Ep. 223 - Are you racist?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Now that we are in the middle of a global pandemic, this classic episode - which was first released on the day Dr. Ibram Kendi's book "How to be an Anti-Racist" came out - is more relevant than ever. The global pandemic that we're living in has crystallized who has privilege. Asian-Americans have become the target of countless acts of hate as bigots blame the coronavirus outbreak on them. Take time, as you're sitting at home, to ask yourself to what extent you are currently benefiting from racist structures & systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've got a question for you. Are you a racist?
0:05.0	You probably weren't expecting that, but I'm dead serious. Are you a racist?
0:11.0	A slightly different way for me to ask the question is, are you racist?
0:17.0	Like most of you, I assume, if you're listening to this podcast, probably don't see yourself as a racist, but are you racist?
0:28.0	I know that's an uncomfortable question and my best guess is that if you're listening to this podcast that your answer is probably
0:35.0	know that you're not a racist, that you're not racist.
0:39.5	But for the next few minutes, I want you to suspend what you think you know about racism and let me guide
0:46.7	you down a path to a better definition of what racism is and what it isn't. And then we're going to explore a brilliant new book by my friend and brother Dr. Ibrahim Kendi called
0:58.7	How to be an anti-racist.
1:01.4	Let's dig in. This is Sean King and you are listening to
1:05.0	The Breakdown.
1:07.0	The Breakdown.
1:10.0	Breakdown.
1:11.0	The Breakdown.
1:12.0	The Breakdown. The Breakdown.
1:13.0	The Breakdown.
1:14.0	When I was in college all the way back in the Stone Ages, the older I get and I start to look at the date when I was in college back in 1997.
1:28.0	That date is starting to get a very long way away.
1:32.0	When I was in college back in 1997, there was a brother that
1:36.4	lived in my dorm whose real name for the life of me I can't remember because we all
1:41.8	called him Red and I don't know if he made it past
1:46.3	our freshman year there at Morehouse but he had a short red afro I believe he was
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