Ep. 156 - When you threaten the status quo, all hell will break loose
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday I was in meetings all day for the North Star and when I got out of the meetings I noticed I had a barrage of text messages and |
| 0:12.8 | saying that there was a story that Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren that a woman could not be president and I kid you not I thought that it was a joke like the onion I know that Bernie would never say such a thing and thankfully I was able to connect directly with a source who had knowledge of the conversation |
| 0:40.0 | who said that that's not at all what was said and today I want to unpack and explain |
| 0:46.6 | what actually happened and I want to connect it to just how hard it is to organize a movement. |
| 0:54.4 | This is Sean King and you are listening to |
| 0:57.0 | the breakdown. |
| 0:58.4 | The breakdown. |
| 0:59.4 | The breakdown. |
| 1:02.4 | The breakdown. The breakdown. |
| 1:03.0 | The breakdown. |
| 1:05.0 | The breakdown. The breakdown. |
| 1:07.0 | Before we get completely started, I want to play a clip for you of Bernie Sanders |
| 1:18.0 | when I was, let me do the math here, nine years old. |
| 1:23.0 | This is in 1988. I'm 40, okay? This is in 1988 and this is Bernie in 88 in a very very different era saying that of course a |
| 1:40.6 | woman could be president. |
| 1:42.0 | The real issue is not what Of course a woman could be president. |
| 1:44.0 | The real issue is not whether you're black or white, whether you're a woman or a man, in my view |
| 1:48.2 | a woman could be elected president of the United States. |
| 1:50.9 | The real issue is whose side are you on? Are you on the side of workers and poor people or are you on the side of big money and the corporations? |
| 1:59.0 | I wanted to start right there because Bernie is not the can't type of |
| 2:08.4 | candidate for president he's not the can't type of person that we can't have health care for all, that we can't have education for all, that we can't end police brutality. |
| 2:24.0 | Burning for his entire life from his childhood until now |
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