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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
Speaker 1: with Angela Bassett, Charlomagne yee. What excites you nowadays? Creatively?
Speaker 1: M directing Very excited about that. So we'll see the stage.
Speaker 1: You know, every time I come to New York, like
Speaker 1: last night, I was you know, yesterday I was in
Speaker 1: the theater with it was Wednesday, so I got check
Speaker 1: out two shows. You know what we're saying those tickets
Speaker 1: right now because of Corona empty Scott Root show like
Speaker 1: every show on Broadway but his shows. So actually going
Speaker 1: to see West Story to night saw sold your Story
Speaker 1: last night on Broadway? I saw I saw that in
Speaker 1: on Broadway and in London. And what did I see?
Speaker 1: I saw uh intimate apparel, which is you know now
Speaker 1: an opera ful knowledge so Blair David Allen Greer last night.
Speaker 1: So you're not scared to go there? Do you bring
Speaker 1: your wipe? Do you wipe down the chairs? See the
Speaker 1: wood seats? How long stay on fabric on seats? Did I?
Speaker 1: I think I did a little squirt in the hand.
Speaker 1: That's it. And just keep my hands to myself, my
Speaker 1: arms to myself. Are there scared? I love theater two one.
Speaker 1: Are there any movies that you've done in the past
Speaker 1: that you would like to recreate today? As we see
Speaker 1: people recreating or doing part twos? And well I hear that,
Speaker 1: um they're bringing actually um waiting to excel the Broadway. Listen.
Speaker 1: That's amazing because between the soundtrack and the story and
Speaker 1: the plot, I could probably resete that movie where for
Speaker 1: word take get chill and get out. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's come. It'll be it'll be nice to see that.
Speaker 1: How would it like to shed that character afterward? Like,
Speaker 1: because that has to make you feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: how you bring a piece of your character home with
Speaker 1: you afterward? What was it like to live with that
Speaker 1: one too much? I live more with Tina, I think,
Speaker 1: don't you. I mean trying to learn the songs and
Speaker 1: then she inhaling or exhaling, so you you just really
Speaker 1: had to and to laugh and when she spoke, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get bits of that. So that wouldn't seem
Speaker 1: a couple of months after like you know, laughing like her,
Speaker 1: talking like her kind of strange, but not as much
Speaker 1: for for exhale because maybe because it wasn't based on
Speaker 1: real life, so it's a character I came up with
Speaker 1: or whatever, right, but it was it was cathartic, It
Speaker 1: was nice. Nobody's clothes or anything. No, I didn't although
Speaker 1: some folks didn't do that. Yeah two before never never,
Speaker 1: When you watch What's Love Had to Do It on Broadway?
Speaker 1: Does that is that triggering at all? You know? You
Speaker 1: think you will see something brand new, You're sitting in
Speaker 1: the theater and it was like, oh, that's familiar, that's familiar.
Speaker 1: So it was it was it was an odd experience
Speaker 1: because I think I literally thought I was gonna see
Speaker 1: a different story and then then her life. But her
Speaker 1: life is her life and we covered in the movie.
Speaker 1: So it was interesting. Deja vu, right, very interesting Tina
Speaker 1: and umbro way too. I was like, how was she
Speaker 1: running up and down the stree. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw her backstage in London. It was like, didn't
Speaker 1: expect the reaction. We were both like just crying, just
Speaker 1: just like you know, because when you play that role, right,
Speaker 1: like you talk about the mannerisms of Tina, but you
Speaker 1: had to embody that trauma of abuse as well, so
Speaker 1: that that had be hard to get up right right. Maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was especially like the uh, you know the scene,
Speaker 1: the uh the rape scene, you know, the aquarium and
Speaker 1: stuff and or him fighting and dragging you down the hall.
Speaker 1: But it was good to have, um colleague, to have
Speaker 1: that with someone you trust them speaking Lawrence, you know,
Speaker 1: to go through that because you know he really's got you,
Speaker 1: you know, got you emotionally, um and just actor to
Speaker 1: actor because the hours were long. It was extremely physical.
Speaker 1: You actually hurt for thirty straight days, you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, if you're not dancing, your lifting weight so
Speaker 1: elactic acid build up for thirty straight days something. Everything hurt.
Speaker 1: But you had to, you know, go on. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us, Thank you for having
Speaker 1: me back. That's right, Angela Bassett, it's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Go morning, it's topic time. The phone called eight hundred
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Speaker 1: everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we
Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club. Now, this jerk I work with
Speaker 1: is trying to tell people out there that Santa is
Speaker 1: not real. Well, listen, here's the thing. Ps. Three twenty one.
Speaker 1: In Brooklyn, they fired a substitute teacher because he told
Speaker 1: the students in the class that Santa Claus and the
Speaker 1: tooth Fairy is not real. Like this is when you know,
Speaker 1: lies go too far, Like you're gonna fire the man
Speaker 1: for telling the truth. I like, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with you know, you wanting to
Speaker 1: teach your kids to just lie you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: But don't fire the man because he told them the truth.
Speaker 1: What's the point? Well, and one of the benefits of
Speaker 1: telling your kids about Santa Claus. I'm sure there's some
Speaker 1: parents out there that the kids believe in Santa and
Speaker 1: he just ruined their world. What great was this again?
Speaker 1: Sixth grade? Yeah, I'm sure he just ruined their world.
Speaker 1: Now do my kids believe in Santa? Yes, they do,
Speaker 1: absolutely positively. Well, what's the benefits it? I love that
Speaker 1: kids look forward to something, they look forward to getting gifts,
Speaker 1: being good, making cookies, baking cookies as a family, decorating
Speaker 1: the tree, and all the things that come with Santa
Speaker 1: and Christmas. And also for a lot of parents out there,
Speaker 1: this is a good way to make your kid right,
Speaker 1: you know around I say, I told what December they
Speaker 1: start acting up? Oh, you will get from Santa. You better.
Speaker 1: You know how Santa always sees who lordy and nice
Speaker 1: kids act straight immediately. I love it. I think it's fun. Okay,
Speaker 1: check this out. A little chat a little Tyrone and
Speaker 1: class Chad. Parents got more money than a little Tyrone.
Speaker 1: Tyrone and Chad both right out there that Christmas list
Speaker 1: to this Santa guy. Correct, all right, Chad gets everything
Speaker 1: he wants. Lord Tyrone don't get nothing but some socks.
Speaker 1: How do you explain to little Tyrone that Santa bought
Speaker 1: little Chad everything he wanted, but didn't bring you what
Speaker 1: you wanted? Tyrone, Tyrone, good old yea, Lord, what I'm
Speaker 1: saying exactly that dumbness, that dumbness question, that dumbness you're
Speaker 1: asking the question that's the stupid like, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you explain that? How do you explain that
Speaker 1: Santa bought you what you wanted but didn't bring this
Speaker 1: other little kid what he wanted. Well, you know, Tyrone,
Speaker 1: Santa's helping a lot of kids that don't have this year.
Speaker 1: And since you're a good kid and you understand, he's
Speaker 1: helping those kids that might not understand little Tyrone. Little Tyrone,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those kids that ain't got nothing. Ever, Okay,
Speaker 1: what a lottle Tyrone run on his list? Santa. I
Speaker 1: want you to get my daddy a job for Christmas. Huh, Hey, Santa,
Speaker 1: I want you to help my mama through her team
Speaker 1: over for Christmas. Oh, Santa grants alwayshes though this is
Speaker 1: all just you always get to use just the big
Speaker 1: fact a Laddin. He could do whatever he wants. Well
Speaker 1: for those situations, Little Tyrone, you gotta ask God. See
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Who God? Listen? Ain't none of these
Speaker 1: coming through? Not God, not Santa? And now what Lord
Speaker 1: Tyrone do? But angry as hell? He mad as hell? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I gotta stop this. I don't
Speaker 1: know what. But my kids believe in Santa and I
Speaker 1: love their face. I love the experience Christmas Eve. Every
Speaker 1: year we ring the doorbelt, my kids run to the door,
Speaker 1: the gifts outside. They think that Santa dropped up some
Speaker 1: gifts and coming back. Are you gonna make season? Dress
Speaker 1: up in the Santa Claus? Shut up, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: messed with you. Let's go to the phone line. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this Hey? What's uping man? We're talking about the
Speaker 1: benefits of parents talking about Santa. When my kids were
Speaker 1: very young, I allowed them to believe that Santa Claus
Speaker 1: was real. Yes, I I went along with the story
Speaker 1: and I and the true story is I believe that
Speaker 1: Santa Claus was real. When I was young, me too,
Speaker 1: But it's got older. I let them discover on their
Speaker 1: own that myth or that you know there was a
Speaker 1: purpose to that, which is, you know, the challenge reality,
Speaker 1: but not for me to destroy their dreams by there
Speaker 1: you go. There they're doing. They're thinking, yep, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Thank you. Bro. Hello, who's this Reggie? Hey
Speaker 1: we're talking about Santa Bro. Yeah, I know that. But
Speaker 1: then you're sitting up there saying, don't teach your kids
Speaker 1: about Santa and two fairies. But do you teach your
Speaker 1: kids there's no gods? No, I don't teach my kids.
Speaker 1: There's no God. You know what I mean. You're wrong.
Speaker 1: Why would I teach my kids? There's no God. There's
Speaker 1: much more proof that God. There's much more proof that
Speaker 1: God exists as opposed to Santa clause, where's the proof
Speaker 1: of gods? Uh? This planet that that we're on in
Speaker 1: the middle of the sky that's rotate, these trees that
Speaker 1: are growing up out of the ground, these birds that
Speaker 1: are flying in the sky. Hey, this thing you got
Speaker 1: called a body? Okay? No, no, okay, who made it? Then?
