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DONKEY: Florida Preschool Put 2-Year-Olds In Blackface For Black History Month · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're telling them to watch out for Florida.
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  Speaker 1: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx, and
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  Speaker 1: all of you are adults. The Florida man at tapped
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  Speaker 1: and atm for a very strange reason. They gave him
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  Speaker 1: too much money. Florida man is arrested after definitely stay
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  Speaker 1: he's riggs the board to his home and an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to electric kid his pregnant wife. Police arrested in Orlando
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  Speaker 1: man for talking a flamingda to breakfast club bitchy. Don't
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  Speaker 1: hear the day with Charlam Haine, A guy I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why y'all keep him? Get ya elected? Yes, don't
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  Speaker 1: get to day for Thursday, February sixteenth goes to Patricia Vitao,
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  Speaker 1: the owner and director of a preschool called Studio Kids
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  Speaker 1: Little River, which is the children's daycare in Miami. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what did your uncle Charlotte always say about the great
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  Speaker 1: state of Florida? Say it with me, kids, The craziest
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  Speaker 1: people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday I forgot to say that about Key West
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  Speaker 1: when I gave the Key West business owner named Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Preston Brewers, the third, the biggest, he half for killing
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  Speaker 1: the young man Garrett Hughes wresting piece to him peing
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  Speaker 1: on his building. When I went to Q West a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, to people I was with were
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  Speaker 1: probably saying how they aren't like to the rest of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and they considered themselves disconnected from Florida. And I must
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  Speaker 1: have believed them. Okay, but no, all of Florida is
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  Speaker 1: going to Florida. But back to this Florida matter at hand.
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  Speaker 1: A Studio Kids, Little River, a children's daycare that is
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  Speaker 1: yet another institution that is starting to make me feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we shouldn't teach racing schools. Before
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  Speaker 1: I explained that thought, maybe I should tell you what
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  Speaker 1: they decided to do for Black History Month. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to NBC ten Miami for the report police. It was
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  Speaker 1: the exhale for me. For her, it was the audacity, anger, disbelief.
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  Speaker 1: Just in twenty twenty three, is this three? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this can't be real. Courtney Politis says she's never had
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  Speaker 1: a problem with Studio Kids, that Little River. That was
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  Speaker 1: until a few days ago. One of my closest friends
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  Speaker 1: contacts me whose sons in the class, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you won't believe what they just did today. We're told
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  Speaker 1: these photos were shared on the preschool's messaging app captured
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  Speaker 1: Black History Month. We understand these kids are as young
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  Speaker 1: as two in this class, dressed up like a construction worker,
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  Speaker 1: a police officer, a little doctor in the background, all
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  Speaker 1: of them in black face. Immediately tects the owner with
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  Speaker 1: the pictures, like this is racist. She proceeds to respond
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  Speaker 1: back with I'm sorry, question mark, I don't understand what's racist?
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  Speaker 1: Mom says. The photos were shared on Friday, February third.
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  Speaker 1: She met with the preschools director of the following Monday,
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  Speaker 1: one eighty change, super apologetic and from what I understand,
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  Speaker 1: she even told us over forty fifty families contacted her
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. What if, she said, at least one
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  Speaker 1: of them with the doctor. The preschool puts some kids
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  Speaker 1: in black face, and then a teacher posted the photos
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  Speaker 1: on the school's messaging app. At this point, ignorance is
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  Speaker 1: not an excuse for black face. Okay, the N word
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  Speaker 1: in black face. Those are just two things that the
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  Speaker 1: refs are gonna call every time. Okay, Actually, the tinfoil
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell and Nest snapback wearing conspiracy theorists in me feels
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  Speaker 1: like this has to be some type of social experiment.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way in twenty twenty three that people don't
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  Speaker 1: know black face is offensive. Okay. If you can avoid
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  Speaker 1: stories like this in commentary around black face and guess what,
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  Speaker 1: we need you on as much jury duty as possible. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it comes to high profile cases, because you
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  Speaker 1: are able to ignore the media in ways that I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen. Because it's impossible to miss the fact that
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  Speaker 1: blackface is offensive. Even if you don't know why it's offensive,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's offensive. Okay. One of the parents named
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  Speaker 1: Courtney Politis, who has a one year old that attended
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  Speaker 1: this preschool. You heard what they said in the news report.
