Ep. 160 - MLK 360 - Special King Day Episode

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The words and legacy of Dr. King have been reduced and sanitized in so many ways. Today Shaun King plays 5 very special audio clips of Dr. King that you have likely never heard before and breaks down why they are so very important. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's our very first King Day on the breakdown, and I love Dr King so much.
0:07.5	Few figures from throughout history have inspired and shaped me more than Dr King.
0:14.0	Of course I went to Morehouse College where he also attended,
0:17.0	but for me it's deeper than that.
0:20.0	So today on a very special episode that we're calling MLK 360, I want to take my time and play five special audio clips of Dr King that don't really get much airtime. They don't play these clips on
0:35.9	commercials before the Super Bowl. Conservatives and even most liberals, they don't quote
0:41.8	these clips.
0:43.6	I just want you to have a more three-dimensional 360 degree view of who Dr King really was.
0:52.7	Happy King Day.
0:54.2	This is Sean King, and you are listening to
0:57.1	The Breakdown.
0:58.4	The Breakdown.
1:01.9	The Breakdown. Breakdown. The Breakdown, Breakdown.
1:04.0	The Breakdown.
1:06.0	Today,
1:06.6	The Break down. Today on this special episode of MLK 360, I really just want to get out of the way and let you hear some beautiful, powerful poignant clips from Dr. King and again a lot of these
1:27.2	are clips that just don't get the airtime they deserve and I think the first two
1:32.0	are going to surprise you, not because they came from Dr. King, but because the speech they came from.
1:39.0	They came from the I Have a Dream speech.
1:42.0	And, you know, most of us, if we were forced,
1:46.6	we could probably quote a few clips from the I have a dream speech.
1:50.1	Most people know about him saying, you know, one day he's hoping that there
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