Ep. 656 - We need to fund and build more monuments to brilliant Black leaders
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Nobody in America has more monuments honoring them than white men. It's not even remotely close. In fact, HALF of the Top 50 most represented people with monuments were enslavers that literally bought, sold, and traded human beings. This is not ok.
But I think a big part of the problem is that we are too often waiting on other people to imagine and build these monuments for us when the truth is we're going to have to build them ourselves.
I'd like to begin with us building monuments to Malcolm X and Nat Turner.
What do you think?
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| 0:20.6 | Happy Friday everybody. |
| 0:21.6 | Glad to be right back here with you. |
| 0:24.3 | I want to share today an experimental idea of something that I've been thinking about |
| 0:29.3 | for a very long time. |
| 0:31.3 | 25 years ago when I first started undergrad at Morehouse, we were talking then 25 years |
| 0:38.1 | ago about how few, how small the number of monuments are to African Americans across |
| 0:46.5 | the country including brilliant black leaders that have done amazing things but have no |
| 0:53.8 | monuments. |
| 0:55.8 | And I think it's time, past time, overdue that we really began funding these monuments |
| 1:02.9 | and developing them ourselves. |
| 1:05.6 | I have an idea of two people we should start with and just want to see what you think. |
| 1:11.6 | This is Sean King and you're listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:22.3 | As many of you know, I'm actually a historian by training my undergraduate and graduate |
| 1:38.2 | degrees are in history and that training really informs so much of what I do. |
| 1:44.4 | I've been a teacher, a pastor, a nonprofit leader, an organizer, but I always go back to |
| 1:53.2 | my depth in history. |
| 1:56.9 | And yes, I know that having monuments of brilliant black leaders does not solve all of our problems. |
| 2:08.6 | So please don't start with me by saying Sean, there are actually 97 more important things |
| 2:17.2 | than developing monuments. |
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