STEVEN
STEVEN WELLS, AND DOUGLAS WEST. >> TO THIS FAMILY WHO HOPEFULLY
AS BEEN COMFORTED BY MANY
PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TODAY, AND
WHO HAVE GIVEN TO US A PORTRAIT
OF A MAN WE ONLY KNEW THROUGH
THE NEWS BUT WHO WE NOW KNOW,
NOT ONLY AS A HUMAN BEING BUT AS
A GREAT HUMAN BEING.
WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE KNOWN GEORGE
FLOYD.
FLOYD.
FLOYD. TO
FLOYD. TO ALL OF THOSE WHO WILL COME
OUT TODAY, AND I'M PERSONALLY
PROUD THAT YOU HAVE COME MEN.
MANY MORE CAME BUT COULDN'T GET
IN.
IN.
IN. BUT
IN. BUT THAT MADE PEOPLE WANTING TO
WHICH.
WHICH.
WHICH. I
WHICH. I CAN SEE YOU HAVE DESTROYED ALL
úLAWS OF SOCIAL DISTANCING.
SIMPLY SAID, LET'S JUST FORGET
THAT.
THAT.
THAT. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE CHRISTIANS.
HE ASKED US TO STAY AT 2
MINUTES.
MINUTES.
MINUTES. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO THAT
BUT LET'S WORK ON IT.
>> TODAY I WANT TO SAY THAT IT
IS MARVELOUS THAT THIS YOUNG
MAN, HE'S 46, HE'S YOUNG.
THAT THIS YOUNG MAN HAS DONE
WHAT HE HAS DONE TO LET US KNOW
WHO GEORGE FLOYD WAS.
I'M GLAD TO KNOW THAT IN HIS
LAST MOMENT OF BREATH, HE CALLED
FOR HIS MOTHER.
THAT MEANS SOMETHING ABOUT WHO
HE WAS.
HE WAS.
HE WAS. HE CAME UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS
CLOSE AND THAT LOVED EACH OTHER.
I HEARD FROM PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM
AS A FELLOW STUDENT, AN ATHLETE.
REALIZED THAT HE WAS A TEAM
PLAYER AND FINALLY, HE WAS A
PERSON WHO KNEW THE LORD, AND
WHO BELIEVED IN HIM AND WHO
TRUSTED IN HIM.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WONDERING
WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS GOING TO
BE LIKE OTHER MOVEMENTS.
I CAME TO THE CITY IN 1955 WHICH
WAS THE YEAR THAT THE PARTY OF
IMT TILL WAS FOUNDED.
THE SAME YEAR THAT ROSA PARKS
REFUSED TO GIVE UP A SEAT ON THE
BUS.
BUS.
BUS. AND
BUS. AND IT WAS THAT YEAR THAT I CAME
TO HOUSTON.
TO HOUSTON. SINCE THAT TIME, I HAVE SEEN ANY
NUMBER OF STRUGGLES AGAINST
RACISM.
RACISM.
RACISM. THEY HAVE ALL ENDED UP WITH
RELATIVELY LITTLE OUTCOME.
SO THE QUESTION IS VALID.
IT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION.
IS THIS GOING TO BE LIKE SO MANY
OTHER MOVEMENTS?
OTHER MOVEMENTS? A MOMENT OF ANGER AND RAGE AND
THEN BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL?
YOU COULD SAY THAT BECAUSE THE
PREJUDICE AND THE BIGOTED ARE
NOT AT ALL GOING TO CHANGE BUT
WE CAN DO SOME THINGS TO CHANGE
THEM.
THEM.
THEM. THAT'S WHAT I HOPE WE WILL DO.
FIRST OF ALL, WE CAN MAKE SURE
THAT WE DON'T STOP THE NIGHT,
THAT WE STAY WITH IT, THAT WE
MAKE SURE SOMEBODY KNOWS THAT WE
ARE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR THIS
TO KEEP ON GOING.
OBVIOUSLY, THE FIRST THING WE
HAVE TO DO IS CLEAN OUT THE
WHITE HOUSE.
WHITE HOUSE. THAT HAS TO COME CLOSER TO US IN
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. OUR STATES AND COUNTIES AND
CITIES.
CITIES.
CITIES. HAVE TO HAVE GOOD LEADERSHIP.
WE HAVE TO GO AND VOTE.
BUT YOU KNOW, A YOUNG MAN FROM
HUMMABLE BEGINNINGS CAN CHANGE
THE WORLD.
THE WORLD. HOW DO I KNOW THAT?
PARTLY BECAUSE GEORGE FLOYD CAME
FROM HUMMABLE BEGINNINGS AND NOW
AS MEPY SPEAKERS HAVE SAID,
EVERYBODY ON EARTH KNOWS WHO
GEORGE FLOYD IS.
