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The Red, the Black, and the Green

2025/6/17
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Christopher Johnson
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Colin Grant
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Hakeem Adi
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Moriamak Kamau
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Morya Makamau
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Christopher Johnson: 作为99PI的制作人，我注意到在抗议活动中，红、黑、绿这三种颜色非常普遍，它们出现在标语牌、横幅、连帽衫、帽子和旗帜上。这些颜色不仅仅是装饰，它们象征着黑人的团结和反抗精神。 Moriamak Kamau: 我家中收藏着不同尺寸的红、黑、绿旗帜，包括一面巨大的旗帜，我喜欢把它挂在屋外。我认为在黑人面临威胁的示威活动中，这面旗帜代表着人们对现状的不满和挑战。当人们准备好挑战压迫系统时，红、黑、绿旗帜就会出现，它象征着我们对更美好未来的渴望。 Colin Grant: 在20世纪初，美国流行一种名为“coon songs”的音乐，这些歌曲的歌词充满了对黑人的种族歧视和刻板印象。其中一首名为《Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon》的歌曲嘲讽黑人没有自己的旗帜。尽管这首歌充满了恶意，但它也暗示了旗帜对于团结一个种族的重要性。马库斯·加维正是受到了这种思想的启发，创造了红、黑、绿旗帜，作为黑人团结和自豪的象征。

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The episode starts by highlighting the widespread protests that followed George Floyd's murder, emphasizing the prevalence of red, black, and green colors in these demonstrations. It introduces the Pan-African flag and its historical significance as a symbol of unity for Black people worldwide.
  • Global protests erupted after the murder of George Floyd.
  • Red, black, and green colors were prevalent in these protests.
  • The Pan-African flag symbolized unity and a quest for self-determination for Black people.

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After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a common color scheme -- one involving a lot of red, black, and green. The flag was invented to unite Black people all over the world living under racial repression. When it first came into existence, the flag posed some bold questions about where Black people owed their loyalty: was it to the nations where their lives were demeaned and threatened? Or to a new nation - one they would build entirely for themselves? For hundreds of thousands of Black people, the red-black-and-green symbolized the answer.

The Red, the Black, and the Green)

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