1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,279 Speaker 1: Make sure you're telling them to watch out for Florida. 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx, and 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: all of you are adults. The Florida man at tapped 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: and atm for a very strange reason. They gave him 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: too much money. Florida man is arrested after definitely stay 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: he's riggs the board to his home and an attempt 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: to electric kid his pregnant wife. Police arrested in Orlando 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: man for talking a flamingda to breakfast club bitchy. Don't 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: hear the day with Charlam Haine, A guy I don't 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: know why y'all keep him? Get ya elected? Yes, don't 11 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: get to day for Thursday, February sixteenth goes to Patricia Vitao, 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: the owner and director of a preschool called Studio Kids 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: Little River, which is the children's daycare in Miami. Now, 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: what did your uncle Charlotte always say about the great 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: state of Florida? Say it with me, kids, The craziest 16 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Okay, 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: and yesterday I forgot to say that about Key West 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: when I gave the Key West business owner named Lloyd 19 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: Preston Brewers, the third, the biggest, he half for killing 20 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: the young man Garrett Hughes wresting piece to him peing 21 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: on his building. When I went to Q West a 22 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, to people I was with were 23 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: probably saying how they aren't like to the rest of Florida, 24 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: and they considered themselves disconnected from Florida. And I must 25 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: have believed them. Okay, but no, all of Florida is 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: going to Florida. But back to this Florida matter at hand. 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: A Studio Kids, Little River, a children's daycare that is 28 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: yet another institution that is starting to make me feel like, 29 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,279 Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we shouldn't teach racing schools. Before 30 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: I explained that thought, maybe I should tell you what 31 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: they decided to do for Black History Month. Let's go 32 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: to NBC ten Miami for the report police. It was 33 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: the exhale for me. For her, it was the audacity, anger, disbelief. 34 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: Just in twenty twenty three, is this three? I mean, 35 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: this can't be real. Courtney Politis says she's never had 36 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: a problem with Studio Kids, that Little River. That was 37 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: until a few days ago. One of my closest friends 38 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: contacts me whose sons in the class, and it's like, 39 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: you won't believe what they just did today. We're told 40 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: these photos were shared on the preschool's messaging app captured 41 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: Black History Month. We understand these kids are as young 42 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: as two in this class, dressed up like a construction worker, 43 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: a police officer, a little doctor in the background, all 44 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: of them in black face. Immediately tects the owner with 45 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: the pictures, like this is racist. She proceeds to respond 46 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: back with I'm sorry, question mark, I don't understand what's racist? 47 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: Mom says. The photos were shared on Friday, February third. 48 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: She met with the preschools director of the following Monday, 49 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: one eighty change, super apologetic and from what I understand, 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: she even told us over forty fifty families contacted her 51 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: over the weekend. What if, she said, at least one 52 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: of them with the doctor. The preschool puts some kids 53 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: in black face, and then a teacher posted the photos 54 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: on the school's messaging app. At this point, ignorance is 55 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: not an excuse for black face. Okay, the N word 56 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: in black face. Those are just two things that the 57 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: refs are gonna call every time. Okay, Actually, the tinfoil 58 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: Mitchell and Nest snapback wearing conspiracy theorists in me feels 59 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: like this has to be some type of social experiment. 60 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,839 Speaker 1: There's no way in twenty twenty three that people don't 61 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: know black face is offensive. Okay. If you can avoid 62 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: stories like this in commentary around black face and guess what, 63 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: we need you on as much jury duty as possible. Okay, 64 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to high profile cases, because you 65 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: are able to ignore the media in ways that I've 66 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: never seen. Because it's impossible to miss the fact that 67 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: blackface is offensive. Even if you don't know why it's offensive, 68 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: you know it's offensive. Okay. One of the parents named 69 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: Courtney Politis, who has a one year old that attended 70 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: this preschool. You heard what they said in the news report. 71 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: She called to say the incident was racist, and she 72 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: was asked to explain what was considered racist about black face. 73 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: This is why I can lean to not wanting race 74 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: related issues not being taught in schools. Okay. Let the 75 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: kids come to school and just learn about universal themes, 76 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: all right, teach them math that ABC's leave all race 77 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: related stuff to their parents or legal guardians. Because it's 78 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: bad enough that you put the kids in black face. 79 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: But if you're asking me to explain why it's racist, 80 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: then you clearly don't even know why you're doing it, 81 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: And that's the better question. The question that needs to 82 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: be asked isn't too apparent about whist racist? The questions 83 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: should be why did y'all choose to do it? Is 84 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: there a lesson behind it? Are you teaching the origins 85 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: of black face? Hunt? Are you letting kids know that 86 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: black face dates back to the minstrel shows in the 87 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: mid nineteenth century, that white performers dark in their skin 88 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: and wore raggy ass clothes and did things to their 89 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: face to look stereotypically black. Hunh huh? Are you telling 90 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: the kid what the minstrel show is? Well, it's a 91 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: show that mimic enslaved Africans who worked on plantations and 92 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: depicted black people is lazy, ignorant, cowardly, and hypersexual, all 93 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: to make white people chuckle. All right, black people's trauma, 94 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: white people's entertainment. That's the Black History Month lesson for 95 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: your ass. Then you can tie it into how powerful 96 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: the media and imagery is. Because minstrel shows were usually 97 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: the only depiction of black life that white audience is sought. 98 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: So if you presented enslaved Africans as jokes, it desensratized 99 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: white folks to the hearts of slavery, and it also 100 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: promoted the meaning stereotypes of black people that helped confirm 101 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: white people's notions of superiority. If y'all not teaching no 102 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: kinds of less sense about blackface, what's the point. But 103 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: guess what. I don't want my preschool and learning that 104 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's too much for him. Okay, ADCs 105 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: one two threes, Mom, dad bingo blue. Okay, that's what 106 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: I want my preschooler getting from y'all. Leave all the 107 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: race stuff to me in my house. Okay. I know 108 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis banned all the African American AP classes, 109 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: but you can ban the PreK ones too. Damn it 110 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: all right now. The owner of the preschool, Patricia Battali, 111 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: released the statement saying we wanted to let all the 112 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: parents know that we met on Friday afternoon with all 113 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: the teachers and staff. We went over several ethical and 114 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: multicultural education points. I will teach the team of class 115 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: covering all unnecessary topics regarding US history and multicultural education. Patricia, 116 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: if you have to teach your team about US history 117 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: and multicultural education is all the more reason your team 118 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,239 Speaker 1: shouldn't have had the students doing something that requires knowledge 119 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: in US history and multicultural education. But why am I 120 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: sitting here trying to make sense of the senseless, or 121 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: in this case, trying to make sense of the Florida 122 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: Please give Patricia for Tall and everybody at the studio kids, 123 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: little river, the sweet sounds of the Hamletones. Oh now 124 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: you are the doge, the day, the dogee, Oh the day. 125 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: Ye I don't know what to tell you. All right, well, 126 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: thank you for that. Donkey Today. Donkey Today is brought 127 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: to you by the law office of Michael s Lammon Saft. 128 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: Don't be a donkey. Dive pound two fifty on your 129 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: cell and say the bull. If you've been hurting a 130 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: construction accident, that's pound two five bold from your cell 131 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: and say the bull.