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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 475 - Understanding the Inside/Outside Ways of Fighting for Change

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On Today's re-run episode, I shares a painful, personal story about a lesson that I learned about organizing for change as an outsider and organizing for change as an insider. In the winter of 2014, I found myself in a deep funk after failing in so many fights for families fighting for justice. And I got a call from The White House that forever changed the way I saw my role in this movement. I wanted to speak like and lead like Malcolm, but have the access to rooms of power and privilege like Martin. It didn't work. Let me unpack and explain how that informs almost everything I do as a leader today.

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0:00.0

Some of us are insiders. We're at the table. We're in the meeting. We are appointed to

0:09.2

cabinets and administrations and boards and councils. Some of us are playing the inside

0:18.3

game. And some of us are not. We are pushing from the outside as organizers and activists.

0:26.3

And I want to teach you for a moment how how that works. I want to share a story that

0:33.0

I don't think I've ever shared here on the breakdown podcast. And I want to tell you

0:38.4

why neither group is better than the other, but both groups always think they are. Let

0:45.1

me unpack and explain it and talk to you about how I think we can influence the incoming

0:51.5

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The break, the break, the break, the break, the break, the break, the break down.

2:30.6

I want to start today by telling you a story. I tell a little bit of this in my book and

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