An honest, objective question.
First, I need to be clear. I am in no way unconcerned about the manner of George Floyd's death; it was brutal, cruel, unlawful, and almost certainly racist. I am also sympathetic to Minneapolis' African-American community's reaction to his needless death; it was understandable, likely inevitable, and probably overdue.
What does concern me is that a sitting president of the United States has, to date, according to some scientific studies, essentially murdered about 90,000 Americans of all ethnicities and ages. And yet, no protests, no marches, no demonstrations, and no violence.
At the very least, a funeral procession should pass by the White House every day, men in black, women in dark veils, children following, all socially distant and in masks, many holding elegiac signs in memory of the tens of thousands lost and naming the man who is responsible for their needless deaths.
This nation is living the authoritarian rot of Stalin's infamous, sociopathic aphorism — only mildly modified here: "If only one man dies of unjustified police violence, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that's only statistics."
Why are we applauding the understandable fierce reaction to one man's death, and yet quietly dismissing the wholly condemnable deaths of 90,000?