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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Business Weekly continues the conversation around race and racism sparked by the death of George Floyd. We’ll be asking whether African Americans should be paid reparations for their ancestors' enslavement. We’ll hear from Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television. Mae Jamison, the first woman of colour in space, gives us her thoughts on how today’s protesters differ from those in the 1960s when she was a young girl in Chicago. Plus, the Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that a lot of us work, so we’ll be asking whether office buildings ever be the same again. Presented by Lucy Burton.

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0:00.0	Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment,
0:06.1	and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments.
0:10.1	That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly,
0:14.4	a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring,
0:19.8	and thought-provoking stories you might
0:21.3	have missed from the BBC's business team.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.
0:47.9	On Tuesday, George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police officers sparked worldwide outrage and protests was laid to rest in Texas.
0:59.6	At the Fountain of Praise Church, the veteran civil rights activist Al Sharpton, spoke about how the modern day experience of African Americans in the States is so caught up with the legacy of slavery.
1:05.1	George Floyd's story has been the story of black folks.
1:19.3	Because ever since 4001 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed to be in is you kept your knee on our neck.
1:31.9	What happened to Floyd happens every day in this country in education in health services and in every area of American life it's time for us to stand up in Georgia's name and say get your knee off our necks
1:41.0	oh oh you turn around in the hole in the off our necks. Oh, I'm a ho.
1:48.9	You turn around, dig a hole in the ground.
1:51.3	Oh, I'm a home.
1:58.2	In 1619, the White Lion's ship bought 20 African slaves to the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
2:02.0	Their work and that of millions of other kidnapped and enslaved men and women helped turn the colonies and then the United States into flourishing economies.
2:08.4	Slavery was abolished after 246 brutal years, but its legacy of division and racism continues.
2:15.7	And there's a suggestion from some within the Black Lives Matter
2:18.3	movement that the US should make financial reparations to the descendants of slaves.
2:23.2	My colleague Ed Butler has this report.
2:25.1	I'll be so glad when the sun go down. When I'll be so glad when I'll be so glad when I'm. It has been called a stain on the American dream.
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