WEBVTT - The Breakfast Club talks with Rush Limbaugh 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.320 What if everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.520 We are the breakfast club. Now we are fed up, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.760 We're angry, hurt and tired. The country is wounded. The 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.280 phrase I can't breathe is embedded in our minds forever. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.599 The inhumane treatment and senseless murder of George Floyd has 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.720 to be the final straw. This was not the first time, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.440 but this has to be where it stops. For almost 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.560 ten years, we have been the voice of our community, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.400 working to push our culture forward, focusing on educating our 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.479 listeners on entrepreneurship, real estate, mental health, education, and the 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.520 importance of being politically engaged and informed. We have always 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.879 had diverse guests and are open to the tough conversations. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.560 In that spirit, today we are having a candid conversation 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.600 with fellow broadcaster Rush Limbaugh. Why are we having this 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.000 conversation with someone whose historical viewpoints differ so significantly from 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.320 ours and who we represent, because the dialogue has to 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.240 be open beyond who we know or who we talk to. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.679 Every morning. Today, Russia's listeners will hear us, probably for 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.840 the first time ever, what we are witnessing in our 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.840 nation right now is not normal, and it compels our 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.840 attention to understand every side and look for ways to 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.920 bring this country together and stop the senseless killing of 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.560 our people. So we will start with a conversation that 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.600 we think might be the first step. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.679 Rush Limbaugh. Every Democrat candidate for president this year has 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.760 made it their business to appear on the Breakfast Club, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.520 and now it's it's my honor to appear on the 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:42.080 Breakfast Club. Excuse me, even though I'm not a Democrat. Now, guys, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.120 can I tell you why I wanted to The George 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.160 Floyd story is being lost right. There are two things 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:55.360 happening in America, and it sickens me what happened to him. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:01.480 Legitimate national outrage about a policeman's criminality has been hijacked. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.320 And I don't want to forget about George Floyd. What 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.040 happened to George Floyd sickened me, and I wanted to 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.160 reach out and tell you all this. I want to 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.000 make sure you have no doubt, and I'm not the 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.960 only American who feels this way, the senselessness of it. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.200 You know, we're only given one life. We don't get 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.960 to do over we only get one. We all take 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.600 it for granted because it just happened. We're born, we 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.160 don't even remember that. But George Floyd had his taken 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.120 away from him. He didn't lose it, he had it 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.760 taken away from him in a stupid way. And I 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.280 think most Americans are just as angry and sad about 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.359 this as I am. And I'm also angry to cops 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.000 that stood around there and didn't do it thing to 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.480 stop it. It was just I can't tell you how 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.600 frustrated it is, and I just I just wanted to 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.480 share the emotion I have with you guys about this 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.680 and to try to convey to you that I actually 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.320 think most Americans are just as sickened and outraged by 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.320 it as I am. Yeah, And you know what, one 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.240 of the worst things is that I feel like we're 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.079 so accustomed to being in these situations where we get frustrated, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.040 where nothing happens, and these police officers are back out 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.400 doing the same thing over and over again. And that's 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.160 part of the frustration is this is not an isolated incident. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.799 This is something that's been happening in our community for 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.560 it hasn't stopped. We don't see when it will stop, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.240 and I think people are frustrated, and it's a combination 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.160 of so many different things. Right now, Well, that's I 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:33.440 think absolutely absolutely right. If you look at the the 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.920 actual circumstance here, you had what happened to him, It's 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.080 on video. You've got the cop, the cop standing there 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:45.160 almost looking like he's bragging or having fun exerting power. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.400 How stupid is the cop? Can the cop not be 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.640 aware of what we in this country are going through 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.280 precisely because of what he's doing at that moment? How 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.840 can anybody be that in sense? So they've or stupid. