Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero : The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero·TED2020

The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Summary

The thing that was mixed might be my brain. I thought about a lot of things that are not only the story but also Japanese problems about politics, men and women, population, violence, etc. while reading this. It's because I think that the story also doesn't say about only racism. And then I was surprised at the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr appearing. 

First, I summarised what four famous people told us. 

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

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Phillip Atiba Goff is the founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and works with police departments across America. It's including in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed. He tells us that the way of making progress is that we put forward public safety that empowers particularly vulnerable communities. In the first place, the police is not necessary for public safety and its budgets should invest vulnerable communities where black residents have unpaid debts. There is no justice for George Floyd, though, it's not enough to only reform the police system.  Public safety including investing, being able to go to hospitals and clinics, having insurance, etc. have to change for communities.

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Rashad Robinson is the president of Color Of Change, a civil rights organization that advocates for racial justice for the black community. His story is complicated, though, I think that this is in around the world and this is important. It's called "Normalizing Injustice".  When you hear about one black man, you think that all black men do or about one police does something, you think that all police do it. It just leads to small things being bigger. The structures that harm them should be fixed. The base is that a racist criminal justice system requires a racist media culture to survive and a political inequality follows economic inequality. 

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Dr. Berbice King is the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When she was five, her father was assassinated. She was too young to know what her father had done. However, she suggests that the only way forward is that we repent for being a nation built on violence and should choose nonviolent coexistence. For a long time, violence continues to win and creates poverty, racism, and militarism. It must lead to violent CO-annihilation. It means that both sides are extinct. Freedom is never won and here, it needs a revolution of values. Every industry should start doing antiracism work. Only changing society can stop violence and racism.

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Anthony Romero is an executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I've heard that ACLU is not politically motivated, though, I don't know whether it's true or not. He surely said that whether or not a cigarette pack has a proper tax stamp, whether or not a 20-dollar bill was forged, people should not lose their lives. That's not worthy of spending dollars on police. It should invest in local communities.  Let's focus on the most important and the most serious of crimes. That's it. 

I understood that in the story, they are completely different people who took part in the demo where people like Chinese who couldn't relate to the accident mistakenly are in to sway. I didn't know who was cheering Tramp and there was no emotion in the story, but it must be better to move forward to end systemic racism.