tv Documentary RT October 19, 2021 4:30pm-5:01pm EDT
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[000:00:00;00] a with so would they say, why do you burned down the community? why do you run down your own neighborhood? it's not our. we don't own anything. we don't own anything. there's a social contract that we all have, but if you feel or i feel, then the person who in the authority comes in and they fix the situation with the partner who picks, is it the to wait and it's not a contract. when you tell definitions, let me give you the contract mover bar. how good year we play our game and bill your well
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with them to get burned to the ground and it still wouldn't be enough. and they are lucky that what black people are looking for as a quality and not review of literature. whether they're wasn't reason please me about it. i guess we see a black man died under the knee of a white police officer last you don't get any go can be in that moment. it became every black life they captured on video was every person enslaved. every person in china. every person who lived under the wit, every person linked a tree, ordered to the back of the bus. every nameless,
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faceless person who was told the lives did not matter. ah, in diff, 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 they sound so from media. this is what history sounds like to us. a clue. line chart bri oh, easy, really right now. thank you. ha, ha, ha ha i. * want you to watch it, 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 stopping 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 19900, 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 of 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 good for the black will legal inferior ross on the bus. she arrested the santa barbara veteran color from the rear wife in the fro supremacy law of 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. lou, we've heard george floyd woods here in australia and prisons. i meant they were david dun, guy juniors,
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last words in 2015 before he died to the hospital ward of sidney's long by 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, learn that 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 i'm same similar issue.
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adobe will never really stop your think about it through the or the here, the flavor was sent for play masses or palletized masses. they became for angry kilo fads out of the blacks and about 70 years run 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 not. we all read. we are right. we are down dragon. we are denied not on level or i would even you would run the only way we're going to get some of them for friend. right. nation,
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far away from our for fire, from us is come together. okay. the common enemy and black america told me to dream, i have a dream. that one day this nation will rise up and 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. no, nothing of who we are aware 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
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from black america. i learned how to speak back 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 this country in 1948, i wasn't going to be one reason only one reason. when i landed on the hong kong, i met on the gym block to end up in paris on the streets of paris. freud online, talking on the theory that nothing worse would happen to me there that had already happened to me here. you talk about making it as a right by yourself. you had to be able then to turn of old montana which you live . because once you turn your back on society, you may dot, you may dot o,
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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 so segregated superior in its narrative, it had to classify blacks as, as the animals. and the see that language was 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 people have passively taken that in and then believe did 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?
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and we came back into class after lunch and scrawled across the board. be kind to stand. i made 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 no just way to hurt you. they know just how to tell you 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 it. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even
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foundation, let it be an arms race is offensive. very dramatic development. only nationally, i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk to rogers, driven by drink shaped bankers out of those with theirs sinks. we dare to ask
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ah, aboriginal people here are more every day. we're at war with the system, not with the police. were at war with statistics, but you want us just to move on from that. ah, jane and mundane storage good in 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 sidney. like so many others got into trouble, went to juvenile detention, and ultimately to jo. ah, australia may call you a statistic. we know those numbers. we have 3 percent of the population and you the food flows beyond bars, between and is noticed to, to, he's real,
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he's friends and he's family a real and his pain is real. i come back to my community and all i say is time. all i phase haunt haunting memories where i used to play with my friends and my brothers that i've lost, where i used to sleep with now. my brothers are in prison serving 15 years. i'm busy. 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 lives trying to pick the paces 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 along me
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t j g. was 17 when he came off his bike and wasn't piled on a fence post. died from his injuries ah, to his family believed he was being pursued by police at the time of year. the coroner rejected. nash this rock? why the hottest old man was only 17 at the time and i was with him. the not afore the incident happen. lou thomas city's dis said fire to the streets of redfern in
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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 that t j. his death was an accident. they still believe police were pursuing him. they still want of enquiry 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. when we grow on me, jane 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.
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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 other fellow friends in daycare. i see them being chased by police. i say the in a sill cry, i see them in an adult prison so and having to want to visit them because they're my children and they're my blood. and that's my experience. i had police johnny 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,
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rather than race being about unity race 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 wayne fella morrison. cctv footage captured his last day in adelaide police so where he was facing assault charges became unresponsive in a prison van and died in hospital 3 days later. in september 2016 corranio increased his ongoing, but like so many other deaths in custody. for the toya 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?
