Speaker 1: I'm gonna start here with a mixture of sports and politics.
Speaker 1: Like I articulated, the Philadelphia Eagles went to the White
Speaker 1: House on Monday to celebrate the Super Bowl victory with
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. The trip is a time honored trip
Speaker 1: that most teams make upon winning a championship. However, not
Speaker 1: everyone with the team or organization makes the trip for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. As for the Philadelphia Eagles, not everyone made
Speaker 1: the trip, including the Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts. Others
Speaker 1: not in attendance included wide receivers AJ Brown and Devonte Smith,
Speaker 1: linebacker Zach Bonn, defensive ends Brandon Graham and Josh Sweat,
Speaker 1: and defensive tackled Jalen Carter. Running Back Saquon Barkley did
Speaker 1: attend the ceremony, and President Trump had this to say
Speaker 1: about the Eagles star running back. Take a listen, and.
Speaker 2: By the way, I have to tell you something. I
Speaker 2: was with the Giants and the head coach and some people,
Speaker 2: and I said, do anything you have to, but don't
Speaker 2: lose Saquon. He lo that was not good. I called
Speaker 2: that one. That was That was an easy one to
Speaker 2: call because he played damn well for the Giants.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that sat Quan's appearance didn't sit
Speaker 1: well with comedian and talk show host Dale Hubley. Take
Speaker 1: a listen to what Dale had to say about Barkley
Speaker 1: and other black people who visit the White House in general,
Speaker 1: particularly the Trump White House fourteen players said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: boycott this. Who side are you on?
Speaker 2: I think that it's not just political. What Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has done and is doing to Black history is as
Speaker 2: onsavory and is undeniable. Donald Trump is deliberately trying to
Speaker 2: erase black people's history for whatever quest. He's elevating Christopher
Speaker 2: Columbus again. So he deliberately is doing things to black
Speaker 2: people that isn't just political, and any black man that
Speaker 2: does it is going to obviously catch some level of
Speaker 2: heat when a black person does it. I can all
Speaker 2: when it's a black person, I can always tell what
Speaker 2: kind of black person. I can always tell with that
Speaker 2: whoa whoa?
Speaker 1: Wait, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Yale sa Kwon Barkley, he had a girlfriend that threw
Speaker 2: around the N word a lot. They said she wasn't
Speaker 2: the gold there, she wasn't messing with no broke in words,
Speaker 2: he looks like that kind of guy that is indifferent
Speaker 2: to what black people go through. It's just true, and
Speaker 2: I think all every I've noticed that to be consistent
Speaker 2: with a lot of black people show up, they have
Speaker 2: a shoe booty affect to them.
Speaker 1: Here's what sa Kuon Barkley posted on X to critics
Speaker 1: of his appearance at the White House. Quote, laugh out loud.
Speaker 1: Some people are really upset because I played golf and
Speaker 1: flew to the White House with the President. Maybe I
Speaker 1: just respect the office. Not a hard concept to understand.
Speaker 1: Just golfed with Obama not too long ago, and look
Speaker 1: forward to finishing my round with Trump. Now you get
Speaker 1: out my mentions with all this politics and have an
Speaker 1: amazing day. End quote. Saquon Barkley wouldn't have been as
Speaker 1: flippant as Saquon Barkley, but I understand his underlying point.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to be bigger than that.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to in sod or castigate D. L.
Speaker 1: Hugly in any way. I think that he's a sensational
Speaker 1: comedian who's made us laugh for many many years. Kings
Speaker 1: of Comedy and this D. L. Hugly show on ABC
Speaker 1: come to mind. He's done outstanding work. Throughout the years.
Speaker 1: He is smart, he is sharp, he is thoughtful, he
Speaker 1: is conscientious, and I think overall he's a good brother.
