Rebroadcast: The Role of Cross-Racial Solidarity in a Time of Protest

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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During this time of civil unrest in America, many people are calling for dismantling racism. Much of the conversation frames the conflict as between a black minority and a white majority. The current uprising is sparking conversations about how other groups of color can show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of that work, experts say, involves confronting division and anti blackness much more broadly. In this hour, we explore what cross-racial solidarity means in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5	From KQED. From KQED. From K on forum, during former President Barack Obama's
1:29.5	remarks Wednesday about the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, he noted the diversity of protesters
1:35.3	saying the representative cross-section of America on the streets didn't exist in the 60s. Still,
1:41.3	Latino, Asian American, Arab American, and other leaders of color are saying
1:45.4	it's time to go further and address anti-black racism within their communities to dismantle
1:50.6	racism. Cross racial solidarity and what's required to achieve it. Next on Forum, join us.
2:14.6	You're listening to Forum from KQED. I'm Mina Kim.
2:19.0	Leaders of color are calling on their communities to be better allies,
2:23.6	amid protest, demanding justice for George Floyd, for black lives to matter, and for the tearing down of structures of institutional racism. Activist and author Jose Antonio Vargas tweeted,
2:28.9	we must fight pervasive and insidious anti-blackness in Latinx, Middle Eastern, and Asian and
2:34.0	Pacific Islander communities.
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