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The Breakdown with Shaun King
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"Hello. Hey, hey, hey. It's December. We're really deep in December. I mean, I'm not really deep. It's so deep. It's not, it's very surface, but we are here. I can't believe the years over. Like, to be honest with you, I'm still in 2020. What? Yeah, it still feels like 2020, do I? Are you still writing the wrong date? No, I have never wrote the wrong date, but in my mind, my mind, it doesn't feel like we've been in COVID for almost two years. Like I feel like it's been one really long year. Yeah, okay. So to be almost in 2020 two is a bit crazy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, my 21 though, it went pretty fast. It feels like it went extremely fast. So I know people say time flies when you're having fun. I had a lot of fun in 21. You know, 21 was a bomb year for business. I'll tell you that. For sure. 2020 was two. Wait, can I just, can I give a praise break for a minute? Feel free. Okay. Listeners, you guys don't know this because we don't talk about all this stuff, but your boy and your homegirl, Tiffany, we did our thing this year. We bought three new dry cleaners this year through a fund that we created. That's true. On top of the two, we already had. That's true. The lord is in the blessing business. That is very true. Always, always. That's a feat for us. Not done three businesses in a year. I don't think. I think we've done two multiple times. Yeah. So three in a year. But I think we did three in 20 2018. 2017. We did three with two dry cleaners at one gym. The crazy thing is that in 2022, we're almost guaranteed to do more than three. Yeah. It's not a fact. Pretty locked in that will do more than three. Yeah.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"You need insurance on the space, like property and casualty insurance, but you also just need insurance. There's unemployment. There's a number of different insurances that you now have to have. And yes, you just have to pay for them outright. Like sometimes you can pay for them through your payroll service. If you are that fancy and now you have a payroll service and I will tell you, once you really are making money, even if you are the only employee, it is best to set up a payroll service. I will say that. Now, again, if you're making a $100 a month, just go ahead and pay yourself. All right, you just take it out the rest. Check it out. It's fine. No one's checking for it. But again, if you're making significant dollars, you know, for the sake of your taxes, being able to pay taxes and just making life a lot easier. Also, just being able to have a W two, you will want to set up a payroll service. But again, you do not want to do that on day one. And if you need insurance, check out momentum risk dot com. One of our biggest yeah, absolutely. Again, as you mentioned, yeah, one of our businesses and for sure, we work with a lot of businesses and I only getting you the insurance that you need, but making you aware of other insurances that may be necessary along the way so that you can prepare for them. Absolutely. And then the final thing of starting an actual real live business, you got to file your taxes. If you've created an LLC, your state and the federal government expect to hear from you every single year. They are looking for you. If you want to keep that LLC alive or that's S corp alive, you've got to file taxes. Even if you've got all zeros, you've got a file. Yeah, and I will tell you, so to that point about filing all zero, I was like, yeah, even if you haven't made any money, you do have to file all zeros. And if you do not file all zeros, you will be fined thousands of dollars. It's happened to us. It's crazy. We have been fined $1250 for businesses that we've ended LLCs that we've had, but we haven't transacted in, and because we did not file taxes with all zeros, we now have a tax bill of $1250. And then they'll hit you with a penalty and interest on this fine, the $1250 fund, 'cause you didn't tell them you had all zeros. Yeah, all because you ain't tell them you ain't make no money. You just open an LLC. Now, I will have the honest conversation. I feel you. I don't know about Alan, but I'll speak for myself. That first year as a business owner, when you're making real money, like you feel like this is all my money. Like, I'm not about to pay nobody. I'm not about to pay taxes yet. I ain't doing it like that. Year two, you know, I start paying taxes. But right now, I'm just getting established. I'm just getting my feet wet. This is my money. You know what I mean?
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Because at least in my therapy, we're trying to, I'm trying to get better. I'm trying to heal, I'm trying to develop better habits, healthier habits, and therapy has helped me in that way. And so I hope I hope I can say that it's made me a better husband, a better father, and a better leader. A more understanding, empathetic person, and you may already think of me as understanding and empathetic, but it's helped me be that even more at home and everywhere I go. And then lastly, there are a lot of things that were in my brain. That I had not really put words on. And. The lack of vocabulary around all the issues I've dealt with, the lack of words to describe them. Really made them out to be monsters. And because I said earlier, because I had put a lot of things in boxes and compartmentalized them and said, hey, we're not going to touch that thing again. Because I opened those boxes and began putting words on them. It's helped me tremendously. To not have monsters in my mind, and I could say so much more about that. But talking about my biggest challenges, my worst problems, my fears, has demystified them. And in a lot of ways, has taken their fame, taken their fangs to taking their venom away. Once I was able to describe them and look at them as a grown man, it made me say, I can deal with this. I can live through this. I can, I can heal from this. And listen, that's what I want for you. Please, please, if you're on the fence about therapy, just try it. And give yourself a year to find a therapist that you like, don't give up quickly, make it a priority, invest in yourself, if the therapist that you like don't take your health insurance, ask them if they will fill out the paperwork and you can often they can give you receipts and your insurance can reimburse you or you can go to your insurance and say, can you provide me a list of therapists and you can literally type the therapist's names and Google and look at reviews and other things. Later I'll talk about how to find a therapist that fits you. We'll try to unpack and explain that in the days ahead, okay? Listen, love y'all. Appreciate you. Want you to have a great weekend and please, if you're not already a member of the north star, please join today. Take care everybody. Break it down. The great right now. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers every single week. We talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, can really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips, we bring the strategy and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"To go towards your investments. Yeah. Yeah, that's a fact. So it's hurting you. Bad credit is making compound interest work against you. Yeah, it's not just like my credit so bad, I can't get the car loan. Even in the scenarios where you could get the loan, but you just have to pay a little bit more, and so many of us oftentimes are okay with that. Listen, I'm just glad I got it. I just got to be able to get to and from work. I just got to be able to get us in this house. Whatever the case is, we're just glad that we got it. And we figure out, we'll figure out how to make the payments on debt on borrowed money, right? But we won't figure out how to get the money for our investments. We won't figure out how to get our credit score up so that we can get the same things for less borrowed money, and then we can also put money towards our wealth creation. Yeah. So let's talk about high interest debt for a minute. Okay. We've been using examples of investments and we've used 7 to 8%. Rates of return. But let's talk about high interest debt. It's not unusual for a credit card to have a 20% rate of interest. Not at all. Let's talk about the wealth that's being created for the credit card company. So imagine you had a $10,000 balance. Okay. Okay. And imagine it takes you 20 years to pay off this credit card. So I'm just making the payments to get by. Yeah. Just trying to get back. And imagine it takes you 20 years and the interest rate is 20%. Damn. Okay. Over the course of those 20 years, you will have paid over $300,000. For $10,000. Yeah. That's the thing that you need to hear at the time, and maybe I really need to use this card. This is such an important payment. I really got to do it. It's just, I don't have a choice, but just know when you're making these minimum payments on high interest debt, you are not paying double triple. So literally a $10,000 balance with you making the minimum payment and paying it off, you know, in 20 years, you have paid an extra $290,000 to the creditor. You have acquired wealth for the creditor. Like, we just want you to get an understanding of how it is working against you and how you can fight it working against you by avoiding these things, paying these things down, getting rid of these things. And so it's funny, so many people are often reaching out to us and saying, I want to pay off my student loan debt. Like, your interest rate is super low. That's not the thing that you really need to be worried about. That's not the thing that's really stealing your joy. That's really stealing your wealth. You know what I mean? Like, it's definitely stealing our sanity. And those student loan payments could be high. So I definitely get you on that. But the thief, like the thief in the night, are these high interest loans. Yeah. Like, that's where you're going to be paying multiples on multiples, racks on racks on racks and just paying back that original kind of small principle. At the end of the day, in order to build wealth, you've got to make sure that your investments are growing at a faster interest rate than the cost of your debt. So if you have a mortgage at 3%, but your investments are making 7 or 8%, you're growing your wealth. Conversely, if you're earning 7 or 8% on your investments, but you're credit card is that 20%, there's wealth being destroyed. Like you're losing money every year. Sadly, if you've got savings on one hand, earning a half a percent and you got credit cards on the other hand, where you're paying out 20%, that's a tremendous amount of wealth that's being destroyed. So again, we hope that we've broken it down well enough where you understand this notion of compound interest and how over time it can be used to create an incredible amount of wealth or it can be used to take away and destroy your wealth. So we'll be back next week. Yes. Thank you for tuning in. Hit us up on Twitter at momentum advice, tell us what you think about the episode. Also hit us up on momentum dash advisers. If you want us to take a look at your personal portfolio, also the last thing, the thing that we love, we love being a part of the north star family. Please go to the website, become a member, contribute, help this mission is not just about momentum advisers. We are a part of a family. There's so much great content that's being put out there. So support. And when we die, I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we're the momentum advisers.