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00:00To see the life being essentially choked out of someone

00:16was one of the most devastating things that I've witnessed.

00:22That day on May 26th, that's when the pearl changed.

00:26This was a moment that we could not turn away from.

00:31Okay, okay, okay, so when are we going to change

00:33everything that makes this possible?

00:37Know what prejudice looks like?

00:39Every black person understands and realizes the first time

00:43you are reminded that you are black.

00:46It changed the way the air felt.

00:51Everything felt electric.

00:53I suddenly felt like I'd been blind.

00:56I think that's the awakening.

00:57It's like the blindfold coming off.

01:04There was an outpouring of solidarity, right?

01:07There was also a recognition and a response to the fact

01:10that the UK is not innocent.

01:12The murder of George Floyd felt like a really powerful moment.

01:16You've got a chance to put right the wrongs, to make change.

01:20I wasn't just going to stand and watch it unfold.

01:33You know, I had the power to do something about it

01:35right there and then, and I did.

01:37It's a huge slap in the face of everyone who has had, you know,

01:52real life-defining racism in their life here in Britain

01:55to be told it doesn't exist.

01:57How dare they say that they match up?

02:03There will always be forces that will seek to diminish us

02:07and stifle us and keep us in our place.

02:10But resistance requires that we rise up.

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