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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 316 - What does it mean to be a modern day abolitionist? Part 2.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

To be an abolitionist, you not only have to have an abolitionist worldview, you have to take abolitionist actions. On today’s rerun episode, Shaun unpacks and explains what that means. ---- 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

Yesterday we

0:02.0

we continued the conversation on what it means to be an abolitionist.

0:05.0

I need us to start at the point of understanding

0:09.0

that the only justice we will ever get in this country is the justice we fight for.

0:18.0

And if you're not fighting for it, it means you are accepting the system as it is.

0:24.2

And so on yesterday's episode of the breakdown,

0:26.9

we talked about what it means to be an abolitionist.

0:31.0

Today I want to dig deeper and talk about what it means to have an abolitionist

0:36.5

worldview. What is your worldview? What is your philosophy? I want to dig in, I want to press you in a way that may be

0:47.3

uncomfortable to start asking yourself, what is it that I actually believe about the world? This is Sean King, and you

0:57.2

are listening to the breakdown.

0:59.6

The breakdown. Breakdown.

1:04.0

The breakdown.

1:05.0

The breakdown. The breakdown. It's a lot to call yourself an abolitionist, right? It's no small thing.

1:22.6

Like, even I think to call yourself a freedom fighter,

1:27.1

I think today even the words activist and organizer

1:32.2

are thrown around very lightly for people who aren't necessarily that

1:38.8

active or very organized. A lot of words are thrown out there and I think the word

1:47.4

abolitionist in particular is so serious and has such historical grounding in roots that none of us, myself included, should be quick to call ourselves an abolitionist if we don't

2:08.9

quite know what that means.

2:11.6

And today I want to continue a second part of a series on what it

2:16.2

means to be an abolitionist. First, let me start there. It's it's based on your actions.

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