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DONKEY: Officer Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit After Not Being Promoted ‘Because He’s White’ · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I much donkey up to day, damn, but he hogged.
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  Speaker 1: It's time the donkey. I ain't trying to be donkey
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  Speaker 1: today no more.
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  Speaker 2: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not making these people do these.
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  Speaker 3: Days called donkey of the day, and it really caught
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  Speaker 3: me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: Damned Charlamagne who got the donkey out of the day
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  Speaker 2: to day? Yes, donkey today for Wednesday, August second goes
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  Speaker 2: to Michael Sack. Michael Sack is a white police officer
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Louis who has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit
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  Speaker 2: against the city in two black city officials, claiming he
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  Speaker 2: was excluded from a promotion to become police chief. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is something you don't hear too often, a white
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  Speaker 2: man screaming racism because he didn't get a position he wanted.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen this a billion times from black people and others, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and usually they are correct. Systemic racism is something that
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  Speaker 2: exists in every industry in America.
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  Speaker 1: We noticed.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we have laws to prevent this kind of
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  Speaker 2: discrimination from happening.
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  Speaker 1: What is it the Equal Employment.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunity Commission Under the laws and four body ee O C.
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  Speaker 2: It is illegal to discriminate against someone applicant or employee
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  Speaker 2: because of that person's race, color, religion, sex, including gender identity,
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  Speaker 2: sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, forty year older, disability
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  Speaker 2: are genetic information. I'm saying all that to say there
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  Speaker 2: are rules in place to keep people from being discriminated
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  Speaker 2: against and to keep that discrimination from impacting their employment.
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  Speaker 2: Not saying it always works, but the laws are there,
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  Speaker 2: and when you feel there is discrimination, you can sue.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's happening here with Michael Sack.
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  Speaker 2: He's suing, like I said, for racial discrimination because he
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  Speaker 2: said he was excluded from a promotional police chief. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the problem, ladies and gettlemen. The physician ended up
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  Speaker 2: going to another white man. Yeah, you heard me correctly.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to NBC five on your side for the
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  Speaker 2: report police tonight.
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  Speaker 4: The city of Saint Louis faces a lawsuit over its
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  Speaker 4: selection of a new police chief, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Sack,
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  Speaker 4: alleges he was not promoted because he's white. Sack, who
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  Speaker 4: served us interim chief, was considered a frontrunner in the
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  Speaker 4: initial search, but Mayor Tshara Jones started a second nationwide
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  Speaker 4: search seeking more diversity and candidates. The city ended up
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  Speaker 4: hiring Chief Robert Tracy, a white man. Sax lawsuit claims
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  Speaker 4: the mayor made that choice only after two black finalists
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  Speaker 4: dropped out and to cover up for not giving the
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  Speaker 4: job to him. The mayor's office says it cannot comment
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  Speaker 4: on pending litigation.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on in America?
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  Speaker 2: You have a white cop suing the city and two
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  Speaker 2: black officials claiming he didn't get a job because of racism.
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  Speaker 2: He had another white cop got the job. You got
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  Speaker 2: Lizzo being sued for weight shaming. What's next is Laverne
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  Speaker 2: Cox's about to be accused of transphobia.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Sax says in the lawsuit his race was a
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  Speaker 2: determining factor, motivating factor are played a part in the
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  Speaker 2: city's decision not to promote him. I'm so confused here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not white and there's no white people in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, I guess Nick Nicks. You're white, right, Nick? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: spicy white. There's levels to whiteness, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Is there?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about levels in regard to the class.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about strictly race. Is there levels to the
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  Speaker 2: white race? Is there white and off white or is
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  Speaker 2: that just verds was clothing line? Because I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: this is Michael Sack transracial? Does he identify as something
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  Speaker 2: other than white? I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: How was he.
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  Speaker 2: Seeking financial compensation for loss in wages and benefits for
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  Speaker 2: racial discrimination when another white man got the job.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Michael is saying that him and another white were
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  Speaker 1: the only two people who met the roles.
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  Speaker 2: In qualifications and who had passed a written test, but
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  Speaker 2: the mayor, to Shara Jones, told them that she would
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  Speaker 2: not pick either one of them because she only had
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  Speaker 2: two white male candidates to choose from. In Saint Louis
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  Speaker 2: is more diverse than white males. That's what Michaels saying
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  Speaker 2: in the lawsuit. The lawsuit also says that the city
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  Speaker 2: wanted a black commissioner but had to settle for Robert Tracy,
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  Speaker 2: the other white candidate, because there was no other black
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  Speaker 2: candidate to select from because one of the finalists, who
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  Speaker 2: was black, withdrew his application and another declined.
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  Speaker 1: The city's offered.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if that's true, that's life, But it still doesn't
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  Speaker 2: negate the fact that a white man got the job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're telling me that you didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: job because you're white, but another white person did indeed
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  Speaker 2: get the job, then I'm going to ask you to
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  Speaker 2: drink this ginger ale and these crackers because you must
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  Speaker 2: have a fever and a stomach ache. All right, there's
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  Speaker 2: no way you could possibly be feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, white people stop. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: colonize everything, Okay. It's always the unpigmented population trying to
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  Speaker 2: take everything the marginalized has and make it their own.
