00:00Given the Black Lives Matter movement, so much is happening in our current climate.
00:05What type of connection are you trying to make with Roots and what's happening present day?
00:09You know what's interesting is that so much is happening now.
00:12You bring up BLM and of course we're still suffering the reverberations of what happened in the 1800s.
00:22The manifestations of the fact that this country was built on the Blacks of slaves, when you look at some of the systemic oppression that happens now, it is directly related to our journey.
00:37And we need to know what that journey is.
00:39We need to know, when we have things that happen and there's social protests or sometimes violent uprisings and there are angry youth, Black boys, Black girls in the streets, they need to know that they came from warriors.
00:59They need to know that they are the product of survivors.
01:04They are, in their DNA, in their blood, are people who were in Africa and survived being sold into the Middle Passage and survived that incredible journey to become slaves in America and survive that all the way through.
01:21They are descended from survivors.
01:24And a lot of times I think that we don't really know and understand what that means and the weight of that.
01:32And I think that if we all did, it would affect the way that we approach some of the challenges that we have in today's society.
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