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North Carolina Sheriff Resigns After Racist Remarks About Black Employees Surface · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The practice club. Bitches, Please tell me why was I
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  Speaker 1: your donkey of the day. I laugh every morning and
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  Speaker 1: I'm also proud my wife's wife. Literally donkey today for Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty six goes to a North Carolina sheriff named
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  Speaker 1: Jody Green. Jody Green was forced to resign Monday after
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  Speaker 1: officials unearthed a damning phone call of the elected official
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  Speaker 1: spotting racist in vulgar language. I love when media outlets
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  Speaker 1: use words like unearthed. You know, Dan will someone since
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  Speaker 1: y'all that? But I digress. Now, what was the racist
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  Speaker 1: in volgar language us that got former sheriff Jody Green
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  Speaker 1: up out of here? Let's go to NBC News six
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  Speaker 1: for the report. Please. On one end of the phone
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  Speaker 1: is current Columbus County Sheriff Jody Green. On the other
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  Speaker 1: end is Jason Souls, the man who previously served as
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  Speaker 1: interim sheriff while officials settled a dispute over the twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen election. We should warn you there is some graphic
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  Speaker 1: language in this call. Sheriff Green says, quote, he is
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  Speaker 1: sick of these black bastards and that every black he
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  Speaker 1: knows needs to be fired. That's the voice of Columbus
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff Jody Green. He won his seat by thirty
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  Speaker 1: four votes in an election that was so highly contested.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been temporarily removed from office while officials settled the
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  Speaker 1: election disputes. That was the setting the night Green called
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  Speaker 1: acting Sheriff Jason Souls, saying their office had a snitch.
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  Speaker 1: He made the comment that he hated Democrats, and then
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  Speaker 1: he said, I take that back, I hate a black Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: And I knew you right at the end. I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is coming from the sheriff, and I had to
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  Speaker 1: start recording those conversations. Jody Green said he was going
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  Speaker 1: to clean house at the black bastards, the black snakes.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting about statements like that is the only thing
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  Speaker 1: needed to clean that house was to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the racist Jody Green. Jody Green is indeed to trash
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  Speaker 1: that needed to be taken out. It really has to
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  Speaker 1: suck to be a race. It's because since you already
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  Speaker 1: have your mind made up that you don't like a
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  Speaker 1: certain group of people, you miss out on great energy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: imagine thinking you have to clean the house just because
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  Speaker 1: you don't like blackness. You're probably getting rid of some
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  Speaker 1: of your best offices, you know, just because they are black.
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  Speaker 1: And not to mention, Jody was afraid that some of
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  Speaker 1: the employees were undermining his authority. No, it's just the
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  Speaker 1: guilt of you being a racist. Was tearing your ass up. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when you're cheating on your significant other and
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  Speaker 1: you feel guilty, so you start thinking they're cheating too,
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  Speaker 1: and you got the nerve to accuse them of doing dirt,
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  Speaker 1: cheating on you when it's actually just you. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff was doing, all right, thinking folks was undermining
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  Speaker 1: his authority. No, bro, they was just on to you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to some of the pale pigmented paranoia. Former
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Lewis Hatcher was the first African American ever to
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  Speaker 1: serve as sheriff in Columbus County. Green says on the
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  Speaker 1: call he's specifically concerned that people in his office are
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  Speaker 1: leaking information to Hatcher and Melvin Campbell, another African American
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  Speaker 1: officer Green fired shortly after taking office. I'm still It
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  Speaker 1: gets worse after the sheriff explains that he's getting phone
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  Speaker 1: records from Verizon to trace anyone in his office who's
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  Speaker 1: called Campbell or Hatcher. He lets souls know the plan
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  Speaker 1: with Campe's the biggest everybody m now Jody resigned to
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  Speaker 1: avoid ordeal and spectacle of a long trout. Reality is
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  Speaker 1: he probably resigned before he got fired so he can
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  Speaker 1: get his pension. But I don't know anything about that.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I'm telling this story is because he probably
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have even resigned if there wasn't a collective effort
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  Speaker 1: by black officers that getting removed. There was a fifty
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  Speaker 1: four page petition calling for Green's removal, and the phone call,
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  Speaker 1: as well as a lot of other transgressions were detailed
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  Speaker 1: in this position. According to the petition, numerous individuals disclosed
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  Speaker 1: the concern about the sheriff and his agents engaging in
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  Speaker 1: an intimidation and abusing authority. In fact, the Columbus County
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  Speaker 1: DA John David has been trying to remove Jody Green
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  Speaker 1: from office since October fourth, from the first petition for
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  Speaker 1: removal was fired against the sheriff keyword first, so it
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  Speaker 1: was more than one petition. Why am I telling y'all
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  Speaker 1: that this morning, because I need y'all to know that
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  Speaker 1: power concedes nothing without the demand. It never has an
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  Speaker 1: in nevill Will. That is a quote from one of
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  Speaker 1: our ancestors, Frederick Douglas see the Path twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched people say, well, how come none of these
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  Speaker 1: corporations didn't drop Kanye West when he said slavery was
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  Speaker 1: a choice of when he wore the hate slogan white
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  Speaker 1: Lives Matter on his shirt, or when he lied about
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  Speaker 1: how George Floyd died. That last one. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's a reason for a corporation or want to fire him.
