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so when they say, why did you turn down the community? why do you have your own neighborhood? it's not ours. we don't own anything. we don't have anything. there is a social contract that we all have. but if you feel or i feel the person who is the authority come in and they fix the situation with appointment to fix the situation on the contract. when you tell definitely clinic give up, you bought the car shopping for 400 years. we played your game, your well concerning, bernard, and it still wouldn't be enough. and they are looking that what black people are looking for a quality and not revenge. later when
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they're ready to be about again and by command died under the need of a why the least officer. yeah. you don't get any karma can be in that moment they became every black life they captured on video was every person enslaved. every person in chains, every person who lived under the wit, every person lynched from a tree, ordered to the back of the bus every day unless the faceless person was told their lives did not matter. the diff, george floyd gives his name to those nameless in his cries, we hear the cries of hundreds of years and the unknown and a world way, you know,
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i hear those cries and they sound so from the mrs. bought history sounds like to us. you're not really me i don't even really know why i. * don't care why you watch that video and i dare you not to be angry. the you watch a video of a police officer thumping the life of a man with his knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. and excruciating. and when people see that video, they don't see george floyd's life being snuffed out. you know, they see actually the centuries of brutality and racism in this country in america
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has been here before the race, riots of the 19 sixty's on the streets of los angeles. in the 1990 in ferguson, missouri, the added minneapolis today and the message is the same for black america, the land of the free has never felt truly for it. ah, me. this deep wellspring of anger, of actually goes to a centrally unresolved question in the united states, which is that the core, the foundation of the country, which has been founded on slavery and jennifer reasons why supremacy censure. we believe in white supremacy on to 19 for the black legal inferior grows press on the
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bus. she ref sounded mother grabbed rick color from the rear. why? from the front supremacy law of the law, the land and we've had overcome quite filled supreme blood for the inferior judy, even the plan who even went on the fire wave . george lloyd's words here straight in prisons. they were david don, guy junior's last words in 2015 before he died in the hospital ward of sidney's long bay prison. oh, the current found lack of oxygen while he was restrained, was a contributing factor to his death. but it has taken the death of a black man in america to wake us up to what happens here.
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the black people die here in custody. and the numbers keep rising and we failed to stop us. i i don't believe actually the government have learned anything more than how to hide aboriginal death and cassi from the world. and that's what we're trying to expose here. we need to expose globally what's happening here in australia because we resonate with people like george floyd, we resonate with those families. we resonate with various tests in custody around the world that are going on same solar race, the whatever the sub you think about it to enforce here the slavery was set free play masses or part time masses they became brain, gra kilo the black about 70 is from around the whole town,
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the tulsa, oklahoma and rosewood, florida, the mascot flash alive me . when i see black america, i see part of myself. when i was growing up, black america spoke to me when white a straight it did not. we our breath. we are flying, we are down driving. we are denied not only level, right, but even human run. totally only way we're going to get some of the pricing right away from our $4.00 or 5 years come together against the common enemy. the black america told me to dream. i have a dream that one day may come, will rise up,
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live out the true meaning of its creed. we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created. the. those who say black lives matter is a movement we are importing from america. i know nothing of who we are. the one who by came out of the same black churches as jesse jackson and martin luther king . aus was the church of the forsaken. and these men were our patron saints, joan, from black america. i learned how to speak back to whiteness. matter, the wind, which we could to trade on color or religion or this. there are other ways of connecting ben. i tell you that when i left this country in 1048,
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i was one reason only one reason i where i, when i got the hong kong i matter, got tim up to end up in paris on the speech, paris. that's right. and i'm talking on the theory that nothing words could happen to me. they said it already happened to me here. you talk about making it right about yourself. you won't be able then to turn up all the antenna which you live. because once you turn your back on the society, you may die, you may dot the me then flashes and stretched out more. and you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. ah,
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i think the white imagination has framed that conception of whiteness in a certain direction. and therefore, in order to keep itself segregated, superior in its narrative, it had to classify blogs as, as animals. and we see that language being used by presidents like reagan being used by ordinary citizens. being used to talk about michelle obama as 1st lady. so, you know, and i think people have passively taken that in and then believe it as fast, you know? so when we have somebody like president trump saying, you can tell these people anything and they'll believe it. he's not
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goodly, this wound steal our innocence, me. i didn't get to discover the world through my eyes. i was the one discovered i was the one captured in the white gaze and learned at school the hard lesson of life. i lived in a world where white lives at it and i was not was me . why was new? and i was an old school yard towards me, the laughing, the pointing, the mocking the head turning these little things to stay with you. once our eyes are open to the world around us, we can never see the world in the same way again in i was 15,
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but i learned another matter how close i got. i could never truly belong. one day i was asking cost to stand up and talk about myself to talk about my life. and i told them who i was. i told them where i was from. i told them about my family, about my parents. i told them about our history as a walked out of the class, one of my friends turned to me and said, why do you have to always talk about that? and we came back into class after lunch and scrawled across the board. be kind to stan, need love to might seem like just a little thing. it might seem like something you can struggle of sitting here to die. why should that matter? why should that matter to me?
