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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 559 - One key way we CANNOT respond to racism & bigotry

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I actually think it is a natural human response to return ugliness to those who were ugly to you or someone you care about. It feels good. I get it. It's something I have to resist every single day, though, because before you know it, you may be as bad or worse than them.

Yesterday I posted a horrible video of openly racist basketball fans in China openly calling former NBA player Sonny Weems a nigger there. It was ugly. But in response to it, I see something that I often see in response to hate. And I want to talk about it.It's one key way we CANNOT respond to hate. Let me unpack and explain it.

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Yesterday I posted a video that has gone viral of a former NBA player, a black man named Sunny Weems.

0:39.0

And I've known Sunny for several years. I talked to Sunny yesterday.

0:43.0

Sunny was getting off of a bus in China.

0:48.0

And he's a star basketball player and the Chinese Basketball Association. His team has won the championship the past three years.

0:56.0

He was getting off of the bus and fans of the opposing team start yelling the inward as Sunny over and over and over again.

1:07.0

And clear as day. I mean they knew they were being ugly and offensive.

1:12.0

And then they, you know, in their speaking English they start telling Sunny to get out of China miss ugly.

1:18.0

I mean vicious ugly racism. And there's racism all over the world.

1:24.0

And part of my intent yesterday for posting that video was so that people in power in China

1:34.0

who have not done enough at all to speak out against the horrible racism that we saw in that video.

1:44.0

The Chinese Basketball Association is not spoken out enough about it.

1:48.0

Yao Ming, who many of you may know former Houston Rockets star, who helps lead the Chinese Basketball Association, has not done enough about it.

1:57.0

And the country itself has not done enough about it. But in posting the video, many of my supporters, who I love, I love you all.

2:11.0

You know that. Many of you then resorted to bigotry yourself.

2:21.0

A resorted to hate and stereotypes yourself. I want to talk about there's one particular idea.

2:30.0

One concept that I want to share today on the breakdown. On how we can't respond to racism.

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