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in the 1st instance, did they have to detain wine? what happened in the van? why wasn't there surveillance in the van? why is it that the officers actually refused initially police entrance and investigator entrance to take their statements? that were i, i believe i am not released until a months and years later. and, you know, they're there so many unanswered questions about what really happened, hawaii, like marijuana representation in federal parliament for generations. we, the 1st nations people have spoken truth to white power. well elegant, 50 years ago, the every last friday. 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,
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now people are often out of sight and out of mind to most australians are are learned. oh, places like wisdom strategies kimberly region have some of the highest youth suicide rights anywhere in the world. shia 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 white of our history. but powerlessness is not hopelessness. and it is our people. indigenous people. step up, when a stranger often looks away, they're really shoes and i have personal experiences of a loss of family through suicide. and we learn to continue
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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 be informed by lived realities of people. but to also empower people to lead the change at the community level is a photo passed down in my family. rows of aboriginal goals tightened to a home to be trained to be servants, to live under a sign that read, think white act white, the white. they lost their names and were given a number there in the middle is a small go number 65, right? my great aunt eunice grant. imagine a few when you were
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a child or a baby even and by the authorities came in and snatch you from your mother or your father, or your mother and your father in your siblings. and you were removed and, and brought up totally separate from, from your family i. how would you feel about that? a lot of them. so i want someone not to go to me. would it be pretty bad renders? he's going to try and walk and ask useful, who have you say this is our land we're underlying, graduate, norma, you who are you ready? ready? ready? more about your mom was really, you know, where you one, you know,
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where they're going to be. you know, you know, we're adding more money, this word you land is for as really read land. yup. and do cool, but it go garage or bother to read to, you know, modeling. yeah. about directory. i am over, reggie remain on the same proudly rhetoric these my parents sleep, my bobbing father yamuna, and boom, or stand with the house and my gun the. 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 speak english, we want. mm hm. i did. i was we, we, we, we, i taught to get good language office and it was the 1st boys that definitely not delay which we didn't lose because my grandfather. oh dear. oh william wilford. he spoke 7 different languages. might say it could be lose it. but what did he say?
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member, he was arrested for speaker, let's say e m willing to park and goes flying. and he had blood on the bed. nolan and his. um, michelle made your yeah, the drugs to alman come on and he said by anybody anna brianna, i am very at a quick concrete here. yeah. you know, company and you know, come cookie who really, you know? yeah. me, we younger go to go. no, go. good. to go, i mean, and so that will the set of company we going on and, and as yeah, quote, early, awful october the 1 my visa and he thought he was abused. he says you choose what you though tony abuse, nothing in the past and friendliness. so the police arrested in it was to the all black that was lighting. he's lock him up, won't band every way again that put back into john gail and, and some of the other stairs. what happened the time with his,
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with his cousin. i got him to drink i and this placement on a might of might about by but the side cath, he came across some hopping the bush bank and and he couldn't feature that is a loan the them out of all, sorry, sorry to johnny east carson. any at the come back for dad. sorry. and kept that around a tray till i 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 vantage 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 at the day come the world and they come with them this year. when the war is the, was the culture revolution was alive and do it all. we will keep our hopes alive.
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people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together with ah, it's been decade since the fall of spain's fascist regime. but old wounds still have entailed your interest in going with because on the phone with michael feed america, people to municipal said cutting me on the percent the so she knows that anderson, i think with thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given
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away and fullest adoption, they don't really bottom on are you just yet, fiesta that are my own robots. i feel it. to this day mothers still search for grown children, while adults look in hope for them both parents with the f. b. i raids homes in washington and new york owned by relatives of russian billionaire, a leg pesca, businessman's representative say the moves, think to us. so i had hollins, prime minister, lashes eyed brussels, accusing him of blackmail dots after the commission chief threatens action against warsaw for rejecting european law. we cannot end, we will not allow our common values to be put at with the commission will act and
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