Latest / The Breakfast Club / Reverend William J. Barber II Interview and More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, in the morning, you wake up the
- 0:03Speaker 1: morning I'm talking right, I know you're about to experience
- 0:06Speaker 1: a morning showing like idiot to the bast club. What
- 0:11Speaker 1: you guys are doing right now? It's the hup culture.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Breakfast Club is my morning fit. I need it and
- 0:16Speaker 1: I love it. Something tells yo like you really not
- 0:18Speaker 1: popping until you do the Breakfast Club. The waiting come
- 0:22Speaker 1: to y'all show man. I know you gotta be a
- 0:24Speaker 1: big time celebrity. Be upter here. You gotta be. You
- 0:26Speaker 1: gotta be a big time d J Nry Angiola Ye
- 0:28Speaker 1: and Charlotta Maine the guy the Breakfast Club, bitch you
- 0:42Speaker 1: Good morning USA. And to rouno yo yo yo yo
- 0:48Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:49Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:51Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:53Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
- 0:55Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo Good morning Angela ye
- 0:59Speaker 1: Dad moneys Ambi, Charlemagne the god piece to the plane.
- 1:03Speaker 1: It is Thursday, Yes, it's Thursday. I hear you're scratching.
- 1:12Speaker 1: What you mean. I hear you're scratching. I ain't stretching.
- 1:17Speaker 1: What are you talking about Oh I thought I heard
- 1:19Speaker 1: you're scratching. You can't keep thought to you having this
- 1:21Speaker 1: what it's too earlier. Maybe i'm or maybe I'm just
- 1:24Speaker 1: projecting on you. I don't don't project anything on me.
- 1:27Speaker 1: I'm definitely tired. Zoom is very exhausting, bro. It is
- 1:31Speaker 1: if you gotta if you gotta be on Zoom for
- 1:34Speaker 1: the majority of your day, it is very, very very exhausting.
- 1:38Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, um, you know, your people think
- 1:41Speaker 1: that being that it's on Zoom, you can do more. Right,
- 1:45Speaker 1: So to be a lot of stuff on your schedule
- 1:47Speaker 1: Zoom is exhausted. I'm tired of Zoom, but I need
- 1:49Speaker 1: some human interaction when it comes to these meetings and
- 1:53Speaker 1: interviews and whatever else. Yeah, I've been I've been doing
- 1:57Speaker 1: a lot of Zoom calls. What I've been doing now recently,
- 1:59Speaker 1: I ain't even gonna front. I've been doing it on
- 2:01Speaker 1: my phone and just being like, my video doesn't work,
- 2:03Speaker 1: so I could just do it as like a just
- 2:04Speaker 1: a conference call. I've been doing it that a couple
- 2:05Speaker 1: of times. Hilarious a couple of times. But why don't
- 2:09Speaker 1: you want to be seen? Um? Sometimes like other things
- 2:12Speaker 1: to do and when you do a zoom call, you
- 2:13Speaker 1: just got to really be sitting down into the zoom call.
- 2:16Speaker 1: But I like to multitask. So there's a million one things.
- 2:18Speaker 1: I got five kids, There's a lot of things going on,
- 2:20Speaker 1: So sometimes I just put it on the phone and
- 2:22Speaker 1: keep it moving like that. That is true. You do
- 2:24Speaker 1: a lot of these zoom meetings. People will be doing
- 2:26Speaker 1: be doing a lot of other stuff. They'd be cooking, cleaning,
- 2:29Speaker 1: and like people will be trying to do two and
- 2:31Speaker 1: three things that want when they on the zoom I
- 2:34Speaker 1: don't even know. Well, yesterday I went out and I
- 2:37Speaker 1: was walking around in Brooklyn. I was like, let me
- 2:40Speaker 1: get out of the house again and go for a
- 2:42Speaker 1: little walk. There with a lot of very peaceful protests
- 2:44Speaker 1: here in Brooklyn yesterday. So and today they are actually
- 2:47Speaker 1: going to be Mike Fell. And today they're actually going
- 2:51Speaker 1: to be having a memorial service for George Floyd and
- 2:54Speaker 1: Brooklyn and Cabin Plaza at one o'clock. Well, the three officers,
- 2:57Speaker 1: three other officers were charged yesterday. Absolutely Now the chargers
- 3:03Speaker 1: were were aiding and a betting to murder. Was that
- 3:07Speaker 1: that second degree Yeah, aiding and a betting the second
- 3:09Speaker 1: degree murder because they also Chabin's charges to second degree
- 3:13Speaker 1: instead of third degree. Right, what that means? You got
- 3:16Speaker 1: Attorney ben Crump calling in this morning, because that's right, Attorney,
- 3:19Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what any of that means. That's right,
- 3:21Speaker 1: Attorney Benjamin Crump will be checking in. Yeah, because I
- 3:25Speaker 1: would think that the other three officers who were I
- 3:27Speaker 1: think it was two other officers, we're kneeling. We're kneeling
- 3:30Speaker 1: on him as well, like on his lord experimities like
- 3:33Speaker 1: his back and stuff like that. So I would think that,
- 3:35Speaker 1: you know, being that they physically were on him, you know,
- 3:38Speaker 1: they would be charged with something a little little stronger
- 3:40Speaker 1: and aiding and the betting, but hey, what do I know?
- 3:42Speaker 1: Charges of the charges that will stick? Who knows? Man?
- 3:45Speaker 1: And then yesterday I think they had the uh the
- 3:47Speaker 1: mug shots of all four officers. Were the other three
- 3:50Speaker 1: or released yesterday and people were asking, was the lack
- 3:53Speaker 1: one of the officers h lack of African American? Was
- 3:56Speaker 1: he a minority? Do we know they did not get ethnicities?
- 4:00Speaker 1: I didn't see that anywhere. One of them definitely Asian?
- 4:04Speaker 1: Right now, we know what we want to look at
- 4:05Speaker 1: that and see that. But they're saying none of them.
- 4:07Speaker 1: They can't tell they can't tell you. There were some
- 4:09Speaker 1: people were saying he was Asian, some people saying he
- 4:11Speaker 1: was black, some people were saying he was Latino. Day
- 4:13Speaker 1: they were trying to get to, you know, find that out.
- 4:16Speaker 1: But anyway, we have Attorney Benjamin Crump. He'll be checking in.
- 4:19Speaker 1: He'll be breaking down the charges because I have no
- 4:20Speaker 1: idea what those charges meaning and how much time those
- 4:22Speaker 1: officers could really get. And we also have Reverend doctor
- 4:25Speaker 1: William Barbro here'll be checking in as well. Absolutely, you
- 4:30Speaker 1: will learn something on today's show. You definitely will. All right, well,
- 4:33Speaker 1: let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're
- 4:35Speaker 1: talking about, Well, I guess um we were going to
- 4:38Speaker 1: be talking about George Player, but maybe we should say
- 4:40Speaker 1: that for Ben Crump because we just kind of gave
- 4:42Speaker 1: all of that. So let's talk about these other officers,
- 4:45Speaker 1: six Atlanta officers who were charging the arrest of the
- 4:48Speaker 1: Kyllege students that they dragged from the car and hit
- 4:50Speaker 1: with stun guns. All Right, we'll get into that next.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning phoning everybody
- 4:55Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all
- 4:58Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news
- 5:03Speaker 1: where we starting you. Well, yesterday Barack Obama had a
- 5:06Speaker 1: virtual town hall. It was founded by my Brother's Keeper Alliance,
- 5:10Speaker 1: and he partners with that with his Obama Foundation. We've
- 5:13Speaker 1: all done a lot of different things with my Brother's Keeper.
- 5:15Speaker 1: And here is what Barack Obama had to say about
- 5:18Speaker 1: young people and how much they inspire him. Part of
- 5:20Speaker 1: what's made me so hopeful as the fact that so
- 5:23Speaker 1: many young people have been galvanized and activated. Because historically,
- 5:28Speaker 1: so much of the progress that we've made in our
- 5:31Speaker 1: society has been because of young people. Doctor King was
- 5:34Speaker 1: a young man when he got involved. Caesar Chavez was
- 5:37Speaker 1: a young man, Malcolm X was a young man. And
- 5:40Speaker 1: so when sometimes I feel despair, I just see what's
- 5:45Speaker 1: happening with young people all across the country and it
- 5:49Speaker 1: makes me feel optimistic. It makes me feel as if
- 5:53Speaker 1: this country's gonna get better. When Barack Obama was yea,
- 6:01Speaker 1: they say no, I'm gonna say that's right because if
- 6:03Speaker 1: the kids didn't kid and that that would be a problem.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Like I've imagine, you know, all of this happened and
- 6:07Speaker 1: the kids didn't have a reaction to it. Imagine if
- 6:09Speaker 1: nobody had a reaction to it, And imagine if everybody
- 6:11Speaker 1: just went on about that day after something like this,
- 6:14Speaker 1: then you would mate, Damns America have a post. We
- 6:16Speaker 1: should know it's alive. When Barack Obama was in office, though,
- 6:20Speaker 1: he did roll out a number of policies to help
- 6:23Speaker 1: curb those incidents of police brutality, like he created a
- 6:26Speaker 1: task force with guidelines on twenty first century policing. He
- 6:29Speaker 1: also limited the transfer of military equipment to police departments,
- 6:32Speaker 1: but Donald Trump's administration did roll back some of those reforms. Now,
- 6:36Speaker 1: in addition to that, Barack Obama talked about a change
- 6:39Speaker 1: in mindset and how we have to keep the momentum going.
- 6:42Speaker 1: There is a change in mindset that's taking place, a
- 6:46Speaker 1: greater recognition that we can do better. That's a direct
- 6:50Speaker 1: result of the activities and organizing and mobilization and engagement
- 6:56Speaker 1: of so many young people. And so I just have
- 7:00Speaker 1: to say thank you to them. Just make sure that
- 7:02Speaker 1: we now follow through because at some point attention moves away.
- 7:09Speaker 1: In addition to Daddio also gave three ways that you
- 7:12Speaker 1: can make change. Number one, we know there are specific
- 7:15Speaker 1: evidence based reforms that if we put in place today,
- 7:19Speaker 1: would build trust save lives. Those are included in the
- 7:22Speaker 1: twenty first Century Policing task Force Report. You can find
- 7:25Speaker 1: it on Obama dot or number two. A lot of
- 7:28Speaker 1: mayors and local elected officials read and supported the task
- 7:32Speaker 1: Force report, but then there wasn't enough follow through. So
- 7:35Speaker 1: today I am urging every mayor to review your use
- 7:39Speaker 1: of force policies with members of your community and commit
- 7:43Speaker 1: to report on planned reforms. Number three, Every city in
- 7:47Speaker 1: this country should be a My Brother's Keeper community because
- 7:51Speaker 1: we have two hundred and fifty cities, counties, tribal nations
- 7:54Speaker 1: who are working to reduce the barriers and expand opportunity
- 7:57Speaker 1: for boys and young men of color through programs and
- 7:59Speaker 1: polo see reforms and public private partnerships. So go to
- 8:02Speaker 1: our website get working might changes. We have to dismand
- 8:10Speaker 1: through the mechanism of white supremacy, and the people who
- 8:13Speaker 1: benefit from white supremacy have to be able to relinquish
- 8:15Speaker 1: some of that power and privilege. Until that happens, it
- 8:18Speaker 1: is going to continue to be oppression. You just can't
- 8:20Speaker 1: get right, man. Usually your mike is too loud. Today
- 8:22Speaker 1: it's too low. Bro I could barely as I can hear.
- 8:26Speaker 1: They got they gotta figure this out there, you go.
- 8:29Speaker 1: I can't do nothing. It sound like you turned it up.
- 8:33Speaker 1: It got loud. Maybe they turned it up into in
- 8:34Speaker 1: the studio all right, And the six Atlanta police officers
- 8:38Speaker 1: had been booked after charges were filed against him. That
- 8:40Speaker 1: was in Atlanta. They were filmed, as you know, breaking
- 8:43Speaker 1: the windows of a vehicle and they yanked uh Spellman
- 8:46Speaker 1: College and Morehouse College students out of the car. Twenty
- 8:48Speaker 1: two year old Messiah Young was dragged from the vehicle
- 8:51Speaker 1: and his girlfriend, twenty year old Tony A Pilgrim, was
- 8:53Speaker 1: also dragged from her vehicle. Uh Now, they did try
- 8:58Speaker 1: to press charges against Young. He was charged with attempting
- 9:02Speaker 1: to elude the officers, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha lands Bottom
- 9:05Speaker 1: said she's ordering that his charges are dropped, and body
- 9:08Speaker 1: camera video shows that they also took another young man
- 9:11Speaker 1: into custody in a downtown and a down a downtown
- 9:13Speaker 1: street alongside a line of stop cars as well. He
- 9:16Speaker 1: was pleading with police to let him go, saying that
- 9:18Speaker 1: he didn't do anything. So they are happy that these
- 9:22Speaker 1: officers are being held accountable for their actions. Two of
- 9:25Speaker 1: the officers whose fires were announced Sunday, investigators Ivy Streeter
- 9:29Speaker 1: and Mark Gardner, were charged, and there were four other
- 9:32Speaker 1: officers charged as well. They're being charged with aggravated assault
- 9:35Speaker 1: for using a taser against Young and charged with pointing
- 9:38Speaker 1: a gun at Young, according to arrest warrants, and Gardner's
- 9:41Speaker 1: charged with aggravated assault for using a taser against Pilgrim
- 9:45Speaker 1: man drop on a clues bombs for Keisha Lands bottoms.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Do you see that, man A du Blasio. Okay, that's
- 9:51Speaker 1: how a man is supposed to treat corrupt police officers. Okay.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I love elected officials who care about the people more
- 9:56Speaker 1: than they care about the system. The system is supposed
- 9:58Speaker 1: to work with us, and when it doesn't, and when
- 10:00Speaker 1: there's an abusive power from the system, they got to
- 10:03Speaker 1: be held accountable. As simple as that got them up
- 10:05Speaker 1: out of there quick. We can't do that. Can't do
- 10:07Speaker 1: that when you're in the police in your pocket like
- 10:09Speaker 1: mad Bliss and the Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
- 10:13Speaker 1: announced those charges during a news conference that happened. Atlanta
- 10:17Speaker 1: Police did not immediately have a comment. All right, well,
- 10:20Speaker 1: that is your front page news get it off your
- 10:23Speaker 1: chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one.
- 10:26Speaker 1: If you need to vent, hit us up right now.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Phone lines wide open again the number again, it's eight
- 10:29Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one on five one is the
- 10:32Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Come on the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up,
- 10:38Speaker 1: wake y'all. This is your time to get it off
- 10:42Speaker 1: your chest. Because you're mad or blast, we want to
- 10:45Speaker 1: hear from you on a breakfast clove. Hello. Who's this? Hey,
- 10:49Speaker 1: this ros Au Bro. How are you feeling to day? Man?
- 10:54Speaker 1: I'm feeling fine. One love to you all, one love
- 10:57Speaker 1: to y'all in these get it off your chest, bro, man,
- 11:01Speaker 1: I'm upset about that black authors of sci fi have
- 11:04Speaker 1: no outlets. Really, like we're kind of rejected and thrown
- 11:07Speaker 1: and loose from the film industry to the book literaries,
- 11:10Speaker 1: to the publishing companies. You know, like we really need
- 11:13Speaker 1: some some better outlets for black sci fi authors. Now,
- 11:17Speaker 1: I agree smooth my dude s investor, he got this
- 11:19Speaker 1: line call planet Dad, But I agree with you. It's
- 11:21Speaker 1: only because they don't take us serious in that space
- 11:24Speaker 1: right now. They look at black people and they think
- 11:26Speaker 1: we're only supposed to be writing about one thing, which
- 11:28Speaker 1: is usually the screet life, right, And that's that's like
- 11:31Speaker 1: like they want us just to walk write an identity
- 11:33Speaker 1: of corruption and nothing that develops us or gives us
- 11:37Speaker 1: some science about life, you know. So like in my
- 11:40Speaker 1: book The Black Rosa Coush, we got everything in there
- 11:42Speaker 1: from post traumatic slave syndrome, like with doctor j. M.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Joy m degury puts in her book, y'all definitely need
- 11:50Speaker 1: to put her on your show. Have y'all had doctor
- 11:55Speaker 1: post traumatic slave syndrome. She is she is the I
- 11:58Speaker 1: call her the female malcol mix of this time. You
- 12:02Speaker 1: got to really check her out, like she is the
- 12:04Speaker 1: truth for post traumatic slave syndrome. If I've heard that, yeah,
- 12:10Speaker 1: I mean I've heard that term. Yeah, I've definitely used
- 12:13Speaker 1: that term. I don't maybe, man, maybe I do know her.
- 12:15Speaker 1: I don't know. I've definitely used that term though. Well,
- 12:17Speaker 1: thank you to go see the Slave play on Broadway.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Then well when it's whenever it's back open again, it's
- 12:23Speaker 1: kind of all about that too. But I shout out
- 12:25Speaker 1: to Toshi Bouchet. We had him on the show. He's
- 12:28Speaker 1: a black sci fi author. He wrote the book War Girls. Hello,
- 12:31Speaker 1: who's this? Hey, what's going on? It's Kevin. Kevin. What's up?
- 12:34Speaker 1: Broke morning everybody? Good morning, peace King. What's going on? Yeah,
- 12:40Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell us right now. I'm part of me.
- 12:44Speaker 1: I'll tell us what's going on right now. I'm actually
- 12:48Speaker 1: uh like Ohio just actually went into a lockdown as
- 12:51Speaker 1: of eleven sixty nine last night, and actually I gotta
- 12:56Speaker 1: go up and I'm still I work. I work for
- 12:57Speaker 1: Google and it's like seventeen thousand people here right now.
- 13:00Speaker 1: It was like, I don't know why they didn't you
- 13:02Speaker 1: know this, the message didn't get over here, but I just, uh,
- 13:06Speaker 1: I just want to get off my chest and I'm
- 13:07Speaker 1: ready for this thing to be over. Man. I mean,
- 13:08Speaker 1: my birthday is coming up on March. Study if I'm
- 13:10Speaker 1: still I still gotta work, I still gotta do everything
- 13:12Speaker 1: I gotta do here, like you know what I mean.
- 13:14Speaker 1: And it's just like I think it's us Uh, it's
- 13:16Speaker 1: a point of it's chaotic. It's just chaotic. Now. You know,
- 13:19Speaker 1: they gave me for hims to give the police. They're like, look,
- 13:22Speaker 1: if you get pulled over, get a police this like
- 13:24Speaker 1: what it's kind of crazy. So yeah, we got those two.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you something. If
- 13:30Speaker 1: you believe in social distancing, the club to want coronavirus
- 13:33Speaker 1: to be over, it's pretty packed. I don't think you
- 13:35Speaker 1: need to be in here. Yeah, and just be blessed
- 13:37Speaker 1: that you do have some kind of job, because there's
- 13:39Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that have no work,
- 13:41Speaker 1: have no income, and that they're allowing you to work
- 13:43Speaker 1: with social distancing. Hello, who's this? Good morning angela. Yo.
- 13:48Speaker 1: March twenty to me, listen. March twenty fourth is to
- 13:53Speaker 1: me as January thirty is to you. Boo boo. Oh well,
- 13:57Speaker 1: happy birthday, snack man, thank you, thank you. Okay, here,
- 14:00Speaker 1: how are you celebrating with coronavirus? Yeah? Oh, thank you. Well,
- 14:04Speaker 1: here's a joke. You're ready, Thank you. Guy, he's not
- 14:07Speaker 1: even listening. What do you call a Mexican hangover? Corona virus?
- 14:19Speaker 1: Get off the stage? Boo? Get it off your chest
- 14:23Speaker 1: eight D five eight five one on five one if
- 14:26Speaker 1: you need to vent eat us up right now. It's
- 14:28Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's your
- 14:36Speaker 1: time to get it off your chests, whether you're man
- 14:38Speaker 1: or blast, so you better have the same. Inny, we
- 14:41Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello,
- 14:43Speaker 1: who's this? Tram good Envy? Oh, we'll try. What's up? Brother?
- 14:48Speaker 1: Hey trash Heyo, how are you? What's up? Boo? How
- 14:52Speaker 1: are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm going
- 14:55Speaker 1: on Charlottamagne pieces what's happening? Telling like a villain, telling
- 15:00Speaker 1: like a villain. Hey, Man, For first, I want to say,
- 15:03Speaker 1: um training the training trainer at treating, at treating trainer,
- 15:09Speaker 1: you are I'm gotta I'm I gotta take my pictures
- 15:13Speaker 1: off my Instagram with her man, because he's he's She's
- 15:16Speaker 1: clearly embarrassed. She's clearly being embarrassing right now, the way
- 15:19Speaker 1: that she's acting, calling people animals and stuff. By the
- 15:22Speaker 1: way she's supposed to be. She's supposed to be making
- 15:24Speaker 1: a statement this morning. So we'll see what she has
- 15:26Speaker 1: to say. Girl, keep your statement. I don't think I
- 15:28Speaker 1: don't think we want her statement. We try. We gotta
- 15:32Speaker 1: stop doing one thing, though, we we gotta stop saying
- 15:34Speaker 1: r ip just when somebody makes a mistake. That's a
- 15:36Speaker 1: bit harsh, don't you think r I p under said
- 15:41Speaker 1: that I might got to take my pictures down with her.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, but don't say r ip. Yeah
- 15:46Speaker 1: you can somebody if she made a mistake, and and
- 15:49Speaker 1: not saying not defending her. But let's be honest. We
- 15:52Speaker 1: all say things out of anger, out of hate, out
- 15:55Speaker 1: of being confused. So we'll see what she has to say.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Hopefully she apologizes, she understands what she said that was,
- 16:00Speaker 1: and listen, I'm fine if you want to cancel this.
- 16:02Speaker 1: Don't put death on the person, all right, harsh I
- 16:06Speaker 1: feel and you know what, and I think she was.
- 16:08Speaker 1: She was a little emotional. You know, her brother got
- 16:11Speaker 1: shot and killed and she was discussing that and a
- 16:13Speaker 1: lot of different things. And she may have misspoke. So
- 16:16Speaker 1: we'll see what she has to say this morning. Okay,
- 16:18Speaker 1: that's cool. Well, listen, I'm also to say about my
- 16:20Speaker 1: job real quick, right, So my job took the right
- 16:22Speaker 1: spin as far as like blacking outs like their website
- 16:26Speaker 1: and putting out a bunch of messages to our company
- 16:30Speaker 1: and stuff and mind work at Montgomery County. Montgomery County
- 16:34Speaker 1: also their mayor also claimed that Black Lives Matter as
- 16:38Speaker 1: a terrorist organization. And you should see the way that
- 16:41Speaker 1: people at my job right acting about the way that
- 16:43Speaker 1: my company is standing behind Black Lives Matter batter so
- 16:47Speaker 1: I might need to be finding another company. It's crazy
- 16:50Speaker 1: that people take Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization.
- 16:52Speaker 1: An organization that's actually sticking up for people because they're
- 16:56Speaker 1: tired of seeing black people get killed at the hands
- 16:59Speaker 1: of the pole is a terrorist. We're gonna strange plank you,
- 17:04Speaker 1: dight five five one oh five one. Get it off
- 17:08Speaker 1: your chest now you we got rumors on the way. Yes,
- 17:10Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about Drew Brees. People are very
- 17:13Speaker 1: upset at him. Lebron James is leading the athlete pushback
- 17:16Speaker 1: on some of his comments on protests. All right, we'll
- 17:18Speaker 1: get into that next. Keep it lot, It's the Breakfast Club.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about angela Ye fund
- 17:35Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has started
- 17:40Speaker 1: his own start small fund and he's putting up three
- 17:43Speaker 1: million dollars of his own money into that fund, and
- 17:45Speaker 1: it's all aimed at Kaepernicks Know Your Rights Camp. So
- 17:48Speaker 1: he's dedicating that money to pay legal calls for protesters
- 17:51Speaker 1: who got arrested while fighting for justice for George Floyd.
- 17:56Speaker 1: So you can see you on Twitter. Three million to
- 17:57Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick's No Your Rights Camp to vance a liberation
- 18:00Speaker 1: and well being a black and brown communities through education,
- 18:03Speaker 1: self empowerment, mass mobilization to elevate the next generation of
- 18:07Speaker 1: change leaders. And that's what he said, that money is
- 18:10Speaker 1: going towards. So as you know, Conlin Kaepernicks Know Your
- 18:13Speaker 1: Rights Camp started a legal defense initiative to cover legal
- 18:16Speaker 1: bills for the freedom fighters. Oh, salute to Jack. That's right.
- 18:19Speaker 1: That's that's how you use your privilege in paper to
- 18:21Speaker 1: combat prejudice. Salute to Jack. Yes, And now let's talk
- 18:25Speaker 1: about Drew Brees from the New Orleans Saints. The quarterback.
- 18:27Speaker 1: He had some things to say when he talked about
- 18:30Speaker 1: seeing players kneeling during the national anthem when football resumes.
- 18:35Speaker 1: And here's what he had to say when he was
- 18:36Speaker 1: questioned about that. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting
- 18:40Speaker 1: the flag of the United States of America. Let me
- 18:43Speaker 1: let me just tell you what I feel when the
- 18:45Speaker 1: national anthem is played. And when I look at the
- 18:48Speaker 1: flag of the United States, I envision my two grandfathers
- 18:52Speaker 1: who fought for this country during World War Two? And
- 18:55Speaker 1: is everything right with our country right now? No? We
- 18:58Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. But I think
- 19:00Speaker 1: what you do by standing there and showing respect to
- 19:02Speaker 1: the flag with your hand over your heart is it
- 19:04Speaker 1: shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together,
- 19:08Speaker 1: we can all do better, and then we are all
- 19:10Speaker 1: part of the solution. Drew Brees shut the f up forever.
- 19:13Speaker 1: I watched that video a few times yesterday. I didn't
- 19:16Speaker 1: understand the context, Like what it was they asking him
- 19:18Speaker 1: about kneeling in peaceful protests? Was they asking him about
- 19:22Speaker 1: the protest now? Like why did he volunteer that information
- 19:24Speaker 1: at a time like this, I'm not sure? And they
- 19:26Speaker 1: showed pictures him kneeling before, So I was lost in
- 19:28Speaker 1: confusing exactly. Well, for any white people who don't understand this,
- 19:32Speaker 1: notice you wonder why so many black folks have a
- 19:34Speaker 1: problem with patriotism. It's because how can we salute a
- 19:37Speaker 1: country that enslaved us and continues to brutalize us. Drew
- 19:41Speaker 1: Brees sees America, you know, for the beautiful country. It
- 19:44Speaker 1: is because he's a white privileged male. That's how he
- 19:46Speaker 1: sees America, because this white supremacist system works well for
- 19:49Speaker 1: him because it was designed too. So he don't see
- 19:52Speaker 1: the same America. We see well, Lebron responded. He said, Wow, man,
- 19:55Speaker 1: is it still surprising at this point? Sure? Isn't You
- 19:58Speaker 1: literally still don't understand and why CAP was kneeling on
- 20:01Speaker 1: one knee has absolute nothing to do with the disrespect
- 20:04Speaker 1: of the flag and our soldiers men and women who
- 20:06Speaker 1: keep our land free. My father in law was one
- 20:08Speaker 1: of those men who fought as well for this country.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I asked him questions about it and thank him all
- 20:13Speaker 1: the time for his commitment. He never found caps peaceful
- 20:16Speaker 1: protests offensive because he and I both know what's right
- 20:19Speaker 1: is right and what's wrong is wrong. God bless you.
- 20:21Speaker 1: A lot of players also, a lot of NFL players
- 20:24Speaker 1: went online to vocalize how they felt about Drew Brees' comments,
- 20:27Speaker 1: which a sherman said, He's beyond lost. Guarantee you they
- 20:30Speaker 1: were black men fighting alongside your grandfather. But this doesn't
- 20:32Speaker 1: seem to be about that that uncomfortable conversation you are
- 20:35Speaker 1: trying to avoid by injecting military into a conversation about
- 20:39Speaker 1: brutality and equality as part of the problem, Julius Pepper said,
- 20:42Speaker 1: if you're still talking about players disrespecting the flag by
- 20:45Speaker 1: kneeling during the national anthem. Clearly you're not ready for
- 20:48Speaker 1: these conversations. Call a time out and come back later now.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Some of his most well known teammates from the Saints,
- 20:54Speaker 1: including top wide receiver Michael Thomas, also publicly had things
- 20:58Speaker 1: to say. Michael Thomas had elevated innovation over ignorance, and
- 21:01Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson actually responded to Michael Thomas his comments and said,
- 21:05Speaker 1: this where the whole Drew Brees accountable. Mike. I don't
- 21:07Speaker 1: give it down if you throw you all of them touchdowns,
- 21:09Speaker 1: bad time and Drew Brees bad timing. Bro. All right,
- 21:12Speaker 1: you played from the walls and you live in the walls.
- 21:15Speaker 1: All the black people knew, all of us support you,
- 21:17Speaker 1: Drew Brees. You gotta be a little bit more sensitive
- 21:19Speaker 1: to the timing. Bro. You can't just be saying about
- 21:21Speaker 1: your ass. You should understand, but y'all gotta hold all
- 21:24Speaker 1: y'all white team makes accountable, bro, Drew Brees, if you
- 21:28Speaker 1: ain't down with us, then you on the other side. Yeah,
- 21:31Speaker 1: it's gonna be rough in that Saints loocking room, uh
- 21:33Speaker 1: this year. But I also want to tell any white
- 21:36Speaker 1: person out there who doesn't get it. If you don't
- 21:38Speaker 1: understand why cap was kneeling. Then go watch the video
- 21:41Speaker 1: of that white devil cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck
- 21:44Speaker 1: for almost nine minutes, and then you'll probably get it.
