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DONKEY: Aramark Serves Chicken, Waffles & Watermelon At Nyack Middle School For Black History Month · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: please tell me why was I your Donkey of the Day? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Donkey to Day for Monday, February six goes to Arab Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Arab Mark is a food service company that provides meals
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  Speaker 1: to the district of Nayak, New York and other places.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what they did on the first day of
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  Speaker 1: Black History Month, providing meals. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: entertained by all the ways people stumbled their way through
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  Speaker 1: honoring Black History Month. And the only reason I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Mark donkey to day is not because what they
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  Speaker 1: did was so egregious. It's just that this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those things that by now people should have figured out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: see you. On the Black History Month menu, Aaron Mark
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  Speaker 1: had a Philly cheese steak, broccoli and fresh fruit. That's
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  Speaker 1: what was on the schools lunch calendar. That's what people
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  Speaker 1: thought they were gonna eat. But they decided, since it
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  Speaker 1: was Black History Month, to change the menu at the
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  Speaker 1: last minute. Would you like to know what they ordered
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  Speaker 1: before I go to the news report, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to ask the room, ray Je, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: they ordered for the first day of Black History muff?
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  Speaker 1: They ordered, we think of black people? What you think food?
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, ray Je. Just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you don't have an answer is good, right. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: have an answer for that. Behind the scenes, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the scenes, he said Roscoe's chicken and waffles and watermelon.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put them. You
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  Speaker 1: said chicken and watermelon, and then I went, well, isn't
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  Speaker 1: that and then you said, what ray J and I
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  Speaker 1: went Roscolle's chicken and waffles and watermelons. Good, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to CBS water very happy that he spoke Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: am A mother reassuring her daughter after a racially insensitive
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  Speaker 1: lunch option was served at Nyake Middle School the first
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  Speaker 1: day of Black History Month. Instead of Philly cheese, steak,
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  Speaker 1: broccoli and fresh fruit, A Remark, the food service company
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  Speaker 1: that provides meals to the district served chicken and waffles
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  Speaker 1: and watermelon. In a statement to a Remark apologized for
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  Speaker 1: the insensitivity, saying, in part, while our menu was not
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  Speaker 1: intended as a cultural meal, we acknowledged that the timing
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  Speaker 1: was inappropriate and our team should have been more thoughtful
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  Speaker 1: in its service. But this isn't the first time our
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  Speaker 1: mark found itself in hot water. Back in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: another racially insensitive meal was served at New York University
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  Speaker 1: during Black History Months. It included barbecued ribs, colored greens,
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  Speaker 1: corn bread, kool aid, and watermelon flavored water. When called out,
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  Speaker 1: the company apologized and workers were fired. What's wrong? Right? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong? What? Right? You laugh? You gotta see right
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, He's like, what's wrong with you? Laughed
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  Speaker 1: and you bade me laughing. Then I'm laughing later when
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  Speaker 1: we back live, it was just like I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a it sounds tasty, it's making you hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Where it was it was good. The kool aid was
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  Speaker 1: a little rough, like the kool aid hit was rough
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  Speaker 1: like with it, like it could have just been like
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  Speaker 1: a strawberry, like you know, special drink thing. Aaron Mark
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  Speaker 1: is making a rookie mistake at this point, Like we've
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  Speaker 1: seen this one enough times to know that this was
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  Speaker 1: gonna cause social media back class, right, I think to
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  Speaker 1: add the watermelon in the chicken like the chicken waffle, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to I want to talk about that. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually want to talk about that because we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this enough times to know that the woke tang clan
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  Speaker 1: that exists in these schools was gonna have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with this. But this is what your uncle Shaw is
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  Speaker 1: here for. See. I've told y'all a million times on
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  Speaker 1: this radio. We have to rethink this chicken and watermelon
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  Speaker 1: stereotype because the only reason we embrace it as a
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  Speaker 1: stereotype is because white men who are upset at our
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  Speaker 1: progression made it a stereotype. I've told y'all this a
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  Speaker 1: million times, so much so that I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: to repeat myself. I can just flash back to one
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  Speaker 1: of the last times I said it, and you won't
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  Speaker 1: even know it's a flashback because I didn't have an
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  Speaker 1: old job like DJ and be so my voice sounds
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  Speaker 1: the same because it's okay, it's okay. Would you like
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  Speaker 1: this lesson again? Because it is black history. Well, so
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  Speaker 1: it's the perfect time to teach our history. Chicken and
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  Speaker 1: watermelons is a stereotype. But why is it. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: your old uncle Shawl, explain why it is. Listen, this
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  Speaker 1: is what they said about watermelon. This is from an
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  Speaker 1: article written in twenty fourteen for The Atlantic by William Black.
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  Speaker 1: William Black says the stereotype that African Americans are excessively
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  Speaker 1: fond of watermelon emerged for a specific historical reason and
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  Speaker 1: served a specific political purpose. The trope came in full
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  Speaker 1: force when slaves won their emancipation during the Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: Free black people grew eight and sold watermelons, and in
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  Speaker 1: doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Sovereign whites threatened by black's newfound freedom, responded by making
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  Speaker 1: the fruit a symbol of black people's perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness,
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  Speaker 1: and unwanted public presence. Listen interested, I looked up chicken right.
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  Speaker 1: Claire Smith's, a professor at the University of Missouri who
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  Speaker 1: studies raising folklore, said chickens had long been a part
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  Speaker 1: of sovereign diets, but they had a particular utility for slaves.
