{"id":32086,"date":"2020-06-07T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=32086"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:00:57","slug":"george-floyd-may-end-systemic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/george-floyd-may-end-systemic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd protests trigger the fight to end systematic racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The peaceful demonstrations followed by protests across all the 50 states in the United States after the killing of George Floyd, has led to the urge of people trying to end the cycle of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/stellenbosch-university-unravels-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">racism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and inequality, which has been for over 400 years since the founding of America. There is a lot that can be dealt with in the fight against systemic racism by police transformation in order to advocate for change. Education is major in achieving this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>US joins fight against racism<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy of divide and rule dates back throughout history and has been mostly used by states to weaken enemy alliances and maintain imperial rule. This was a common policy used by the Nazi military. Former US Defense\u00a0 Secretary James strongly used the policy of divide and rule but the US responded by coming together as one nation, thus unity is strength.\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This saying is important in society especially for Americans as a building bridges initiative. The military could also adopt this and Americans will connect with each other and fight systematic racism.\u00a0 After the end of World War 2, the U.N. organization was formed primarily for education.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.N declared that` since wars begin the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be constructed. ` This has deemed to be found true until in our life today, hence, education must then play an important role and unite everyone across the country. Education provides help in economic growth and also ensures social mobility.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the districts all over the US are on the frontline helping the youth by providing them with a good education.\u00a0 This is why issues arising due to equality in the access of resources and systematic racism have been attributed to African American pupils landing into not great platforms of learning. Equality to education access must then be instituted.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Education plays a key role in racism fight<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education has helped to create a global community of people who share similar beliefs and views connect and try to create a better place. Terrorists and extremists in Afghanistan adopt similar mechanisms such as manipulation of the policy of divide and rule.\u00a0 They use education by infiltrating beliefs and views. If education can be used for evil, a lot could be done for doing good.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later in 1996, the UNESCO\u00a0 released a report famously known as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/education-plus-development\/2020\/06\/05\/learning-to-live-together-how-education-can-help-fight-systemic-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0De Lors Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 which elaborates the key aspects in education:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studying the know-how: Acquiring knowledge to work on deep levels on a small number of lessons. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studying to do: Not only acquiring the skills but by competently addressing issues as a team <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studying to be: Initiating personal responsibility in order to develop someone&#8217;s personality <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living together: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When there s coming together of various people and appreciating their differences<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peaceful demonstrations followed by protests across all the 50 states in the United States after the killing of George Floyd, has led to the urge of people trying to end the cycle of racism and inequality, which has been for over 400 years since the founding of America. 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