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DONKEY: FTC Chair Praises Efforts To Protect 'White American Men From Discrimination' · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to know how you came up with
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  Speaker 1: the donkey of the day. Because you're mean. I am not.
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  Speaker 1: What did I do? I made donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of donkeys out here in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: based off who we may offend, we never would say anything.
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  Speaker 1: We don't give a damn, don't throw it. On the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlemagne Tha God, he's
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  Speaker 1: a donkey. He mother * * * * * * hole. Aw, man, Charlamagne,
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  Speaker 1: you giving Donkey of the Day to who now? Well,
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  Speaker 1: good brother, Busta Rhymes, Donkey of the Day for Monday,
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  Speaker 1: October 12th goes to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Andrea
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  Speaker 1: Lucas of the EEOC. Oh, the mayonnaise is heavy with
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  Speaker 1: this one, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, the Hellman's is not
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  Speaker 1: being spread thin on this one at all. Okay, now
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  Speaker 1: I know a story, well, I saw a story in
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  Speaker 1: the Huffington Post over the weekend about FTC Chairman Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson praising the efforts The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair,
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  Speaker 1: Andrea Lucas, to protect white American men from discrimination. Let's
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  Speaker 1: listen to what Andrea Lucas said that made Andrew Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: say that. I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal
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  Speaker 1: Employment Opportunity Commission. Are you a white male who's experienced
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  Speaker 1: discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You
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  Speaker 1: may have a claim to recover money under federal civil
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  Speaker 1: rights laws. Now let's listen to what Andrew Ferguson had
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 2: America is not a jobs program for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the world. We didn't build our institutions for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the world. We built them for Americans. Our rule
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  Speaker 2: of law, our system of sane and sound regulation, our
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  Speaker 2: capital markets, our justice system, everything that makes the American
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  Speaker 2: economy thrive, we did not build for the planet. We
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  Speaker 2: built it for us. We built it for Americans first.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to acknowledge the work of Andrea Lucas,
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  Speaker 2: who's the chairman of the EEOC. She is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: chairman of that institution since Clarence Thomas back in the 1980s.
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  Speaker 2: On every issue that previous EEOCs refused to touch, protecting
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  Speaker 2: white American men from discrimination, protecting American citizens from national
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  Speaker 2: origin discrimination, she has led the EEOC headlong to defend
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  Speaker 2: Americans from these abusive practices. She has been an incredibly
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  Speaker 2: valuable partner of the task force. I know she's been
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  Speaker 2: a very valuable partner of the Department of Justice, and
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  Speaker 2: we're thrilled to work with her on these issues.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to hear any more. Today is Monday, man. Guys, listen,
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  Speaker 1: white men shouldn't be discriminated against. OK, I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: being sarcastic. White men should not be discriminated against. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see where that's happening to them anywhere. But if
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  Speaker 1: it is, it shouldn't be. OK, nobody should be discriminated against.
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  Speaker 1: Which leads me to the question I would ask Andrew Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: And the question is, if discrimination against white men concerns you,
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  Speaker 1: then surely discrimination against black people. Should concern you. OK,
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  Speaker 1: surely discrimination against women and Latinos and Muslims and every
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  Speaker 1: other marginalized group in this country that should concern you, too.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Because I would hate to find out that some
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  Speaker 1: of y'all just discover discrimination because you think it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: to white men, okay? I would hate to find out
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  Speaker 1: that the same people who spent years telling black people
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  Speaker 1: to stop complaining, stop playing the victim, stop making everything
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  Speaker 1: about race, I would hate to find out that y'all
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  Speaker 1: are now complaining about being victims of racial discrimination. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: now race matters, okay? Now you understand what it feels like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to have somebody judging you because of the
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  Speaker 1: color of your skin, okay? Now you understand why people
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  Speaker 1: get upset when they believe they're being denied opportunities because
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  Speaker 1: of their race. Welcome to our black ass world, okay?
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  Speaker 1: We've been trying to have this conversation with y'all for
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  Speaker 1: over 400 plus years, okay? But I believe in the
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  Speaker 1: laws of energy, so I will never... Wish discrimination on
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  Speaker 1: someone if I don't want to be discriminated against, okay?