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  Speaker 1: I think the consequences of that are a lawsuit, which
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  Speaker 1: he received. But the others, well, those corporations didn't really
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  Speaker 1: care because you didn't make them care. Yes, Black people,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. If you want someone held accountable
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  Speaker 1: for something, then there has to be an organized, concerted
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  Speaker 1: effort from you and others like you to hold them accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did the Jewish community have petitions, they had
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  Speaker 1: high ranking executives and agents writing op eds and releasing
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  Speaker 1: public statements to businesses demanding that Kanye West gets held accountable,
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  Speaker 1: demanding that people stopped doing business with them. Just like
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, they had petitions and they were demanding
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  Speaker 1: that this sheriff gets removed. Then North Carolina NAACP submitted
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  Speaker 1: a letter to the US Department of Justice detailing requests
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  Speaker 1: for additional consequences that happen to this former sheriff, just
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  Speaker 1: like the Anti Defamation League wrote letters to Adidas demanding
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  Speaker 1: Adidas stopped doing business with Kanye You have to push
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  Speaker 1: for things that happen because these corporations institutions only gonna
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  Speaker 1: care as much as we the people do. Whether it's
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  Speaker 1: the people on the inside of the corporation pushing for
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  Speaker 1: accountability or as people on the outside pushing for account
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  Speaker 1: of ability. Power will never concede anything without the demand.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's a data saying we are going to put
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  Speaker 1: this deal under review, are a sheriff's office saying we
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  Speaker 1: are investigating the matter. When corporations and institutions say stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, all they're saying is, let's see what the
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  Speaker 1: backlash is going to be. When they don't see an organized, collective,
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  Speaker 1: collective effort demanding any type of accountability, they keep in
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  Speaker 1: moving business as usual. This sheriff wouldn't have even resigned
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  Speaker 1: if there wasn't petitions organizations like the North Carolina ACP
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  Speaker 1: and officers on the inside demanding that he get let go.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that simple. Why because power concedes nothing without
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  Speaker 1: the demand. It never has and it never will. Find
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  Speaker 1: out just what the people will submit to. And you
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  Speaker 1: have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong
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  Speaker 1: which will be imposed upon them. And these will continue
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  Speaker 1: till they are resisted with either words or blows. Are
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  Speaker 1: with both. Frederick Douglas. Ladies and gentlemen, I salute those
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  Speaker 1: brothers inssistance in North Carolina who made sure their demands
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  Speaker 1: were heard and made power concede because of it. Please
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  Speaker 1: let Chelsea Handler give former Sheriff Jody Green the biggest
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  Speaker 1: he haw he haw, he haw. That is way too much.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Mayne is all right, thank you for that, Donkey,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Griffin owner, please give this giant jaral male thettle
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  Speaker 1: biggest he haw a rock Chris Rock, Oh, cokain Chris
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  Speaker 1: my girl. Oh. And she could be the new sheriff
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  Speaker 1: of North Carolina as well. I don't know if she's
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  Speaker 1: still working in that fast food place, but she can
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  Speaker 1: be the new sheriff of North Carolina. Okay, the new
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  Speaker 1: sheriff in North Carolina. All right, all right, okay, donkey,
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