Ep. 726 - Black children are being illegally forced into the Junior ROTC and then sexually abused all over the country

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This is absolutely infuriating. On Sunday, the New York Times released an explosive new report detailing how thousands of children all over the country are being enrolled into the JROTC without their permission. These kids are literally showing up at school, getting their schedules, and finding out that they've been signed up for the military against their wishes. And it's happening almost exclusively in predominantly Black schools.

Then, when kids and their families request that their kids be released from the program, they are refused. It's all outrageous. And we are learning this just weeks after the American military admitted that kids all over the country are being molested and sexually assaulted by ROTC leaders.

Heads need to roll. People need to go to jail.

And here's what I know. They'd never pull this shit at white schools. Or in rich zip codes. Or at private schools. They are doing this where they thing they will be able to get away with it.I have a lot to unpack and explain.

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Shaun

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0:30.0	An explosive new report from the New York Times
0:34.0	determined that thousands of kids, almost exclusively black children,
0:39.0	are being forced into the junior ROTC in their high school.
0:43.0	They are arriving at their high school and finding out that they've been registered
0:48.0	for the junior ROTC without their permission.
0:52.0	And when they try to leave, they're not allowed.
0:55.0	All of this is explicitly against the law.
0:59.0	You're not allowed to register someone for it without their permission,
1:03.0	and you're not allowed to keep them in it when they want to leave.
1:06.0	All of this is particularly disturbing.
1:09.0	In light of a report just last month, finding how many young people
1:14.0	are being sexually abused while in the junior ROTC.
1:18.0	I have a major problem with it.
1:20.0	You need to have a major problem with it.
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