Ep. 297 - Listen to these 4 clips of Malcolm X

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I want to play four of the most powerful clips from the speeches and interviews of Malcolm X. They are also painful because they shouldn't even be relevant anymore, but he literally could've said these things yesterday. 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. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week our staff at the North Star and our entire staff at the breakdown are lucky to be on a bit of a sabbatical.
0:07.6	We're still doing some planning meetings and strategy meetings, but we're not recording any new episodes of the breakdown.
0:14.0	What we are doing is playing our most downloaded, most shared episodes of the year.
0:21.4	This episode is one of my favorites of course. I play four profound
0:27.4	clips of Malcolm X that I can't wait for you to hear. In some ways it's painful for me that his voice and
0:36.8	his words mean as much today as they did 60 years ago. In some ways you hoped they wouldn't, that we would be in a new place in a new time,
0:49.7	but here we are, his words mean as much today as they ever did.
0:53.8	Hope you listen.
0:54.8	This is Sean King, and you are listening to...
0:57.6	The breakdown. The breakdown. I don't know that any single figure or person in history outside of my own family of course has shaped me more than Malcolm X and it's in great part because of when he first reached me in life.
1:28.5	When I was 15 years old all the way back in 1995, 25 years ago.
1:35.0	It's getting farther and farther away.
1:37.0	When I was 15 years old, I was brutally assaulted by a group of racist white students at my high school and I had
1:45.0	fractures in my face and fractures in my ribs and I had a very badly injured
1:52.2	spine and lower back. I had three spinal surgeries and I missed
1:57.2	the rest of my sophomore year and all of my junior year of high school recovering from those
2:01.3	injuries and surgeries. I saw a counselor who diagnosed me with
2:06.4	PTSD and I was in a horrible low place and I don't remember who bought me or brought me the autobiography of
2:19.5	Malcolm X when I was recovering from those surgeries, but it was really the first historical
2:25.8	autobiography that I ever read and it was the first book that I read multiple times and I
2:32.2	related to Malcolm, but I identified with him because I saw how low his life had gotten, how much he had endured, finding himself in jail and in
2:46.2	prison, and that he was going to have to scratch and claw his way out. And I found myself in this horrible low place where I was I was definitely
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