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Black women are uneducated and classless? Taylor Townsend defeats Jelena Ostapenko to move on at the US Open and this became the conversation. · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Toist. I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: everything and everybody you don't know if you don't lie
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  Speaker 1: about that, right.
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  Speaker 2: La.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 3: It's Lauren lo Roza and this is the Latest with
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  Speaker 3: Laura l Rosa. This is your daily dig on all
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  Speaker 3: things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations
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  Speaker 3: that shake the room. Now today we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: into a conversation that honestly, it's giving all three. It's entertainment,
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  Speaker 3: it's pop culture related, and baby.
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  Speaker 1: It is shaking the room.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the biggest headlines, unfortunately, to come out
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  Speaker 3: of the US Open is a back and forth between
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  Speaker 3: Helena I sen Pango and Taylor probably said her last
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  Speaker 3: name wrong and Taylor Townsend. Now, I was at the
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  Speaker 3: US Open the day that this happened. I did not
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  Speaker 3: see this. Matches happen a few hours after I left
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  Speaker 3: the US Open. But let me let me just set
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  Speaker 3: the scene for y'all, And we talked about this in
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  Speaker 3: the episode prior.
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  Speaker 1: To this one here on the Lettus with Lauren the Roads.
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  Speaker 4: That is.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to hear my recap about the day
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  Speaker 1: that I spent at the US Open.
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  Speaker 3: Please go take a listen, because it paints a very
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  Speaker 3: vivid picture of just how black this particular day at
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  Speaker 3: the US Open was.
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  Speaker 1: So Currently, Helena is being.
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  Speaker 3: Accused of being racist, and the reason why is because
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  Speaker 3: after Helena and Taylor competed in the match, there were
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  Speaker 3: a few matches into the day, Taylor Townsend beat Helena
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  Speaker 3: seven five to sixty one. Now we've seen tennis get
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  Speaker 3: you know, very fiery, people throw rackets and all the things,
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  Speaker 3: and it's fine. It's a very competitive sport. All sports
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  Speaker 3: are competitive sports, Lauren do It's competitive.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sport. It happens. Now here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: The conversation following the match is what to me invigorated
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  Speaker 3: or you know, charged up the.
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  Speaker 1: Moment a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen and not to the converse station
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  Speaker 3: that happened, because you really can't hear it too much
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  Speaker 3: because of the crowd and all the things, and they
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  Speaker 3: brought the mics up kind of late on the US
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  Speaker 3: Open floor.
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  Speaker 1: But let's take a.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to Taylor Townsend right after the match on the court.
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  Speaker 3: She's speaking with the reporter recapping what the conversation was.
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  Speaker 5: Taylor, congratulations for a lot of black people hearing no education,
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  Speaker 5: no class would be interpreted and rightfully so as a
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  Speaker 5: dog whistle. Do you believe that that had racial undertones?
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  Speaker 5: And for black people and black women who will hear
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  Speaker 5: about this and may have dealt with certain situations where
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  Speaker 5: they've had comments where they've interpreted as more than just competition,
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  Speaker 5: what would you say to them?
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  Speaker 4: So that's a two part question. First, No, I can't
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  Speaker 4: speak on what her intentions were. I can only speak
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  Speaker 4: on how I handle the situation and how I handled it.
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  Speaker 4: Is someone who's upset about the outcome that occurred. You lost,
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  Speaker 4: and you're upset about that saying I have no education
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  Speaker 4: and no class. I don't really take that personally because
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  Speaker 4: I know that it's so far from the truth. If
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  Speaker 4: I allow what other people have to say about me
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  Speaker 4: affect me in that way, then they win. So ultimately, No,
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  Speaker 4: I stood up for myself. And if my son were
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  Speaker 4: to see this interaction, how would he view it? And
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  Speaker 4: I think he would be proud of the way that
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  Speaker 4: I handled the situation. So I can't speak on how
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  Speaker 4: she felt about it. That's something that you're going to
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  Speaker 4: have to ask her. But also, you know that has
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  Speaker 4: been a stigma in our community of you know, being
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  Speaker 4: non educated and all the things, when it's for the
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  Speaker 4: furthest thing from the truth. The thing that I'm the
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  Speaker 4: most proud of is that I let my racket talk
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  Speaker 4: because ultimately, I'm the one here sitting in front of
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  Speaker 4: you guys, moving on to the next round, getting the
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  Speaker 4: next check, moving on, being able to still be here
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  Speaker 4: and speak to you guys. And that's what's the most important.
