Ep. 296 - Does the 15th Amendment really give African Americans the right to vote?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The ratification of the 15th Amendment was seen as a huge milestone for the liberation of African Americans, but does it really do all we so often say it does? Shaun doesn't think so, actually. Listen and learn. While The North Star takes a sabbatical week, we've decided to rerun the top 5 most listened to episodes of The Breakdown. Here is one of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this week the team at the North Star and our entire crew at the breakdown we're actually on a sabbatical for this this one week we get a few days off we're actually doing some staff retreats and meetings
0:15.7	But we want to share some of the staff retreats and meetings, but we want to share some of the most downloaded, most listened, most shared episodes ever of the breakdown.
0:20.0	And today's episode is one of the most popular episodes where I really detail whether or not we actually have an in
0:30.3	a liable right to vote?
0:33.2	Can it be interfered with, do we actually have the right to vote?
0:38.8	I'm going to inspect the law, inspect the words,
0:42.0	and tell you what I think it really says. This is Sean King and you are listening to
0:47.0	The Breakdown.
0:49.0	The Breakdown.
0:52.0	Breakdown.
0:53.0	The breakdown.
0:54.0	The breakdown.
0:55.0	The breakdown.
0:56.0	I think what I'm about to say is going to shock you.
1:02.0	It shocked me to be honest.
1:05.0	We don't actually have the constitutional right to vote. We don't. The Constitution, it gives us
1:12.0	a lot of rights, but the right to vote is not one of them.
1:16.0	Now, this isn't me being crafty with my words.
1:20.0	Not a single constitutional amendment was ever authored that guarantees American citizens the right to vote.
1:28.0	In fact, according to our Constitution, our federal right to own a gun is stronger than our federal
1:36.4	right to vote.
1:37.4	And I think we all fundamentally misunderstood this.
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