9th June: As thousands of Americans gather all over the US for the protests regarding the African-American citizen named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, the world’s attention has focused on the problems of racism in the United States.
The Indians citizens and famous personalities, ignoring police brutality in their own country have taken to social media to express their concern at the way George Floyd was killed.
From receiving worried messages from afar to reflecting on their own countries’ racism, five foreign correspondents told Foreign Policy (FP) what it’s like to report on the United States right now.
Raksha Kumar, a multimedia journalist focusing on human rights, politics, and social injustices pinpoints problems at home.
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She writes that public figures in India have expressed outrage over police brutality in the United States, but they fail to grapple with the systemic mistreatment of minority groups in their own country.
Jake Bittle, a freelance reporter who works for the New Republic, Harper, Guardian, and The Nation signifies that the US police departments suggest that the violence amid ongoing protests is coordinated. The reason he has pointed out is that they’re incentivized to use counterterrorism techniques against activists.
Stephen Martin Walt, an American professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government has declared US President Donald Trump as the weakest strongman.
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According to him, “US President Donald Trump is stoking political division to distract from the fact that he doesn’t have a plan to save the economy.”
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics says that all is not over yet.
“The economic pressure on the world’s poorest citizens is likely to get worse once those who rely on agriculture to survive to enter the lean season,” Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak writes.
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