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  Speaker 4: She's packed up and she's gone, I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the thing, because they did end up talking to
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  Speaker 3: Taylor a bit more after the match, and she knew
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  Speaker 3: it was coming. Taylor Townsend, you know, has been doing
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  Speaker 3: this for some time, so has her opponent.
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  Speaker 1: So when she walked into the press.
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  Speaker 3: Room, she walks in, she's kind of like chuckling a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, and she's like, Oh, these the type of
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  Speaker 3: day y'all live for talking to the media, because she
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  Speaker 3: knew where it was going to go. And when they
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  Speaker 3: talk to her about whether she believed that it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the comment had a racist charge to it or you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether her opponent opponent, she felt like, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: was you know, racial undertones to what she had said
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  Speaker 3: to her. Taylor is saying that she took this you
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  Speaker 3: know that way. But I'm gonna tell y'all something right
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  Speaker 3: here on. It started at the beginning of this telling
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  Speaker 3: you guys it was HBCU Day at the US Open. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you got the aunties of all aunties there, they're dripped
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  Speaker 3: out in a prairie. For those of you guys who
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  Speaker 3: did not attend the HBCU that do not know what
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  Speaker 3: the prairie is, right, that means all of the black
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  Speaker 3: fraternities and sororities, all of their merch or their clothing
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  Speaker 3: that represents their fraternities and sororities. You got women walking
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  Speaker 3: around in their colors. You have you know, people from
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  Speaker 3: professionals to students to you know, Aluma Aluma Lama alumni
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  Speaker 3: like older alumni, young alumni from.
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs in the building. I did not know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so this particular day, which was HBCU Day, But
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  Speaker 3: there's a whole US Open HBCU Black community that I
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  Speaker 3: talked about in this last episode that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know existed.
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  Speaker 3: And when I tell y'all, it was giving everything Black
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  Speaker 3: gifted in God blessed yesterday or this day at the
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  Speaker 3: US Open and this one down. This was the wrong
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  Speaker 3: day for you to do anything that slightly even gave
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  Speaker 3: you could be discriminating because of anything having to do
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  Speaker 3: with a color, especially against a black woman.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, of course, once this happened, because you know, whether
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  Speaker 3: Helena meant this as you know, racist, or whether she's
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  Speaker 3: just ignorant to what microaggressions mean, look like, can feel like.
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  Speaker 3: And that happens, you know, that's a real thing, whatever
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  Speaker 3: the case may be. It was grabbed, it was taken,
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  Speaker 3: headlines went crazy, but people there also felt away.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw that because.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have a black woman who is being
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  Speaker 3: called by a woman that is not black, by a
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  Speaker 3: white woman. She's not classy, she's telling Taylor Townsend, she
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  Speaker 3: is uneducated, she is disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the things you could say.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you might as well just throw the N
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  Speaker 3: word in there after all that, after all those three
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  Speaker 3: because from what it reads and how it feels, it's
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  Speaker 3: giving this is how you look at her because she
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  Speaker 3: is a black woman. Now granted again, Taylor says she
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  Speaker 3: did not feel that way, but I promise y'all, no
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  Speaker 3: one else and I'm staying suck at that took it
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  Speaker 3: the way Taylor did. Everybody else was like, wait, what
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  Speaker 3: do we ride at dawn? Like, what is happening? And
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  Speaker 3: you hear this in the crowd. I'm gonna play a
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  Speaker 3: bit of the crowd for my listeners. You guys won't
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  Speaker 3: be able to see it, but please make sure you
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  Speaker 3: go and check it out. We'll have it posted to
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  Speaker 3: the Bronco Writing Instagram. But in the crowd if you
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  Speaker 3: just look in the crowd and tailor. After she has
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  Speaker 3: this interaction with her opponent, Helena, she goes to the
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  Speaker 3: crowd and she's beating on her chest and she's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting the crowd hype and just enjoying the fact that
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  Speaker 3: she just won the match with her supporters and her
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  Speaker 3: fans there and baby, they.
