Black Lives Matter/ Systemic Racism Explained

TASK 5
SYSTEMIC RACISM

LISTENING COMPREHENSION:


In the aftermath of George Floyd's death and the subsequent protests, the term systemic
racism has been constantly used. But what does this term refer to? Watch the explanation
video about Jamal & Kevin, two children with different opportunities and answer the
questions. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ&frags=pl%2Cwn



Questions:

1)  Describe the two boys’ situations with keywords around the following picture:

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2. 2)  Historically, what are the things someone would need to build wealth? Did Jamal’s
   grandparents have these 2 things? Why (not)?
   
   
   
   
3. 3)  Based on the definition of “redlining”, describe how it affected Jamal’s
   grandparents who wanted to buy a house.
   
   
   (redlining: refuse a loan or insurance to someone because he/she lives in an
   area deemed to be a poor financial risk.)
   
   
   
   
4. 4)  In a few sentences, how do you explain the vastly different circumstances that
   Jamal and Kevin have inherited?
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   5) What does a study about identical(=in terms of graduation)resumes show? What are the consequences of the results?
   
   6) In which areas can we observe evidence of systemic racism ?
   

7) What are the suggestions to solve this problem? 



8) Based on the explanation video, do you think systemic racism led to Mr Floyd’s
death? Why/ Why not?