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but you can never let go. of those things. people know, just wait a hurt you they know just how to charity what your place in the world is and what the price of belonging really is. just shut up. just go along. don't talk about the the me the whatever
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ah, no, you don't do 15 oil, uncle. nice enough. didn't put one will you know? because you know, i don't, i don't don't go down there for that, i'll use in the 40, almost there, i guess maybe there was that i didn't
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find the property from job and took a look to the middle who was nice, nice with those who new log plenty persona initials for this epic, you'll use the aboriginal people here at war every day. were at war with the system war with the police were at war with statistics. but you want to just move on from the ah, jane and mundane story in the black community in australia lives
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black hole and in the side of the police. as a young boy, kane and lost his mother and his father. he grew up on the streets in a city to me. like so many others got into trouble when to juvenile detention and ultimately to jo. straight in may call us to, to see if we know those numbers. we have 3 percent of the population and near the food behind bars. keenan is not as statistic. he is real and his friends and his family a real and his pain is real. i come back to my community and all i see is pain. all i sees flaunting memories where i used to play with my friends and my brothers,
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that i've lost where i used to sleep. but now my brothers are in prison serving shifting youth. but we never wanted to grow up to be drug addicts and criminals. we just wanted to be loved. we wanted our mom and dad to be home. we want to have food on the table and we want to be safe. and we spend the rest of our lives trying to pick the pieces up and understand why we never had such a beginning like everybody else. and where do we fit in and how do we pick ourselves up and move on from all of a j. he was 17 when he came off his bike and was impaled on a fence post. died from his injuries. the judge family believed he was being pursued by police at the time of the coroner rejected. one of the hottest
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i was 17 at the time and i was with him the night before, the incident happen. thomas, he keeps sit fire to the streets. the rates students didn't the it looked like a scene from los angeles. ah, to this day, the hickey family and the black community will not accept the car and is finding that t j. death was an accident. ah,
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they still believe police were pursuing. they still wanted inquiry reopened. he died in the community that we the plane of kid, the same straits, we used to walk as children and hope for a better future. hope not to be poor when we grow up. mm me. chain and is haunted by the memory of his friend t j. and he works every day to try to keep young black kids out of jail. i'm more scared, scared that it's going to happen to my boys. i'm scared that my children are going to grow up in a country that think says no racism, but they're more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. then there are other fellow friends in daycare. i see them being chased by police. i see them in
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a still cry. i see them in an i don't prison so and having to visit them because they're my children and they're my blood. and that's my experience. i had police driving alongside of me on my way, walking to high school in your right. so my understanding of surveillance were attached to race. my understandings of police brutality of prisons really negative terminology attached to the idea of race rather than race being about unity race being about collective communities, race being about love, my earliest understandings of race. yeah, we're rather set up as violence due to racism. latoya rule never got to say good bye to her brother wayne fell morrison.
