Former Zim Cricket Captain Tatenda Taibu Under Fire Over Tweet On George Floyd

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.

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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?

Chelle Chips:

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