Ep. 219 - Who and what are you fighting for right now?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Listen, I know during this pandemic you are fighting for your own survival. We all are. But I need you to understand that policies are being passed (and ignored) all over the country and what we do and do not fight for will inform what our government does during this time. Also, 5 years ago this week, Freddie Gray was murdered by the Baltimore Police. I speak some on his case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have an important question for you. It's a basic question and even as I ask it of myself,
0:07.0	I have two levels of answers.
0:10.0	What are you fighting for right now?
0:14.0	What are you fighting for right now?
0:17.0	What policy?
0:19.0	What law?
0:21.0	What way to handle this pandemic what are you fighting for now on a natural level
0:27.7	I understand that you're fighting for yourself to fighting for your
0:35.0	fighting for your family and that during a pandemic you're fighting to survive.
0:37.0	But I need to teach you a lesson today right now
0:41.0	all over the country in every city, in every county, in every state, in Congress,
0:47.0	in state legislatures, they are passing laws and policies. And if we don't have input in them, we don't have a voice, if we
0:57.2	don't have a say, if they think we're checked out, those policies are not going to be for us, they're not going to benefit us, but they're
1:07.5	going to be paid for by us with our taxes, with debt for years and years to come.
1:15.0	Today I want to present to you a key policy that we need to be fighting for in every city,
1:22.0	every county, every state. We need to be fighting for in every city every county every state we need to be asking
1:24.9	everybody to do this or else we're going to start seeing a homelessness spike unlike anything we've ever seen in our lifetime.
1:35.0	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:37.0	This is Sean King and you were listening to
1:40.0	The Breakdown. the breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown.
1:45.0	The breakdown.
1:47.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown. I know that it's politically incorrect to even be frustrated with Democrats, But Democrats, particularly Democrats in
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