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- 0:01Speaker 1: This is a miracle, there is no question, and there
- 0:06Speaker 1: are problems in this country between police and community.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that
- 0:14Speaker 2: police killing. I'm a black man. Now the new development
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- 0:22Speaker 1: a state of emergency. Okay, White supremacist violence, it is
- 0:26Speaker 1: always has been the number one threat to office side.
- 0:29Speaker 2: But I'm also very proud that my wife was a
- 0:33Speaker 2: practice club bitch.
- 0:34Speaker 1: All right, Sonny, please tell me why was I your donkey.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Of the day.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Well, Donkey today from Monday, February twelfth goes to Representative
- 0:41Speaker 1: Matt Gates of Florida. Excuse me, I'm discussing this, so sorry,
- 0:46Speaker 1: Representative Mike Lloyd Chick, Conservative fun date, C J. Pearson
- 0:49Speaker 1: and everybody else who had their fruitable looms and a bunch.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Because the NFL let andre day perform lift every voice
- 0:55Speaker 1: and commonly, uh, lift every voice from sing commonly known
- 0:58Speaker 1: as the black national anthem.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Now night, just like at many a sporting event.
- 1:02Speaker 1: More than one national anthem was saying, okay, they do
- 1:04Speaker 1: it all the time, especially in boxing, if there's a
- 1:07Speaker 1: fighter from another country, someone.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Will do their national anthem.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I've seen the Canadian national anthem, the Mexican national anthem,
- 1:13Speaker 1: saying it happens all the time, and in a sport
- 1:15Speaker 1: that has a very high percentage of black players, performing
- 1:18Speaker 1: the black national anthem makes sense to me. And Andrea
- 1:21Speaker 1: Day performed it last night. Can we hear a little
- 1:22Speaker 1: bit of the black national anthem?
- 1:24Speaker 3: Please come through Andrea.
- 1:39Speaker 2: With okay now.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Representative Matt Gaetstan on X they're desecrating America's national anthem
- 1:58Speaker 1: by playing something called.
- 1:59Speaker 2: The black national anthem.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Mike Leoudschig said, there's no such thing as a black
- 2:03Speaker 1: national anthem. We are all Americans united by our great
- 2:05Speaker 1: and beautiful Star Spangled banner.
- 2:07Speaker 2: The Super Bowl is supposed to bring us together.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Into disgrace that the NFL decided to push the politics
- 2:11Speaker 1: of racial division again.
- 2:12Speaker 2: CJ.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Pearson wrote on X before Tonight's Super Bowl, as a
- 2:16Speaker 1: young black and proud American, let me make myself clear.
- 2:18Speaker 2: There is only one national anthem.
- 2:20Speaker 1: There is only one United States of America, and it's
- 2:22Speaker 1: for everyone.
- 2:23Speaker 2: White, black, yellow, and even maroon.
- 2:25Speaker 1: He said, The less Agenda of division isn't just needless,
- 2:29Speaker 1: it's exhausting. Listen, man, have any of y'all ever stopped
- 2:32Speaker 1: to think there would be no division if y'all didn't
- 2:35Speaker 1: cause it, If they would simply acknowledge the Black National
- 2:38Speaker 1: Anthem for what it is, Okay, there wouldn't be an issue.
- 2:42Speaker 1: And what it is is a promise of the freedom, liberty,
- 2:44Speaker 1: and justice America promised all people under the constitution.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Okay.
- 2:48Speaker 1: It was written at a crucial time in American history,
- 2:50Speaker 1: all right, when Jim Crow was replacing slavery and African
- 2:52Speaker 1: Americans was searching for an identity of their own. Author
- 2:55Speaker 1: and activist James Weldon Johnson wrote the words as a poem,
- 2:59Speaker 1: which his brother John Rosamond Johnson then set the music.
- 3:02Speaker 1: So if you believe in the freedom of all Americans,
- 3:04Speaker 1: if you believe in equality for all Americans, if you
- 3:06Speaker 1: truly do believe in liberty.
- 3:08Speaker 2: And justice for all, to lift every voice.
- 3:11Speaker 1: And sing wouldn't bother you, not even a little bit?
- 3:14Speaker 2: Okay.
- 3:14Speaker 1: It was first performed in Jacksonville, FLOYDA, to celebrate President
- 3:17Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Abraham Lincoln, you know him, right. He
- 3:20Speaker 1: issued the Emancipation proclamation that freed the slaves. The song
- 3:23Speaker 1: was written as a hopeful appeal for the liberty of
- 3:25Speaker 1: black Americans.
- 3:25Speaker 2: It was the promise of freedom.
- 3:27Speaker 1: If you don't like the song, then you simply don't
- 3:29Speaker 1: like seeing black people free.
- 3:31Speaker 2: How don't expect Mac Gates and Mike Lloyd Chick to notice.
- 3:34Speaker 2: But TJ. Pison, you're a black person.
- 3:36Speaker 1: You have to know this, Okay, lift every voice and
- 3:38Speaker 1: sing is so American and it's not something you should
- 3:40Speaker 1: look at as anti American if you do, indeed believe
- 3:44Speaker 1: that they should be freedom, liberty, and justice for all people.
- 3:47Speaker 1: If you believe that, then you should look at this
- 3:49Speaker 1: song the same way you look at the National anthem
- 3:51Speaker 1: and the Star Spangled banner. Not to mention, Reeba McIntire
- 3:54Speaker 1: sang the national anthem, and.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Post Malone did American beautiful.
- 3:57Speaker 1: So all aspects of America were represented last night. So
- 4:00Speaker 1: I don't understand how come when people from other countries
- 4:02Speaker 1: come here and participate in sporting events and their national
- 4:05Speaker 1: anthem is saying it don't bother nobody. But anytime black
- 4:07Speaker 1: people give some acknowledgement as proud citizens of this country,
- 4:11Speaker 1: it's a problem. Imagine Matt Jates, Imagine Mike Lloyd Chick,
- 4:14Speaker 1: Imagine Sheese Pearson.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Imagine y'all simply.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Said, it's great to see the Black National Anthem acknowledge
- 4:20Speaker 1: that the Super Bowl. Think about how that acknowledgement would
- 4:23Speaker 1: bring people together. You know, we live in a world
- 4:25Speaker 1: full of sheep and folks just be sitting around waiting
- 4:29Speaker 1: to know how to feel about things. They literally go
- 4:32Speaker 1: on social media and wait to know how to feel
- 4:35Speaker 1: about certain things and events. If you all that simply said,
- 4:38Speaker 1: good for the NFL to acknowledging our Black Americans with
- 4:41Speaker 1: the Black National Anthem, that would collectively bring people together.
- 4:45Speaker 1: But like most things black in this country, you simply
- 4:48Speaker 1: tried to write it out of history and tell people
- 4:50Speaker 1: that it doesn't really exist. You all could have created
- 4:54Speaker 1: energy and rhetoric that caused unity, but instead you decided
- 4:58Speaker 1: to cause division. Please give Matt Gates, Mike Lloyd Chick,
- 5:01Speaker 1: and c J. Pearson the biggest ee hull.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:08Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's just as exhausting as y'all think
- 5:11Speaker 1: the less agenda of.
- 5:12Speaker 2: The vision is in my opinion. All right, well, thank
- 5:16Speaker 2: you for that. Donkey Today.
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