Latest / The Breakfast Club / Donkey Of The Day: Secretary Of Housing Ben Carson Mistakes REO Housing For OREO Cookies
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- 0:01Speaker 1: I was born to Donkey. It's a Donkey of the
- 0:04Speaker 1: Death Club. Yes, Donke here today for Wednesday, May twenty
- 0:21Speaker 1: second goes to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
- 0:25Speaker 1: doctor Ben Carson. Now, I don't know why I thought
- 0:27Speaker 1: doctor Ben Carson stepped down from this position, but he didn't. Well,
- 0:31Speaker 1: all right, No, he's leaving after Trump's first term. Yes,
- 0:36Speaker 1: he's leaving after Trump's first term. Uh, well, hopefully his
- 0:39Speaker 1: only term. Now. Yesterday, doctor Ben Carson testified before a
- 0:42Speaker 1: Queen Maxine Water's Financial Services Committee for the first time
- 0:46Speaker 1: since Maxine became the chair in January. If it is
- 0:48Speaker 1: true that you never get a second chance to make
- 0:50Speaker 1: a first impression, well, doctor Ben Carson blew it all right. Now.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Quick backstory on doctor Ben for those who don't know,
- 0:56Speaker 1: he's a former brain surgeon and Republican presidential candidate who
- 0:59Speaker 1: are celebrity in chief. Donald J. Trump nominated as his
- 1:03Speaker 1: Hutch secretary in twenty seventeen despite him having zero relevant experience. Now,
- 1:07Speaker 1: doctor Ben was trying to defend a budget proposal that
- 1:10Speaker 1: would Cutch sixteen point four percent from Hutch budget. He
- 1:13Speaker 1: was also questioned about a plan Hudd announced last year
- 1:15Speaker 1: to impose rent increases of as much as one hundred
- 1:18Speaker 1: and fifty percent on people who lived in subsidized housing. Now,
- 1:20Speaker 1: if you thought doctor Ben Carson had no idea what
- 1:22Speaker 1: he was doing as Secretary of HUD, well this exchange
- 1:26Speaker 1: confirms it. Okay, because there's a basic housing terminology. I
- 1:30Speaker 1: know a little basic housing terminology like envy. I know
- 1:33Speaker 1: you know some basic housing terminology, right correct? You know
- 1:36Speaker 1: what affordable housing is for the most part, the mixed
- 1:39Speaker 1: use housing. And we know what opportunity zones are. We
- 1:42Speaker 1: know what the amiyes are right pmvs. American Medium Income
- 1:46Speaker 1: Present market Value. Okay, we all know some basic housing terminology. Well,
- 1:51Speaker 1: we might know more basic terms about housing than the
- 1:53Speaker 1: Secretary of HUD doctor Ben Carson. Because Representative Katie Porter
- 1:57Speaker 1: asked Doctor Ben about a common acronym used to describe
- 2:00Speaker 1: closed properties. She asked him about R e os R eos.
- 2:05Speaker 1: That's an R A E And oh, okay, would you
- 2:09Speaker 1: like to hear what doctor ben Carson thought she was
- 2:11Speaker 1: talking about. Let's listen. I'd also like you to get
- 2:15Speaker 1: back to me if you don't mind, to explain the
- 2:17Speaker 1: disparity in rio rate. Do you know what an rio is?
- 2:21Speaker 1: An OREO R not an OREO and R EO R
- 2:26Speaker 1: real estate? What's the O stand for the organization owned?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Real estate owned? That's what happens when a property goes
- 2:34Speaker 1: to foreclosure. We call it an R e O. Okay,
- 2:37Speaker 1: she had to explaate it to him. Was it that
- 2:39Speaker 1: MB seminar? If he would have learned? Gee, when you're
- 2:46Speaker 1: talking for a closed properties, an RIO stands for real
- 2:49Speaker 1: estate owned. Okay. If you want to snack with some
- 2:51Speaker 1: warm milk, if it's Christmas and you're trying to leave
- 2:54Speaker 1: Santa something to snack on, an orio, it's a chocolate
- 2:57Speaker 1: sandwich cookie. Now let me tell you something. Doctor Ben
- 3:00Speaker 1: was doing something called psychological projection with that statement. I'm
- 3:04Speaker 1: no neurosurgeon. I didn't even go to college. I graduated
- 3:06Speaker 1: from night school in nineteen ninety eight, and my graduating
- 3:08Speaker 1: class was supposed to be in nineteen ninety six. So
- 3:10Speaker 1: that tells you all you need to know about me,
- 3:12Speaker 1: all right, But psychological projection is a defense mechanism in
- 3:15Speaker 1: which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or quality.
