Isabelle Racicot: Shifting Paradigms through Film
Rosie Awori (LJI) A cellphone video shot by 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, filming the brutal murder of George Floyd by policemen in Minneapolis, was the matchstick that ignited a worldwide flame and re-igniting debates on police reforms, visual art, reparations, and social justice. It promoted a renewed interest in racism on all levels from reconsidering the effects of racism in South Africa to the heavy hand of the French in post-colonial West Africa to police killings of unarmed black men in the U.S, and even systemic racism and its existence in Quebec. Floyd’s murder sparked uncomfortable and necessary conversations across the …