Ep. 663 - West Point has a literal monument to the KKK and refuses to take it down!

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Right here. Right now. West Point - the premier military training academy of the United States of America, has a literal monument to the KKK that thousands of students walk under day in and day out.

I don't mean a monument to someone that was in the Klan.

It's a literal monument of a KLANSMAN in a hood and robe with the words KU KLUX KLAN under it.

And it's not a secret. They've BEEN knowing it's there. For generations and generations.

And they've left it there.

And somehow they want us to stop saying this country is fundamentally racist? Like what?

The place that trains America's soldiers has a literal monument to the KKK and this place isn't fundamentally racist? You've left it up for generations, but you aren't fundamentally racist?

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0:21.5	It's a rare day when something shocks the hell out of me.
0:28.0	Because in the United States, we should never be shocked at any acts of racism or bigotry.
0:35.7	But I just saw minutes ago that on the campus of West Point, America's premier military
0:45.2	training academy, there is an actual monument to the KKK.
0:55.0	What I mean by that is, there is a monument of someone dressed in a white robe that says
1:03.2	Koo Klux Klan under it.
1:07.0	An actual monument, not to some person who used to be in the KKK, to the Klan.
1:15.2	And they are, and they know it's there.
1:18.8	None of us knew it was there.
1:20.8	It's been there for generations, people have been infuriated about it, but have kept it
1:26.2	quiet, and they still refuse to simply get their asses up and remove it.
1:36.2	How in the world can this country ever say that it is not fundamentally racist when it
1:47.0	literally has a monument to the KKK in its military training facility?
1:55.7	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:58.9	It's infuriating because we know this country is racist, but sometimes it just wants to
2:05.4	show us that we're right.
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