tv Documentary RT October 19, 2021 12:30pm-1:00pm EDT
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ah, i'm concerned it could burn to the ground and it still wouldn't be enough and they are lucky that we're black. people are looking for the quality and not revenge. that was the bigger one bigger. there is reason please. anybody. again receive an alarmed black man died under the knee of a white police officer. ah, if you don't get any goble and they're in that moment, it became every black life. they captured on video with 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 nameless,
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faceless person who was told they lives, did not matter. ah gabriel endif, george floyd gives his name to those nameless in his cries, we hear the cries of hundreds of years and the unknown dead. and a world way. i hear those cries too, and i sound so from the day. this is what history sounds like to us. a lie charge breeze. oh, easy, really right now. thank you. ha ha, ha ha i. * want you to watch, you watch that video and i dare you not to be angry with you, watch that video of
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a police officer stomping the life out of the man with his knee on his neck, fox, 8 minutes and 46 seconds. and excruciating. and when people see that video, they don't to see george floyd's light being snuffed out. you know, they see actually the centuries of brutality and racism in this country. america has been here before the rice riots of the 19th sixty's on the streets of los angeles. in the 1990. 0, in ferguson, missouri. mm. at in minneapolis to die. oh. and the message is to sign up for black america. the land of the free as never felt truly for it. ah.
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this deep well spring of anger actually goes to a centrally unresolved question in the united states, which is at the core of the foundation of this country, which has been founded on slavery and genocide. murray, why see from us he's country will even white supremacy on to learn that for the black will legal inferior ross on the bus. she arrested the santa barbara federal color from the rear wife in the fro supremacy law. the law of the land. and we've had overcome white filling supreme blood, filling inferior g. even the plan for your room even will be fair. with george floyd woods here in australian prisons. i meant they were david don. j juniors last words in 2015 before he died in the hospital ward of sidney's long bay
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prison. oh, the coroner found lack of oxygen while he was restrained, was a contributing factor to his dead. oh, but it has taken the death of a black man in america to wake us up to what happens here. are the black people die here in custody? and that the numbers keep rising and we failed to stop us. i don't believe actually the government have learned anything more than how to hide operational deaths in custody 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, you know, various destin capacity around the world that are going unseen summary. so maybe
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we'll have a result you think about it through the years of slavery, who sent free play masses of potash, massa. they became for angry kilo bath, out of the blacks in about 70 years from the whole town, tulsa, oklahoma, and rosewood, florida. they measured black alive. mm. mm. when i see black america, i see part of myself. when i was growing up, black america spoke to me. when white australia did note, we all read, we are right. we are down trodden. we are denied not on level, right. what even you would run the only way we're going to get some of them for friend, white nation, far away from our for fire, from us, is come together. okay,
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the common enemy and black america told me to dream. i have a dream. that one day, this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created with those who say black lives matter is a movement we are importing from america. nothing of who we are in the room knew i 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 adorned him from black america. i learned how to speak back
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to whiteness, automatic. ah, who shall, why was he was such a trade on color or religion or this don't all other ways of connecting men. i tell you this. when i left his country in 1948, i wasn't going to be one reason only one reason. when i met a gun, the hong kong i met is on the gym block to end up in paris on the streets of paris . freud online, talking about the theory that nothing worse would happen to me there that it already happened to me here. you talk about making it as a writer by yourself. you had to be able then to turn of old montana with which you live. because once you turn your back on society, you may dot, you may die. oh,
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then flashes a siren as stretched out war. 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. i think the white imagination has framed the conception of whiteness in a certain direction. and therefore, in order to keep itself um, segregated superior in its narrative, it had to classify blacks as, as the animals and b. c. that language being used by presidents like reagan being used by ordinary citizens. being used to talk about michelle obama as 1st lady. so,
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you know, and i think all white people have passively taken mat in and then believed it as fact how 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 wrong. how quickly this world steals our innocence. i didn't get to discover the world through my eyes. i was the one discovered i was the one captured in the wide gaze and learned at school the hog listen of life. i lived in a world where wide lives mattered, and i was not wide ah, what was normal? and i wasn't known. the schoolyard towards the laughing,
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the pointing, the mocking the heads turning these the little things to stay with you in . once our eyes are open to the world around us, we can never see the world in the same way again. mm. i was 15, but i learned another lesson. no matter how close i got. i could never truly belong . one day i was asked in class to stand up and talk about our self 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 i walked out of the class, one of my friends turned to me and said, why do you have to always talk about that at all?
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which i back into class after lunch and scrawled across the board. be kind to stand, need love to might seem like just a little thing. it might seem like something you can shrug off sitting here to die . why should that matter? why should that matter to me? but you can never let go of those things. people not just wait to hurt you they know just how to charity, what you will place in the world ease and what the price of belonging really is. just shut up. just go along. don't talk about it. with long no one else showing wrong. i
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just don't want to say proud because of the african and engagement it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wound still haven't hailed your interest in going into done them already because on the coming out the law michel freedom. okay. able to me said, all said cutting me on the bus at the station. we notice that i understand, i think with thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption late bought about. are you just young? fiesta, bitter. my old robots of yellow element it to this day,
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mothers still search for grown children, while adults look in hope for their birth parents. join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah, blue. hi bridget, people here out war every day. we're at war with the system without war with the police were at war with statistics. but you want us just to move on from that. oh jane and mundane storage
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good. any black community in australia lives, black pool and in the side of the police as a young boy chain and lost his mother and his father. he grew up on the streets in a city city. like so many others got into trouble, went to juvenile detention, and ultimately to j. ah, australia may call him us to tuesdays. we know those numbers. we 3 percent of the population knew the food was behind bars. between is notice statistic. he's real and his friends and his family a real and his pain is real. i come back to my community and all i sees pain. all i phase one haunting memories where i used to play with my friends and my
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brothers that i've lost, where i used to sleep with now my brothers are in prison serving shifting use like these a we, 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 wanted to have food on the table and we wanted to be safe. and we spend the rest of our law 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 them? a j he he was 17. when he came off his bike and was in piled on a fence post. died from his injuries lou to joe's family believe he was being pursued
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by police at the time of you, the coroner rejected. ah mash. this is one of the hardest things all men of the news 70, not the time, and i was with him the night before. the incident happen room lou thomas, he keys dis, set fire to the streets of redfern in a city city. it looked like a scene from los angeles to this day, the hickey family and the black community will not accept the coroner's finding.
