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IDKMYDE: America Loves Sayings · 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: Let's talk about America for a second. You know this
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  Speaker 1: country wasn't just built on the hard work of enslaved
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  Speaker 1: African Americans and innovation. Oh no, America was built on sayings. Yeah, sayings.
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  Speaker 1: We love a good saying. Like one of the most
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  Speaker 1: classic American sayings is pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: What you need to do is pull yourself up by
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  Speaker 1: your bootstraps. That's like the national anthem of personal responsibility
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  Speaker 1: in America, ain't it. But here's the thing, it's not
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  Speaker 1: even practical, Like who came up with that? You ever
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  Speaker 1: tried to pull yourself up by your bootstraps? Physics won't
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  Speaker 1: even let you. You just standing there, You ain'ting on
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  Speaker 1: leather straps in the position that the Sisters had Andy
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  Speaker 1: Dufrain in in Shawshank Redemption. If you've never seen the movie,
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  Speaker 1: you won't get the reference. Moving right, My point is
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  Speaker 1: due to gravity, it is not even possible to pull
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  Speaker 1: yourself up by your bootstraps. Another saying in America the
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  Speaker 1: American dream. All we sold out one hard. If you
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  Speaker 1: work hard and.
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  Speaker 2: Stay focused, you'll be successful. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That sound good, but they never talk about that fine
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  Speaker 1: printice on the American Dream that says, unless someone decides
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  Speaker 1: that they don't like your success.
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  Speaker 2: For example, Jack Holly, my man.
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  Speaker 1: Jack was living out his dream, own businesses, land, part
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  Speaker 1: of a bank.
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  Speaker 2: He was basically the Oprah of Slocum, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: But then nineteen ten rolls around and instead of being celebrated,
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  Speaker 1: a white mob rolls in and says, nah, you've been
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  Speaker 1: having too much success, Negro, and they destroy everything. One
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  Speaker 1: of his sons killed, his businesses, gone, generational wealth torched.
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  Speaker 1: And yet somehow, the same folks who did all that
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  Speaker 1: are the ones still walking around today saying, why can't
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  Speaker 1: y'all pull yourselves up by your bootstraps?
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, can we tried?
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  Speaker 1: Y'all stole the boots, the straps, and then burnt down
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  Speaker 1: the shop. Another saying that we love in America history
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  Speaker 1: repeats itself. All America lives by this one because Slocan
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the only time this happened. Tulsa's Black Wall Street,
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  Speaker 1: same thing, Rosewood, same thing. Look anytime a black community
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  Speaker 1: got a little too successful, somebody showed up with some
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  Speaker 1: matches and some insecurity, all in one more saying united,
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  Speaker 1: we stand divided, we fall right. Coming from a country
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  Speaker 1: that's been divided since day one, that saying should also
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  Speaker 1: come with a disclaimer.
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  Speaker 2: Terms and conditions apply. Side effects include systemic racism and
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  Speaker 2: selective memory. So while we remember these sayings, let's not
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  Speaker 2: forget these slings of families like Jack Holly and massacres
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  Speaker 2: like Rosewood and Tulsa. And we know America love is saying,
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  Speaker 2: But maybe it's time for some new ones. How About
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  Speaker 2: if you see someone thriving, let them keep surviving. How
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  Speaker 2: about that? Or here's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Stop burning up other people's shit. If you got some
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  Speaker 1: new sands we should add in twenty twenty five, hit
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  Speaker 1: me up on my social media at b dot t V.
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  Speaker 2: That's B d a h t t V.
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  Speaker 1: Okay bye, I mean no