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"But at a really, really low rate. Yeah, it ain't gonna be racks on racks and racks. It might be. Yeah, it's gonna be light. It's not gonna be anything really special for you. But again, it's there. It's the beginner option if that's what you're most comfortable with, maybe you're not comfortable with investing, I don't know. But what I'd say is that if your goal is to be that millionaire that we talked about, and you're only compounding at a rate of a half a percent, you'll still get to a million, but now you've got to save a lot more money. Yeah. Right, because in that earlier example, most of the $880,000 that you wound up with was not money that you saved, most of it was money that was compounded through the investments or through the growth. And so if you are in savings only, if you're super risk averse, I'm worried about everything. I think the sky is falling, investments are too risky. You've got to save a lot more money. Yeah, I will tell you, this is going to sound insane. But if you put a $1000 in your savings account, versus investing a $1000, the invested money earns almost 20,000 percent more than the money that was just sitting in the savings account. Wow. Do you want to miss out on a 20,000% return? I want 20,000%. But I would like 20,000%. Yeah. Right. So the thing is, if you are as Alan MedGen risk averse, hopefully listening to this podcast will get you comfortable with investing. Also understanding that there are a variety of ways to invest. You don't have to, as Alan mentioned, you don't have to put everything in stocks. If you are working with a professional or a financial adviser, they will invest based on your risk tolerance based on how comfortable you are. If you're not very comfortable, there are still investment opportunities that are out there for you. So please don't just be black and white, like just now I'm not doing it. You got to do it. But you can do it your way. Absolutely. So let's talk about investing now. Okay. One of the simplest, yet sexiest. Sexiest. Investments that everybody should be participating in is their 401k at work. Whether four three B plan or four 57 plan or any plan that allows you to put your own money away towards retirement. Because going back to the examples we use earlier of putting away only $250 a month and it turning into almost $880,000, your compounding in those four-o-one-ks. You're in a mix of investments that we hope will get you a 6, 7, maybe even 8% rate of return over time. And so the 401k, part of its sex appeal. Is the notion that it's a vehicle for compounding. It's also a vehicle that penalizes you if you take the money out early because they really want you to benefit from that compounding over time. Okay. Facts, right? So retirement savings is sexy. We got a replay. Now, what if you're like, listen, I'm not, I'm not consistent. Y'all not gonna get $250 out of me every month. Some months is different than others. Some months I gotta do a little bit more. Someone's like, I do a little bit less. Who knows? So maybe you're not that person. Maybe you're like, listen, I got this. I got this money right now. I gotta lump sum of money right now. Just tell me what to do with this right here. You don't worry about my next paycheck. Just plus two students right here. Let's give a couple examples. If you've got $10,000. Okay. You have just flat $10,000 in your 35 years old. And you decide to invest this $10,000. But you're not putting nothing else on it after that. This is it. I'm walking away. $10,000. I'm going to invest it. I'm out. Let's use 7% this time. 7% return, not even the 8% that we talked about earlier, a 7% return. You invest $10,000 at the age of 35, and I'm not adding anything else to it after that. By the time you are 65 years old, it will be $76,000. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You invest ten K walked away from it. Just let it just let it be for your audience. Forgot that you invested in forgot it when you come back at the age of 65. $76,000. $76,000. Are you kidding? Now, yeah, like to me, that's a big deal. You got $66,000 by not doing anything. Yeah, I know how to do nothing. Very well. I am good at doing nothing. Very, very well. So let's just think about it this way, right? For people who are like, I'm not very consistent, but I got more than 10,000. Maybe you got 50,000. Maybe you sold your home, kylo, got a little extra profit on the side. Yeah, what should I do with this? Settlement. It's just sitting in one of my accounts. And let's assume you've got an emergency fund. Yes, you've got all the other things that you're supposed to have. But you got $50,000 to invest one time and you go ahead and invest it at age 35. When you come back at the age of 65, 30 years. 30 years. You have $380,000. $50,000 turned into $380,000 by you just sitting there and leaving it alone. That's more than 7 and a half times what you put in. Okay. That's racks on racks. That's right. That's compound interest. You've got to understand how compound interest works over time as an investor. Yeah. I'm getting excited over here. Okay. So no, not at 35. Listen, 35, I'm still out here. Still got them streets. I belong to the street. You know what I mean? And the streets are doing me well. So maybe at 45, maybe you've got this $10,000 at the age of 45. Okay. And you're like, I'm going to invest it now. I'm just going to invest it and I'm going to walk away from it. Okay. How I'll monitor it, but I'm not going to take it out. I'm not going to make any rash decisions at any point in time. By the age of 65, 20 years later, you'll have $38,000. That's pretty good. I mean, $28,000 by just letting it be invested. I don't think anything's wrong with that. Yeah, no. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I like, I like an extra $28,000 for no reason at all. Whatsoever, except that I'm disciplined enough to leave things along. But using that same example, if your age 45 and you want to invest 50,000 for 20 years. Okay. In 20 years, it'll be worth almost 200 K now, that sounds a little bit better. 200 K, you could do something with that. I could do something with 200 K, like again, the reason why we're using so many numbers, the reason why we're going through these examples in case studies is because so many people reach out and they're like, how am I going to be able to retire? Give me the plan and I'll do it or I'm starting super late. I don't know what to do. I make a high salary now, but I don't know where to get started. I don't know how I got to make this happen. I don't know what my numbers are. Here are the numbers. These are the numbers. Now again, maybe you did not do this. Maybe you don't have $10,000 to invest until you're
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"They're my kids, but a 20 year old is very close to being a kid. And if you've ever been in college, when you're in college, you have one foot in the childhood space and one foot in adulthood. You're a young adult at best and extended child at most. And that white man found it necessary, not to be like, hey, I don't know how I feel about that. Or hey, that's not really a sportsman like, or that's not necessary. But went straight to calling her atrocious names, like foul language. It's like, hold on. Why do you feel that way about her? But you never felt that way about Caitlyn Clark. And let me be, let me even go a step farther. Both of those men were particularly Dave portnoy, but both of them. Are known for being classless and sometimes having no tact. Dave is known for bigotry, misogyny. I mean, outright racism and white supremacy. He has told atrocious jokes and stories about rape. He's been accused of mistreating people at almost every step of his career. This man is known for being classless and ugly and horrible. For him to call this woman that is like, what? For men who make their living off of covering and talking about sports that are dominated by black people, but to demean this black woman in such a way, in a way that just didn't seem to bother either me. Again, on the left or the right, either white man on the left or the right. When Caitlin Clark a white woman did it. When she told players to shut the F up, when she talked trash all season long, it made her into a folk hero. When angel Reese talked trash for about 30 seconds in this game and not talk tried, just pointed at her finger and did the John Cena sign all of a sudden you have expletives reserved for her. It made many of us feel like what Keith olbermann and Dave portnoy wanted to say was the N word. And instead they just went to what was available to them. Whenever you let your guard down about racism and bigotry in America, this country has a way of reminding you, hold on now, hold on. We are the headquarters. We are headquarters of racism in the world. This is America has pioneered new and fresh ways to be racist every single day of the year. And just when you think it can be about basketball, they have to drag us back in. And as soon as I got in the car this morning, it really 5 30 in the morning. Instead of being able to just talk about the game and celebrate LSU and their phenomenal players, they had to talk about all of this. And in the end, you know, what you see is that white men seem to enjoy a level of trash talk from a white woman that just seems to unnerve them. When it comes from a black woman, and here's the thing, praise God for angel Reese, because while I'm doing my podcast here, go to my Instagram and hear her and how brilliant she was after the game, the clip is on my Instagram page. We're speaking up for her because she's being attacked and she deserves to have her brother's particularly speak up for her, but the sister can speak for herself. And she said, listen, this is what they've been saying about me all year long. And I'm just gonna be myself. And I'm doing this for black girls and girls who look like me. So they know that they can be themselves, too. Listen, I've got to run. I just, gosh, what a busy day, just ripping and running all day long. We'll be right back here tomorrow. And listen, if you are not yet a member, we are on our big membership push, we have nearly a month left where we're trying to get a 6000 new members we're now at like 5300 more that we need, and so please get us there, push us over the top. Go now to the north star dot com and join us today. Take care everybody. Break it down. The great right now. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers every single week. We talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, and really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips, we bring the strategy, and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
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The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Of that hype now? Listen, love, love, love and appreciate all of you. Watching today very closely. Donald Trump said he would be arrested today, but we don't actually know if it's going to be today, but I am about 99% sure he is going to be arrested. We'll keep a close eye on it, love and appreciate all of you. Thank you for your support. Please subscribe to this podcast, listen to it daily, and if you're not yet a member at the north star dot com, please join today. Take care everybody. Break it down. Right now. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers every single week. We talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, can really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips, we bring the strategy and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"The breakdown.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Are mainly not one and the same. 11, folk not only started beating and abusing and mauling Muslims, which was horrible. They then started beating and mauling people that they thought might be Muslims. Including Sikh Indians and anybody wearing turbans, people wearing turbans are almost exclusively never Muslims. Didn't matter. And that's what we have here. When you identify and criminalize one group of people, that ignorance spreads and people then are going to begin abusing and causing harm to anybody they think is connected to that group or might be in that group. My hope is that this type of stuff is going to be ruled unconstitutional. But again, like I said, a minute ago, it's going to take an organization fighting, filing legal claims that go all the way up to the Tennessee Supreme Court and the federal Supreme Court. And for all we know, the federal Supreme Court, they may not overturn this. Because they are ultra conservative as well. And so it's dangerous to me. It's a slippery slope, and I know it's easy. When you're not a part of a group and maybe you don't even know anybody that's a part of this group to be like, listen, that doesn't really involve me. I get it. But it does involve you. Because they are banning a criminalizing this group of people for harmless performances today. It could be you and your group and your folk tomorrow. Listen, glad to be with you again today. Keep tracking on this issue. And I'm asking you to care about it. I care about it. There's a lot of hypocrisy here, like I said, a lot of these folks fighting for this. They've been dressing up in drag themselves. Listen, if you're not already subscribed to this podcast, go now to the north star dot com, subscribe today, become a member. That's how we do what we do. And if you're not subscribed to this podcast, subscribe on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever podcasts are found. Take care and I'll see you right back here tomorrow before we head for the weekend. Take care everybody. Break it down. The great right now. I'm Tiffany Hawkins. I'm Alan boomer. And we are the momentum advisers. Every single week, we talk about wealth management, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. We are financial advisers by day, we're entrepreneurs by night. We're building wealth for ourselves and we want to make sure that you understand how to build wealth in your own family. Tune in for shows like is your money racist, retirement savings, investment one O one. We literally run the gamut on all the things that you need to know about financial wealth, creating a legacy for your family, and really just wealth creation as a whole. What we find is that these conversations are happening, but they're not happening as much as they need to in diverse communities. And so we're bringing a new voice, a new amount of energy, and we want you to tune in. So we bring the tips we bring the strategy and we always bring the good news. So make sure you tune in every week to the momentum advisers, there's something for everyone.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
Do Police Make Us Safe?
