Name: George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show
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is that a lot of people don't seem to realize

how one piece knocks another piece that knocks another piece

I feel like everything that happens in the world

connects to something else in some way, shape, or form.

And I think this news cycle that we witnessed

in the last week was a perfect example of that.

Amy Cooper, George Floyd, and the people of Minneapolis.

Amy Cooper was, for many people I think, the catalyst,

and by the way I should mention that all of this is like

against the backdrop of coronavirus, you know?

people losing more jobs than anyone can ever remember.

and I think all of that compounded by the fact

that there seems to be no genuine plan from leadership.

You know, no one knows how long they're supposed to be good,

how long they're supposed to stay inside,

how long they supposed to flatten the curve.

all of us, our society, we're stuck inside.

and I think Amy Cooper was one of the first

moments that, you know, one of the first dominoes

that we saw get knocked down post-corona for many people.

And that was a world where you quickly realized that,

while everyone is facing the battle against coronavirus,

the battle against racism and coronavirus.

And the reason I say it's a domino is because,

think about how many black Americans just

have read and seen the news of how black people

are disproportionately affected by coronavirus,

and not because of something inherently inside black people,

the lives black people have lived in America for so long.

What we saw with her was a really, really powerful,

explicit example of an understanding of racism

When she looked, when she looked at that man,

when she looked at Cooper and she said to him,

"I'm gonna call 911 and I'm gonna tell them

"there's an African-American man threatening my life."

It tells you how she perceives the police.

It tells you how she perceives her perception

or her relationship with the police as a white woman.

a black man's relationship with the police

It's, it was, it was really, it was, it was,

'Cause so many people act like they don't know what,

what black Americans are talking about when they say it,

and yet Amy Cooper had a distinct understanding.

"I know that you're afraid of interacting with the police,

"because there is a presumption of your guilt

"and I know that by the time we've sifted through

"there's a good chance that you will have lost

And so, for me, that was the first domino.

where so many people are watching this video.

because in many ways it was like a, it was like a gotcha.

It was like a, it was like the curtain had been pulled back,

'Cause it's always been spoken about, but this was like,

And I think a lot of people were triggered by that,

"We knew it was real, but this is like real, real."

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