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Amanpour

Amanpour: Christian Cooper, Melody Cooper, Sajid Javid and Michael Eric Dyson

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Recent polls in the U.S. show that the majority of Americans believe that the Black Lives Matter protests rocking the country constitute a defining moment in history. Yet despite this wave of activism, many African Americans still experience acts of racism on a daily basis. Over memorial weekend a video went viral showing a white woman in Central Park calling the police and accusing an African American man of threatening her, after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The man in question, Christian Cooper, filmed the exchange, and he and his sister Melody Cooper, join Christiane to discuss to the event, and weaponization of race in America. Then, Sajid Javid, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, reflects on Britain’s colonial legacy and his own experience of racism in the financial and political sectors. And our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Michael Eric Dyson, professor of sociology at Georgetown University, about this watershed moment in America and what it means for race relations.  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.

0:07.0

I'm going to tell them there's an African-American man that's about in my life.

0:11.0

Please tell them whatever you like.

0:13.3

The everyday racism that was caught on camera.

0:16.5

I asked the target Christian Cooper

0:18.7

and his sister Melody who posted the video that went viral.

0:22.3

Is America really listening now and for how long?

0:25.6

Plus, across the pond too, Britain is forced to face its colonial past.

0:31.2

Sajid Javid joins me, first minority in a top cabinet position.

0:35.7

Also, we have a unique opportunity and a tremendously propitious moment to

0:41.1

address sustained systemic structural inequities that need to be addressed.

0:47.0

Author, minister, and Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson tells our Hari Streinovasen, of time shifting dramatically. Christina Manpur working from home in London.

1:13.0

With the sands of time shifting dramatically in favor of making Black Lives Matter,

1:18.3

America's top military commander has now come out and admitted that it was a mistake to appear at a political

1:24.1

photo up with the president after peaceful protesters had been violently

1:28.6

dispersed outside the White House. He is part of that apology from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Millie.

1:35.0

I should not have been there.

1:38.0

My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.

1:46.0

As a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that I have learned from,

1:51.0

and I sincerely hope we all can learn from it.

1:56.0

Just what these times call for, as polls in the United States show a majority do believe that

2:02.0

this is a moment and massive protests around the world

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