Will the horrific death of George Floyd and the global Black Lives Matter protests be a turning-point in the struggle for racial justice? Human rights lawyer Dexter Dias QC (http://twitter.com/DexterDiasQC) believes they can be - but only if we use our power and privilege as citizens to demand change in every one of our spheres of influence. Dexter uses his research on four continents for his bestselling book The Ten Types of Human and his three decades’ experience of representing the families of people of colour who have been killed in state custody to expose how “race" is a myth used to justify inequality and discrimination. He argues that racism needs our silence. The antidote is for us commit to being anti-racist. And the time is now.
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This talk was recorded remotely for a virtual TEDxExeter event (http://www.tedxexeter.com) in June 2020 exploring racism and racial justice..
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CURATOR: Claire Kennedy https://twitter.com/clairekennedy__
PRODUCTION: Andy Robertson http://www.taminggaming.com and First Sight Media http://twitter.com/firstsightmedia
MUSIC: FONN http://www.fonnmusic.co.uk/
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Dexter Dias QC is an award-winning international human rights barrister, part-time judge and prize-winning researcher at Cambridge and Harvard. His areas of specialism include: terrorism, female genital mutilation, gender and honour-based violence, human trafficking and modern slavery, child soldiering, domestic violence and children in the criminal justice system. He has been instrumental in changing the law to better protect girls at risk of gender-based violence. During the last 30 years, Dexter has been involved in some of the biggest legal cases involving human rights, murder, crimes against humanity, terrorism, war crimes, contentious custodial deaths and genocide.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx