sucks to be in the U.S.

George Floyd has been dead for six days.

And America is coming unglued, yet again. It is 8.03 p.m. Saturday night, and the curfew in Los Angeles started three minutes ago.

Not that we could go anywhere anyways, since Covid-19 still has us in lockdown. After two long months I am used to staying at home, even on the weekends.

But tonight, people are not even allowed to go outside, and raise their voices and protest this disease America suffers from - racism.

"Stay at home. Honor his memory." Excuse my French, but fuck that!

If I had been in a store, trying to pay with a fake $20 bill the police, (most likely) would ask me where I got it from? They would tell me to be more careful in the future, and that would be that... I am a white Swedish woman.

George Floyd was murdered over the same thing.

I am sick and tired, of black men being killed by the police in this country. I am sick and tired, of the injustice, the racism, the evil.

I am sick and tired. I am white. I grew up in paradise - in Sweden.

Just imagine how sick and tired African Americans are. My boyfriend, Mr Diggs, grew up in Los Angeles. A black boy, with a mother from Alabama.

I told him that I want to put a sticker on our car that says #Black Lives Matter, or perhaps
#I Can't Breathe. Something to show that I want to protest too, even though I'm not tough enough to block the 101 freeway, or shout at the police in DTLA.

Mr Diggs said, "If this gets worse, I am putting you on a plane home to Sweden, because you are not built for this."

Are we seconds from a new Civil War? The President says that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Well, Donald, what do you suggest people do? How will black people in America feel that someone is listening? When will things change? When will everyone have the same rights?

The clock on the microwave oven shows 8.22 p.m. We'll know in the morning if people peacefully stayed home, as they were told.

Obedient. Silent. Good.

To say that slavery was abolished 1865, is a lie.