Amanpour: Darren Walker, Richard Parsons, Patrick Robinson and Robin DiAngelo

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In 2020 black Americans are worse off than white Americans by every metric. The demand for economic equality has been a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and a critical gaze is now turning to corporate America, where only four CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are black, all of whom are men. Christiane Amanpour speaks to two men who have lived this reality, Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, and Richard Parsons, former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner. Then, as Britain continues to address its colonial past, an aptly timed BBC drama “Sitting in Limbo”, has been released. It tells the story of the 2017 Windrush scandal, when a generation of British subjects from the Caribbean were wrongly detained or deported as part of the British government’s ‘hostile environment policy’. Star of the drama Patrick Robinson gives his perspective on the present moment, and the work that Britain still needs to do. And then, in 2018 Michel Martin spoke to author Robin DiAngelo about her book “White Fragility”. Finding even greater relevance today, the book is back on numerous best-seller lists and in an extended cut of the original interview, they discuss unconscious biases and why white people are often defensive when it comes to talking about race. 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	Black Lives Matter.
0:11.0	America's Black Community is worse off than whites in every walk of life.
0:15.9	How can corporate America help change this?
0:18.9	The Ford Foundation's Darren Walker and former Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons
0:24.4	join me. Then open the door right now.
0:28.4	I'm arresting you on suspicion of being an illegal resident.
0:31.8	Talking about... Shining a light on Britain's colonial legacy. sufficient being an illegal resident.
0:32.6	Shining a light on Britain's colonial legacy
0:35.6	and the windrush scandal at the very heart of it.
0:38.3	Actor Patrick Robinson on his harrowing new TV drama.
0:42.0	Plus, the mere suggestion that White has meaning will cause us to
0:46.1	erupt in defensiveness. White fragility and unconscious racism. Our Michelle Martin
0:51.8	talks to best-selling author Robin De Angelo. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London. The protests that have erupted
1:14.3	ever since the murder of George Floyd are not only about police brutality.
1:18.2	Also at the heart of making Black Lives Matter is economic inequality.
1:24.0	Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington
1:27.7	was for jobs as well as freedom.
1:30.2	But in 2020, by every metric,
1:32.4	black Americans are still worse off than whites, and the numbers are staggering.
1:37.0	The median net worth of white households in America is 10 times that of black households.
1:42.8	When it comes to income, the average white household earns $71,000,
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