Last Week's Top Stories - America Reckons with Racism & COVID-19 Makes a Comeback
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.5 | In the weeks since protests began following the murder of George Floyd, the movement has |
| 0:15.5 | been more successful than many people could have imagined. |
| 0:18.6 | 53% of American voters now say that they support Black Lives Matter. |
| 0:23.6 | When only two years ago, it was around 40%. |
| 0:27.4 | People, major corporations in America have now said that they are actively going to |
| 0:31.5 | diversify their workplace and hire Black people who they've previously discriminated |
| 0:36.3 | against for so long. |
| 0:38.1 | And millions of white Americans are now desperately trying to find a second Black friend. |
| 0:43.1 | But one of the biggest shifts in America is something the country has been resisting |
| 0:47.3 | for 155 years. |
| 0:49.7 | Over at the Capitol, how Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for nearly a dozen Confederate |
| 0:54.0 | statues to be removed from that building, saying they pay homage to hate. |
| 0:59.1 | At a rally in Richmond, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was pulled down last |
| 1:03.4 | night. |
| 1:04.4 | The face smashed in before it was towed away in pieces. |
| 1:06.9 | NASCAR's bubble wall is racing last night with the hashtag Black Lives Matter painted |
| 1:11.7 | on his car. |
| 1:12.7 | The race starting hours after NASCAR banned the Confederate flag. |
| 1:16.2 | That was a huge pivotal moment for the sport. |
| 1:18.6 | A lot of backlash, but it creates doors that allows the community to come together as one. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, from Congress, all the way to NASCAR, all over the country, people are asking the |
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