“No one’s talking about the economic inequalities that may lead people to want to go through a glass door to get a pair of shoes,” said Ava DuVernay tonight on the Oprah Winfrey hosted specia…
was broadcast on OWN and the 18 other networks co-owner Discovery has.helmer DuVernay declared of America and American justice with blinding clarity on the night that George Floyd was buried in his adopted hometown of Houston “It was built this way,” she said of systemic racism in this country and the forces literal and figurative that protect it. “It was built to function exactly as it is.
“Police came into our backyard and -we grew up in the south cities of Los Angeles – police came in and I remember coming out of the house and seeing my father, my proud, beautiful father on the ground in our own backyard wrestled to the ground by police,” a clearly emotional DuVernay told Oprah, explaining in still all too familiar language how the LAPD claimed all those years ago that her at-home farther “fit the description of someone who was running in through the neighborhood.
“So when I see police, I do not think they are here to protect me,” the filmmaker stated towards the end of the one-hour special, echoing a sentiment that has become a loud chorus from many in minority neighborhoods in response to Memorial Day death of Floyd on the street as the much complained about Derek Chauvin sat on the neck of the “I can’t breathe” screaming Floyd for eight minutes and 46 seconds until the man was dead.
“As I grew up, we did not call the police if there was an issue,” DuVernay said on OWN tonight. “We called each other and we dealt with it. Because the police, calling police is the sure way for something to go wrong more often than not for a lot of black people in this country.”special also featured appearances and insights from Georgia legislator and potential Vice-Presidential candidate
, Co-Chair of The Poor People’s Campaign Bishop William J. Barber II, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms,New York Timesactor David Oyelowo, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and
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