WEBVTT - DONKEY: Racist Text Messages Referencing Slavery Sent To Black Americans

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<v Speaker 1>It's time for donkeys to day.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm ain't trying to beat donkey today no more.

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<v Speaker 1>They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not making new people do these days called donkey of

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<v Speaker 1>the day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn Charlomagne,

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<v Speaker 1>who got the donkey out of day to day? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>jess Alariu's donkey today for Friday, November eighth. Goloes to

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<v Speaker 1>whoever is sending out these racist text messages referencing slavery. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>if you haven't heard all day yesterday in black group

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<v Speaker 1>chaps across America, texts were being shared and it was

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<v Speaker 1>text messages that folks were receiving that were telling negroes

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<v Speaker 1>report to your nearest plantation. I'm not making this up.

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<v Speaker 1>Yesterday I had quite a few people hit me up

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<v Speaker 1>concerned because they were receiving text messages like this. Good evening, Isaiah.

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<v Speaker 1>You have been selected to become a slave patient at

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<v Speaker 1>your nearest plantation. Please be clean and ready by three

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<v Speaker 1>am tomorrow. No need to bring essentials nor close, as

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<v Speaker 1>you will be handed worker clothes. You will be picked

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<v Speaker 1>up in a white van by a Trump representative after

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<v Speaker 1>escorted you will be script indeed down upon arrival. Don't cooperate,

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<v Speaker 1>belt the app and lynched immediately. Your name will be

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<v Speaker 1>your name will further be a race than giving a number.

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<v Speaker 1>Your number is slave five, and you'll be a part

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<v Speaker 1>of slave see group. Thank you now, I'm gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>honest with you. When I first read this, I said

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<v Speaker 1>to myself, people play too much. And I'm not even

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<v Speaker 1>sure this is a white person, because I've never heard

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<v Speaker 1>a white person say belt the ass But if this

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<v Speaker 1>week's election showed us anything, it's that we can we

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<v Speaker 1>can't assume what certain racial groups do anymore. But I

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<v Speaker 1>brushed that text off until I had a few more

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<v Speaker 1>people send me those text messages, and then I realized

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<v Speaker 1>it was a thing. Did anyone in this room receive

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<v Speaker 1>a text message telling them to go back to the plantation?

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<v Speaker 1>Near a plantation you should go to? They said, d down,

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<v Speaker 1>I know you need that, damn.

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<v Speaker 2>When you get some free days to be a slave.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, when you take that wig off and you see

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<v Speaker 1>them corn rolls, let's go. Let's go to NBC for

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<v Speaker 1>the public.

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<v Speaker 2>Karein Freeman was at home with her kids on Wednesday

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<v Speaker 2>when she got a text from a number she didn't recognize.

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<v Speaker 3>It was this odd, ominous, feeling text message basically saying, Hello,

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<v Speaker 3>You've been selected to be a slave on a plantation

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<v Speaker 3>and your schedule to get picked up on at twelve

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<v Speaker 3>am on November thirteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>And She's not alone. Social media sites have been flooded

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<v Speaker 2>with people from New York to Florida who say they've

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<v Speaker 2>gotten these racist messages. Freeman and others believe the text

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<v Speaker 2>may have been sparked by the current political climate. The

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<v Speaker 2>wording of the text appear to differ. Some have misspellings,

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<v Speaker 2>others address individuals by name, but the theme is consistent,

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<v Speaker 2>telling recipients they've been selected to pick cotton. All of

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<v Speaker 2>the people NBC who spoke to who got these messages

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<v Speaker 2>are black. For recipients like Karn Freeman, the digital aim

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<v Speaker 2>is fueling her real world concerns.

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<v Speaker 4>I am overwhelmed with anxiety and fear about how I'm

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<v Speaker 4>going to help my children make sense of the world

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<v Speaker 4>that they have to navigate as black children.

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<v Speaker 1>Now a few things. Number One, how they get all

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<v Speaker 1>these people's phone numbers. Number two, This is probably not

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<v Speaker 1>as widespread as people think. One or three people got

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<v Speaker 1>a text posted it online, and then everyone took the

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<v Speaker 1>same text and started acting like it was senter in personally.

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<v Speaker 1>In three and this is the biggest one and the

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<v Speaker 1>reason I'm doing this as donkey of today. Let's just

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<v Speaker 1>assume these are Trump supporters. Let's just assume these are conservatives.

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<v Speaker 1>Answer me this one question. Why do you want to

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<v Speaker 1>prove people right? Donald Trump won? He is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be the forty seventh president of the United States of America.

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<v Speaker 1>He won. Fan square looked like you want the popular vote,

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<v Speaker 1>the electoral college. Republicans wanted to send it, you might

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<v Speaker 1>win the House. America made a choice. The last thing

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<v Speaker 1>any of any of you all should be doing is

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<v Speaker 1>proving all your critics right. Okay, so many different people

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<v Speaker 1>say the only reason Trump won is because America is

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<v Speaker 1>a racist country. Huffington Post said Trump ran the most

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<v Speaker 1>racist campaign in modern history, and he won. So many

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<v Speaker 1>people say, oh, Trump supporters are biggest and racist. Why

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<v Speaker 1>are you idiots proving them right?

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<v Speaker 4>Now?

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<v Speaker 1>Mind you, I know these folks are playing, but if

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<v Speaker 1>you are a Trump supporter, you should denounce this, unless,

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<v Speaker 1>of course you don't care, unless of course you agree

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<v Speaker 1>with whatever the text is saying. But the real moral

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<v Speaker 1>of the story is this is exactly the opposite of

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<v Speaker 1>what I told you all should happen. Y'all not tied

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<v Speaker 1>or arguing and fighting. There will be a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>real battles that we need to fight in the future.

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<v Speaker 1>The last thing we need to be doing is fighting

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<v Speaker 1>amongst each other. Okay, we don't need to be rilling

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<v Speaker 1>each other up with this petty foolishness.

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<v Speaker 2>I literally had.

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<v Speaker 1>People hitting me up concerned about this because they honestly

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what the Trump presidency will bring. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I had some guys who will remain nameless even though

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<v Speaker 1>they're sitting in this room excited right now. But they

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<v Speaker 1>were excited because they was told to report some way

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<v Speaker 1>to get deed down. Okay, so listen to all listen.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wanna tell all Trump supporters, everyone who voted

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<v Speaker 1>for Trump, if you really dislike liberals, if you really

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<v Speaker 1>don't like Democrats and they woke ideologies, and simply do

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<v Speaker 1>one thing, prove them wrong by not doing dumb ass,

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<v Speaker 1>cheap ass, racist ass stunts like this. Please give whoever

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<v Speaker 1>is sending out these racist text messages telling people to

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<v Speaker 1>report to the plantation the biggest he hull.

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<v Speaker 3>And be looking so unbothered right now, because he's gonna

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<v Speaker 3>be in the house when it's go down.

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<v Speaker 1>You a house, how much like report we had to

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<v Speaker 1>get ded down?

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<v Speaker 2>Please, you're gonna be there with me and look at.

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<v Speaker 1>Charlamagne on I don't know what you're talking about supper.

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<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be like this way, Jesus all right, Well

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<v Speaker 1>that was Donkey to Day.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you for that.

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