Ep. 644 - Pastors shouldn't be wearing a million dollars worth of jewelry. Let's start there.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Did you see the video where the pastor in Brooklyn got robbed at gunpoint during a church service? I don't wish that on anyone. However, the truth is that it's foolish to wear a million dollars worth of jewelry ANYWHERE in public. And it's doubly disrespectful for a pastor in a poor and working class neighborhood to do such a thing.
Listen, again, I am not condoning armed robbery, but let me frame it another way. Would it be unethical for a man to walk down the middle of street in the hood with stacks of $1 million in cash? I say yes. It's inviting danger and it's tempting people who are struggling from day to day as it is. If you walked through the hood with a million dollars in cash in your hands, I would stop just short of saying you deserve to get robbed, but you damn near do.
Wearing $1 million in jewelry is the exact same thing. It's flossing. In the worst way.
Let me unpack and explain it. Listen to today's full episode here, and hundreds more, on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or at TheNorthStar.com.
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| 0:00.0 | At Honda, we decided to stop listening to what Kastu for a moment, |
| 0:04.0 | and instead start listening to all the things Hanz do. |
| 0:07.3 | They carry scratch, open, close, sip, chop, sprep, |
| 0:12.5 | shakes, pour, mix, fix, fold, type, tear. |
| 0:18.4 | Isn't it time we gave Hanz a rest? |
| 0:20.8 | With Keeler's entry, a tailgate that opens with the wave of a foot, |
| 0:25.7 | voice controlled into tapent and automatically adjusting seats. |
| 0:31.3 | The Honda CRV hybrid. What do you think? Hanz? |
| 0:36.3 | Honda with power of dreams, available on Selected Craigs. |
| 0:40.4 | Did you see the story this weekend where a bishop in Brooklyn |
| 0:45.7 | had a million dollars worth of jewelry stolen off of him? |
| 0:50.8 | I've got a lot of thoughts and a lot of people have asked me to weigh in |
| 0:54.8 | and I think what I'm going to have to say is probably very different |
| 0:59.1 | than what you would expect. But I never want anybody to be robbed |
| 1:04.8 | or robbed at gunpoint, so terrifying thing. But it is damn near equally ridiculous |
| 1:14.6 | to be a pastor wearing over a million dollars worth of jewelry |
| 1:19.5 | in the hood in the middle of a pandemic and recession. It's it's begging |
| 1:26.4 | somebody to come get what you got. Let me know a packet explaining. |
| 1:31.6 | Mr. Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:53.0 | As many of you know, I was a pastor for many many years, some |
| 1:57.3 | 15 plus years and I've always had a problem with pastors and bishops and |
| 2:06.2 | church leaders, particularly when doubly so when your church isn't an |
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