Ep. 591 - 4 things that concern me about what went down between Will Smith and Chris Rock
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
- People have breaking points and you don't know when they are going to reach theirs, but when they do, it might be ugly.
- I am deeply afraid that everyday people are going to try what Will tried, but find out that they will actually go to jail for it and that people will normally punch or shoot back.
- Some people are saying this is what it looks like to "protect Black women" and others are saying this is not at all what that looks like. I'll unpack that.
- When white people do something crazy, stars or otherwise, white people rarely absorb it as being something that represents the whole race of white people. I don't know what it's going to take for Black folks to get to that point, but it needs to happen.
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| 0:00.0 | At Honda we've been listening to people talking about the weather. |
| 0:03.2 | Not everyone wants to be blasted in the face. |
| 0:07.9 | So what if the air inside the all new Honda HIV hybrid is a little more |
| 0:15.6 | with L-shaped vents in the top corners of the dash that create a weather system, |
| 0:21.6 | subtly directing a stream of air beside and above the driver and passengers, |
| 0:26.0 | shielding from hot air in the summer and cold air in the winter. |
| 0:29.8 | The all new HIV hybrids and diffusion system is something worth talking about, |
| 0:34.4 | like the weather. |
| 0:36.4 | Where we'll listen to take us next, Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:41.4 | By now you've already seen it, you've already heard it. |
| 0:46.2 | Let me share the four biggest concerns that I have about what happened between Will Smith |
| 0:53.4 | and Chris Rock last night at the Oscars. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm going to try to unpack and explain it, try to break it down the best I can. |
| 1:00.2 | This is Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:05.7 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:21.5 | Wow. |
| 1:23.5 | You know, when my family and I, my wife, kids and I were watching the Oscars |
| 1:31.3 | and when all of this went down, |
| 1:35.3 | it was actually very troubling and concerning. |
| 1:40.4 | My daughter, Savannah and I were really into it and it was like, hold on. |
| 1:46.9 | What really just happened here? |
| 1:51.3 | We knew that it was real from the jump because of what will, particularly, it looked real, |
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