Amanpour: Aalaya Eastmond, Alicia Garza, Lemn Sissay, Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham

Amanpour

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🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Aalaya Eastmond, activist and Parkland school shooting survivor, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the intergenerational fight for racial justice and the exhaustion of being a black woman today. Lemn Sissay, the acclaimed British poet and author of “My Name is Why,” talks candidly about his harrowing journey in search of his true identity after he was stolen from his Ethiopian birth mother in 1967. He details the racism he experienced growing up with a foster family who then rejected him after 12 years of calling him son. Then, our Walter Isaacson speaks to Pulitzer prize-winning historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham to unpack the contradictions of one of America’s founding fathers: Thomas Jefferson, slave owner and advocate for equality. They pick up the discussion of the moment: whether to take down statues that, for many, are symbols of oppression and embody hundreds of years of systemic racism. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	George Floyd!
0:10.0	George Floyd!
0:12.0	The youth mobilising for change, I'm joined by young activists from Black Lives Matter and the Parkland
0:18.9	School Shooting Movement for Gun Control. Then, stolen from his mother dehumanized by the system, poet
0:25.7	author and playwright Lem Cise about being a black child in Britain's care system
0:31.1	and channeling trauma through art.
0:34.0	Plus, if the best people in the public lives of the nation in the past
0:41.0	could get stuff so horribly wrong, are we getting so horribly wrong right now?
0:47.3	All men are created equal but did the founding father who wrote it actually live up to it.
0:53.4	Historians John Meecham and Annette Gordon Reed speak to our Walter Isakson
0:57.6	about Thomas Jefferson and America's moral reckoning. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in
1:18.8	London. As protests continue unabated a month after the death of George Floyd, leaders
1:25.0	across the United States are confronting neglected cases of police brutality.
1:30.0	In Colorado, for instance, the governor has ordered an investigation of three white officers
1:35.7	responsible for the death last summer of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, who died after he was placed
1:42.2	in a police chokehold.
1:44.0	McLean was unarmed, walking home from a convenience store when he was killed.
1:49.0	And in Arizona, 27-year-old Carlos Ingram Lopez died outside his grandmother's house also restrained by police
1:56.7	also saying he couldn't breathe.
1:59.4	Video of his death was kept from the public for almost two months.
2:03.6	This week Congress has passed a major police reform bill named for George Floyd, but despite
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