"Across the country particularly in some of america's largest cities. Some crime is up. I say some. Because i've studied these numbers in some cities. Some violent crimes are up in some cities. Violent crime has actually down during the pandemic in other cities Car break ins and carjackings are up but home break ins are down and so a lot of times people will say. Crime is up but they don't actually mean all crime they mean a particular type of crime. What i see is a ton ton of fear going on about how crime is out of control. And here's the thing. listen. I care about that. I want all of us my own family and your family and your friends in your hometown and all over the country. I want all of us to actually feel safe. What i see is a lot of. Americans defaulting back to the thing that they've been taught not just for a few months not just for a few years but defaulting back to something. They've been taught for generations that police more policing better-funded policing more police officers. That all things policing is what's going to make us more safe. That is not the answer. And i don't care what anybody says. Listen to me. Clearly this is the main idea. What i'm about to say. Listen the police department in your city and in your county do not absolutely do not need an increase to their budget period point blank. Dot com budgets are being slashed all over the country for education for public health for mental health for homelessness for housing for jobs. All types of budgets are being slashed and in most american cities. The only budget that has not been cut is the budget of the local police departments who've insisted that they and they alone have the power to keep us safe. But listen to me. If funding policing kept us safe today would be the safest day in american history.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Happens to your body to your health. You gotta do what you gotta do. And some of the things is like. I've got insurance but maybe your insurance doesn't cover this like i'll tell you. My mom was on a trip on a vacation and she got sick in another country and had to be in the hospital there for a week. She had to be medevac. Back to the states and then hospitalized again. There was a lot that was not covered by insurance. We had to pay out of pocket. My parents had to pay out of pocket for a lot of that. And that's enough to push somebody that doesn't have emergency savings into a big hole. Can i tell you a tip. My mom gave me okay. Don't tell my mom. Y'all don't tell mom but she just. Your mom is in the medical billing industry correct. Don't how no okay. This is where my mom told me for the sake of medical bills. Okay if you call an ambulance like something happens and you call nine. One one and ambulance comes out okay. Don't walk to the ambulance. If you walk to the ambulance you will have to pay for the ambulance right. If you're don't care what's wrong. You make them come in and get you and put you on a stretcher. And it's some sort of like now. It was just a requirement of the services. You don't have to pay because now you you could have walked you did you. Could've which means you could have driven yourself. Which means a bunch of things right. You gotta go full out on an ambulance. Okay if you call ambulance you gotta lay there. Let them put you on a stretcher and put you in the end. It's like you pay less like it was like. Oh a requirement of the service versus of voluntary ambulance ride. And that's a major key. Just lay there like my neck and my back this whatever it is when they ask you can you walk. Just say no okay with it. That's my help these bills. Come down a lot of times. People have high deductible insurance plans where they've got to pay the i five k out of pocket and they've never gotten a cold before so they don't expect that that will that they will ever come and they don't have but nine days where the emergency funds and they get sick and they don't have the deductible but other reasons people file for bankruptcy especially in the middle class. We talked about this mortgage. You can't afford anymore too much house. This is an issue from the housing crisis. Where folks buying homes with adjustable rate mortgages.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
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"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"You know what i mean like not not that attorney no shade right lake when you get in a car accident and all that definitely call them. Hit them up. Please do but for this particular instance you want to find an estate or a trust. Focused attorney teeny lawyer would be like the lingo. If you wanna sound fancy need a dealer you are very close to walk in a line. Oh you gotta tell me what i almost said. Tna oh my gosh everybody. Everybody heard it not where they gonna second. Tnt trust estate. No one's thinking trust in a state. There's a guarantee fact that no one listening to this podcast. Thought you were going to say trust and estate we all fall. She were going at tna. On my gosh. I didn't know where we going from there. Where did i get this partner from but yes you. Want a t. And e. attorney. Yeah and we've taken the time to construct a national list of black trust and estate attorneys in every state almost almost every state every say where we have clients. We don't have clients in south dakota nebraska. I can't do not for you. If you're if you know of a black trust in the state attorney you are wine. Hit us up. Send us a tweet. Will add to the list and that senator contact info because get a lot of flow of people that need estate planning and the thing about an estate plan. You have to find someone that's located or bard in your state if they're not barred in your state they're not aware of the laws of your state right and they're all very different so step one is you gotta find a trust in the state attorney Your trust is one part of an estate plan though. We'll do a whole show on his plans. But you wanna ask them you tell them about your assets and your goals and you know you'll you'll tell them about the types of trust that you're aware of this ribaud kubota there's irrevokable as the islet..
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"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"One hundred thousand which is like the equivalent of a million dollars. You know what i mean and and so for our children. When i'm one of the first people to really build material wealth. I will likely to leave a lot more of that in the family. But i will say i admire the fact that buffet cared enough about the world is bigger than than his kids at this point. Yeah he sending a message that we've got. We have a burden from this wealth. That is not just for our own consumption. It's also for the world a lot of things buffet putting money towards a lot of. It's going to africa a lot of it's going towards kids a lot of it's going towards the environment and these are things that you know. He was able to create this wealth. And if it weren't for a man like him a lot of these social problems world problems environmental problems they. They wouldn't get the attention because the other thing that he's done is he's inspired other people to do the same thing like his buddy bill gates. Bill gates is given away most of his money to charity. So i'm not mad at uncle warren. Here i definitely understand your perspective if this was your dad. Here's the thing. I am a person who believes that you are blessed to be a blessing ends are the more that you are blessed the more you are able to bless others and so i'm down for what warren buffett is doing But again like. I said warren knew something wasn't right because we know what peter did with his money. We're aware of what. Peter did with his money. No it's actually documented. What he was doing with this money Peter took this money and he started a career as musician. You damn right so just for just to put it in context. I'm not exactly sure of the. But if he went became a rapper. Like all the things that you could do all that your father has exposed you to as with all the charity and Just just access you. Have you take this money in becoming musician. There's nothing wrong with that but you probably only need ninety thousand. That i'm just saying i can see why the number is what it is. You wanna buy enough. We also has another son. Howie okay and how we by the way you remember those feed bags. Yes absolutely no every bag that was bought. It was going towards feeding like that. That's a buffet child. There you go nonprofit endeavor so like how he is a businessman coming from anther piz. It's also photographer there. You go and a farmer. Listening could do that easily. You know what i'm getting at is like you know year. there's a. there's going to be the rapper. But there's going to be the other kid that that is really embodying a lotta leadership. But i liked that. You give your kid options. Though like mad that he became a musician. I doubt he's a rapper but heard his apple. Has anybody heard of can somebody. Apple music is like heater buffet. Is i know what. I was fire. If anybody would just volunteer to go to apple music spotify look up. Peter buffett let me know if his popping let it hit us up at momentum advice and let us know what is hitting for all. Because i know. I've never heard it on on any radio station and i like several genres of music. So if anybody's got that he have heater but heart. His album got spirit seventh. Fire yono yonemoto right. Also he's also won an emmy award. Sure we'll take a listen to the music for us..
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"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"For the past two days in particular on may thirty first and june. The first we have been acknowledging. And i don't. I don't wanna use the word celebrating. But i think honoring the right word honoring those who survived the tulsa race massacre who endured it honoring the brilliance and beauty and magnificence of the. They called black wall street greenwood there in tulsa and mourning and grieving the enormity of the loss the pain lynching the destruction the murder the bigotry the racism ugliness and just trying to help this place that we call home united states of america to try to help this place. Acknowledge the pain of its past. I don't wanna go into remarks from joe biden in tulsa that i thought were i mean i'd probably give them a d. Maybe d-plus somewhere in that ballpark. You know. I think one thing frustrated a lot of us that joe biden said there tulsa talking about how black people needed to register more people to vote in sly. Hold on hold on hold on. Please leave that alone right now. And pleasing knowledge that over ninety percent of black men and women vote for the democratic party and nobody has registered more in voted more for joe biden then black people no single ethnic group. It's not even close boats more for democrats than black people so please please do not come to the one hundredth anniversary of the tulsa race massacre talking the black people about how badly they need to register more people to vote. Please don't do that please. But something in in some ways. Something is beyond those remarks of joe biden. Something is frustrated me beyond words and has taken me just a few days to gather how i want to say. This verbally audibly several living survivors of the tulsa race massacre testified in congress last week appeared on multiple television shows. Almost every survivor is now over. One hundred years old and it's amazing in and of itself that anybody could live to be over one hundred years old and not to mention them. Being survivor a black survivor of the tulsa race massacre of nineteen twenty. One that they made it to twenty twenty one chew endured and survive that massacre as a child in found your way all the way to twenty twenty. One is aim. Eric with something broke my heart to hear these elders. Supreme elders over one hundred years of one woman was one hundred and seven years old and a dear friend of mine. I won't say his name but a dear friend of mine A well-known leader wrote me to say that these are his relatives and he doesn't talk about that much publicly but he is a descendant of some of the living survivors of the tulsa race massacre an- descendant of many people who did not survive in bat. We still have survivors of this thing and they still have not been compensated for what happened to them. I mean a hundred plus blocks of homes and businesses and churches and schools and thousands of homes. Nearly every single business completely destroyed am based still. have not been given reparations. We can forget the word reparations of hang up for you but for most of my life. And i'm forty one years. I'm not young for most of my life. One of the big pushbacks to reparations has always been because most people when they think reparations they just think slavery so listen but there's nobody around who actually experience slavery there all day. Let's not get into the fact that a month after slavery. You denied them reparations. A year after a decade after a century after when there were millions of who were alive who experienced slavery. you denied them reparations. Not forty acres and a mule. Not forty dollars not four hundred four thousand or forty thousand dollars. Nothing in what they do is they say. Well there's no one here who actually experienced it. So why should we pay for it leaving out that when people were alive. Who did experience it. You denied everything and yet here. We are a hundred years. After the tulsa race massacre one of the gross moments in modern american history. The single deadliest mass shooting in modern american history where hundreds of african americans were shot killed lynched burned main. An the in this is no small detail. Bombed as city and county officials in tulsa from the police department in other parts of the local government cooperated in dropped bombs on homes and businesses and destroyed the single most thriving black community in america. Still no reparations not from tulsa not from oklahoma not from the united states of america. One of the things that i sit in a piece that i wrote at the north star dot com. And again if you're not yet a member please go and join. Now at the north star dot com. One of the things that i said is a lesson that i've taught college students and even high school students all over the country was seen high school and college. Students fighting for change on their campuses sometimes in academic department sometimes you know campus wide school wide college wide. I've told them a lesson that i wanna tell you. Do not allow administrators. College presidents buys presidents principles. Do not allow them to convince you that them listening to you is good enough like when you're fighting for change. Sometimes the people who can make that change happen once you think that.