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  Speaker 1: Are up out their seats screaming. You look at the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: You see a lot of the aunties I'm telling y'all
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  Speaker 3: about You see them in the AKA colors. You see
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  Speaker 3: you know the church hat, the Baptist church was in
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  Speaker 3: the building. This was the wrong day for Helena to
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  Speaker 3: try and figure out anything about some class or some education.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick listen to the crowd just so
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  Speaker 1: y'all can hear.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the crowd responding to Taylor following their
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  Speaker 3: back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: Today was is hbgu day first? Talk about how much
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  Speaker 2: representation matters? And if you could hear the fans to
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  Speaker 2: FIU you out there?
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  Speaker 1: Could you hear fans cheering out? Not at all?
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  Speaker 3: You can see that emotion coming out of Taylor there
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  Speaker 3: the entire court on court eleven, Taylor egging get on.
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  Speaker 4: You'd love to see that competitive fight.
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  Speaker 3: Wrong day for all of this now, I do want to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get in a statement from Helena because she
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  Speaker 3: did take to her Instagram and post a few updates
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  Speaker 3: to try and clear up some things.
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  Speaker 1: Now as far as.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people calling her racist because of course people
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  Speaker 3: found her social media and begin to express themselves very
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  Speaker 3: detailed in her comments, she said, I was never and
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  Speaker 3: she capitalized never. I was never racist in my life
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  Speaker 3: and I respect all nations of people in the world.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it doesn't matter where you come from. There
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  Speaker 3: are some rules in tennis, and unfortunately, when the crowd
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  Speaker 3: is with you, you can't use it in a disrespectful
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  Speaker 3: way to your opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what she's referring to Helena she.
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  Speaker 3: In the conversation, was eleging that Taylor Townsend had violated
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  Speaker 3: a rule while.
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  Speaker 1: On the court, and that was what her issue was.
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  Speaker 3: She was saying, you know, you're not basically telling her
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  Speaker 3: you're not educated enough about this game because because you're
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  Speaker 3: here in the US, you think you could do whatever
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  Speaker 3: you want to do because you got the people on
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  Speaker 3: your side, and tell us like what, No, you just
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  Speaker 3: need to learn, she literally tells her, and I'm a
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  Speaker 3: thought bitter this in here because you can kind of
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  Speaker 3: hear she tells her, you need to learn how to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't have the woman anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But prior to her addressing, you know, people calling her
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  Speaker 3: racist because initially, depending on you know, who you with,
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  Speaker 3: what timeline you checked into, if you on black Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: initially this gave that from it from Rip we were
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  Speaker 3: having conversations about okay, wow, okay, here we're still doing this.
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  Speaker 3: It's HBCU day as Black as hell at the US
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  Speaker 3: open the day, and we're gonna do this today of
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  Speaker 3: all days. But it did text some other people to
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  Speaker 3: arrive at this conversation. So originally when Helena had posted,
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  Speaker 3: she just posted in response to what the back and
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  Speaker 3: forth was altogether. So she said, just a small update
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  Speaker 3: about the match today. After the match, I told my
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  Speaker 3: opponent that she was very disrespectful as she had a
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  Speaker 3: netball in a very deciding moment and didn't say sorry.
