No. Just, no.

No.

It is not a great day for George Floyd. George Floyd stopped having great days on May 25th when Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until he died.

8:46. It is a lot longer than you think it is. Yesterday a friend shared this link during Floyd's memorial and I tried to watch it without any distraction. Now you try

In what may have been one of only a handful of times in which the president commented on the outcome of that eight minutes and forty-nine seconds - he referred to George Floyd by his first name, as if they were old friends. 

Click here or the image if you don't believe me.

Once again we get a reminder that there is no bottom. The abyss of humanity currently occupying the White House behind metal gates keeps showing us how insecurity, self-loathing, racist sentiments look when they assume human form.

To him and to anyone else looking to soothe their prickly feelings by elevating the way George Floyd may be reacting to all this, I say - Do. Not. Make. Him. Your. Martyr.

He does not belong to you.

You didn't know him on a first-name basis.

He is not your hero.

He is not "in a better place". 

Do not dare to assume how he might feel about anything happening or what you do here on Earth.

His death made you learn his name. 

His agony and loss of life put his name in your mouth. The way he died may have woken you up to what has been all around you - though maybe you couldn't see it or you looked away. 

But he knew his name. He knew who he was to his daughter. He was awake to what was happening a long time before you were. He couldn't look away.

His death is inciting change and change is good. Keep it coming.