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Ep. 447 - Where the Money Resides: Compound Interest - TEST
"Talking about it but like temperatures are up. Temperatures rising temperatures rising. I'm also going on vacation. Ooh yup nice nice now. Is that a One that you drive to. And everything's like nice and safe and serene Nice and safe and serene. Yes just not driving. Okay all right not try listeners. Need to know where you're headed and if you'd be responsible i'm i'm definitely being responsible. This is responsible vacation for sure. I've taken all the proper measures improper. Things need you to make back. Okay definitely gonna make it back that plan for play But yeah. I'm excited about my first week. Asian and twenty twenty one. I am too much deserve. My kids are like afraid to go anywhere. I've been trying to do like just be like we're going somewhere today and i promise you if they have a fun and then we like. Let's let's do more fun. Things we gone to target. That's a struggle. Yeah it ends up in an emotional fight year. They're like literally afraid like vampires them and take them to a beach Like somewhere that is covert responsible. I don't take them to a theme park. Like i don't know if that's that's what we're ready for. That and i was thinking about a waterpark. No no it's going to be indoor waterpark. All no so. I'm saying no but i'm not gonna act like i have not seen several people on my timeline. Taking their children to the indoor waterpark. But i will say. Don't go by your timeline. because people are wild. They're going
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How much has our country changed 30 years after the Rodney King beating
"Like millions of americans have been watching the painful traumatic trial of minneapolis. Police officer derek chauvin and seeing so many witnesses have to relive the terror and pain and in some ways shame many witnesses have said that they are struggling with the feelings of guilt that they did not do enough. I mean the only thing that they could have done that they didn't would be to have thrown their bodies onto the officers onto onto. George floyd and there's no proof necessarily that any of that would have saved georgia's life but these men and women and children witnessed demand be lynched and what we're seeing at. The trial is the sheer terror. Pain grief remorse of what it means to have witnessed in twenty twenty a man be murdered in slow motion lynched in slow motion and as i've watched the trial day in and day out this weekend the expectation is that this trial could go on for. Maybe two to three weeks. As i've watched it and yesterday we saw for the first time the body cameras of the officers. Who were there i. I don't understand for the life of me why they were just now released. Thankfully many cities and counties and states across the country now have policies and laws that force body camera footage is like this to be released.
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This change with policing in Denver needs to happen in every city in America
"The past six months the city of denver colorado has been running a brilliant pilot program to replace police when nine one one is called for at least seven different reasons that are connected to homelessness and substance abuse and poverty program is called star s. t. a. r. is stands for support team assisted response and it was inspired by one of my favorite programs in the entire country. We've talked about it. Multiple times here on the podcast cahoots and cahoots. Is the emergency response program. It has been around now for a generation in eugene oregon and the who's program now handles over twenty percent of eugene organs. Nine one one calls instead of police and it saves lives in eugene and it actually saves the city millions of dollars in the process and the big question about what the who's program does in oregon has always been whether or not it was going to work in a major american city like denver and the star program has answered that with a resounding yes and they just issued their six months report. And if you go to my facebook page if you go to the north star dot com. I've shared that report there. And if you're feeling nerdier walkie you can really get into the details but let me break down for you. The star program in denver decided to spend six months answering seven types of nine one one calls in four targeted areas of denver. Even those choices that they made were super smart. They chose one entire policing district so that they could have data on what would happen when they took over a large geographic area and then they chose three smaller police precincts which really represents smaller geographical areas but would give them some really actionable data to work with and of the seven hundred and forty eight calls that the star program actually answered that they took during their first six months. Listen not one. Single person was ever arrested and the denver police department was never even called one single time for backup. Nobody was killed by police. Nobody was sent to jail. Nobody was given a ticket. Nobody was given a criminal record and lives. were saved. and it's amazing two hundred and thirteen times. The star team responded to calls where people thought they saw someone strange in the area and as you may know those calls are actually sometimes forms of racial profiling or what i like to call poverty policing where someone poor or homeless is simply existing or walking and it gets on the nerves of more privileged people particularly privileged white people a hundred and forty five times. The star team responded to people in need who just wanted someone to check on a loved one ninety four times. They responded to someone who needed assistance in their home. Sometimes it was because of a mental or physical health challenge. Forty eight times. Listen to this. They responded with love and compassion to people considering suicide and none of those people committed suicide as you may know. Often one one is called during a suicide attempt. Police show up in kill. Those folk star team was able to talk each of those people through
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"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Yesterday at about noon. I suddenly started getting tagged in post after post after post of people saying omg. Joe biden just banned private prisons and it was it was viral innocence. I mean suddenly not only were congress. People saying the joe biden just signed an executive order banning private prisons but major media outlets including like nbc cnbc and other platforms. Were literally saying. Joe biden signed an executive order banning private prisons and my staff at the grassroots law project started messaging me and i just had to say hold everybody. Let me please see the the content. Let me see the copy. Let me let me see the content of the executive order and as soon as it was released the leading voices on civil rights and mass incarceration in the leading scholars. Not just me okay. The leading scholars leading activists including people from our friends at the appeal <hes>. Including their editor. In chief josie duffy including <hes> leading executives from the aclu. At to basically say. I'm sorry that you all misunderstood the executive order but joe biden. Absolutely one hundred percent did not issue a ban on private prisons and people had to apologize because everybody was super super elated and in some ways the way they announced this <hes>. This executive order gave people the impression that it was bigger than it really is but less than it was the fault of the biden administration. People really got ahead of themselves and that can be. I've done that before. It can be what happens when you celebrate something without reading the fine print yesterday. Joe biden did not ban or end private prisons. Not
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"shaun king" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"It's official donald. Trump is no longer the president of the united states. As i speak. Joe biden and kamala harris are being inaugurated are being sworn in to their positions and we are about to enter a very new era of national politics of federal politics. I don't expect that it will be easy. In any way we have over-simplified our problems in the sense that we have blamed many of our deep systemic problems that predated trump. We have blamed many of those things on him including police. Brutality mass incarceration when those things were fully entrenched before he ever took office. But i want to say. And i want to talk about this this one thing today. I wanna say the one reason why. I'm going to have a serious degree of grace and patients with both joe biden and kamala harris. That i think a year ago. I probably would not have offered. Had the two of them been sworn in but a lot has happened over the past year. Let me tell you why. I'm going to have grace as they began this extremely difficult journey. Let me unpack and explain it. This is shaun king. You're listening to the breakdown. The breakdown the breakdown. If you've ever listened to this podcast or if you follow me on social media you've ever seen or heard me on the campaign trail for bernie sanders you know that. I've been a huge huge critic of joe biden and in particular. I've been a huge critic of his is policies and history and and kind of problematic past on issues of mass incarceration the war on drugs and policing and win this presidential campaign particularly we go all the way back almost two years now on the democratic primaries i started <hes> there was no coronavirus pandemic. There had been no attack on the american capital and the four hundred thousand plus people who've now died over the past nine months they were they were all alive and what has happened to our nation over the past year truly makes it arguably one of the most difficult years in modern american history of certainly over the past few generations at the very least. It's just been an unspeakably difficult year. And the truth. Is that all of the things that made twenty twenty so hard as we saw just continued into twenty twenty one now with trump out of office and with him off of twitter and i. That's no small thing. I i wasn't. I was on break from the podcast when he was booted from twitter and didn't get really didn't get a chance to really unpack it but having him off of twitter is damn near as big as having him out of the white house. Twitter was his superpower and with him no longer their misinformation and hate and so much other things so many other things just plummeted all over social media particularly on twitter. He he we now. Fully understand was the epicenter of hate and misinformation on that platform. And when you remove him all of a sudden so many other negative metrics plummeted as well now hate and racism and bigotry. Don't disappear when you remove him from twitter. But having trump out of office without the power of that position about the power to appoint judges and supreme court justices and cabinet members and white house staffers in without the power of executive actions without him and his incompetent team overseeing the a horrible response to the coronavirus pandemic a competent team can now be put in place and so a lot of the things that made twenty twenty difficult. Some of those things continue into twenty twenty one though with trump out of office his administration out of office and with him off of twitter. I think there are some things that will get better with that sale. Joe biden comma. Harris are literally about to begin. What i think will be the most difficult presidency in our lifetime
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The one reason I will have grace for President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris
"It's official donald. Trump is no longer the president of the united states. As i speak. Joe biden and kamala harris are being inaugurated are being sworn in to their positions and we are about to enter a very new era of national politics of federal politics. I don't expect that it will be easy. In any way we have over-simplified our problems in the sense that we have blamed many of our deep systemic problems that predated trump. We have blamed many of those things on him including police. Brutality mass incarceration when those things were fully entrenched before he ever took office. But i want to say. And i want to talk about this this one thing today. I wanna say the one reason why. I'm going to have a serious degree of grace and patients with both joe biden and kamala harris. That i think a year ago. I probably would not have offered. Had the two of them been sworn in but a lot has happened over the past year. Let me tell you why. I'm going to have grace as they began this extremely difficult journey. Let me unpack and explain it. This is shaun king. You're listening to the breakdown. The breakdown the breakdown. If you've ever listened to this podcast or if you follow me on social media you've ever seen or heard me on the campaign trail for bernie sanders you know that. I've been a huge huge critic of joe biden and in particular. I've been a huge critic of his is policies and history and and kind of problematic past on issues of mass incarceration the war on drugs and policing and win this presidential campaign particularly we go all the way back almost two years now on the democratic primaries i started there was no coronavirus pandemic. There had been no attack on the american capital and the four hundred thousand plus people who've now died over the past nine months they were they were all alive and what has happened to our nation over the past year truly makes it arguably one of the most difficult years in modern american history of certainly over the past few generations at the very least. It's just been an unspeakably difficult year. And the truth. Is that all of the things that made twenty twenty so hard as we saw just continued into twenty twenty one now with trump out of office and with him off of twitter and i. That's no small thing. I i wasn't. I was on break from the podcast when he was booted from twitter and didn't get really didn't get a chance to really unpack it but having him off of twitter is damn near as big as having him out of the white house. Twitter was his superpower and with him no longer their misinformation and hate and so much other things so many other things just plummeted all over social media particularly on twitter. He he we now. Fully understand was the epicenter of hate and misinformation on that platform. And when you remove him all of a sudden so many other negative metrics plummeted as well now hate and racism and bigotry. Don't disappear when you remove him from twitter. But having trump out of office without the power of that position about the power to appoint judges and supreme court justices and cabinet members and white house staffers in without the power of executive actions without him and his incompetent team overseeing the a horrible response to the coronavirus pandemic a competent team can now be put in place and so a lot of the things that made twenty twenty difficult. Some of those things continue into twenty twenty one though with trump out of office his administration out of office and with him off of twitter. I think there are some things that will get better with that sale. Joe biden comma. Harris are literally about to begin. What i think will be the most difficult presidency in our lifetime
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Americans need direct cash support again. RIGHT NOW.
