The

The Gohoy! God's joy!

God's right!

My name is Professor Anthony Reddy.

I'm the director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture

that's based within Regents Park College that is a part of Oxford University.

I'm also an extraordinary professor of theological ethics with the University of South Africa

and I'm the editor of the

International Journal of Black Theology.

I think first I would simply want to correct the language, because I think language is important

in how we understand and define things. I would not say killing, I would say the murder,

George Floyd.

Just simply because of killing sounds a slightly more neutral term where I think what we saw was

something that effectively was a murder. In some regards, I think this present moment is almost

like a perfect storm. And I say that because the truth is that

people have died, well African Americans have died at the hands of the police innumerable times.

And they have not given rise to this huge resurgence of activism and support and allyship from across all ethnic and cultural and

racial groups, both in America and across the world. I think in many respects, it's not just about

George Floyd. I think it's also linked to the whole phenomenon of the pandemic. And I think what we

had already seen from the pandemic is the way

in which that had revealed the structural injustice that had been faced by black people across

the world in terms of our disproportionate deaths really from that due to our great propensity

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