We need to fund and build more monuments to brilliant Black leaders

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

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4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Friends, I'm excited to bring you a throwback episode of The Breakdown that originally aired on August 12, 2022. You know, it's really astonishing to me that in America, when we look at the top 50 most represented people with monuments, half of them were enslavers. It's unacceptable. But what's the solution? Waiting for others to create monuments for us isn't going to cut it. We need to take action and build them ourselves. That's what I address in this episode - specifically, building monuments to honor the legacies of Malcolm X and Nat Turner. Take a listen and let me know your thoughts. 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	Happy Friday everybody, glad to be right back here with you.
0:04.3	I want to share today an experimental idea of something that I've been thinking about for
0:09.4	a very long time.
0:10.9	A 25 years ago when I first started undergrad at Morehouse, we were talking then 25 years
0:18.1	ago about how few, how small the number of monuments are to African Americans across the
0:26.6	country, including brilliant black leaders that have done amazing things but have no monuments.
0:35.8	And I think it's time, past time, overdue that we really began funding these monuments
0:42.9	and developing them ourselves.
0:45.6	I have an idea of two people we should start with and just want to see what you think.
0:51.6	This is Sean King and you're listening to The Breakdown.
0:57.3	The Breakdown.
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1:42.6	As many of you know, I'm actually a historian by training my undergraduate and graduate
1:48.2	degrees are in history and that training really informs so much of what I do.
1:54.2	I've been a teacher, a pastor, a non-profit leader and organizer,
2:01.5	but I always go back to my depth in history.
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