Fact seen from the Pfizer Manufacturing facility to the u. P. S. And fed ex hopes and then it will go out to the 636. 00 Locations Nationwide the 1st 145. 00 sites in the u. S. Are expected to receive the vaccine on monday with the rest receiving it by wednesday now front line responders like dr ben you sachin colorado will be among the 1st to be vaccinated against cove of 19 i am going to be one of the tips of the spear when the 1st people to step in to help generate is herd immunity which is sold to us to get a grip on this terrible disease those 1st vaccinations will happen just days after the u. S. Food and Drug Administration approved it on friday science and data guided the f. D. A. Decision we worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic not because of any other extra no pressure that external pressure came from President Trump who on friday tweeted to han to quote get the damn vaccines out now trump on saturday called it a victory our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months the vaccine has shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing covert 1000 transmission but it must be stored it ultra cold temperatures the road to immunity across the u. S. Is likely to be paved with pain and tragedy the head of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control says over the next 60. 00 to 90. 00 days some 3000. 00 americans thats more than were killed in the 911. 00 attacks will die each day of cove and 19 then there are the conspiracy theorists and skeptics who say they will refuse to take it obvious. Sometimes a thing like hopes and i dont i dont think i am full with it because i dont know one soul. That has this know a lot of evil that represents just one of the logistical conundrums for president elect joe biden he has set a goal of inoculating 100000000 americans within 100 days of his inauguration on january 20th John Hendren Al JazeeraWashington Police in Northern Nigeria are searching for missing students after gunmen stormed a secondary school a large group of attackers on motorbikes arrived late on friday at the boarding school in the state of could seen about 800 Students Attend School. The u. S. Government has adopted a new map of morocco which includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara the decision to recognize robot sovereignty over the region came as part of a u. S. 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Secretary general untenured terrorists has urged World Leaders to declare climate emergencies in their countries he was speaking at a Virtual Summit marking 5 years since the signing of the Paris Climate Accord it harris said it was vital to stop the assault on the planet for the sake of future generations course you have all of those stories on our website at aljazeera dot com more news in half an hour next its studio b. Unscripted. You can really make a record racial this was something as monumentally horrific as slavery i think under natural and we connect on our collective anger a lot of the time what it wanted to do for you is just rock the good. Name stores and punk you can call me tours something happens over the mediterranean you go from being someones child to an immigrant im a london based spoken word artist in uganda. Im prayin but the problem i 1st started at cambridge black faces and. Im a lecturer a historian and cultural commentator i was born in india i live and work in the united kingdom. I was intrigued because how often do you get to share ideas solve problems and have a conversation with someone who knows so much about resistance and colonial power. Because i was curious he comes from a different background he has different experiences but i think all roads will cross like our stories and our identities i won this game to. Pass. To. So recently weve seen a lot of western universities reflecting on possible involvement or heritage linked to the Transatlantic Slave Trade your institution Cambridge University obviously the same university that turned their interesting tweets from you regarding the universities and. Investigating its own links to yeah every can you. I raised a few questions on one more stat it was presented as exploring if cambridge and whether and in what ways cambridge has benefited from the slave trade the point is that there is no Major Institution in britain whether its banks or financial house or the or markets. That have not benefited from the immense Wealth Creation that slavery lets too so its not a question of if but in what ways the point is that slavery lets to benefits across societies and they were networked benefits right so if you had a railways that were built in part on slave wealth generated from slavery and those railways came to your town you benefited from slavery if your students in cambridge for instance or any young man came from landed wealth people who had plantations an empty gold jamaica and they were paying fees to you you benefited from slavery so i think we have to understand that its a very complex picture of benefits and also one of the thing you cant really make of reparations for something as monumentally horrific as slavery and you cant actually bring back the generations who died and were maimed and lived as chattel what you can do is stock knowledge that this has led to the impoverishment of subs. Generations and that you can make up some uk knowledge in a financial form of the damage that was done you can actually pay back what was taken this is one of the biggest frustrations around this we often see reparations being lost of the discussion whether on the political front. Economic otherwise how do you build the. Energy or the momentum. Tyo these conversations together i think there are complex