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DONKEY: Racist Text Messages Referencing Slavery Sent To Black Americans · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for donkeys to day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ain't trying to beat donkey today no more.
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  Speaker 1: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not making new people do these days called donkey of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn Charlomagne,
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  Speaker 1: who got the donkey out of day to day? Well,
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  Speaker 1: jess Alariu's donkey today for Friday, November eighth. Goloes to
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  Speaker 1: whoever is sending out these racist text messages referencing slavery. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't heard all day yesterday in black group
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  Speaker 1: chaps across America, texts were being shared and it was
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  Speaker 1: text messages that folks were receiving that were telling negroes
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  Speaker 1: report to your nearest plantation. I'm not making this up.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I had quite a few people hit me up
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  Speaker 1: concerned because they were receiving text messages like this. Good evening, Isaiah.
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  Speaker 1: You have been selected to become a slave patient at
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  Speaker 1: your nearest plantation. Please be clean and ready by three
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  Speaker 1: am tomorrow. No need to bring essentials nor close, as
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  Speaker 1: you will be handed worker clothes. You will be picked
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  Speaker 1: up in a white van by a Trump representative after
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  Speaker 1: escorted you will be script indeed down upon arrival. Don't cooperate,
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  Speaker 1: belt the app and lynched immediately. Your name will be
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  Speaker 1: your name will further be a race than giving a number.
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  Speaker 1: Your number is slave five, and you'll be a part
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  Speaker 1: of slave see group. Thank you now, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. When I first read this, I said
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  Speaker 1: to myself, people play too much. And I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: sure this is a white person, because I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: a white person say belt the ass But if this
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  Speaker 1: week's election showed us anything, it's that we can we
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  Speaker 1: can't assume what certain racial groups do anymore. But I
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  Speaker 1: brushed that text off until I had a few more
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  Speaker 1: people send me those text messages, and then I realized
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  Speaker 1: it was a thing. Did anyone in this room receive
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  Speaker 1: a text message telling them to go back to the plantation?
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  Speaker 1: Near a plantation you should go to? They said, d down,
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  Speaker 1: I know you need that, damn.
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  Speaker 2: When you get some free days to be a slave.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you take that wig off and you see
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  Speaker 1: them corn rolls, let's go. Let's go to NBC for
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  Speaker 1: the public.
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  Speaker 2: Karein Freeman was at home with her kids on Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: when she got a text from a number she didn't recognize.
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  Speaker 3: It was this odd, ominous, feeling text message basically saying, Hello,
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  Speaker 3: You've been selected to be a slave on a plantation
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  Speaker 3: and your schedule to get picked up on at twelve
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  Speaker 3: am on November thirteenth.
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  Speaker 2: And She's not alone. Social media sites have been flooded
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  Speaker 2: with people from New York to Florida who say they've
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  Speaker 2: gotten these racist messages. Freeman and others believe the text
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  Speaker 2: may have been sparked by the current political climate. The
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  Speaker 2: wording of the text appear to differ. Some have misspellings,
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  Speaker 2: others address individuals by name, but the theme is consistent,
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  Speaker 2: telling recipients they've been selected to pick cotton. All of
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  Speaker 2: the people NBC who spoke to who got these messages
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  Speaker 2: are black. For recipients like Karn Freeman, the digital aim
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  Speaker 2: is fueling her real world concerns.
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  Speaker 4: I am overwhelmed with anxiety and fear about how I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to help my children make sense of the world
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  Speaker 4: that they have to navigate as black children.
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  Speaker 1: Now a few things. Number One, how they get all
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  Speaker 1: these people's phone numbers. Number two, This is probably not
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  Speaker 1: as widespread as people think. One or three people got
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  Speaker 1: a text posted it online, and then everyone took the
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  Speaker 1: same text and started acting like it was senter in personally.
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  Speaker 1: In three and this is the biggest one and the
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  Speaker 1: reason I'm doing this as donkey of today. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: assume these are Trump supporters. Let's just assume these are conservatives.
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  Speaker 1: Answer me this one question. Why do you want to
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  Speaker 1: prove people right? Donald Trump won? He is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the forty seventh president of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: He won. Fan square looked like you want the popular vote,
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  Speaker 1: the electoral college. Republicans wanted to send it, you might
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  Speaker 1: win the House. America made a choice. The last thing
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  Speaker 1: any of any of you all should be doing is
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  Speaker 1: proving all your critics right. Okay, so many different people
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  Speaker 1: say the only reason Trump won is because America is
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  Speaker 1: a racist country. Huffington Post said Trump ran the most
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  Speaker 1: racist campaign in modern history, and he won. So many
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  Speaker 1: people say, oh, Trump supporters are biggest and racist. Why
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  Speaker 1: are you idiots proving them right?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Mind you, I know these folks are playing, but if
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  Speaker 1: you are a Trump supporter, you should denounce this, unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course you don't care, unless of course you agree
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  Speaker 1: with whatever the text is saying. But the real moral
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  Speaker 1: of the story is this is exactly the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: what I told you all should happen. Y'all not tied
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  Speaker 1: or arguing and fighting. There will be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: real battles that we need to fight in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing we need to be doing is fighting
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  Speaker 1: amongst each other. Okay, we don't need to be rilling
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  Speaker 1: each other up with this petty foolishness.
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  Speaker 2: I literally had.
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  Speaker 1: People hitting me up concerned about this because they honestly
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the Trump presidency will bring. And then
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  Speaker 1: I had some guys who will remain nameless even though
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  Speaker 1: they're sitting in this room excited right now. But they
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  Speaker 1: were excited because they was told to report some way
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  Speaker 1: to get deed down. Okay, so listen to all listen.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanna tell all Trump supporters, everyone who voted
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  Speaker 1: for Trump, if you really dislike liberals, if you really
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  Speaker 1: don't like Democrats and they woke ideologies, and simply do
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  Speaker 1: one thing, prove them wrong by not doing dumb ass,
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  Speaker 1: cheap ass, racist ass stunts like this. Please give whoever
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  Speaker 1: is sending out these racist text messages telling people to
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  Speaker 1: report to the plantation the biggest he hull.
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  Speaker 3: And be looking so unbothered right now, because he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be in the house when it's go down.
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  Speaker 1: You a house, how much like report we had to
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  Speaker 1: get ded down?
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  Speaker 2: Please, you're gonna be there with me and look at.
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  Speaker 1: Charlamagne on I don't know what you're talking about supper.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be like this way, Jesus all right, Well
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  Speaker 1: that was Donkey to Day.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 4: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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