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  Speaker 1: They were cheap, easy to feed, and a good source
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  Speaker 1: of meat. But smith says came Birth of a Nation,
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  Speaker 1: a silent movie from nineteen fifteen that showed the founding
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  Speaker 1: of the Ku Klux Klan. One scene in the movie
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  Speaker 1: features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials
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  Speaker 1: acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. The message
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  Speaker 1: to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote,
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  Speaker 1: sound familiar. Some of the legislators are shown drinking, others
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  Speaker 1: had their feet kicked up on their desk, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken. That image,
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  Speaker 1: says Claire Smiths, really solidified the way white people thought
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  Speaker 1: of black people and fried chicken. Smith said that like watermelon,
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  Speaker 1: that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions
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  Speaker 1: of blacks. Chicken was also a good vehicle for racism
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  Speaker 1: because of the way people eat it. It's a food
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  Speaker 1: you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty. Table
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  Speaker 1: manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect,
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  Speaker 1: are not? In quote did you learn something? Ray Jisel
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  Speaker 1: turn his mic on, did you learn something? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: learned something. I learned something. It just it's just I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just such a thin line between it
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  Speaker 1: is not we let our pressure all. I meaning, like
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  Speaker 1: I like watermelon as you should, like I love reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: I like to be a symbol of freedom, for that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So where the chicken waffles and watermelon,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, that's a good combination of me a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic man with syrup and on the watermelon that's disgusting. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like if it got that's a little
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  Speaker 1: by got dripped on there when you like trying to
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  Speaker 1: mix them all together. You got the chicken waffle and
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  Speaker 1: the watermelon was in there too, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: coming y'all. Let y'all a pressure. Shame y'all into thinking
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  Speaker 1: that chicken and watermelon with a negative stereotype when the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the situation is chicken, watermelon. As ray J
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  Speaker 1: just said, it's just delicious. That's what I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to say from the beginning, nothing more, nothing less. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand how y'all can take the N word,
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  Speaker 1: a word that was just the racial slur that racist
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  Speaker 1: whites used and still use as a derogatory term, and
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  Speaker 1: flip that into something positive. And some of y'all tell
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  Speaker 1: the world, no, that's our word. It's hards. Y'all took
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  Speaker 1: that negative ass word and made it a term of endearment.
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  Speaker 1: But things that God actually created, like chickens and watermelons
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  Speaker 1: that are delicious that we made money off, y'all. Let
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  Speaker 1: those racist Southern whites turn those things into a negative y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Let those Southern whites turned down into a racist trope,
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  Speaker 1: and y'all just accepted it. Y'all, literally, let someone shame
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  Speaker 1: you for doing something good. You literally let someone shame
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  Speaker 1: you for being an entrepreneur. You're supposed to look at
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  Speaker 1: those Southern whites the same way we look at negroes
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  Speaker 1: who clowned other negroes. For going to college, for reading,
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  Speaker 1: for having a legit occupation. But with all of that said,
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  Speaker 1: our Mark, come on, you have to know better, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: until we can change the narrative back the chicken and
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  Speaker 1: watermelon not being the stereotype, you got to know better.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, And you know, chicken and watermelon
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  Speaker 1: and you throwing the waffles too. I mean that comlar
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  Speaker 1: nation is off the chain. Delicious. You would love to
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  Speaker 1: have that at a party instead of asparagus and some
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  Speaker 1: chicken and some lamb chops or something like that. Lamb
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  Speaker 1: chops is good. Lamb chops, lamb chops. Please give Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Mark the sweet chimes in the hambletons like, gee, I
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  Speaker 1: just took it wrong. Let's open up the phone line.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Eight hundred five A five
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  Speaker 1: one on five one. What's the question? The question? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Can we turn chicken and watermelon back to what it
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  Speaker 1: originally was good food? Do we have to continue just
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  Speaker 1: to make it a racist trope? Do we have to
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  Speaker 1: continue to look at it as a stereotype. Do we
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  Speaker 1: have to continue to be upset when people put chicken
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  Speaker 1: and watermelon on the menu, knowing that watermelon was a
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  Speaker 1: symbol of freedom, knowing that we used to make money
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  Speaker 1: off chicken, and our oppressors literally literally shamed us into
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  Speaker 1: thinking that chicken and watermelon was a negative stereotype. And
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  Speaker 1: reality of the situation is chicken and watermelon were symbols
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  Speaker 1: of from fuss. Let's let's hut up the phone. Let's
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  Speaker 1: have that that that conversation. Eight hundred five A five
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  Speaker 1: one five one. Let me ask you a question before
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  Speaker 1: we though. Okay, your daughter's school celebrates Black History moth
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  Speaker 1: and they tell you for Friday they do in chicken,
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  Speaker 1: waffles and watermelon. How do you feel I need I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel a little way just that let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: because I need to know your intention. I know what,
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  Speaker 1: I know what, I know the meaning behind chicken and watermelon.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to know what these school's intention is.
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  Speaker 1: Why do y'all think it's black servant and black people
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  Speaker 1: like chicken? But if no, but what if you ask
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  Speaker 1: that question? What if you ask the administration that question
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  Speaker 1: and then they break down what I just broke down
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  Speaker 1: about watermelon being a symbol of freedom, and what if
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  Speaker 1: they give the kids that lesson with the meal? What
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  Speaker 1: they say it is like chicken. That's a little different.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know how you come to that conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: That's ideology at the end of the day. To educate
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  Speaker 1: that you use that word, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: did it. Don't sound like you did well, it's educate.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like the way your headphones look is how
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  Speaker 1: you seem like you that word Okay, ray Ja's head
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is to be knowledgeable on everything,
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  Speaker 1: like if you broke down what it was there you
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  Speaker 1: go while you're servant is boom. Then you give them
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  Speaker 1: the education need to understand it and love it and
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't go viral wrong, it goes viral right.
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  Speaker 1: They're smart. But let's talk about it when we come back.
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