Black Lives Matter - Part 1

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of our discussion on Black Lives Matter. We discuss why historically black lives haven't mattered, how it began, why it exists and give some helpful language to have discussions regarding Black Lives Matter.

Articles about Russia's misinformation campaign:

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1290&context=mjrl

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html

More information about Convict Leasing:

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

More information on the history of racism within law enforcement:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-police-defeated-lynching-via-torture/id1518323701?i=1000479560743

More information about black people and white people using and selling drugs at similar rates:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871399/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614457/

Inequality Sources:

Whites families make up 17 percent of the poor depicted in news media, but make up 66 percent of the American poor

https://nypost.com/2019/10/16/black-kids-more-likely-to-be-suspended-than-white-kids-over-same-behavior/

http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/the_prosecution_of_youth_as_adults.pdf

http://www.campaignforyouthjustice.org/voices/item/the-prosecution-of-black-youth-as-adults

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/13/news-media-offers-consistently-warped-portrayals-of-black-families-study-finds/

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8296091/media-bias-race-crime

Polling showing that black and white people disagree over whether racism is still a problem:

https://www.uml.edu/News/press-releases/2020/SocialIssuesPoll092220.aspx

Scriptures References (in order of mention): Matt 22:36-40, Luke 10:25-37, Revelation 7:9, James 2:1, Romans 2:11

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0:00.0	I don't know what those white people in this country feel,
0:05.0	but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.
0:10.0	Now, this is the evidence.
0:14.0	You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,
0:20.0	on some idealism which you assure me
0:23.9	exists in America, which I have never seen. Welcome to Black History for White People,
0:31.1	a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge white people about black history. I'm Brad
0:36.5	on today's show, or my co-host Katina and
0:38.3	Garan. Today's topic is Black Lives Matter. We first go over why historically Black Lives
0:43.8	Haven't mattered, and then we go into how it began, why it exists, and then we end it with giving
0:48.9	you some helpful language to be able to have discussions with other people about Black Lives
0:53.1	Matter. Due to the length of this episode, we had to break it up into two parts.
0:57.1	You're currently listening to Part 1.
0:59.0	Make sure that you keep an eye out in your feed for Part 2 as well, and we hope you enjoy the discussion.
1:08.1	Garen, can you explain to us what is Black Lives Matter? How, when did it begin? Tell me about the history of it.
1:16.5	Yeah. To start out, I'm going to actually just pull from the Black Lives Matter website. I think let them describe it in their own words.
1:23.2	They say the Black Lives Matter global network is a chapter-based member-led organization
1:28.3	whose mission is to build local power
1:30.5	and to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities
1:33.6	by the state and vigilantes.
1:36.4	Quick note to white people on Black Lives Matter.
1:40.3	A lot of what is out there in the atmosphere
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