"Moment of Reckoning": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Cornel West & Bakari Sel...

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"Moment of Reckoning": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Cornel West & Bakari Sellers on Nationwide Uprising

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In the largest nationwide uprising since the 1960s, protesters shut down cities across the United States over the weekend following the police killing of George Floyd, an African American man in Minneapolis. Police in many cities responded with extreme force, targeting protesters, members of the media and even children in what Princeton scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor characterizes as a "national police riot." Taylor joins Harvard professor Cornel West and author Bakari Sellers for a roundtable discussion on the protests against racism and police brutality.

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0:00 - Introduction

4:47 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on nationwide protests

10:02 - Cornel West on U.S. empire

15:49 - Bakari Sellers on 400 years of systemic racism

21:47 - Tamika Mallory's remarks on George Floyd's death

24:12 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on police funding

30:36 - Cornel West on the "decadent leadership class"

34:09 - Bakari Sellers on necessary policy changes