Hundreds of protesters gather Tuesday, May 26, 2020, near the site of the arrest of George Floyd, who died in police custody Monday night in Minneapolis.

We Want to Talk About Race

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 1, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. The list of unarmed black people killed by the police and other armed white people keeps getting longer. Ijeoma Oluo author of So You Want to Talk About Race (Seal Press, 2019) and the forthcoming MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020) talks about how Americans can have honest conversations about these killings, and race, racism and white supremacy.

 

 

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