The US needs a radical revolution of values | Dr. Bernice King

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

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To cultivate a society grounded in equity and love, we must uproot systems of oppression and violence towards Black communities, says Dr. Bernice Albertine King, community builder and daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a time of mourning and protest, King calls for a revolution of values, allies that engage and a world where anger is channeled into social and economic change. "Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation," King says. "Every generation is called to this freedom struggle." (This video, excerpted from a panel featuring Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson and Anthony D. Romero, was recorded June 3, 2020. Watch the full discussion at go.ted.com/endingracism)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. On today's show, Dr. Bernice
0:08.6	Albertine King. She's the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the CEO of the King Center.
0:14.5	In her talk from TED 2020, she calls on all of us in America. To think about this moment we're living in
0:20.0	and remember that to move forward,
0:22.0	we have to deconstruct systems of oppression that the country is built upon and rebuild
0:27.0	in a nonviolent way.
0:31.2	I was five years old with my father was assassinated.
0:34.7	And he did change the world.
0:37.4	But the tragedy is that we didn't hear what he was saying to us as a
0:43.3	prophet to this nation. And his words are now reverberating back to us. Change we all know is necessary right now.
0:56.0	And yet it's not easy.
0:59.0	But I want to talk about America's choice at a greater level.
1:05.0	The Prophet said to us, we still have a choice today.
1:10.0	Nonviolent coexistence or violent co-inolation.
1:15.6	We have seen literally in the streets of our nation people who have been following the path
1:23.2	of nonviolent protest and people who have been hell bent on destruction.
1:30.5	Those choices are now looking at us and we have to make a choice.
1:36.8	The history of this nation was founded in violence.
1:40.7	In fact, my father said America is the greatest purveyor of violence.
1:46.4	And the only way forward is if we repent for being a nation built on violence.
1:55.2	And I'm not just talking about physical violence.
1:58.5	I'm talking about systemic violence.
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