Ep. 639 - Let's help the dear family of Millie Packer today
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This weekend, a healthy, vibrant, young pregnant Black woman and her husband went to the hospital in Texas. 24 hours later, both the baby and the mother were dead.
Now her children are without a mother and her husband, Brennon, is without a wife.
And what we know, is that pregnant Black women all over the country are having HORRIBLE struggles with their pregnancies at rates far worse than white women. And every expert has said that it is basically systemic racism embedded in the medical field.
As soon as you can, please click the link in my bio on Instagram to chip in and help this family TODAY, OK?
Love and appreciate you all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, today is one of those days where I'm going to be asking for your help. |
| 0:06.8 | A brilliant, kind, young black mother and her baby died at a hospital and her husband and |
| 0:17.1 | her children desperately need our support. |
| 0:21.2 | I want us to wrap our arms around them. |
| 0:24.4 | This family just experienced what a lot of pregnant black women are experiencing all over |
| 0:31.1 | America. |
| 0:32.4 | The gap in the quality of maternal care for black women versus everybody else is not just |
| 0:38.5 | astounding. |
| 0:40.0 | It's racist. |
| 0:41.0 | I want to tell you her story and tell you how you can help. |
| 0:44.4 | All right? |
| 0:45.4 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Sean King and you're listening to The Breakdown. |
| 0:51.6 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:08.3 | On this past Friday, something unthinkably painful happened and it's unthinkable in |
| 1:19.1 | a sense of the pain must be unbearable, but it is actually extremely common because |
| 1:29.4 | all over this country, yes, particularly in the deep south, but all over this country. |
| 1:35.0 | From coast to coast in red and blue states, in cities with black leadership and not |
| 1:43.2 | all over this country. |
| 1:46.1 | Black women, including in California, New York and everywhere else, are dying during their |
| 1:54.0 | pregnancies, during childbirth and after childbirth at rates far exceeding any other ethnic |
| 2:02.2 | group. |
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