- 21:47Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your
- 21:50Speaker 1: rumor report. All right, thank you, miss Yee. Now, when
- 21:53Speaker 1: we come back, we have Attorney Benjamin Crump joining us
- 21:56Speaker 1: also test we're gonna be talking about these charges filed
- 21:59Speaker 1: against these all, what they mean, what's next, and we're
- 22:03Speaker 1: gonna talk to him when we come back during front
- 22:05Speaker 1: page news, So don't move us to Breakfast Club. Good morning,
- 22:07Speaker 1: Good morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scholomine the guy.
- 22:11Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
- 22:14Speaker 1: on the line, Attorney Benjamin Crump. Welcome back, brother, Hey,
- 22:17Speaker 1: good to see your game. And tesla for Garos with
- 22:21Speaker 1: attorney being Crump. Yes that sweet. Now we're gonna ask,
- 22:24Speaker 1: of course, yesterday the three officers were charged, so can
- 22:27Speaker 1: you break down the charges and tell us exactly what
- 22:29Speaker 1: those charges mean and how much time can those officers
- 22:32Speaker 1: really get? Absolutely, and thank you all for the Breakfast
- 22:36Speaker 1: Club family, everybody staying vigilant until we got the charges.
- 22:41Speaker 1: The Attorney General for the state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison,
- 22:46Speaker 1: a good brother well for a track record for champion
- 22:51Speaker 1: in civil rights. He can announced yesterday that all the
- 22:55Speaker 1: officers were being arrested for aiding and a bedding and
- 23:00Speaker 1: he upgraded the charges envy on office of Chauvin to
- 23:05Speaker 1: second degree murder, which if he is convicted and I
- 23:10Speaker 1: say if, because we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, Charlemagne,
- 23:14Speaker 1: he can get up to forty years in prison. And Angie,
- 23:18Speaker 1: the others who have charged aiding in a bedding, if
- 23:22Speaker 1: they're convicted, they can get up to twenty years in prison.
- 23:25Speaker 1: So based on the autops that we talked about with
- 23:29Speaker 1: the family, doctor Michael Biden and a sister named doctor
- 23:33Speaker 1: Alicia Wilson who is the head of Pathology and Forensic
- 23:37Speaker 1: Sciences at the University of Michigan, they're an independent autopsy
- 23:41Speaker 1: and came to these conclusions. Number one, the man and
- 23:45Speaker 1: cause of death with mechanical asphyxiation based on the knee
- 23:50Speaker 1: to the neck by Chauvin for almost nine minutes, eight
- 23:54Speaker 1: minutes and forty six seconds Angie to be exact. And
- 23:58Speaker 1: then the two knees in the back on the video Charlemagne,
- 24:01Speaker 1: when we look at the other officer who kept his
- 24:04Speaker 1: knees there the entire time, and so it was pressing
- 24:08Speaker 1: down on his lungs, not allowing them to contract and
- 24:12Speaker 1: intake or dispense air, which caused no blood flow to
- 24:17Speaker 1: go to his brain, and he was starving from a
- 24:20Speaker 1: lack of error. Literally, that's where it died from the
- 24:24Speaker 1: legal definition of the autopsy was homicide. Obviously that's most
- 24:29Speaker 1: important for the criminal charges. And so those were the conclusions,
- 24:33Speaker 1: and they were contradictory to the conclusions of the county
- 24:38Speaker 1: ba's who MEDICA examiners are autopsy and so that's what
- 24:43Speaker 1: he used the basis charges. Angie, how can there be
- 24:45Speaker 1: two such different autopsy results, That's what I wanted to
- 24:48Speaker 1: ask you, because I know the family. You guys did
- 24:50Speaker 1: go ahead and order an independent one. So how can
- 24:53Speaker 1: something like that happen? Angie? Happens more often than you
- 24:57Speaker 1: would think. The Medica examiner who works with the police
- 25:00Speaker 1: departments every day, they come up with these amazing imaginary
- 25:06Speaker 1: ways to tell us what we saw really didn't happen
- 25:10Speaker 1: or was not the cause of death. And so the
- 25:12Speaker 1: counter medical examiner did agree that it was homicide after
- 25:16Speaker 1: we came out with it. But then he said it
- 25:20Speaker 1: could be genitive heart failure, that he had some underlying
- 25:24Speaker 1: health conditions that were undiagnosed, and so he said that
- 25:28Speaker 1: is a condition that could have killed them because they
- 25:30Speaker 1: saw no trauma to the trachea or not enough trauma
- 25:33Speaker 1: to the creakier even though our doctors disagree with that.
- 25:36Speaker 1: And they said, and Jane Charlemagne and easy, the old
- 25:40Speaker 1: thing they always say, Oh he had drugs in his system,
- 25:44Speaker 1: had coronavirus. That's what I heard some newer hurt this morning. Yeah,
- 25:48Speaker 1: that's they saying that too. But that didn't kill them,
- 25:52Speaker 1: even if it was there. No fitting all didn't kill them.
- 25:55Speaker 1: No meth and fail amine killed them. All of those,
- 25:58Speaker 1: I believe, or just distractions to try to us throw
- 26:02Speaker 1: us off track, calling like Eric Garder, y'all y'all in
- 26:04Speaker 1: New York, y'all know how they came out and tried
- 26:07Speaker 1: to literally say that Eric Gardner didn't die from what
- 26:11Speaker 1: those officers did. So that's why we got to stay vigilant.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I know, we're talking about making sure we get a
- 26:16Speaker 1: conviction all the officers on this case. And then Tesla
- 26:24Speaker 1: is helping me talk about the political ramifications of how
- 26:27Speaker 1: we use this moment to turn it into systematic reforming legislation.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Let's hear it, t Let's hear that. That's what I
- 26:34Speaker 1: want to hear. How do we keep prevent things like
- 26:35Speaker 1: this from happening? Absolutely well, it's really important that we
- 26:38Speaker 1: continue to collective pressure. You know, we talk about collective
- 26:40Speaker 1: pressure all the time, and one thing is due to
- 26:43Speaker 1: keep making sure that the message is consistent from a
- 26:46Speaker 1: public standpoint. It's really important we keep hearing folks talk
- 26:49Speaker 1: about the property damage. Let us all remember that when
- 26:52Speaker 1: black people came to this country, the first thing that
- 26:53Speaker 1: they did was make us property. So there has always
- 26:57Speaker 1: over property being more important than black lives in black bodies.
- 27:01Speaker 1: So it's really important, particularly to my breakfast club family,
- 27:03Speaker 1: that we continue to keep the narrative consistent that one
- 27:06Speaker 1: we need systematic change. I know Reverend Al Sharpton will
- 27:09Speaker 1: be announcing some things today at the eulogy to talk
- 27:12Speaker 1: about how we can come together to talk about federal
- 27:14Speaker 1: laws that need to be in place, and those are
- 27:16Speaker 1: the type of things that we need to keep the
- 27:18Speaker 1: pressure on. We cannot allow this to be used as
- 27:21Speaker 1: the poltical pond to have a center and Klobuchar or
- 27:25Speaker 1: Biden or Trump or whoever to use this to push
- 27:28Speaker 1: one agenda over the other. We must keep the main
- 27:30Speaker 1: thing the main thing, and consistently talk about how do
- 27:32Speaker 1: we get lost in place to make sure that police
- 27:34Speaker 1: officers go to jail when they kill us. It's not
- 27:37Speaker 1: about trying to change the heart of anybody, but it
- 27:40Speaker 1: is about with diversity, training and so forth. That's important.
- 27:42Speaker 1: But the main thing is if you get caught killing us,
- 27:46Speaker 1: if you get caught doing us wrong, you will go
- 27:48Speaker 1: to jail and that will be an immediate conviction. I
- 27:50Speaker 1: will probably say this is the fastest that we've ever
- 27:53Speaker 1: had a result. And this because people have been in
- 27:54Speaker 1: the street, protesting, using their voices online and having folks
- 27:58Speaker 1: like you at the breakfast club. They continue to keep
- 28:00Speaker 1: that message consistent. Hey Ben, let me ask you a question.
- 28:02Speaker 1: How come to other officers who kneeled on him? Why
- 28:04Speaker 1: weren't they giving charges other than aiding in a bedding?
- 28:08Speaker 1: You know? Attorney General Keith Ellison said to the family
- 28:12Speaker 1: and me that they're continuing to investigate and if they
- 28:15Speaker 1: find evidence that will sustain the first degree murder charge
- 28:21Speaker 1: against Chauvin, they will upgrade that charge. And I believe
- 28:25Speaker 1: they're gonna find that information out there because I think
- 28:28Speaker 1: he knew George Floyd. I think they had a history,
- 28:30Speaker 1: and so we got to keep on that. Charlomagne and
- 28:32Speaker 1: number two, he said, if those other officers we can show,
- 28:35Speaker 1: based on their audio from their body cameras that they
- 28:39Speaker 1: had mental thoughts that were ill will against George, he
- 28:44Speaker 1: will increase the charges. He said. He just doesn't have
- 28:46Speaker 1: that evidence yet. And I do want to say whether
- 28:48Speaker 1: it's a model, But Brianna Taylor, George, what we gotta
- 28:52Speaker 1: do them with tes as a political consultant to all
- 28:55Speaker 1: of us, Chalomagne's happen us with his systematic response in
- 28:59Speaker 1: all of these cases, so black people the criminal justice
- 29:04Speaker 1: system to work the same in Minnesota as it does
- 29:07Speaker 1: in Georgia, or as doing Kentucky, or in state and
- 29:10Speaker 1: all in New York. We need federal systematic reform to
- 29:14Speaker 1: make sure this moment for George Floyd is not just
- 29:18Speaker 1: a moment, but it's a movement to prevent other brothers
- 29:22Speaker 1: and sisters from being being killed. Now, let me ask you,
- 29:25Speaker 1: what can I ask you? A technical question? I've heard
- 29:28Speaker 1: people saying that it's a lot harder to convict an
- 29:30Speaker 1: officer or first degree murder, so they're saying that's why
- 29:34Speaker 1: that's not a charge that they would prefer. I just
- 29:36Speaker 1: want to ask you, as an attorney, because I don't
- 29:38Speaker 1: know obviously the ins and outs of that, So are
- 29:40Speaker 1: we trying to do that? Is that? Is there truth
- 29:42Speaker 1: to that? Now, Queen, there's a lot of truth to that.
- 29:46Speaker 1: It's very really that the officers ever convicted the first
- 29:50Speaker 1: degree murder. That's what made both of them. John such
- 29:52Speaker 1: a phenomenon. You remember the first time in the history
- 29:55Speaker 1: of white policewoman was convicted the first degree murder for
- 29:59Speaker 1: killing a black person. Because people want to believe police,
- 30:02Speaker 1: no matter how much they show us that they have
- 30:06Speaker 1: this legacy of being the slave patrol. A lot of
- 30:09Speaker 1: our white brothers and sisters want to say, no, no,
- 30:12Speaker 1: they're just doing their job. They're good people, and they
- 30:15Speaker 1: didn't premeditate this. They didn't intend this. This is just
- 30:18Speaker 1: something that happened, but they torch it. George Floyd, I mean,
- 30:24Speaker 1: the governor Minnesota was right to say we want to
- 30:27Speaker 1: investigate them for human right abuses in Van Charloma, because
- 30:31Speaker 1: I mean, they tortured them. Nine minutes, he's saying I
- 30:33Speaker 1: can't breathe. He's asking for his mama. I mean, think
- 30:37Speaker 1: about the psychology of that for a second. The person
- 30:40Speaker 1: who protects us most when we come in this world.
- 30:44Speaker 1: It's innate for us to always think about our mothers,
- 30:46Speaker 1: our protector. And then at the end of his life,
- 30:49Speaker 1: in a desperate police he say Mama, mama, and then
- 30:52Speaker 1: he does a documentary of his death and he says,
- 30:56Speaker 1: I'm gone now. So that's why this is gonna be
- 31:00Speaker 1: a hard funeral and memorial for the family. So we
- 31:04Speaker 1: are big only serious mental health counseling. Charlotte made all
- 31:08Speaker 1: his family, especially his children and his brothers and sisters. Yeah,
- 31:11Speaker 1: me and Tayla was talking about that last night. We're
- 31:13Speaker 1: trying to put something together, you know, for the families
- 31:16Speaker 1: to get that grief counseling that they need. Tay I
- 31:18Speaker 1: don't want to ask you a question real quick. I started.
- 31:20Speaker 1: They allowed Amy Klobuchar to announce that the officers were
- 31:24Speaker 1: being arrested. That felt political to me. Why did she
- 31:27Speaker 1: announce instead of Keith Ellis? Absolutely, well, we are let's
- 31:30Speaker 1: just keep a real straight shout with no Jason, you know,
- 31:32Speaker 1: being as nice, I'm gonna get a little bit rough.
- 31:34Speaker 1: But she did it because again she has to make
- 31:36Speaker 1: some type of amends to the black community. Too bad
- 31:39Speaker 1: she wasn't doing that type of announcement years ago when
- 31:41Speaker 1: she had an opportunity to discipline this officer, to the
- 31:44Speaker 1: fire officer, to prosecute this officer. So what we're not
- 31:47Speaker 1: getting ready to do in twenty twenty is played this
- 31:49Speaker 1: game as this political pond, and she's continued to push
- 31:51Speaker 1: her VP application up. And to be real, it's gonna
- 31:55Speaker 1: be reviewed and it's gonna be reviewed by the people,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and we'll determine on whether or not we think she's
- 31:59Speaker 1: a suitable cab for vice president. So I think a
- 32:02Speaker 1: lot of us are on it that the jig is up.
- 32:04Speaker 1: We are able to figure out Amy, that you had
- 32:06Speaker 1: an opportunity to speak up. So don't start with tweets
- 32:08Speaker 1: down that this is me saying an attorney Benjamin Crump,
- 32:10Speaker 1: he's more Martin, I'm more Malcolm. So let's be clear. Uh,
- 32:14Speaker 1: Senator Cloby char we see it, We see you. We
- 32:16Speaker 1: keep the game, and let's she also be a vocal
- 32:20Speaker 1: voice and actually getting some federation passed. That's where her
- 32:24Speaker 1: opportunity is to step in and not to try to
- 32:26Speaker 1: use this as a political I just see this Aman,
- 32:27Speaker 1: Charlotte Main and Angie. This guy had eighteen previous allegations
- 32:32Speaker 1: of excessive force, most of them against minorities, so it
- 32:37Speaker 1: was for silver. The problem Amy club charge was the
- 32:41Speaker 1: district attorney before she became senator, so they could have
- 32:45Speaker 1: prosecuted this guy and George Floyd will still be alive. Well,
- 32:50Speaker 1: we know you gotta go, and we appreciate you tes
- 32:52Speaker 1: An Attorney Benjamin Crumb for checking I know you guys
- 32:55Speaker 1: are on seen right now. Thank you for checking in
- 32:57Speaker 1: and breaking down the charges and keeping us in for them.
