Conversations on race and change
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In the days since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, we have witnessed many things from police officers marching alongside protesters; to the political debate about US police reform; to the toppling of statues that symbolise the history of slavery and racism. Nuala McGovern takes you through conversations with some of the people involved in the global discussion that is taking place.
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| 0:08.0 | What could we have missed? |
| 0:10.0 | This can't be happening. |
| 0:12.0 | You could hear a pin drop. |
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| 0:27.0 | Hello I'm Nulubuovrin on the BBC World Service. Welcome to BBC OS. Conversations on Race and Change. |
| 0:38.6 | As protests continue, we share conversations with people around the world who advocate |
| 0:46.4 | change whether it's within the police or about recalibrating public monuments around |
| 0:52.2 | the world. |
| 0:53.0 | I think that Britain needs to be ashamed of slavery. |
| 0:56.4 | America needs to be ashamed of slavery at the time when Britain passed the Abolition |
| 1:02.3 | of Slavery Act. Britain had the abolition of slavery act. Britain had the highest proportion of |
| 1:06.7 | slave trading in the world of all the slave trading nations. |
| 1:10.8 | The global race protests began in the United States when George Floyd became |
| 1:18.4 | yet one more sorry statistic. He was a black man who died while being arrested by the police. |
| 1:26.0 | But now the emphasis of these protesters has moved on from anger and outrage to a desire for action, a desire for change. There are calls for police |
| 1:35.8 | reform and Minneapolis City Council, the city where George Floyd died, has |
| 1:40.2 | announced a plan to dismantle its whole police department. |
| 1:44.2 | In Flint, Michigan, the protests continue, but peacefully, |
| 1:48.1 | after Sheriff Chris Swanson became an unlikely symbol of healing |
| 1:52.2 | and part of this movement for change. My colleague |
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