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cctv footage he captured his last day in adelaide police. so when he was facing assault charges i became unresponsive in a prison van. then died in hospital 3 days later, in september 2016. a career on your in question. he's ongoing. but like so many other deaths in custody. for latoya and her family. there are more questions than answers. what happened in our final moments during one's last breath? there are so many questions. why in the 1st instance, did they have to detain wayne, what happened in the van? why wasn't there surveillance in the van? why is it that the offices actually refused initially, police entrance and investigated entrance to take their statements that were, i believe, not released until months and years later, you know, they,
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there's so many questions about what really happened to wayne. oh, there was, there's representation in federal parliament for generations. we, the 1st nations people has spoken truth to white power. 150 years ago. they're very good. oh, straight. and today he demands more than the white man's charity to run the right to lou. oh, still there are no tracy, no voice people are often out of sight and out of mind. most of the i places like wished and strategies kimberly region and some of the highest youth suicide rates, anywhere in the world. here. like so many of the black communities,
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paperless, stressed to breaking point violence, drug and alcohol addiction, chronic poverty. these are the sad realities of lives under the weight of our history and powerlessness, not helplessness. and it is our people. indigenous people. step up when astray often looks away. they are really shoes and i have personal experiences of loss of families through suicide. and we learn to continue to believe in ourselves in our strength, our resilience, our determination for change. and we can change, and we can bring others along to assist us to work with us around creating the reforms within the systems and structures that need to
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be informed by lived realities of people. but to also empower people to lead the change at the community level. there's a photo pass down in my family. rows of aboriginal girls take him to a himes and were given a number. there in the middle is a small girl. number 658. my great aunt eunice grant. imagine a few when you were a child, a baby even. and the authorities came in and snatched you from your mother, or your father, your mother and father and your siblings. and you were removed and brought up totally separate from, from your family. how would you feel about that? and let them say, what's not too good and be pretty bad here in this me,
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you've got to try and walk and shoot me the last where i'd really rather, you know, you read read, read more about your mouth. really and, you know, one, you know, we're going to be that, you know, we're doing more about this, whereas your land is we're really regulated. yup. and do cool by rhetoric, validate read, you know, modeling. yeah. we're entering. i am ready to remain on the scene proudly for rhetoric. these are my parents, my bobbing father young man bowed them for staying the house. and my goodness,
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my mother betty. how important is it for us to speak our language important to you? if you, if you don't, if you don't have a language, you're nobody. if we speak english, we won't meet my driver this week. we try to get a good language. the 1st was definitely not the language we didn't lose because my father wilbert, he spoke several different languages much. how can we lose it? what did he say? remember he was arrested for speech. let's see if we're in the park. 5 and it was playing, and it was only been known, and this may have jovial drugs to elmaine criminal. and he said by an pontiac body on a quick concrete. yeah. yeah. you know, i mean, i can hear me, you know? yeah, i mean, we need to go no, go together. i mean,
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i really didn't come, we're going out and is young quote off the top or the one my visa and he thought he's abuse. he was abused and certainly yes. so the police arrested him to the all black lady. he's locked him up then every way again, that put them in jail, jail and, and some of the others to what happened the time when the cousin and i got to drink this placement on them out of my life with the side car. he came across some hopping bush drinking and he couldn't feature. that is a loan. the them out of all, sorry, sorry to johnny east carson. and he had to come back for dad, sorry, and cough bed around a tree till he came back for him and kept him to the tree. and then he didn't come
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back. old i listen, dad was there in the hate. any piddling cell phone was old, spanish travels and, and didn't come back to we had no food. no, no, nothing. came back. i was and i was lied and said, oh, i'm sorry, i forgot you. you know, sometime we go through these peers. but surely the night come at that they come in the world and they come with the name of disappear when this war is the was the cause, the revolution was alive and do it all. we will keep our hopes alive. we will not run the hope will not through the hope. people who live the me
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oh, i use she was a little slow letting go. go by susan. well, the longer i was going to go, let me know when you have a week, when you have a meeting in the room, initial pathetic female spelled on the one, let me know which finance was gonna fill in for me to meet with you. soon as you move in to when you finish the mental begin illusion, actually the glimpse on the on the financial young hoody illusion you
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lose could you could shoot. yeah. when we took the lower, the, with the war on drugs started as a way to come back, a great problem. what's the one? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota. and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a check. he told us that andrew was competent. sean form. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening with the
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the you're sleeping and then the water comes in. we can open the door just in your room and you're drowning europe. struggle is to deal with the aftermath of devastating floods. parts of germany declare a state of emergency while neighboring countries were also hit by torrents of water leaving at least one great and 18 people. are correspondent reports from the disastrous fear in all fila, in the state of violent latin that is one of the worst effected areas by the fluid you can see over to my left on the building where the water actually reached well above.

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