- 32:59Speaker 1: And you know we got a line to you anytime
- 33:01Speaker 1: we need you. Thank you so much. Guys. All right,
- 33:03Speaker 1: pray for the family memorial of my love. Thank you absolutely.
- 33:08Speaker 1: I But when we come back, we have Reverend doctor
- 33:10Speaker 1: William Barber checking into the move. It's the Breakfast Club.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Good morning, Breakfast Club. Ej Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne, the
- 33:20Speaker 1: guy we all the breakfast Club. Now we got a
- 33:23Speaker 1: special guest on the line. Right now, we have Reverend
- 33:26Speaker 1: doctor William Barbara, Good morning, brother, good morning, good morning.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Now we're saying a second ago that you and Charlomagne
- 33:32Speaker 1: were talking behind the scenes, but we were setting everything
- 33:34Speaker 1: up and we said, saved it for air. So Charloman,
- 33:36Speaker 1: what were you talking about with the brother, Well, he
- 33:38Speaker 1: was telling me about how when you go to the
- 33:39Speaker 1: meetings with these with these politicians, and he asked James,
- 33:43Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, Reverend Barba. At the bottom line
- 33:45Speaker 1: is in our campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, a national
- 33:50Speaker 1: call for my revival. We did an audit of America
- 33:54Speaker 1: on five interlocking injustice. Five injustices that are like interlocking
- 33:59Speaker 1: eve and you got to address all of them simultaneously,
- 34:03Speaker 1: because they try to choke the life out of what's
- 34:05Speaker 1: left of this democracy. Systemic racism in all of its forms,
- 34:11Speaker 1: systemic poverty, ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, the war econoiment
- 34:17Speaker 1: and militarism, and the false modern of religious nationalism and
- 34:21Speaker 1: white evangelicalism. When you go into meetings, you start talking
- 34:25Speaker 1: and you lay out an agenda, you actually have fifty
- 34:28Speaker 1: things or twenty things that relate to that. How we
- 34:30Speaker 1: deal with it? The question is always, well, what is
- 34:33Speaker 1: the most important, or what one thing, or for instance,
- 34:37Speaker 1: on race that say okay, well we got a commission
- 34:39Speaker 1: that we're gonna do for racism, and what we say
- 34:43Speaker 1: is we have an agenda here. And then after a
- 34:45Speaker 1: while I finally say, listen, look at this pandemic. We
- 34:49Speaker 1: pass three bills, three trillion dollars in less than fifty
- 34:54Speaker 1: forty days, back in two weeks. The corporations get everything
- 34:59Speaker 1: they want. They get three trillion dollars. So if they
- 35:03Speaker 1: can get three trillion things, then you need to hear
- 35:05Speaker 1: my fifty right. We're not We're not playing that game
- 35:09Speaker 1: because politics is not just about listening. So, I mean,
- 35:13Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm deep, deeply concerned about
- 35:16Speaker 1: right now. I heard it this morning somebody say, well,
- 35:19Speaker 1: you know Trump, listen, Trump this, but you know we
- 35:21Speaker 1: were getting along before him. I'm saying, but you were
- 35:23Speaker 1: getting along doing what's right, getting along doing what There
- 35:27Speaker 1: were hundred and forty million poor people in this country
- 35:32Speaker 1: prior to the pandemic. Forty three percent of this nation
- 35:37Speaker 1: and sixty one percent of African America were poor and
- 35:40Speaker 1: low income prior to this pandemic, and seven hundred people
- 35:45Speaker 1: were dying a day and two hundred a quarter million
- 35:49Speaker 1: a year. Seven people died from vaping, and we had
- 35:53Speaker 1: a congressional hearing. Seven people died from vaping, and there
- 35:58Speaker 1: was a presidential audience in the White House. Seven hundred
- 36:03Speaker 1: people dying a day from poverty, and sixty one percent
- 36:06Speaker 1: of African American poet Lowell, sixty eight percent of Latino
- 36:09Speaker 1: and politicians are scared to say poverty. Republicans are racialize it,
- 36:15Speaker 1: Democrats running from it. Nobody deals with the reality of it.
- 36:18Speaker 1: So we're not gonna just talk about one than we
- 36:22Speaker 1: need to talk about the comprehensive things that need to
- 36:24Speaker 1: be done. That's your question, the Reverend Bolba, why haven't
- 36:28Speaker 1: black people received the economic justice they deserve from this country?
- 36:33Speaker 1: You know, it has a long history. I want to
- 36:36Speaker 1: go through the whole history, you know it. You know
- 36:38Speaker 1: the thing that they stopped real quick was the four
- 36:40Speaker 1: acres in the mute. It's kind of like, y'all free
- 36:43Speaker 1: and Paul's two things. We weren't fighting for a long weekend.
- 36:50Speaker 1: And the saying we weren't fighting for was just freedom.
- 36:53Speaker 1: It was citizenship, full citizenship. I think the problem is
- 36:59Speaker 1: one we've not dealt with the extent of the problem.
- 37:03Speaker 1: That's the first thing since kings killed Robert Kennedy was
- 37:08Speaker 1: killed nineteen sixty eight, for about fifty to two years,
- 37:11Speaker 1: if you think about it, the issue of potty has
- 37:14Speaker 1: been wiped off the table. We have a knee with
- 37:18Speaker 1: Both parties are trapped not in the same way, but
- 37:22Speaker 1: by a neoliberalism imagination that Baxley says, one proof says
- 37:27Speaker 1: if you take care of middle class and up, everybody
- 37:30Speaker 1: will be okay. If you take care what others says,
- 37:33Speaker 1: if you take care of the top, that'll trickle down. Well,
- 37:36Speaker 1: that's just not true. And so when you're trapped in
- 37:39Speaker 1: that imagination and you're not even talking about the extent
- 37:43Speaker 1: of the economic injustice. When I say one hundred and
- 37:46Speaker 1: forty million people, that's out a shock everybody. First of all,
- 37:50Speaker 1: the government says there's only thirty eight thirty nine million
- 37:53Speaker 1: people that are poor. That's not true. According to Columbia Harvard,
- 37:57Speaker 1: it's one hundred and forty million. Now, you cannot continue
- 38:03Speaker 1: to pass policies year after year after year and say
- 38:06Speaker 1: we're getting better a little bit and never deal with
- 38:08Speaker 1: the factor forty three percent of your entire population in
- 38:11Speaker 1: poverty and in this pandemic is going over fifty. So
- 38:14Speaker 1: the first has to deal with the extent of the issue.
- 38:16Speaker 1: So what do you think the solution should be? How
- 38:20Speaker 1: do we solve this problem? Right? Well, again, if I
- 38:24Speaker 1: might talk in the terms that I talk in in
- 38:26Speaker 1: terms of a fusion more fusion analysis, there are several
- 38:29Speaker 1: things that block us from dealing with the real economic agenda.
- 38:33Speaker 1: One starts with racism. One form of racism, and that's
- 38:37Speaker 1: racist voter suppression and jaymandering, because that's used to lock
- 38:42Speaker 1: up the system in a certain way, so that so
- 38:45Speaker 1: that people can't really break through and be engaged. What
- 38:49Speaker 1: I mean by that, we do mapping in our movement,
- 38:53Speaker 1: and every state that is a racist voters pressure state
- 38:57Speaker 1: that where the governor of the legislation to the congressional representatives,
- 39:02Speaker 1: the Senate, and the presidential candidates get elected, is skewed
- 39:07Speaker 1: by gerrymandering and racist Okay, that's that's the facular matter.
- 39:12Speaker 1: The courts recently called it surgical racism. So that means
- 39:16Speaker 1: that your political bodies are not really representative of the people.
- 39:20Speaker 1: You can actually have more people vote in a progressive way,
- 39:23Speaker 1: but then they not get elected because of racism. Now
- 39:25Speaker 1: you said, what does that have to do with economics, Well,
- 39:28Speaker 1: the economics is false by policy, not just by charity,
- 39:34Speaker 1: and not just by one or two people getting rich.
- 39:37Speaker 1: It's policy. Sixty to fifty four percent of all African Americans,
- 39:41Speaker 1: for instance, make less than a living ways. You could
- 39:44Speaker 1: change that tomorrow by raising the minimum ways to fifteen
- 39:47Speaker 1: dollars an hour and pump six hundred and thirty billion
- 39:50Speaker 1: dollars into the economy. But you can't raise that just
- 39:53Speaker 1: by asking corporation to be nice. It has to be
- 39:55Speaker 1: a policy. Voter suppression undermines our plitics. Let me quickly
- 40:01Speaker 1: show you what I mean by that. Every state that
- 40:03Speaker 1: is a racist voter suppression state, if you put the
- 40:06Speaker 1: map over, that is also a high povertive state. Is
- 40:09Speaker 1: also a state where the politicians block living wages and
- 40:13Speaker 1: block healthcare. And the people who are doing that, many
- 40:18Speaker 1: of them get elected not because they want to vote,
- 40:21Speaker 1: because they cheated through racistists vote suppression in German. So
- 40:24Speaker 1: you have so and here's the other piece of that.
- 40:28Speaker 1: The people who use race to get elected. Once they
- 40:33Speaker 1: get elected, they not only pass policies that hurt the
- 40:36Speaker 1: overwhelm them a number of black people, They passed policies
- 40:40Speaker 1: that hurt white people because there are more white people
- 40:43Speaker 1: that are poor in raw numbers then there are black
- 40:46Speaker 1: people that are more black people that are impacted by
- 40:49Speaker 1: power in terms of the percentage, but they're answer them
- 40:52Speaker 1: more white people in raw numbers. So if your politics
- 40:55Speaker 1: are locked up, then your policies are locked up. And
- 40:59Speaker 1: what kind of policies we need. We need living wages immediately.
- 41:04Speaker 1: We need guarantee basic income. Doctor King talked about that
- 41:08Speaker 1: years ago. Right, we need healthcare, and every congress person
- 41:13Speaker 1: gets free healthcare, every governor gets free healthcare. But when
- 41:16Speaker 1: it comes to the people having the same thing, they
- 41:18Speaker 1: have all of a sudden, we can't afford it. We
- 41:22Speaker 1: have more with Reverend doctor William babo when we come back,
- 41:24Speaker 1: don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody
- 41:27Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne mc gad, we'all the
- 41:31Speaker 1: Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Reverend doctor William
- 41:34Speaker 1: Babo Ye. So with everything that's been happening now with
- 41:37Speaker 1: the pandemic with coronavirus, do you feel like people are
- 41:40Speaker 1: becoming more active and that they're actually stepping up and
- 41:44Speaker 1: saying but the demands are and right before an election,
- 41:47Speaker 1: just wanting certain policies and being more involved in local
- 41:51Speaker 1: elections and all of that. Do you think that things
- 41:54Speaker 1: are about to be somewhat of a revolution. Yeah. I
- 41:59Speaker 1: think that those who think that the reaction to George
- 42:04Speaker 1: Floyd's murder lynching, a knee killing on camera, death by racism.
- 42:12Speaker 1: That's what we saw. I call it a Code sixty
- 42:15Speaker 1: six death by racism. But you miss it if you
- 42:19Speaker 1: think it's just about George Floyd, the same way you
- 42:22Speaker 1: would miss it if you thought the reaction to the
- 42:25Speaker 1: killing of Milly Jackson in nineteenes it to vile just
- 42:28Speaker 1: about Jimilly Jackson. We are seeing public more people are
- 42:32Speaker 1: protesting because they know it doesn't have to be like this.
- 42:36Speaker 1: People only protest what they believe can be changed. If
- 42:39Speaker 1: folk didn't protest, that meant we really would be in trouble,
- 42:43Speaker 1: because it mean people have given en of all hope
- 42:45Speaker 1: that things could change. Now. I think that this we
- 42:48Speaker 1: see happening has the potential for people to say, wait
- 42:52Speaker 1: a minute. When he said I can't breathe, he was
- 42:56Speaker 1: talking about that cops knee on his neck and those
- 42:58Speaker 1: other cops only back. But I think a lot of
- 43:01Speaker 1: people heard that metaphorically. We can't breathe either. That's right
- 43:06Speaker 1: because of the way the poverty on our neck and
- 43:08Speaker 1: the denial of healthcare on our next You see, we're
- 43:11Speaker 1: in the midst. It's when this happened. It happened in
- 43:14Speaker 1: the midst of a pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, you
- 43:16Speaker 1: had a hundred forty million people poor, seven hundred people
- 43:19Speaker 1: a day dying from poverty. Then you have the pandemic.
- 43:22Speaker 1: We have all this negligence in an aptitude of the
- 43:25Speaker 1: President and the Senate, and then we have all this money.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Three bills get passed, it goes for the corporate goes up,
- 43:31Speaker 1: it doesn't come down. And then we take service workers
- 43:34Speaker 1: and we said, oh, we know, we'll do. We'll give
- 43:36Speaker 1: them a name change. That's all they need, changing from
- 43:39Speaker 1: service work or two essential workers. But we won't give
- 43:42Speaker 1: them the essentials they need. So you had three bills passed.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Not one of those bills guarantee of healthcare in the
- 43:47Speaker 1: middle of the pandemic. We didn't shive. Not one of
- 43:49Speaker 1: those bills said we're gonna guarantee sickly, We're gonna guarantee unemployment.
- 43:54Speaker 1: We're gonna guarantee rent forgiveness. That actual building they passed
- 43:57Speaker 1: said you could have a moratorium on your rent for
- 43:59Speaker 1: three years three months within the fourth month. You had
- 44:01Speaker 1: to pay the three months and the fourth month at
- 44:03Speaker 1: the same month, or you couldn't pay one month at
- 44:05Speaker 1: a time. To hell, you know thrill? I mean really,
- 44:10Speaker 1: And we didn't. We didn't. We didn't even guarantee in
- 44:13Speaker 1: those those you could cut offs on a pandemic where
- 44:16Speaker 1: you need to wash your hand. There was nothing in
- 44:19Speaker 1: there that said you can't cut off people's water, damn right.
- 44:23Speaker 1: But like, but like you said, you know, I was
- 44:24Speaker 1: talking the other day. I was like, you know, you
- 44:26Speaker 1: say deferment. I ain't got to pay for three months, right,
- 44:29Speaker 1: Let's say four months. Let's say, man, I gotta get it.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Find a job. Do when I find a job, you
- 44:34Speaker 1: want me to play the full four months right away? Right?
- 44:37Speaker 1: I can't afford it, and and you you can. How
- 44:41Speaker 1: could you if I couldn't pay, I can barely pay thirteen.
- 44:44Speaker 1: Now you're gonna raise my note up so I can
- 44:47Speaker 1: make up the four months? Right? I can't say that
- 44:49Speaker 1: I'm gonna be late and you're gonna be that's right,
- 44:51Speaker 1: But you immediately give the corporations two eighty five percent
- 44:56Speaker 1: of all that money went to up top eighty five percent.