Speaker 1: Santa man? The universe is made by itself, Okay, no
Speaker 1: doubt asteroids and everything, damn your history, bro, No doubt
Speaker 1: the universe is made by itself. But there's not a
Speaker 1: baby on this planet. There's not a baby on this
Speaker 1: planet that's made by itself. See, it's still got you
Speaker 1: still gotta take your pietas and put it out of
Speaker 1: the woman and procreate. Something created those children, something created
Speaker 1: this world. But but all that, But I believe in Santa,
Speaker 1: and Santa does exist, and so does the tooth fairy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Megan, Good morning. What are the benefits of
Speaker 1: parents of telling kids about Santa Um the appreciation that
Speaker 1: comes from the kids when they realized that their parents
Speaker 1: were really Santa all those years? And do your kids
Speaker 1: believe in Santa? I have one that doesn't, one that doesn't. Okay,
Speaker 1: how does that work? A house divided cannot stand? How
Speaker 1: does that work? Well? I have a ten year old
Speaker 1: in the five year old and once my ten year
Speaker 1: old sound up, he wasn't real. I just made sure
Speaker 1: that she didn't tell her little sister. So her little sister,
Speaker 1: because how did it ten? Ye'll find out It was
Speaker 1: that one year he didn't get what he wanted. Huh Um,
Speaker 1: kids in school, I'm sure other kids, Yeah, And I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna lie to her. But you know, all
Speaker 1: those years, she never asked me, So I never told her. Okay,
Speaker 1: how can caw can parents that he would never lie
Speaker 1: to their kids, But you've been lying to him about
Speaker 1: standing believe life. You know, my son found the elf
Speaker 1: on the shelf this weekend and picked it up. It
Speaker 1: was so mad because if you touch the elf on
Speaker 1: the shelf and loses his magical powers. And he was
Speaker 1: so upset and crying and my daughter had to google
Speaker 1: and if you put centimon around the elf on the shelf,
Speaker 1: he gets his magical powers back. Yeah, I didn't know that,
Speaker 1: but saying it, why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 1: I think that the daddy, instead of sentiment, is putting
Speaker 1: a little white powder called colcine on the table somewhere
Speaker 1: and he's sniffing it. Because you sound crazy right now?
Speaker 1: All right, well, okay, forget you, Diane. Yeah, how are you?
Speaker 1: How are you? We're talking about saying the okay, yes,
Speaker 1: you know what. Thank you very much for what you did,
Speaker 1: because when I went through my divorce and I had
Speaker 1: my sons, I straight up told them there is no
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. In fact, you better pray to Jesus that
Speaker 1: you get what you want, because I am the real
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Right. I had to print my baby boy though,
Speaker 1: because about that time he was in kindergarten. But I
Speaker 1: sat him down, told them what was going on. You
Speaker 1: can make your list, but I want you to pray
Speaker 1: to God because I am the real Santa Claus. But
Speaker 1: I told him I can't know what you can't do
Speaker 1: to go to school and tell you look, kindergarten friends,
Speaker 1: there's no Santa Claus because you might upset some children
Speaker 1: in the classroom. And I don't want to teach your
Speaker 1: calling me. But in the meantime and in clean time, no,
Speaker 1: I'm the real Santa I told my mother. I said,
Speaker 1: as a single parent, I said, this is very stressful,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling my kids the truth. Of course, she
Speaker 1: thought it was horrible as a financial thing for you
Speaker 1: if you have been in the financial thing. For everybody,
Speaker 1: it's a believing thing. They got him, all right, Well, listen,
Speaker 1: all you poor kids out there. I want y'all to
Speaker 1: believe that y'all gonna get that Xbox this Christmas, and
Speaker 1: when you don't get it, I want y'all to still
Speaker 1: believe by sitting in front of a TV if you
Speaker 1: got one, playing imaginary Xbox imaginary call of duty. Bun's
Speaker 1: your little kids like this point in the TV what
Speaker 1: they fingered? Stop you, man, It's crue to teach kids
Speaker 1: about Santa Claus if you can't afford to be Santa,
Speaker 1: and you got this kid expecting all this stuff on
Speaker 1: this list, knowing you can't afford it, but you're still
Speaker 1: telling them about Santa. You are checking your kids up
Speaker 1: for failure and you're doing them a grave dis service.
Speaker 1: That'd be good. I believe in Santa. I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1: How do you tell a little poor kid that they
Speaker 1: didn't get what they want on they list? For this
Speaker 1: little boy sitting right next to them in class got
Speaker 1: everything you wanted just because his parents doing a little
Speaker 1: bit better in life. How? How that's not fair? Life?
Speaker 1: Stop fair? You know? Well, you know, I bet you did.
Speaker 1: It's a black Sand, it's a white Santa. If the
Speaker 1: white Sander bring you everything you want, black Sand always
Speaker 1: let you down. The black Santa looks like your daddy
Speaker 1: looking at the bit. All right, we got more all
Speaker 1: coming up next with a breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne, the guy we
Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We got a special guests in
Speaker 1: the buildings. Indeed, Bishop the Drip Jakes, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something. There's nobody I would rather talk to this
Speaker 1: morning other than you. Thank you, like like like hearts
Speaker 1: are heavy? You know why the tragic acts accident that
Speaker 1: happened to mister Kobe Bryant, his daughter and all the
Speaker 1: other folks on the plane. Hell, how do you make
Speaker 1: the helicopter? How do you make sense of that? Like?
Speaker 1: How could that have been God's plan? You don't make
Speaker 1: sense of it. You endure it, you survive it, you grieve,
Speaker 1: you go through the process. I think where we get
Speaker 1: in trouble it's when we try to explain and understand
Speaker 1: things that are unexplainable. Right now, we got to survive
Speaker 1: it because our whole nation has taken a blow. The
Speaker 1: family and particular sports fans, other athletes are are grieving
Speaker 1: right now. And I think that to try to explain
Speaker 1: something like you know more than you know, we don't know.
Speaker 1: They're still investigating what happened, whether it's human error or
Speaker 1: whether it was the weather or the climate, all of
Speaker 1: those play a factor, and that we look for somebody
Speaker 1: to blame. How could God allow that to happen? Or
Speaker 1: this or that or the other? But right now, tragic
Speaker 1: things happen in life every day. But this is a
Speaker 1: person that we knew and loved and a part of
Speaker 1: our community. It's okay to be sad, It's okay to grieve,
Speaker 1: It's okay to go through those range of emotions anger
Speaker 1: and being upset and what have you. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're in a survival mode right now. Now,
Speaker 1: what do you tell somebody who's on a fence with
Speaker 1: religion and believing and they see something like this and
Speaker 1: they say, wow, you know, he had a thirteen year
Speaker 1: old that died, and there was other tweens on that
Speaker 1: plane that died. What do you tell that person for
Speaker 1: faith and how they can continue to believe? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it is your faith that gets you through those
Speaker 1: unexplainable moments. And I think you'll have to realize it's
Speaker 1: terrible and as tragic as it was. We're grateful his
Speaker 1: wife wasn't on board. We're grateful the whole family wasn't
Speaker 1: on board. I look for things that are positive in
Speaker 1: the midst of the pain. Not denying the pain, but
Speaker 1: I look for things that are positive. As for trying
Speaker 1: to get somebody to believe who doesn't believe you, really,
Speaker 1: you really can't do that because God can't be explaining.
Speaker 1: He must be revealed and you have to have an
Speaker 1: open heart to allow that to happen in your life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you believe God does everything for a reason,
Speaker 1: you can't only believe that when the positive things happen, right, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because many times the positive things come out of the
Speaker 1: most horrific things in our lives. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at your own life. Sometimes the worst tragedies brought you
Speaker 1: into an awareness or sensibility over years that if this
Speaker 1: hadn't happened, that hadn't happened, Time will judge the validity
Speaker 1: of the situation. Right now, we have to endure, and
Speaker 1: you still have to lift up the family members of
Speaker 1: who have lost somebody right now, and the daughters and
Speaker 1: his wife and all the family members of the other
Speaker 1: people who are on the helicopter too, and they lost
Speaker 1: somebody completely different from who we know. When you're famous,
Speaker 1: people know you from what you do, but your family
Speaker 1: knows you from who you are, and it's a much
Speaker 1: deeper loss. It's a it's a greater kind of pain,
Speaker 1: and it's very difficult to get through. I listen to
Speaker 1: a sermon you gave on us at Timber twenty second
Speaker 1: title keep it Moving, and it almost seems like keeping
Speaker 1: it moving after death seems insensitive. So how do you
Speaker 1: keep it moving? You have to keep it moving because
Speaker 1: life keeps moving, because bills keep moving, because illnesses keep moving,
Speaker 1: threats keep moving, problems don't stop because you're in pain,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes the therapy is in keeping it moving.
Speaker 1: But of course when you're the family, you have to
Speaker 1: shut down for a minute and breathe and recalibrate. And
Speaker 1: it may be over the next two years or twenty
Speaker 1: years that you feel that pain. My mother died in
Speaker 1: ninety nine, and if I think about it hard now,
Speaker 1: I'll get emotional. I mean because and I don't even
Speaker 1: want that to go away. I don't even want that
Speaker 1: to go away. Because sometimes the sadness validates the value
Speaker 1: of what you lost. Explain that a little more. With
Speaker 1: the sadness, the sadness, the greater the sadness, it's an
Speaker 1: indication that the greater the love. Some people don't feel
Speaker 1: sadness because they don't feel love. Then if you're a
Speaker 1: great lover. You have great pain when people leave your life,
Speaker 1: and to the degree that we miss and we feel
Speaker 1: that pain, and that pain in many ways is a
Speaker 1: tribute to the significance of that individual in your life.
