News broke last week that a George Floyd biopic is under production, and that Floyd’s now 10-year-old daughter and her mother will serve as executive producers. “George Floyd: Daddy Changed the World” is set to be a collaboration between multiple studios, including Radar Pictures, 8 Queens Film & Media, and Night Fox Entertainment. The involvement of little Gianna, who was only 6 years old when her father died, is a touching gesture from a family that doubtless still grieves his loss. So perhaps my timing is a little insensitive here, but I believe we are due for an updated advisory about the Cult of George Floyd. The focus of this advisory is not the film announcement but rather another event that took place all the way out in Arizona. Speaking at the opening of a George Floyd–themed art exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum, Minneapolis native Eliza Wesley, also known as “the Gatekeeper of George Floyd Square,” was filmed lauding Floyd in doxological verbiage that would put even the most zealous Deep South gospel preacher to shame. EXCLUSIVE: At the opening of a George Floyd-themed art exhibit at ASU, the “Gatekeeper of George Floyd Square” in Minneapolis makes a bold claim: George Floyd died for “each and every last one of us.” This exhibit – “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to… pic.twitter.com/ejsVAkYPWg — FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) May 22, 2024 “When I came here today,” Wesley began, “I almost had an emotional breakdown because it reminded me of the day that George Floyd got killed.” “Where they get you to lay the flowers at, the red represents the blood and the white represents the purification that George Floyd died for us,” she went on. “Each and every last one of us.” “Had not George Floyd died, we wouldn’t be here. God chose him. He was a chosen vessel. Many are called, but few are chosen.” Excuse me as I reach for a tissue. And an ancient Christian creed or two. George Floyd died for “each and every last one of us”? God’s “chosen vessel”? Mourn the man, but please don’t confuse him with Jesus. Too late: The ASU exhibit, titled “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix,” comes complete with an illustrated artwork of George Floyd gilded in a Christlike crown of thorns. One of the displays draws parallels to religious figures, with George Floyd wearing a crown of thorns. Why does the left continue to lift up and idolize a man we know was a convicted criminal?@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/Qfr0cZVgnl — FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) May 22, 2024 Honestly, I didn’t expect anything could top Nancy Pelosi’s heartfelt prayer to George Floyd following the conviction of Derek Chauvin, who was charged with his murder in April 2021. “Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice,” the allegedly Catholic Pelosi uttered heavenward for the benefit of rolling cameras that day. “Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.” George Floyd’s death was a sad event, to be sure. But not for the reasons offered by those who continue to elevate him to mythical status. As detailed by Jack Cashill in these pages, the cause of George Floyd’s death, though ruled to be homicide by a mob-cowed Minneapolis judge and jury, remains hotly contested by legal experts. Multiple autopsies found both fentanyl and methamphetamines in Floyd’s system, which only exacerbated the severe cardiac disease he was already suffering. Chauvin’s conviction rested on an insistence that these factors were completely unrelated to Floyd’s death. (RELATED: George Floyd Revisited: Derek Chauvin Was Wrongfully Convicted) Even the Floyd-fawning Washington Post has quoted medical experts noting George’s diseased and “enlarged” heart, severely blocked arteries (one 90 percent blocked and two 75 percent narrowed), and recent COVID-19 diagnosis — none of which, the rag assures us, were relevant in the Chauvin murder case. Even if the judge and jury ruled fairly, George Floyd was hardly a hero, as evidenced by his lengthy, colorful rap sheet. All unnecessary deaths are tragic, Floyd’s included. But the schtick is up. George isn’t Jesus, and he didn’t die a martyr. Pretending otherwise might keep the activist cause alive and the votes and dollars flowing in the right direction, but it’s cruel to his loved ones and divisive for the country. It’s time to let George Floyd, and his folklorists, rest in peace. The post The Cult of George Floyd appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.