- 45:00Speaker 1: So basically you say to them, we're gonna pay you
- 45:02Speaker 1: to pay your bill. In fact, we're gonna say, poor
- 45:04Speaker 1: folk have to pay an eighty five percent searchyard just
- 45:07Speaker 1: to get a little tina that we didn't. We didn't.
- 45:10Speaker 1: You know, nobody would look brought my breakfast club. You
- 45:13Speaker 1: wouldn't go to a club they had an eighty five
- 45:14Speaker 1: I said, search, yarg on, you just coming in? Come on, y'all.
- 45:18Speaker 1: I mean, we ain't all been saved all our life.
- 45:19Speaker 1: Come Onbam. I keep saying that if Barack Obama is
- 45:25Speaker 1: Jeff K Joe Biden has the chance to be Lending b. Johnson,
- 45:28Speaker 1: especially in a moment like this, you think he could
- 45:30Speaker 1: be as progressive on race and classes LBJ. I think
- 45:34Speaker 1: we are in a third reconstruction. The pains of a
- 45:36Speaker 1: third reconstructive first one was reconstruction right out to slavery.
- 45:41Speaker 1: Then you had a reaction to that, just like Trump
- 45:44Speaker 1: was reaction to Barack Obama. We had a second reconstruction,
- 45:48Speaker 1: the civil rights movement then the reaction to that was
- 45:50Speaker 1: the Southern strategy and Wallace and Nixon and all that,
- 45:54Speaker 1: and now we're in the birth pains of a third reconstruction.
- 45:58Speaker 1: I said to Vice President on an Easter podcast. I
- 46:03Speaker 1: heard it all right, that there are moments that crucifixion
- 46:07Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity to resurrect, but you gotta take it.
- 46:13Speaker 1: There are moments that what you may have said and
- 46:15Speaker 1: meant well before doesn't fit and you have to know
- 46:19Speaker 1: that moment. And not only Biden, but the Congress. I
- 46:23Speaker 1: keep saying to even to Democrats, all these energy industries,
- 46:28Speaker 1: what if people you come out, they come out with
- 46:31Speaker 1: a hero to be able even that's limited because it's limited.
- 46:34Speaker 1: They said, well, what we can't get past because of McConnell, Well,
- 46:38Speaker 1: why not passed in the House what ought to be passed.
- 46:41Speaker 1: And then McConnell wants to go against people's lives. Let
- 46:44Speaker 1: him do that publicly, and we film that and short
- 46:47Speaker 1: to people. And then the question to become do you
- 46:49Speaker 1: want to vote for folk we're trying to fight for
- 46:51Speaker 1: you to have healthcare, or do you want to vote
- 46:53Speaker 1: for folk to even in the midst of a pandemic,
- 46:54Speaker 1: will let you die. Do you want to vote for
- 46:56Speaker 1: people who will say you need a living wave and
- 46:58Speaker 1: will push that out there, or do you want to
- 47:00Speaker 1: vote for people but believe things that really live operations.
- 47:05Speaker 1: There has to be a dicotomy, and we have to
- 47:08Speaker 1: get free of this deoliberal from the middle high middle
- 47:12Speaker 1: up imagination. So I think it's possible, but it's only
- 47:17Speaker 1: possible if it's rooted in policy. It can't just be
- 47:22Speaker 1: a conversation. And this is the time I think you
- 47:25Speaker 1: have to do a major presentation. In fact, this is
- 47:29Speaker 1: gonna sound strange maybe to some part, and let me
- 47:34Speaker 1: say it here. I keep hearing folks and we need,
- 47:38Speaker 1: we need a black agenda. But the question is how
- 47:40Speaker 1: do we do that? And what I mean by that
- 47:42Speaker 1: if you look at these five interlocking injustices, what I'm
- 47:46Speaker 1: looking for and what the poor People's campaigns looking for.
- 47:48Speaker 1: And while we're meeting on June twenty of twenty twenty
- 47:51Speaker 1: four a Mans Poor People's Assembly and Marl March on
- 47:53Speaker 1: Washington that day, you're not gonna hear from me, or
- 47:57Speaker 1: say you're gonna hear from this white coal mine in
- 48:00Speaker 1: Kentucky who's hooking up these black folk from the Mississippi
- 48:04Speaker 1: Delta who decided to address racism and poverty, not just poverty,
- 48:09Speaker 1: so we don't have to deal with race and not
- 48:10Speaker 1: just race. So they think it's that's just dealing with
- 48:12Speaker 1: black people. What if we had the Congress and the
- 48:18Speaker 1: candidates forget party for a minute. What if you say,
- 48:22Speaker 1: here's my plan for healthcare. Let's just say healthcare this pandemic.
- 48:27Speaker 1: And when I put this plan together, I made sure
- 48:31Speaker 1: that addressing the disparities of race was right in the
- 48:36Speaker 1: center of putting it together. Now here's the plan. And
- 48:41Speaker 1: if I am elected and this plan is pushed forward,
- 48:45Speaker 1: this is how will impact black people, this is how
- 48:47Speaker 1: will impact Latino people, This is how will impact children,
- 48:52Speaker 1: this is how That's the grown up conversation we got
- 48:56Speaker 1: to have. Absolutely in America. I walk in every piece
- 49:01Speaker 1: of policy our campaign says, in every policy, we want
- 49:05Speaker 1: to know, how does it address systemic racism, systemic positive,
- 49:10Speaker 1: ecological devastation, so forths all so those, And then that
- 49:14Speaker 1: way we move from voting for a person to a
- 49:19Speaker 1: prosity that has a policy. Hi, we got more with
- 49:23Speaker 1: Reverend doctor William Barber. When we come back, don't move.
- 49:25Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club, Good Morning morning. Everybody is DJ
- 49:29Speaker 1: Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the gad y'all. The Breakfast Club
- 49:32Speaker 1: was still kicking it with Reverend Doctor William Barber Charlomane.
- 49:35Speaker 1: I keep saying, man, voting doesn't matter if the person
- 49:38Speaker 1: you voting for is not going to go in there
- 49:40Speaker 1: and help dismand through the system of white supremacy, exactly,
- 49:44Speaker 1: and and and then you got to teach folks. What
- 49:47Speaker 1: we do in the Poor People's Campaign is we teach
- 49:49Speaker 1: people that racism, when you really push it, it's not
- 49:53Speaker 1: just against black people, it's against humanity, it's against the democracy.
- 49:57Speaker 1: It hurts everybody. Remember what I said, the same p
- 50:00Speaker 1: politician that passed racist vote suppression law, block living wages
- 50:04Speaker 1: and block healthcare. And when they do that, it actually
- 50:07Speaker 1: blocks more in raw numbers, not in the impact way people.
- 50:11Speaker 1: That's why our campaign is organizing people in the hills
- 50:14Speaker 1: of Kentucky and in the black streets of Louisville. Because
- 50:18Speaker 1: doctor King said in sixty five, anytime black poor folk
- 50:22Speaker 1: and white poor folk. He said this at the end
- 50:24Speaker 1: of the some of the Montgomery March. I think one
- 50:27Speaker 1: of the greatest speeches that we don't reference enough. He said,
- 50:30Speaker 1: anytime there's the possibility for poor black folk and poor
- 50:33Speaker 1: white people to change the political capitals and to change
- 50:37Speaker 1: the policy. The bourbon class noticed, he didn't say democratic republic.
- 50:41Speaker 1: He said, the bourbon class, the aristocracy sows division, sows
- 50:47Speaker 1: division by design. And so we have to first of
- 50:51Speaker 1: all deal with what racism is. And then second of all,
- 50:54Speaker 1: we have to examine it in every aspect of policy.
- 50:57Speaker 1: And the third of all, we have to be able
- 50:59Speaker 1: to name specific policies that are going to unpack it.
- 51:03Speaker 1: And I and I think what people misread when when
- 51:06Speaker 1: when you ask these questions on the front end, they
- 51:08Speaker 1: act like black people like if you if you don't
- 51:11Speaker 1: if you ask a question and push me, then you
- 51:14Speaker 1: might not vote for me in November. Well I might not,
- 51:17Speaker 1: But if I ask you and maybe you give me
- 51:20Speaker 1: fifty percent, I might look at the other person and say,
- 51:22Speaker 1: well they are twenty percent, So I vote for you,
- 51:24Speaker 1: and then I push you after the election for the
- 51:26Speaker 1: rest of the fifty. But you can't just get a pass.
- 51:31Speaker 1: I got to talk quick questions, man. The poor People's campaign,
- 51:34Speaker 1: that's the movement. Doctor MLK Junior was pivoted too it's
- 51:37Speaker 1: ultimately I think we got him killed. What made you
- 51:41Speaker 1: want to think, well, it got it got him killed.
- 51:45Speaker 1: You know, it pains me to say some of this.
- 51:47Speaker 1: But when doctor King called his nation the greatest purveyor
- 51:52Speaker 1: of violence, and exactly the one year to the date
- 51:55Speaker 1: of his death, August third, nineteen sixty seven, and he
- 52:01Speaker 1: started talking about the three evils poverty, racism, and militarism.
- 52:08Speaker 1: And he said that America couldn't be who she pretends
- 52:11Speaker 1: to be and promises to be without dealing with all
- 52:15Speaker 1: three of those moral fusion. And she said, he said,
- 52:17Speaker 1: we got to deal with all three of them. The
- 52:18Speaker 1: next morning, over a hundred newspapers wrote against him. Some
- 52:23Speaker 1: black newspapers wrote against him black some black organizations wrote
- 52:28Speaker 1: resolutions against him, prominent organizations, some ministers turned against him.
- 52:36Speaker 1: He lost his invitation to the White House. And the
- 52:39Speaker 1: more he started talking about the two Americas, one prosperous
- 52:44Speaker 1: and one poor, the more he started bringing together poor
- 52:48Speaker 1: and white people and black people around this agenda to
- 52:51Speaker 1: a deal with racism and poverty. What you see in
- 52:53Speaker 1: the street now white and black folk. But talking about
- 52:55Speaker 1: racism poverty. Once he did that, he was marked because
- 53:02Speaker 1: it was about fundamentally shifting to society. Now. The other
- 53:07Speaker 1: half of that story is it was the black welfare
- 53:11Speaker 1: rights women that kind of pushed doctor King to go
- 53:14Speaker 1: in that direction, and doctor King understood something. You cannot
- 53:18Speaker 1: change this society until you change the narrators. That's what
- 53:22Speaker 1: we're doing today. My last question, macause you are a reverend.
- 53:26Speaker 1: I feel like everything that's going on right now is divine,
- 53:29Speaker 1: and I truly feel like no good is gonna come
- 53:32Speaker 1: to America until they do right by black people through
- 53:35Speaker 1: legislation and reparations. What do you think exactly? You know
- 53:41Speaker 1: you cannot. John Hope Franklin said something that encapsulated it
- 53:46Speaker 1: for me, and I'm gonna repeat him. God blessing he's
- 53:48Speaker 1: gone on that. We did an interview with him. He said,
- 53:52Speaker 1: you know, if I could keep somebody enslavery for two
- 53:57Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years and then at him go and
- 54:00Speaker 1: just say, oops, that's what not doing reparations, that's not
- 54:04Speaker 1: what not doing not dealing with the realities of the
- 54:08Speaker 1: injustices that still permeate from two hundred and fifty years
- 54:11Speaker 1: of free labor being taken. If I can do that
- 54:14Speaker 1: to somebody and then just say well, DJ and the oops,
- 54:19Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go be free. That's what John Hope Franklin said.
- 54:25Speaker 1: Mark can't just say oops, right, not just to us,
- 54:29Speaker 1: but to the genocide, because that toward First nation people.
- 54:34Speaker 1: You can't just say oops, you can't take and you
- 54:37Speaker 1: can't build an entire country on the backs of slavery
- 54:45Speaker 1: that was rooted in rooted in what we call bad biology,
- 54:48Speaker 1: and that is your skin color determines your brain size
- 54:51Speaker 1: six sociology, that is, black and white people can't be
- 54:54Speaker 1: together on the same level, at the same level of
- 54:57Speaker 1: humanity or evil. Economic that the end justifies the mean,
- 55:01Speaker 1: no matter what you do, as as long as somebody
- 55:03Speaker 1: makes money is all right. And then the last one
- 55:06Speaker 1: is heretical ontology, that is that God meant for it
- 55:09Speaker 1: to be like that. You can't build an entire economic
- 55:12Speaker 1: system and a country on top of that. And then
- 55:15Speaker 1: the end of it and the end of the gym
- 55:17Speaker 1: crow legal gem crow say oo's when you're still are
- 55:22Speaker 1: trapped in so many ways by systemic racism. Can't do that.
- 55:29Speaker 1: Politicians will be only as good as we make our
- 55:34Speaker 1: political system will be only as good as we make them.
- 55:37Speaker 1: And so that's why we can't even wait on them
- 55:39Speaker 1: to have an agenda to an agenda and then demand
- 55:42Speaker 1: that that agender be responded to it. And that's what
- 55:44Speaker 1: the Poor People's Campaign done. We don't just talk about
- 55:46Speaker 1: the numbers and the problem. For every problem we raise,
- 55:49Speaker 1: we have a solution. You can go to www. Poor
- 55:53Speaker 1: People's Campaign Dot organ is right there your listeners, and
- 55:56Speaker 1: you can join us on June twenty of twenty twenty
- 55:58Speaker 1: to hear it ten o'clock on every kind of social
- 56:01Speaker 1: media on the MSNBC is going to do a big
- 56:06Speaker 1: piece on it and let us use their entire so
- 56:10Speaker 1: media platform. We want people to tune in to hear
- 56:14Speaker 1: white people talking about racism, that people talking about economic
- 56:18Speaker 1: issues and telling their story and saying we are not
- 56:22Speaker 1: going to quit until all five systemic racism, systemic poverty,
- 56:27Speaker 1: ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, this war economy, and the
- 56:31Speaker 1: false maderna, the religious nationalism are addressed. These these things
- 56:35Speaker 1: have to be addressed. And if you are bothered by
- 56:37Speaker 1: what we do, remember that when a man is bleeding,
- 56:41Speaker 1: ambulance is run the light. And it's normal for an
- 56:44Speaker 1: ambulance to run the light. When folk as in trouble.
- 56:46Speaker 1: Doctor King said that, he said, and we need some
- 56:49Speaker 1: ambulance driver drivers now, some people who are willing to
- 56:53Speaker 1: refuse to obey the rules of It's all right, it's okay,
- 56:57Speaker 1: just wait and wait again. Too many people, too many
- 57:01Speaker 1: people are suffering. We must make our political system respond.
- 57:05Speaker 1: We must do it in our deepest mall and non.
- 57:07Speaker 1: I believe traditions, but it must not be weak. It
- 57:11Speaker 1: has to be strong, has to be a gender base,
- 57:13Speaker 1: it has to last for an election and beyond an election.