conversations to be had certainly about who gets reparations and in what form those reparations are paid out leads taken by some caribbean countries to say actually you know you need to acknowledge that the poverty in the immiseration that we have inherited can be traced back through the you to the centuries of empire and slavery we need to make the connections repeatedly between the present and the past in ways in which the past lives on in the present to generate that energy thing can agree more so it is slavery has had consequences obviously for the caribbean countries and for parts of africa but it also has an afterlife in black british communities what do you think the kind of more consequences for immigrant communities in britain for 2nd generation 3rd generation black british young people is today i think the legacy is twofold so on the one hand you have the. Deep sense of displacement statelessness especially being 2nd generation in a country that your parents may not have been received well and theres that displacement theres a sense of. Not quite belonging and not really having a measure of way or story starts in what direction you should be aspiring. To progress in yeah thats thats one half of the tragedy the other half is the miseducation of the masses on this a lot of people are literate in history and it creates the tensions this conversation is nonexistent in some of the places that need to happen more yeah why do you think that is i mean on the one hand theres miseducation as in the educational system is not acknowledging the force of things like slavery any muriel is i mean i mean i was not very much teaching my students dont come with much knowledge of it do you think that the memory off off off these historical process is dying out in communities as well so this is hard to gauge you know but what i sense the older i get and the ugly the conversation around xenophobia in this country turns what i sense is that there is a a lot of pride around empire around imperial exploits around the colonial project theres a sense of. The white mans burden still having some legitimacy and winning gains in terms of spreading knowledge and technology and so on and so forth that has gone unaddressed and unpacked for a long time so it becomes further entrenched when its passed down from generation to the young black british young people asian young people do they have any understanding of the ways in which their lives theyre shaped by their heritage of slavery. An empire here i think the Caribbean Community that the when rush generation of the fiftys and sixtys did a very good job in in cork in some sort of cultural understanding the saturday schools at the west Indian Community was very successful and set up throughout the eightys but as we know economic pressures and social. Attacks on the different fronts really made it hard for the Caribbean Community to maintain that sense of education so i i see that thats dissing disintegrated a little when it comes to my generation there and it makes it hard but there is some awareness what ive found tragic is especially when you look at young people now for 3rd and 4th generation becoming further and further distant from the information that will give them some sort of sense of where theyre coming from what youre left with this is is a shame which i grappled with for a long time and i still do yeah this feeling of having to explain why we are in the situation that we are. In on a personal level feeling that your double your own more responsible and representing you know that the potential of your people will correct in the mistakes that are attributed to your people are yeah so in a sense we have to become gusto dns of these other history communities have to grab them back and remember. For the immigrant there is no government there you are priority 2 you know youre not in the homeland and over here you have a government that is you know for the majority here that is reacting to your presence but is not versed in who you are right right has no record of your achievement of your family so you really need to take some initiative in protecting and honoring your story yeah he said immigrant communities are not particularly anybodys prior. Rooty but there is the language of diversity and inclusive ety whereby were allowed to place at the tables a handful of us are allowed to teach at elite universities or be part of elite institutions i know that youve done some work with members of the British Royal family and theres been a lot of discussion about the fact that there is a nonwhite member now of the British Royal family so i i just wondered whether you had thoughts about the a guests the controversial question of race and the royal family and the whole question of diversity can you diversify an institution like the royal family were not seeing. A diversifying project were seeing. Generational changes so prince harry is the 1st person in his. Position of his time. You know represents the monarchy in the 21st century and what his marriage to make and marco represents is is. His love his free free choice yes its a bit weird for me trying to. Square my lets say working class black british sensibilities with my ugandan heritage because the monarchy is very important to my parents to my kingdom so we understand the idea of a shared heritage or a shared identity in what that you know that family as a symbol i may not necessarily. Have grown up you know in in the folds of that passion being out here but i respect it i do i know it means to people and i love people. Is a multifaceted question i dont know what your thoughts certainly to somebody of indian descent the the empire was tied up with the fact of victoria being empress of india and the