Speaker 1: Are there times that you question your own faith? And
Speaker 1: is that a common thing for people to do, to
Speaker 1: just question. I used to answer that question and say no,
Speaker 1: and then I went through something in said you, and
Speaker 1: I have to say yes. I have gone through those
Speaker 1: moments where I was in grief and wondered, you know,
Speaker 1: why did you allow this to happen. I was a
Speaker 1: little bit angry with God. I healed, I got over it,
Speaker 1: I was okay. But I have had those moments of challenge.
Speaker 1: We have to remember that faith does not mean the
Speaker 1: absence of doubt. Faith and doubt cohabitated in the same space.
Speaker 1: And to be completely honest about it, that faith is
Speaker 1: something we believe, but what we like to do is no,
Speaker 1: and you cannot know. You have to believed. That's the
Speaker 1: whole premise of being a believer is to believe that
Speaker 1: which you cannot see. And you have to do that
Speaker 1: in the presence of voices of doubt who are telling
Speaker 1: you it's not worth it. It's just like going to work.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to go, but there's another voice
Speaker 1: says you got to go, and you're conflicted, and yet
Speaker 1: you keep it moving. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: times people are trying to get out of the conflict.
Speaker 1: But the conflict is a part of life, and we're
Speaker 1: all conflicted from time to time, and yet we find
Speaker 1: a way to keep it moving. That's right. There was
Speaker 1: a time you said you thought about leaving the ministry. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've absolutely been there and went through when I first
Speaker 1: got in, especially national International ministry. All the things that
Speaker 1: come along with that are hard to manage, notoriety, interviews, bloggers,
Speaker 1: or lastly reports. Mine was the Washington Post article and
Speaker 1: I wasn't used to that, and I come from West Virginia.
Speaker 1: I'm a country boy, and I thought, I don't I
Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this. I don't need that. But
Speaker 1: the reality is this one woman came into a book
Speaker 1: signing and changed my life. She had just gotten out
Speaker 1: the hospital. She'd had a tubal pregnancy and the baby
Speaker 1: was dead and she was living with a dead body
Speaker 1: body inside of her, so it almost killed her. She
Speaker 1: was very weak. She got out of the hospital against
Speaker 1: the doctor's request and came to me as if she
Speaker 1: knew what I was thinking, and said, it's for us
Speaker 1: that you do it, it's not for them. And when
Speaker 1: you go through moments of challenge and pain, you have
Speaker 1: to find purpose, and sometimes you forget why you do
Speaker 1: what you do and why you must endure or what
Speaker 1: you endure it. And she she moved me like in
Speaker 1: a major way. If it wasn't for that woman coming
Speaker 1: in that day and talking to me, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would have been in ministry. Now we'll do.
Speaker 1: The righteous always have to suffer. Everybody sufferers. Everybody sufferers.
Speaker 1: The emblem of Christianity is across. That's a big warning
Speaker 1: that if God's spirit not his son, He's not going
Speaker 1: to you. Everybody goes through suffering, no matter how rich
Speaker 1: ye are, no matter how poor year are, no matter
Speaker 1: how famous you are, no matter whether you're homeless or
Speaker 1: living in a mansion. We were all born and we
Speaker 1: are all going to die. Yeah, death is not discriminated
Speaker 1: at all. It does not discriminated. Would you want to know,
Speaker 1: because that's what we were talking about that this morning.
Speaker 1: I was saying that it's yesterday morning. It was the
Speaker 1: unexpectedness of death. I think that would you would you
Speaker 1: want to know? No? I wouldn't want to know. No.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to know. Some people feel differently about it,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't want to know. I wanted to surprise me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live waiting on a date to leave.
Speaker 1: I want to live every day to the fullest, not
Speaker 1: with the cloud hanging over my head about a date
Speaker 1: that could be twenty years off, for thirty years off,
Speaker 1: and then to adjust my life to dying. I'd rather
Speaker 1: build my life around living and let death find me
Speaker 1: whenever it does. All right, we got more with Bishop
Speaker 1: td Jakes. When we come back, don't move. It's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy angela
Speaker 1: Ye Charlomne the god we all the Breakfast Club was
Speaker 1: still kicking it with Bishop td Jakes. What are your
Speaker 1: feelings towards suicide? Because you hear so many different things
Speaker 1: with suicide. If you're suicide, you'll never make it to heaven.
Speaker 1: If you're suicide, God to look at you. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on suicide or so many kids are the
Speaker 1: first thing that popped into my mind when you said
Speaker 1: that it's not whether you go to heaven or not.
Speaker 1: I think we should work harder to stop suicide. I
Speaker 1: think that suicide is epidemic, particularly Amongst African American young people,
Speaker 1: in a way that's reprehensible. One of the reasons that
Speaker 1: I started the foundation that we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: is because of mental health. And mental health is a
Speaker 1: huge issue in our community. And I think you have
Speaker 1: to understand that a lot of people who take their life,
Speaker 1: they really didn't take their life. The sickness did. So
Speaker 1: the person who we say committed suicide is as much
Speaker 1: a victim as if they were a victim of a homicide.
Speaker 1: Because if you have emotional mental health issues, it affects
Speaker 1: your decisions and your judgment and your view of life.
Speaker 1: So to judge that who, I'm not God, so where
Speaker 1: they spend eternity? You, I'm not God. But I do
Speaker 1: think that the person is a victim, and I would
Speaker 1: think that if you're a victim, we just believe that
Speaker 1: they're in a better place. You wanted the first. You know,
Speaker 1: people are the cloth that actually embraced you know, therapy
Speaker 1: and you know, telling people to go out then you know,
Speaker 1: get help for them. Mental health because a lot of
Speaker 1: times we tell a lot of people take it to
Speaker 1: the church, just pray about just pray about it, and
Speaker 1: we don't treat it like it's a sickness. We treat
Speaker 1: it like it's a spiritual issue and it's a health issue.
Speaker 1: And I think you'll have to differentiate one from another. Sure,
Speaker 1: you're going to pray, but you also do everything you
Speaker 1: can do to be at the best that you can be.
Speaker 1: And I do think that prayers are beauty, but it
Speaker 1: is not enough for a lot of people who have
Speaker 1: serious trauma that they've endured and they need to be
Speaker 1: able to talk, they need to be able to heal,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they have chemical imbalances. It causes them to
Speaker 1: be where they are. I got to teach her that says,
Speaker 1: I go to therapy and I pray, absolutely, do it all. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I take blood pressure medicry to pray over it every day.
Speaker 1: Pray it works, and let it works. Jesus, you are
Speaker 1: not planning to launch on online Jake's Divinity School That yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has launched. It's up and running. It's everything that
Speaker 1: I'm doing now is about training the next generations. It's
Speaker 1: empowering them to accomplish their dreams to reach their goals.
Speaker 1: I'm leveraging my relationships and academics, and I'm levering my
Speaker 1: relationships with corporate America to create a pipeline because a
Speaker 1: lot of us, the only pipeline we have to the
Speaker 1: world we want to be is the one we see
Speaker 1: on TV. But you'll never watch TV long enough to
Speaker 1: get there. So we have to stop watching our dreams
Speaker 1: and start creating a pathway where we can facilitate our dreams.
Speaker 1: I see more and more young people coming to church.
Speaker 1: Now we see that more or is it slowing down
Speaker 1: a little bit? You know, that's a that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I think it varies from church to church and from
Speaker 1: region to region. I see a lot of young people
Speaker 1: who are really interested in faith. Many of them are
Speaker 1: coming to church. My demos are swinging younger and younger.
Speaker 1: Fifty percent of my church it's millennials. So I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a huge interest in young people coming to church. But
Speaker 1: I also am seeing a deterioration of attendance because a
Speaker 1: lot of young people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: you want to watch what you want to watch it.
Speaker 1: So we stream twenty four hours a day. We scream
Speaker 1: all week long because young people stay up at night
Speaker 1: and I often sleep late in the morning. Nothing like
Speaker 1: what doing your lundry, watching Bishop TV see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: or working out in the gym, Yeah, but I do.
Speaker 1: I mean I ride in the morning. I put one
Speaker 1: of your stormers on. Whether this from YouTube or was
Speaker 1: it the podcast? That's how I consume it. But I've
Speaker 1: been to part of house as well. Yes, your head,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like being a part of house. It's different.
Speaker 1: It is different being there from watching it on TV.
Speaker 1: You can get a perception on TV. But I think
Speaker 1: when I was here before, I talked about the difference
Speaker 1: between a picture and an ultrasound. When you actually go
Speaker 1: in it, you see it from a whole different perspective
Speaker 1: than when you're avoid your own louse. I feel like
Speaker 1: a college basketball game, I'm saying. It had that kind
Speaker 1: of energy, like it feels like a college basketball game.
Speaker 1: Any impact from Kanye doing what he's been doing with
Speaker 1: his Sunday services, you know something, I'm thrill anybody who's
Speaker 1: out there who's doing something positive to help change the world,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled about it. I just hope that while he's
Speaker 1: busy doing that that somebody's taking care of him, because
Speaker 1: the problem with being talented and being gifted and being
Speaker 1: good in intention, and sometimes people are so excited about
Speaker 1: your gift that they take your gift and leave you behind.