- 57:17Speaker 1: My brother, thank you, Mander, thank you for even having me. Doctor.
- 57:23Speaker 1: Don't don't be a stranger. I won't now next time.
- 57:26Speaker 1: I'm a little mad because y'all y'all didn't drop the music.
- 57:29Speaker 1: I guess you don't do it when you're taping season.
- 57:31Speaker 1: I won't get out here because like I am a preacher,
- 57:34Speaker 1: but you know I can still get down. You don't
- 57:36Speaker 1: trust the profit that can't dance. But you want to
- 57:39Speaker 1: hear pay so what you want to hear rap? Let
- 57:42Speaker 1: me see, let me see what I want to hear.
- 57:43Speaker 1: What I want to hear to say? Uh, fight the
- 57:47Speaker 1: powers that be, deal that takes away though? All right,
- 57:55Speaker 1: my brother, take care of Good Morning, Wanting. Everybody is
- 58:01Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the
- 58:05Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rum as. Let's talk
- 58:07Speaker 1: Lauren London team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela
- 58:15Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. So Lauren London was on
- 58:19Speaker 1: a red table talk and just as a disclaimer, they
- 58:21Speaker 1: did record this prior to social distancing requirements and so
- 58:26Speaker 1: at the beginning Data had to give an updated introduction
- 58:29Speaker 1: talking about George Floyd and Madarberry, Brianna Taylor and then
- 58:32Speaker 1: she sat down with Lauren London and they talked about
- 58:35Speaker 1: the trauma of gun violence and how it affects women.
- 58:38Speaker 1: Now here's what Lauren London had to say about meeting
- 58:40Speaker 1: people who Nipsey Hustle changed their life. I love to
- 58:44Speaker 1: meet people that nip has like really inspired because it
- 58:48Speaker 1: feels like he's still here even though he is in
- 58:51Speaker 1: a way, but it's like his purpose that was completely
- 58:54Speaker 1: outside of any of us. His purpose he's touching people.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Still a fine that when I run into people that
- 59:02Speaker 1: tell me how he's changed your life. Now. She also
- 59:06Speaker 1: talked about raising black boys and having to prepare them
- 59:10Speaker 1: to interact with police officers. What I instill in them
- 59:13Speaker 1: is more about the police, how to handle yourself when
- 59:16Speaker 1: you get pulled over, right, That's more of my education. Yes,
- 59:21Speaker 1: protecting them being black men in America. How soon it's
- 59:27Speaker 1: too soon to have that conversation with your with your
- 59:30Speaker 1: young black young black boys, like when do your young
- 59:32Speaker 1: black boys go from being cute to being scary to
- 59:35Speaker 1: white America to It was funny a friend of mine
- 59:38Speaker 1: calling me yesterday and had that same conversation. It was like,
- 59:41Speaker 1: well when when when have you told your kids? And
- 59:43Speaker 1: I've said, uh, I think Logan was around thirteen when
- 59:47Speaker 1: we had that first conversation, and I think it was
- 59:49Speaker 1: around the same time one of his white friends called
- 59:52Speaker 1: him and um, but my six year old. I think
- 59:57Speaker 1: he's still a little innocent. He doesn't have to necessarily.
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: I don't want to put that stress on them right now.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: When when it gets a little old, I think maybe
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: ten to eleven. But I don't hide it from him.
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: I don't hide the news from them. They watch the news.
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: They know about coronavirus, they know about COVID nineteen, they
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: know about George Floyd, so they do know what's going on.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: But I haven't had that. There's a certain conversation yet,
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: It's just a rough conversation to have with kids, to
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: tell your kids that you will probably be treated differently
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: because of the color of your skin, Like you don't
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: know when to plant that seat, you know, you know, Yeah,
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: conversation all right. Lauren Lennon also talked to our Red
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: Table talk about advice that she can give to other
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: people who are coping with the loss of a loved one.
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Here's what she said. For me, what's really been important.
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: It's like connecting with God, and that's been a struggle
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: because something horrible happens in your eyes and you're like,
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: how God? And knowing that there is life after this life.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: It's not easy. I don't always wake up on the
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: enlightened side of the bed, you know, in the days
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: that I don't, I let myself because I'm human and
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: find things that matter, and so I'll try to live
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: with the purpose. Lord, have Mercymn prayers up for Lauren London.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: Always always sending Lauren London positive energy, love and light.
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: Man r Ip Nipsey Nipsey Hustle. Absolutely, yes, a lot
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: of people are like man. We would love to hear
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: Nipsey's voice right now in particular right now all right,
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: So Calice has went on her Instagram page and she
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: also feels like the music industry, instead of just doing
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: a blackout Tuesday, should also help out black musicians. She said,
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: if the music industry wants to support black lives, labels
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: and platforms can start with the mending contracts, distributing royalties,
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back all of the black
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: artists and their families they have built their empires on
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: Erica bad doing a Zelia Banks also shared that message
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: as well, not a bad message, right, yeah, I agree
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: with that. She's right, it's it's it's not that it's
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: that the record label contracts have never been fair for
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: any artists. Correct know what I'm saying, period, But it's
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: you know, black artists have made these labels so much money,
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: so it's just like it's bad business. Rightly of the
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: record sold like a small percent, maybe a couple of
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: pennies for what they sell, which is ridiculous. Like artists happened.
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: I was on the road. That's why right now, artists,
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: a lot of artists are effed up. Don't get it
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: twisted don't get the show in cash and money and
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: all that on Instagram. Artists make their money majority of
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: them by doing shows and being on the road. The
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: fact that they can't be on the road and all
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: the streams that they're seeing, they're not getting a majority
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: of that money at all. And it's not right. Yeah,
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: always want to labels artists. I had a conversation with
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: an executive and what he was telling me was that
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: a lot of times when they do sign an artist,
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: and you know, it's a risk because most of the artists,
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: it's very small percentative artists that actually become stars. But
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: when that does happen, they do go back and renegotiate
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: a contract because they do want it to be more
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: fair to the artists, so that the original contract that
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: they sign, you know, they want to make sure that
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: they do more for them. And this executive also told
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: me that when they do it three sixty deals, a
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: lot of times they don't really cash in on like
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: the merchandise and the touring and all of that. I wonder.
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's completely fair, but I'm saying that's
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: you know, That's why I said, I don't know if
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: if if record labels, old artists, the old artists. Old
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: is a strong word because you signed the contract and
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: it is a business. At the end of the day,
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: it's just it's just bad business, and bad business are
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: just a record business. I don't know both both both both.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: I mean, I think it is bad business, but I
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: do think it's a record business. But I think it
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: needs to change. And I'm hoping when we have people
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: in power like your jay Z's that owned Rock Nation,
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: that signs so all these artists, that's helping these artists
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: out or helping them to sign better deals, which they are,
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: and that's what you need to protect themselves too. Let's
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: be clear, they never artists to get got that got
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: got to to to change the situation, because there are
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: some artists who get a big chunk of money and
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: then they don't put duce and then the label has
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: to eat that also, all right, But so it always
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: will be a few artists that will keep a label afloat,
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: and then hundreds more of that end up being right off.
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: I guess all right, well, I mans you the yeah,
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: and that is your room of report, all right, thank you,
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: miss ye. Now, Charlomagne, whore you giving that donkey too.
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: We need New Orleans Saints Drew Breese to come to
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: world with him place waiting for this one. All right,
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. Keep a lot this to
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: breakfast club. Good morning, donkey at the dates you get Dunky,
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: you are, I'm gonna fatten all that around. You want
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: this man to Dolden blowers. Man, they're waiting for Charlomagne
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: to top these blows. Let's have to make a judgment.
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: Who was going to be on the Donkey of the day.
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: They chose you because the breakfast club, bitch, you use
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: donkey of the day to day. Donkey here today for Thursday,
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: June fourth, goes the New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Breese. Yeah,
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: the man and as is very very heavy on this sandwich. Okay.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: I've been having a lot of conversations with my white
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: friends this week. They all want to know what to say,
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: how to say it in regards to not only the
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: Deafer George Floyd, but about their place on this planet
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: in general, you know, the whole white, privileged, white supremacist conversation.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: And see, sadly, there's not a white person in America
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: who can say that at some point someone in their
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: family tree, someone and someone in their bloodline, their ancestors,
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: were part of the problem. Okay, the problem being white supremacy.
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: It is what it is. People, nothing to be ashamed of,
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: nothing to be embarrassed about, no matter how history books
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: attempt to sanitize it, no matter how sweet they try
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: to make it sound. All America was not built on
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: Christian values. Okay, like they try to sell it, all right,
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: please stop. Okay, America was built on the back of
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: slavery and racism. That's it, point blank period, pooh, all right.
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: Slavery was America's first big business. This country was founded
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: by old white men who were not attempted to make
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: this country all inclusive for everyone, especially black people. Okay,
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: we were property, like actual literal property. That's why we
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: got to constantly tell people black lives matter, because in
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: the Constitution it says black people were three fifths of
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: a person, the three fists rule. That's why we were
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: treated it's property. Okay, So that's why we got to
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: constantly remind you, no, I am actually a life, not
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: a piece of property. And to this day some still
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: look at us as as property. Okay, so yes, my
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: white allies, that's the harsh truth. If you are ready
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: and willing to start from that place, then we can
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: figure out how to dismantle this mechanism called white supremacy. Now,
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: in regards to speaking out, you shouldn't have to ask
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: me how to speak out for another human in regard
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: to their pain. Okay, if you are a spiritually conscious
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: person in any way, if you are just a human
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: being with empathy, when you saw that video at George Floyd,
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: you should have felt the way and whatever you felt,
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: express it. Okay. You don't need a black person's permission
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: for that. Okay, this is a matter, this is a
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: matter of race, but it's also just a matter of
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: being human. So if you want to do, if you
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: want to know what to do, it's simple, just stand
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: up for other humans. Sadly, some people just don't get it.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: I'm not even mad at them for not getting it,
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: because we all live in on individual bubbles, and when
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: you are a white male, you definitely live in a
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: bubble because this system, for the most part, works perfectly
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: for you. Okay, this white supremacist system. Whether you are
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: prejudice bigoted, racist or not. Works great for most white
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: males because it was designed by white males, so it
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: was always going to be built in advantages, which is
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: why when someone like Drew Brees doesn't get it, it
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me at all. See. Drew Brees was giving
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: an interview with Yahoo Finance. During the interview, he was
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: asked his thoughts on the subject of players potentially kneeling
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: during the national anthem for the twenty twenty season. Let's
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: hear it. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: flag of the United States of America. Let me just
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: tell you what I feel when the national anthem is played,
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: and when I look at the flag of the United States,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: I envision my two grandfathers who fought for this country
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: during World War Two, and in many cases, it brings
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: me to tears thinking about all that has been sacrificed,
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: not just those in the military, but for that matter,
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: those throughout the civil rights movements of the sixties and
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: everyone and all that has been endured by so many
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: people up until this point. And is everything right with
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: our country right now? No? But I think what you
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: do by standing there and showing respect to the flag
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: with your hand over your heart. Is it shows unity.
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: We can all do better and then we are all
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: part of the solution. Flag on the play. A violation
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: is the current illegal use of white privilege. Drew Brees
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: is marginalizing what black people are experiencing in this country
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: because he's seeing the world through the lens of the oppressor,
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: not the oppressed. I am happy that when Drew Brees
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: sees the flag of the United States of America and
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: his grandfathers who fought for this country in World War Two,
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: I'm glad he shed a couple of tiers. That's beautiful.
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: But Drew Brees, black people fought in World War Two.
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: But imagine fighting for a country that at that point
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: didn't even give you the same civil liberties that it
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: gave your grandparents. Drew Brees, do you know when the
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: US into World War Two, Jim Crow's segregation had it
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: entered every single aspect of American society. Do you know
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: that there were several segregated units in the military during
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: World War Two? So even though we're all supposed to
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: have a common enemy in a war, this country still
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: had us divided, Okay, still looked at us as an enemy.
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: This is why so many black folks have a problem
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: with patriotism. How can we salute a country that historically
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: enslaved us, marginalized us, it continues to brutalize us. See,
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: Drew Brees is a white privileged male. That's how he
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: sees America. Okay, it's all roses. He's living in his
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: life like it's golden. Okay, This white supremacist system works
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: well for him because it's supposed to. I am not
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: arguing with any white person about why people choose to
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: take a knee in regards to police brutality. There's nothing
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: to debate, Okay. If you don't get it by now,
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: you don't want to get it. And if you're committed
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: to misunderstanding the situation, whatever. Now I had a convo.
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: I did have a convo with my good brother Michael
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: Eric Dison this weekend drop on a clues bombs from
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: Michael Eric Dison music, explaining to me why you do
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: have to teach white people because whether you know it
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: or not, you are unintentionally teaching them, so you might
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: as well be intentional about teaching them. So I keep
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: that in mind at times like this, and I defer
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: to one of our greatest teachers killing Mike. He was
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: on with Jaalen and Jacobe and he had some lessons
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: for Drew Brees. Let's hear it. I would like to
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: know what he considered disrespect because and when I travel
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: and we perform in Germany, I never see a Nazi
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: flag because Nazis are a part of history that Germany
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: understands was a cancer and corrupt and they've grinted themselves up.
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: Drew Blees plays in the Deep South. As we traveled
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: through the South, we see the Confederate flag everywhere the bounds.
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: So if you're gonna tell me about flagging disrespecting the
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: American flag, the fact that you live in a region
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: that they still find a rebel flag in a Confederate
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: flag and you don't adambly speak against that on a
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: regular basis just tells me that you're protecting the lay
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: of life or what you think is right. The American
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: flag stands for the First Amendment and the ability to
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: say what you feel about situation. Now you bear the
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: brunt of that. You may get black ball out in
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: the NFL, but you have the right too. So if
- 1:11:12Speaker 1: you support and you don't want to see the American
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: flag disrespected. Don't look at it on buttweiser shorts at picnics,
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: don't look at it edit a bikini shots and Playboy.
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: Don't look at it on your favorite album covers because
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: you think that rock band is rocking for you, be
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: all the way with it. You're an intelligent football player.
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: But that was an incredibly stupid thing to stay. But
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: I'm not going to be so burdened with the religion
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: that has become American news and nationalism that I forget
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: that the flag represents the United States Constitution, and the
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: United States Constitution was written by a bunch of people
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: who chose to protest violently in order to have a friend.
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: So what you interpreted disrespect probably is the most patriotic
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: thing happening today. Just something to think about, something to
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: think about. Drew Brees. If I had a lesson for
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: Drew Brees, because I'm nowhere and his eloquent is killer Mike.
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: But if I had a lesson for Drew Brees, it
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: would be a simple homework assignment. And it's this. If
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: you don't understand why players kneil, if you don't understand
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: why players take a knee, then go watch the video
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: of that White Devil cop kneeling taking a knee on
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: George Floyd's neck for eight minutes and forty six seconds.