"Right now. From coast to coast here in the united states the coronavirus pandemic is completely out of control. We had in just five days. A million more people test positive people are dying by the thousands every single day. We had one day that topped three thousand. The seven day average for last week was over two thousand per day Taking a nearly up to fifteen thousand people who died in one week's time just a staggering amount of loss and death in pain. And if you follow my social media accounts. I have talked and council and tried to comfort so many of these families who just don't know what to do families whose whose closest loved ones died sometimes all alone in a local hospital where you not even allowed to go in and hold their hand or comfort them and i'm not just speaking about people who had pre existing conditions. I've seen husbands wives sons daughters mothers fathers grandparents neighbors co workers. All pass away from this. Who had no known pre existing conditions and while it may pray like every disease like every ailment praise on a pre existing condition. This thing is walloping people all over the country and just causing staggering amount of loss and yes. Donald trump does not appear even care. He's not speaking about it. He's not fighting for people for their for their safety for the betterment of this country just every day. He's raising money for himself. He is Disputing the results of the election. And it's just it's just garbage is trash but it's not just him because this thing is out of control in all fifty states from coast to coast and governors have to make really important decisions mayors have to make very important decisions and one of the things that they're doing and i understand. I have friends who work in state governments. I have friend. France who work in in governor's offices all across the country in mayor's offices all across the country people are legitimately in an impossible position as the corona virus. Now rages out of control. Cities counties states. Feel like okay. We have to make emergency decisions to try to slow this thing down or stop it. Because it's ravaging hospitals and healthcare systems and so places all cities counties and states all over. The country have decided to basically shut their states down. And just hear me. Clearly i get it i understand. The pandemic is out of control. The number of cases is exploding every day. Hospitals are literally now having a turn people away some are completely past capacity with their icu. They're icu beds. And so cities counties and states are saying okay shutdown all of these types of businesses and all of these types of businesses.
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The First Thing Democrats Must Do if They Sweep Election Day
"Any moment now in fact, by the time, you hear this. Republicans may have already approved Amy Komi Barrett to be the next Supreme Court justice she. Might literally be the single most conservative person on the Supreme Court. Certainly, she will be as conservative as Clarence Thomas. She's an ultra conservative and has never hidden that that's why she's so popular among conservatives. And All of a sudden. Donald trump in a single term. Will have appointed more Supreme Court justices than Barack was able to do in two full terms. he in fact, will have appointed more supreme. Court justices than most presidents ever get to do. And Republicans are now doing the very thing they said just could not be done. In the final year of Barack Obama's administration. But here we are. I've talked about in many times they don't play by the same rules. They're not even playing the same game to F. The rules. These are these are two completely different games and. There are options. There are basically no options left at this point. To stop this nomination and Democrats. Have made it clear that they don't even really have. Democrats in the Senate Particularly, Democrats on the judiciary have made it clear that they don't really even have the guts to stop the nomination. There were many things they could have done to slow it down and and they chose basically none of them just even procedural things to delay it. But here we are and she is about to be approved by. The Republican Senate and I could even talk to you about where Democrats fumbled the ball to continue to give Republicans the Senate. But the. That are left at this point. Are Really going to require. Democrats to win the Senate majority. Joe Biden to win the White House and Democrats to keep the house. and. If those three things happen if Democrats control the House, the Senate and the presidency. Which is Democrats will keep control of the house. So you know put that to the side. They are enough of them running that will win their seats and keep their their majority and maybe even strengthening. Whether or not Democrats flip the Senate. And take the White House. It's still up in the air I mean voting is going to have to continue at a frenetic pace. Between a Noun Election Day election day will have to be huge. And and it's possible. But if those three things happen, there are then. Multiple. Very serious systemic. Changes, that have to be considered. And I, think in a lot of ways we have to look at what Chile just did as you may know. As you may or may not have seen. It got very little coverage in the mainstream American media but late, last night nearly eighty percent of all people in the country Chile. Voted to be able to completely rewrite their constitution. MEAN A. Picture major deal it was written nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. Of course, not only by all men, but it was written during the age of of a dictator. And now they have an opportunity to seriously shape shifted into something that is beautiful inequitable. I want to tell you right after the break some of the necessary changes. That our country and our government can can undertake do I think that we will. Overhaul our constitution. No probably I wish I. Wish It'd be a beautiful thing.
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Why we must all stand against police brutality in Nigeria
"Before we fully dive into today's episode. Let me first. Say to all of the protesters and demonstrators and everybody who was working hard to fight back against police violence in. Nigeria, from those of you who donate for those of you who might be listening to this on instagram or I tunes or spotify wherever you are in the world let me first say a from my mouth to your ears that we are standing in solidarity with you. We believe in you we're grateful for your for your courage and bravery in the face of state sanctioned violence and I wanNA start there because I'm not. Nigerian. I'm not in Nigeria and I only have the perspective of an outsider here. When I have often heard other people from other countries, speak about police violence in the United States. It has often been painfully clear to me that sometimes. You truly have to be in a place to understand the complexity and nuance of it, and for instance, when George Floyd was murdered an and people all over the world almost twenty million people saw that video just from my social media accounts alone. People, just struggled. To understand how people from. Of the United. States in particular struggled to understand how something like that was possible. Well in the United States where we have a painful history of lynching. Where black men in particular are killed in broad daylight in front of everybody where where people serve as judge jury and executioner, and we've seen these images, our whole lives, we know the bloody history of lynching in this country. For us when we saw we were are are conscious in our heart and soul they were shocked in disturbed. But. For us, it was just a part of of how this country works. But. For people around the world, it was like hold on what? Or. When people saw the video of white men literally chasing down, Aubrey? And Shooting and killing him these men were were racist white supremacist dislike hold on. People are being chased in murdered. Wire. People breaking into the home of Brianna Taylor shooting and killing her and people around the world have tried as outsiders to understand the unique pain what it means to be black in America. And now we as Americans in end from side of the continent of Africa but particularly outside of Nigeria. We are seeing the crisis of police violence explode and what we don't understand is. How long has this been going on? What did this feel like last month last year ten years ago what is the history and legacy in context for it and so for many of us who like I? Have always followed African news closely and try to try to watch the major breaking news from throughout the continent the best that I can. It's it's certainly hard to do that from American news sources but try to follow at least the big stories the best I can for a lot of US including myself. The protest and demonstrations against police violence. Seemingly came out of nowhere. And what I know is that they never come out of nowhere I know that that's not actually how it happened. It's just the media coverage. Finally. Boiled over to the point in the protests and demonstrations against this police violence grew so much that it finally broke through into the news cycle that if finally trended across social media. And the Hashtag in SARS. Was Everywhere on all of my time lines in all of my direct messages and I'll be frank. It took me. A few days to even understand what people were were saying when they said in. SARS because here in the United States. When we're in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic for those of you who may be listening around the world, this pandemic has ravaged our country with nearly two hundred and twenty five thousand people dead nearly eight million people now have contracted the corona here and in this pandemic, the word. SARS for us is also a word frequently used with a type of flu here. and. So when I first started seeing in some ours. I thought that the. Flu had caught on somewhere else not I'm not joking that's literally what my mind process when I first saw it. and. It took me a couple of days to understand that end SARS. This was early last week probably ten days ago or so that end SARS had anything to do with police brutality, took me a forty eight hours or so to understand what it was really
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Democrats Have to Play by a Fierce New Set of Rules
"Every single day. We get some kind of reminder. Of the reality. That Republicans who right now. Control the Senate and the White, house but even when they just control the Senate. Even when they just control a a part of a single branch of government, they didn't control the House and the Senate during the Obama Administration for most of it they just controlled. The Senate one part of the legislative wing of our government. And yet with that one wing. They effectively blocked. Most of Barack Obama's legislative priorities, hundreds of. A. Federal Judicial appointments that he hoped to make they literally stole a Supreme Court nomination away from him a supreme. Court appointment when he nominated Merrick Garland and they literally would not even hear it would not even allow it to come to the floor. Now we see. Real life voter suppression before our eyes. And if you don't understand and I saw many conservatives say now let's not voter suppression if you don't understand how having people wait in line. For Ten to twelve hours is a form of voter suppression. You're dumb. I people around the world saw it and said. Oh, my God I've never heard of anything like that in my life particularly people from the world's developed countries and I, and I'll say the world's fifty most developed countries said I've never waited more than five to ten minutes a day in my life yesterday people were waiting in line for ten hours twelve hours literally writing me showing me the videos I lived in Georgia for almost twenty years in we saw it and they did this by in some counties closing virtually all locations to vote. In counties that have a million people they would now have one place you could vote and in in the inside, this is what this is. What baffled me These places were understaffed sometimes with two to three people sometimes with two three voting booths. In the primary location in Cobb County Georgia, which is part of Metro Atlanta. They were only allowing about sixty people in our to vote. Well when a few hundred people are in line. It all of a sudden when people I got there like, Oh, it took me two or three hours to vote. By the time, it got lunch. People had been in line for seven hours. People were in line from the darkness of the morning to the darkness of the night. They had too few voting booths with one voting location and too few staff members inside. This isn't an accident bis done on purpose everybody knew. That yesterday was going to be an engaged day of voting. But people in counties all over this country. have done what they can. To use their power. To make sure they suppress voters it's voter suppression because most Americans can't cannot stay. For for for two hours. Most Americans literally can't afford to take an hour out of their data vote people had to leave to go pick up and drop off their kids people had worked to do people have medical concerns that that don't allow them to stand up or be in line of be outdoors for so many hours. It's preposterous. Yes. It's a form of voter suppression. Two days ago I was excited. because. A federal judge overruled the governor of Texas who said in our counties over Texas you can only have one place to drop off your ballots one box to drop it off some counties in Texas. If you've never been are enormous and he said listen, you can only have one place to drop off your ballots and a judge overruled that and said, no, that's arbitrary in particularly in your biggest most populated counties, it's also a form of voter suppression because now some people might have to drive a mile but some going to drive thirty miles the people who don't have. Access to cars people who cannot necessarily afford public transportation. This is unnecessary. You can have countless. All over the the cities and counties. and. They overruled the governor said, yes you're county can have multiple ballot boxes for people to drop off their ballots. And early this morning while we were all asleep. A panel of three judges. All appointed by Donald Trump. Unanimous unanimously said, no, no, no, the governor's right. These counties they can only have one. That's what he said. It's okay. They can only have one. How did that happen? Donald trump has appointed more judges in his three and a half year. Than almost every American. President has ever appointed in two terms in great part because when he became president when Donald Trump became president Republicans blocked countless. Of Vacancies in in the District Court positions. And consequently when trump came into office, there were over one hundred of them still open and he has appointed all over this country inexperienced young people that have lifetime appointments to these roles. Democrats and Republicans. are playing by a completely. Set of
