A historic conversation for healing and unity | Taking a stand against injustice and creating real change
The Tony Robbins Channel
Tony Robbins
4.3 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 215 minutes
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Summary
"Our hope is to have you panelists share your experiences of what this is all about. What do you want all of us – maybe who have not had these experiences – to know, but also to appreciate. And most importantly, what can we do to make real progress?
It's really not about pointing fingers here.
What this is really about is getting to what we can do to tap into unity, and love, and compassion, and connection to one another. What can we do to move forward?"
– Tony Robbins
On May 25, George Floyd, an unarmed, 46 year old black man, was unconscionably killed by police in broad daylight during an arrest in Minneapolis. Captured on cell-phone video and amplified in the media, the whole world witnessed his horrific death and it has reignited a centuries-long conversation around racism in the United States and the injustice that African Americans can face at the hands of police and law enforcement.
The aftermath of George Floyd's death – on top of the stacking of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner just to name a few other horrific losses – has brought this nation to a threshold. As thousands of people have come together around the world with heavy hearts, humanity is speaking loud and clear: Enough is enough, the time is now to create real, lasting change. Beyond change, we need progress. As you'll hear Tony say in this episode, change is automatic – but progress is not.
In this 3-hour episode, Tony hosts a historic conversation with ten unique leaders who share their experience of what it is to be black America and lend their voice to what we – as a unified society – need to do at this pivotal moment to collectively unite, make progress, and ultimately tap into love, compassion, and connection to one another.
Podcast guests include: Martin Luther King III (Global human rights leader), Benjamin Crump (George Floyd's family lawyer), Lora King (Founder & Executive Director, The Rodney King Foundation), Officer Gomez (11-year veteran of the police force), Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin's mother), Doc Rivers (Head Coach, Los Angeles Clippers), Bishop T.D. Jakes (Founder, The Potter's House), Daryl Davis (R&B Musician and activist), Scott Shepherd (Reformed KKK leader), Dr. Michael Beckwith (Founder, Agape International Spiritual Center)
To learn more, visit https://www.tonyrobbins.com/podcasts/a-historic-conversation-for-healing-and-unity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. We join you with heavy hearts today as I know so many of you have. |
| 0:12.0 | We're into the 11th day after the loss of a dear brother and the whole world saw it, witnessed it. |
| 0:19.0 | They witnessed the murder of undeniable what happened and the beauty, the only beauty that I can find is that people of all colors, |
| 0:26.0 | of all races, of all religions, of all backgrounds, all over the world have rallied forth to not let this time pass and to make sure that we create not only some healing here, but some real change. |
| 0:38.0 | And often I talk to people about change and you know, changes automatic actually don't have to work on change. |
| 0:43.0 | Change is going to occur, our bodies are going to change, the world's going to change, our environment's going to change, our families are going to change. |
| 0:48.0 | Everything's going to change, time goes by. |
| 0:51.0 | Change is automatic, but progress is not. |
| 0:54.0 | And so this is a conversation today, see if we can't create some progress. |
| 0:59.0 | And I'm so privileged. I was feeling so much pain for our brothers and sisters and thinking, what can I do? |
| 1:05.0 | I'm just one voice, a white man. |
| 1:08.0 | But I fortunately have some beautiful friends that are great leaders. |
| 1:12.0 | And they happen to be African-American as well, but they're just great leaders. |
| 1:15.0 | They're conscious leaders, they're people who are passionate and focused on true justice, but also our heartfelt. |
| 1:20.0 | And they're approach. And then I decided, what if I reach out to a dozen or so of these people and some I didn't personally know, see if we can get them to join. |
| 1:29.0 | I thought maybe three or four would join and we have an embarrassment of riches. |
| 1:32.0 | We have 10 extraordinary leaders here. And I want to introduce them to you. |
| 1:36.0 | And then our format will be after I've introduced briefly who they are. We're going to go one at a time for about three, four, five minutes and have been just share with us. |
| 1:43.0 | And I don't want to just say I've already said it off camera. I just want to thank all of you. I'm honored to be in presence and so grateful that you're willing to share your experience. |
| 1:51.0 | But our hope is to have them share their experience of what this is all about, what they want all of us to know, maybe not have these experiences to acknowledge, know, but to appreciate. |
| 2:01.0 | And most importantly, call what can we do to make real progress? What can we do to make lasting change that truly matters and change the quality of life and ends this nightmare that's been going on for more than decades for a year. |
| 2:12.0 | And more than decades for centuries plus, we're African Americans and for others of different races and different colors and different creeds and different backgrounds and different religions. |
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