Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, in the morning, you wake up the
Speaker 1: morning I'm talking right, I know you're about to experience
Speaker 1: a morning showing like idiot to the bast club. What
Speaker 1: you guys are doing right now? It's the hup culture.
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club is my morning fit. I need it and
Speaker 1: I love it. Something tells yo like you really not
Speaker 1: popping until you do the Breakfast Club. The waiting come
Speaker 1: to y'all show man. I know you gotta be a
Speaker 1: big time celebrity. Be upter here. You gotta be. You
Speaker 1: gotta be a big time d J Nry Angiola Ye
Speaker 1: and Charlotta Maine the guy the Breakfast Club, bitch you
Speaker 1: Good morning USA. And to rouno yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo Good morning Angela ye
Speaker 1: Dad moneys Ambi, Charlemagne the god piece to the plane.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, Yes, it's Thursday. I hear you're scratching.
Speaker 1: What you mean. I hear you're scratching. I ain't stretching.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about Oh I thought I heard
Speaker 1: you're scratching. You can't keep thought to you having this
Speaker 1: what it's too earlier. Maybe i'm or maybe I'm just
Speaker 1: projecting on you. I don't don't project anything on me.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely tired. Zoom is very exhausting, bro. It is
Speaker 1: if you gotta if you gotta be on Zoom for
Speaker 1: the majority of your day, it is very, very very exhausting.
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, um, you know, your people think
Speaker 1: that being that it's on Zoom, you can do more. Right,
Speaker 1: So to be a lot of stuff on your schedule
Speaker 1: Zoom is exhausted. I'm tired of Zoom, but I need
Speaker 1: some human interaction when it comes to these meetings and
Speaker 1: interviews and whatever else. Yeah, I've been I've been doing
Speaker 1: a lot of Zoom calls. What I've been doing now recently,
Speaker 1: I ain't even gonna front. I've been doing it on
Speaker 1: my phone and just being like, my video doesn't work,
Speaker 1: so I could just do it as like a just
Speaker 1: a conference call. I've been doing it that a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Hilarious a couple of times. But why don't
Speaker 1: you want to be seen? Um? Sometimes like other things
Speaker 1: to do and when you do a zoom call, you
Speaker 1: just got to really be sitting down into the zoom call.
Speaker 1: But I like to multitask. So there's a million one things.
Speaker 1: I got five kids, There's a lot of things going on,
Speaker 1: So sometimes I just put it on the phone and
Speaker 1: keep it moving like that. That is true. You do
Speaker 1: a lot of these zoom meetings. People will be doing
Speaker 1: be doing a lot of other stuff. They'd be cooking, cleaning,
Speaker 1: and like people will be trying to do two and
Speaker 1: three things that want when they on the zoom I
Speaker 1: don't even know. Well, yesterday I went out and I
Speaker 1: was walking around in Brooklyn. I was like, let me
Speaker 1: get out of the house again and go for a
Speaker 1: little walk. There with a lot of very peaceful protests
Speaker 1: here in Brooklyn yesterday. So and today they are actually
Speaker 1: going to be Mike Fell. And today they're actually going
Speaker 1: to be having a memorial service for George Floyd and
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and Cabin Plaza at one o'clock. Well, the three officers,
Speaker 1: three other officers were charged yesterday. Absolutely Now the chargers
Speaker 1: were were aiding and a betting to murder. Was that
Speaker 1: that second degree Yeah, aiding and a betting the second
Speaker 1: degree murder because they also Chabin's charges to second degree
Speaker 1: instead of third degree. Right, what that means? You got
Speaker 1: Attorney ben Crump calling in this morning, because that's right, Attorney,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what any of that means. That's right,
Speaker 1: Attorney Benjamin Crump will be checking in. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: would think that the other three officers who were I
Speaker 1: think it was two other officers, we're kneeling. We're kneeling
Speaker 1: on him as well, like on his lord experimities like
Speaker 1: his back and stuff like that. So I would think that,
Speaker 1: you know, being that they physically were on him, you know,
Speaker 1: they would be charged with something a little little stronger
Speaker 1: and aiding and the betting, but hey, what do I know?
Speaker 1: Charges of the charges that will stick? Who knows? Man?
Speaker 1: And then yesterday I think they had the uh the
Speaker 1: mug shots of all four officers. Were the other three
Speaker 1: or released yesterday and people were asking, was the lack
Speaker 1: one of the officers h lack of African American? Was
Speaker 1: he a minority? Do we know they did not get ethnicities?
Speaker 1: I didn't see that anywhere. One of them definitely Asian?
Speaker 1: Right now, we know what we want to look at
Speaker 1: that and see that. But they're saying none of them.
Speaker 1: They can't tell they can't tell you. There were some
Speaker 1: people were saying he was Asian, some people saying he
Speaker 1: was black, some people were saying he was Latino. Day
Speaker 1: they were trying to get to, you know, find that out.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we have Attorney Benjamin Crump. He'll be checking in.
Speaker 1: He'll be breaking down the charges because I have no
Speaker 1: idea what those charges meaning and how much time those
Speaker 1: officers could really get. And we also have Reverend doctor
Speaker 1: William Barbro here'll be checking in as well. Absolutely, you
Speaker 1: will learn something on today's show. You definitely will. All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're
Speaker 1: talking about, Well, I guess um we were going to
Speaker 1: be talking about George Player, but maybe we should say
Speaker 1: that for Ben Crump because we just kind of gave
Speaker 1: all of that. So let's talk about these other officers,
Speaker 1: six Atlanta officers who were charging the arrest of the
Speaker 1: Kyllege students that they dragged from the car and hit
Speaker 1: with stun guns. All Right, we'll get into that next.
Speaker 1: Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning phoning everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all
Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news
Speaker 1: where we starting you. Well, yesterday Barack Obama had a
Speaker 1: virtual town hall. It was founded by my Brother's Keeper Alliance,
Speaker 1: and he partners with that with his Obama Foundation. We've
Speaker 1: all done a lot of different things with my Brother's Keeper.
Speaker 1: And here is what Barack Obama had to say about
Speaker 1: young people and how much they inspire him. Part of
Speaker 1: what's made me so hopeful as the fact that so
Speaker 1: many young people have been galvanized and activated. Because historically,
Speaker 1: so much of the progress that we've made in our
Speaker 1: society has been because of young people. Doctor King was
Speaker 1: a young man when he got involved. Caesar Chavez was
Speaker 1: a young man, Malcolm X was a young man. And
Speaker 1: so when sometimes I feel despair, I just see what's
Speaker 1: happening with young people all across the country and it
Speaker 1: makes me feel optimistic. It makes me feel as if
Speaker 1: this country's gonna get better. When Barack Obama was yea,
Speaker 1: they say no, I'm gonna say that's right because if
Speaker 1: the kids didn't kid and that that would be a problem.
Speaker 1: Like I've imagine, you know, all of this happened and
Speaker 1: the kids didn't have a reaction to it. Imagine if
Speaker 1: nobody had a reaction to it, And imagine if everybody
Speaker 1: just went on about that day after something like this,
Speaker 1: then you would mate, Damns America have a post. We
Speaker 1: should know it's alive. When Barack Obama was in office, though,
Speaker 1: he did roll out a number of policies to help
Speaker 1: curb those incidents of police brutality, like he created a
Speaker 1: task force with guidelines on twenty first century policing. He
Speaker 1: also limited the transfer of military equipment to police departments,
Speaker 1: but Donald Trump's administration did roll back some of those reforms. Now,
Speaker 1: in addition to that, Barack Obama talked about a change
Speaker 1: in mindset and how we have to keep the momentum going.
Speaker 1: There is a change in mindset that's taking place, a
Speaker 1: greater recognition that we can do better. That's a direct
Speaker 1: result of the activities and organizing and mobilization and engagement
Speaker 1: of so many young people. And so I just have
Speaker 1: to say thank you to them. Just make sure that
Speaker 1: we now follow through because at some point attention moves away.
Speaker 1: In addition to Daddio also gave three ways that you
Speaker 1: can make change. Number one, we know there are specific
Speaker 1: evidence based reforms that if we put in place today,
Speaker 1: would build trust save lives. Those are included in the
Speaker 1: twenty first Century Policing task Force Report. You can find
Speaker 1: it on Obama dot or number two. A lot of
Speaker 1: mayors and local elected officials read and supported the task
Speaker 1: Force report, but then there wasn't enough follow through. So
Speaker 1: today I am urging every mayor to review your use
Speaker 1: of force policies with members of your community and commit
Speaker 1: to report on planned reforms. Number three, Every city in
Speaker 1: this country should be a My Brother's Keeper community because
Speaker 1: we have two hundred and fifty cities, counties, tribal nations
Speaker 1: who are working to reduce the barriers and expand opportunity
Speaker 1: for boys and young men of color through programs and
Speaker 1: polo see reforms and public private partnerships. So go to
Speaker 1: our website get working might changes. We have to dismand
Speaker 1: through the mechanism of white supremacy, and the people who
Speaker 1: benefit from white supremacy have to be able to relinquish
Speaker 1: some of that power and privilege. Until that happens, it
Speaker 1: is going to continue to be oppression. You just can't
Speaker 1: get right, man. Usually your mike is too loud. Today
Speaker 1: it's too low. Bro I could barely as I can hear.
