Racism: George Bush Calls For Reexamination Of America's "Tragic Failures"

Former US President, George W. Bush, has called on the US to take stock of its "tragic failures", highlighting the racial injustices plaguing the country, following the death of Goerge Floyd that has caused global outrage.

He said, “It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country.

“This tragedy – in a long series of similar tragedies – raises a long-overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society?

“It is time for America to examine our tragic failures."

The protests observed in the country have been decried as violent, as people agitate for a change in the system.

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Trump who went from appeasing to threatening has said that with the continued violence in various cities in the country, he'd be forced to deploy soldiers to the streets to quell the violent protests.

Bush made allusions to Trump, without mentioning his name, saying that he needed “to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving.”

“Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place,” he said.

Adding that, “The heroes of America – from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King Jr. – are heroes of unity.”