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DLHS Hour 1 | D.L. and the Crew Remember 9/11 After Twenty-Five Years · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the DL Hughley Show, your 2026 edition. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that if you are going to be in Fort Lauderdale,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here tonight at the Iran Theater along with DL
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  Speaker 1: and DL, the DL, Don Lemon and DL Hughley, anything
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  Speaker 1: goes to her. It is a very somber day, or
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  Speaker 1: should be. It's September 11th. It is the 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of the September 11th terror attack. And I think everybody
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  Speaker 1: remembers what they were doing that day. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those days. Everybody remembers what they're doing. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things that were so glaring then. It
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  Speaker 1: was the unity for just a minute. It seemed like
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  Speaker 1: we were very united, right, for just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: For just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And for black people, it was the first time they
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  Speaker 1: distrusted somebody more than us.
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  Speaker 3: We got to be white for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: We go, look at them. They're very suspicious to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: No, we didn't.
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  Speaker 3: We all got to be caring for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We all were united in being suspicious of someone. And
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  Speaker 1: for once, it wasn't us. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that.
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  Speaker 4: I do remember we were, man, listen, but I also
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  Speaker 4: remember we were very jumpy for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like just any noise would
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  Speaker 2: scare you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, of course, when you go to the airport,
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  Speaker 4: they're always looking around as if you could detect, you know,
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  Speaker 4: who was going to do something bad or not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And anybody, remember, they would have the National Guard
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  Speaker 1: walking around. Remember, you couldn't have plastics. You couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: metal forks. Like it was a prison cafeteria. That's like
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  Speaker 1: a prison child yard. I remember how that's when they
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  Speaker 1: started putting the carts in front of.
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  Speaker 3: The door when the pilot went out. Remember, there was
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot of stuff to take.
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  Speaker 1: You had to start taking your shoes off because Richard Reed,
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  Speaker 1: the shoe bomber, tried to put a fuse in his
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  Speaker 1: shoe like the Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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  Speaker 3: He was just going to blow his shoe off. Acme
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  Speaker 3: shoe bomber. It was crazy. And then we went off
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  Speaker 3: and attacked the wrong country. Yeah, why not? We got
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  Speaker 3: all these bombs. Yeah, might as well start, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta use them on somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, happy birthday to Taraji P.
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  Speaker 5: Henson.
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  Speaker 1: I told you when a black woman has three names,
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  Speaker 1: she's very accomplished. When a white dude has three names,
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  Speaker 1: he's a serial killer. I'm just telling you. That's tried
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  Speaker 1: and true.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually proven to be true, it seems like.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. I don't have empirical data, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you. You watch the timeline. When somebody shoot a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff up and they're a white dude, they
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  Speaker 1: got three names. Happy birthday to Ludacris. Happy birthday to
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  Speaker 1: Harry Connick Jr.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not him. He just sang.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Sean Livingston. Happy birthday to Elephant Man.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Lola Falana. Happy birthday to Ed Reed,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best in the business. You could say
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  Speaker 1: Dion was a cold piece, but so was Ed. So
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  Speaker 1: was Troy Palermo. We're some bad people out there, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to possibly, of course, to Paul Bear Bryant.
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  Speaker 1: We got a great show lined up for you. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it is Friday, and Jasmine's going to tell us what's trending.
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  Speaker 1: You can't hit happy hour or the club, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring the party straight to you with the
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  Speaker 1: Hughley House Party and the D.O.
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine Telly speaking with Strickland.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see this American Airlines passenger? So, well, you
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  Speaker 2: got to see it. So, He was duct taped to
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  Speaker 2: his seat.
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  Speaker 4: Because I guess he attacked the guy who.
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  Speaker 3: Was sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: He tried to sit in my seat. He tried to
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  Speaker 2: sit in your seat. Well, he was arrested, just so
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  Speaker 2: you know, but. Basically, he just went off the rails.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: He became very unruly, started talking smack to the person
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  Speaker 4: next to him, calling him all kinds of names. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where they got all this duct tape,
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  Speaker 4: but they duct taped him, zip tied him and all
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  Speaker 4: the things to the seat until they were able to land.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, he ended up being arrested.
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  Speaker 4: But what is going viral is the picture of the guy.