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: If you don't get it after that, well we might
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: just need you to shut the f up forever on
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: all issues regarding race in this country and sit the
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: rest of this season called life out. Please let Chelsea
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: Handler give Drew Brees the biggest he huh hee haw
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: hee haw. That is way too much, Dan Mann, Is
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: I wonder if he's going to address these statements now? Yes,
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: I'm yeah. I'm sure that he'll have an enlightening moment
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: and say that you know, he was taught so much
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: in the past twenty four hours. Yeah, I'm sure he will.
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: Us he kneeled before, Yeah he did. I don't know
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: if he was just doing that to be a good
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: teammate or he actually knew what was going on. Who knows?
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you for that donkey. Today. Now
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- 1:13:35Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. It's time
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: to ask yee Hello. Who's this? Eric? Good morning? The
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: rouquestion for ye Hey, good morning, good morning. Hey, oh man.
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: First of all, I said, blackman, don't chea. That's right
- 1:13:49Speaker 1: all day. But your black fist in the king you
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: already know, man, it's already up there man making me
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: feel like you cheated. Oh boy, No, my wife okay,
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: she cheated on you. Yes, and it's been going on
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: for far too long. I'm tired of and none needs
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: some advice. I have seven year old and I told
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: my son that I would never leave him. And I'm
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: in a bad predicament because I have to leave my
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: wains because I'm tired of it. Well, you know, leaving
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: your work doesn't mean you're leaving your son, right right, right,
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: But my son is like he wants he wants me
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: to be right there with him. You know he want
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: me to help them with his homework. You want me
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: to be there, you know, to be the father sason
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: or not. You know, when I come home troun, you
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: better still be a father figure and still help him
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: with his homeworks. And I am, I am. I'm always
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: as far to favor always, I don't care if i'm
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: I could be in New York not New Orleans and
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: I still be the same fall of sucker. Right, So
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: how did you catch your wife cheating on you? How
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: do you know? I ever wis talking about my phone.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: I'm in the bathroom. You know, he was in bathroom.
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: She sit in the room in the walls of the thing,
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: and she's on the phone and I hear I hear
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: talking to her dude and dude, I hear dude say,
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: well when, um, you know, when you go back to work.
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: This is no more than weekend, you know, And she
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: said Tuesday, I'd like to And I hear hustaid, well,
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: you know, be on time. So I'm like, all right,
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: So I guess something to go was to work, but
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: I don't go was to work. I go was fucking
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: a parking complax right behind mine. I said, I'm gonna
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: go to work late that day just to see and
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: before yeah, just that, just before, just before this happened,
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: like about two weeks before that, you know, because a
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: friend of mine, you know right now he's you know,
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: he's uh locked up right now for for doing something
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: to somebody that that um you know, one of his
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: spotns was sleeping with his wife while he was at
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: work while he was all shooting. He come home due
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: and he killed him to you know, like two weeks
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: before that, you know, he called me and gets some
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: contact with himself talking to him. You know, that's God
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: giving me a sign like thankful for you act. You know, Yeah,
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: I don't do nothing stupid. You don't want to end
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: up in jail. Did so? I did, think, you know,
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: I didn't even go in the house, but I saw it.
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: I saw to go in the house. Damn. That's tough
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: in your own house. That's disrespectful. Yeah, that's disrespectful. You know.
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: In mind my mind was like, well I was you know,
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: she just gotta go, she just gotta get out. So
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: what is it? So what happened? Did you confront them?
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: Did you go back home? Did you call it? Like?
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: What happened? Dude? People boy, Oh, it's your friend she
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: was cheating with. Yeah, so you confronted them. I confronted her.
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: I called him. I called him. I sitting there still
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: with mom. First thing he said was I was at work.
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: He don't go to work till one o'clock. And this
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: is at two o'clock in the morning. She just work.
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, man, come on, now, what did
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: your wife say when you confronted her. She tried to
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: say it like I didn't see nothing, Like I didn't
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: hear nothing on the phone, you know, And you know,
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: she tried to make it seem like I'm crazy. You know,
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: I'm trying to right. So yeah, definitely, yeah, one hundred
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: percent over at you ready to move on. I can't
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: blame you. She not only did she cheat, she also lied,
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: and she trying to act like you a food and
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: she cheated in the house, right And I'm trying to
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: tell you, you know, if you be honest, trying to
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: work it out. But she and your first thing, she saying,
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: ask the kids, I'm not putting the kids in my business.
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: And I'll think, yeah, no, don't do that. That's a
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: terrible advice. It sounds like you're very unhappy. You already
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: know what you want to do. You want to leave
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: this marriage. Your wife is still lying. I can't believe
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: that you had the willpower to not go in the
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: house after you saw him go in there, because I
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: definitely would have been right back inside. But kudos to you,
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: Like you said, you had a sign from God after
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: what happened with your friend who's in jail right now.
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: So you know that took a lot, and I commend
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: you for that. Yesterday I told yeah, still you still
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: want to talk too, dal till I hate talking to
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: like it. Yes it. She's talking to her And the
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: first thing she said, work, I'm going to call the police.
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: Wow at what we're going through right now. And that's
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: a terrible thing to say to you. Oh oh sorry,
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: real Tyrone. Listen you are Tyrone, Get your and get out.
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: That's all I have to say. So listen, I understand
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: your kid is the most important thing to you in
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: your life right now, so you need to make sure
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: that you handle them. I think you need to be
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: the one to initiate everything so that no matter what happens,
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: like she can't call the cops on you, you need
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: to go ahead and file for divorce so that it'll
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: be more favorable, and you're for the position that you're
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: in right now. And whatever you do, don't text or
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: email or write anything or make any cause that are
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: threatening in any way, so that you can make sure
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: that everything is straight and smooth with your custody of
- 1:18:56Speaker 1: your child and all of that, and get your own
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: place or she has to get her own place, whatever
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: y'all decide, But you do have to start making those
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: steps to get out of there and make sure that
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: your son knows this has nothing to do with him,
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: that you love him very much. And you're right when
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: you say keep the kids out of it, all right,
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: you know, so, thank y'all, and so what I mean,
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: your man, bro, I appreciate you. King listens to you. Man,
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: all right, man, take y'all have well. Go one ask
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: ye eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: We got more when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: Good morning, Coma, keep a real what what's up for you?
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: Some real advice with Angela Ye, It's ask Ye morning.
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne n Gay. We
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. Were in the middle of ask ye, hello,
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: who's this. What's up? Bro? What's your question for you?
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: My girlfriend we've been together about eight years now. There's
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: been no problems or nothing like the family. But since
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: all this Black Lives Matter stuff that has been going on,
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: and I've been to protest, been to bout five protests
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: in five days, and we blocked out there the head
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: mistake the other day, we were met with guns and
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: all that. So my girlfriend's grandmother decided to give us
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: a call and she's like telling us how she's disappointed
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: in us that we were in following the curfew rules
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: and we were on the highway blocking traffic, blah blah
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: black basically, you know, dismissing everything about like the cops
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: coming on the highway, you know, putting guns in our
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: face for no reason and a peaceful protest. And I'm
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: just like, I kind of got into it. What are
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: about it? And I'm warning I continue to educate her
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: about it, or try to educate her about it, or
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: should I like step back and take caution because it's
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: my girlfriend's grandma. I don't want to, you know, start
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: anything or me and my girl because grandma's school, you know,
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: uneducated about this. What is your girlfriend think about this? Well,
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: I mean she's a REMERSI she was a sheriff actually,
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: and she's with me in every march, Like you know
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: what I'm saying. She's screaming black power, she's swimming no justice,
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: no peace, she does videos and she's just her grandmother's
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: matter her because she's like, oh, you can lose your job,
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. She's just like, well,
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right, I can. But it's like,
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what's right. Right. Well, Listen, whenever people
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: are trying to have a revolution, there's always people who
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: aren't on board, right, who aren't gonna be agreeing with
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: the ways that you do things. And sometimes those people
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: are in your own family. And from my own experience
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: of having to deal with grandparents who were not like
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: that at all, you know, sometimes, first of all, I
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: would say, this is more of your girlfriend's situation because
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: it is her grandmother. So I don't want you and
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: your girlfriend to have issues because of that. And so
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: it feels like this might be something that she'll have
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: to deal with and you have to follow her lead
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: on that because it's her family. Yeah, because she's like
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: a real, like family person. That's why I like, I
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: wanted to, you know what I mean, educate her the more.
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: But I'm like, no, I don't have no trouble with me,
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: my girl. We haven't had trouble in a long time,
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: and I don't want to start right. I think you
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: and your girlfriend should have a conversation about how you
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: guys collectively want to handle it and if and I
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: think you should follow her lead on that. Now, if
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: this was your family, then I would say, you know,
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: that's up to you how you want to handle it.
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: You know your family, and I know it can be
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: really frustrating to have these conversations with people who are
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: set in their ways and aren't trying to hear what
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: you have to say. So you know, sometimes it is
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: a losing battle to have those arguments, and you still
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: have to keep going out there and doing the work.
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: But I don't want you and your girlfriend, who are
- 1:22:41Speaker 1: in accord right now, to have issues. So I would
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: let my girlfriend take the lead on this. Tell her, look,
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: this is your family, your grandmother. However you want to
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: handle it, I want to respect that, and I'm always
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: down to have respectful conversations, but that is your grandmother,
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: so it's kind of more on her. I just still
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: like when I go around now, it's gonna be like different,
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, because when I first
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: when I first met them, I don't talk as they
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: would say, you know, black quote unquote. I talk intelligence
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: and I And when I first met they told me like,
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: oh people say that, yeah exactly. So I know when
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: I go to her house for the next family is
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: and or whatever, it's gonna be like really awkward. And
- 1:23:32Speaker 1: so I'm just I just feel like we need to
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: have a conversation. But at the same time, like I said,
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: it's my girlfriend's family, so I'm just back the bullet
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: and see what she's gonna be like that she should
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: have a conversation with them without you there also, you know,
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: and try to have that conversation on her end. But
- 1:23:52Speaker 1: like I said, you know, if that means, I'm going
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: to support my girlfriend, but I'm not really trying to
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: engage in too much conversation. Yeah, you know, it's sometimes
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: it's really hard to try to force people to understand
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: things that they don't want to understand. Yeah, that's true,
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: but we appreciate you, and you keep on doing what
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: you have to do and you and your girlfriend and
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: don't let things like this cause a wedge in your relationship.
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: I even felt like, if I need to just kind
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: of fall back and stay away from them, I will,
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: you know, but you can't ever force people to understand something.
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: All you can do is engage in the conversation, and
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: it can be too frustrating for you two at times.
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: You've made the attempts. Well, I definitely appreciate that you
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: just made it made it clear for me that I'm
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: doing the right thing when it comes to this right now, Yeah,
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: you did your part. Yes man, All right, take care
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: of time. I want to tell y'all three thank you
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: because I work and I'm driving all day and you
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: guys help us get through the day right or at
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: least the morning. Thank you for listening. You know, we family,
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: so we appreciate you. Ask Ye eight on dread five
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: A five one on five, and if you need relationship
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: advice to any type of advice, you can call ye.
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: Now we got rumors on the way, yes, and we
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: are going to talk about Trina and some remarks that
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: she made on her show earlier. This week, and we'll
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: tell you the back and forth that happened on social
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: media as a result of it. All right, we'll get
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: into that next keeping lock this the Breakfast Club, Good morning,
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Listen, it's just oh gosh, got angel
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: and it's the rum of report Breakfast Club. So Trina
- 1:25:32Speaker 1: was turned in yesterday and those are because of the
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: comments that she made on her morning show when she
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: was talking about the protesters in Miami. Now, she was
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: upset about her friend's business being destroyed. She was upset
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: about people dying and lives that have been taken away.
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: And here's what she had to say about the protesters.
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: They gin, if you make the curfew and fix PM
- 1:25:52Speaker 1: to fix them, that's how I feel. No, keep everybody
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: off the street, these animals off the streets that are
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: running around in Miami Day County acting like there have
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: escaped from a zoo. Locked him up at five PM
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: so the streets could be nice and clean. That's how
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: I feel. Lives, all right, the black lives that matter, right,
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: the same black lives that I take it from the
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: hands of other black people that was up that was
- 1:26:13Speaker 1: matter two times all y'all fake. But the protests and
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: the fake Oh we're so concerned about George Poyd go
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: on marching. I don't even care about this man, people.
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: I just dormed the wall every body. Everybody wanted to look,
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: getting burning up and stuff. When the ponies getting behind
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: you and the ram and blue lights come home. You're
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: not supposed to be scared. You never scared. I have
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: my life of the registration and assurance. I'm not scared, Okay, Trina.
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: I don't agree with nothing you're saying, but I like
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: the energy you just say that like that, like you
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: she got me, I don't. She got me? Am I
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: want to I want to scream now. I got time today,
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: But I got time today, damnage? All right, all right?
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: And then she had it back and forth after that
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: on social media with Messica. You know Mesica from loving
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: her pop and you know, Messica was saying that she
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: needed to come to the front of the congregation basically,
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: and she asked Kaye to come and drag this coon
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: Trina back to the swamp before I get her, and
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: then the two of them had a really nasty back
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: and forth on social media. Trina told Messica first of all,
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: bumass find out who your baby daddy really is, and
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: she told her, and you don't know what the f
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: you are talking about. You think you can come up
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: here and talk is to me, you scumbag. You can't
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: how I'm ready and I'm not the one. And then
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: Trina told her, but first of all, that video was
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: edited to what I said. Second of all, if you
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: don't know the exact facts, stfu. If you want answers
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: of clarification, say that. But you will not think you
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: come up here and talk ish about me, because you can't.
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: And things really spiraled after that. Messica told her, pull
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: up okay as a coming, let me book this fight
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: so I can fight your dumbass way. Trina, you're acting
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: like an animal, don't you dear quote Rihanna or an
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: actual activist who pulls up? Girl? The world cloud wasn't
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: even the world cloud wasn't even inventive when you were relevant.
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: Take your afternoon nap and she will so called her, Karen,
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: you take an afternoon nap. I can hear it right now,
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: go ahead. I didn't like the afternoon nappart afternoon nap,
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: afternoon after great effect it. I was all of that
- 1:28:12Speaker 1: in capital letgy I know, but some of it was Ah,
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: it was in capitals, all right, But yeah, it went
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: on and on and on from there. And I'm gonna
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: be honest, I did not like seeing these two women
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: going at it like that on social media, with the
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: world weighing in and speaking to each other in that way. Now,
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: this morning, Traina did get on the radio and apologize.
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: Here's what she said. Me and my trainers were, I'm
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: automatically speaking for black people. I am the black people.