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  Speaker 1: All I ask for is everything to be equal across
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  Speaker 1: the board, all right? I don't want anybody to experience discrimination.
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  Speaker 1: But if you genuinely believe in your white heart of hearts, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that you're experiencing it, I hope that experience gives you
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  Speaker 1: a better understanding of what other people have been telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Because imagine how you would feel if you believed you
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  Speaker 1: were passed over for a job because you're white. How
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  Speaker 1: frustrating would that be? It don't even sound right. OK,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of my mouth is unfathomable to think about
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  Speaker 1: in America. Someone didn't get a job because they were white. OK,
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  Speaker 1: now imagine being black in America and knowing. That for generations,
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  Speaker 1: people who looked like you were legally, legally, legally denied
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  Speaker 1: opportunities because of their race, okay? Couldn't attend certain schools,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't live in certain neighborhoods, couldn't even sit in certain restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: And when those laws finally changed, the economic and social
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  Speaker 1: consequences didn't just disappear. That's why history isn't just about
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  Speaker 1: what happened. It's about what happened because of what happened, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And here's what I need everybody to understand. Acknowledging that history...
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean white men today deserve to be discriminated against, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Two things can be true. White men can experience discrimination
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  Speaker 1: and black people can still experience the consequences of generations
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  Speaker 1: of systemic discrimination, okay? One doesn't cancel out the other,
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  Speaker 1: but what I find fascinating is how some people can
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  Speaker 1: recognize unfair treatment immediately when they believe it's happening to them,
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  Speaker 1: but suddenly become confused when someone else describes that exact
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  Speaker 1: same feeling, okay? When a black person says, they're experiencing
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  Speaker 1: discrimination some folks want proof and they want documentation you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have witnesses you gotta have a dna sample we
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  Speaker 1: gotta have surveillance footage but when they believe a white
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  Speaker 1: man is being discriminated against stop everything we have a
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  Speaker 1: civil rights emergency okay listen that standard should apply to
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  Speaker 1: everybody and this is where i think america keeps getting
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  Speaker 1: it wrong we've turned equality into a competition OK, we
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  Speaker 1: all want to play oppression Olympics. All right. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: so busy trying to prove their group has it worse
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  Speaker 1: that we've forgotten what we're supposed to be fighting for
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. And it's simply equal opportunity for all. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: white men, if you genuinely feel like you're being discriminated against,
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  Speaker 1: then let this experience teach you something. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: know how terrible it feels to believe somebody is judging
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  Speaker 1: you based on something you can't control, why would you
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  Speaker 1: ever want somebody else to feel that way? That's where
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  Speaker 1: empathy is supposed to come from. OK, the goal of
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  Speaker 1: civil rights was never supposed to be making sure everybody
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  Speaker 1: gets a turn being treated unfairly. The goal was to
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  Speaker 1: stop people from being treated unfairly in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: So to Andrew Ferguson and anybody else concerned about protecting
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  Speaker 1: white men from discrimination, I say good. OK, now keep
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  Speaker 1: that same energy for everybody else. Because if you can
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  Speaker 1: recognize discrimination when it happens to white men, then you
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  Speaker 1: have no excuse for pretending you can't recognize it when
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  Speaker 1: it happens to historically marginalized communities. OK, don't be a
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  Speaker 1: honky ass hypocrite either. OK, if discrimination is wrong, it's
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  Speaker 1: wrong regardless of who's experiencing it. You can't demand equality
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  Speaker 1: for yourself and then become allergic to it when somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: ask for the same damn thing, okay? Maybe instead of
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  Speaker 1: arguing over whose discrimination matters more, we should be working
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  Speaker 1: to make sure nobody has to experience discrimination at all, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Because equality doesn't mean everybody gets a turn being discriminated against.
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  Speaker 1: Equality means nobody gets discriminated against, period. Please let Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: Handler give Andrew Ferguson and everybody who only recognizes discrimination
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  Speaker 1: when it happens to their own group the biggest hee-haw.
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  Speaker 2: Hee-haw!
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  Speaker 1: Hee-haw! That is way too much Dan mayonnaise. That's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mayonnaise. Too much mayonnaise for a Monday, Dan. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: for how many cases they got. Lord have mercy. All right. Well,
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