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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 176 - I will not exchange one brutal oppressor for another

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In our efforts to beat Trump, Shaun has preached for over a year that he would support whoever won the democratic primary. But upon further review, he has quickly determined that Mike Bloomberg is simply a line that he can not cross. Listen in as he explains why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Over the past year on a near daily basis, I'm asked whether or not I will vote for and fight for the Democratic candidate for president if it isn't Bernie Sanders.

0:17.6

And for a year, my answer has been a consistent yes, yes I'll do it. And I say that as someone who generally loaves several of the men and women who are still in the race,

0:28.5

but in spite of serious political differences I voted in campaign for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

0:35.4

Bernie did the same thing. I wrote op-eds in the Daily News encouraging anybody who

0:41.0

followed me to do the same thing in 2016.

0:44.0

But here's the thing, I have to say this.

0:47.3

Mike Bloomberg is the line that I simply won't and can't cross.

0:54.1

This is Sean King and you are listening to

0:56.7

The breakdown. The breakdown.

1:03.0

the breakdown.

1:05.0

I don't.

1:08.0

I don't say this from a place of privilege is quite the opposite. It comes from a real place of pain.

1:20.0

But Mike Bloomberg is the line that I simply will not cross. I can't.

1:28.0

Here's what you may not know.

1:30.0

And if you are a supporter of Mike Bloomberg, I am assuming you don't know this.

1:36.9

Mike Bloomberg directly caused real pain, real trauma, and harm to people that I know personally, people that I love and call my friend.

1:50.8

That's not rhetoric. I'm telling you that his decisions, his policies, his personal directives

1:58.7

ruined the actual lives of countless men, women, boys, girls, and families all over New York City,

2:09.0

and many of them will never recover.

2:12.6

Here's the thing.

2:14.1

Because social media did not exist on the scale that it exists today during most of his

2:19.8

time as mayor of New York from 2002 until 2013, with his final year in office being the

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