Speaker 1: They got they gotta figure this out there, you go.
Speaker 1: I can't do nothing. It sound like you turned it up.
Speaker 1: It got loud. Maybe they turned it up into in
Speaker 1: the studio all right, And the six Atlanta police officers
Speaker 1: had been booked after charges were filed against him. That
Speaker 1: was in Atlanta. They were filmed, as you know, breaking
Speaker 1: the windows of a vehicle and they yanked uh Spellman
Speaker 1: College and Morehouse College students out of the car. Twenty
Speaker 1: two year old Messiah Young was dragged from the vehicle
Speaker 1: and his girlfriend, twenty year old Tony A Pilgrim, was
Speaker 1: also dragged from her vehicle. Uh Now, they did try
Speaker 1: to press charges against Young. He was charged with attempting
Speaker 1: to elude the officers, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha lands Bottom
Speaker 1: said she's ordering that his charges are dropped, and body
Speaker 1: camera video shows that they also took another young man
Speaker 1: into custody in a downtown and a down a downtown
Speaker 1: street alongside a line of stop cars as well. He
Speaker 1: was pleading with police to let him go, saying that
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything. So they are happy that these
Speaker 1: officers are being held accountable for their actions. Two of
Speaker 1: the officers whose fires were announced Sunday, investigators Ivy Streeter
Speaker 1: and Mark Gardner, were charged, and there were four other
Speaker 1: officers charged as well. They're being charged with aggravated assault
Speaker 1: for using a taser against Young and charged with pointing
Speaker 1: a gun at Young, according to arrest warrants, and Gardner's
Speaker 1: charged with aggravated assault for using a taser against Pilgrim
Speaker 1: man drop on a clues bombs for Keisha Lands bottoms.
Speaker 1: Do you see that, man A du Blasio. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: how a man is supposed to treat corrupt police officers. Okay.
Speaker 1: I love elected officials who care about the people more
Speaker 1: than they care about the system. The system is supposed
Speaker 1: to work with us, and when it doesn't, and when
Speaker 1: there's an abusive power from the system, they got to
Speaker 1: be held accountable. As simple as that got them up
Speaker 1: out of there quick. We can't do that. Can't do
Speaker 1: that when you're in the police in your pocket like
Speaker 1: mad Bliss and the Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
Speaker 1: announced those charges during a news conference that happened. Atlanta
Speaker 1: Police did not immediately have a comment. All right, well,
Speaker 1: that is your front page news get it off your
Speaker 1: chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one.
Speaker 1: If you need to vent, hit us up right now.
Speaker 1: Phone lines wide open again the number again, it's eight
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Come on the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up,
Speaker 1: wake y'all. This is your time to get it off
Speaker 1: your chest. Because you're mad or blast, we want to
Speaker 1: hear from you on a breakfast clove. Hello. Who's this? Hey,
Speaker 1: this ros Au Bro. How are you feeling to day? Man?
Speaker 1: I'm feeling fine. One love to you all, one love
Speaker 1: to y'all in these get it off your chest, bro, man,
Speaker 1: I'm upset about that black authors of sci fi have
Speaker 1: no outlets. Really, like we're kind of rejected and thrown
Speaker 1: and loose from the film industry to the book literaries,
Speaker 1: to the publishing companies. You know, like we really need
Speaker 1: some some better outlets for black sci fi authors. Now,
Speaker 1: I agree smooth my dude s investor, he got this
Speaker 1: line call planet Dad, But I agree with you. It's
Speaker 1: only because they don't take us serious in that space
Speaker 1: right now. They look at black people and they think
Speaker 1: we're only supposed to be writing about one thing, which
Speaker 1: is usually the screet life, right, And that's that's like
Speaker 1: like they want us just to walk write an identity
Speaker 1: of corruption and nothing that develops us or gives us
Speaker 1: some science about life, you know. So like in my
Speaker 1: book The Black Rosa Coush, we got everything in there
Speaker 1: from post traumatic slave syndrome, like with doctor j. M.
Speaker 1: Joy m degury puts in her book, y'all definitely need
Speaker 1: to put her on your show. Have y'all had doctor
Speaker 1: post traumatic slave syndrome. She is she is the I
Speaker 1: call her the female malcol mix of this time. You
Speaker 1: got to really check her out, like she is the
Speaker 1: truth for post traumatic slave syndrome. If I've heard that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've heard that term. Yeah, I've definitely used
Speaker 1: that term. I don't maybe, man, maybe I do know her.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've definitely used that term though. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you to go see the Slave play on Broadway.
Speaker 1: Then well when it's whenever it's back open again, it's
Speaker 1: kind of all about that too. But I shout out
Speaker 1: to Toshi Bouchet. We had him on the show. He's
Speaker 1: a black sci fi author. He wrote the book War Girls. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Hey, what's going on? It's Kevin. Kevin. What's up?
Speaker 1: Broke morning everybody? Good morning, peace King. What's going on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell us right now. I'm part of me.
Speaker 1: I'll tell us what's going on right now. I'm actually
Speaker 1: uh like Ohio just actually went into a lockdown as
Speaker 1: of eleven sixty nine last night, and actually I gotta
Speaker 1: go up and I'm still I work. I work for
Speaker 1: Google and it's like seventeen thousand people here right now.
Speaker 1: It was like, I don't know why they didn't you
Speaker 1: know this, the message didn't get over here, but I just, uh,
Speaker 1: I just want to get off my chest and I'm
Speaker 1: ready for this thing to be over. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: my birthday is coming up on March. Study if I'm
Speaker 1: still I still gotta work, I still gotta do everything
Speaker 1: I gotta do here, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And it's just like I think it's us Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a point of it's chaotic. It's just chaotic. Now. You know,
Speaker 1: they gave me for hims to give the police. They're like, look,
Speaker 1: if you get pulled over, get a police this like
Speaker 1: what it's kind of crazy. So yeah, we got those two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you something. If
Speaker 1: you believe in social distancing, the club to want coronavirus
Speaker 1: to be over, it's pretty packed. I don't think you
Speaker 1: need to be in here. Yeah, and just be blessed
Speaker 1: that you do have some kind of job, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that have no work,
Speaker 1: have no income, and that they're allowing you to work
Speaker 1: with social distancing. Hello, who's this? Good morning angela. Yo.
Speaker 1: March twenty to me, listen. March twenty fourth is to
Speaker 1: me as January thirty is to you. Boo boo. Oh well,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, snack man, thank you, thank you. Okay, here,
Speaker 1: how are you celebrating with coronavirus? Yeah? Oh, thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: here's a joke. You're ready, Thank you. Guy, he's not
Speaker 1: even listening. What do you call a Mexican hangover? Corona virus?
Speaker 1: Get off the stage? Boo? Get it off your chest
Speaker 1: eight D five eight five one on five one if
Speaker 1: you need to vent eat us up right now. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's your
Speaker 1: time to get it off your chests, whether you're man
Speaker 1: or blast, so you better have the same. Inny, we
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Tram good Envy? Oh, we'll try. What's up? Brother?
Speaker 1: Hey trash Heyo, how are you? What's up? Boo? How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm going
Speaker 1: on Charlottamagne pieces what's happening? Telling like a villain, telling
Speaker 1: like a villain. Hey, Man, For first, I want to say,
Speaker 1: um training the training trainer at treating, at treating trainer,
Speaker 1: you are I'm gotta I'm I gotta take my pictures
Speaker 1: off my Instagram with her man, because he's he's She's
Speaker 1: clearly embarrassed. She's clearly being embarrassing right now, the way
Speaker 1: that she's acting, calling people animals and stuff. By the
Speaker 1: way she's supposed to be. She's supposed to be making
Speaker 1: a statement this morning. So we'll see what she has
Speaker 1: to say. Girl, keep your statement. I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think we want her statement. We try. We gotta
Speaker 1: stop doing one thing, though, we we gotta stop saying
Speaker 1: r ip just when somebody makes a mistake. That's a
Speaker 1: bit harsh, don't you think r I p under said
Speaker 1: that I might got to take my pictures down with her.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, but don't say r ip. Yeah
Speaker 1: you can somebody if she made a mistake, and and
Speaker 1: not saying not defending her. But let's be honest. We
Speaker 1: all say things out of anger, out of hate, out
Speaker 1: of being confused. So we'll see what she has to say.
Speaker 1: Hopefully she apologizes, she understands what she said that was,
Speaker 1: and listen, I'm fine if you want to cancel this.
Speaker 1: Don't put death on the person, all right, harsh I
Speaker 1: feel and you know what, and I think she was.
