Rashad Robinson : How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice

Rashad Robinson·TED2020

How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice

Summary

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...

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 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. 

The story is excerpted from The path to ending systemic racism in the US.

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