This had to happen

BY DENNIS W. GREENE -- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DTC/GREENWOOD VILLAGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

George Floyd is dead, murdered under the knee of an officer sworn to serve and protect him. George Floyd is dead, murdered over a supposedly counterfeit $20.00 bill, which he most likely did not know was counterfeit. George Floyd is dead, murdered under the collective knee of a system rigged against him, saddled with the presumption of guilt by responding officers, completely lacking due process.

There are more questions than answers, and many other brutal police murders to explain.

There are many, many more questions than answers.

I Am…

A Black Man, born in the 1950s, reared in Savannah Georgia in the 1960s and 1970s, who drank from Negro Only water fountains; who used Negro Only public restrooms and facilities; who attended racially segregated public schools until halfway through 6th grade; who grew up “on the other side of the tracks” until moving to the White Savannah suburbs as a young teen only to personally endure blockbusting; who withstood sustained violence and physical attacks from many of the neighbors who remained; who was forced to fight on the school bus on a regular basis; and who escaped death on two occasions by gun-carrying derelicts who surrounded my home, demanding that I (the one they called “nigger”) come out to be shot.