Unparliamentary Language

Rob and Tom discuss the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests worldwide with a specific focus on the US and UK protests and government responses.

BLACK LIVES MATTER RESOURCES

- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

- Me And White Supremacy

- How To Be An Antiracist

- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

- YouTube: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

- Support Podcasts in Colour

- Support Black People Google Doc

- Petitions and Donations Google Doc

TOPICS

- [0:00] Intro

- [0:51] George Floyd

- [8:33] Protests

- [16:01] Facing Our White Privilege

- [19:30] Structural Racism

- [22:02] Trump's Response

- [29:06] James Mattis Speaks Out

- [36:42] Biden's Response

- [40:28] UK Protests

- [47:32] Removal Of Statues

- [57:16] UK Government Response

SUPPORT

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SHOWNOTES

- 'Say their names': Stories of black Americans killed by police

- YouTube: John Oliver: Police

- Left, Right & Centre: Will waves of protest bring waves of change?

- Rocket 282

- The Atlantic: James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

- BBC: Biden: Trump ‘despicable’ for invoking George Floyd

- BBC: Biden on George Floyd: Death is great 'inflection point in US history'

- BBC: George Floyd death: 'We have a pandemic of black people dying every day'

- Twitter: BBC London News as statue is take down

- BBC: Boris Johnson Speech

- Join us on Discord!

DISCUSS

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ATTRIBUTION

- Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

- Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

- Black Lives Matter by Tom, inspired by the list of names at Baby Names