Ep. 426 - Identifying with the pain of other cultures

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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You don't have to be Asian or Asian American to be heartbroken by the gross sting of bigoted and sexist violence that visited metro Atlanta this week. You just have to have a heart.

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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Creme it in, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at cremierin.com.
0:24.6	A season sees a ply of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.
0:30.5	This week in the United States, we not only saw the deadliest hate crime in the entire pandemic
0:39.2	over the past year.
0:41.3	What I believe is also the deadliest mass shooting over the past year.
0:47.1	And in some ways, because all of us have been forced into our homes and so many businesses
0:52.3	have been closed.
0:54.3	It has limited the number of mass shootings.
0:57.6	But here we are now that people are back and out and about.
1:02.4	Sure enough, mass shootings and hate crimes, which are both as American as apple pie, are
1:09.8	back.
1:10.8	And we can only imagine what that means for our future.
1:13.9	I want to spend today unpacking and explaining what happened this week as at least six Asian
1:22.9	Americans in Metro Atlanta were targeted and killed by an armed white man.
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