Ep. 371 - You Can Literally Be a Black Oppressor
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm about to say some stuff that most of us stay away from because it's very easy to kind of |
| 0:09.4 | Step on what we call the third rail which uh if you're here in New York |
| 0:14.2 | It's uh, it's a rail that will execute you if you step on it |
| 0:18.5 | But I have to talk about it and and I want to sympathize with some of what I'm trying to say so that you understand where I'm coming from |
| 0:27.0 | I see a lot of good people including friends of mine and organizations and people that I know |
| 0:36.3 | saying that they want Joe Biden to appoint black people to |
| 0:42.6 | certain positions and in his administration |
| 0:46.2 | And I understand that I do |
| 0:49.6 | But I need us to understand that you can appoint |
| 0:53.8 | Horrible black people to any position whatsoever |
| 0:59.8 | That being black does not mean being righteous |
| 1:04.8 | And my best illustration is going to be the general that Joe Biden |
| 1:10.6 | Just nominated to be his defense secretary |
| 1:14.2 | We can celebrate it as a historic first because a black man has never been defense secretary before |
| 1:21.4 | But sometimes we are literally just appointing a black oppressor |
| 1:27.7 | Let me unpack and explain it this is Sean King and you were listening to the break down |
| 1:52.7 | By stating what I hope is obvious black people were absolutely indispensable to electing Joe Biden period point blank dot com |
| 2:06.1 | Joe Biden would not have received the democratic nomination without the support of black folk and he definitely |
| 2:13.6 | And and and we're not saying anything groundbreaking |
| 2:16.2 | There's not a president a democratic president that's been elected in 50 years that would have got elected |
| 2:23.6 | Without black voters black voters |
| 2:26.4 | Are the single most reliable voting block of the democratic party |
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