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  Speaker 3: But her answer was that she doesn't have to say
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  Speaker 3: sorry at all. There are some rules in tennis which
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  Speaker 3: most of the players follow, and it was the first
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  Speaker 3: time ever that this happened to.
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  Speaker 1: Me on tour.
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  Speaker 3: If she plays in her homeland, it doesn't mean she
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  Speaker 3: can behave and do whatever she wants.
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  Speaker 1: And then she.
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  Speaker 3: Said in the beginning of the match, all players are
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  Speaker 3: supposed to start warm ups on the baseline. She concluded
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  Speaker 3: with thanks to all my fans for your support. I
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  Speaker 3: will come back stronger. Situations like this motivate me to
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  Speaker 3: work even harder. Baby, they've been eating her up, poor Helena.
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  Speaker 3: They've been eating her up in her comments every since.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I'm just gonna say it one more time,
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  Speaker 3: just to say it, Taylor. You know, Taylor Townsend herself said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I didn't feel it didn't feel racial, right,
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  Speaker 3: But Taylor Townsend went to Instagram and posted a caption
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  Speaker 3: and her tennis Offit was so cute. That was one
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  Speaker 3: of the first things I noticed when I saw their
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  Speaker 3: back and forth. I know, we got to be paying
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  Speaker 3: attention to other things right now. It's a lot more
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  Speaker 3: to worry about Lauren than the outfit. But y'all know me,
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  Speaker 3: I thought her tennis offit was so cute with the
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  Speaker 3: fire at the bottom, and especially because after the back
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  Speaker 3: and forth, she bringing the energy.
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  Speaker 1: She like, yeah, what's up.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not apologizing like she's with all the She's
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  Speaker 3: with all of the bs. Taylor Townsend was with it,
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  Speaker 3: but she posted some photos of her on the court
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  Speaker 3: during the match after the match, and she said, brought
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  Speaker 3: the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Some people can't take the heat, y'all see what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying about the outfit. Brought the fire, some people can't
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  Speaker 1: take the baby. Girl knew what she was doing.
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  Speaker 3: She also captioned it in the beginning of the caption
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  Speaker 3: bta belt to as because she did do that. She
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  Speaker 3: spanked oh girl, and then she said on to the
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  Speaker 3: next love y'all. Now, I have reached out to the
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  Speaker 3: US Open to see if they'll be commenting on this
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  Speaker 3: at all. It seems like both girls were able to
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  Speaker 3: get their side out. But if there's anything additional, if
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  Speaker 3: anything comes up, y'all know who won't let y'all know
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  Speaker 3: because I'm gonna be all ain't us nass because now
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  Speaker 3: I'm a part of the HB US Open community, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not leaving, not leaving at all. Love it
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  Speaker 3: over there. I had a great time. I am lowkey
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  Speaker 3: mad that I missed this match, but I did. I
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  Speaker 3: told y'all yesterday I did get to see Cocoa golf.
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  Speaker 3: Made my whole day, if even for like ten minutes,
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  Speaker 3: made my whole day. So shout out to all the
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  Speaker 3: black girls and tennants doing the thing, putting the belt
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  Speaker 3: to ask continue doing what y'all doing. We'll see what
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  Speaker 3: happens here. Do y'all think the US Open shining polls?
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  Speaker 3: You know any I don't know anything, any sanctions, any
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  Speaker 3: consequences of any sort for the conversation that these ladies had.
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  Speaker 3: Let me know what y'all think. It's sports, it's competition.
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested in hearing. Take it to the streets, to
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  Speaker 3: the tweets, to be outside.
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  Speaker 1: We outside. We tweet every other page, y'all know.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be writing those comments to the tweets with y'all
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  Speaker 3: talking back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Laura L.
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  Speaker 3: Rosa this is the latest with Laura l Rosa and
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, there.
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  Speaker 1: Is always a lot to talk.
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  Speaker 3: About every single day, but y'all choose to be right
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  Speaker 3: here with me and I appreciate y'all for that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you guys in my next episode.