3.23: One Year After The Murder of George Floyd

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today, Tuesday, May 25th marks one year since George Floyd was brutally murdered by the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Here are 3 things you can do to show solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement and remember George Floyd and others who have been murdered by the police.

Listen to “Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd: Unpacking Racism” (Season 2, Episode 17)
Take some time today to have a moment of silence for George Floyd, his family, and the many others who have been murdered and brutalized by the police.
- How has your life changed since George Floyd was murdered?
- What have you learned about antiracism in the last year and how have you turned that learning into action? Or if you haven’t taken action yet, what are some ways that you plan to take anti-racist action?
- What conversations have you had with others about racism? How do you feel about those conversations, is there anything you would do differently next time?
- How are you redistributing your time and your resources to help fight for Black liberation?
Reflect on your anti-racist journey by answering the following questions

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 23, one year after the murder of George Floyd.
0:15.2	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First Nambasis is designed to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:23.4	First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need
0:27.1	to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.
0:31.5	Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,
0:39.3	a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be
0:47.4	on this journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. As you can tell from the title of today's
0:58.8	episode, it's going to be a heavy one. So if you are black, black biracial, or identify as a person of
1:06.4	color, you might want to take a break, step away, come back when you can, or not at all. But I did want to
1:13.1	give you a little warning that, of course, we're going to be talking about the murder of George Floyd.
1:19.1	Before I jump into that, I want to ask you all for a little favor. So I'm working on an episode,
1:26.6	but I need your help. And I'm really, really, really, really excited about it. So I'm working on an episode, but I need your help. And I'm really, really, really,
1:30.0	really excited about it. And I think it could be so cool, but I need you to help me. So June 12th is
1:37.9	Loving Day. And if you're not sure, Loving Day is the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision
1:43.7	that made interracial marriage for
1:46.1	heterosexual couples legal in all 50 states. So you've probably heard me talk about them before.
1:53.0	Richard and Mildred Loving were this interracial couple and they weren't allowed to get married in
1:59.0	Virginia where they were from.
2:07.0	And they have this really amazing story of how they went up against Virginia.
2:11.8	They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court with the help of the ACLU,
2:13.5	and they won.
2:17.2	They won the right to be married to one another, and they set that precedent for heterosexual,
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