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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | My friends today is one of those episodes that is really like an action steps |
0:06.5 | episode where I need all hands on deck where I'm asking you to chip in. Today I'm asking you to do everything you |
0:17.0 | can to help us free Myon Burrell from prison in Minnesota. He was a 16 year old boy who was wrongly arrested, |
0:27.6 | wrongly charged, wrongly convicted and jailed for a murder that he had nothing to do with. |
0:35.0 | Let's organize, let's fight, let's donate, let's do everything we can to help this young man to help his family they need us and today I'm |
0:47.7 | calling on you to chip in this is Sean King and you were listening to |
0:52.5 | The Breakdown. |
0:54.0 | The Breakdown. |
0:55.0 | The Breakdown. |
0:58.0 | Breakdown. The Breakdown. I'm going to be brief today, but I have to teach you something and forgive me for thousands of you who've been listening from the very beginning who already know this lesson. |
1:17.0 | But for some of you it's going to be a new paradigm and for others it's simply going to be a confirmation of what you've already |
1:24.4 | believed, what I've already taught you. But one of the most painful |
1:28.6 | lessons I've learned over my life about the American justice system is that it was not designed to |
1:37.0 | actually provide justice to black and brown communities, not at all. |
1:43.2 | It was imagined and designed and built to punish us. |
1:48.6 | It was built as a white supremacist tool of oppression. |
1:53.0 | Consequently, anytime we try to squeeze any semblance of justice out of this system, |
2:01.0 | in the rare instance we ever get it, it gives us that justice kicking and screaming. |
2:09.6 | No justice has ever come easy for us in this country. Think about it. Who was ever |
2:18.0 | held accountable for hundreds of years and millions of instances of slavery. |
2:26.0 | Who was ever held accountable for lynching? |
2:30.0 | Who was held accountable for murdering Emmett Teal, even though the men who did it talked |
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