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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 249 - From Tulsa to Minneapolis - Why History Repeats Itself

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ninety-nine years ago today, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the most beautiful, prosperous, wealthy Black communities in the world was destroyed by terrorists. Today, with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, protestors across the globe, and the 1921 destruction of Black Wall Street in mind, Shaun teaches a lesson on how and why history repeats itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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99 years ago today in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the most beautiful, prosperous, wealthy black communities in the entire world was destroyed by terrorists.

0:17.8

Call them what they are.

0:20.1

They were white supremacist terrorist, and they burned down thousands, tens of thousands of homes and businesses and slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children by plane, by fire, by

0:41.8

firearms, by lynching, and more.

0:46.8

And here we are 99 years later, fighting the same terrorist who still think they can lynch our sisters and brothers in broad daylight in the open for us all to see.

1:05.7

Today, with my mind on George Floyd,

1:09.9

on Brianna Taylor, and Amad Aubrey, with my mind on protest. on

1:15.0

Brianna Taylor and Amad Aubrey with my mind on protesters across the country and my mind on the

1:19.0

destruction of Black Wall Street 99 years ago, I want to teach you a lesson.

1:27.0

If you don't mind, I want to teach you a lesson on why history repeats itself.

1:34.0

And tomorrow I'm going to give us a plan.

1:38.0

This is Sean King, and you were listening to

1:40.0

the breakdown. the breakdown. The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

1:47.0

The breakdown.

1:48.0

The breakdown. The breakdown. I'm actually not a professional Instagram guy and I think a lot of people.

1:56.9

I'm actually not a professional Instagram guy.

2:06.6

And I think a lot of people know me for the work that I do on social media and the work that I do as an organizer, but I'm actually a historian by training my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in history and every time we end up in this moment of another black man, another black woman,

2:26.8

brutally murdered by police.

2:30.2

I feel the repetition of it all, and I think that's a lot of what's going on in the streets with

2:37.3

protests and demonstrations and these protests and demonstrations they're not just in New York and Los Angeles.

2:43.5

I literally am seeing them happen in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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