George Floyd , Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery.
George Floyd has led to a racial and social upheaval the likes of which we haven't seen, certainly not generation.
with George Floyd -- it had been-- Black Matter was there as a slogan and emblem and very important and as a movement,
After George Floyd was murdered I was walking around my house in Austin, Texas, distraught.
because George Floyd has a piece in that.
of the murder of George Floyd .
The murder of George Floyd threw into stark relief the very long-term systemic racism affecting Black communities.
And the George Floyd situation, it truly hurt me because on camera you saw this man begging for his life and calling for his mother.
And then George Floyd was murdered.
especially following the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor last year in 2020.
on the back of the death of George Floyd , but when it came to stopping Asian violence, there was nowhere near that level of noise and commitments.
Because what you saw with George Floyd , it's no more than what's been on my neck for 87 years.
Why was it important to open with George Floyd ?
So with the murder of George Floyd , all of that trickled in to the entire learning environment, where the disengagement grew so exponentially.
And when you saw what happened to George Floyd , that was one aspect of it.
And in that moment of George Floyd and, before that, Eric Garner and in so many other cases, those phones forced the world to bear witness to the execution,
And with the murder of George Floyd , of course, there was a whole lot more activity protesting against the murder of Floyd
And with the murder of George Floyd , of course, there was a whole lot more activity protesting against the murder of Floyd
I think the experience of the pandemic-- remember the George Floyd killing was also in that period as well--
But the economic fallout from the pandemic and the aftermath of George Floyd 's death have renewed calls for social justice and corporate social responsibility.
that it really took the death of not just George Floyd -- as you said, others, many others-- before it got in the mind's eye of CEOs and business leaders
And you open the introduction to the book with George Floyd 's last words, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.
Second degree racism, George Floyd 's murder.
really know what it waas until Maybe the George Floyd incident that we had seen and the power of social media and
to this modern day form of lynching that we saw with George Floyd .
that the world would bear witness to what was happening to George Floyd .
And I started that after George Floyd 's murder, because when I looked at that policeman's eyes and saw he did not see George Floyd as a human being.
So choosing these last final words, George Floyd 's final words was saying all of that.
What was it about George Floyd as opposed to some of the other instances of racialized violence against Black people?
Now, we have to give honor to the fact that George Floyd 's death right before that in May
But really, after George Floyd , I remember reading something,
I think the other thing, especially doing what I would call the George Floyd period of guilt, there are a lot of people who are very, very wealthy,
Take your foot off my throat, which resonates very differently after George Floyd .
They can feel like someone saying, hey, wasn't George Floyd on fentanyl-- as if he deserved what happened to him-- how that can feel like, whoa, Scott,
I guess my question is essentially, what was it about the George Floyd situation that was so compelling for you to kind of step forward
We had many before the movie came out, but with the pinnacle being George Floyd .
And then shortly thereafter with the death of George Floyd , maybe it was because the television was on 24/7.
And the other massive societal event over the last couple of months have been the protest and reaction to the death of George Floyd .
Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd , just to name the few.
So I was approached in August of 2020, and that was really just 2 and 1/2 months after the death of George Floyd .
I made the online petition on change.org in October of 2019, and it wasn't until George Floyd 's murder did
And then 2020 happened, and I kind of got catapulted into visibility because of this video I made after the murder of George Floyd , which was
Never aimed to even have to say the names of Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor, the name Jacob Blake, the name George Floyd .
Campaign did kind of shift a bit, just based on what was going on in the world right then, such as in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd
And they need that, on the one hand, and all these universities talking that they want to, in the wake of George Floyd and Ahmaud
And then, in your first story that you share, talking about action and how people will often react to things such as George Floyd
I mean, having-- we came out of 2020, especially as we watched the murder of George Floyd
So, Brandon, in May of 2020, after George Floyd was murdered, I realize there's a language disconnect.
I think what's different now is, especially with the impact of the events of the summer, from the protests surrounding George Floyd , that there
And then George Floyd and Briana Taylor amongst so many others.