Former captain of Zimbabwe cricket, Tatenda Taibu has aroused turmoil on Twitter after he suggested that naming streets after George Floyd, an African-American who was killed by police in the USA, was inappropriate.
Taibu aid although the police officer who suffocated Floyd did wrong, Floyd was also wrong in possessing a fake banknote. He said:
America is in a mess. Now Americans want the street to be name after Floyd. My my my.!!! What the policeman did was wrong. However, the story started with a fake bank note. Black or white, that is wrong too. There’s a difference between a hero and a victim.
Responding to the tweet, Denver Ncube, an Anatomist and a PhD Neuroscience candidate at the University of Oregon, said:
The idea that a person who commits a crime must be sentenced and killed in this manner is tragic. The simple issue is that other people of a different race have committed the same crime but it passes off as a joke or a warning.
mmatigari weighed in:
Turns out the Bank note wasn’t fake, young man. That said, even if it was, it’s highly possible anyone can receive a fake $20 bill as change and carry it to the next shop without knowing. Dzora moyo wako.
Prominent and award-winning Zimbabwean writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga said:
The story did not start with a fake banknote. The story started with a banknote a cashier believed to be fake and so-called the cops. I understand it was not fake. In any case, possession of a fake banknote does not mean one manufactured it or knowingly received or used it.
Ranga Mataire, an Editor at The Herald added:
Are you aware that it has since been proven that the bill was actually not fake?
He should know a lot about oppression as former colleagues lost their right to play cricket under a regime. He should know very well as a Black person in a foreign land about systematic and institutional racism and yet dhololo