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that t j is death was an accident. they still believe police would pursuing him. they still wanted inquiry reopened. he died in the same communities, at least the plain as kids in the same straits, we used to walk as children and hope for better future hope not to be poor. why be drawn ah jane 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 gonna grow up in the country that think says no racism, but they're more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. then there are
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other fellow friends in daycare. i see them being chased by police. i see them in a so cry i see them in an adult prison. so and having gone 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 year. right. and so, my understandings of, of surveillance were attached to race my understandings of police brutality of prisons and really negative terminology attached to the idea of race, rather than race being about unity, rice being about collective communities, race being about love ah, my earliest understandings of race here were rather set up as violence due to racism. latoya lee never got to say good bye to her brother
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wayne fell a morrison. see she tv 40. she captured his last day in an adelaide police cell where he was facing assault charges. it became unresponsive in a prison van and died in hospital 3 days later in september 2016, a corranio in quest, his ongoing but like so many other deaths in custody for latoya and her family. there are more questions than answers soon. what happened in our final moments during when's last breaths? there are so many unanswered questions. why, in the 1st instance, did they have to detain wine? what happened in the van? why wasn't this surveillance in the van? why is it that the officers actually refused initially? police insurance and investigator entrance to take their statements that were,
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i believe, i'm not released until a months and years later. and, you know, they, there's so many unanswered questions about what really happened to whine back middle of the representation in federal parliament, for generations. we the 1st nations people have spoken truth to white power. 150 years ago. the every good? oh, straight. and today he demands more than the white men charity. he runs the right to live stream, but still there are no trees. no voice. oh, now people are often out of sight and out of mind to most australia for oh, place is like western australia is kimberly region. have some of the highest youth
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suicide rights anywhere in the world. here. like so many of the black communities, 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. but powerlessness is not hopelessness. and it is our people indigenous people misstep. um, when the strider often looks right there really shoes and i have personal experiences of a loss of family 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 is a far as i pass down in my family, rows of aboriginal goals tightened to a home to be trained to be servants, to live under a sign that rid, think white act white be white, they lost their names and were given a number. they in the middle is a small go. number 65, right? my great aunt eunice grant. imagine a few. when you were a child or a baby even. and the, the authorities came in and snatch you from your mother or your father, your mother and your father, india, you, siblings. and you were removed and,
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and brought up totally separate from, from your family i. how would you feel about that? a lot of them say when someone not to go to me would be pretty bad. parentes you've got to try and log in. now. shoes flew as you say, this is our land. we're as relent, roderick norman, you're you who are you ready? ready? ready? more that norma went really, you know, everyone, you know, we're either going to be, you know, you know, we're adding more money. this word you land is for everyone. read landry, the oven, do go by equal brother. it valid? who were absolutely be, you know, modeling by directory. i am
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a garage or remain on the so you proudly rhetoric these, my parents sleep, my bobbing father, yammer and buddha, or stand the house. and my good me, my mother betty. how important is it for us to speak our language and important to of who you are? if you, if you don't, if you don't have a language, you're nobody. if we can speak english, we want. mm hm. i did. i was we we, we would like for to get good language office and it was the 1st boys that definitely not delay which we didn't lose because my grandfather. oh no. we'll john wilford. he spoke 7 different languages. might say it could be lose it. but what did he say, member, he was arrested for speaker, let's say e m will in the parking booth playing. and he said, well, i've only been no one. and this, um, bizarre, made your the other drugs to alman come along. and he said,
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by anybody in body honor by anybody on it, i'm quick come quick here. yeah. you know, company, i'm gonna come quick here who really, you know, yeah, me, we younger go to go. yeah, go good to go. i mean that, well, he said his company were going up and, and as yeah, quote, early off la tawbard when my visa and he thought he's abuse, he says it's use with you though tony abuse enough. he's in the park in front me. yes. so the police arrested him, it was to the all black, i was lighting. he's lock him up, won't band every way again, that put bad into john gail and, and some of the other stairs. what happened the time with his, with his cousin. i got him to drink i and this placement on the might of night about like with the side car. he came across some hopping the bush duncan and he couldn't feature by the loan. the them out of arc, sorry,
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sorry to johnny east carson. and he had to come back for dad, sorry, and kept bed around a tray till he came back for him and kept him to the tree. and then he didn't come back. old i dad was there in the hate. any piddling cell phone was old spanish translucent and didn't come back to he 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 sure there the night come, they come with a whirlwind and they come with them with this appear. when this war is the, was the cause, a 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 will live the me
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