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The Breonna Taylor Case Must Be Reopened Immediately
"A whole lot has come to the light over the past forty, eight hours in. What we call the Briana Taylor case you know there's a part of me. That gets frustrated that we even call it the Briana Taylor case because a lot of ways. We should name it after the officers should name it after. Miles Cosgrove and bread, Hankinson and others. But we've learned a lot over the past two to three days and we're scheduled to learn a whole lot more tomorrow and what I really conclude as that this case is not over. It's it's not over just practically speaking there's a lot more to learn about it. But it's also not over from a prosecution standpoint and accountability standpoint. These officers particularly the two officers who shot and killed Brianna Taylor who were not charged. Those officers and many other people who were involved in this case from those who approve the warrant to those who falsified the warrant and everybody else up and down the chain who could be held responsible and accountable here there's a lot more work to do I I want to thank the team at vice news over the past couple of years. there have been a lot of complaints about the work conditions advice and even the low level of pay advice, and even a a culture of sexual harassment advice. And I know several people who have now just recently relatively recently started working there after all of these things came out. And you know they've said that the company is on a path to doing so much better and that's good news because we need. Credible fearless new sources involved in cases like this, and we also want them to to have a certain ethical standard and so congratulations to the team advice for the work they've been doing over the past few weeks. I I literally think they could win awards for this work. They Were the first people to get. Hours and hours of body camera footage from the scene. Now, we were always told that no police officers who were involved in the shooting of Taylor had body cameras. Now, we're literally and a lot of ways just forced to take their word for it. What we do know now though is that. Multiple officers had body cameras on when they arrived after the shooting and the team advice they have obtained and released. A good a good amount of that footage and it's Deeply insightful and incredibly problematic. We see several things in that footage including. Violations of policy. One thing we see is officer Bread Hankinson. After he has participated in the shooting violates a policy that almost every major police department in America has he then reenters the crime scene. This man was just involved in the shooting. And the Louisville Police Department has a policy that when you have fired your weapon and there's a crime scene, you're not allowed to reenter that crime scene. You are not allowed to participate in that investigation. It is a a major conflict of interest and he's not just there. He's asking people whose bullet is this WHO's bullet? Is that like he's in there we have no idea. How many times did he going there before someone had their body camera on did he change anything that we don't know what we do know is that he violated a policy that everybody in that department was aware of, and we we know this nice because officers have since been interviewed about about whether or not they're aware of this policy. But that officers there on the scene. Are telling him. You have to get out of here. And not only that you hear that in the body camera footage from multiple people saying two different officers you shouldn't be here right now. It was an obvious policy again though these men thought they were above policy. Again from how the the warrant was obtained to how they executed it. These men were were constantly. Going up against clear department policy, which shows not only frame of mind but shows just how they really saw themselves as above the law. Not, only that. We learned just yesterday that before the raid it was a no knock warrant raid where they for anybody who said they were they were not let into the home they broke into the home in the middle of the night. we now know that multiple officers raised red flags about the validity of the raid before it even happened. and. That's the right. Now one they never splits be clear. They never spoke up about this. We only know that officers were raising red flags about this raid on Brianna his apartment remember. Brianna was not a drug dealer quick quick to BS. There are no drugs in her home. Her Boyfriend Kenny was not a drug dealer and anybody who sang otherwise is lying neither Kenny nor Brianna had a criminal record. They. Committed no crimes. There was no evidence of crimes. There was no shadow of evidence of crimes there in in the apartment period point blank dot com there were no drugs there there. There was no illegal contraband or anything else in in their apartment in you know my position is even if such a thing was found in anyone's apartment, it truly does not warrant the danger that people are put in with these. No knock warrants. That's why the city of Louisville has now banned him. But we now have learned that multiple officers before the no knock raid, and after the no knock raid raise red flags about it.
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The Murder Rule
"Usually in our criminal legal system. In order to convict someone of a crime, there are two primary factors at play the first is. What a person does their action. The second is what that person intended to do. In Law we call what a person does. Actus Reus what is the action? And what is on a person's mind? What they intended to do is known as men's Raya. And it's the hallmark of a civilized legal system. We care about an individual's actions and we care about an individual's intent. Let me give you an example of this principle. For crime of misdemeanor theft. The prosecutor has to prove to a jury that someone took something. That's the act. With the intent to permanently deprive the rightful owner of that thing that's the intent. So. Let's say. I'm in a store to buy toothbrush. And I pick up toothbrush and I leave the store. Now, that would look like a theft. Let's say that I left the store because I got an emergency phone call from my daughter's school and there was no reception store. So I rushed outside to hear the call. Or. Let's say that I left the store because I suddenly realized that I left my wallet in the car. In both of those situations I did leave the store with the toothbrush. But I had no intent to permanently deprive the store. The prosecutor could not show that I committed a crime because I didn't intend to do so. What you do matters, it does what you do matters but a person's intent according to the law also matters and this makes perfect sense. You wouldn't want to convict somebody of a crime because of an accident and Mrs just for Misdemeanor Theft. And it makes sense because in our legal system, we say. I almost have to put parentheses around say we say that liberty is paramount. Before, we're going to let a prosecutor strip you of your rights since you away from all of your loved ones, send you away from your family, your job, your career you're calling and put you in a prison sale. They should have to prove that a person did something wrong. And meant to do something wrong. However. There is one very old relic in our criminal law. Where what a person actually does and what a person intends to do. Does not matter at all. A prosecutor in this, it blows my mind to think about this. A prosecutor can lock up someone for life. For, a murder that a person did not commit a murder that everyone knows they did not commit. A prosecutor can lock someone for life and everyone knows that they did not intend to hurt anyone. A prosecutor can tell a jury that it doesn't matter that the person didn't intend to hurt anyone. And, this rule is known as the felony murder rule. And it is incredibly problematic tens of thousands of people all over the country from coast to coast are in prison because of this one single rule right now. This rule says that if a person is committing a felony, let's say robbery. And in committing that robbery, a person gets killed. The, felony murder rule says everybody who committed the robbery can now also be held responsible for the murder. That law came from the Middle Ages in England. But. It has now been banned in every country whose legal system originally came from England. It has been abolished in Ireland. It has been abolished in Canada in India it was abolished in England in Nineteen fifty six. But it's still exist in almost every state in the United States of America,
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Why I took my Instagram & Twitter accounts private
"Before the pandemic I would I would always crack up because I could be on the train you know now. During. A pandemic it's is horrible here in New York I I don't take the train. I. Hardly go outside and when I do I, have a mask on. So people people rarely recognize me although I have been out even with a mask and a hat and people will come up which is always weird during the pandemic say are you Shaun. King. But before the pandemic could be on the train any day and I would take the train every single day and People would come up to me and they wouldn't say are you Shaun King they wouldn't say. Are you are you that are you that writer? Are you that activists organizer? Deer run the you know real justice. Grassroots. Law. They say. Are you the guy from instagram. And I would always be so surprised because. When I wake up in the morning. That's not how I see myself. I don't see myself as a damn social media celebrity. A social media as a tool and I always have like if you go all the way back to facebook and AOL even I've been using mass emails literally for over. Twenty years. You know I was I was on facebook when I was a student. I was Saban on facebook even even that is getting for over fifteen years. I've I've been on one of the first million people on twitter when it was just a a group of nerds and Ashton Kutcher and Larry King And So I've been using social media for a long time in is funny when people ask me. Are you that guy from instagram because I'm actually super late to instagram. I may have opened up an account early but I I really didn't use it like I use it now. Until way after. When I wished I really did And And so I'm always surprised by it, but it's a it's a platform that I use in an for years. I would even when I was a I was the senior justice writer at the new. York Daily News I was riding sometimes two and three articles a day every single day. And people who are all over New York would come up to me and say, Hey, sean, our each articles they will say something that really surprised me. They will say. Hey Sean I get all of my news from you. From your instagram page I'm like. Oh, my hold on. I'm the senior justice writer. At one of the local newspapers and busting my butt every single day and everywhere I would go people with a everything I learned about injustice I learned from you. On, your instagram. And and eventually, instead of being frustrated by it, I leaned into it and say, wow, this is a place that I. This is a tool that I need to us to be able to inform people in and and inspire them and point them in a in a certain direction. and. The more I use the tool. To organize, people to inform. To rally, US around causes rallies around campaigns justice change. The more I did that. The more the hate grew. The death threats grew. The spam grew and I brought in and outside secure what I have security I'm I'm recording this now from podcast studio in our house because our offices are closed. We. Have Security here at the house and we also have a cyber security firm and because so many of the death threats that we get come from online. And what we found was that. It appears multiple corporations. Are Funding. It looks like multiple different initiatives. To not only spread misinformation. And lies and spam on my page, but to flood everything that I do. With lies about who I am lies about the work that I do lies about my family Sometimes it's blatant misinformation about my perspectives or views. and. It wasn't by the the dozens or hundreds by the thousands on some days over ten thousand comments of blatant misinformation. I'm not talking about people with. Not Talking about real people with real critiques. But accounts that were created to flood everything that I do with blatant misinformation.