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  Speaker 4: And people want to know where in the world did
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  Speaker 4: they get all this duct tape? Like, I mean, they
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  Speaker 4: zip tied, hog tied him to the seat where he
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  Speaker 4: could move.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, because remember, I know I'm playing. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they'll have tape on seats and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like that in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Not where I'm at, but not where I'm at in
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  Speaker 1: the first class. But I know where they got the
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  Speaker 1: duct tape from.
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  Speaker 3: Past the curtain. It wasn't in first class. Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it might have started in Comfort Plus, but it
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  Speaker 1: was not in first class.
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  Speaker 2: But they had to know.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway. Also trending, we want to know if, in fact,
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  Speaker 4: it's true that Trump is going to give out $ 5, 000 checks.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, that's what he's promising.
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  Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 for the doge, $ 5, 000 for the tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: You got $ 15, 000. $ 15, 000 to the good. Yeah, there's the
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  Speaker 3: $ 2, 000 that he was supposed to have.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to top it. Come on, man. Let me
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  Speaker 2: ask you a question. That's what he said.
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  Speaker 4: He said, you know, if Republicans win control of Congress
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  Speaker 4: again in the midterms, every American adult is going to
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  Speaker 4: get $ 5, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Lies.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, lies.
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  Speaker 3: He also said gas ago.
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  Speaker 1: Down to $ 2 after the election.
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  Speaker 2: So why are we not doing now? I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: You know what happened today?
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  Speaker 2: Is it bribery?
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  Speaker 3: You see Iran bombed all those ships? Navy ships?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they bombed a bunch of... I'm praying for everybody,
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  Speaker 3: but they bombed a bunch of.
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  Speaker 1: So for people that ran out of drones and missiles
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  Speaker 1: and can't fight, they sure are doing a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: They sure are. Well, that's what's trending.
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: She's jazzed. She smiles. It's the Jazzy Report on the D.L.
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  Speaker 3: Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 4: A new study found unemployment for 24 to 34 year
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  Speaker 4: olds without degrees is near the lowest level seen since 2003,
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  Speaker 4: just as conditions for similarly aged college grads. being among
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  Speaker 4: the weakest outside of the Great Recession and the pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: Now the split reflects basic supply and demand with too
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  Speaker 4: few people in trades and hands-on service work as older
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  Speaker 4: workers retire and immigration wanes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently kicking them out didn't mean your lot in life.
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  Speaker 2: Got any better. Yeah, thanks, laughing boy.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, laughing boy.
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  Speaker 7: Who knew?
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  Speaker 4: Well, obesity and alcohol are fueling a worrying rise in
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  Speaker 4: cancer among under 50-year-olds. A new study suggests the number
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  Speaker 4: of cases among younger cancer patients has soared by almost 80%
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  Speaker 4: in the last three decades. Now, the growth is particularly
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  Speaker 4: prominent among wealthy countries like the UK, and they suggest
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  Speaker 4: that perhaps lifestyle factors are largely to blame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: More money you make, the more you drink.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or less money you make, the less you drink.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. Everybody drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to, you know, the one thing that's true in America,
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  Speaker 1: times good people drink, times bad people drink. I think
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  Speaker 1: the predicate is they're going to be drinking. We had
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  Speaker 1: some great callers this week. And if you missed them,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry. We got what happened was Friday. It's
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  Speaker 1: the DL Hughley show. So Tuesday, what happened was a
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  Speaker 1: teacher was fired because he read out loud the N
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  Speaker 1: word in Tequila Mockingbird, which was a part of the
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  Speaker 1: school curriculum.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen. Be freaking kidding me.
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  Speaker 2: You use the N-word in class. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: explain to the audience exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 7: I was walking around my classroom, pacing the room, and
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  Speaker 7: I overheard this conversation between these two girls. And they
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  Speaker 7: were talking about the book To Kill a Mockingbird. And
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  Speaker 7: they're currently assigned to read that in their English class.
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  Speaker 7: And they were talking about how their teacher makes them
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  Speaker 7: skip over a certain word. We all know what the
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  Speaker 7: word is, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's the N-word.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say it here, but it's the N-word.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: And I just thought, that's silly. And so I calmly
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  Speaker 7: just expressed my disagreement. And a girl asked me point
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  Speaker 7: blank in front of the class, well, if you were
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  Speaker 7: reading the book, would you say the word? And I
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  Speaker 7: sort of laughed, but I said, of course. And right
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  Speaker 7: then a boy whipped out the book. He had it
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  Speaker 7: on the exact page. And he said, OK, then do it.