- 3:19Speaker 1: So I think doctor Benn has an unconscious impulse to
- 3:23Speaker 1: defend himself when he hears the word ario because he
- 3:26Speaker 1: has been called one so much in his life. Okay,
- 3:29Speaker 1: and Orio, and Orio is a black person who acts white,
- 3:32Speaker 1: you know, black on the outside, white on the inside. Now,
- 3:35Speaker 1: I don't like that term because black people are not monolithic,
- 3:37Speaker 1: and there's no way to act black and there's no
- 3:39Speaker 1: way to act white. All right. Just because doctor Ben
- 3:41Speaker 1: Carson is a well educated neurosurgeon who doesn't speak fluent
- 3:44Speaker 1: nigga doesn't mean he's act no white. Okay. So I
- 3:46Speaker 1: don't agree with calling people orioles, but I can see
- 3:49Speaker 1: why you would call doctor Ben Carson one. And I
- 3:51Speaker 1: truly believe, you know, he's been called one his whole life,
- 3:54Speaker 1: that it was a psychological projection. Okay. He feels like
- 3:57Speaker 1: Milk's favorite cookie. So when he heard that, he just
- 4:00Speaker 1: got defensive, all right. He was ready to prove that
- 4:02Speaker 1: he did not consist of two chocolate wafers, and he
- 4:05Speaker 1: was knock full of sweet cream filling, all right. If
- 4:07Speaker 1: Katie Porter had really called doctor Ben Carson an ario,
- 4:11Speaker 1: he was ready to reply, you don't know me. I
- 4:14Speaker 1: am big Bee from the d and you will put
- 4:16Speaker 1: some respect on me, all right, Yeah, y'all don't know
- 4:19Speaker 1: big bee from the D. I ain't the big bee
- 4:21Speaker 1: from the D from the streets. So let's hit a
- 4:23Speaker 1: big bee talk that talk. As a teenager, I would
- 4:26Speaker 1: go after people at rocks and baseball. Carson describes punching
- 4:31Speaker 1: a classmate with a lock in his hand the dage fourteen,
- 4:34Speaker 1: another teenager anger at man. I had a large camping
- 4:37Speaker 1: knife and I tried to stab him in the abdumen. Fortunately,
- 4:42Speaker 1: under his clothing he had on a large metal belt
- 4:46Speaker 1: buckle and a knife. Place struck with such force that
- 4:51Speaker 1: it broke big Bee from the D. Dropping a clue.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Big Bee from the D orio e though, damn Orio
- 4:58Speaker 1: that a big bee from the D. I dare you
- 4:59Speaker 1: call an oriole? Now? A big bee from the D
- 5:02Speaker 1: decided to play along, and he got on Twitter and
- 5:04Speaker 1: posted a picture of him holding a pack of family
- 5:07Speaker 1: size orioles. Now, I am a stern believer of living
- 5:10Speaker 1: your truth. It's the eminem and eight my theory. I
- 5:12Speaker 1: wrote about it in my first book, Black Privilege. And
- 5:14Speaker 1: I guess since big Bee from the das from Detroit,
- 5:16Speaker 1: he decided to take a page out of be Rabbit's
- 5:18Speaker 1: book and say everything about himself that any hater could
- 5:21Speaker 1: possibly say, so he held up that pack of orioles. Well,
- 5:24Speaker 1: it worked for bee rabbit, it don't work for doctor
- 5:27Speaker 1: ben Carson because even though I don't agree with the
- 5:29Speaker 1: term oriole, I can see why they call him that. Right,
- 5:31Speaker 1: you can't take a picture with a pack of orioles,
- 5:33Speaker 1: just like all Kelly can't take a picture in front
- 5:35Speaker 1: of a high school. All right, O, j can't pretend
- 5:37Speaker 1: to be Jason bahe's for Halloween. It's just some things
- 5:40Speaker 1: that should not be done, and an oriole holding the
- 5:42Speaker 1: pack of orioles is one of them. Look, if you
- 5:45Speaker 1: don't know something, don't pretend to. Okay, I'm not an
- 5:47Speaker 1: expert at anything. I just have some experiences. And when
- 5:50Speaker 1: you don't know, like doctor ben Carson, or have any
- 5:53Speaker 1: experiences in a certain field like doctor Ben Carson, and
- 5:55Speaker 1: you end up mistaking our eos for cookies, I'm small
- 6:00Speaker 1: enough to know I'm dumb. Okay, you have to be
- 6:02Speaker 1: smart enough to know you're not very smart. All you
- 6:04Speaker 1: can be like doctor ben Carson and not be smart
- 6:07Speaker 1: enough to know everything, but be dumb enough to try anything,
- 6:11Speaker 1: including being the secretary of HUD When you have no
- 6:14Speaker 1: idea what the hell you are doing. Please let me
- 6:17Speaker 1: give doctor Ben Carston the biggest he hall he ha
- 6:19Speaker 1: he ha, you stupid mother. Are you requirements or anything?
- 6:26Speaker 1: Clearly not? Clearly not. I mean I can see where
- 6:29Speaker 1: you can get some acronyms messed up. Like if somebody
- 6:32Speaker 1: came to me and said, NBA right now, I probably
- 6:34Speaker 1: think young boy, you know before anything. You know what
- 6:36Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you came to me and said, PSA,
- 6:38Speaker 1: I think of jay Z and just blazed allowed me
- 6:39Speaker 1: to reintroduce myself. You know what I'm saying, But I would,
- 6:42Speaker 1: I would get back focused in two seconds. I thank
- 6:45Speaker 1: you for that. Donkey to day, Yes, sir, all right
- 6:47Speaker 1: when we come back, we got your positive note. Throw
- 6:49Speaker 1: moves to breakfast Club. Good morning,