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  Speaker 2: They trying to take hip hop. They tried taking tiger woods,
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  Speaker 2: but they gave him back, and trust me, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to leave. And now they trying to take racial
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  Speaker 2: discrimination from us.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: The unmelanated gall of Michael Sack. A white man losing
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  Speaker 2: his job to another white man isn't racism. It's called America, Okay, racism,
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  Speaker 2: you know it is if the boss didn't hire him
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  Speaker 2: because he don't want no chalky colored cracker working in
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  Speaker 2: this building. But that wasn't the case. He didn't lose
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  Speaker 2: the job because he was white. He lost the job
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  Speaker 2: because they found a better white.
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  Speaker 1: See. If America was just about the best person winning,
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  Speaker 1: then it would be all good, okay.
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  Speaker 2: If it was about all all things created equal and
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  Speaker 2: the most qualified person succeeding, and things like race and
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  Speaker 2: gender and sexuality did and the helpful Hinda, it would
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  Speaker 2: be fine. But that fairness only exists when you're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with men who look like the founding fathers of this country.
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  Speaker 2: So sorry, Michael, if you just weren't the white person no,
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  Speaker 2: I mean right, per wait mayf y'all do mean white?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Sorry Michael, you just weren't the right white man
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  Speaker 1: for the job. Please let Chelsea handle give Michael sack
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  Speaker 1: the biggest he haw hee haw hee haw.
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  Speaker 2: That is way too much, Dan maynees Michael relax.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, well, thank you for that, donky
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  Speaker 3: today stain. When we come back with first BT, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see out them all.
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  Speaker 1: Piece.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what you're talking about. Man, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what's on your mind. I saw y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I saw y'all contemplating it well after we talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: What's the little meat situation? But play our breakfast theme music?
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  Speaker 3: Please, Court music, Breakfast Club Court now, little Meat, you
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  Speaker 3: know he cleared up something that happened the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Now he was out in Houston and a young lady
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  Speaker 3: needed some help packing her groceries and getting her groceries
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  Speaker 3: to the house. And so young little MEAs did what
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  Speaker 3: any brother out there would do, what our parents have
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  Speaker 3: taught us to do. If you see somebody in distress,
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  Speaker 3: you help him out, especially a woman in distress.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? You help him out?
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  Speaker 3: Now, Willie D you are from the South, You're from Houston.
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  Speaker 1: You're from Houston summer hospitality.
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  Speaker 3: Now you see a woman out there that's struggling with
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  Speaker 3: her groceries. Are you gonna help her carry them groceries
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  Speaker 3: to the house?
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  Speaker 1: Fine? Oh, lord, Willie, you ain't Willie eight undrenk what
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about? Talks about what happened. And I
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  Speaker 1: can't help my cousin the house. Ain't nothing's cousin wore man? Man,
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  Speaker 1: Why are y'all bugging out on the internet?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 2: This man was helping his was it bring her groceries
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  Speaker 2: into her apartment?
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the videotape, the vid.
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  Speaker 2: He was only there for like ten minutes, seventeen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Off.
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  Speaker 5: So a good friend of mine me this text message. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: and it's important. That's why it's important to have women
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  Speaker 5: input on things like this. She said, what if the
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  Speaker 5: chick told the neighbor to hit the rank to risk
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  Speaker 5: to release the ring.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, she'd be helping me with my groceries.
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  Speaker 2: Little meach was helping me with my groceries. Hit the
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  Speaker 2: ring camera. Yeah, you're right for a come up. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, let's talk about it. I tell you
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  Speaker 2: solved the case.
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  Speaker 1: This little meat wrong. He was just trying to do
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  Speaker 1: his suddenly hospitality. Your homegirl, right, Willie.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, your homegirl too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, castling, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't even think about that. So okay, we
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  Speaker 2: figured it out. Little Meach was just helping a woman
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  Speaker 2: with her groceries, being a good samaritan, and somebody hit it.
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  Speaker 2: She called her nighbor to hit the ring camera just
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  Speaker 2: so she can have a little come up.
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  Speaker 3: WHOA wow, ya believe me, that is the question. She's
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  Speaker 3: trying to do the right thing out there. Whoa you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to put out a little her southern hospitality, help
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  Speaker 3: a young lady. You guys have been saying men are
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  Speaker 3: not helping people, not open the doors, not carrying the groceries.
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  Speaker 3: So this brother helped him carry the groceries and y'all
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  Speaker 3: got him under the bus. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: When there wasn't no elevator in that building. Heard it
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  Speaker 2: was six flights insteads that man had to climb up.
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  Speaker 2: God blessed little me. Don't drink five five, one oh five.
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  Speaker 2: Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast luf, Good morning. The Breakfast
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  Speaker 2: Club Donkey today is brought to you by the law
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  Speaker 2: office of Michael s Laminsoft.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be a donkey. Dob pound two fifty on your
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  Speaker 1: cell and say the bull.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two
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  Speaker 2: five oh from your cell and say the bull.