Ep. 657 - Don't be duped. The FBI has been HORRIBLE to Black people for generations.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Listen to me - the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. That's a cute saying, but that's about all it is. Yes, Donald Trump and conservatives are now attacking the FBI and calling to defund it - and because Democrats hate Trump so much, liberals are now cheerleading the FBI.
But that's a HUGE mistake. The FBI has done more harm to Black people, Black leaders, and Black movements than the KKK. They have had their hands in destroying Black leaders and movements all the way back to Marcus Garvey. They are not our friends. I can count on 1 hand the good they've ever done for us while entire books have been written about all the harm they've done to Black people - including assassinations.
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| 0:20.9 | I want to give us some honest, uncomfortable thoughts about the FBI. |
| 0:28.8 | Because as we see Donald Trump and other conservatives attacking the FBI and talking about |
| 0:36.1 | defunding the FBI, what I see a lot of liberals and Democrats now doing is defending the FBI |
| 0:45.5 | and bragging and raving about the FBI. |
| 0:49.2 | But historically, this organization, this branch of the government has not been our friend. |
| 0:57.2 | And I just want to anchor us in some reality about who the FBI is, who they are to black |
| 1:04.2 | people in particular, and how much they have destroyed the lives, the families, the work |
| 1:11.7 | of black leaders for generations and generations. |
| 1:16.0 | Let's not be dumb here. |
| 1:18.2 | Let's not begin celebrating them as if they are our heroes. |
| 1:23.0 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:24.7 | This is Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:45.9 | The United States is a strange, strange place. |
| 1:52.7 | This place is so peculiar because after hundreds of years of mistreatment by law enforcement |
| 2:01.9 | in America, black folk finally started saying, you know what? |
| 2:06.7 | We shouldn't spend so much money on the police and we should put the money that we spend |
| 2:11.5 | on police into community development and violence prevention and economic development. |
| 2:19.6 | We should defund the police and put that money into education, into housing, into treatment |
| 2:26.4 | for drugs and mental health issues and all types of other stuff. |
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