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Speaker 1: Donkey to Day for Monday, February six goes to Arab Mark.

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Speaker 1: Arab Mark is a food service company that provides meals

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Speaker 1: And that's what they did on the first day of

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Speaker 1: On Friday, I gave Donkey the Day to Turning Point

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Speaker 1: USA at Clemson for having an Affirmative action bake sale.

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Speaker 1: see you. On the Black History Month menu, Aaron Mark

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Speaker 1: They ordered, we think of black people? What you think food?

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Speaker 1: to CBS water very happy that he spoke Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: am A mother reassuring her daughter after a racially insensitive

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Speaker 1: lunch option was served at Nyake Middle School the first

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Speaker 1: another racially insensitive meal was served at New York University

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Speaker 1: the company apologized and workers were fired. What's wrong? Right? What? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong? What? Right? You laugh? You gotta see right

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Speaker 1: But things that God actually created, like chickens and watermelons

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Speaker 1: But I want to know what these school's intention is.

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Speaker 1: Why do y'all think it's black servant and black people

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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is to be knowledgeable on everything,

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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up nine about

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