Speaker 1: She was a little emotional. You know, her brother got
Speaker 1: shot and killed and she was discussing that and a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. And she may have misspoke. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what she has to say this morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Well, listen, I'm also to say about my
Speaker 1: job real quick, right, So my job took the right
Speaker 1: spin as far as like blacking outs like their website
Speaker 1: and putting out a bunch of messages to our company
Speaker 1: and stuff and mind work at Montgomery County. Montgomery County
Speaker 1: also their mayor also claimed that Black Lives Matter as
Speaker 1: a terrorist organization. And you should see the way that
Speaker 1: people at my job right acting about the way that
Speaker 1: my company is standing behind Black Lives Matter batter so
Speaker 1: I might need to be finding another company. It's crazy
Speaker 1: that people take Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization.
Speaker 1: An organization that's actually sticking up for people because they're
Speaker 1: tired of seeing black people get killed at the hands
Speaker 1: of the pole is a terrorist. We're gonna strange plank you,
Speaker 1: dight five five one oh five one. Get it off
Speaker 1: your chest now you we got rumors on the way. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about Drew Brees. People are very
Speaker 1: upset at him. Lebron James is leading the athlete pushback
Speaker 1: on some of his comments on protests. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: get into that next. Keep it lot, It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about angela Ye fund
Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has started
Speaker 1: his own start small fund and he's putting up three
Speaker 1: million dollars of his own money into that fund, and
Speaker 1: it's all aimed at Kaepernicks Know Your Rights Camp. So
Speaker 1: he's dedicating that money to pay legal calls for protesters
Speaker 1: who got arrested while fighting for justice for George Floyd.
Speaker 1: So you can see you on Twitter. Three million to
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick's No Your Rights Camp to vance a liberation
Speaker 1: and well being a black and brown communities through education,
Speaker 1: self empowerment, mass mobilization to elevate the next generation of
Speaker 1: change leaders. And that's what he said, that money is
Speaker 1: going towards. So as you know, Conlin Kaepernicks Know Your
Speaker 1: Rights Camp started a legal defense initiative to cover legal
Speaker 1: bills for the freedom fighters. Oh, salute to Jack. That's right.
Speaker 1: That's that's how you use your privilege in paper to
Speaker 1: combat prejudice. Salute to Jack. Yes, And now let's talk
Speaker 1: about Drew Brees from the New Orleans Saints. The quarterback.
Speaker 1: He had some things to say when he talked about
Speaker 1: seeing players kneeling during the national anthem when football resumes.
Speaker 1: And here's what he had to say when he was
Speaker 1: questioned about that. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting
Speaker 1: the flag of the United States of America. Let me
Speaker 1: let me just tell you what I feel when the
Speaker 1: national anthem is played. And when I look at the
Speaker 1: flag of the United States, I envision my two grandfathers
Speaker 1: who fought for this country during World War Two? And
Speaker 1: is everything right with our country right now? No? We
Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. But I think
Speaker 1: what you do by standing there and showing respect to
Speaker 1: the flag with your hand over your heart is it
Speaker 1: shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together,
Speaker 1: we can all do better, and then we are all
Speaker 1: part of the solution. Drew Brees shut the f up forever.
Speaker 1: I watched that video a few times yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 1: understand the context, Like what it was they asking him
Speaker 1: about kneeling in peaceful protests? Was they asking him about
Speaker 1: the protest now? Like why did he volunteer that information
Speaker 1: at a time like this, I'm not sure? And they
Speaker 1: showed pictures him kneeling before, So I was lost in
Speaker 1: confusing exactly. Well, for any white people who don't understand this,
Speaker 1: notice you wonder why so many black folks have a
Speaker 1: problem with patriotism. It's because how can we salute a
Speaker 1: country that enslaved us and continues to brutalize us. Drew
Speaker 1: Brees sees America, you know, for the beautiful country. It
Speaker 1: is because he's a white privileged male. That's how he
Speaker 1: sees America, because this white supremacist system works well for
Speaker 1: him because it was designed too. So he don't see
Speaker 1: the same America. We see well, Lebron responded. He said, Wow, man,
Speaker 1: is it still surprising at this point? Sure? Isn't You
Speaker 1: literally still don't understand and why CAP was kneeling on
Speaker 1: one knee has absolute nothing to do with the disrespect
Speaker 1: of the flag and our soldiers men and women who
Speaker 1: keep our land free. My father in law was one
Speaker 1: of those men who fought as well for this country.
Speaker 1: I asked him questions about it and thank him all
Speaker 1: the time for his commitment. He never found caps peaceful
Speaker 1: protests offensive because he and I both know what's right
Speaker 1: is right and what's wrong is wrong. God bless you.
Speaker 1: A lot of players also, a lot of NFL players
Speaker 1: went online to vocalize how they felt about Drew Brees' comments,
Speaker 1: which a sherman said, He's beyond lost. Guarantee you they
Speaker 1: were black men fighting alongside your grandfather. But this doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be about that that uncomfortable conversation you are
Speaker 1: trying to avoid by injecting military into a conversation about
Speaker 1: brutality and equality as part of the problem, Julius Pepper said,
Speaker 1: if you're still talking about players disrespecting the flag by
Speaker 1: kneeling during the national anthem. Clearly you're not ready for
Speaker 1: these conversations. Call a time out and come back later now.
Speaker 1: Some of his most well known teammates from the Saints,
Speaker 1: including top wide receiver Michael Thomas, also publicly had things
Speaker 1: to say. Michael Thomas had elevated innovation over ignorance, and
Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson actually responded to Michael Thomas his comments and said,
Speaker 1: this where the whole Drew Brees accountable. Mike. I don't
Speaker 1: give it down if you throw you all of them touchdowns,
Speaker 1: bad time and Drew Brees bad timing. Bro. All right,
Speaker 1: you played from the walls and you live in the walls.
Speaker 1: All the black people knew, all of us support you,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. You gotta be a little bit more sensitive
Speaker 1: to the timing. Bro. You can't just be saying about
Speaker 1: your ass. You should understand, but y'all gotta hold all
Speaker 1: y'all white team makes accountable, bro, Drew Brees, if you
Speaker 1: ain't down with us, then you on the other side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be rough in that Saints loocking room, uh
Speaker 1: this year. But I also want to tell any white
Speaker 1: person out there who doesn't get it. If you don't
Speaker 1: understand why cap was kneeling. Then go watch the video
Speaker 1: of that white devil cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck
Speaker 1: for almost nine minutes, and then you'll probably get it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your
Speaker 1: rumor report. All right, thank you, miss Yee. Now, when
Speaker 1: we come back, we have Attorney Benjamin Crump joining us
Speaker 1: also test we're gonna be talking about these charges filed
Speaker 1: against these all, what they mean, what's next, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to him when we come back during front
Speaker 1: page news, So don't move us to Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scholomine the guy.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
Speaker 1: on the line, Attorney Benjamin Crump. Welcome back, brother, Hey,
Speaker 1: good to see your game. And tesla for Garos with
Speaker 1: attorney being Crump. Yes that sweet. Now we're gonna ask,
Speaker 1: of course, yesterday the three officers were charged, so can
Speaker 1: you break down the charges and tell us exactly what
Speaker 1: those charges mean and how much time can those officers
Speaker 1: really get? Absolutely, and thank you all for the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club family, everybody staying vigilant until we got the charges.
Speaker 1: The Attorney General for the state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison,
Speaker 1: a good brother well for a track record for champion
Speaker 1: in civil rights. He can announced yesterday that all the
Speaker 1: officers were being arrested for aiding and a bedding and
Speaker 1: he upgraded the charges envy on office of Chauvin to
Speaker 1: second degree murder, which if he is convicted and I
Speaker 1: say if, because we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: he can get up to forty years in prison. And Angie,
Speaker 1: the others who have charged aiding in a bedding, if
Speaker 1: they're convicted, they can get up to twenty years in prison.
Speaker 1: So based on the autops that we talked about with
Speaker 1: the family, doctor Michael Biden and a sister named doctor
Speaker 1: Alicia Wilson who is the head of Pathology and Forensic
Speaker 1: Sciences at the University of Michigan, they're an independent autopsy
Speaker 1: and came to these conclusions. Number one, the man and
Speaker 1: cause of death with mechanical asphyxiation based on the knee
Speaker 1: to the neck by Chauvin for almost nine minutes, eight
Speaker 1: minutes and forty six seconds Angie to be exact. And
Speaker 1: then the two knees in the back on the video Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: when we look at the other officer who kept his
Speaker 1: knees there the entire time, and so it was pressing
Speaker 1: down on his lungs, not allowing them to contract and
Speaker 1: intake or dispense air, which caused no blood flow to
Speaker 1: go to his brain, and he was starving from a
Speaker 1: lack of error. Literally, that's where it died from the
Speaker 1: legal definition of the autopsy was homicide. Obviously that's most
Speaker 1: important for the criminal charges. And so those were the conclusions,
Speaker 1: and they were contradictory to the conclusions of the county
Speaker 1: ba's who MEDICA examiners are autopsy and so that's what
Speaker 1: he used the basis charges. Angie, how can there be
Speaker 1: two such different autopsy results, That's what I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, because I know the family. You guys did
Speaker 1: go ahead and order an independent one. So how can
Speaker 1: something like that happen? Angie? Happens more often than you
Speaker 1: would think. The Medica examiner who works with the police
Speaker 1: departments every day, they come up with these amazing imaginary
Speaker 1: ways to tell us what we saw really didn't happen
Speaker 1: or was not the cause of death. And so the
Speaker 1: counter medical examiner did agree that it was homicide after
Speaker 1: we came out with it. But then he said it
Speaker 1: could be genitive heart failure, that he had some underlying
Speaker 1: health conditions that were undiagnosed, and so he said that
Speaker 1: is a condition that could have killed them because they
Speaker 1: saw no trauma to the trachea or not enough trauma
Speaker 1: to the creakier even though our doctors disagree with that.
