She grew up in Africa and the Middle East, lived in Europe and is now an American.

Ayan, here's the Ali on what she herself calls the revolutionary mood.

Welcome everyone to another special plague time edition of uncommon knowledge with Peter Robinson.

Ayan, thank you for joining me.

Two quotations.

One is you.

This is a tweet that you put up on June 9th.

Quote, what the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet

to be black, female, gay, trans, or what have you.

We have our problems and we need to address those.

But our society and our systems are far from racist close quote here's the second quotation

this is a statement by Ben and Jerry's ice cream company quote what happened to George Floyd, that is of course the brutal killing of George

Floyd, what happened to George Floyd was the predictable consequence of a racist and

prejudiced system and culture that has treated black bodies as the enemy from the beginning."

Close quote.

You hold that the ice cream company is not just a little bit mistaken, but completely mistaken.

How does an ice cream company come to a conclusion like this about American history and feel that it is somehow its duty

To present it?

It's cynical. It's a marketing gimmick and Ben and Jerry's believe that they can get away with it. Peter, the killing of George Floyd, those nine minutes of video are

obscene, disgusting, and every one of us who feels outrage is completely

justified. I am outraged by that. But what we've seen in response to the outrage, I'll say there are three kinds. One peaceful protests and protesters people saying please let's address police misconduct

especially towards black men. The second one it's the rioting the looting the destroying of property and I think that some of it was just for the fun of it really

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