The remarks by Kenneth Olisa, the first Black lord-lieutenant for greater London, will be aired during a program on Britain’s Channel 4 on Friday. Olisa, who serves as the monarch’s personal representative for the British capital, said race had become a “hot conversation topic” in the royal family, especially since the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a Minneapolis police officer last year.
The killing triggered a global debate about the treatment of Black people and other ethnic minorities, while raising questions about how to eradicate systemic racial discrimination.
“The question is, what more can we do to bind society to remove these barriers? [The royals] care passionately about making this one nation bound by the same values,” said Olisa, according to British media reports.
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