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Natalia gives a brief history of the BLM movement and the protests that occurred with the death of George Floyd in the USA.
Hi everybody, it's Natalia. Today, and in my videos this week, I am going to be talking about a very important topic
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and something that's very timely, and that is what's going on in the United States right now.
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You may have seen videos or news coverage of the protests that have been happening all around the United States and the world,
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and I think it's really important to talk about what that's all about. So, let's get started.
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To start off with, I think it's important to get a bit of historical context on the Black Lives
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Matter movement itself in the United States. It was originally started back in 2013, and it was
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a response to police brutality and shootings in the United States. So in terms of what Black Lives
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Matter protesters stand for, they are fighting for many different things. So they are advocating for
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an end to police brutality, an end to excessive policing in Black communities. They want to
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hold law enforcement more accountable for their actions, and they also want to fight against
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institutional racism. So institutional racism isn't racism that would just happen between two people.
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It is racism that's based on a structure, on a system in society. So it's talking about
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a set of policies, a set of practices that contribute to a systematic disadvantage of
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members of racial groups with less societal power. So a systematic disadvantage against people of
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color, and in this case against Black people specifically. They're also fighting against
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mass incarceration of Black people in the United States, which refers to the way that many, many
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Black people have been put into prisons and jails in the United States. Now that you have some
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background about the situation in the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement,
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let's talk a bit about what's going on currently. So on May 25th, 2020, this year, George Floyd,
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who was an innocent Black man, was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, a city in the
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United States. The officer who killed him was not originally charged for any crimes and this event
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along with many many years in fact centuries of violence and systematic oppression of Black people
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in the United States led to protests. So protests that started in Minneapolis, Minnesota where the
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murder of George Floyd occurred, but these protests also spread to other cities in the
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United States and around the country. And in fact, as of last week, there were protests that occurred
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in every single state in the United States. Many of these protests have led to the destruction
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of property, both by police officers and by civilians. And in many cities, in fact, police
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have shown up with weapons. So those weapons can be tear gas, batons, guns, whether with rubber or
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real bullets, for example. And the police showing up with these weapons have also turned a lot of
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these protests that were originally peaceful into violent protests by escalating the situation.
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um throughout these protests police have arrested many protesters and journalists
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as of this first week in june over 10 000 people have been arrested by the police and again that
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is protesters and journalists i want to say that this is only a brief overview of what's going on
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in the united states and there are a lot of resources out there that you can find online
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that talk about what's going on right now.
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I am also here to discuss anything by email
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if you have any questions or concerns.
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But I do think that it's important
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that we talk about what's really going on right now
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in the world.
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- Idioma/s:
- Autor/es:
- Natalia Caprile
- Subido por:
- Sandra G.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 98
- Fecha:
- 7 de junio de 2020 - 16:24
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
- Duración:
- 04′ 12″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 960x540 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 143.73 MBytes
