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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 245 - The single most underrated civil rights issue of our time

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Listen to today's episode on what Shaun thinks is the single most underrated civil rights issue of our time. It's the local budget of your city and county and how much of it is going to law enforcement. Did you know that the LAPD takes up over 50% of the whole Los Angeles General Fund? It's outrageous. And we have to fight back to make these budgets actually reflect what we need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I need us to have a smart conversation for a few minutes, okay?

0:05.0

Because I want us to talk about something that I think is probably the single most

0:10.7

underrated issue in all of civil rights right now. It's budgets. Yes, I said

0:18.2

budgets. Don't swipe away. Don't click away. I need us to talk about budgets.

0:25.0

There's a reason that the civil rights icons like Dr Martin Luther King and so many others

0:32.0

referred to budgets as moral documents.

0:36.7

Because for better or for worse, they reflect our values and principles. You know who and what a city, a county, a state, a country,

0:48.8

you know what they stand for, you know what their values are by looking at their budgets. It's a moral

0:58.4

document. Now I know some of you will hear the word budget and you want to shut me off immediately. I need you to tune in

1:06.2

Bear with me because the coming debates over how states and cities and jurisdictions choose to allocate their limited resources,

1:17.0

these debates are more important now than they've ever been before. The coronavirus pandemic is leading to budget

1:27.2

shortfalls all over the country. Every jurisdiction in America is facing a major budget shortfall.

1:37.0

I'm talking about your hometown, your city, your county, your state.

1:41.0

And while people are hurting, budgets to help those people are being slashed

1:47.8

everywhere. And there's only one budget all over the country that's going up and we have the power to

1:56.1

actually do something about it. Guess what budget in your city, in your county,

2:02.1

and in the biggest cities and counties all over the country

2:04.8

guess what budget is going up. I'm gonna tell you right after the break.

2:08.6

This is Sean King and you are listening to

2:11.8

The breakdown. And you are listening to the breakdown

2:13.0

the breakdown.

2:14.0

The breakdown.

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