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DONKEY: Benny Johnson Faces Backlash After Challenging Black Women’s Contributions To America · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the day. You have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of donkeys out here to day called donkey of
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  Speaker 1: the day. It really caught me off.
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  Speaker 2: Guards we live a life where we write are tongue
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  Speaker 2: based off who we may have finished.
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  Speaker 1: He never would say.
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  Speaker 3: Any time.
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  Speaker 1: You are a donkey.
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  Speaker 4: That is why Charlamage is.
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  Speaker 1: Some donkey today is just sad. Okay, Charlamage, we would
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  Speaker 1: give a donkey of the day too. What donkey today?
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  Speaker 2: For Tuesday, July seventh, goes the MAGA influencer Bennie Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Bennie Johnson is the host of The Benny Show, which
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  Speaker 2: is described as an independent conservative news commentary and podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It focuses on right link right leaning political commentary. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday I saw a headline that said MAGA influencer
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  Speaker 2: Benny Johnson says black women's only contribution to America's founding
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  Speaker 2: was getting raped by Thomas Jefferson.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, let's listen. Name.
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  Speaker 5: I want a name, Okay, the name of a single
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  Speaker 5: black woman that had something to do with America's founding.
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  Speaker 5: I can think of, like, didn't Thomas Jefferson have like
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  Speaker 5: half his family like with out of wedlock with the slaves,
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  Speaker 5: I think is not historicic anyway, That's like as close
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  Speaker 5: as I can get.
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  Speaker 1: Right wing Watch. I'll put some more sauce on that headline.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: What Benny actually said was didn't Thomas Jeffson have like
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  Speaker 2: half his family out of wedlock?
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  Speaker 1: And he said that no black woman was a founding father.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that was in reply to congress Woman Jasmine Crockett
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  Speaker 2: statement that America owes black women everything.
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  Speaker 1: Can we hit with? Sister Jasmine had to say so.
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  Speaker 6: When it comes to answering the question of what America
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  Speaker 6: owes black women, the answer is everything. When we think
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  Speaker 6: about the sacrifices that black women have made from the
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  Speaker 6: moment that we were stolen from our homelands and transported
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  Speaker 6: into this country to the fact that black women continued
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  Speaker 6: to stand as the backbone, specifically of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 6: We know that black women are always the ones that
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  Speaker 6: are doing the labor, but we are also the ones
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  Speaker 6: that are always the first targets. This fourth of July,
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  Speaker 6: I say, celebrate a black woman that you know, because
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  Speaker 6: whether it's an invention that she made, or whether it's
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  Speaker 6: the very democracy that still hangs by a thread. Right now,
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  Speaker 6: there is a black woman to thank for her contributions.
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  Speaker 1: Dropping the clues bonds Jasmin Crockett.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I hate the end That Jasmine's statement
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  Speaker 2: in his full context makes perfect sense, and that headline
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  Speaker 2: compressed what she actually said into just a provocative SoundBite, okay,
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  Speaker 2: something to get the people going. Jasmine is correct. Black
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  Speaker 2: women have made extraordinary sacrifices and slavery. Black women have
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  Speaker 2: historically contributed significantly to American society and democracy. Black women
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  Speaker 2: have been the key voting block, okay, in organizing force
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  Speaker 2: within the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, America olds black women a great debt.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And you can say everything because of those contributions.
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  Speaker 2: Whether somebody agrees, you know, depends largely on how they
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  Speaker 2: interpret the word everything. But America definitely OWDs black women
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  Speaker 2: a great debt. Now, Benny Johnson, why did that statement
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  Speaker 2: prompt that headline? Okay, that type of headline that you know,
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  Speaker 2: black women's only contribution to America's founding was getting raped
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  Speaker 2: by Thomas Jefferson. Well, that's because the internet, you know,
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  Speaker 2: likes provocative headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's what gets the people going, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Benny said, didn't Thomas Jefferson have like half his family
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  Speaker 2: out of wedlock?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it was a sixteen year old enslave girl who
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  Speaker 2: was his property and I'm sure didn't give consents. So
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  Speaker 2: that's how that headline could be crafted, Benny, in case
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  Speaker 2: you're wondering, But I want to talk about what you
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  Speaker 2: said in regard to the black women having no meaningful
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  Speaker 2: role in the founding of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 2: or that it's inaccurate to say that they were foundational
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  Speaker 2: to the country being built. Well, I think it's the
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  Speaker 2: difference between formal political power like being a founding father
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  Speaker 2: father and historical contribution. Okay, you don't have to agree
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  Speaker 2: with somebody saying America olds black women. That's a rhetorical statement.
