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IDKMYDE: Super Bowls and Slavery · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question. You ever noticed how football feel
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  Speaker 1: like slavery but with a halftime show?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. The NFL combine, that's just
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  Speaker 1: a fancy slave auction with Wi Fi. They measuring wingspans,
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  Speaker 1: forty yard dash times, hand sizes. Yep, this one here
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  Speaker 1: can carry a whole plantations worth of footballs down the
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  Speaker 1: field in four point three seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Bruh.
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  Speaker 1: They got grown men in spandex doing shuttle drills while
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  Speaker 1: old white dudes whisper it looks strong, didn't he.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, where's Jango when you need them?
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  Speaker 1: And let's not even start on college football before nil.
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  Speaker 1: These kids is out there getting hit like they owe
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  Speaker 1: somebody money, bringing in billions for universities, and what they
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  Speaker 1: get a cafeteria meal plan and a good luck handshake.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't no paychecks, wasn't no health benefits. Just a coach
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  Speaker 1: yelling you gotta play for the love of the game. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: that coach driving a Lamborghini and wearing a visor in
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  Speaker 1: the winner bruf.
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  Speaker 3: This ain't modern sharecropping. I don't know what is.
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  Speaker 1: And what about the NFL owners, I mean, let's just
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  Speaker 1: start right there. You notice how we have to call
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: them owners, not managers, not CEOs, owners, Just something about
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  Speaker 1: that word don't sit right in my spirit.
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  Speaker 3: They up in luxury boxes like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, run fast to my boy. And the players seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent black, coaches, mostly white owners white a than
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  Speaker 1: unseasoned chicken. I'm just saying, how you gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: league full of black folks and not one team called
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta wacandas where is the representation? And don't get
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  Speaker 1: me started on the physical toll. They out there breaking
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  Speaker 1: their bodies up, getting concussions, and then the league's like,
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  Speaker 1: here's a fifty dollars gift card to Applebee's, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: your service. They even added an extra game this year
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL. I'm telling you, NFL treats players like
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: old cell phones. It's broken, traded in for a newer model.
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  Speaker 1: Only difference is the NFL don't charge of restocking fee.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the twist. Players starting to fight back. Colin
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  Speaker 1: Kaepernick neil and the world lost his damn mind, Like
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  Speaker 1: y'all cool with the injuries, the exploritation, the CTE, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that my Dallas Cowboys ain't want a super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl since the Clinton administration.
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  Speaker 3: But a brother taking a knee, Oh, that's where we
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  Speaker 3: draw the line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, slavery had rebellions too, Nat Turner in cleats, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we out here flipping the system one touchdown at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I'm proposing. NFL players need reparations. Forget super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl rings, start handing out forty eight ers in a Bentley,
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  Speaker 1: and let's diversify ownership. I want to see Jay Z
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  Speaker 1: and Snoop running teams. Imagine a halftime shows. Then, hey,
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  Speaker 1: put me in charge of the Panthers. First move, we
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  Speaker 1: changing the name to the Carolina Black Panthers. Hughey Newton
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  Speaker 1: jerseys for everybody. So yeah, football and slavery not the same,
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  Speaker 1: but let's be real, they could be second cousins. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you excuse me, I gotta go submit my forty
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  Speaker 1: yard dash to the NFL combine trying to pay off
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  Speaker 1: these student loans. Okay, bye, No,