Ep. 276 - Can you be a prison abolitionist and still fight for the arrest of the men who murdered Breonna Taylor?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A healthy debate is underway between the purists in the abolitionist community who are arguing that the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor should not be arrested or sent to prison and others of us who believe that we can completely dismantle the unjust systems of our country while simultaneously using the current laws to the best of our ability. Let's talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Can you be a prison, a mass incarceration abolitionist, and still fight for the officers
0:10.0	who killed Brianna Taylor to be arrested and go to jail. Let's unpack and explain it.
0:16.5	I don't have a clean answer, but I at least want us to discuss it. This is Sean King,
0:22.4	and you are listening to
0:23.4	The breakdown. The breakdown. I want to start our conversation today with a few
0:38.0	I want to start our conversation today
0:41.0	with a few essential points up front.
0:46.0	The American system of mass incarceration
0:50.4	and modern policing. This system was built on top of hundreds of years of slavery.
1:00.0	If you want to read the book, Slavery by another name, which won the Pulitzer Prize,
1:06.0	it breaks it down methodically.
1:09.0	If you also go to YouTube and type slavery by another name.
1:13.3	You can watch the two hour PBS documentary,
1:16.8	which is also amazing.
1:18.9	And it breaks it down.
1:20.5	Like this is not hyperbole. This is not this is not rumor. This is this is not
1:29.2	pseudo history. The modern systems of mass incarceration and policing are
1:38.1	extensions of American slavery. Every historian that understands the space has said as much, has proven as much, and the book
1:49.3	Slavery by another name goes into great detail showing the continuity between
1:55.8	plantation slavery and mass incarceration and modern day policing.
2:01.0	So I want to start there and I want to start there. And I want to start there by saying
2:04.8	that I believe the entire system is corrupt, that it needs to be completely
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