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A review by kateyoutka
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Profound and important.
This book takes a look at the life of one man whose story is all too familiar for thousands of men who look like him. This book deftly follows what George Floyd's life was like before he was murdered in 2020. It's not a happy story or a particularly glamorous one, but that makes the story all the more heartbreaking. It's proof that Floyd was, like the rest of us, a flawed person doing their best to make it in the world. But in Floyd's case, and in the case of countless people of color, the odds were stacked against him. This book also explores the social movement that followed Floyd's murder. Most poignant to me was the exploration of how Floyd's murder impacted thousands (if not millions!) of people who had never met him, compared to how those closest to him grieved as the entire world learned his name.
This book takes a look at the life of one man whose story is all too familiar for thousands of men who look like him. This book deftly follows what George Floyd's life was like before he was murdered in 2020. It's not a happy story or a particularly glamorous one, but that makes the story all the more heartbreaking. It's proof that Floyd was, like the rest of us, a flawed person doing their best to make it in the world. But in Floyd's case, and in the case of countless people of color, the odds were stacked against him. This book also explores the social movement that followed Floyd's murder. Most poignant to me was the exploration of how Floyd's murder impacted thousands (if not millions!) of people who had never met him, compared to how those closest to him grieved as the entire world learned his name.