Speaker 1: And they said, and Jane Charlemagne and easy, the old
Speaker 1: thing they always say, Oh he had drugs in his system,
Speaker 1: had coronavirus. That's what I heard some newer hurt this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's they saying that too. But that didn't kill them,
Speaker 1: even if it was there. No fitting all didn't kill them.
Speaker 1: No meth and fail amine killed them. All of those,
Speaker 1: I believe, or just distractions to try to us throw
Speaker 1: us off track, calling like Eric Garder, y'all y'all in
Speaker 1: New York, y'all know how they came out and tried
Speaker 1: to literally say that Eric Gardner didn't die from what
Speaker 1: those officers did. So that's why we got to stay vigilant.
Speaker 1: I know, we're talking about making sure we get a
Speaker 1: conviction all the officers on this case. And then Tesla
Speaker 1: is helping me talk about the political ramifications of how
Speaker 1: we use this moment to turn it into systematic reforming legislation.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it, t Let's hear that. That's what I
Speaker 1: want to hear. How do we keep prevent things like
Speaker 1: this from happening? Absolutely well, it's really important that we
Speaker 1: continue to collective pressure. You know, we talk about collective
Speaker 1: pressure all the time, and one thing is due to
Speaker 1: keep making sure that the message is consistent from a
Speaker 1: public standpoint. It's really important we keep hearing folks talk
Speaker 1: about the property damage. Let us all remember that when
Speaker 1: black people came to this country, the first thing that
Speaker 1: they did was make us property. So there has always
Speaker 1: over property being more important than black lives in black bodies.
Speaker 1: So it's really important, particularly to my breakfast club family,
Speaker 1: that we continue to keep the narrative consistent that one
Speaker 1: we need systematic change. I know Reverend Al Sharpton will
Speaker 1: be announcing some things today at the eulogy to talk
Speaker 1: about how we can come together to talk about federal
Speaker 1: laws that need to be in place, and those are
Speaker 1: the type of things that we need to keep the
Speaker 1: pressure on. We cannot allow this to be used as
Speaker 1: the poltical pond to have a center and Klobuchar or
Speaker 1: Biden or Trump or whoever to use this to push
Speaker 1: one agenda over the other. We must keep the main
Speaker 1: thing the main thing, and consistently talk about how do
Speaker 1: we get lost in place to make sure that police
Speaker 1: officers go to jail when they kill us. It's not
Speaker 1: about trying to change the heart of anybody, but it
Speaker 1: is about with diversity, training and so forth. That's important.
Speaker 1: But the main thing is if you get caught killing us,
Speaker 1: if you get caught doing us wrong, you will go
Speaker 1: to jail and that will be an immediate conviction. I
Speaker 1: will probably say this is the fastest that we've ever
Speaker 1: had a result. And this because people have been in
Speaker 1: the street, protesting, using their voices online and having folks
Speaker 1: like you at the breakfast club. They continue to keep
Speaker 1: that message consistent. Hey Ben, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: How come to other officers who kneeled on him? Why
Speaker 1: weren't they giving charges other than aiding in a bedding?
Speaker 1: You know? Attorney General Keith Ellison said to the family
Speaker 1: and me that they're continuing to investigate and if they
Speaker 1: find evidence that will sustain the first degree murder charge
Speaker 1: against Chauvin, they will upgrade that charge. And I believe
Speaker 1: they're gonna find that information out there because I think
Speaker 1: he knew George Floyd. I think they had a history,
Speaker 1: and so we got to keep on that. Charlomagne and
Speaker 1: number two, he said, if those other officers we can show,
Speaker 1: based on their audio from their body cameras that they
Speaker 1: had mental thoughts that were ill will against George, he
Speaker 1: will increase the charges. He said. He just doesn't have
Speaker 1: that evidence yet. And I do want to say whether
Speaker 1: it's a model, But Brianna Taylor, George, what we gotta
Speaker 1: do them with tes as a political consultant to all
Speaker 1: of us, Chalomagne's happen us with his systematic response in
Speaker 1: all of these cases, so black people the criminal justice
Speaker 1: system to work the same in Minnesota as it does
Speaker 1: in Georgia, or as doing Kentucky, or in state and
Speaker 1: all in New York. We need federal systematic reform to
Speaker 1: make sure this moment for George Floyd is not just
Speaker 1: a moment, but it's a movement to prevent other brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters from being being killed. Now, let me ask you,
Speaker 1: what can I ask you? A technical question? I've heard
Speaker 1: people saying that it's a lot harder to convict an
Speaker 1: officer or first degree murder, so they're saying that's why
Speaker 1: that's not a charge that they would prefer. I just
Speaker 1: want to ask you, as an attorney, because I don't
Speaker 1: know obviously the ins and outs of that, So are
Speaker 1: we trying to do that? Is that? Is there truth
Speaker 1: to that? Now, Queen, there's a lot of truth to that.
Speaker 1: It's very really that the officers ever convicted the first
Speaker 1: degree murder. That's what made both of them. John such
Speaker 1: a phenomenon. You remember the first time in the history
Speaker 1: of white policewoman was convicted the first degree murder for
Speaker 1: killing a black person. Because people want to believe police,
Speaker 1: no matter how much they show us that they have
Speaker 1: this legacy of being the slave patrol. A lot of
Speaker 1: our white brothers and sisters want to say, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're just doing their job. They're good people, and they
Speaker 1: didn't premeditate this. They didn't intend this. This is just
Speaker 1: something that happened, but they torch it. George Floyd, I mean,
Speaker 1: the governor Minnesota was right to say we want to
Speaker 1: investigate them for human right abuses in Van Charloma, because
Speaker 1: I mean, they tortured them. Nine minutes, he's saying I
Speaker 1: can't breathe. He's asking for his mama. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about the psychology of that for a second. The person
Speaker 1: who protects us most when we come in this world.
Speaker 1: It's innate for us to always think about our mothers,
Speaker 1: our protector. And then at the end of his life,
Speaker 1: in a desperate police he say Mama, mama, and then
Speaker 1: he does a documentary of his death and he says,
Speaker 1: I'm gone now. So that's why this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a hard funeral and memorial for the family. So we
Speaker 1: are big only serious mental health counseling. Charlotte made all
Speaker 1: his family, especially his children and his brothers and sisters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me and Tayla was talking about that last night. We're
Speaker 1: trying to put something together, you know, for the families
Speaker 1: to get that grief counseling that they need. Tay I
Speaker 1: don't want to ask you a question real quick. I started.
Speaker 1: They allowed Amy Klobuchar to announce that the officers were
Speaker 1: being arrested. That felt political to me. Why did she
Speaker 1: announce instead of Keith Ellis? Absolutely, well, we are let's
Speaker 1: just keep a real straight shout with no Jason, you know,
Speaker 1: being as nice, I'm gonna get a little bit rough.
Speaker 1: But she did it because again she has to make
Speaker 1: some type of amends to the black community. Too bad
Speaker 1: she wasn't doing that type of announcement years ago when
Speaker 1: she had an opportunity to discipline this officer, to the
Speaker 1: fire officer, to prosecute this officer. So what we're not
Speaker 1: getting ready to do in twenty twenty is played this
Speaker 1: game as this political pond, and she's continued to push
Speaker 1: her VP application up. And to be real, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be reviewed and it's gonna be reviewed by the people,
Speaker 1: and we'll determine on whether or not we think she's
Speaker 1: a suitable cab for vice president. So I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us are on it that the jig is up.
Speaker 1: We are able to figure out Amy, that you had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to speak up. So don't start with tweets
Speaker 1: down that this is me saying an attorney Benjamin Crump,
Speaker 1: he's more Martin, I'm more Malcolm. So let's be clear. Uh,
Speaker 1: Senator Cloby char we see it, We see you. We
Speaker 1: keep the game, and let's she also be a vocal
Speaker 1: voice and actually getting some federation passed. That's where her
Speaker 1: opportunity is to step in and not to try to
Speaker 1: use this as a political I just see this Aman,
Speaker 1: Charlotte Main and Angie. This guy had eighteen previous allegations
Speaker 1: of excessive force, most of them against minorities, so it
Speaker 1: was for silver. The problem Amy club charge was the
Speaker 1: district attorney before she became senator, so they could have
Speaker 1: prosecuted this guy and George Floyd will still be alive. Well,
Speaker 1: we know you gotta go, and we appreciate you tes
Speaker 1: An Attorney Benjamin Crumb for checking I know you guys
Speaker 1: are on seen right now. Thank you for checking in
Speaker 1: and breaking down the charges and keeping us in for them.
