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The Politics Show

We Can't Breathe

The Politics Show

The New Statesman

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Gary Younge to discuss his cover piece which looks at how systemic racism has impacted Britain's covid-19 response, and how the George Floyd protests in America could catalyse a movement.


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0:00.0

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1:12.8

I'm Anouchechekelion and my colleague Stephen Bush and I are delighted to be joined by Gary

1:17.3

Young, the writer of this week's cover story, headlined We Can't Breat breathe about systemic racism.

1:23.4

So we're delighted to be joined by Gary Young, who's written our cover story for this week's new statesman. It looks at the

1:36.3

COVID-19 deaths and also the police brutality playing out in the US to analyze how systemic racism is killing black people.

1:44.4

Gary I understand that you were working on this piece looking at coronavirus's

1:49.3

disproportionate impact on black people and as you were working on the peace the event started

1:56.0

unfolding in the US is that right? Yeah I mean it mutated and as I was just

2:02.0

tend to I guess.

2:03.2

So it started off looking really more specifically at the inequalities in Britain,

2:08.8

COVID, the racial inequalities of infection of death in Britain.

2:13.7

And I had, for that anyway, kind of topped and tailed it with my experiences in New Orleans

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