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  Speaker 1: She called to say the incident was racist, and she
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  Speaker 1: was asked to explain what was considered racist about black face.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I can lean to not wanting race
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  Speaker 1: related issues not being taught in schools. Okay. Let the
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  Speaker 1: kids come to school and just learn about universal themes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, teach them math that ABC's leave all race
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  Speaker 1: related stuff to their parents or legal guardians. Because it's
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  Speaker 1: bad enough that you put the kids in black face.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're asking me to explain why it's racist,
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  Speaker 1: then you clearly don't even know why you're doing it,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the better question. The question that needs to
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  Speaker 1: be asked isn't too apparent about whist racist? The questions
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  Speaker 1: should be why did y'all choose to do it? Is
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  Speaker 1: there a lesson behind it? Are you teaching the origins
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  Speaker 1: of black face? Hunt? Are you letting kids know that
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  Speaker 1: black face dates back to the minstrel shows in the
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  Speaker 1: mid nineteenth century, that white performers dark in their skin
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  Speaker 1: and wore raggy ass clothes and did things to their
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  Speaker 1: face to look stereotypically black. Hunh huh? Are you telling
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  Speaker 1: the kid what the minstrel show is? Well, it's a
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  Speaker 1: show that mimic enslaved Africans who worked on plantations and
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  Speaker 1: depicted black people is lazy, ignorant, cowardly, and hypersexual, all
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  Speaker 1: to make white people chuckle. All right, black people's trauma,
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  Speaker 1: white people's entertainment. That's the Black History Month lesson for
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  Speaker 1: your ass. Then you can tie it into how powerful
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  Speaker 1: the media and imagery is. Because minstrel shows were usually
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  Speaker 1: the only depiction of black life that white audience is sought.
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  Speaker 1: So if you presented enslaved Africans as jokes, it desensratized
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  Speaker 1: white folks to the hearts of slavery, and it also
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  Speaker 1: promoted the meaning stereotypes of black people that helped confirm
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  Speaker 1: white people's notions of superiority. If y'all not teaching no
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  Speaker 1: kinds of less sense about blackface, what's the point. But
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  Speaker 1: guess what. I don't want my preschool and learning that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's too much for him. Okay, ADCs
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  Speaker 1: one two threes, Mom, dad bingo blue. Okay, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want my preschooler getting from y'all. Leave all the
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  Speaker 1: race stuff to me in my house. Okay. I know
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  Speaker 1: Ron de Santis banned all the African American AP classes,
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  Speaker 1: but you can ban the PreK ones too. Damn it
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  Speaker 1: all right now. The owner of the preschool, Patricia Battali,
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  Speaker 1: released the statement saying we wanted to let all the
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  Speaker 1: parents know that we met on Friday afternoon with all
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  Speaker 1: the teachers and staff. We went over several ethical and
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  Speaker 1: multicultural education points. I will teach the team of class
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  Speaker 1: covering all unnecessary topics regarding US history and multicultural education. Patricia,
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  Speaker 1: if you have to teach your team about US history
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  Speaker 1: and multicultural education is all the more reason your team
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have had the students doing something that requires knowledge
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  Speaker 1: in US history and multicultural education. But why am I
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  Speaker 1: sitting here trying to make sense of the senseless, or
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  Speaker 1: in this case, trying to make sense of the Florida
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  Speaker 1: Please give Patricia for Tall and everybody at the studio kids,
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  Speaker 1: little river, the sweet sounds of the Hamletones. Oh now
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  Speaker 1: you are the doge, the day, the dogee, Oh the day.
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  Speaker 1: Ye I don't know what to tell you. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. Donkey Today. Donkey Today is brought
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  Speaker 1: and say the bull.