NO RANK OR TITLE.
HE WAS A MAN WHO CAME FROM
HUMMABLE BEGINNINGS.
HUMMABLE BEGINNINGS. BUT GOD HAS DONE SOME THINGS
EVEN THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY THAT
HAS LET THE WORLD KNOW ABOUT BIG
FLOYD, BIG GEORGE.
THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS HUM BLE
HUMMABLE.
HUMMABLE.
HUMMABLE. YOU COULD SAY CUNEY HOME BUT IT
WAS A STABLE IN NAZARETH.
THAT MAN DIDN'T HAVE A HOME.
AND HIS WIFE WAS ABOUT TO HAVE A
BABY.
BABY.
BABY. SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE A HOME,
THERE WAS NO BED FOR HER TO HAVE
THAT BABY IN.
BUT IN THAT STABLE, THERE WAS A
MANGER AND HE WENT TO THAT
MANGER AND THAT MANGER GAVE
FORTH A BABY.
AND THAT BABY DIDN'T HAVE ANY
TITLE EITHER.
TITLE EITHER. HE LIVED AT A TIME WHEN THE
ROMAN GOVERNMENT WAS MAKING IT
VERY HARD FOR JEWS.
AND HE WAS MURDERED, LEGALLY,
BUT HE WAS MURDERED.
AND THE INTERESTING THING IS,
THAT FROM THAT DEATH COMES OUR
CHURCHES AND AS WE TAKE THE
LORD'S SUPPER, EVER HOW OFTEN WE
DO THAT, WE REMEMBER HIS FLESH
AND HIS BLOOD.
AND HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO
SAY, I CAN'T BREATHE?
BUT NOW AS I LOOK AT MARCHES,
ALL OVER THE WORLD, PROTESTS
FILLING UP THE STREETS, BACK
WHEN I WAS A PART OF MARCHES,
MARCHED WERE BLACK.
BUT NOW THERE ARE WHITE PEOPLE
úWHO KNOW THE STORY AND THERE AE
HISPANICS WHO KNOW THE STORY.
AND THERE ARE ASIANS WHO KNOW
THE STORY.
THE STORY. TODAY THERE ARE PREACHERS AND AT
LEAST ONE MUSLIM MINISTER HERE.
I BROUGHT WITH ME A JEWISH
FELLOW, ALL OF THE CULTURES, ALL
OF THE RACES THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD, ALL OF THE NATIONS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ALL OF THE
CONTINENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
THEY KNOW THE NAME OF THIS MAN
WHO WAS BORN IN A STABLE.
SO CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT
OF A TRAGEDY LIKE THIS?
WE HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE, THE
PAIN IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE.
WHAT GOOD CAN COME OUT OF THAT?
WELL THE MURDER OF A MAN ON THE
CROSS HAS BECOME A MOVEMENT
WORLD WIDE.
WORLD WIDE. EVERY IMAM FROM THE MUSLIM
FAITH, EVERY PREACHER FROM THE
CHRISTIAN FAITH, EVERY RABBI OF
THE JEWISH FAITH, ALL OF US KNOW
THE NAME OF GEORGE FLOYD.
AND WE KNOW THE NAME OF A DEATH.
HIS DEATH DID NOT JUST START A
BUNCH OF SPEECHES OR TRIBUTES.
OUT OF HIS DEATH HAS COME A
MOVEMENT, A WORLD WIDE MOVEMENT.
AND THAT MOVEMENT IS GOING TO
CHANGE THE WORLD WHICH MEANS
THAT THIS
THAT THIS
THAT THIS BOY, BORN IN A MANGER, BORN IN A
STABLE, LIKE CUNEY HOMES, BORN
IN A SITUATION WHERE WE LIVED IN
A GHETTO, LIVED IN THE HOOD,
THIRD WARD, THIS BOY IS GOING TO
BRING FORTH A DEMAND FOR BETTER
GOVERNMENT, FOR BETTER
POLICING,, HE IS GOING TO BRING
FORTH A DEMAND, A MULTICULTURAL,
MULTINATIONAL WORLD WIDE DEMAND
FOR CHANGE.
FOR CHANGE. MY HOPE IS WE WILL STAY BEHIND
NOT EVERYONE WILL BE CONCERNED
ABOUT IT CONTINUING, AT LEAST
THE PEOPLE FROM THE HOOD WILL BE
CONCERNED ABOUT ITS CONTINUING.
IT WILL NOT END WITH THIS BOY'S
DEATH.
DEATH.
DEATH. HE
DEATH. HE IS 46, SO I CALL HIM BOY.
BUT THIS WILL CONTINUE SO THAT
THIS MOVEMENT WILL TRANSFORM