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I Grew Up in a Majority-Minority Country. We Still Have a Problem with Anti-Blackness Amanda Choo Quan © Design by Ingrid Frahm As the tragedy of George Floyd re-enters headlines, Amanda Choo Quan explores the ways that case exposed systemic, global anti-Blackness. © Design by Ingrid Frahm Trinidad and Tobago, Decolonization, UK, Britain, Anti-Blackness I stood before our office’s massive glass windows, a panoramic view of Port of Spain spread before me. Above it rose a thickening plume of smoke. This was June 2020, roughly a month after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. If Floyd’s death was a rallying call, my country Trinidad and Tobago, a former British colony heard it. I’d attended one of these protests, a knee resting in the damp grass opposite the U.S. Embassy. We kept our indignation to a low simmer. We wore masks and stood three feet away from each other. The police officers present kept a respectful, bemused distance.

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