Arigttha: At a certain point these things become acute. And er, i think it was telling that well that george froyd was killed in the middle of a pandemic and that the pandemic was illustrating what structural racism look like. I mean, two global things right? The pandemic, anden, you know, george floyd's murder, essentially being beamed into all of or homes and living rooms. Like, and i dont anyone else, but i was mentally struggling with just adjusting to the fact that everybody had to stay inside,. It was so mentally stressforgno.
Reni Eddo-Lodge, the journalist, podcaster and author of essential book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, joins columnist, author and academic Gary Younge in conversation. As the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement reverberated around the world in 2020, Eddo-Lodge's book, originally published in 2017, found new readers and topped bestseller lists in a world trying and make sense of a pivotal moment. The book is now available as an updated edition reflecting on some of those more recent events and the conversations that have followed over the past two years.
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