Racism is the greatest pandemic: Hollywood star George Clooney

Hollywood star George Clooney has penned an essay about the fight against systemic racism following the death of George Floyd, saying that racism is the "greatest pandemic" of the US, and there hasn't been a "vaccine" for it even after 400 years.

In the essay, published by Daily Beast, Clooney called for "systemic change" in the US to tackle the problem of racism, reports etonline.com.

"How many times have we seen people of colour killed by police?" he writes.

"Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Laquan McDonald. There is little doubt that George Floyd was murdered. We watched as he took his last breath at the hands of four police officers. Now we see another defiant reaction to the systemic cruel treatment of a portion of our citizens like we saw in 1968, 1992, and 2014. We don't know when these protests will subside. We hope and pray that no one else will be killed. But we also know that very little will change," he continued.

Clooney feels fundamental changes need to be made.

"The anger and the frustration we see playing out once again in our streets is just a reminder of how little we've grown as a country from our original sin of slavery," he wrote. (IANS)