41- Preference vs Bias: What’s The Difference?
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The panel discusses preference vs bias; the differences; the impacts; and the ways that we can tackle bias in ourselves and within our communities.
Welcome to the fifth episode of our new show, Blended. Blended is all about opening up conversations and giving the mic to all of the underrepresented voices in our industry – women, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of colour, those with disabilities, whether they’re visible or hidden, and many more.
Today in Episode 5, ‘The history, the movement, the people,’ we’re going to be talking about the Black Lives Matter movement, specifically with 2020 in mind; why the movement blew up last year; the support, and lack of support, it received; its commercialization and our panellists reflections.
[03.31] Introductions to our Blended panellists.
“The BLM movement, to me, is bringing attention and awareness to the fact that it’s time for the conversation to stop being so hypothetical - there needs to be action.” Al
[13.18] The impact of George Floyd’s death and the panellists observations.
“When the movement happened, I was excited because I really want us to finally unite. But what I was afraid of, is that we had a lot of young people who had the gumption to get out and march, but I didn’t know if they had the leadership to communicate with the people in the community.” JD
[23.37] The swift decrease in support for the movement during 2020.
[37.15] The backdrop of COVID 19.
[44.51] The ‘All lives matter’ retort.
[66.26] The commercialization of the movement.
“As white people, some of the basic steps you can take is saying ‘I’m an anti-racist. I don’t have all the answers, but I’m committed – publicly – to change’.” Len
[81.46] The future, and the panellists key takeaways from today’s discussion.
“It’s about elevating the human condition… but its also about creating space for black imagination, innovation and joy.” Madison
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