Ep. 622 - A bittersweet day for justice
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday was both bitter and sweet. Men and women that are deeply dedicated to justice and equality won elections all over the country in super important races.
And then voters also recalled our friend Chesa Boudin as DA of San Francisco.
Let's unpack and explain it.
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| 0:00.0 | What if the world listened more? Maybe it could become a better place. |
| 0:05.5 | Because when we really listen, we smarten out as things, things that don't sound quite bright. |
| 0:11.6 | They might not seem obvious at first, but listen closely and they stand out like a soul plum. |
| 0:17.9 | And the more we glisten, the door we learn. A rhea's help us find belter solutions. |
| 0:22.8 | And things can change from this to something a little more like this. |
| 0:33.9 | The Honda Jazz is a hybrid. Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:41.1 | Last night was bitter and sweet. I was going to say bitter sweet. I don't know what bitter sweet is actually. |
| 0:49.9 | It was very bitter and very sweet. Last night my dear friend and brother, Chesa Boudin, |
| 0:58.5 | who is my personal friend, who's victory to become district attorney of San Francisco, |
| 1:08.4 | was one of the highlights of my professional life as a leader and organizer. |
| 1:12.9 | And I am heartbroken that the city of San Francisco recalled him not even really two full years into his term. |
| 1:27.0 | And it is just an incredibly frustrating reality that when you actually pass change, |
| 1:36.8 | you don't just get to stand by it, you actually have to fight for it and protect it. |
| 1:40.8 | At the same time, almost every other candidate that we were fighting for yesterday, one, |
| 1:47.8 | including in cities and counties, in the Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, in Alameda County, |
| 1:54.0 | which is Oakland, in Los Angeles, in Iowa, in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 1:59.3 | So last night there was some good news and some bad news and we have to learn from both of them. |
| 2:04.8 | Let me try to unpack and explain it. This is Sean King and you're listening to? |
| 2:28.2 | Let me talk about the good news first. |
| 2:30.1 | Yesterday, there were elections all over the country that were going down and there were many candidates |
| 2:38.1 | that we endorsed at the grassroots law project and that we endorsed at real justice. |
| 2:42.9 | And when we endorsed the candidate, they'd go through an interview process, an intake process, |
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