Speaker 1: And you know we got a line to you anytime
Speaker 1: we need you. Thank you so much. Guys. All right,
Speaker 1: pray for the family memorial of my love. Thank you absolutely.
Speaker 1: I But when we come back, we have Reverend doctor
Speaker 1: William Barber checking into the move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Breakfast Club. Ej Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we all the breakfast Club. Now we got a
Speaker 1: special guest on the line. Right now, we have Reverend
Speaker 1: doctor William Barbara, Good morning, brother, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: Now we're saying a second ago that you and Charlomagne
Speaker 1: were talking behind the scenes, but we were setting everything
Speaker 1: up and we said, saved it for air. So Charloman,
Speaker 1: what were you talking about with the brother, Well, he
Speaker 1: was telling me about how when you go to the
Speaker 1: meetings with these with these politicians, and he asked James,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, Reverend Barba. At the bottom line
Speaker 1: is in our campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, a national
Speaker 1: call for my revival. We did an audit of America
Speaker 1: on five interlocking injustice. Five injustices that are like interlocking
Speaker 1: eve and you got to address all of them simultaneously,
Speaker 1: because they try to choke the life out of what's
Speaker 1: left of this democracy. Systemic racism in all of its forms,
Speaker 1: systemic poverty, ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, the war econoiment
Speaker 1: and militarism, and the false modern of religious nationalism and
Speaker 1: white evangelicalism. When you go into meetings, you start talking
Speaker 1: and you lay out an agenda, you actually have fifty
Speaker 1: things or twenty things that relate to that. How we
Speaker 1: deal with it? The question is always, well, what is
Speaker 1: the most important, or what one thing, or for instance,
Speaker 1: on race that say okay, well we got a commission
Speaker 1: that we're gonna do for racism, and what we say
Speaker 1: is we have an agenda here. And then after a
Speaker 1: while I finally say, listen, look at this pandemic. We
Speaker 1: pass three bills, three trillion dollars in less than fifty
Speaker 1: forty days, back in two weeks. The corporations get everything
Speaker 1: they want. They get three trillion dollars. So if they
Speaker 1: can get three trillion things, then you need to hear
Speaker 1: my fifty right. We're not We're not playing that game
Speaker 1: because politics is not just about listening. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm deep, deeply concerned about
Speaker 1: right now. I heard it this morning somebody say, well,
Speaker 1: you know Trump, listen, Trump this, but you know we
Speaker 1: were getting along before him. I'm saying, but you were
Speaker 1: getting along doing what's right, getting along doing what There
Speaker 1: were hundred and forty million poor people in this country
Speaker 1: prior to the pandemic. Forty three percent of this nation
Speaker 1: and sixty one percent of African America were poor and
Speaker 1: low income prior to this pandemic, and seven hundred people
Speaker 1: were dying a day and two hundred a quarter million
Speaker 1: a year. Seven people died from vaping, and we had
Speaker 1: a congressional hearing. Seven people died from vaping, and there
Speaker 1: was a presidential audience in the White House. Seven hundred
Speaker 1: people dying a day from poverty, and sixty one percent
Speaker 1: of African American poet Lowell, sixty eight percent of Latino
Speaker 1: and politicians are scared to say poverty. Republicans are racialize it,
Speaker 1: Democrats running from it. Nobody deals with the reality of it.
Speaker 1: So we're not gonna just talk about one than we
Speaker 1: need to talk about the comprehensive things that need to
Speaker 1: be done. That's your question, the Reverend Bolba, why haven't
Speaker 1: black people received the economic justice they deserve from this country?
Speaker 1: You know, it has a long history. I want to
Speaker 1: go through the whole history, you know it. You know
Speaker 1: the thing that they stopped real quick was the four
Speaker 1: acres in the mute. It's kind of like, y'all free
Speaker 1: and Paul's two things. We weren't fighting for a long weekend.
Speaker 1: And the saying we weren't fighting for was just freedom.
Speaker 1: It was citizenship, full citizenship. I think the problem is
Speaker 1: one we've not dealt with the extent of the problem.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing since kings killed Robert Kennedy was
Speaker 1: killed nineteen sixty eight, for about fifty to two years,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, the issue of potty has
Speaker 1: been wiped off the table. We have a knee with
Speaker 1: Both parties are trapped not in the same way, but
Speaker 1: by a neoliberalism imagination that Baxley says, one proof says
Speaker 1: if you take care of middle class and up, everybody
Speaker 1: will be okay. If you take care what others says,
Speaker 1: if you take care of the top, that'll trickle down. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just not true. And so when you're trapped in
Speaker 1: that imagination and you're not even talking about the extent
Speaker 1: of the economic injustice. When I say one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty million people, that's out a shock everybody. First of all,
Speaker 1: the government says there's only thirty eight thirty nine million
Speaker 1: people that are poor. That's not true. According to Columbia Harvard,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and forty million. Now, you cannot continue
Speaker 1: to pass policies year after year after year and say
Speaker 1: we're getting better a little bit and never deal with
Speaker 1: the factor forty three percent of your entire population in
Speaker 1: poverty and in this pandemic is going over fifty. So
Speaker 1: the first has to deal with the extent of the issue.
Speaker 1: So what do you think the solution should be? How
Speaker 1: do we solve this problem? Right? Well, again, if I
Speaker 1: might talk in the terms that I talk in in
Speaker 1: terms of a fusion more fusion analysis, there are several
Speaker 1: things that block us from dealing with the real economic agenda.
Speaker 1: One starts with racism. One form of racism, and that's
Speaker 1: racist voter suppression and jaymandering, because that's used to lock
Speaker 1: up the system in a certain way, so that so
Speaker 1: that people can't really break through and be engaged. What
Speaker 1: I mean by that, we do mapping in our movement,
Speaker 1: and every state that is a racist voters pressure state
Speaker 1: that where the governor of the legislation to the congressional representatives,
Speaker 1: the Senate, and the presidential candidates get elected, is skewed
Speaker 1: by gerrymandering and racist Okay, that's that's the facular matter.
Speaker 1: The courts recently called it surgical racism. So that means
Speaker 1: that your political bodies are not really representative of the people.
Speaker 1: You can actually have more people vote in a progressive way,
Speaker 1: but then they not get elected because of racism. Now
Speaker 1: you said, what does that have to do with economics, Well,
Speaker 1: the economics is false by policy, not just by charity,
Speaker 1: and not just by one or two people getting rich.
Speaker 1: It's policy. Sixty to fifty four percent of all African Americans,
Speaker 1: for instance, make less than a living ways. You could
Speaker 1: change that tomorrow by raising the minimum ways to fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars an hour and pump six hundred and thirty billion
Speaker 1: dollars into the economy. But you can't raise that just
Speaker 1: by asking corporation to be nice. It has to be
Speaker 1: a policy. Voter suppression undermines our plitics. Let me quickly
Speaker 1: show you what I mean by that. Every state that
Speaker 1: is a racist voter suppression state, if you put the
Speaker 1: map over, that is also a high povertive state. Is
Speaker 1: also a state where the politicians block living wages and
Speaker 1: block healthcare. And the people who are doing that, many
Speaker 1: of them get elected not because they want to vote,
Speaker 1: because they cheated through racistists vote suppression in German. So
Speaker 1: you have so and here's the other piece of that.
Speaker 1: The people who use race to get elected. Once they
Speaker 1: get elected, they not only pass policies that hurt the
Speaker 1: overwhelm them a number of black people, They passed policies
Speaker 1: that hurt white people because there are more white people
Speaker 1: that are poor in raw numbers then there are black
Speaker 1: people that are more black people that are impacted by
Speaker 1: power in terms of the percentage, but they're answer them
Speaker 1: more white people in raw numbers. So if your politics
Speaker 1: are locked up, then your policies are locked up. And
Speaker 1: what kind of policies we need. We need living wages immediately.
Speaker 1: We need guarantee basic income. Doctor King talked about that
Speaker 1: years ago. Right, we need healthcare, and every congress person
Speaker 1: gets free healthcare, every governor gets free healthcare. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to the people having the same thing, they
Speaker 1: have all of a sudden, we can't afford it. We
Speaker 1: have more with Reverend doctor William babo when we come back,
Speaker 1: don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne mc gad, we'all the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Reverend doctor William
Speaker 1: Babo Ye. So with everything that's been happening now with
Speaker 1: the pandemic with coronavirus, do you feel like people are
Speaker 1: becoming more active and that they're actually stepping up and
Speaker 1: saying but the demands are and right before an election,
Speaker 1: just wanting certain policies and being more involved in local
Speaker 1: elections and all of that. Do you think that things
Speaker 1: are about to be somewhat of a revolution. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that those who think that the reaction to George
Speaker 1: Floyd's murder lynching, a knee killing on camera, death by racism.
