Ep. 333 - How we can vote our way out of our worst problems

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Smart local voting can truly change systems. For the next 28 days, I am dedicating my life to supporting candidates for office who are truly going to change the game from the inside out. Today I want to tell you about Sarah Iannarone who is running for Mayor of Portland, as well as Terra Lawson-Remer and John Avalos - who are running for county supervisor roles in San Diego and San Francisco. Even if you aren't in these cities (I'm not either), I am going to unpack and explain why it all matters. ---- 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	I don't often recommend books here on the podcast, but one of my favorite books of all
0:06.6	time is a book called Blueprint for Black Power by Dr Amos Wilson, and it forever changed the way that I view how we solve our worst problems
0:19.4	None of our problems have singular one-dimensional solutions. All of our problems are complex and
0:29.4	require a comprehensive blueprint for us to figure out how to solve them.
0:35.0	Today I want to talk about how we can smartly vote our way out of some of our worst problems. Now voting alone it's not enough.
0:49.4	Voting for Joe Biden alone is not enough. But today I want to tell you some moves that I'm about to make,
0:56.0	that our organizations are about to make, and how we strongly believe that voting the right people into office locally
1:06.2	can have a huge huge impact. Let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean King and you are listening to
1:16.8	The breakdown.
1:18.0	The breakdown.
1:21.0	The breakdown.
1:22.0	The breakdown. The breakdown.
1:24.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. I started today's episode of the breakdown talking about one of my favorite books of all time, the blueprint for Black power because Dr Amos Wilson who has since
1:45.2	passed a beloved Morehouse graduate and someone whose books many of his books
1:52.4	including the psychological under development of the black child,
1:57.0	changed the way I saw parenting.
2:00.0	Blueprint for Black Power really changed the way I saw myself as a leader.
2:04.7	I mean, I may have been almost 20 years ago when I first read these books and
2:10.5	really just shaped how I saw, how I can contribute to making our communities safer, better,
2:19.8	more equitable.
2:23.0	And I see a bit of two extreme arguments that often happen.
2:29.6	One of those arguments is that voting doesn't matter.
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