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DONKEY: JD Vance Says ‘Black History Is Not Being Erased From Public Spaces’ Under The Trump Administration · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the Day taking jobs.
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  Speaker 2: We have a racist at the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they said just about a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: Know what the president could do somebody I'm feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So we are in a ship emergency. You need
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  Speaker 3: to tell them.
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  Speaker 4: You had the voice and we're now left at We're
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  Speaker 4: like a bunch of stupid people.
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  Speaker 2: You are adult. Yes, Donkey Today for Wednesday, June seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: goes to Vice President jd. Vance. Okay, he was on
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  Speaker 2: the View yesterday promoting his new book Communion, which is
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  Speaker 2: about his faith and political ambitions. Now, of course he
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  Speaker 2: was going to get pressed on the View. Okay, well
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  Speaker 2: we go for and Sunny Houston questioned him about the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration dismantling black history, insidelining people of color.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen, what did black people do to this administration
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  Speaker 1: that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about black history getting erased from public spaces.
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  Speaker 3: Black voter districts are being dismantled, Black leaders are being
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  Speaker 3: sidelined from our ranks. Where do Americans of color fit
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  Speaker 3: in this vision? Because it doesn't seem like we fit.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 5: One of the most democratic and one of the blackest
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  Speaker 5: by share population, blackest cities in the United States. In
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  Speaker 5: America has seen a radical decrease in violent crimes and
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  Speaker 5: sexual assaults and in murders. We have tried to take
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  Speaker 5: the crime issue seriously in part because we believe everybody,
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  Speaker 5: whether you're black or white, or rich or poor, deserves
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  Speaker 5: to live in a safe neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Why why does a crime and where does a crime
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  Speaker 1: step in? I'm this is not about this lost their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: This is about this is about.
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  Speaker 5: What you're saying, is we got to do more on
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  Speaker 5: the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Black history is race from pub Black history.
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  Speaker 5: Is not a race. I'm telling you. We celebrate black history.
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  Speaker 5: We celebrate all American history.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea why he got asked that question
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  Speaker 2: and then tried to equate blackness with crime. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking about the dismantling of black history in public spaces.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: JD. Vance responded to that and said, black history is
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  Speaker 2: not being erased from public spaces. That is not right. Okay, jd.
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  Speaker 2: Your new book Communion is about faith. You do know
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  Speaker 2: the Bible consistently condemns lying. Right, all right? They defined
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  Speaker 2: line is contrary to the very nature of God. Because
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  Speaker 2: God is truth, all right, lies, falsehoods, they're linked to
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  Speaker 2: deception and satan. So for you to go on to
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  Speaker 2: view and tell that blatant lie that black history is
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  Speaker 2: not being erased from public spaces by the Trump administration. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there are multiple documented examples of the Trump administration altering, removing,
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  Speaker 2: censoring historical exhibits and materials, okay, dealing with slavery, racism,
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  Speaker 2: and the Black American experience. Okay, I call it the
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  Speaker 2: Obama effect. I truly believe this white lash is because
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  Speaker 2: the President Barack who saying Obama, they don't want negroes.
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  Speaker 2: I would think they can get to the level of
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  Speaker 2: sitting in the highest seat in the land ever again,
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  Speaker 2: and the best way to keep someone from not being
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  Speaker 2: who they are, okay, is by not letting them know
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  Speaker 2: who they were to begin with. Can we play so
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  Speaker 2: many examples of the Trump administration erase in black history.
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  Speaker 6: President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of information on
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  Speaker 6: slavery from national parks. That is, according to the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 6: that includes removing this historic photograph called the Scourged Back.
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  Speaker 6: It shows the scars on the back of a formerly
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  Speaker 6: enslaved man named Peter. Abolitionists released the photo in eighteen
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  Speaker 6: sixty three to show the cruelty of slave masters.
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  Speaker 7: The Trump administration told the National Museum of African American
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  Speaker 7: History and Culture to remove improper ideology and scrub exhibits
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  Speaker 7: that focus on systemic racism. Members of the administration have
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  Speaker 7: consistently minimized the horrors of slavery and discounted its foundational
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  Speaker 7: role in shaping a.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump says he has instructed his lawyers to scour
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  Speaker 4: through America's museums to rid them of exhibits he considers woke,
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  Speaker 4: specifically citing exhibits on slavery. President Trump targeted the Smithsonian Museums,
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  Speaker 4: saying they are quote out of control, where everything discussed
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  Speaker 4: is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
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  Speaker 4: and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Back in March,
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  Speaker 4: the President signed an executive order directing the Smithsonian Institution,
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  Speaker 4: which runs more than twenty museums in Washington and elsewhere,
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  Speaker 4: to quote celebrate American exceptionalism and remove divisive or partisan narratives.
