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George McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco. He is a cultural columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His first book ‘Illustrated Black History’, published by Harper Collins, is due in the fall of 2021.
Yahoo NewsIn liberal San Francisco, white responses to George Floyd's killing proved revealing
George Floyd’s death and the white response had placed an emphatic point on how twin scourges of economic disenfranchisement and racial segregation had manifested, with the pandemic as a backdrop. My role was victim and teacher all at once, and it enraged me.