Ep. 566 - The price my family has paid for the lies of Deray McKesson

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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What happens in the dark always comes to light. ALWAYS. And for the past 8 years, few people have spread more lies and caused me more trouble than Deray McKesson. It has caused my wife, my kids, my mother, my extended family, and the organizations I lead so much trouble and heartache. This week his co-founders came out to say that he has not only mistreated them and stolen their work, but that he has failed to account for an astounding $40 million he raised in the names of families that he hasn't even supported. Now it all makes sense to me. He has laser-focused misinformation campaigns on me to get the attention off of himself.

You don't have to believe in Karma for it to be real. The principle of "you reap what you sow" is thousands of years old. And I don't delight in the Karma Deray is now receiving - that's not my way - but I will say it's overdue.

Sadly, after years of people lying and saying I was the one misspending funds - in spite of me releasing hundreds of pages of reports and accounting showing nothing of the sort, we now see that it is actually a real problem with Deray and many others in this movement. All I can do is continue to let my work and my impact speak for itself.

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0:00.0	The all new Honda HLV Hybrid is a very good looking car.
0:04.4	So here we are on the radio where it's clean lines can't distract from its other qualities,
0:10.4	like its spacious interior, advanced safety features, a standard, connectivity, oh hang on.
0:16.7	Are some of you searching online for a picture of it?
0:19.2	Okay, it's gorgeous, but you know what?
0:21.6	Go to a showroom, see it in person, maybe even test drive it.
0:25.7	It's not all about looks.
0:27.9	Honda, the power of dreams.
0:30.7	I don't know how many of you are going to be able to relate to something I'm about to say,
0:34.8	but I know somebody listening can.
0:38.0	It's a hard thing for family members.
0:45.5	Let me even say it the exact way I need to say it.
0:48.4	It's been hard on my family to see people lie and spread all types of falsehoods about me.
0:58.9	It's been hard on my mother.
1:01.0	It's been hard on my wife.
1:03.0	It's been hard on all of my children.
1:05.4	I've seen all of them cry at one point or another as they've seen people spread complete falsities.
1:13.0	About my work, about my life, about my race, about my family, about the money that I raise.
1:21.3	It has hurt my family in some ways even more than it has hurt me.
1:28.2	And what's hurt me the most less than the lies, what's really hurt me and I'm literally
1:35.0	working through therapy on this now.
1:37.7	What's hurt me is the damage it's done to my family.
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