http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/06/black-british-moved-to-new-york-eric-garner-i-cant-breathe
I found this article on the guardian US site and is written
by a black British man who has just moved to New York, he talks about his anger
at the murder of Eric Garner and how being in New York has made him feel more frustrated
than he did as a man living in England; as he feels less detached from the
case. As the article is written by someone who is not American, it is in some
ways an outsider view into life in America. He states in the Article “From Britain, it’s easy to look at America
and President Barack Obama and think that black people here have achieved the
kind of progress we’ll never have at home: a black man in the most powerful
position in the country. But when you get here, it’s not the progress but the
lack of it for black Americans that’s staggering.” It’s interesting that he
feels that America seems more progressive if seen through the eyes of a foreigner
but, in practice when living there he feels frustrated and frightened at the racism, and lack of progress in the country.
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