British Royal family is another British Institution which will have benefited from both slavery and empire so there is a question of for instance when we know that famous black poets have refused the on or off the o. B. E. The order of the British Empire we know that other. Black achievers have accepted it but its not uncontroversial what does it mean for people who descend from formally colonized peoples to carry the empire as an initial after their name there is that whole question of what should all relationship to the institution be. Should we accept you know the order of the British Empire this is so complicated for me you know me specifically. Coming from a family that is very close with ugandan money so my grandfather was the 1st attorney general of our kingdom and went into exile with the king over here we know that the brand of colonialism that the british practiced in africa was one of the friending the chieftains and the leaders of the region and reaping the benefits of the land within the context of that relationship but at the same time it means a lot to a lot of people you know to have these affiliations and connections and i suppose that there is a question for individuals that are from. Minority ethnic backgrounds especially those that were on the colonial rule a question of strategy long term what do you what do you want a degree of assimilation do you want to forward in this country do you want to continue to build on the trauma of the past or are we just saying we are ripping up the status quo and were currently figuring out because most of us dont actually have that game me oh yeah in your book insurgent empire you talk about resistance to colonialism how that played out in different contexts. What do you believe is the legacy of that resistance the book sets out to do 2 things in relation to the story the 1st is to park the mainstream british mythology is that when freedom from slavery and from empire came along it was because it was gifted by britain to go and slave and. So it sets out to. Question that and it points out that slaves rebelled all the time ok so its really important to put that back in the narrative but the 2nd aspect of the book is just as important that the resistance of slaves was heard back in britain and it helped create a tradition of criticizing slavery and empire back in britain we often think of abolition as just some very nice white guys who decided that it was a very bad thing and were going to free the slaves but actually if you if you look at the written works left behind by abolitionists many of them are really aware that the plantations are in from then and that is slaves are rebelling that the colonized are rebelling the indentured are rebelling and so what im saying is that that we need to recover the stories of resistance not just the stories of empire and enslavement both in other parts of the world but also from within britain theres a theres a minority dissidents tradition and britain which says not in our name you cant enslave and colonized people in our name and that story has been completely marginalized by mainstream history and our part of the conversation about bringing back all those stories i mean these histories have to be recovered and young white britons have to be reminded that their ancestors wont only just colonists and enslave us but that they also resisted and questions their government and those who claim to represent them. But it strikes me that there might be questions our audience wishes to ask of us or perhaps we should turn to them now please. My questions about colonizing the university and whether or not you think that itll be effective not just making voices heard that do not conform to the norms of academics p. But also in considering the valid forms of the production of knowledge its not just about diversifying bringing in a range of voices that is important in its own right but i always explain to my students that d. Colonisation is about understanding what we know why we know and also what we dont know and also recognizing that the knowledge traditions which are being claimed as european are not only european they have often drawn on the traditions of africa asia and beyond so we need to understand that the knowledge is which are now presented as being kind of great european thought have multiple lines drawing on other parts of the world and that these histories also need to be restored to their place of honor i mean decolonization is often presented as oh this is against you know why people its not its about saying that the world is diverse and knowledge has been produced across different parts of the globe we need to honor the fact that europe often drew on other traditions in order to produce its knowledge my question is do you think that there is an ascendant orthodoxy on the political left that is weaponize ng identity politics to breed competitive victimhood. And tribalism in a way that undermines Martin Luther kings dream that we would be judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin whatever. Strand of identity one gives primacy to thank you great question i think is happening on both. The left and the road to characterize it as either playing into it. We see that these kind of identity politics. Play up in times of economic downturn or you know in tandem with cycles of. Big changes as we see in. Western europe and other parts of the world when the political rhetoric becomes increasingly polarized and divisive i see it as a dialectic and something that dialogue respectful dialogue Contact People being in close proximity with one another can begin to address and break down its like its something awful i think a false narrative everybody has an identity everybody is