Ep. 725 - White supremacists held a swanky banquet this weekend. I am very, very concerned.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, at an ultra-swanky banquet hall in the middle of Manhattan, white nationalists and white supremacists from all over the world, including US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, gathered together as a sign of solidarity and support for one another.

That fact alone is a disturbing sign of the normalization of bigotry and racism, but Marjorie Taylor Greene said something that is so disturbing, and dangerous even, that it has me truly concerned.

She said, in plain English, that if she had been able to plan the January 6th insurrection that she would've made sure everybody was armed and that it would have succeeded.

Do you understand the gravity of that? What does she mean by succeeded? That they would have kidnapped and executed politicians? That they would've permanently taken over Congress and kept Trump as President. What does she mean?

Let me unpack and explain it.

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Shaun

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0:30.0	On this past Saturday night, there was a dinner,
0:35.0	a gathering of hundreds of white nationalists and neo-Nazis
0:40.0	that came together, they thought privately,
0:43.0	to talk about what they want to do next,
0:47.0	who they are, what they stand on, and what their plan is for the future.
0:52.0	Not only were literal congress people there,
0:57.0	but scores of white nationalists, open bigots,
1:00.0	not just from the United States, but from around the world.
1:03.0	And this gathering was so disturbing,
1:08.0	what they said there, what they promised there,
1:12.0	what they projected while they were there.
1:15.0	It's so dangerous, so flagrant,
1:18.0	that I need us to talk about it, because I think it's a warning sign
1:22.0	of what's to come.
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