Speaker 1: And I think it's very very important for him in
Speaker 1: order to remain stable and remain functional, that he's not
Speaker 1: so busy giving to us that nobody's giving to him.
Speaker 1: But I've seen the music. The music is hot. I've
Speaker 1: seen his performances. I think it's absolutely wonderful. But I
Speaker 1: want somebody There's a scripture in the Bible says no
Speaker 1: man cared for my soul. I want us to care
Speaker 1: for his soul as much as we care for his music.
Speaker 1: Would hold I would definitely consider doing something like that.
Speaker 1: My focus, however, is everybody's hosting him, who's pastoring him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying. And sometimes I don't want
Speaker 1: to be seen as a gig. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be seen as an opportunity. I want to be an
Speaker 1: year sometimes for people who don't have anybody to talk to.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to be in the crowd that
Speaker 1: reaching after him, trying to snatch his gift. I want
Speaker 1: to be the guy who's sitting over in the corner saying, hey,
Speaker 1: are you okay? How are you balanced? How are you emotionally?
Speaker 1: How are you mentally? Because we are seeing too many
Speaker 1: of our artists drift away, be killed, commit suicide. Nobody
Speaker 1: was investing into that mental right, well right, and you
Speaker 1: need somebody around you who doesn't just want you for
Speaker 1: what you do, to say are you okay? Think of
Speaker 1: the culture shock it is to go from being in
Speaker 1: the hood one moment to being a celebrity next moment,
Speaker 1: with no training, no preparation, no therapy, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you step into this world and you can't
Speaker 1: get out. Once you're famous, you can never be anonymous.
Speaker 1: So your success can become your prison. And so if
Speaker 1: you're going to realize that, and you're going to recognize that,
Speaker 1: we have to in our community have to be slow
Speaker 1: to join the bandwagon of stoning people who got into trouble.
Speaker 1: We have to be more on the side of the
Speaker 1: ambulance who rushes to the scene of the crime to
Speaker 1: see what we can do, because we are hurting too.
Speaker 1: We know that you are hurting, and we know how
Speaker 1: to speak the kind of language to get you back
Speaker 1: up one. I like to reduce people to their mistakes
Speaker 1: a lot of time, absolutely, absolutely, while we make our own.
Speaker 1: And so we're all trying to figure out life. In
Speaker 1: the moment you figure it out, it changes. You go
Speaker 1: through stages at different ages, and different ages bring on
Speaker 1: different challenges, and nobody gets it right every turn, because
Speaker 1: every turn is a new experience and you're back to
Speaker 1: one again and you're learning again. As soon as you
Speaker 1: get used to having little kids, they're not little kids.
Speaker 1: As soon as you get used to having teenagers, they've
Speaker 1: left the house. And everything keeps changing on us all
Speaker 1: the time. So you never get to be a master
Speaker 1: at your life because of courses keep changing. You know,
Speaker 1: a ball winning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Bishop TD Jakes. When young people come to church,
Speaker 1: what are they looking for? You know, when my grandmother
Speaker 1: went to church, you wanted to hope, She wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that her family was okay, and she had
Speaker 1: an opportunity. So what are people coming to church for now?
Speaker 1: Because it's different now my kids are online. They look
Speaker 1: for certain things they have more questions and require more answers.
Speaker 1: So what are people looking for now when they come
Speaker 1: to church? You know, I think it varies from person
Speaker 1: to person. I think hope has a factor degree and
Speaker 1: it like we're bleeding right now, we're talking about Kobe
Speaker 1: right now. It reminds us of how the brevity of life.
Speaker 1: It reminds us that we don't take time for ourselves.
Speaker 1: It reminds us that there is a life after this life.
Speaker 1: And so people start to think about faith differently. But
Speaker 1: I also think that people come to the Black Church
Speaker 1: differently than they do for other people who come to church.
Speaker 1: They look for our leaders to be involved in the
Speaker 1: community in some way. They look for our levels of
Speaker 1: quantifiable results. How does this help me right now? In
Speaker 1: the here and now, not the sweet by and by inspiration?
Speaker 1: The inspiration. And there's one other thing I want to
Speaker 1: bring up. They call these people to come to church.
Speaker 1: If you come to church consistently, church becomes a family.
Speaker 1: And for many of us, that's something we didn't have.
Speaker 1: Right I learned sometimes it's not so much about pastoring
Speaker 1: our young man, it's about fathering them. I got a
Speaker 1: few more questions. How long can you go without tipping
Speaker 1: the water. Even when I watch you sermons, never been
Speaker 1: answer that question. Incidentally, I don't know. I can go
Speaker 1: a pretty good way. I don't think to go for
Speaker 1: the water. Yeah, when I get to speaking or teaching,
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm thinking about is what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: We had a discussion the other day about when you
Speaker 1: go in the confessional, right if they have a responsibility
Speaker 1: when say, someone commits a crime and they go and
Speaker 1: confess that. Now, if someone comes to you and they
Speaker 1: does something, and they've done something illegal and they tell
Speaker 1: you that, is that something that you feel a responsibility
Speaker 1: to report to the authorities or is that something that
Speaker 1: becomes this was a confidential conversation. Well, you have the
Speaker 1: same kind of privilege, said an attorney does when somebody
Speaker 1: comes and discloses something to you. And that's important because
Speaker 1: nobody's going to come talk to you about something if
Speaker 1: they feel like they're going to get reported. There are
Speaker 1: some exceptions to that. However, when it comes to child abuse,
Speaker 1: you are legally required that if you know it, you
Speaker 1: absolutely have to report it. There are other issues that
Speaker 1: are kind of on the borderline where you have to
Speaker 1: use your best judgment, but it has to be serious
Speaker 1: for you to violate the confidential learder, Like I said,
Speaker 1: if I came in to you sad, I'm gonna shoot
Speaker 1: Charlamagne tomorrow. That's serious. And the very fact, the very
Speaker 1: God wouldn't like that exactly, the very fact that it's
Speaker 1: that it is, and I'm going to I have an
Speaker 1: obligation to prevent that from But if it was already done, yeah,
Speaker 1: then that's what and how long ago was it done?
Speaker 1: And what can be accomplished by exposing that? It's a
Speaker 1: judgment called Have you ever had to do that? I've
Speaker 1: done everything well and sometimes I have claimed my privilege
Speaker 1: as a clergyman not to testify in a trial. And
Speaker 1: that privilege is only held up in court if it
Speaker 1: is just you and me in the room. If one
Speaker 1: other person is in the room, or if somebody else
Speaker 1: was on the phone, it violates. I didn't lose that
Speaker 1: privilege and that ability not to speak about the issue.
Speaker 1: I heard you on over Super Soul Conversations to your
Speaker 1: latest one to transform your life, and you spoke about
Speaker 1: how to use transformational thinking and moving beyond your limiting belief?
Speaker 1: What does that look like to you? You know, everything
Speaker 1: is about a change of mind. If I change your
Speaker 1: economics status, but I don't change your mentality, your status
Speaker 1: will fall back down to your mindset. Every change, weight, loss, health, changes,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, starts in the way you think. And
Speaker 1: until you begin to deal with the story you tell
Speaker 1: yourself and are willing to challenge your own truth, you
Speaker 1: can't really help a person to move forward when they
Speaker 1: hold to their old story. Well what about when you're
Speaker 1: not ready for that transformation? Because I was thinking this morning,
Speaker 1: how can transformational thinking help you in matters of grief?
Speaker 1: Because when you look at a situation like you know,
Speaker 1: the Brian family, her whole life has been transformed and
Speaker 1: she has to change the way she thinks moving forward.
Speaker 1: But she didn't ask for that. No, you didn't ask
Speaker 1: for it. Nobody wants that sort of thing to happen,
Speaker 1: and it takes time. You don't change your mind overnight
Speaker 1: about anything, whether it's a tragedy or whether it's a
Speaker 1: decision to go back to school. They're the feeling of misplacement.
Speaker 1: Anytime there's a change, a big change in your life,
Speaker 1: and give yourself time to adapt to that change and
Speaker 1: accept that change and then figure out who am I now?
Speaker 1: Without Kobe in my life? Who am I now? Without
Speaker 1: this job? You can have a new year all you
Speaker 1: want to, but until you have a new youth, having
Speaker 1: a new year doesn't matter. I want to tell you too,
Speaker 1: I finally got the worthy man. Really. It hit me
Speaker 1: over the holidays, but I honestly just felt worthy of existing.
Speaker 1: It really did. Yeah, I remember that conversation we had.
Speaker 1: Getting to worthy is difficult when you have been abused
Speaker 1: or traumatized, or be a little degraded, or have some
Speaker 1: issues in your past where you and if you don't
Speaker 1: get to worthy, you self sabotage. You can self sabotage
Speaker 1: opportunities because you say you want them, but then you
Speaker 1: sabotage them because you really don't feel worthy of them.
Speaker 1: The hardest thing in the world is to love somebody
Speaker 1: who doesn't love themselves, because they will reject your love.
Speaker 1: They'll cancel it out every time because they don't feel
Speaker 1: worthy of being loved. I don't believe that you could
Speaker 1: love me because I don't love me, so how could
Speaker 1: you love me? And that happens more times than not
Speaker 1: in relationships, in life and in business. And when I
Speaker 1: challenge you to get to worthy, it is getting to
Speaker 1: the place that you accept the good things that God
Speaker 1: has done in your life and settling as them being
Speaker 1: your reality rather than living the trauma of where you
Speaker 1: came from. Absolutely, well, we appreciate you for joining us
Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah, and he's got the International Leadership Summit
Speaker 1: in Charlotte April thirty of the May second. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna invite you right on the hear pulling up.