Speaker 1: That's what we saw. I call it a Code sixty
Speaker 1: six death by racism. But you miss it if you
Speaker 1: think it's just about George Floyd, the same way you
Speaker 1: would miss it if you thought the reaction to the
Speaker 1: killing of Milly Jackson in nineteenes it to vile just
Speaker 1: about Jimilly Jackson. We are seeing public more people are
Speaker 1: protesting because they know it doesn't have to be like this.
Speaker 1: People only protest what they believe can be changed. If
Speaker 1: folk didn't protest, that meant we really would be in trouble,
Speaker 1: because it mean people have given en of all hope
Speaker 1: that things could change. Now. I think that this we
Speaker 1: see happening has the potential for people to say, wait
Speaker 1: a minute. When he said I can't breathe, he was
Speaker 1: talking about that cops knee on his neck and those
Speaker 1: other cops only back. But I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people heard that metaphorically. We can't breathe either. That's right
Speaker 1: because of the way the poverty on our neck and
Speaker 1: the denial of healthcare on our next You see, we're
Speaker 1: in the midst. It's when this happened. It happened in
Speaker 1: the midst of a pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, you
Speaker 1: had a hundred forty million people poor, seven hundred people
Speaker 1: a day dying from poverty. Then you have the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We have all this negligence in an aptitude of the
Speaker 1: President and the Senate, and then we have all this money.
Speaker 1: Three bills get passed, it goes for the corporate goes up,
Speaker 1: it doesn't come down. And then we take service workers
Speaker 1: and we said, oh, we know, we'll do. We'll give
Speaker 1: them a name change. That's all they need, changing from
Speaker 1: service work or two essential workers. But we won't give
Speaker 1: them the essentials they need. So you had three bills passed.
Speaker 1: Not one of those bills guarantee of healthcare in the
Speaker 1: middle of the pandemic. We didn't shive. Not one of
Speaker 1: those bills said we're gonna guarantee sickly, We're gonna guarantee unemployment.
Speaker 1: We're gonna guarantee rent forgiveness. That actual building they passed
Speaker 1: said you could have a moratorium on your rent for
Speaker 1: three years three months within the fourth month. You had
Speaker 1: to pay the three months and the fourth month at
Speaker 1: the same month, or you couldn't pay one month at
Speaker 1: a time. To hell, you know thrill? I mean really,
Speaker 1: And we didn't. We didn't. We didn't even guarantee in
Speaker 1: those those you could cut offs on a pandemic where
Speaker 1: you need to wash your hand. There was nothing in
Speaker 1: there that said you can't cut off people's water, damn right.
Speaker 1: But like, but like you said, you know, I was
Speaker 1: talking the other day. I was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: say deferment. I ain't got to pay for three months, right,
Speaker 1: Let's say four months. Let's say, man, I gotta get it.
Speaker 1: Find a job. Do when I find a job, you
Speaker 1: want me to play the full four months right away? Right?
Speaker 1: I can't afford it, and and you you can. How
Speaker 1: could you if I couldn't pay, I can barely pay thirteen.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna raise my note up so I can
Speaker 1: make up the four months? Right? I can't say that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be late and you're gonna be that's right,
Speaker 1: But you immediately give the corporations two eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of all that money went to up top eighty five percent.
Speaker 1: So basically you say to them, we're gonna pay you
Speaker 1: to pay your bill. In fact, we're gonna say, poor
Speaker 1: folk have to pay an eighty five percent searchyard just
Speaker 1: to get a little tina that we didn't. We didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody would look brought my breakfast club. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't go to a club they had an eighty five
Speaker 1: I said, search, yarg on, you just coming in? Come on, y'all.
Speaker 1: I mean, we ain't all been saved all our life.
Speaker 1: Come Onbam. I keep saying that if Barack Obama is
Speaker 1: Jeff K Joe Biden has the chance to be Lending b. Johnson,
Speaker 1: especially in a moment like this, you think he could
Speaker 1: be as progressive on race and classes LBJ. I think
Speaker 1: we are in a third reconstruction. The pains of a
Speaker 1: third reconstructive first one was reconstruction right out to slavery.
Speaker 1: Then you had a reaction to that, just like Trump
Speaker 1: was reaction to Barack Obama. We had a second reconstruction,
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement then the reaction to that was
Speaker 1: the Southern strategy and Wallace and Nixon and all that,
Speaker 1: and now we're in the birth pains of a third reconstruction.
Speaker 1: I said to Vice President on an Easter podcast. I
Speaker 1: heard it all right, that there are moments that crucifixion
Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity to resurrect, but you gotta take it.
Speaker 1: There are moments that what you may have said and
Speaker 1: meant well before doesn't fit and you have to know
Speaker 1: that moment. And not only Biden, but the Congress. I
Speaker 1: keep saying to even to Democrats, all these energy industries,
Speaker 1: what if people you come out, they come out with
Speaker 1: a hero to be able even that's limited because it's limited.
Speaker 1: They said, well, what we can't get past because of McConnell, Well,
Speaker 1: why not passed in the House what ought to be passed.
Speaker 1: And then McConnell wants to go against people's lives. Let
Speaker 1: him do that publicly, and we film that and short
Speaker 1: to people. And then the question to become do you
Speaker 1: want to vote for folk we're trying to fight for
Speaker 1: you to have healthcare, or do you want to vote
Speaker 1: for folk to even in the midst of a pandemic,
Speaker 1: will let you die. Do you want to vote for
Speaker 1: people who will say you need a living wave and
Speaker 1: will push that out there, or do you want to
Speaker 1: vote for people but believe things that really live operations.
Speaker 1: There has to be a dicotomy, and we have to
Speaker 1: get free of this deoliberal from the middle high middle
Speaker 1: up imagination. So I think it's possible, but it's only
Speaker 1: possible if it's rooted in policy. It can't just be
Speaker 1: a conversation. And this is the time I think you
Speaker 1: have to do a major presentation. In fact, this is
Speaker 1: gonna sound strange maybe to some part, and let me
Speaker 1: say it here. I keep hearing folks and we need,
Speaker 1: we need a black agenda. But the question is how
Speaker 1: do we do that? And what I mean by that
Speaker 1: if you look at these five interlocking injustices, what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for and what the poor People's campaigns looking for.
Speaker 1: And while we're meeting on June twenty of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four a Mans Poor People's Assembly and Marl March on
Speaker 1: Washington that day, you're not gonna hear from me, or
Speaker 1: say you're gonna hear from this white coal mine in
Speaker 1: Kentucky who's hooking up these black folk from the Mississippi
Speaker 1: Delta who decided to address racism and poverty, not just poverty,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to deal with race and not
Speaker 1: just race. So they think it's that's just dealing with
Speaker 1: black people. What if we had the Congress and the
Speaker 1: candidates forget party for a minute. What if you say,
Speaker 1: here's my plan for healthcare. Let's just say healthcare this pandemic.
Speaker 1: And when I put this plan together, I made sure
Speaker 1: that addressing the disparities of race was right in the
Speaker 1: center of putting it together. Now here's the plan. And
Speaker 1: if I am elected and this plan is pushed forward,
Speaker 1: this is how will impact black people, this is how
Speaker 1: will impact Latino people, This is how will impact children,
Speaker 1: this is how That's the grown up conversation we got
Speaker 1: to have. Absolutely in America. I walk in every piece
Speaker 1: of policy our campaign says, in every policy, we want
Speaker 1: to know, how does it address systemic racism, systemic positive,
Speaker 1: ecological devastation, so forths all so those, And then that
Speaker 1: way we move from voting for a person to a
Speaker 1: prosity that has a policy. Hi, we got more with
Speaker 1: Reverend doctor William Barber. When we come back, don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club, Good Morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the gad y'all. The Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: was still kicking it with Reverend Doctor William Barber Charlomane.
Speaker 1: I keep saying, man, voting doesn't matter if the person
Speaker 1: you voting for is not going to go in there
Speaker 1: and help dismand through the system of white supremacy, exactly,
Speaker 1: and and and then you got to teach folks. What
Speaker 1: we do in the Poor People's Campaign is we teach
Speaker 1: people that racism, when you really push it, it's not
Speaker 1: just against black people, it's against humanity, it's against the democracy.
Speaker 1: It hurts everybody. Remember what I said, the same p
Speaker 1: politician that passed racist vote suppression law, block living wages
Speaker 1: and block healthcare. And when they do that, it actually
Speaker 1: blocks more in raw numbers, not in the impact way people.
