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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 212 - This is not how a democracy works

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Once white conservatives in Wisconsin learned that the coronavirus was mainly impacting Black communities, they had no problem forcing the elections there today. Virtually every public health official and every mayor in Wisconsin begged the state to postpone their elections. When the Governor issued an emergency executive order to reschedule the election, the conservative state legislature and state Supreme Court each voted to overturn those decisions — forcing the elections to happen today anyway. This is so dangerous, and we can't look away. Our democracy is at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's hard to really fully understand the size and scope of a storm when you're living right in the middle of it.

0:11.0

The United States is the epicenter the coronavirus pandemic and the

0:16.0

storm it's brought is exposing just how fraudulent our democracy truly is.

0:21.2

For my entire life the United States is aimed to

0:25.4

police and monitor the world but now that our proverbial ass is showing it's the

0:31.5

United States that really needs some type of international monitoring

0:35.7

or intervention. I want to tell you what really happened in Milwaukee yesterday. We thought

0:42.3

this was going to happen, but it's way worse than we

0:45.5

expected. Also have a very important update on a juvenile prison, a child prison in Louisiana where a coronavirus pandemic is starting right

0:56.7

there inside of the jail.

0:58.5

This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown. The breakdown.

1:04.0

The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

1:08.0

The breakdown. The breakdown. While New York City is no doubt the hardest hit city in the entire world by the

1:21.1

coronavirus, Wisconsin is now ground zero for the criminal

1:25.9

impact on our democracy. I don't know if you've seen or heard the numbers from

1:30.4

yesterday. They just came in. But what happened in Milwaukee, in Wisconsin,

1:36.7

should render yesterday's elections there null and void? And even though the final blame, no doubt,

1:42.3

goes to Republicans, so many people failed to stop that election yesterday in Wisconsin.

1:49.0

I want to tell you the numbers, they're appalling.

1:52.0

It could very well be I think the single most

1:55.6

blatant case of voter suppression since Jim Crow yesterday in Milwaukee let me

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