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.880 It's beyond me to understand. It almost felt like that 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.160 the more that people were telling him that he was 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.400 killing him and that it was blood coming out of 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.440 his nose and that he was lifeless, but he really 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.120 felt like just looking at his face, I think that 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.360 was probably the closest thing to a devil that I've 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.200 ever seen in my life. It was his ego that 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.280 just allowed him to keep applying pressure and applying pressure 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.200 and taking that man's life. I can't let me answer 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.800 your question, Russ Charlomagne talking, We've seen numerous police killings 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.880 of one armed black people in this country. Why is 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.640 the George Floyd's situation the one that's making you say, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.880 enough is enough and this needs to stop. Why why 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.120 is this situation in particular because I'm fed up with 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.400 I'm not saying I mean, I'm not tolerant of any 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:45.440 of them, but I'm I'm just I'm fed up with it. Charlomagne, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.960 none of this to me, And I know, I know 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.080 that you're going to disagree with me on this. To me, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.599 this is not America. It's a it's a it's a 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.840 it's a sad. Oh no, it's definitely America. Well, I see, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.560 but it's it's not what we can be. It's not 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.360 what we have been. We're the greatest nation of history 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.520 of the world, and we haven't achieved that on the 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.400 basis of mood over us or not. I think I 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.760 think that. I think it's easy for you to say 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.120 because you're you're a white male and that comes with 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.800 a different level of privilege. And I do think America 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.920 does work, but it works for the people that it 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.239 was designed to work for. It doesn't work for everybody 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.520 else the way it works for you. Well, it can, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.479 that's the point of America. It can for anybody who 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.240 wants to adapt to it, for anybody who wants to 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:39.480 try to take advantage of the unique opportunities that exist 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.960 in the United States. We're the only nation that's ever 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.200 enshrined the concept of individual liberty and freedom and are 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.880 founding documents. We're the only country that's ever created a 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.880 document to govern ourselves by that limits government. Now, Uh, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:59.800 it's it's you know, I look, but George Floyd wasn't 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.320 doing anything wrong. Brianna Taylor got killed in her house. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.080 She wasn't doing anything wrong. And so it's not that 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.240 people haven't adapted to things. It's just that we get 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.240 targeted and then there's no punishment when the police officers 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.239 commit these crimes against us. No, no, we talked about 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.200 I didn't mean to conflate that George Floyd could have 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.239 stopped what was going to happen to him. I don't misunderstand. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.520 George Floyd is the essence of innocence. But what I'm 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.080 saying is is that America is a place with robust 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.520 opportunity if you want to go out and look for 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.640 it and find it. Now, the people ripping up the 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.960 streets today and last night, the Antifa types. They don't 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.960 care to find the they disagree with the whole constructive about. Well, no, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.120 I gotta push back on you with that too. It's 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.799 not just the antif for types. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.520 like you see all these white folks out there protesting 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.160 luten raising. Hell, you know what I'm saying, Let's not 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.400 act like there isn't forty million people who have filed 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.159 for unemployment in America. Folksmen sitting around the last three 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.560 months waiting on stimulus checks. Than forty four percent of 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.880 those people who have been denied unemployment checks are still 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.160 waiting on them to come. People of all races are broke. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.880 They don't know where their next meal from. Their savings 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.600 are exhausted if they had any, They don't know how 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.480 they're gonna pay bills. So of course they're gonna go 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.800 out there in loot. Of course they're angry and frustrating. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.960 It turns out unnecessarily, there's no reason to shut down 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.600 the country, and there's no reason to lock everybody. Of course, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.280 you put forty million people out of work and tell them, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.960 you know, you penalize them when they do try to 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.720 open their businesses. You're gonna create a powder keg. A 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.640 powder keg has been created. But that's right, That's why 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.120 I can't. That's why I can't. That's why I can't 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 allow you to say that it's just Antifa out there, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.720 because it is a lot of white people who are fair. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.920 But the anti people, the Antifa people, are the violent ones. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.200 The Antifa people are the ones that are trying to 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.240 capitalize on it. There's, of course, there's some legitimate, heartfelt 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.400 people out there peacefully protesting. But look you guys, let 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.600 me tell you, you are a testament to the opportunity 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.560 available in America. Look at you. How did you do it? 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.160 Why did you have to overcome to become a breakfast 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.480 club and why did you have to overcome become dominant 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.840 in morning drive in American radio? Who held you back 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.760 or what were you able to overcome in order to 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.200 do it? The opportunity is there is the only thing 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.600 I'm saying. Right. But you know, you talk about peacefully, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.640 you talk about peacefully protests, right, And you were very 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.080 opinionated about Colin Kaepernick, and he was peacefully protesting, right. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.200 And now what people are saying, oh, they're not peacefully protesting. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.800 This is the same thing Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.200 that the world was so upset about and the world said, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.760 he's taking it too far and he doesn't know what 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.200 he's talking about. This is exactly the reason why he 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.680 was kneeling in protesting the fact that an unarmed African 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.640 American man was doing nothing. They still don't even know 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.079 if he had a fake ten twenty dollar bill and not. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.960 He and that man kneeled on George Floyd for damned 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.120 in nine minutes and killed that man, murdered that man 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.680 and looked at us like, yeah, I'm doing it, and 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.440 what you guys, I'm trying to tell you, I'm all 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.559 with you. I'm one thousand percent with you on This 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.959 is why I wanted to talk to you because I 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.120 know that that there are you know, we all have 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.760 preconceptions that we live under and biases that we live under, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.040 and I wanted to reach out to you guys, specifically me. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.280 You were you were the ones that I was told 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.439 to speak to that that this is intolerable. I'm happy 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.280 to have the conversation and I'm glad you're having it 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.000 because I think your audience needs to hear it. And 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.960 you know, you said something a little while ago, and 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.480 I want to just, you know, talk about that. You know, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.280 this is this is a country America that denies you know, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.920 black people justice and just playing decency. And then they 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.280 act like we're just supposed to be happy to be 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.120 here because it allows a few of us. To me, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.240 did I say, majority of us out here catch what 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.119 you said? You said? You said, you know, you guys 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.120 made it. Y'all are successful, you know what I'm saying, like, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.199 But but the rest of us are catching hell out here? 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.480 All right? George Floyd and isolated and Charlotte Man, you're 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.680 adding things to my mouth that I did and say 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.920 you're adding syllables I have not uttered. I was trying 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.680 to be complimentary of you, and I'm trying to illustrate 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.920 that you are an example to others that want to 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.760 try you can succeed. Let me ask a question. If 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.040 the Minnesota Vikings had announced two nights in combing they 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:22.640 were gonna hire Colin Kaepernick, would the riots have stopped? No? 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.559 I want to go about that. What I'm talking about 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.880 you guys Kaepernick, his name is Kaepernick, and the reason 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.079 I brought him up to do and I'm just asking 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.599 if the Vikings had signed him, would that would the 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.160 people have been this, Oh good, Okay, it's got a gang. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.240 You know, we're not gonna protest because that's not gonna 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.160 stop white supremacy. That's not gonna stop racism. Okay, we 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.640 gotta all right, Peter, George Floyd. But this that was 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.640 not an Isola incident. This is a regular occurrence. Let 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.839 me add black people in this country. How do you 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.320 how that? Being don't want to change the system, how 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.719 do you A question for you? You? I want to 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.800 know if how are you going to use your privilege 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.680 of the white male to combat this prejudice? You you 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.480 gotta do side. I don't. I don't buy in no way. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.679 I don't buy the notion of white privilege. See. I 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:15.160 think that's a liberal that's a liberal political constract right 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.160 along the lines of political correctness, is designed to intimidate 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.200 and get people shut up and admit they're guilty of 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.280 doing things they haven't done. No, I don't have I 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.400 don't have any No. You know what white privilege is. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.000 White privilege is that what would happen to George Floyd 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:33.840 would not have happened to a white man. Right if 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.559 if if what happened to George Floyd had happened to 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.920 a white man, we probably wouldn't even have heard about it. Huh. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.560 You definitely would have heard about it. You definitely would 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:50.719 have been you definitely would you definitely George. People get 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:57.000 killed by if George. There's a lot of instances where 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.080 this does happen and we don't hear about it. There's 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.559 a lot of times that there's no video that exists, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.800 and then people are police officers lie and they say 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.680 this is what happened, just like we've seen it happen 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.520 so many different times where fortunately there was video. There's 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.800 a lot of cases that won't make it that he 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.680 about virus. You never hear about that, never make it 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.359 the TV, that never make it to social media. Because 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.400 I know what I said, guys, I said, if George 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.280 Floyd were white, we wouldn't have heard of this, And 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.240 if the same thing had happened him, we wouldn't have 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:33.800 heard about it. It wouldn't have been you would you 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.319 You'd be just right, you probably wouldn't hear about it. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.120 And you know why because that guy would have been arrested, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:41.720 he would have been a fired, he'd been charged with 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.360 murder long time before all of this, immediately before before 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.000 the video hit it the social media, he would have 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.000 been charged, fired, arrested, locked up in all that. If 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.520 George Floyd was white. There's a there's a Muslim. I 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.360 think there's a Muslim officer in Minneapolis now doing twelve 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.200 and a half years because he accidentally killed a white 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.280 woman and on duty. So I mean, I don't, I don't, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:03.640 I don't get it, But let me ask a question. 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.080 It was because I remember in twenty fourteen you criticized 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.880 President Obama and you said he should do more to 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.760 ease racial tensions in the wake of the grand jury 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.520 decisions to not indict the white police officers in Ferguson. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.960 You said, if he wants to, he can inspire, and 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.679 I think it's called for in this situation. Shouldn't that 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.920 same advice apply to President Trump right now? Absolutely? I 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.360 think it applies to all presidents. Absolutely, no, no question. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.240 But that's one of their roles is to calm circumstances 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.640 and situations like this. But look, can I ask you, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.040 you keep harping on white privilege and racism, would you 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.840 tell me how to end it? What? What can we do? 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.400 To end this so that you are not frustrated and 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.920 angry and feeling like whatever you feel like, because I 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:54.160 hate you guys as that you're angry all the time. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.160 So what can we do to stop the racism? Here's 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.199 the thing, right, Um, as long as they as a 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.280 system of white supremacy, you know, they will always be 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.760 these type of situations. You know, it doesn't matter who's 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.600 in the White House. If that person is not willing 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.679 to dismantle the mechanism of white supremacy, if that person 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.680 is not willing to change legislation that disproportionately impacts black folks, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.719 it doesn't matter, you know what I'm saying, Like, we've 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.680 seen this a million times. Tell me what happened. You 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.320 had four years of Barack Obama. You had you had Americans, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.440 white Americans voting for Obama because they wanted to say, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.320 we're not racist, We're not a racist country. You had 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.320 people electing the first African American president in our history. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.720 He sure for eight years. Why isn't there anything to 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.840 show for it that makes you less angry than you were? Then, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.800 once again, it doesn't matter who's in the White House, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.080 if that person is not willing to dismantle the mechanism 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.200 of white sumon. Guys, the elections don't matter now. I 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.480 think that when you when you, when we got to 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.280 stop acting like white supremacy isn't done by design. The 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.240 whole function of systemic racism is to marginalize black people. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.640 And it's very hard to get any damn near eighty 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.040 year old white man to change his system that's been 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.280 working for him in his family for years. I don't 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.600 care if it's Biden art Trump. So once again, we 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.440 need people that are willing to dismantle the mechanism of 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.040 white supremacy. Okay, let me let me ask you, guys, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.560 why do you still vote Democrat? I vote for whoever 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.040 I think is the best candidate because Democrat has been 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.000 promising to fix your grievances for fifty years, and you 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.360 have the same grievances, you have the same complaints. They 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.120 haven't done a damn thing for you. They haven't even 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.000 punished the people that you think are responsible for the 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.840 racism and bigotry being done to you. Why do you 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.720 keep supporting them? And you know I don't disagree with you, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.680 and I don't That's why I'm not letting nobody politicize 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.400 black pain and tell us that this is one person's 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.600 fault just because they are trying to win an election 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.720 in November. This is America's fault. And the war on drugs, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.200 mass and conceration, said aggregation, slavery, all of those things 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.200 are and have been the proverbial knee on the back 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.880 of black folks neck and tell somebody is willing to 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:12.440 dismantle the mechanism of white supremacy, nothing is going to change. Well, Russ, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:13.960 I also don't want to lose check of what we're 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.920 talking about here, because I know we're trying to focus 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.800 on George Floyd and what's happening with him and how 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.080 can we take some actionable steps to move forward and 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.800 what can be done right. So on your end, what 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.920 are some things that you feel like cops should be 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.880 charged with first degree murder? And I think that the 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.200 guys standing around ought to be charged. The other cops 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.040 that we're standing around, I think it's it's time to 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:41.520 end this. Look, we we are all aware of police brutality. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.120 We're all aware of the actions that some wrong cops take, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.000 and it's way too many of them against African American men, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.640 and it's time to stop. And you know, I'm not 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.080 a policeman, I'm not an executive in a police department, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.520 but it seems to me that if those people end 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.920 up being charged and instead of shielded when they commit murder, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.960 it shouldn't be the illegalized murder, and that would be 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.840 one way to at least get a start on making 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.879 sure it doesn't happen. This. George Floyd was, for everything 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.920 I've been able to tell, was a good guy. He 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.320 was a nice guy, had a family, and said did 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.520 not even come close to deserving having his life taken 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.679 from him, like, not at all, not at all. Now, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.680 do you agree with the way that the media's portraying 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.880 everything You're in media, and you know media's white media, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.399 of course, do you do you agree with how they 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.800 portraying everything that's going on right now? Oh? God, I don't. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.960 I don't think we've gotten the truth out of most 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.800 media in three or four years. I don't know. And 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.440 I think that's another reason why people are mad. You guys, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.600 they know they've been lied to. They were lied about 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.439 so many things for two three four years now, and 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.520 so now they don't know what to belief coming out 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.800 of the media, and I don't care what it is Fox, CNN, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.240 New York Times, Washington Post. There doesn't seem to be 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.880 anywhere in our culture that people have trust in an 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.280 institution or series of institutions that provide a backstop and 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.240 reliability when something like this happens. And I think that's 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.920 creating or contributing the even more of the unrest that's 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.040 happening out there. Rush, How would you advise Donald Trump 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.440 to handle this situation? Because I see that he's having 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:24.040 some issues. He's calling people thugs, he's talking about sticking 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.880 the dogs on people if they try to come into 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.440 the White House. But then you see how he treats 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.960 people who are protesting to stay at home order and 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.960 they have guns, and they're white people, and they're fine people. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.879 So I just want to know what advice would you 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.960 give to the president right now to say, this is 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.560 what we need to do, and this is how you 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.639 should handle it, because I don't think that he's handling 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.080 it properly with his verbiage. I think what the president 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.919 ought to do is use the God given humility that 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.160 he has that and don't doubt me that he does. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.879 He has. He has a lot of human nothing humble 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.480 about the president come out now there is even and 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.159 every rally you will see his ego, his appreciation the 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:09.600 people that show up. But it's it's simple matter of 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.639 understanding he's president of everybody here and trying to quell 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:21.440 these moments of unrest is something that would be really, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.000 really to his advantage. I think what you said about 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.679 Obama in twenty fourteen applies when when you said if 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.840 he wants to, he can inspire, and I think he's 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.960 called for in his situation. But I look at the inspire, 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.600 I think he wants to insight. Okay, first, I do 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.720 agree with you about the inspiration. I think I think 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:43.160 he can. I think he should. I think all presidents 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.400 should in terms of Trump and sighting. Look, the guy 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.080 has had everybody and their uncle telling lies and falsehoods 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.200 about him for three and a half four years now, 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.359 and he's probably a little fed up with it. Before 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.119 the shutdown happened, look at what black unemployment was, it 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.159 was a record low. The number of African Americans have 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.120 had jobs, the wages that were going up, and then 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.680 this virus comes along and the bottom has pulled out 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.439 from it. He's got to be frustrated. As as he 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.160 can be. And I'm not trying to carry his water. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.520 But the black black unemployment rate started going down under Obama, touto. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.280 I mean, that's that's one thing that Trump takes credit for. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.479 It had actually started under President Obama it did. Okay, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:31.960 Well that's then cast you a question to Russ. Yeah, 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.919 moving forward, all right, because you know the cops. Say, 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.040 let's say the cops get arrested, the cop gets charge, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.359 you go to jail. Great, how do we dismantle white 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.960 supremacy as a whole moving forward? Well, that's another show, guys, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.680 Because A I don't, I don't. You'd have to define 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.000 what it means to you? What what? Because I don't. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.320 I don't feel like I am a white supremacist, and 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.120 I don't think there's much white supremacy going on out there. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.760 But I need to have your define. See, this is 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.159 one of the divides. I'll tell you. I'll tell you that. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.960 To me once again, this system is designed to work 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.320 for the people that it was built by, and that's 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.520 white folks, particularly all white men. And now that people 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.879 have had enough because those white folks I spoke about earlier, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.880 who are out there, you know who really love black 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.960 people as much as they love black culture, and they're 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:21.879