Speaker 1: That's why our campaign is organizing people in the hills
Speaker 1: of Kentucky and in the black streets of Louisville. Because
Speaker 1: doctor King said in sixty five, anytime black poor folk
Speaker 1: and white poor folk. He said this at the end
Speaker 1: of the some of the Montgomery March. I think one
Speaker 1: of the greatest speeches that we don't reference enough. He said,
Speaker 1: anytime there's the possibility for poor black folk and poor
Speaker 1: white people to change the political capitals and to change
Speaker 1: the policy. The bourbon class noticed, he didn't say democratic republic.
Speaker 1: He said, the bourbon class, the aristocracy sows division, sows
Speaker 1: division by design. And so we have to first of
Speaker 1: all deal with what racism is. And then second of all,
Speaker 1: we have to examine it in every aspect of policy.
Speaker 1: And the third of all, we have to be able
Speaker 1: to name specific policies that are going to unpack it.
Speaker 1: And I and I think what people misread when when
Speaker 1: when you ask these questions on the front end, they
Speaker 1: act like black people like if you if you don't
Speaker 1: if you ask a question and push me, then you
Speaker 1: might not vote for me in November. Well I might not,
Speaker 1: But if I ask you and maybe you give me
Speaker 1: fifty percent, I might look at the other person and say,
Speaker 1: well they are twenty percent, So I vote for you,
Speaker 1: and then I push you after the election for the
Speaker 1: rest of the fifty. But you can't just get a pass.
Speaker 1: I got to talk quick questions, man. The poor People's campaign,
Speaker 1: that's the movement. Doctor MLK Junior was pivoted too it's
Speaker 1: ultimately I think we got him killed. What made you
Speaker 1: want to think, well, it got it got him killed.
Speaker 1: You know, it pains me to say some of this.
Speaker 1: But when doctor King called his nation the greatest purveyor
Speaker 1: of violence, and exactly the one year to the date
Speaker 1: of his death, August third, nineteen sixty seven, and he
Speaker 1: started talking about the three evils poverty, racism, and militarism.
Speaker 1: And he said that America couldn't be who she pretends
Speaker 1: to be and promises to be without dealing with all
Speaker 1: three of those moral fusion. And she said, he said,
Speaker 1: we got to deal with all three of them. The
Speaker 1: next morning, over a hundred newspapers wrote against him. Some
Speaker 1: black newspapers wrote against him black some black organizations wrote
Speaker 1: resolutions against him, prominent organizations, some ministers turned against him.
Speaker 1: He lost his invitation to the White House. And the
Speaker 1: more he started talking about the two Americas, one prosperous
Speaker 1: and one poor, the more he started bringing together poor
Speaker 1: and white people and black people around this agenda to
Speaker 1: a deal with racism and poverty. What you see in
Speaker 1: the street now white and black folk. But talking about
Speaker 1: racism poverty. Once he did that, he was marked because
Speaker 1: it was about fundamentally shifting to society. Now. The other
Speaker 1: half of that story is it was the black welfare
Speaker 1: rights women that kind of pushed doctor King to go
Speaker 1: in that direction, and doctor King understood something. You cannot
Speaker 1: change this society until you change the narrators. That's what
Speaker 1: we're doing today. My last question, macause you are a reverend.
Speaker 1: I feel like everything that's going on right now is divine,
Speaker 1: and I truly feel like no good is gonna come
Speaker 1: to America until they do right by black people through
Speaker 1: legislation and reparations. What do you think exactly? You know
Speaker 1: you cannot. John Hope Franklin said something that encapsulated it
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm gonna repeat him. God blessing he's
Speaker 1: gone on that. We did an interview with him. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, if I could keep somebody enslavery for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years and then at him go and
Speaker 1: just say, oops, that's what not doing reparations, that's not
Speaker 1: what not doing not dealing with the realities of the
Speaker 1: injustices that still permeate from two hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: of free labor being taken. If I can do that
Speaker 1: to somebody and then just say well, DJ and the oops,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go be free. That's what John Hope Franklin said.
Speaker 1: Mark can't just say oops, right, not just to us,
Speaker 1: but to the genocide, because that toward First nation people.
Speaker 1: You can't just say oops, you can't take and you
Speaker 1: can't build an entire country on the backs of slavery
Speaker 1: that was rooted in rooted in what we call bad biology,
Speaker 1: and that is your skin color determines your brain size
Speaker 1: six sociology, that is, black and white people can't be
Speaker 1: together on the same level, at the same level of
Speaker 1: humanity or evil. Economic that the end justifies the mean,
Speaker 1: no matter what you do, as as long as somebody
Speaker 1: makes money is all right. And then the last one
Speaker 1: is heretical ontology, that is that God meant for it
Speaker 1: to be like that. You can't build an entire economic
Speaker 1: system and a country on top of that. And then
Speaker 1: the end of it and the end of the gym
Speaker 1: crow legal gem crow say oo's when you're still are
Speaker 1: trapped in so many ways by systemic racism. Can't do that.
Speaker 1: Politicians will be only as good as we make our
Speaker 1: political system will be only as good as we make them.
Speaker 1: And so that's why we can't even wait on them
Speaker 1: to have an agenda to an agenda and then demand
Speaker 1: that that agender be responded to it. And that's what
Speaker 1: the Poor People's Campaign done. We don't just talk about
Speaker 1: the numbers and the problem. For every problem we raise,
Speaker 1: we have a solution. You can go to www. Poor
Speaker 1: People's Campaign Dot organ is right there your listeners, and
Speaker 1: you can join us on June twenty of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: to hear it ten o'clock on every kind of social
Speaker 1: media on the MSNBC is going to do a big
Speaker 1: piece on it and let us use their entire so
Speaker 1: media platform. We want people to tune in to hear
Speaker 1: white people talking about racism, that people talking about economic
Speaker 1: issues and telling their story and saying we are not
Speaker 1: going to quit until all five systemic racism, systemic poverty,
Speaker 1: ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, this war economy, and the
Speaker 1: false maderna, the religious nationalism are addressed. These these things
Speaker 1: have to be addressed. And if you are bothered by
Speaker 1: what we do, remember that when a man is bleeding,
Speaker 1: ambulance is run the light. And it's normal for an
Speaker 1: ambulance to run the light. When folk as in trouble.
Speaker 1: Doctor King said that, he said, and we need some
Speaker 1: ambulance driver drivers now, some people who are willing to
Speaker 1: refuse to obey the rules of It's all right, it's okay,
Speaker 1: just wait and wait again. Too many people, too many
Speaker 1: people are suffering. We must make our political system respond.
Speaker 1: We must do it in our deepest mall and non.
Speaker 1: I believe traditions, but it must not be weak. It
Speaker 1: has to be strong, has to be a gender base,
Speaker 1: it has to last for an election and beyond an election.
Speaker 1: My brother, thank you, Mander, thank you for even having me. Doctor.
Speaker 1: Don't don't be a stranger. I won't now next time.
Speaker 1: I'm a little mad because y'all y'all didn't drop the music.
Speaker 1: I guess you don't do it when you're taping season.
Speaker 1: I won't get out here because like I am a preacher,
Speaker 1: but you know I can still get down. You don't
Speaker 1: trust the profit that can't dance. But you want to
Speaker 1: hear pay so what you want to hear rap? Let
Speaker 1: me see, let me see what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: What I want to hear to say? Uh, fight the
Speaker 1: powers that be, deal that takes away though? All right,
Speaker 1: my brother, take care of Good Morning, Wanting. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rum as. Let's talk
Speaker 1: Lauren London team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela
Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. So Lauren London was on
Speaker 1: a red table talk and just as a disclaimer, they
Speaker 1: did record this prior to social distancing requirements and so
Speaker 1: at the beginning Data had to give an updated introduction
Speaker 1: talking about George Floyd and Madarberry, Brianna Taylor and then
Speaker 1: she sat down with Lauren London and they talked about
Speaker 1: the trauma of gun violence and how it affects women.
Speaker 1: Now here's what Lauren London had to say about meeting
Speaker 1: people who Nipsey Hustle changed their life. I love to
Speaker 1: meet people that nip has like really inspired because it
Speaker 1: feels like he's still here even though he is in
Speaker 1: a way, but it's like his purpose that was completely
Speaker 1: outside of any of us. His purpose he's touching people.
Speaker 1: Still a fine that when I run into people that
Speaker 1: tell me how he's changed your life. Now. She also
Speaker 1: talked about raising black boys and having to prepare them
Speaker 1: to interact with police officers. What I instill in them
Speaker 1: is more about the police, how to handle yourself when
Speaker 1: you get pulled over, right, That's more of my education. Yes,
Speaker 1: protecting them being black men in America. How soon it's
Speaker 1: too soon to have that conversation with your with your
Speaker 1: young black young black boys, like when do your young
Speaker 1: black boys go from being cute to being scary to
Speaker 1: white America to It was funny a friend of mine
Speaker 1: calling me yesterday and had that same conversation. It was like,
Speaker 1: well when when when have you told your kids? And
Speaker 1: I've said, uh, I think Logan was around thirteen when
Speaker 1: we had that first conversation, and I think it was
Speaker 1: around the same time one of his white friends called
Speaker 1: him and um, but my six year old. I think
Speaker 1: he's still a little innocent. He doesn't have to necessarily.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put that stress on them right now.