Speaker 1: He has been critical of me in the past. I
Speaker 1: do not care. He is entitled to his opinion, and
Speaker 1: we are entitled to disagree with what we have to
Speaker 1: disagree with. But in this particular instance, I think he
Speaker 1: has to be bigger than that. Sae Kwon Barkley is
Speaker 1: a football player. The Philadelphia Eagles won the championship. Trump
Speaker 1: is somebody he's played golf with, just like former President
Speaker 1: Barack Obama is somebody he's played with. Everybody is not
Speaker 1: into politics the way somebody like a d o. Everybody
Speaker 1: is not paying attention to every policy that's put out there,
Speaker 1: every executive order that's issued, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Everybody's not doing that. Some people go about the everyday
Speaker 1: rigmarole of their lives, and to them, ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 1: Not calling Saquon ignorant in any stretch of it, by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. But to some people, ignorance
Speaker 1: is bliss. They want to go about the business of
Speaker 1: doing their everyday job because they know they have no
Speaker 1: control over the apparatus and the system that's in place,
Speaker 1: you're not going to change it. So they're not trying
Speaker 1: to live their life with everything being a protest. That's
Speaker 1: their position. We might not like it, but in the
Speaker 1: same breath, they're entitled to do so and they should
Speaker 1: be able to do so without us looking down on them.
Speaker 1: To get to DL Hughgly's points directly stigmatizing black folks
Speaker 1: saying you know who they are, you know who they are,
Speaker 1: and using that example to describe Sakwan Barakli. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying she's a gold digger, but she ain't messing with
Speaker 1: no broke. Really, that's what we're doing, because why what
Speaker 1: evidence do you have that that's how they think. I
Speaker 1: can give you a myriad of issues that affect people's thinking.
Speaker 1: Some people are about money and they think money changes everything.
Speaker 1: Some people look at politicians as just speaking and running
Speaker 1: their mouths okay and really really just you know, politicizing
Speaker 1: things and grant standing. Some people look at politicians and
Speaker 1: they say, Okay, you're willing to say one thing, but
Speaker 1: you're willing to work across the aisle and make things happen.
Speaker 1: Some people look at politicians and say, you can't believe
Speaker 1: a damn thing they say on either side of the aisle,
Speaker 1: because most of them are bought and paid for in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's eyes. People bring that stuff up
Speaker 1: all the time. Some people are more politically conscientious than
Speaker 1: others's case. Some would even describe him as an activist
Speaker 1: in this day time, and we know his positions. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump questioned Barack Obama's birthright legitimacy. Donald Trump is against
Speaker 1: black people. This is what DL Hughlely has said before.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have our interests at heart at all. Some
Speaker 1: people could turn around and look at Dial Hugly and say, well,
Speaker 1: if black folks are giving the Democratic Party eighty five
Speaker 1: to ninety percent of the vote, when do you expect
Speaker 1: the other The politician on the other side of the
Speaker 1: holly care because they're going to cater it in a
Speaker 1: constituency whoever's going to get them into elected office. But
Speaker 1: more importantly than that, let me get or rather bring
Speaker 1: this home for everybody to understand. Common sense has to
Speaker 1: kick in. When I thought about what Dil Hugley said,
Speaker 1: I thought about what he would think about me as
Speaker 1: an ambassador for HBCU week led by this wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: woman by the name of Ashley Christopher based out of Delaware.
Speaker 1: We've collaborated and assisted one another in raising nearly one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in scholarships for over twelve thousand students
Speaker 1: at HBCUs. If we're hearing reports that the federal government
Speaker 1: may diminish funds that were being allocated to HBCUs, and
Speaker 1: Trump invited somebody like myself to come to the White
Speaker 1: House and have a conversation with him, I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to do that. I'm supposed to ignore it. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to look at his position at Dee on DEI. I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to look at him closing the borders. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to look at his positions with tariffs. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: look at him trying to disband, if not eradicate the
Speaker 1: education Department. I'm supposed to look at him saying I'm
Speaker 1: not about defunding the police. I'm supposed to look at
Speaker 1: him and say, you know what, I question his vitrial
Speaker 1: towards Black Lives matter, et cetera, et cetera, And as
Speaker 1: a result, I'm supposed to not go to the White House.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to not do what I can to try
Speaker 1: to influence him in making a difference. See when I
Speaker 1: think about D. L. Hughley, and I think about this
Speaker 1: highly intelligent and accomplished brother who has a voice and
Speaker 1: who could possibly, in an all likelihood impact very formidable lives.
