George Floyd Square has particular directions for White individuals

White individuals who want to go to the “George Floyd Square”, the spot the place the 46-year previous African man died final summer time, will now have to observe particular directions once they go there. Matt Finn, nationwide correspondent at Fox News, shared {a photograph} of a signboard put up on the web site.
The George Floyd Square, the place the convicted Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd and was recorded on video, shortly become a memorial for Floyd and was renamed in his reminiscence shortly after his dying.
An indication positioned on the entrance of the Square welcomes individuals to a “sacred” area. It just isn’t clear when the signboard was put up.
White individuals about to enter George Floyd sq. are given particular directions pic.twitter.com/3gzpwqUmtS— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) April 21, 2021
The signal calls upon guests to “honor the space as a place to connect and grieve as caring humans.” However the signal additionally features a particular set of directions for White individuals. White guests have to “decenter” and “come to listen, learn, mourn, and witness.”
“Remember you are here to support, not to be supported,” the signal reads. White individuals are known as upon to “contribute to the energy of the space, rather than drain it.” Any “processing” have to be delivered to “other white folks” in order that “BIPOC” (an acronym for “Black and Indigenous people of color”) will not be harmed.
If White guests see different White people doing “problematic things”, they’re inspired to “speak up with compassion to take the burden (off of) Black folks and our siblings or color whenever appropriate.” White individuals are then inspired to “engage rather than escalate so that it can be a learning moment rather than a disruption.”