'I can't breathe': why George Floyd's words reverberate around the world | Ben Okri

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These few words should become the mantra of oppression – and spark the real change our world so desperately needs, says novelist and poet Ben Okri

Never in my lifetime has the case of such visible injustice moved white and black people, moved them as human beings. There have been protests all across America. But there have been huge protests in Britain, in Spain, in Nigeria, in fact all across the world. Why has the killing of George Floyd struck such a profound chord in us? Maybe it was that phrase: “I can’t breathe.”

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