We have a whole lot of brand new listeners of the breakdown podcast and so today I want to teach a big essential lesson that is at the foundation of all of my organizing, all of the work that I do.

It is a fact that I need you to be armed with to understand what we're really up against.

Let me unpack and explain it.

This is Sean King, and you are listening to

the breakdown.

The breakdown.

The breakdown. Break down.

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The breakdown. I have a very very simple fact that I want to teach you today and it's perhaps the most fundamental fact that really undergirds so much of the work that I do,

not just against police brutality, but against mass mass incarceration and it's at the

root even of my philosophy of why we should defund police departments why we

should shift budgets to better priorities other than policing.

I just want to tell you the fact right away and I want you to be armed with it

so that you understand what we're really, really up against.

The United States is the most incarcerated nation in the entire history of the world. Do you understand what I'm saying?

The United States of America in the entire history of humanity.

Right now we have over 200 countries.

The United States of America today is the most heavily incarcerated country in the entire history of the world.

Does that describe for you the size and scale and magnitude of the overgrown system that is the most heavily funded.

We have the single most arrest per year of any country, listen closely,

in the history of the world.

We have more people incarcerated currently in

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