318: Black Lives Matter

Rob and Tom discuss the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests worldwide with a specific focus on the US and UK protests and government responses.

Black Lives Matter Resources

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Me And White Supremacy

• How To Be An Antiracist

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

• YouTube: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

• Support Podcasts in Colour

• Support Black People Google Doc

• Petitions and Donations Google Doc

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [0:51] George Floyd

• [8:33] Protests

• [16:01] Facing Our White Privilege

• [19:30] Structural Racism

• [22:02] Trump's Response

• [29:06] James Mattis Speaks Out

• [36:42] Biden's Response

• [40:28] UK Protests

• [47:32] Removal Of Statues

• [57:16] UK Government Response

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Shownotes

• 'Say their names': Stories of black Americans killed by police

• YouTube: John Oliver: Police

• Left, Right & Centre: Will waves of protest bring waves of change?

• Rocket 282

• The Atlantic: James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

• BBC: Biden: Trump ‘despicable’ for invoking George Floyd

• BBC: Biden on George Floyd: Death is great 'inflection point in US history'

• BBC: George Floyd death: 'We have a pandemic of black people dying every day'

• Twitter: BBC London News as statue is take down

• BBC: Boris Johnson Speech

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Black Lives Matter by Tom, inspired by the list of names at Baby Names

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