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  Speaker 2: We can debate whether it's an exaggeration. But when you
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  Speaker 2: respond by acting like black women had no role in
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  Speaker 2: America's founding.
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  Speaker 1: Our development, that's when you earn your heat, Hoss. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: See, too many people confuse having political power with creating value. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the founding fathers wrote to documents, that's true, but the
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  Speaker 2: country was built by more than just the people who
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  Speaker 2: signed the founding documents. Okay, enslaved black people, including black women,
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  Speaker 2: performed the label that helped build the economy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, game cock suckers all right, in federal infrastructure. All right.
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  Speaker 2: They had no political rights, but they absolutely contributed to
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  Speaker 2: the nation's development. As my sister Angela Riah said, for years,
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  Speaker 2: we built this joint for free. Okay, who was growing
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  Speaker 2: the tobacco, who was picking the cotton, who was raising
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  Speaker 2: generations of children, both their own and often white people's.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, you were sucking often to any of black women.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Black women were keeping communities together while being denied basic
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  Speaker 2: human rights. Nobody is saying black women's on the Declaration
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  Speaker 2: of Independence or drafted the Constitution. What people are saying
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  Speaker 2: is that you cannot tell the story of America honestly
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  Speaker 2: while pretending to labor, resilience, and sacrifices of black women
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  Speaker 2: weren't essential to what this country became.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And let's be clear.
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  Speaker 2: If your version of patriotism required deleting people's contributions because
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging them makes you uncomfortable, that's not patriotism. That's insecurity.
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  Speaker 2: And a good therapist is going to always tell you
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  Speaker 2: to address your insecurities, BENNI, Okay, explore their root causes
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  Speaker 2: so you can replace harsh, self critical thoughts with healthier
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  Speaker 2: emotional patterns.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, Bennie, and you know everybody out there that feels
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  Speaker 2: like him.
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  Speaker 1: America is a complicated story.
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  Speaker 2: The founders, I guess, deserve recognition, but so do the
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  Speaker 2: soldiers and the immigrants, and the farmers and the factory workers,
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  Speaker 2: the Native Americans, the enslaved Africans, and yes, black women Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because countries are not built by politicians alone, all right,
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  Speaker 2: built by millions of people whose names never make the
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  Speaker 2: history books, even though there are black women's names in
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  Speaker 2: these history books.
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  Speaker 1: Who helped to build this country?
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  Speaker 2: Salute the right wing watch on Instagram they know pointed
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  Speaker 2: out figures like Phyllis Wheatley, the first African American woman
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  Speaker 2: and one of the first women in the colonies.
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  Speaker 1: To publish a book of poetry. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: George Washington personally corresponded with her and invited her to
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  Speaker 2: visit him after she wrote a poem honoring him. Her
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  Speaker 2: work was used by abolitionists as evidence of black intellectual equality.
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  Speaker 2: Also Elizabeth Freeman, who sued for her freedom in seventeen
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  Speaker 2: eighty one, arguing that the state's new constitutional language, all
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  Speaker 2: men are Born, Free and Equal, applied to her too.
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  Speaker 2: She won in the case helped the endslavery in Massachusetts. So, Benny,
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  Speaker 2: a nation's foundation isn't just the people who signed the papers,
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  Speaker 2: it's also the people whose labor made the nation possible.
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  Speaker 2: Please give Bennie Johnson the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, you are the dog.
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  Speaker 7: Of the day, the dog ge.
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  Speaker 3: Ah the day.
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  Speaker 2: It was another part too, where he said, uh, what
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  Speaker 2: was the part about. I couldn't understand what he was saying,
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  Speaker 2: But he.
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  Speaker 1: Was name an invention without black woman. Yeah, he's just in.
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  Speaker 5: Rocket right now, name of invention from black woman. He
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  Speaker 5: wanted to watch it explode on the name.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with his Google?
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  Speaker 8: I had no idea because, like I'm looking at so
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  Speaker 8: many inventions from black women. Doctor Gladys West invented the GPS.
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  Speaker 8: Doctor Shirley Jackson, she invented colorad Valley. Valerie Thomas, a
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  Speaker 8: NASA scientist who invented the illusion transmitter in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Like it was a black woman who invented the Home
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  Speaker 1: security system.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that is Marie Brown yep, doctor, I think she
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  Speaker 8: was a nurse, nurse Marie around yep, yep, yep. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: but it's some madam C. J. Walker hair carry. We
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  Speaker 8: got black women who invented.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand women everyday.
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  Speaker 4: Life, medicine and science like that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: You just had the Google. Still your Googles. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: M all right, Well, thank you for that donkey today.
