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Shaka Senghor

8 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Shaka Senghor · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Senghor: Violence trumps money as the ultimate power in prison
“So in the streets where money kind of trumps everything else, in prison, violence trumps everything else. Because it's through violence that you dictate who can keep their money, who can.”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:31 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
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Senghor ran a 100% profit loan operation inside Michigan Reformatory
“You know, I ran stores where, and I had a, I had like a floating economy, right? So I was in a cell block where, Michigan Reformatory has two cell blocks. It was J block and it was I block. And they get money on alternating weeks. And so the way that I made th…”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:48 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
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Senghor: All three brothers in his family have been shot
“My mother has three children, three, three males. She has a total of six children. All three of us have been shot. One of my brothers is currently paralyzed. He's been paralyzed since 1998.”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:23 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Senghor invested $3,000 to self-publish his first book while incarcerated
“We scrapped up our little funds and probably invested about 3000 dollars to buy a thousand copies of the book, you know. So we was basically paying two dollars a book, selling for 15”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:50 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
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Senghor: Sentenced to 17 to 40 years for 1991 shooting
“In July 1991, got into a conflict it was nearly two in the morning, drug transaction that I didn't want to make, because it was, a guy brought two guys to my house that I didn't know, and I wouldn't make the drug transaction, and we got into a conflict, and it…”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:04 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
State estimated Senghor's 17-year incarceration cost at $1 million
“When I got sued, I had about 17 years in, they estimated the cost of my incarceration to be like a million dollars.”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 43:56 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Senghor: 90% of incarcerated people eventually return to society
“90% of the men and women who are incarcerated will at some point return to society.”
Shaka Senghor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:55 a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Mar 5, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Horowitz: 90% of prison inmates are followers, not psychopaths
“Almost everybody there, easy 90% of them, are betas. I said, what do you mean betas? He's like, they're just guys who, like, literally were following their idiot friend, committed a crime, and ended up in jail for a long time. And, so, they're very shapeable p…”
Ben Horowitz Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 13:19 The Next Generation of Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Wes Moore
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