Ep. 307 - Why simply telling people to "vote" is just not specific enough
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you hear the audio of the sheriff of Kenosha, Wisconsin, basically saying that he's speaking of black people, that black people needed to be warehoused, he kept using the word warehouse, |
| 0:14.8 | and jailed forever for the rest of their lives. |
| 0:18.8 | He was talking about a shoplifting case, literally. The video was actually from 2018. He wasn't talking about any of the |
| 0:28.1 | riots or uprising. He was speaking about four black people that were caught shoplifting from T.J. Max. |
| 0:38.0 | And he said some people aren't worth saving. |
| 0:42.0 | They should be locked up for the rest of their lives. Today I'm going to |
| 0:46.4 | talk a little bit about that, but what I really want to talk about is how when we |
| 0:51.7 | tell people to vote, that's not clear enough. |
| 0:56.2 | This man who made these comments, |
| 0:58.4 | the sheriff of Kenosha, he was voted into that office. |
| 1:03.0 | So telling people to vote, it's not clear enough, it's not specific enough. |
| 1:08.0 | And today I want to unpack and explain what I mean. |
| 1:11.0 | This is Sean King, and you are listening to the breakdown. Before we get started with today's episode, let me play the audio from Sheriff David Beth, who was the long time elected Sheriff of |
| 1:40.2 | Kenosha County there in Wisconsin. |
| 1:43.0 | Let me play the audio and remember he's speaking about four black men and women who were caught shoplifting. |
| 1:51.0 | Listen to the audio. In society has to come to a threshold where there's some people that aren't worth saving. |
| 2:00.0 | We need to build warehouses to put these people into it and lock them away for the rest of their lives. |
| 2:06.0 | Let's put them in jail. |
| 2:08.0 | Let's stop them from truly at least some of these males going out and getting 10 other women pregnant and having small children. |
| 2:18.0 | Lex put them away at some point we have to stop being politically correct and I don't care what |
| 2:24.5 | race I don't care how old they are if there's a threshold that they cross these |
| 2:30.2 | people have to be warehouse, no recreational time in the jails. |
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