Speaker 1: I will really, man, I'm pulling up already, had pretty
Speaker 1: you don't make me crowd to you show. I'm seriously
Speaker 1: enough if you would come, that would mean everything to
Speaker 1: me because when I'm this is the most amazing event
Speaker 1: I'm bringing together. I've got Denzel Washington coming, I've got
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry coming. I've got Dave Stewart coming. Dave Stewart,
Speaker 1: it's one of thirteen black billionaires in the world and
Speaker 1: he's also a believer, and he's going to be coming.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be having Christian speakers, pastors that are going
Speaker 1: to be speaking. We've got women who are CEOs and
Speaker 1: executives that are going to be mentoring the young women
Speaker 1: at The Leadership Conference is going to be in Charlotte
Speaker 1: at April twenty eighth through the thirty first, and it's
Speaker 1: just a conglomerate of a lot of different things, because
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be inspirational and not transformational,
Speaker 1: because if I keep inspiring you and it doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: then you get tired of hearing that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: all right. So I want to put the elements in
Speaker 1: the room that cause us that it's gonna be all
Speaker 1: right to happen in your life. People who pull themselves up,
Speaker 1: people who fought back, people who want when you know better,
Speaker 1: you do better. And that's why I'm having the leadership conference.
Speaker 1: But there the mental health and I'm putting myself on it.
Speaker 1: Come right on, OK, I gotta see what day because
Speaker 1: you know, you know so many people heard you and
Speaker 1: I talk about when you did your book and the
Speaker 1: power of your booking, the power of your story. It
Speaker 1: helped a lot of other people to begin to begin
Speaker 1: to be able to talk. You're opening your mouth to
Speaker 1: speak about your life and about your childhood. Became a
Speaker 1: model for many other black men who don't talk enough.
Speaker 1: So I take you very seriously in that spot. I
Speaker 1: admire you very greatly for what you're doing, and having
Speaker 1: the boldness to speak about that, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to doing a lot of things with you that I
Speaker 1: think it's very important. My brother expected Rachel, it's Bishop
Speaker 1: TD Jakes. Thank you for joining us again. It's been
Speaker 1: a real pleasure. Thanks for having me. It's the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Go morning. It's don't be a dusty because right now
Speaker 1: you want some. It's time for Donkey of the day.
Speaker 1: So if we ever feel I need to be a
Speaker 1: donk man heed with the heat. Did she get any day? Please? Do?
Speaker 1: I had become Donkey of the days, bitching donk. You
Speaker 1: today called to Mega church pastor and tele evangelist Paula
Speaker 1: White king Eve. In the history of life has a
Speaker 1: last name been more appropriate for a human. See the
Speaker 1: mayonnaise is heavy on this pale skin sandwich. Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean Paula White Cane is a human jar of helmets
Speaker 1: in the flesh. I'm talking the thickest of cold sauces.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't get more of a mix of oil, egg,
Speaker 1: yolk and an acid either vinegarl lemon juice. Why Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: why do you refer to some white people as mannaise
Speaker 1: flavored mammals? Talk to me. Well, it's just simply because
Speaker 1: too much Manna's ruins every dish. You need just enough
Speaker 1: for tuna, just enough for potato salad. Even if you
Speaker 1: want to put it on a sandwich, just put a
Speaker 1: little bit, one little light layer, Okay, keep it simple.
Speaker 1: Too much mayonnaise than anything ruins the dish, and so
Speaker 1: is the same with whiteness. Listen, white people, my name
Speaker 1: is Charlomagne the God Lana McKelvey. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you things that nobody else will tell you. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am your people. Everyone knows when you add too much
Speaker 1: whiteness to something, it ruins it. Okay. That's why everybody
Speaker 1: wants diversity, because if you allow too many white people
Speaker 1: to come together and make decisions for the whole of us,
Speaker 1: it will be a lot of people left with a
Speaker 1: bad taste in their mouth aka too much goddamn an.
Speaker 1: So it's not lost on me that Paula's name is
Speaker 1: Paula White Kane. Kane, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve,
Speaker 1: who killed his brother Abel because he was jealous that
Speaker 1: God liked Abel's offering more than his own. Paula White Kane,
Speaker 1: your name just spells out trouble. White Kane like cocaine.
Speaker 1: What do we call white cocaine? That white girl? Do
Speaker 1: we have to play a game a guess what race
Speaker 1: it is? To tell you what Paula White Kane is.
Speaker 1: Have you figured it out already? Okay, now let's proceed.
Speaker 1: Paula White Kane delivered a pryance service which was screamed
Speaker 1: on Facebook Live. And what was her prayer about? There
Speaker 1: was an effort to secure one term impeached president, the
Speaker 1: celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump's reelection. You can't make
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff up. God is the best Noah
Speaker 1: and planner and apparently comedy scriptwriter. Would you like to
Speaker 1: hear Paula White Kane calling on the African ancestor to
Speaker 1: deliver Donald Trump a second term in the White House.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Angels are being dispatched right now, Hamanda. Her
Speaker 1: angels have even depended, dispatched from Africa, right now, Africa,
Speaker 1: right now, Africa, right now, from Africa, right now, They're
Speaker 1: coming here in the name of Jesus, from South America.
Speaker 1: They're coming here. Angelic reinforcement, Angelic reinforcement, angelic reinforcement. I
Speaker 1: feel the need to remind y'all. Right, now that Satan
Speaker 1: has a kingdom too, I also feel the need to
Speaker 1: remind y'all I don't like the waste God's time. I
Speaker 1: pray for the basics, good physical and mental health, divine
Speaker 1: protection of myself and those I love, and constant discernment.
Speaker 1: That's all I want, Okay, everything else I can handle.
Speaker 1: And even when things aren't going my way, I look
Speaker 1: for the lesson what God is attempting to show me. Okay,
Speaker 1: not Paula White king. She thinks she can go caring
Speaker 1: on God. Okay, she thinks going caring on God is
Speaker 1: gonna get Trump in the White House. God is not
Speaker 1: the police, Paula, He's the God. Don't have to listen
Speaker 1: to you now, tell listen to wait a minute, one second.
Speaker 1: Is there more to the prayer? Wait? Is there more
Speaker 1: to the actual prayer, not the prayer with the sauce
Speaker 1: on it? Is there more to the actual prayer? Oh
Speaker 1: that ye strike and strike and strike and strike until
Speaker 1: you have victory for every enemy that is aligned that
Speaker 1: can shoot. Let there be that we would strike the
Speaker 1: ground for you will give us victory. God, I hear
Speaker 1: a sound of abundance of rain. I hear a sound
Speaker 1: of victory. I hear a sound of shouting and singing.
Speaker 1: I hear a sound of victory the Lord because it
Speaker 1: is done now, I'm telling you, right now, God, Jesus,
Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, and Beyonce all think that prayer to
Speaker 1: the spam fold is okay. There's a virus attached to
Speaker 1: that prayer, and the virus is called Mayo nineteen. No
Speaker 1: math can prevent the transmission of it, and it's literally
Speaker 1: killed millions. There's only one way to keep Mayo nineteen
Speaker 1: from effecting us all, and that's by adding that sauce.
Speaker 1: He as a sauce that black people have that makes
Speaker 1: everything better. Listen to what happens when we add some
Speaker 1: sauce the paula white tongue. Just listen. That's that sauce
Speaker 1: dropping clues b for that black people's sauce. Okay, See,
Speaker 1: it's the sauce that black people have that makes the
Speaker 1: canes of the world end be those of us who
Speaker 1: are able. Do you hear me? I said? The canes
Speaker 1: of the world are jealous and envy those of us
Speaker 1: who are able to do the things they are not,
Speaker 1: so much so they would rather kill their black brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters by praying to re elect someone who is
Speaker 1: a direct threat to our very lives. Now, Paula King
Speaker 1: White understands the sauce. Okay, don't think she doesn't. Because
Speaker 1: Miss Billy Graham Cracker called on the ancestors from Africa
Speaker 1: to helped Trump. She called on the spirits from Africa
Speaker 1: and South America to helped. But what she doesn't understand
Speaker 1: is the spirits I've already intervened. See, there is a message,
Speaker 1: and it signs all around us. Okay, sending the Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris and Joe Biden. That's how I worried, because I
Speaker 1: voted for sending to Harris, not Joe Biden, but sending
Speaker 1: to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It looks like they're
Speaker 1: gonna flip George. You know why because there is a
Speaker 1: spirit who is buried in Atlanta, who called Atlanta home,
Speaker 1: who is already causing good trouble up in heaven, and
Speaker 1: he has reminded us of the power of the vote,
Speaker 1: even from the grave. Listen to your ancestor mind. Dear friends,
Speaker 1: your vote is precious, all most sacred. It is the
Speaker 1: most powerful, non violun tool we have to create a
Speaker 1: more perfect union. It's not too long ago people stood
Speaker 1: in unmovable lines. They had to pass a so called
Speaker 1: literacy tests. He a poll tax. On one occasion, a
Speaker 1: man was asked to cut the number above us in
Speaker 1: a law. So on another occasion, one was asked to
Speaker 1: cut the jelly beans on a job, all to keep
Speaker 1: down from casting that ballot. Today, it is unbelievable that
Speaker 1: there are Republican officials are trying I ain't to stop
Speaker 1: some people from voting. Listen, let'sen dropping the clues bombs.
Speaker 1: John Lewis, you made your ancest to the proud everybody
Speaker 1: who went out there and voted in massive numbers. And listen,
Speaker 1: it doesn't stop there. He senda to Kamala Harris and
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Looks like they're gonna flip Arizona too, to
Speaker 1: adopt a home of an American patriot, a man who
Speaker 1: you said, who you said, it's not a war hero.