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  Speaker 2: Those are just a few. Okay, we can do this
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  Speaker 2: all day, and I know what support of the JD
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  Speaker 2: Vance and MAGO will say, especially to black ones. They'll say, well,
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  Speaker 2: you still got black history, monk. Okay, they'll say, no
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  Speaker 2: major black historical sites have been closed. Museums dedicated to
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  Speaker 2: black history they remain open. Well, I would argue that
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  Speaker 2: when you remove context about slavery, are racism our civil rights?
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  Speaker 2: From museums? Are monuments federal exhibits, that constitutes as a
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  Speaker 2: form of a racier Okay, even if the institutions themselves
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  Speaker 2: are still open. Not to mention when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: the museums. When the Trump administration cancels federal grants for
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  Speaker 2: these museums, trust and believe that is the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: a racing black history from public spaces, because these museums
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  Speaker 2: will struggle to remain open. Okay. Do you know that
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration canceled over ninety percent of competitive Institute of
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  Speaker 2: Museum and Library Services grants. Okay, they cut tens of
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  Speaker 2: millions from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
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  Speaker 2: National Endowment for the Arts. You know why. They cited
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  Speaker 2: that projects focusing on non white American histories no longer
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  Speaker 2: served the interests of the United States. Okay, trust me
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the board of the International African American Museum
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  Speaker 2: in Charleston, South Carolina. Dropping the clues bombs for the
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  Speaker 2: International African American Museum Right now as we speak, they
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  Speaker 2: after furlough all their staff. Why because of financial pressure. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there was a statement from the museum that read, we
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  Speaker 2: are navigating a shift in the political and funding environment
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  Speaker 2: that has made financial operations uniquely more challenging for our institution.
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  Speaker 2: This action is being taken to reduce expenses and avoid
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  Speaker 2: layoffs while we refocus on sustainable revenue growth and fundraising efforts.
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  Speaker 2: That just reminded me, by the way, if the spirit
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  Speaker 2: moves you go to Iaamiaamuseum dot org and give a
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  Speaker 2: couple of dollars to the International African American Museum in Charlston. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we got some amazing things we're gonna be doing with
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  Speaker 2: the museum before the years over. But back to the
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  Speaker 2: matter at hand. I just don't understand how Jdvans can
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  Speaker 2: know all those things. They can know that the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration has removed a sensed black history exhibits across the country.
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  Speaker 2: You know that they slashing federal grants for the museums,
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  Speaker 2: not to mention that tens of thousands of jobs for
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  Speaker 2: black Americans that have been lost as a direct result
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  Speaker 2: of Trump's executive orders that target diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget to cutch that Doge and Elon must
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  Speaker 2: made to the federal workforce, okay, where black people have
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  Speaker 2: over represented for decades. I mean, my god, if the
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  Speaker 2: administration isn't doing this, JD. Vans, then why is so
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  Speaker 2: many federal lawsuits out there on y'all that y'all are losing? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: By the way, why are there's so many lawsuits forcing
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  Speaker 2: the administration to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Why in Pennsylvania with the Trump administration in order to
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  Speaker 2: restore a slavery exhibit that it had removed related to
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  Speaker 2: enslaved black people once legally owned by George Washington. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just asking commons sense questions here. Okay, let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something, Jdvans. Black history doesn't have to vanish completely
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  Speaker 2: to be erased. Okay. Removing exhibits, historical contexts, and references
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  Speaker 2: to slavery and racism from public institutions is itself a
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  Speaker 2: form of a rasure. Okay, okay, please give Vice President
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  Speaker 2: jd Vance the biggest he hub. All right, yes, indeed
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  Speaker 2: got talking right into that.
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  Speaker 6: Now he walked right.
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  Speaker 3: You go into the view.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, I guess there is no way
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  Speaker 2: to answer those questions except for lie. But it gives
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  Speaker 2: us an opportunity to amplify what's going on, to shine
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  Speaker 2: a light on what's going on.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Well, thank you for that.
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