Speaker 1: I think about that DL Hugly and I say to myself,
Speaker 1: why would you cut off your knees this spite your face,
Speaker 1: or cut off your nose this bye your face? Why
Speaker 1: not keep an open mind? Why not leave yourself open
Speaker 1: to the possibility that you can communicate with the very
Speaker 1: people whose actions you may abhor on a political in
Speaker 1: a political spectrum, because guess what, you may have the
Speaker 1: impact to create chain and to create a difference for them.
Speaker 1: And why do I bring that up Because one of
Speaker 1: the things that I've been lamenting for a long time.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I've never met Jasmine Crockett. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking to her and having her on this show.
Speaker 1: I've never met AOC. I'm not opposed to having her
Speaker 1: on the show. Now. I don't want to interview Senator
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren because I don't want to feel like the
Speaker 1: second I disagree with her, I'm going to hell. That's
Speaker 1: my only problem with the Senator Elizabeth Warren. If you
Speaker 1: disagree with her, she makes you feel like you're going
Speaker 1: to hell, like you have no heart, no soul, no conscience.
Speaker 1: I'm not dealing with somebody like that. But if you're
Speaker 1: passionate about what you feel and where you stand, and
Speaker 1: you got facts to back it up, even with your
Speaker 1: emotions coupled with that, I'm all for listening to what
Speaker 1: you have to say. Here's my problems with the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Here's my problems with what D. L. Hewley came across.
Speaker 1: Like I've heard politicians on Capitol Hill saying, I'm here
Speaker 1: just to disagree and oppose every damn thing Trump wants
Speaker 1: to do. Well, why are you up on Capitol Hill?
Speaker 1: Ain't you supposed to be figuring out what you want
Speaker 1: to be against and what you could potentially be for.
Speaker 1: Isn't he known as a deal maker? Hasn't he been,
Speaker 1: whether it's revered or insulted, as a non politician? Hasn't
Speaker 1: he been somebody that gives you the impression if you're
Speaker 1: complimentary towards him about some things that he does, and
Speaker 1: you're willing to sit down and talk with him. He
Speaker 1: will sit up there and appease you, just the way
Speaker 1: he would ask you to appease him. If you're not
Speaker 1: willing to talk and work across the island Capitol Hill,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you up there for? So that
Speaker 1: is what came to my mind. You have to work
Speaker 1: with people. People you dislike, people you disagree with, people
Speaker 1: who you know in your core at your core, do
Speaker 1: not have you, nor your communities, nor your constituency's best
Speaker 1: interest at heart. You still have to work with them.
Speaker 1: If Cuomo wins the mayoral seat in New York City,
Speaker 1: Andrew Comol, you think he's not gonna try to work
Speaker 1: with the Trump White House. Joshapiro is the governor of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Wes Moore is the governor of Maryland. You think they're
Speaker 1: not going to try to work with Trump and his
Speaker 1: White House to get things done, even though they're gonna
Speaker 1: speak against them on certain issues. You can't have this
Speaker 1: closed door, closed minded, resolute belief that allows you the
Speaker 1: excuse to remain stagnant, therefore ineffective in doing your job.
Speaker 1: That's my issue with politicians, and I think it's important.
Speaker 1: If you're a DL hugly with a voice that resonates
Speaker 1: to many, many people. Then, no matter how you feel,
Speaker 1: you keep an open mind about the possibility of communicating,
Speaker 1: just so you can make a difference, because you never
Speaker 1: know where that difference may come from. That's all I
Speaker 1: wanted to say about that