Biography Of George Floyd To Be Published Next Year, Highlighting His ‘Relentless Struggle To Survive As A Black Man In America’
A biography of George Floyd will be published on May 17, 2022, and appears to whitewash his life story to highlight his constant “search of a better life” and his “relentless struggle to survive as a Black man in America.”
In a press release, Viking Press, a publishing company owned by Penguin Random House, announced the biography, which has been written by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, two prizewinning Washington Post reporters. The book is designed to “reveal how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the singular story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement of change.”
Floyd was killed while in police custody, and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of his murder. Chauvin is appealing the verdict. Floyd has since become lionized by activists across the country.
It is this lionization that appears to permeate the biography, with Floyd’s many arrests being blamed on anything but himself. From the press release:
This biography of George Floyd shows the athletic young boy raised in the projects of Houston’s Third Ward who would become a father, a partner, a friend, and a man constantly in search of a better life. In retracing Floyd’s story, Samuels and Olorunnipa bring to light the determination Floyd carried as he faced the relentless struggle to survive as a Black man in America.
Developed out of The Washington Post’s award-winning six-part series “George Floyd’s America,” His Name Is George Floyd examines the Floyd family’s roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his Houston schools, the overpolicing of his communities, the devastating snares of the prison system, and his attempts to break free from drug dependence—putting today’s inequality into uniquely human terms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews and extensive original reporting, Samuels and Olorunnipa offer a poignant exploration of George Floyd’s life and lasting impact, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens has repeatedly highlighted Floyd’s arrest record – not to justify Chauvin’s actions – but to suggest that Floyd should not be held up as a martyr. Earlier this year, after Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd, Owens published an article listing Floyd’s most egregious crimes:
George Floyd had a lengthy and serious criminal record that included nine arrests over the span of a decade
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