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  Speaker 7: And so I took the book and I wanted to
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  Speaker 7: display for my students that you can read books honestly.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to. You shouldn't have to fear the consequences.
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  Speaker 7: And let's just undo this lie. You've been told that
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  Speaker 7: if you're white or or whatever, that you can't read
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  Speaker 7: a book. I believe as an educator, it's my job
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  Speaker 7: to help facilitate critical thinking. And I tried to make
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  Speaker 7: it a lesson about context versus intent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's intent of our words. That really makes
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  Speaker 7: something racist or not, not reading it out of a book.
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  Speaker 3: Should that teacher have been fired? We put that question
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  Speaker 3: to you. You said... The.
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  Speaker 8: Teacher should have been fired because even though he was
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  Speaker 8: trying to sell it as he was making a point
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  Speaker 8: that you can bust this myth and, you know, you're
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  Speaker 8: supposed to read literature and this, that, and the other,
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  Speaker 8: the point that he wasn't preserving was the mutual respect thing. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I understand when he explained it, it was
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  Speaker 8: almost in a context that they dared him or he
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  Speaker 8: was taking it as if he can read whatever however
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  Speaker 8: he wants, which... That's irresponsible, especially if you're trying to
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  Speaker 8: convey things to the whole child. You know, in the military,
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  Speaker 8: if I did something, it would be conduct unbecoming of
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  Speaker 8: an officer. They're not telling me how to live my life,
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  Speaker 8: but they're telling me in the military, in that job,
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  Speaker 8: I'm supposed to display a certain conduct. So I think
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  Speaker 8: he should have been fired. The coach who categorized the
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  Speaker 8: player and said she's a dangerous species, same thing, but
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  Speaker 8: the system that we live in is systemic behavior. There's
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  Speaker 8: this supremacy mindset, and it's being led by the president.
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  Speaker 8: And now that the floodgates are open, people walk around
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  Speaker 8: here doing whatever and saying whatever they want. because they
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  Speaker 8: know there's no consequence. But, yes, I think he should
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  Speaker 8: have been fired because even though he was trying to
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  Speaker 8: make a point, there's a certain way to make a
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  Speaker 8: point and there's a place and a time to make
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  Speaker 8: a point. I think it was his fault that he
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  Speaker 8: lost his job.
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  Speaker 6: I do not think that the teacher should have been fired, no,
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  Speaker 6: because it was during the time that it was written,
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  Speaker 6: and children need to know about the context, okay?
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't think he should be fired. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: that word has been around for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 9: You know, some use it as endowment. The fact of
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  Speaker 9: the matter is that it is written by the authors.
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  Speaker 9: It is in the book.
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  Speaker 4: It is literature.
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  Speaker 3: It is facts. So to fire.
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  Speaker 9: Someone who is actually reading from the literature, I agree
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  Speaker 9: with Jasmine. Remove the book from the curriculum. But Francis
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  Speaker 9: Scott Key, the Star-Spangled Banner, We have removed those words
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  Speaker 9: that he wrote about the slave, about slaves dying.
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  Speaker 3: They won't sing it, but they.
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  Speaker 9: Sure want us to stand up and put our hands
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  Speaker 9: across our heart when they started playing the national anthem.
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  Speaker 9: But they won't sing that third verse of the Prince Keith.
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  Speaker 3: They won't sing that.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 9: Because it talks about slaves and talks about killing us.
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  Speaker 9: History is history.
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  Speaker 3: We can't rewrite it. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 9: So I think the gentleman should not be fired.
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  Speaker 5: I agree with the teacher.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he should.
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  Speaker 5: Have been fired because he had a good point when
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  Speaker 5: he said it depends on how you're using the word
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  Speaker 5: in the context. And he was reading from the book,
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  Speaker 5: and that's how it was written by the author. I
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  Speaker 5: do realize that that word can trigger a lot in
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  Speaker 5: regards to people of color and people of different ethnic backgrounds.
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  Speaker 5: But we shouldn't always be so quick to judge. We
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  Speaker 5: should think about how something's actually being said and the
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  Speaker 5: nature of how it's being used.