PwC's chair talks about the role U.S. business leaders should play in America's racial reckoning

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tim Ryan says leaders shouldn't be afraid to speak up against systemic issues: "One of the things that business leaders need is, we need certainty. We need a strong democracy."

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan K. Part and this is K-Pop.
0:05.4	Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is mad at big business.
0:09.1	He really doesn't like that some of the nation's largest corporations and influential business
0:13.4	leaders are speaking up against bills that go after voting rights.
0:17.8	One of those leaders is Tim Ryan, U.S. Chair and Senior Partner of PWCUS.
0:24.3	In this conversation, recorded during a Washington Post live event on April 15th, Ryan is
0:29.7	explained that values are what's driving his outspokenness on race and equity in our
0:35.3	country.
0:36.3	And outspokenness that began long before the corporate activism we're witnessing today.
0:41.6	The 2018 killing of Botham Jean, a PWC employee, really hit home.
0:47.9	Here Ryan talk about that and other killings of on-arm black men and listen to Ryan's advice
0:53.6	to other white executives on how to deal with the discomfort that comes with being vocal
0:58.9	on social and political issues right now.
1:04.4	Good afternoon, I'm Jonathan K. Part, opinion writer for the Washington Post.
1:08.0	Welcome to Washington Post live for another installment in our series Race in America.
1:13.7	Business leaders are becoming more and more vocal on social and political issues and nothing
1:18.8	exemplifies that better than the rising opposition to voter restrictions across the country.
1:24.5	Just yesterday in a two-page ad, right smack in the middle of the Washington Post, the New
1:31.1	York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, a who's who of corporate America, philanthropy,
1:38.2	and Hollywood declared, quote, we stand for democracy.
1:42.5	One of those signatories is with us today, Tim Ryan, U.S. Chair and Senior Partner of PWCUS.
1:51.2	Mr. Ryan, welcome to Washington Post live.
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