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  Speaker 7: Now let's open up the phone lines eight hundred five
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  Speaker 7: eight five one oh five One was Lauren at We
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  Speaker 7: were talking behind the scenes about something that allegedly happened
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  Speaker 7: during essence conference or essence talk.
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  Speaker 3: What hell was Lauren?
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  Speaker 1: Common? But look real quick.
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  Speaker 8: The first black woman to invent something was Judy W. Reid.
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  Speaker 3: In eighteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 8: She invented the dough kneader and roller designed to mix
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  Speaker 8: and roll dope more evenly.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you know that you said, do kneader, do kneader? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What I say?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know sid you was saying donator, No done roller,
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  Speaker 2: do nader.
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  Speaker 3: So the question is five eight five.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think God sposed to.
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  Speaker 4: What have y'all done so far?
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  Speaker 3: With all?
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  Speaker 4: And so on Sunday to close out the Essence Festival.
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  Speaker 9: They did like they honored like black women in music,
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  Speaker 9: and there was a line of people taking a photo
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  Speaker 9: at the event. You had Monica, Anthony Anderson, Brandy, Candy
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  Speaker 9: Birds and you see Tamar walk up to like getting
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  Speaker 9: that line of the photo. But as she does that,
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  Speaker 9: she stops and she speaks to Candy briefly, and Candy
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  Speaker 9: doesn't really give her much at all.
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  Speaker 4: And then.
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  Speaker 3: The video it was it.
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  Speaker 4: Was very like, yeah, it was. It was very like, No,
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 9: I don't ready I saw the video, but I have
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  Speaker 9: speaking to people that were there though, So yeah, so
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  Speaker 9: she speaks, she said something of Candy. Candy keeps it
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  Speaker 9: very brief, and then she tries to get in the
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  Speaker 9: line of the photos. Like they're holding hands, so she
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  Speaker 9: tries to like either open Monica's hand and get in
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  Speaker 9: the line or like just taps it just also acknowledge
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  Speaker 9: her as well to Monica keeps it very brief and
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  Speaker 9: cute as well too. So people are you know, just
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  Speaker 9: talking about the fact that they basically paid her dust
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  Speaker 9: as she was trying to.
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  Speaker 4: Just be nice.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, you know, Tamar has been on that like
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  Speaker 9: I don't want any issues in my life right now,
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  Speaker 9: I'm restarting.
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  Speaker 4: I don't you know what I mean? And if had
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  Speaker 4: pass things.
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  Speaker 3: So this came out of this question.
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  Speaker 7: We were talking behind the scenes eight hundred five eighty five,
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  Speaker 7: one oh five to one. Right, if you don't like
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  Speaker 7: a person, right, or this is a feeling of I
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  Speaker 7: don't f with you, why speak to them?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And the reason is you speak to them.
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  Speaker 7: I don't speak to them. If I don't f with you.
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  Speaker 7: You know you you can feel it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: Don't look at me, don't even come past my way,
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  Speaker 7: don't don't reach your hand out because you did some
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  Speaker 7: f ish to me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want you. I don't want your energy around me.
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  Speaker 3: It's middle finger to you.
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  Speaker 2: Die.
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  Speaker 9: But but essence was so much love. It's black women
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  Speaker 9: in music. You got Missy being honest.
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  Speaker 7: If I don't like you, and if I don't like
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  Speaker 7: you and queens, I ain't gonna like you in New
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  Speaker 7: Orleans no matter where.
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  Speaker 3: But the reason the question came up is because Charlemagne.
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  Speaker 7: If somebody doesn't like Charlemagne and he's in the room,
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  Speaker 7: Charlomagne still speaks, how you doing, God bless you?
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  Speaker 9: That's not me parents, Kennedy spoke, she kept a cute.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, there's only a few people I really,
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  Speaker 1: really truly don't like, and if I'm in the room
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  Speaker 1: with them, then I probably don't really have an issue
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  Speaker 1: out your head.
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  Speaker 3: You said hello, you.
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  Speaker 2: Said, because it's just like most of the time people
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  Speaker 2: don't be having that same energy and nobody, but there's nobody.
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  Speaker 2: There's only a couple of people on this planet I
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  Speaker 2: really truly don't like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't even want that energy like and if.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the same room with them, my life has
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  Speaker 1: gotten very terrible. Guys, there's no.
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  Speaker 5: Shit.
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  Speaker 1: Would you ever be in a room with me? That's great?
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  Speaker 7: Eight hundred five eighty five, one oh five one. If
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  Speaker 7: you're in a room with somebody, do you you don't
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  Speaker 7: like it? Everybody's being called you? Do you speak? I don't, simple,
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  Speaker 7: but let's discuss. It's the breakfast Club.
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