Speaker 1: You said he's not a war hero because he was captured.
Speaker 1: You said, I like people who weren't captured. What that
Speaker 1: man has a message to you and all your followers.
Speaker 1: If you don't think this is God talking to you
Speaker 1: right now, Paula Kain White and President Donald Trump. Then
Speaker 1: you don't know God. Listen, American people did their civic
Speaker 1: duty and chose a new president. I congratulate the President elect,
Speaker 1: and I will do all in my power to help
Speaker 1: him lead us through the many challenges confronting our nation.
Speaker 1: And I know there are many Americans who were disappointed
Speaker 1: on election night. The better America is one in which
Speaker 1: we never forget that whatever our differences, we're all America.
Speaker 1: We must respect our common citizenship by treating each other
Speaker 1: with respect. That's why I've been so disturbed by reports
Speaker 1: of increased acts of intimidation, harassment, and even violence directed
Speaker 1: at minority, racial, and religious groups in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: this election. Sound like he's speaking from that grave. Look here,
Speaker 1: miss Bishop td Snowflake, and I want you to remember this.
Speaker 1: When God decided to bless you, God will cause situations
Speaker 1: to come together in your favor. No matter what does
Speaker 1: this try to do, God in voters have already blessed
Speaker 1: this year's election. Things have clearly come together in the
Speaker 1: favor of the Harris Biden ticket, and there's nothing Miss
Speaker 1: Jimmy Swagglers can do about it. Please let Chelsea Handler
Speaker 1: give Paula Kane White the biggest he haw heehaw heehaw.
Speaker 1: That is way too much, dan Manna Paula White King,
Speaker 1: Kane White, Paula White King something. It's the solid thing
Speaker 1: at all. Right, Well, thank you for that. Do okay today? Yes, man,
Speaker 1: keep it like. We have more coming up next. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club. You're looking for the best,
Speaker 1: best of the best. The Breakfast Club is back with
Speaker 1: another memorable interview. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have
Speaker 1: a special guest in the building. Yes she went to
Speaker 1: the other h you, but we're got a slide this morning.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, US, Senator of California field the next President
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. The run ms Kamala
Speaker 1: has good boy, I am so happy and honored to
Speaker 1: be here. You're gonna listen. Let him just Howard like
Speaker 1: absolutely not so who beat you? N L. V. Hampton
Speaker 1: or Howard? It was Howard? Thank you? Who has the
Speaker 1: best homecoming in the world every year? Hampton? Howard Hampton,
Speaker 1: who produced third Goood Marshall Howard Howard, You got a
Speaker 1: couple of who produced the Black Panther We did you
Speaker 1: know we did the costol you know we did the
Speaker 1: costume black out with you. I'm gonna share the level.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to college, but if I was, you
Speaker 1: about to say, well, who was stealing from the financial
Speaker 1: a department dementall got bad food over that slide? Were welcome?
Speaker 1: Yes here, not for those who may not know. Let
Speaker 1: us know a little about yourself. You're from the big area, right.
Speaker 1: I was born in Oakland, okay Um, and I went
Speaker 1: to Howard. I went out of Howard to law school
Speaker 1: in California. I started my career in the DA's office
Speaker 1: in Oakland, California, and then I was elected the first
Speaker 1: black woman to be elected a district attorney in the
Speaker 1: state of California in San Francisco. I was there for
Speaker 1: two terms, and then I was elected Attorney General of California,
Speaker 1: making me the first woman and the first African American
Speaker 1: ever elected as an attorney channel. So did you grew
Speaker 1: up an Ara the Black Panthers? Yes, the Deviny influence
Speaker 1: on you are oh absolutely. I mean my parents, look
Speaker 1: my sister and I joke we grew up surrounded by
Speaker 1: a bunch of adults have spent full time marching and
Speaker 1: shouting Wow, justice right. So they my parents actually met
Speaker 1: when they were active in the civil rights movement. My godmother,
Speaker 1: my aunt Mary, was one of the founders of the
Speaker 1: Black Studies department at San Francisco State, which was the
Speaker 1: first black studies department in the country. So they were
Speaker 1: active and they were vocal and aking and civil rights activists.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you got an inside voice. Howard trains you
Speaker 1: to do things like that. But what got you into politics?
Speaker 1: Because you did go to Howard that's a party school,
Speaker 1: So we figured you, really, what got you into politics?
Speaker 1: What made you want to say this is the route
Speaker 1: I want to go. You know, I grew up in
Speaker 1: a unity of folks, like I said, who are marching
Speaker 1: and shouting? And I said, you know, yes, there is
Speaker 1: an important role to play on the outside, banging down
Speaker 1: the door on bended knee, trying to change the systems.
Speaker 1: But we also have to be inside the room where
Speaker 1: the decisions are being made. And I ran for district
Speaker 1: attorney because I wanted to be the one who was
Speaker 1: making decisions about what we were going to do with
Speaker 1: criminal justice policy and In fact, I wrote a book
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and eight based on my belief
Speaker 1: about what we need to do to reform the criminal
Speaker 1: justice system in here and here's how I think about it.
Speaker 1: Criminal justice policy. We have been offered a false choice,
Speaker 1: the choice suggesting that you're either soft on crime or
Speaker 1: you're tough on crime, instead of asking are we smart
Speaker 1: on crime? Right? And by that I mean recognizing that,
Speaker 1: you know, the public health model tells us if you
Speaker 1: want to deal with a health epidemic, smartest, most effective,
Speaker 1: and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
Speaker 1: If you're dealing with it in the emergency room or
Speaker 1: the prison system, it's too late and it's too expensive.
Speaker 1: So let's be smart on crime. And that means let's
Speaker 1: be smart in knowing that if we really want to
Speaker 1: have public safety, let's prevent crime from happening in the
Speaker 1: first place, which means focusing on communities that we know
Speaker 1: need more economic support, need more pathways to economic health
Speaker 1: and success, doing what we need to do to recognize
Speaker 1: that there is a direct connection between public education and
Speaker 1: public safety. So let's prioritize public education and instead of
Speaker 1: just being only concerned about public safety because there's a
Speaker 1: real connection, and it's actually cheaper to focus on educating
Speaker 1: young people than it is on incarcerating whole communities of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of the first things I saw you do
Speaker 1: that I was extremely impressed with. If it was the
Speaker 1: Back on Track program, that's right, what's that all about?
Speaker 1: So Back on Track is a program that I started
Speaker 1: years ago. I focused on the eighteenth through twenty four
Speaker 1: year old young you know, drug sales offender. And the
Speaker 1: reason I focused on that population is because they're just
Speaker 1: a lot of them. And I also focused on that
Speaker 1: population because whether we were at Hampton or Howard when
Speaker 1: we were in college, we were eighteen through twenty four,
Speaker 1: and we were called college kids. When you turn eighteen
Speaker 1: and you're in the system, you're considered an adult, period,
Speaker 1: regardless of the fact that we know that's the very
Speaker 1: phase of life in which we have invested billions of
Speaker 1: dollars in this world, in these places called colleges and universities,
Speaker 1: knowing that that's the prime phase of life where you
Speaker 1: can mold somebody to be a productive, an accomplished adult.
Speaker 1: And so I focused on that population also understanding that
Speaker 1: when they pick up that first offense, they will be
Speaker 1: designated a felon for life. And so what we did
Speaker 1: is essentially I created a program focused on them and
Speaker 1: basically getting them job counseling. A lot of the young
Speaker 1: men are fathers, getting them support for what they naturally
Speaker 1: want to do, which is parent their children, but may
Speaker 1: not have the skills or the resources. We focused on
Speaker 1: what to do around housing and a just wrap around,
Speaker 1: and we ended up as a result of doing that
Speaker 1: and then when they would graduate the program dismissed their charges.
Speaker 1: But what we also ended up doing is reducing their
Speaker 1: likelihood of reoffending by a huge percentage. And that was
Speaker 1: a model of what ended up later by the Justice
Speaker 1: Department being designated as a model of innovation and law
Speaker 1: enforcement in the country. What do we do with so
Speaker 1: many with drugs being legalized, I should say, marijuana being
Speaker 1: legalized in so many different states, and a lot of
Speaker 1: these kids, like you said, are in jail for that
Speaker 1: same legalized crime. Now we need to decriminalize marijuana. We
Speaker 1: have a problem with the mass incarceration in our country.
Speaker 1: And let's be clear, the war on drugs was a
Speaker 1: failed war. It was misdirected in essence, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're now more people are understanding when we talk about
Speaker 1: the opioid epidemic that when you're talking about substancecies, that's
Speaker 1: a public health matter that should not be thought of
Speaker 1: as a criminal justice matter. And so what we need
Speaker 1: to do is recognize that we have to get people
Speaker 1: into treatment where that is appropriate. But as it relates
Speaker 1: to incarcerating people well for marijuana, I think it is
Speaker 1: long overdue that we recognize we need to change the
Speaker 1: system absolutely. Or I want to go back to the
Speaker 1: Oakland days for a minute, because you said the Black
Speaker 1: Panthers had an influence on you, and it's this whole
Speaker 1: conversation we've been having about how do we improve relations
Speaker 1: between police and the communities, and Black Panthers were an
Speaker 1: organization that actually policed the police. Do you think that
Speaker 1: an organization like that could exist now in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think that one of the greatest advances in the
Speaker 1: fight for civil rights has been the smartphone. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: People would come out to me coma, what all of
Speaker 1: a sudden is going on with all these cases of
Speaker 1: police misconduct? What's going on? And I'd look at people
Speaker 1: and say, you know, you sound like a colonist. You know,
Speaker 1: are you calling him a coloni? Right? Right, right, right,
Speaker 1: fair enow. But the point being, you know what colonists do.
