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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 755 - 99% of American Presidents were monsters - including your faves.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

First off, I'm glad to be back after far too long of a hiatus fighting off a lung infection. Thanks for sticking with me and with the podcast. As you no doubt know, yesterday was President's Day. And I just need to remind us that 99% of the presidents in American history were complete monsters. If they didn't literally buy, sell, and trade human beings - they oversaw war crimes, genocide, and so much more - right up until today. And it took me a long time to understand just WHY that was. Ultimately, it all comes down to WHO is teaching you about the history of this country and the world at large. Let’s talk about it! To listen to today’s FULL EPISODE of The Breakdown go now to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and search for “The Breakdown with Shaun King.” Subscribe there for FREE and listen to the whole podcast. If you are already on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please subscribe, listen, share, leave reviews, and listen daily to the entire episode. The more of it you listen to, the better it is for us. Love and appreciate you all. Shaun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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