Amanpour: Christian Cooper, Melody Cooper, Sajid Javid and Michael Eric Dyson

Recent polls in the U.S. show that the majority of Americans believe that the Black Lives Matter protests rocking the country constitute a defining moment in history. Yet despite this wave of activism, many African Americans still experience acts of racism on a daily basis. Over memorial weekend a video went viral showing a white woman in Central Park calling the police and accusing an African American man of threatening her, after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The man in question, Christian Cooper, filmed the exchange, and he and his sister Melody Cooper, join Christiane to discuss to the event, and weaponization of race in America. Then, Sajid Javid, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, reflects on Britain’s colonial legacy and his own experience of racism in the financial and political sectors. And our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Michael Eric Dyson, professor of sociology at Georgetown University, about this watershed moment in America and what it means for race relations. 

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