Shaka Senghor
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1,773 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 Dec
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And as a kid, I decided to run away when I was probably about 13, 14 years old.
I found myself seduced into the drug trade.
And within the first six months, I dealt with every horror that comes with that culture.
My childhood friend was murdered.
I was robbed at gunpoint.
I was beat nearly to death.
And despite that, you know, as a kid, just trying to find his way and fit in, I found myself still immersed in that culture.
And when I was about 17 years old, I was shot multiple times, standing on a quarter mile block.
Yeah, and it's one of the things that as a kid, you're navigating this high level of trauma with no tools and no support.
And so I went to the hospital.
They extracted two of the bullets.
They left one of the bullets in.
And when I came back to my neighborhood...
What I didn't realize back then, obviously I know now, is that I came back with PTSD, which is very common in the inner city where there's high levels of gun violence.
And within my family alone, I mean, there's been at a minimum 10 of us who have been victims of gun violence.
So what happened was that I created a narrative that said if I found myself in conflict, I would shoot first.
And tragically and unfortunately, about 14, 16 months later, I shot and caused a man's death and was sentenced to 17 to 40 years in prison, where I ended up serving a total of 19 years, with seven of those years being in solitary confinement.
And it was in that dark environment that I began to really start to reimagine life.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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