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: I am black people. That's why I'm speaking for and
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say black people are animals. And this
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: is why the day after where we spoke to the commissioner,
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: I said to Trick, well, I learned a lot more
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: about what's really happening. And it's more than just in
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: the streets of people, you know, doing whatever. It's it's commissioners,
- 1:28:57Speaker 1: it's the governor's to me, it's all these people, it's
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: the chief of police. I had no idea of that,
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: So now I'm understanding that, and these are the people
- 1:29:04Speaker 1: that has to protect the CDs. No, I don't like
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: that energy training. I want I need that hand clapp
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: and I got time to day energy. I don't like
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: that little docile apology energy. I don't like that. Well,
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: she's explaining herself. She's explaining herself with what she met.
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: Sometimes when we get upset and we get mad, things
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: come out of our mouth that we could have said differently,
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: and maybe that's what she's clearing up. Well, listen, apologies
- 1:29:27Speaker 1: are always great when you know you're wrong. There's nothing
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: wrong with acknowledging that wrong, but it's just backlash apologies.
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: I don't like backlash apologies. I don't like apologies that
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: when you know people have been coming at you, you're like, okay,
- 1:29:39Speaker 1: I'm sorry now. Well, she did say she had conversations
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: with local officials and they did educate her on some things.
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: So you know, it is a big to be able
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: to apologize and admit that you were wrong and have
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: these conversations with people, you know. I still don't really
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: like the dragging of people like that on social media,
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: and I am all for educating. I love training it though.
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: I just don't know what she thought was wrong in
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: that situation, you know what I'm saying, Like, you have
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: to know why people are protesting, you know, you have
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: to know why they're angry, even when it comes to
- 1:30:10Speaker 1: the looting. You may not like it, but you know,
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: you don't got to call them animals. It's not like
- 1:30:14Speaker 1: they just out there doing that for no reason. It's
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: a reaction to, you know, black people getting killed in
- 1:30:19Speaker 1: this country at the hands of the police over it. Yeah,
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: but she's seen it from a different side, I'm sure,
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: and that doesn't make it right. She's seen it from
- 1:30:25Speaker 1: the side one of her best friends owns a clothing
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: store or a store, and you know, everything that she
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: worked for they pretty much took. So that's what she
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: was saying. I think material Yeah, I get it, but
- 1:30:36Speaker 1: it's material things and property that can't take place. Insurance
- 1:30:41Speaker 1: you can't you know, fix it. And there's a lot
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: of things that led up to this. So uh, And
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: this is an ongoing conversation because there's a lot of
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: people who have felt like that, and I see a
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: lot of people expressing themselves in that way and wondering
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: why are people are protesting, why are they doing this,
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: why are they going after target I see people saying
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: this all day long, up and down the timeline. So
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: I build those buildings will be back, those black bodies won't,
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: all right, And now another person who actually had to
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: roll back what he said was Drew Brees. He made
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: some comments about NFL player protests, and he was asked
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: about whether or not he thinks players will be kneeling
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: during the national anthem when football resumes. And here's what
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: Drew Brees said. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting
- 1:31:25Speaker 1: the flag of the United States of America. Let me,
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: let me just tell you what I feel when the
- 1:31:29Speaker 1: national anthem is played, and when I look at the
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: flag of the United States, I envision my two grandfathers
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: who fought for this country during World War Two? And
- 1:31:39Speaker 1: is everything right with our country right now? No, we
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. But I think
- 1:31:44Speaker 1: what you do by standing there and showing respect to
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: the flag with your hand over your heart, is it
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together,
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: we can all do better, and then we are all
- 1:31:54Speaker 1: part of the solution. Well, of course, those comments cause
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: a huge amount of backlash from other NFL players, players
- 1:32:01Speaker 1: on his own team, from everybody, Lebron James, you know,
- 1:32:05Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson. Now Drew Brees has posted. First, he posted
- 1:32:08Speaker 1: a picture of a black and white hand interlocked, and
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: then he said, I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates,
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: the city of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community,
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: and anyone I hurt with my comments yesterday, And speaking
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: with some of you, it breaks my heart to know
- 1:32:24Speaker 1: the pain I have caused. So he said he wants
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: to talk about respect, unity and the solidarity centered around
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: the American flag and the national anthem. And he made
- 1:32:31Speaker 1: comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: the issues we are facing right now as a country.
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead,
- 1:32:40Speaker 1: those words had become divisive and hurtful, and I had
- 1:32:43Speaker 1: misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy.
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: This could not be further from the truth and is
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character.
- 1:32:51Speaker 1: And then he talks about where he stands with the
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: black community and the fight against systemic racial injustice and
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: police brutality, and he said support the creation of real
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: policy change that will make a difference. He also condemned
- 1:33:02Speaker 1: the years of oppression. I mean it goes on. So
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: you know I gave donkey. I gave him donkey to
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: day to day, and Donkey that day still stands. I
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: wonder if he's ever spoken out against a police officer
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: killing a black man. You know, you know how that's
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: so quick to be like, you shouldn't disrespect the flag,
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: and you know the flag means something. I wonder if
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: he's ever had that same energy for you know, a
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: police officer killing an unarmed black man, as he ever
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: jumped out there and said, you shouldn't kill anar black people,
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: you shouldn't kill black people, you know what I mean.
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: I wonder, But you know he's he's he's knelt with
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: his teammates before and just reading his comments, you see that.
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: You know some of the people that that follow him. Uh,
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to apologize, you were right.
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: Don't apologize now that was just your opinion. You know,
- 1:33:46Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that believe in what he said,
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: which which I don't understand. I really don't. And and
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: by the way, putting the black hand shaking the white hand,
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: that's the whitest apology in the world. Like I would
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: rather you put cream vanila ice cream and chocolate ice cream. Yeah,
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: I would rather you put vanilla ice cream and chocolate
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: ice cream. Oh my goodness, Like that had that handshake
- 1:34:11Speaker 1: look crazy. All right, well, we'll see you what happens next.
- 1:34:15Speaker 1: And that was very well crafted as like more of
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: a press release. Damn man, I just don't end the black.
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: The black and white hand shap looked like the beginning
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: of a purp at stupid. All right, well, let me
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: answer the yee and that is your room of report.
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: All right, thank you, miss ye revolt. We'll see you
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: guys tomorrow. Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up next,
- 1:34:36Speaker 1: get your request in. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, putt,
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlotmae, nic Gay. We all the
- 1:34:42Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We have a special guest on the line,
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: Deanna Williams. Welcome. Good to be here with you and
- 1:34:48Speaker 1: v Angela and Charlotte Maine. Now, Deanna Williams, I know
- 1:34:52Speaker 1: this is an important time because we have so many
- 1:34:53Speaker 1: things to talk about, but it is also Black Music Month,
- 1:34:57Speaker 1: something that you actually was one of the architects of.
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: So let's talk about that, yes, Angelo. Nineteen seventy nine,
- 1:35:04Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter hosted the first June Black Music Month
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: event at the request of the Godfather, Clarence Avant and
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: some other prominent people in the industry. But the co
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: founders of this period of time are multi Grammy Award
- 1:35:20Speaker 1: winning songwriter, producer Kenny Gamble, broadcaster Edwright, myself, and members
- 1:35:26Speaker 1: of the Black Music Association. And it's the forty first
- 1:35:29Speaker 1: anniversary of June Black Music Month. Tell us ab important Black? Absolutely,
- 1:35:37Speaker 1: it's very important because the music industry generated twenty billion
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: dollars last year. And when you look at the top
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: of the charts right now, at the top of the
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: one hundred list of top selling records, eight of those
- 1:35:51Speaker 1: top ten records are by Black artists. You guys know
- 1:35:54Speaker 1: that hip hop is the number one genre around the world,
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: not just here in America, but all over the planet.
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: So what does that tell us? Black people are making
- 1:36:05Speaker 1: and selling a ton of music, and that's important because
- 1:36:09Speaker 1: it's our culture and it's indigenous to America. You talk
- 1:36:13Speaker 1: about those billions of dallas, you know, I think a
- 1:36:16Speaker 1: lot of it is not trickled down to the artists.
- 1:36:18Speaker 1: A lot of us is not trickled down to the producer.
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: A lot it's not trickled down to the actual singer,
- 1:36:23Speaker 1: which is very, very sad. You know, people are making
- 1:36:25Speaker 1: billions of dallars and they're artists there that are still struggling,
- 1:36:29Speaker 1: losing their homes, losing their cars, and that have sold
- 1:36:32Speaker 1: millions of millions of records. That's that's the horrible thing
- 1:36:34Speaker 1: about that. That's been going on for a long time,
- 1:36:37Speaker 1: which is why as a proud member of the National
- 1:36:40Speaker 1: Museum of African American Music based in Nashville, we will
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: be opening September twenty twenty. It is an institution designed
- 1:36:48Speaker 1: to highlight the contributions of black folks in this country
- 1:36:52Speaker 1: from the sixteen hundreds onto now. But we are also
- 1:36:56Speaker 1: fighting for artists to get more, not just artists, reducers, engineers,
- 1:37:01Speaker 1: music makers in general to get a larger piece of
- 1:37:04Speaker 1: this twenty billion dollars. And and be back to your
- 1:37:07Speaker 1: question about why is June Black Music Month important, Well,
- 1:37:11Speaker 1: this is a multibillion dollar business. One we don't tend
- 1:37:14Speaker 1: to think of our music that way, but it is.
- 1:37:17Speaker 1: It's created by black people, it's co opted and imitated
- 1:37:21Speaker 1: by others, and we appreciate the compliments, but we want
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: to be able to economically participate in all of these
- 1:37:28Speaker 1: billions of dollars. And I might add it's the everyday
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: man and woman who's enriching the coffers of those major
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: record companies. We want our fair share. So the museum
- 1:37:40Speaker 1: is a repository. We have over seven galleries of beautiful
- 1:37:45Speaker 1: information artifacts about our contribution. Our contributions keep getting overlooked
- 1:37:50Speaker 1: Black folks. We were forced immigrants to this country and
- 1:37:54Speaker 1: music is what we use to soothe us in this
- 1:37:58Speaker 1: terrible you know, situation where we were taken from our
- 1:38:03Speaker 1: original homes in Africa, brought over here and free labor
- 1:38:07Speaker 1: for four hundred years. So what you hear in our
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: music is passion, it's joy, it's pain, and it's our
- 1:38:14Speaker 1: soundtrack every day. Think about how much music you consume.
- 1:38:17Speaker 1: First of all, let me also just say that June
- 1:38:20Speaker 1: Black Music Month is an opportunity to celebrate the three
- 1:38:23Speaker 1: of you. You are promoters of the culture. Think about
- 1:38:27Speaker 1: how much music you've played amby in your career. Absolutely okay.
- 1:38:30Speaker 1: You play music that can elevate the spirits of people,
- 1:38:34Speaker 1: and we use it to get us through hard times,
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: good times, turn up, fall in love, fall out of love.
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: Music is intricral to our survival in this country. You
- 1:38:44Speaker 1: know what else, though, it is fascinating to me, and
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: we're gonna I want to talk more about the museum,
- 1:38:48Speaker 1: and I do, of course, I want to talk more
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: about black music man, how you actually got this legislation
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: pass because I read about how you had never done
- 1:38:56Speaker 1: anything like this before, and I know a lot of
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: us right now feel really powerless as far as what
- 1:39:00Speaker 1: can we do in our government to make things happen,
- 1:39:02Speaker 1: you know, to create change. And so can you discuss
- 1:39:06Speaker 1: how that actually happens, because I don't think people understand
- 1:39:08Speaker 1: the process of how you can initiate that and actually
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: bringing out some type of change. Oh well, I appreciate
- 1:39:13Speaker 1: you sharing that. Okay. So nineteen seventy nine, President Jimmy
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: Carter hosting this big event that on the lawn of
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: the White House. It had been done by the Country
- 1:39:22Speaker 1: Music Association in years earlier, but then he said June
- 1:39:26Speaker 1: is Black Music Month. This was at the encouragement of
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: the Black Music Association. Well, fast forward to when President
- 1:39:33Speaker 1: Clinton was in office. I wrote him and asked him
- 1:39:36Speaker 1: to host a similar event. Well, the White House came
- 1:39:39Speaker 1: back and said, well, we've gone through the archives and
- 1:39:41Speaker 1: we see where President Carter declared June black Music Month.
- 1:39:45Speaker 1: But go get us some legislation. Come back, President Clinton
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: will sign a proclamation and we'll celebrate June Black Music
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: Month officially from the perspective of the White House and Congress.
- 1:39:58Speaker 1: So I put on my most comfortable pair of shoes
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: and started walking office to office on Capitol Hill, knocking
- 1:40:05Speaker 1: on people's doors, writing letters. We just really worked hard.
- 1:40:09Speaker 1: And I don't want to take the credit alone, because
- 1:40:11Speaker 1: again there were group of people, but I was out
- 1:40:14Speaker 1: in the front pushing. And finally the legislation. I wrote
- 1:40:18Speaker 1: the draft for it. They put all the ware as
- 1:40:21Speaker 1: and it got passed, and then I was in and
- 1:40:23Speaker 1: out of the White House, private meetings in the Oval
- 1:40:26Speaker 1: Office for President Clinton, President George Bush, on and on,
- 1:40:31Speaker 1: and that's basically the story of June Black Music Month.
- 1:40:35Speaker 1: But we're in our forty first year, and again I
- 1:40:38Speaker 1: want to stress that it's an economic engine, and it's
- 1:40:42Speaker 1: our American soundtrack. It's how we get up in the morning,
- 1:40:45Speaker 1: it's how we function through the day. And now, as
- 1:40:48Speaker 1: we see American cities and international capitals supporting our efforts
- 1:40:54Speaker 1: here in America against police brutality, music has always been test.
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: Music has always been at the forefront of our endeavors
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: here in this country. And it's no different right now.
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: So as the co chair of the Music Industry Relations
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: Committee and on behalf of Henry Hicks, who is the
- 1:41:13Speaker 1: CEO of the museum, we're taking a strong scand in
- 1:41:16Speaker 1: solidarity with people who are protesting around the world about
- 1:41:21Speaker 1: the injustices of racism. Part of what the birth of
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: black music in this country was born out of the
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: cruelty of racism. So long answer to your short question,
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: but that's how the legislation got passed and it has
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: been celebrated by every American president since and again, if
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: people want to become part of our movement and support
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: they can do so by joining go to Black Music
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: Museum dot com and happy birthday June black music must
- 1:41:50Speaker 1: one years young, but anyway years and we're gonna have
- 1:41:53Speaker 1: you and Henry Hickson as closer to when the museum
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: is going to open so we can make sure we
- 1:41:57Speaker 1: really ramp that UPPs, thank you so much for your support.
- 1:42:00Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Support you. Thank you all right,
- 1:42:05Speaker 1: Thank you Diana Williams for joining us. Now, Charlemagne, you
- 1:42:08Speaker 1: got a positive note, yes man for everybody out there
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: that's a you know, doing a little so we y'all
- 1:42:14Speaker 1: don't have to do a lot. I just want you
- 1:42:15Speaker 1: to know that act as if what you do makes
- 1:42:18Speaker 1: a difference, because it does. Breakface Club, this is you all.
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: Finish with y'all, doune