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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 407 - Did you know that I help lead an organization called Real Justice?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I am going to spend more time unpacking and explaining for people the work that I do as a civil and human rights leader. I am the Co-Founder of @RealJustice. It is possibly the most impactful work of my life. We are the single most important organization in the nation that focuses exclusively on electing District Attorneys across the country. After we elect DA's, we partner with them to help them keep their campaign promises. We support them as they are attacked from every side. We consult with them through difficult decisions and policy battles. If you didn't know this, we helped to elect the new DA's of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, San Antonio, and nearly 20 other cities across the country. Those DA's have now made radical shifts in each of those cities that we have helped to guide and inspire. I speak to our DA's almost daily behind the scenes. Our staff supports them 24/7. I'm not flexing here. I am trying to educate you on the work that I do.

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For most of my life, when I accomplish something major, I don't brag about it. That's like I was taught

0:32.0

not to brag about it. And sometimes I don't even post about it, don't even acknowledge it publicly,

0:37.7

because for me, and not just me, but for the teams that I manage and most of the people that I manage,

0:45.2

when we win an election or when we pass a policy, we send an email out to our donors and supporters,

0:52.2

we celebrate in a huge way on our Slack channels or on Zoom or FaceTime, but we don't do as much

1:00.4

public celebrating in part because we kind of take a lot of pride in private victories and

1:08.4

and I still believe in that philosophy, but I've grown to understand and it was my time with

1:18.8

Gary Chambers who's running for Congress in Louisiana. It was my time in Louisiana with him this

1:24.0

past week and with the mayor of Baton Rouge and the City Council of Baton Rouge. But I really,

1:30.7

believe it just, it became crystal clear for me that if we don't tell and teach people what we do,

1:39.1

it leaves an empty space, a vacuum, and it leaves the opportunity for people to fill that space

1:47.4

with lies and with destructive stories and and falsehoods and we have to fill the space so people

1:57.7

know like, no, this is what I do. For living, this is what my life is about and I'm going to spend

2:04.6

a lot more time not just here on the podcast, but across my entire internet universe, really unpacking

2:11.8

and explaining for people what it is that I do, what our teams do and what we accomplish.

2:19.0

And today I just want to teach a lesson about why we started the organization, real justice,

2:26.4

and what we do to elect new district attorneys across the country. This is Sean King and you

2:34.5

are listening to the breakdown. I am many different things. I am a podcast host, obviously,

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