Speaker 1: They go to a place that's been existing that way
Speaker 1: for thousands of years, and because they're seeing it for
Speaker 1: the first time, they think they've discovered. So the great
Speaker 1: thing about the smartphone has been that now it is
Speaker 1: undeniable when it happens, there is evidence sometimes playing for
Speaker 1: us in real time as we know. It is audio,
Speaker 1: it is visual, and it is highlighting a need to
Speaker 1: reform the criminal justice system about around recognizing that we
Speaker 1: need to do a better job of training police officers,
Speaker 1: around bias, around use of force, around the necessity to
Speaker 1: de escalate a situation instead of using force as the
Speaker 1: first option as though it is the only option. And
Speaker 1: more people are now involved in this discussion than ever
Speaker 1: before because it is not just us who is experiencing it.
Speaker 1: Now everyone is experiencing it, at least in terms of
Speaker 1: seeing it happen. And I think this is part of
Speaker 1: what has led to the reforms that are starting to
Speaker 1: take place, But there's still a lot more to do
Speaker 1: on the pather is Remember, one of the biggest contributions
Speaker 1: that the Panthers made was their breakfast program. Absolutely, they
Speaker 1: were feeding the community and protecting the community in that way.
Speaker 1: All right, we have more we Senator Kamala Harris, when
Speaker 1: we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning, wipe.
Speaker 1: But I don't won't never sell my soul and I
Speaker 1: could take that and I ain't wanna know morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We all
Speaker 1: the breakfast club. We have Kamala Harris in the building.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about these schools and these shootings. I
Speaker 1: mean it's scary. Well, first of all, you know, we
Speaker 1: have many, many communities where our six and seven year
Speaker 1: olds are going to sleep at night here in gunfire.
Speaker 1: Absolutely they are experiencing such trauma that is undiagnosed and untreated.
Speaker 1: Babies of our community who have regularly attended funerals of
Speaker 1: somebody who was killed as a result of gun violence,
Speaker 1: having families members. It may have even happened in front
Speaker 1: of them. So we have enough trauma in our community
Speaker 1: that we need to deal with without expecting that our
Speaker 1: second grader is going to now go to school and
Speaker 1: look up in the front of the class of their
Speaker 1: teacher and she's strapping a gun. That doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense when we're talking about school safety. There are things
Speaker 1: that we need to address that include thinking about why
Speaker 1: is this an issue? And part of it is that
Speaker 1: we have not passed meaningful smart gun safety laws in
Speaker 1: this country. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about how
Speaker 1: the NRA has grabbed people by that there they and
Speaker 1: and has has has caused people to have a lack
Speaker 1: of courage to address the fact. Again another false choice.
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of the Second Amendment, and I also
Speaker 1: want I want smart on safety laws. Assault weapons shouldn't
Speaker 1: be walking the streets of a civilized country. We should
Speaker 1: have universal background checks. It makes sense. It's just practical
Speaker 1: that you might want to know before someone can buy
Speaker 1: a gun that they've been found by a court to
Speaker 1: be mentally unstable. You just might want to know that.
Speaker 1: That's smart about The missing ingredient to get something done
Speaker 1: is for Congress to have the courage to act. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: And that's where I would say, Okay, so then what
Speaker 1: can we as people who want to encourage Congress to
Speaker 1: act do? What can we do? Let's focus on the
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen elections. Let's focus on electing people who will
Speaker 1: have the courage and getting rid of people who don't. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, even with that said, you know, when everybody
Speaker 1: saw the police shootings happening, Barack Obama was in office,
Speaker 1: why didn't he have the courage to act to implement
Speaker 1: something to where a police ye weren't so gun hole. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that it's one of his big regrets that
Speaker 1: he was not able to get smart gun safety laws passed.
Speaker 1: In terms of the reforms, listen, Eric Holder, who was
Speaker 1: appointed by Barack Obama to be the US Attorney General
Speaker 1: and the United States Department of Justice under Barack Obama
Speaker 1: did some really good work. They started opening pattern and
Speaker 1: practice investigations investigating various police departments around the country who
Speaker 1: had a pattern and practice of racial discrimination and excessive force.
Speaker 1: And you know what's going on now under this guy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions. You've been on his ass, by the way, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And under him, they're closing those pattern and practice investigations.
Speaker 1: Under the previous administration, there were consent decrees where there
Speaker 1: had been a finding of misconduct. The court kicked in
Speaker 1: and said you have to act a certain way, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna watch that. They're shutting down all of those,
Speaker 1: they're reviving the war on drugs, they're reviving mandatory minimum sentences.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, that's why we have got to
Speaker 1: be vigilant at this moment in time, because we are
Speaker 1: looking at an administration that is rolling back the clock
Speaker 1: in a profound, profound way. Why is Jeff Sessions doing
Speaker 1: that though? Like, is it really just uh, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: trying to erase everything Barack Obama did? Or is that
Speaker 1: what they really really want, like they want to take
Speaker 1: take us backwards, so to speak. Listen, I think this
Speaker 1: has been on Jeff sessions agenda for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Kreta. Scott King spoke out against Jeff Sessions
Speaker 1: when he was up years and years and years ago
Speaker 1: for an appointment. This is part of who he is.
Speaker 1: This is his history, this is his mission. He is
Speaker 1: silently and maybe not so silently, carrying it out right
Speaker 1: before us. Why aren't you afraid to speak out against him?
Speaker 1: I do speak. You're afraid because we have to speak truth, Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: We have to speak truth. You know what, this is
Speaker 1: a moment in time that's actually requiring all of us
Speaker 1: to check ourselves about whether we're gonna have the courage
Speaker 1: to speak and to speak truth, no matter how uncomfortable
Speaker 1: it makes some people feel, no matter how much it
Speaker 1: may visit upon us criticism or expose us to attacks,
Speaker 1: We've got to speak truth. We've got to speak truth
Speaker 1: about what is happening with this administration. Also because as leaders,
Speaker 1: the people know, they know, they know in their hearts,
Speaker 1: they know intuitively, instinctively that things are wrong, and we
Speaker 1: need to put the label on it when we see
Speaker 1: what it's actually happening from the inside. And so that's
Speaker 1: part of why I do it, because I believe that
Speaker 1: people have a right to know what their government is
Speaker 1: doing for them and to them. And you know, come
Speaker 1: what may, in terms of any response, how do we
Speaker 1: get our country back in order? Though it just seems
Speaker 1: like ever since Trump came in office, it just seems
Speaker 1: like it's just been an outspurt of racism going on,
Speaker 1: and it seems like it's her our kids more than
Speaker 1: anything else out there. So I travel around the country
Speaker 1: and I will tell you that I'm not buying the
Speaker 1: suggestion that we are divided as a country. And here's
Speaker 1: why I say that. You know, when you wake up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night with that thought that's
Speaker 1: been weighing on you. Maybe you know some people call
Speaker 1: it the witching hour at three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: when you wake up in a close sleet with that
Speaker 1: thing that's been worrying you. It is never through the
Speaker 1: lens of the party with which you're registered to vote,
Speaker 1: or you know, the demographic upholster put you in. And
Speaker 1: for the vast majority of us, that thought has to
Speaker 1: do with one of just a very few things our
Speaker 1: personal health, the health of our children or our parents.
Speaker 1: Can I get a job, keep a job, pay the
Speaker 1: bills by the end of the month. For so many
Speaker 1: of our students, can I pay off their students? Can
Speaker 1: they pay off their student loans? The vast majority of
Speaker 1: us have so much more uncommon than what separates us.
Speaker 1: And we've got to hold on to that in this
Speaker 1: fight right now, and then look to twenty eighteen, frankly,
Speaker 1: and the elections that are coming up in almost two
Speaker 1: hundred days as an opportunity to act. What I love
Speaker 1: about this moment with this administration and power is people
Speaker 1: are acting. Look back to the Women's March, look it too,
Speaker 1: the March for our lives, the March for science because
Speaker 1: also this administration is putting forward policies that basically say
Speaker 1: science should not be the basis of public policy, which
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. But people are taken to the streets in
Speaker 1: a way they never have and in that way, our
Speaker 1: democracy is working. Now. We just got to take to
Speaker 1: the streets and then walk those streets to the polling
Speaker 1: place and vote. Because they used to say we couldn't vote. Legally,
Speaker 1: we weren't allowed to vote. Now they say we won't.
Speaker 1: We need to get out and vote because voting. US
Speaker 1: voting is connected to every one of the other issues.
Speaker 1: US voting is connected to who's going to be in
Speaker 1: office and how they think about criminal justice policy. Who's
Speaker 1: going to be office and pay attention to something like
Speaker 1: the rate of black babies and infant mortality. Who's going
Speaker 1: to pay attention to the fact that young black men
Speaker 1: are are still at the bottom of the economic ladder
Speaker 1: in terms of opportunity, much less success in the economic health.
Speaker 1: Who's in office is going to make a difference. All right,
Speaker 1: we have more with Senator Kamala Harris when we come back,
Speaker 1: don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club A shoot and I know the fun I tell
Speaker 1: you morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We have sent it a
Speaker 1: kamala Harris, still in the building, Charlemagne, And I know,
Speaker 1: of course you just mentioned me too in Times of
Speaker 1: your big supporter today. But you're also a too short fan.