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This one step will drastically change policing forever
"This past weekend Chicago you you might have seen this police shot and injured a young black man in the neighbourhood of Inglewood. As reports of yet another police shooting is Chicago spread. They were complicated by conflicting details about the case I people were saying that it was a young child. Then people discovered that the police had body cameras on then people were arguing over whether or not the young man was armed and not armed and residents. Quickly and I I saw this happen. Literally unfold online minute by minute. It went from. WH, what do you say zero zero to a hundred real quick like it. It got bad quickly. And it was a sign. Of just how badly people's nerves afraid how tired people are? Of police brutality, not just in Chicago but all over the country because normally what would take? Days. Sometimes. To boil over a swear it looked in Chicago like it boiled over in minutes. and. Father. Pfleger of Saint Sabina church there. He said right now the city, this is a quote is like a keg of dynamite. And went on to say people are so frustrated. So hopeless. So angry. that it doesn't take much. She says, if you just light a match in, throw it on the fire, you said it goes up. And today I. WanNa. Talk about. One cause of this anger and frustration in the wake of police shootings and one really important step that we can take to help address it. Now this is admittedly an incredibly complex issue with very specific causes in Chicago and I wanNA say that because. I've learned I've you. You've heard me say this I've traveled over the past six years at a black lives matter movement. I've traveled to forty seven states. I've traveled to almost every major American city in the country. And an each of those cities I have taught. I have learned. I have organized. I have engaged families and organizations that. have been impacted by police violence in what I've learned, and this is so important. That what works in Miami doesn't necessarily work in Portland. And what works in Portland might not work in Chicago. And what works in Chicago even though it's, it's a major city may not work here in new. York where I live, which is a major city everything is not cut and paste. But there is one larger solution. That I think, can be customized for each city and if done. To, the best of its ability, I think could. Be a breakthrough way for us to confront not just fatal police violence but all forms of police misconduct, sexual abuse corruption fall of falsifying evidence planting of evidence in everything in between. And here's the thing. Right now in Chicago where black and Brown neighborhoods have historically been super neglected even in the in the midst of a devastating pandemic. And where the relationship between these communities and law enforcement. has been strained by decades of policing. We have, to understand. That How you solve the crisis. Of Violence including police violence in Chicago is not simple. But I WANNA push today. On some of the ways we can solve it because here's the thing. The responses that we see two police shootings they're not only a reflection of the pain and sadness over another life lost gravely injured due to stay sanctioned violence. Because after a police shooting or killing after this violence, we are also forced into the unavoidable conclusion that police continue to think they're above the law and that the systems of accountability that we have. Just seen to not work in the way I. Say it is that they were designed in some ways not to work.
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Does the 15th Amendment really give African Americans the right to vote?
"I. Think what I'm about to say is going to shock you. It shocked me to be honest. We don't actually have the constitutional right to vote. We don't. The constitution, it gives us a lot of rights, but the right to vote is not one of them. Now. This isn't me being crafty with my words. Not. A single constitutional amendment was ever authored guarantees. American citizens the right to vote. In, fact according to our Constitution our. Right to own a gun is stronger than our federal right to vote. And I. Think we all fundamentally misunderstood this I know I did. We just don't have a constitutional right to vote. And over the past few days as people have raised questions about who should or should not be allowed to vote in presidential candidates have been asked whether or not they support people being able to vote while they're incarcerated. The one thing that stood out most to me is that it appears most presidential candidates haven't even thought about these things before. Let me, break it down. From the technical founding of the United States in seventeen seventy, six all the way until today and I mean right here right now, very moment you are hearing these words come out of my mouth, the constitution by purposeful design as not guaranteed people the right to vote. They left it out on purpose so that document the United States constitution that is so often held up as the standard bearer of global democracy. It didn't even guarantee people the right to vote. It didn't guarantee. It was written in it doesn't guarantee it now. Now at grant some rights to assemble some rights to speak some rights to own guns but it never gave voting as a fundamental right It could have. Hell it should have. The framers of the constitution could have easily made that the first second or third amendment. Added, it would immediately mean that white landowning men might have to see their power over the other people who would eventually rise up to vote. In above all else, the constitution was originally written as a document to protect and empower white men. routed. It was written exclusively for white men by white men. So, they left the right to vote out of the Constitution in left it up to the states to create their own rules and guidelines and laws in policies on who could vote and who couldn't and guess what? It. Got Ugly Racist Sexist and classist right away. And state by state started creating a series of complicated hurdles on who they determined could and could not vote. It was pretty much. Anything goes cities, counties and states they all started making up types of wowed restrictions on who could vote and who couldn't vote and it was all legal. Right away people say no, no, no, no no. The fifteenth. Amendment granted black people the right to vote or the nineteenth amendment granted women the right to vote. Sometimes, we actually have to go back in read the fine print.
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Are you going to vote?
"When I asked you. If you plan on voting, it sounds like I'm joking. But I swear I'm not, and the reason I ask is when I actually look at the numbers of people who aren't voting every year year in year out. OVER HALF OF AMERICA HALF OF VOTING AGE Americans. Is, not, they're not voting period. Half of all of our eligible voters. Aren't voting in presidential elections. In fact, the largest single bloc of voters. Non Voters. And I have to assume. That many of you who are listening right now. Maybe. Plan on voting. Maybe think that you're going to vote. But actually half of you aren't going to vote, and maybe it's that the listeners a breakdown, you all just vote and vote and vote, and maybe we're not at fifty percent. But even when you look at demographics and all of that half of all eligible voters just aren't voting. And I for my entire life have stayed away from the generic request of go vote. because. Saying to people go vote. Does. Not necessarily make change as you know, maybe, no. On April twenty first to have a brand new book out called make change and I- rail on this very point of saying this and telling people go vote is not enough. It's not enough to tell people go vote. We have to instruct people on who to vote for. Not just even on what party. But on. What position on? What person? Because saying, go vote? Might, get people in there maybe to vote for particular presidential candidate. But how is that going to help them to know who to vote for on the school board or city council or even in their local congressional race in their state legislative races? We need to become listen to me. We need to become. Highly. Informed. Super informed voters. And to be very real about it, I, mean, we are now just days away from the Iowa caucuses, but the truth is, Minnesota. Is already in early voting. Do you hear me? States that have early voting have already started. California is just a few days away now from early voting, and so we are days away. From being able to vote all over the country in in Minnesota, and other states, this week and next week are also going to begin early voting. We are about to choose the next Democratic candidate for president of United States. What are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for like? First off, there's going to be no superhero to swoop down and save us. I know you know that and I'm not trying to be facetious, but you see the candidates. Okay. You see them. You see the candidates for president make choice do not simply allow. Everybody else don't allow the media to choose for. You do not allow other voters to choose for you. Because I assure you, they may not have your best interest in mind. Go ahead, find out who is running for Congress in your community who was running for a local legislative races on the state level whatever states are in. Even. If you're outside of the United, states, who are you voting for locally regionally nationally, what are you planning on doing listen? The responsibility, this is what I want to pass over to you. The responsibility. Of, knowing who to vote for? Falls on you. It does not fall on me. It does not fall on. Your parents, your siblings, your pastor, your local activists, or organizer. The responsibility that when you live. In a democracy where you get to vote for your mayor for your district attorney for your city council person for other roles that are so pivotal when you have ballot initiatives. For. For schools for penny taxes, where sometimes they'll raise sales tax by penny, but that penny will be multiplied sometimes hundreds of millions of times with every single purchasing could completely change the roads or public works or school systems that it will go to do. You even know what ballot initiatives are going to be on the ballot in your city in your state in your county. I need you to make the commitment listen to. In some ways, this entire episode is an action steps episode I need you to make the commitment. This time. When you walk into your polling location, do you know your polling location? Are you properly registered. Let's talk about those two things for many before I. Even Pass on this responsibility to you. All you need to do right now it, there are two things are right you to be able. To Google. Am I registered to vote. And put your state. Am I registered to vote New York. M I registered to vote Georgia Minnesota California Alabama Texas. Make sure that you're registered to vote. Now put 'em I. registered to vote and they should not be this complicated M I registered to vote Democratic primary. Now, you may be listening to me, we'll shot I'm not really a Democrat I'm I'm an independent I hear that. Because all of us are often extremely frustrated with America's two party system, and there's plenty to be frustrated about the democratic, party, and and certainly about the Republican Party. But did you know that in many states including California and others some of the largest states in the country that if you are not a registered Democrat, you are not able to vote in the Democratic primary. So here again is what I need you to do. Google your name right now because many of us come upon deadlines for us to even be able to to vote in the Democratic primary, you'll miss that you won't even get to choose who the Democratic candidate for president or any position is if you don't vote in the Democratic primary, so Google this. Am I registered to vote in the Democratic primary? And then your state.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
10 Ways to Defund the Police Today
"If you haven't yet listened to yesterday's episode of the breakdown, this is really a two part series, and so I would encourage you to go back and listen to yesterday's episode where I break down the pushback that the movement to defend police is getting from some people. It's really rooted and misunderstanding. And introduce the work of the scholar Alex Towel in his book the end of policing. A brilliant must have book one of the most important books for this moment. And then I share Alex broke down ten ways that we could de-fund police, but increased public safety and yesterday I share the first five and today I wanna get to the final five. Step, number six is that we need to fund school wellness centers. Now, unsurprisingly, putting more people and more police rather in schools has only fueled the school to prison pipeline and what else did we really think they were going to do if they weren't going to be an arrest kids, police are doing in America schools exactly what we thought they do. Police officers don't have specialized training in adolescent or childhood development. They're not mental health experts. They're not social workers or psychologists. They're not school counselors are educators. They are literally law enforcement officers, normally whose primary training is in how to use a gun. Okay. And you put them in schools and what they do is they be arrest people. It is better safer and cheaper. If you fund school wellness centers in cities, like Minneapolis have started to experiment with replacing armed police officers with something called students, safety coaches who specialize in mental health and restorative justice in de Escalation and building positive relationships with students in one school arrest decreased by eighty percent arrest decreased by eight percent after implementing this program. We need in in defunding police and removing them out of schools and many school districts around the country, including Seattle, and Denver, and Minneapolis. If said, you know what we're moving the police out of our schools. And we need. When we remove those police, we need to fund school wellness centers, which takes me to step number seven. We need to dispatch dispute resolution experts to handle neighborhood and domestic conflicts listen to this. Domestic and. Neighborhood. Disputes. Are. Among. The single most common calls for law enforcement accounting for up to fifty percent of all calls in most areas. Now, the vast majority of those calls are not violent in most end without an arrest. But in some jurisdictions police listen to me, police are required to make an arrest in some of these calls. There's no evidence that these arrests generally reduced domestic violence and in fact, many domestic violence victims. Actually, don't call law enforcement at all because they are afraid of the legal repercussions. There is a better smarter response. What we need to do is to dispatch non law enforcement, first responders to respond to calls, involving disputes and domestic disturbances, social workers, and teams that are experts in working to escalate these disputes are less costly and more effective, actually resolving the conflicts. These crisis response teams would-be, specially trained and credentialed in the neighborhoods that they work in bats key. This already works in other countries all around the world. This is the primary method of intervention in France where trained mediators respond to the vast majority of calls involving interpersonal conflicts. In America though they send an officer or two officers or for or five or ten officers with guns, ready to shoot you or tasers you or spray you an arrest you in jail you. Other countries are already doing this better, which takes me to step number eight. We need to provide support not police for people who are experiencing homelessness. This is so simple and so important. Police spend an absurd amount of time in resources dealing with people experiencing homelessness, who has a result often become victims of unnecessary arrest in violence that only further disrupts their lives by creating specialized trained homelessness outreach units. We can reduce these harmful and pointless police confrontations and replace them with positive interactions that build community trust and help people find true stability.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
Was Diddy right about forcing Joe Biden to have an agenda for Black people?
