Ep. 395 - How the deaths of Kobe & Gigi started off an unspeakably painful year of grief

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In some ways, it seems like it was 5 years ago, and not 1, that Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and 7 of their friends suddenly died in a helicopter crash. In the shadows of that enormous loss, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others were killed in acts of racial violence. And the pandemic then overtook our entire nation - killing over 400,000 people in the process. In some ways, I think the way we've grieved the loss of Kobe and Gigi over the past year, has served as a way for us to grieve the hundreds of thousands of lives we've lost in this past year. Listen - and let me unpack and explain what I mean.

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0:30.7	Forgive me if you've heard this story before, but on New Year's Eve of 2019,
0:41.1	which seems like 10 years ago, but definitely was not 10 years ago.
0:47.4	My family and I always spend that entire night together.
0:51.9	Mainly we almost always stay in the house just for safety and security.
0:57.2	And the more known I am, the less likely it is that we go out on New Year's Eve.
1:02.8	And so we normally spend the night in the house watching television.
1:08.9	My wife normally makes an amazing New Year's Eve meal for us to all enjoy.
1:14.1	That we're all happy about and look forward to for the whole week.
1:18.3	And we normally all stay up at least until midnight and celebrate and hug and love on each other.
1:25.0	And at the end of the night, my wife asked me something.
1:31.8	And she was definitely expecting a very different answer.
1:35.8	She asked me what my predictions were for 2020.
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