Speaker 1: Yes I am too short, Yes, Harris, what's my favorite?
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that. Two shorts right from Oakland. But you can,
Speaker 1: you can, you can? You can like both? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I love music. Now they call you the
Speaker 1: female Barack Obama. That's what I've seen when I got on.
Speaker 1: By the way, Now, now are you are you considering
Speaker 1: and do or do you see yourself possibly running for president?
Speaker 1: Is that right now? I'm just focused on what's in
Speaker 1: front of me. You know, I've seen too many people
Speaker 1: focus on that thing out there and they trip over
Speaker 1: the thing right in front of them. So I was
Speaker 1: just in Detroit last weekend campaigning and talking to folks
Speaker 1: about the need to get out and vote. Um, I'll
Speaker 1: be all over this, all over many states, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in Chicago, I'm gonna be in Wisconsin, I'll be
Speaker 1: in Florida, probably go to Philly. We really have to
Speaker 1: turn out it. Look what happened in Alabama. Everybody should
Speaker 1: really see and remember what happened just in a recent
Speaker 1: election where Doug Jones, a white dumb mcrat The math
Speaker 1: is that a white Democrat one in the South because
Speaker 1: of black women. So our boat really matters when we
Speaker 1: get out. It was over ninety percent of black men
Speaker 1: two week we came out of this. Yeah, and that's right,
Speaker 1: And that's right, that's true, that's exactly right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: You was on the debate team in college. I was
Speaker 1: how does that help you on your line of work?
Speaker 1: First of all, it taught you how to um, to
Speaker 1: come back from an argument. You know. It teaches you
Speaker 1: how to stand in front of a room of people
Speaker 1: and express your point and then and then when your
Speaker 1: point is being attacked, to come back and respond. Um.
Speaker 1: It teaches you how to think quickly, and it gives
Speaker 1: you confidence in the fact that you can stand in
Speaker 1: front of a room of people in state a position
Speaker 1: and defend it because sometimes for so many of us
Speaker 1: we're the only one who is like us in a room.
Speaker 1: And when you're the only one like you in a room,
Speaker 1: there is a natural tendency to want to just kind
Speaker 1: of blend in. But what you learn during debate, or
Speaker 1: what you learn at an HBCU, or if you have
Speaker 1: the blessing of having a family or a community that
Speaker 1: teaches you, um, you learn instead that when you're in
Speaker 1: that room, you got to speak up, and you've got
Speaker 1: to acquire the skills to know how to do that
Speaker 1: and to have the confidence to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: I mentor a lot of people, and I always tell
Speaker 1: them your entire life, you will have many experiences where
Speaker 1: you're the only one like you in that room, the
Speaker 1: only one looks like you, the only one who's had
Speaker 1: the experiences you've had. And when you sit in that room,
Speaker 1: you have to remember we are all in that room
Speaker 1: with you. There was the Minangelo quote, I'm not alone
Speaker 1: because I stand with ten. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because
Speaker 1: I put my kids in debate class because of that,
Speaker 1: to be able to use their words to fight back
Speaker 1: and not have to use their hands and still hurt
Speaker 1: just the same. And you got to objectively see both
Speaker 1: sides right. And also and to your point, also, the
Speaker 1: great thing about learning debate is that you learn there
Speaker 1: are rules of debate, right, you know, because also to
Speaker 1: your point, when you argue, some people would suggest that's
Speaker 1: pure emotion and that if you're getting in an argument
Speaker 1: with somebody, you're just emotional and unreasonable. What debate teaches
Speaker 1: you is no, it's actually quite civilized to stand up
Speaker 1: and disagree with someone, and there are rules about how
Speaker 1: you do it, because that is what is done among
Speaker 1: thinking people. You do debate. I mean, you can go
Speaker 1: back to history in different forms of debate the dozens. Yes,
Speaker 1: that doesn't tell you didn't like what they said and
Speaker 1: you just keep it right. But that's that was debate.
Speaker 1: Your question, you know, you mentioned, of course we went
Speaker 1: to HBCUs. How important is the HBCU because we got
Speaker 1: away from it a couple of years ago and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of the colleges and attendance and
Speaker 1: enrollment is low. So how important is HBCU to you
Speaker 1: and especially black families? Let me tell you, I am
Speaker 1: who I am today for two reasons because of my
Speaker 1: mother and the family I was raising, and Howard University
Speaker 1: an HBCU. What you and I know when we walked
Speaker 1: onto that campus for the first time, we were surrounded
Speaker 1: by people that look like us all everywhere. Everybody you
Speaker 1: walk onto and I'll just speak about Howard, but I
Speaker 1: know Hampton is the same. You walk onto that campus,
Speaker 1: you can look over on one area and you will
Speaker 1: see a bunch of young African Americans who are students
Speaker 1: who are in the business school walking around with briefcases.
Speaker 1: You look over at another area and they're walking around
Speaker 1: in leotards because they're in the School of Fine Arts.
Speaker 1: The football captain and star, and the homecoming queen and
Speaker 1: the debate team, and there are sororities and fraternity and
Speaker 1: what you learn at an HBCU is you do not
Speaker 1: have to fit into somebody's limited prospective on what it
Speaker 1: means to be young, gifted, in black. You can be
Speaker 1: all those things. When I was at Howard, I pledged
Speaker 1: a sorority, I was on the debate team, I was
Speaker 1: the chair of the Economic Society when to my share
Speaker 1: parties too, And you didn't have to choose. You could
Speaker 1: be fully actualized. And there was such beauty to that
Speaker 1: because this country still has such a limited view of
Speaker 1: what it means for a person to be young and
Speaker 1: smart and black. And so at those years when you're
Speaker 1: learning your identity to be in that environment where basically
Speaker 1: everybody just says to you can be whatever you want
Speaker 1: to be, and by the way, and if you don't,
Speaker 1: it's because you need to work harder, right, Because that's
Speaker 1: the other thing that happens. You can't walk away and say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's because of my skin color that I didn't get that. Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: that's not it. So it's a wonderful it's a wonderful
Speaker 1: place to learn who you are and to be proud
Speaker 1: of who you are and to leave them with the
Speaker 1: confidence of walking into the world also knowing one other thing.
Speaker 1: You know, people from time to time will come up
Speaker 1: to you and they'll say, oh, you're special, you're unique.
Speaker 1: And I tell people, don't let it, don't let anybody
Speaker 1: tell you that, because there is there is something about
Speaker 1: being told that that also suggests you're the only one
Speaker 1: like you, which means you're alone. And what an HBCU
Speaker 1: SEU reminds us of. No, we come with people, We
Speaker 1: got people. There are a lot of us. We're not alone. Right,
Speaker 1: Well made, you want to go to HBCU with a
Speaker 1: different world. No, I have family members that went to Howard.
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to Howard. Yeah, gots she has
Speaker 1: to go. So one last one, brother, I saw you
Speaker 1: talking about corporate donations. Yeah, and you said you would
Speaker 1: depend It depends whether you would take them or not.
Speaker 1: I think that money has had such an outside influence
Speaker 1: on politics, and especially with the Supreme Court determining Citizens United,
Speaker 1: which basically means that big corporations can spend unlimited amounts
Speaker 1: of money influencing a campaign. Right, We're all supposed to
Speaker 1: have an equal vote, but money has now really tip
Speaker 1: the balance between an individual having equal power in an
Speaker 1: election to a corporation. So I've actually made a decision
Speaker 1: since I had that conversation that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: accept corporate pack checks. Wow, Um, I just I'm not.
Speaker 1: You're gonna raise money for campaigns and stuff? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I've raised so far this year three million dollars for
Speaker 1: my colleagues for the twenty eighteen election cycle, and most
Speaker 1: of that money has been like an eighteen dollars twenty
Speaker 1: dollars increments. People are turning out. What's the website? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: go to Kamala Harris dot org and you will find it. Okay,
Speaker 1: a m La Harris h. If you decide to run
Speaker 1: for president in twenty twenty, we'll do a fundraiser before you,
Speaker 1: right here on the radio. Noah, we definitely will. We
Speaker 1: did one last year for Harry Belafonte's organization, Change for Change.
Speaker 1: We can get you a million of two. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you decide, Have I ever been a dream of yours?
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about it? I had so many dreams,
Speaker 1: I had so many I do, I really do. I
Speaker 1: do see the beauty of you know, everything that you
Speaker 1: raised in terms of the reaction and the other side
Speaker 1: of the tragedy of what's happening, and that gives me
Speaker 1: a great sense of optimism about our future. And in
Speaker 1: the history of our people. We march, we shout, we sing,
Speaker 1: we dance. Right, look at who just got the pulletzer prise,
Speaker 1: but look at that. We look at Beyonce and what
Speaker 1: she did at coach Alla. Right. It has always been
Speaker 1: as part of our history that our artists, everybody is
Speaker 1: part of the movement. Everyone understands that it's about the
Speaker 1: expression of feeling and and we can do that with
Speaker 1: joy and with with conviction and with purpose. Great. I
Speaker 1: think God is setting us up for a woman of
Speaker 1: color president in Mala Harris. I think she's our future president.
Speaker 1: And I hope she hope God puts his hands on
Speaker 1: her and says, you know what, I want you to do.
Speaker 1: This as God's plan. Put that on your playlist. Two
Speaker 1: by Drill. We thank you for joining us. Thank you guys,
Speaker 1: it's honor to be with you. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 1: All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's time for your positive note gives
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Speaker 1: is always to remember that the best of all gifts
Speaker 1: around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family,
Speaker 1: all wrapped up in each other. Breakfast Club. You don't
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