Ep. 755 - 99% of American Presidents were monsters - including your faves.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody I am actually back last week. I tried to come back after |
| 0:06.4 | battling off a lung infection for weeks |
| 0:09.2 | That are that took me out and slowed me down and in the midst of all of that my wife had |
| 0:14.9 | Very serious surgery that she has been recovering from and so I am glad to be back |
| 0:20.5 | I'm about 90% recovered |
| 0:22.5 | Yesterday was president's day and you may know I am actually a historian by training my undergraduate graduate degrees are in history and |
| 0:32.1 | There are a few people that irk me more than most of America's presidents a |
| 0:38.6 | Huge percentage of them literally owned human beings and |
| 0:44.0 | For those that didn't own human beings they oversaw war crimes |
| 0:49.2 | genocide and so much else |
| 0:52.8 | most of them were |
| 0:54.6 | overtly racist open bigots |
| 0:58.4 | full-fledged racist and those that weren't |
| 1:02.0 | Did things that were just as bad if not worse all over the world? |
| 1:06.5 | I want us to talk for a few minutes. Well, I want us to have a |
| 1:10.3 | Historical conversation about how horrible most American presidents are and how we're still not really being honest about it |
| 1:18.9 | All right, glad you're here glad to be back. I'm feeling pretty good. This is Sean King and you were listening to |
| 1:25.6 | The break down |
| 1:44.9 | So much of what you and I mean you who are listening to me right now like you specifically |
| 1:52.0 | So much of what you probably know about American history and world history |
| 2:00.4 | completely depends on |
| 2:02.8 | Who taught you and who wrote the books you read and |
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