Ep. 701 - Can we agree on these 4 thoughts about gun violence? I'm searching for some common ground.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Earlier today we all learned the horrible news that another brilliant young Black man was shot and killed in America - this time it was Takeoff, the rapper of Migos fame. And it's all clearly way too much. It's an epidemic.

And I see good people struggling to say something meaningful right now. Even more, I see good people accidentally saying the wrong things, but with the best of intentions.

Let me try to offer 4 things that I hope we can agree on when it comes to gun violence in America.

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0:21.4	Today I'm having something that you are probably having.
0:25.6	I'm having in a lot of ways a case of deja vu, where another rap artist, another hip-hop
0:32.6	artist, another young black man is shot and killed in America.
0:38.6	And while this time it is a beloved rapper take off from Ego's, we've recorded this podcast
0:46.7	before.
0:47.7	We've been here before.
0:50.4	Just a few weeks ago it was PNB Rock and a few weeks before that it was somebody else
0:54.2	and somebody else and somebody else.
0:57.8	And gun violence in America and gun violence in our own communities is an epidemic.
1:05.4	And today I want to share three things that I think we can agree on about that gun violence.
1:14.5	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:16.2	This is exhausting I know.
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1:40.2	He sat there doing all this financial mumbling and I love doing stuff like that by the way.
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