Roland talks race and diversity at Texas A&M University
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:31.2 | Bold ideas brought to life wherever inspiration strikes. Hey, folks, Roland Martin here. |
| 0:56.4 | Today is July 14, 2020. |
| 0:59.5 | And so this is a special live stream that I am doing to talk about what is happening, specifically at my alma mater, Texas, A&M University, that's sort of tied into this, |
| 1:13.8 | what I'm calling the reckoning. It has been eight weeks since George Floyd was murdered |
| 1:19.1 | in Minneapolis, and we have seen a significant amount of change all across this country. |
| 1:25.4 | I call it the reckoning because what has been happening |
| 1:28.3 | is that people have been challenging this nation. They have been challenging white supremacy. |
| 1:36.7 | They have been challenging what today has been fully accepted. Just yesterday, the Washington |
| 1:42.1 | Redskins announced that they are retiring their logo, as well as their name, and they are embroiled in the trademark to speak right now on the new one. Why is that? Because Native Americans have been protesting for a number of years saying it is a racial slur. That only changed when investors who manage around $620 billion |
| 2:04.6 | sent letters to FedEx, PepsiCo, and Nike saying they need to demand the Redskins change |
| 2:11.6 | their name. That's why they did it. Daniel Snyder had no intention at all, no intention at all in order to |
| 2:22.3 | change. None. But it was money that made him change. We have seen upheaval inside of companies like |
| 2:30.5 | Adidas, upheaval inside of ad ad agencies, where people are now challenging. |
| 2:36.3 | Yesterday, the New York Times, I had a story on ESPN, black employees there, black current |
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