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Outside/In

Birding While Black

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The experience of public outdoor spaces isn't the same for everyone. Today, we explore birding while Black (and #blackbirdersweek) and how racist housing policies drive unequal exposure to climate-driven heat waves. Find more Outside/In on our website We need your help! Take our short audience survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

No justice. This is outside in, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

0:08.2

I'm Sam Evans Brown.

0:09.7

Since the first protests on May 26, millions of people across America and across the world

0:16.5

have taken to the streets to express their grief and anger and demand justice for the killing

0:20.6

of George Floyd by Minnesota law enforcement.

0:23.0

We've been fired at with rubber bullets.

0:25.0

My government has been hit.

0:27.0

We've also seen tear gas being used here.

0:30.0

We go and moving through again.

0:31.0

This is exactly what it looks like. But that's not the outdoors community, right? The outdoors is for everyone.

0:38.1

Naturalists are so welcoming. Well, it might seem like a hundred years ago now, but just before the very first

0:45.4

protests began, another racist incident was already sparking outrage online.

0:50.0

So there's an incident in New York Central Park caught on camera and it's going viral.

0:55.0

Christian Cooper, a black man who had been bird watching in New York City for decades was in the

0:58.6

ramble. 36 acres of semi-forested woodland in Central Park when he asked a nearby woman to obey the park

1:04.9

rules and leash her dog.

1:06.8

She refused and before the confrontation ended, the woman called the police while Christian

1:11.0

recorded her with his smartphone.

1:12.4

Amy Cooper has apologized but was fired from her job.

1:15.0

Join me now is Christian.

1:16.0

We say Outside Inza show about the natural world and how we use it, but the history of these

1:19.5

spaces will show that white gatekeepers have long held a great deal of power in deciding who gets access

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