"You never really know who's going to shine during a pandemic during a crisis but A person in a voice that I think has really stepped up in a major way has been Naomi Campbell who has done some amazing interviews and And even just had some conversations herself about the pandemic about politics and Of course I mean she is a woman who's traveled and seeing the entire world but she's just been brilliant throughout the pandemic with just deep insights and thoughts and yesterday she had a conversation with diddy and apart of that conversation was about the presidential race and did he gave his thoughts on it. And I want to play that clip for you now. Black born is now going to be for free. We're going to have to see some promises. What are we in return for? I'll quote nothing has changed for Black America and in order for us to vote for biding. We can't be taken for granted like we always because we're supposed to be Democrats off because people are afraid and trump so I was going to take him out. Community level was to make a deal. This is business at this point. You know we can't truth follow. Titians you know so. We WanNa know very clearly just like trump made it clear that he wanted to build the wall vitamins to make clear that he's GonNa Change Lives in quality of life of black and Brown people else. He can't get the boat. I will hold a vote hostage. Ivine now. I saw and heard that clip earlier this morning when my friend. Sholom in God. He posted it and he posted a loan. Caption if you go to my instagram now or Charlemagne's Instagram I reposted Charlemagne's caption where you could just go to Charlemagne's page and check it out for yourself. I agree with everything they did. He said they're like I. I would say it even stronger. I think it's it's ridiculous to say otherwise but it's a bit of a roar test Which wish if the ink blood tests where you Somebody shows you ink blots and you tell them what you see I heard what did he said. It was like Yep. That's right we need to make sure that Joe Biden actually has an agenda for us and I I heard that and I'm like yeah of course. What other scenario are we saying that we don't care if Joe Biden has an agenda for us because what did he is saying is true? Black people almost exclusively put Joe Biden in the position. He's in right now and he doesn't come close to winning. The presidential election in November without the black vote and all saying is. Hey we need to let him know. Hey if you actually in real life want us to show up and vote for you like in a major way if you want us to put you over the top talk to US clearly about your agenda show us the policies show us the plans show us the strategies instead of just saying that you're going to be different than trump or that. You're better than trump. Can WE BE PRACTICAL. Can you talk to us about your economic policies? Can you talk to us about your justice policies? Can you talk to us about your healthcare community development policies? Can You? Can you speak on these things? And I see several of my friends including Kenny Burns who? I'm doing an interview with later this afternoon saying. Hey Hey that's reckless asked my brother Isaac as the third also posting. Hey everything they did. He said right. There was completely wrong and I was shocked because everything I heard in everything charlemagne heard and and I see many of you even on my instagram debating. It right now. I agree with every bit of it. It's outrageous I mean if it's a city council person if it's a local mayor if it's if it's a state representative if somebody for Congress we should always require of them that they have an agenda that as much as we can make it is binding that they have some type of binding commitment to our concerns and other people are saying no no no. No No. Don't say that. Don't say that you just need to vote for Joe Biden no matter what. And here's the thing. Black folks are gonNA show up and vote for Joe Biden Black Folk vote almost ninety five percent for the Democratic candidate and black folk will show up. But what we know in Michigan in Wisconsin in a place like Georgia Florida North Carolina and others. Is that if you actually want to win? Black folk have to go all out and we saw that in two thousand and eight and two thousand twelve of course with Barack Obama but black folk while black folks showed up to vote in huge numbers for Hillary Clinton in any place where the turn out was depressed even a little bit in in Milwaukee in Wisconsin or in Michigan. She lost. And it's okay for us to say to Democratic candidates to democratic nominees. And let's be real as I record this. It's still April. Were still in the primary. It's okay in April to say. Hey Joe Biden I wanna make sure you actually have an agenda for US okay. Like that's not an let's be real did he is not making threat. He is saying that we all deserve to have a presidential candidate. That has an agenda that actually represents our needs. Our concerns are our biggest issues and that they have to have a plan. And we wanna see it because what we've seen for most of our lives is presidential candidates who desperately rely on our vote but have no agenda for us have no plans for us. They plan on being generally nice. But we need something more than general nicety like we need people that have an actual policy agenda for the concerns and issues that we have and I'm grateful For diddy who didn't say. Hey I'm not voting for Joe Biden he just said Hey We're at the stage. In American history where the Democratic candidate needs to have a serious agenda for black folk and anybody who looks at this situation says otherwise is ridiculous and I see other people saying. Hey He's saying that from a place of privilege I don't I don't understand that. No He's saying it from a position of authority of somebody who generally doesn't go into making a deal with somebody unless the deal is good for everybody in what we want to understand is HBO. We're GONNA make this deal with you. Not only where you are the Democratic nominee but where we go all out to make sure you win the race. Exactly what are you going to do? And if that's a problem for you saying something like that then we need to have a big conversation like we need to go deeper if saying that much Riles you up. And gets you frustrated? Then you have probably been eating crumbs under the table for so long that you are used to people over promising and under delivering. You're used to not getting anything like the U. S. just the standard and so I see a lot of what I think are just outrageous. Criticisms of what he said I think people understandably so so badly want to defeat Donald trump that they are afraid to even ask Joe Biden for favor and is lying. No no we can do. Both we can defeat Donald Trump and in April still argue that they are some things. Joe Biden needs to do and do differently for him to garner our full support.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
Trump May Be the Single Dumbest President in American History
"A few minutes ago on Instagram I posted screen shot of the NBC News Story of Donald Trump saying e wondered if people injected themselves with disinfectant. If it could kill the virus and some people reasonable people to say did he. Did he say that? Like is this fake news And I understand these weren't even supporters of Donald Trump. These were real everyday people who just said hold on hold on. I don't trust the man but this seems so outrageous so ridiculous so beyond the Pale. Did he really say that so? Let me play the clip for you. Where he indeed wonders aloud in one of many moments of stupidity across this pandemic wonders aloud. Whether or not infecting injecting rather disinfectant could kill the Koran invites. Let me put the disinfectant with Nazi out in a minute minute. And is there a way we can do something like that By injection insider or almost a cleaning. Because you see gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number so it'd be interesting to check that so that you can have to use medical doctors with but it sounds it. Sounds interesting to me. So we'll see but the whole concept of the light the way it goes into one minute that's That's pretty powerful. So yes there. It is Donald Trump at a press conference very smartly holds. These press conferences every single day. Because he knows they'll be covered and he is operating under a philosophy that he's used his entire life is that all press is good press and listen that literally got him into the presidency where he feels strongly that if he can dominate every new cycle. If he can dominate social media that he can do that all the way into the presidency and indeed. That's what he did in two thousand fifteen to twenty sixteen when he actually one. He did that in a lot more. But for his entire life going back even to the early seventies he has always been a master manipulator of the media and wouldn't mind if it was good press bad press horrible press. It could be about anything about his personal life about his marriage but his release. It's marriages about his relationships. It could be about him. Being a bigot. A xenophobe anything. He understands that being in the news and not just on nightly news but dominating it from morning tonight dominating social media indeed here we are talking about him right now and I. I have a principal to not really speak about him on the breakdown because he is covered and analyzed everywhere and doesn't deserve our attention here when there are so many other issues that just don't get the coverage but this is one of those moments where he says something one. That's dangerous now. You have to remember that just a few weeks ago. He was touting a particular malaria drug as a miracle. Cure for the corona virus and finally scientific studies are coming back on that drug and are saying not only is it not helping the corona virus but that in the trials the patients who were treated with it have a higher rate of death than those who weren't treated with it and not only was he touting it for weeks on end but so was Fox News. So we're conservatives across the country they have all now gone silent on it including Donald Trump no longer pumping it no longer talking about it and he literally yesterday. He said two things actually he then started saying how the corona virus dies under heat. What again he does not say when he says that he then starts talking about how people should go out in the sun and how the virus dies under heat. There is a study that shows that win. The Corona virus is not in a human body but his out of the body and is then put under extreme heat like two hundred degrees and above which is a temperature that we could not live in once outside. It gets above a hundred and fifteen degrees. Human beings can only be outside but for so long you literally could not walk in two hundred degree temperatures. It dies outside of the body in extreme heat but the man literally said I I think maybe people should inject disinfectant and go out in the sun. You only laugh to keep from crying because it's so ridiculous is so preposterous and outrageous and dangerous. That it to me reveals something it reveals like we always we always known that Donald Trump was problematic. And I don't think anybody obviously. He thinks he's a genius and anybody who calls themselves calls himself. A genius is not a genius but it reveals a base level of ignorance and stupidity. He is surrounded by doctors and experts and could have any expert in the world at his side at a moment's notice particularly during this pandemic and because he wants to dominate the news cycle. He just gets on the Mike and says the first thing that comes to his mind and began saying things that are dangerous minds you last month. A family began taking that anti-malaria drug and one member of a family died. Another was hospitalized and in a normal world and they both said that they did it because they heard Donald trump touting its effectiveness its efficacy in a normal world that moment would have ended. His presidency would've ended anyone's presidency. Oh you just touted a drug that got a man killed like there is a literal argument for ARRESTING DONALD TRUMP. For this in fact. Some doctors have lost their medical license over celebrating. What Donald Trump was saying about? It like it's a scandal for everybody but him and that's because there's a new scandal a new problem new issue new beef every single day but that he got up yesterday in front of the media in front of doctors just randomly saying things that are not only untrue but are dangerous and are again going to get people killed shows the risk of his presidency. Listen if you've followed me over the past year you know that I'm not a fan of Joe Biden or Joe Biden's policies. You understand that there is a marked difference between the ignorance and danger of Donald Trump and who Joe Biden is even if what you need to think through with that issue. Is this old notion that I'm tired of that. You are tired of of choosing between the lesser of two evils. Any man who says you may need to inject yourself with. Lysol is saying something so preposterous in dangerous. That he should not be trusted with nuclear codes. He shouldn't be trusted five dollars. Let's be real. The man is dangerous. I wanted to deviate from the norm today to just talk for a moment about how preposterous he is I don't even like to say his name here on the breakdown but I had to break the rule and talk about it today.