Speaker 1: When when it gets a little old, I think maybe
Speaker 1: ten to eleven. But I don't hide it from him.
Speaker 1: I don't hide the news from them. They watch the news.
Speaker 1: They know about coronavirus, they know about COVID nineteen, they
Speaker 1: know about George Floyd, so they do know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But I haven't had that. There's a certain conversation yet,
Speaker 1: It's just a rough conversation to have with kids, to
Speaker 1: tell your kids that you will probably be treated differently
Speaker 1: because of the color of your skin, Like you don't
Speaker 1: know when to plant that seat, you know, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: conversation all right. Lauren Lennon also talked to our Red
Speaker 1: Table talk about advice that she can give to other
Speaker 1: people who are coping with the loss of a loved one.
Speaker 1: Here's what she said. For me, what's really been important.
Speaker 1: It's like connecting with God, and that's been a struggle
Speaker 1: because something horrible happens in your eyes and you're like,
Speaker 1: how God? And knowing that there is life after this life.
Speaker 1: It's not easy. I don't always wake up on the
Speaker 1: enlightened side of the bed, you know, in the days
Speaker 1: that I don't, I let myself because I'm human and
Speaker 1: find things that matter, and so I'll try to live
Speaker 1: with the purpose. Lord, have Mercymn prayers up for Lauren London.
Speaker 1: Always always sending Lauren London positive energy, love and light.
Speaker 1: Man r Ip Nipsey Nipsey Hustle. Absolutely, yes, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are like man. We would love to hear
Speaker 1: Nipsey's voice right now in particular right now all right,
Speaker 1: So Calice has went on her Instagram page and she
Speaker 1: also feels like the music industry, instead of just doing
Speaker 1: a blackout Tuesday, should also help out black musicians. She said,
Speaker 1: if the music industry wants to support black lives, labels
Speaker 1: and platforms can start with the mending contracts, distributing royalties,
Speaker 1: diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back all of the black
Speaker 1: artists and their families they have built their empires on
Speaker 1: Erica bad doing a Zelia Banks also shared that message
Speaker 1: as well, not a bad message, right, yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with that. She's right, it's it's it's not that it's
Speaker 1: that the record label contracts have never been fair for
Speaker 1: any artists. Correct know what I'm saying, period, But it's
Speaker 1: you know, black artists have made these labels so much money,
Speaker 1: so it's just like it's bad business. Rightly of the
Speaker 1: record sold like a small percent, maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: pennies for what they sell, which is ridiculous. Like artists happened.
Speaker 1: I was on the road. That's why right now, artists,
Speaker 1: a lot of artists are effed up. Don't get it
Speaker 1: twisted don't get the show in cash and money and
Speaker 1: all that on Instagram. Artists make their money majority of
Speaker 1: them by doing shows and being on the road. The
Speaker 1: fact that they can't be on the road and all
Speaker 1: the streams that they're seeing, they're not getting a majority
Speaker 1: of that money at all. And it's not right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: always want to labels artists. I had a conversation with
Speaker 1: an executive and what he was telling me was that
Speaker 1: a lot of times when they do sign an artist,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a risk because most of the artists,
Speaker 1: it's very small percentative artists that actually become stars. But
Speaker 1: when that does happen, they do go back and renegotiate
Speaker 1: a contract because they do want it to be more
Speaker 1: fair to the artists, so that the original contract that
Speaker 1: they sign, you know, they want to make sure that
Speaker 1: they do more for them. And this executive also told
Speaker 1: me that when they do it three sixty deals, a
Speaker 1: lot of times they don't really cash in on like
Speaker 1: the merchandise and the touring and all of that. I wonder.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's completely fair, but I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: you know, That's why I said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: if if record labels, old artists, the old artists. Old
Speaker 1: is a strong word because you signed the contract and
Speaker 1: it is a business. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just bad business, and bad business are
Speaker 1: just a record business. I don't know both both both both.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it is bad business, but I
Speaker 1: do think it's a record business. But I think it
Speaker 1: needs to change. And I'm hoping when we have people
Speaker 1: in power like your jay Z's that owned Rock Nation,
Speaker 1: that signs so all these artists, that's helping these artists
Speaker 1: out or helping them to sign better deals, which they are,
Speaker 1: and that's what you need to protect themselves too. Let's
Speaker 1: be clear, they never artists to get got that got
Speaker 1: got to to to change the situation, because there are
Speaker 1: some artists who get a big chunk of money and
Speaker 1: then they don't put duce and then the label has
Speaker 1: to eat that also, all right, But so it always
Speaker 1: will be a few artists that will keep a label afloat,
Speaker 1: and then hundreds more of that end up being right off.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, well, I mans you the yeah,
Speaker 1: and that is your room of report, all right, thank you,
Speaker 1: miss ye. Now, Charlomagne, whore you giving that donkey too.
Speaker 1: We need New Orleans Saints Drew Breese to come to
Speaker 1: the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a
Speaker 1: world with him place waiting for this one. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. Keep a lot this to
Speaker 1: breakfast club. Good morning, donkey at the dates you get Dunky,
Speaker 1: you are, I'm gonna fatten all that around. You want
Speaker 1: this man to Dolden blowers. Man, they're waiting for Charlomagne
Speaker 1: to top these blows. Let's have to make a judgment.
Speaker 1: Who was going to be on the Donkey of the day.
Speaker 1: They chose you because the breakfast club, bitch, you use
Speaker 1: donkey of the day to day. Donkey here today for Thursday,
Speaker 1: June fourth, goes the New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Breese. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the man and as is very very heavy on this sandwich. Okay.
Speaker 1: I've been having a lot of conversations with my white
Speaker 1: friends this week. They all want to know what to say,
Speaker 1: how to say it in regards to not only the
Speaker 1: Deafer George Floyd, but about their place on this planet
Speaker 1: in general, you know, the whole white, privileged, white supremacist conversation.
Speaker 1: And see, sadly, there's not a white person in America
Speaker 1: who can say that at some point someone in their
Speaker 1: family tree, someone and someone in their bloodline, their ancestors,
Speaker 1: were part of the problem. Okay, the problem being white supremacy.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. People, nothing to be ashamed of,
Speaker 1: nothing to be embarrassed about, no matter how history books
Speaker 1: attempt to sanitize it, no matter how sweet they try
Speaker 1: to make it sound. All America was not built on
Speaker 1: Christian values. Okay, like they try to sell it, all right,
Speaker 1: please stop. Okay, America was built on the back of
Speaker 1: slavery and racism. That's it, point blank period, pooh, all right.
Speaker 1: Slavery was America's first big business. This country was founded
Speaker 1: by old white men who were not attempted to make
Speaker 1: this country all inclusive for everyone, especially black people. Okay,
Speaker 1: we were property, like actual literal property. That's why we
Speaker 1: got to constantly tell people black lives matter, because in
Speaker 1: the Constitution it says black people were three fifths of
Speaker 1: a person, the three fists rule. That's why we were
Speaker 1: treated it's property. Okay, So that's why we got to
Speaker 1: constantly remind you, no, I am actually a life, not
Speaker 1: a piece of property. And to this day some still
Speaker 1: look at us as as property. Okay, so yes, my
Speaker 1: white allies, that's the harsh truth. If you are ready
Speaker 1: and willing to start from that place, then we can
Speaker 1: figure out how to dismantle this mechanism called white supremacy. Now,
Speaker 1: in regards to speaking out, you shouldn't have to ask
Speaker 1: me how to speak out for another human in regard
Speaker 1: to their pain. Okay, if you are a spiritually conscious
Speaker 1: person in any way, if you are just a human
Speaker 1: being with empathy, when you saw that video at George Floyd,
Speaker 1: you should have felt the way and whatever you felt,
Speaker 1: express it. Okay. You don't need a black person's permission
Speaker 1: for that. Okay, this is a matter, this is a
Speaker 1: matter of race, but it's also just a matter of
Speaker 1: being human. So if you want to do, if you
Speaker 1: want to know what to do, it's simple, just stand
Speaker 1: up for other humans. Sadly, some people just don't get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not even mad at them for not getting it,
Speaker 1: because we all live in on individual bubbles, and when
Speaker 1: you are a white male, you definitely live in a
Speaker 1: bubble because this system, for the most part, works perfectly
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, this white supremacist system. Whether you are
Speaker 1: prejudice bigoted, racist or not. Works great for most white
Speaker 1: males because it was designed by white males, so it
Speaker 1: was always going to be built in advantages, which is
Speaker 1: why when someone like Drew Brees doesn't get it, it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me at all. See. Drew Brees was giving
Speaker 1: an interview with Yahoo Finance. During the interview, he was
Speaker 1: asked his thoughts on the subject of players potentially kneeling
Speaker 1: during the national anthem for the twenty twenty season. Let's
Speaker 1: hear it. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the
Speaker 1: flag of the United States of America. Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you what I feel when the national anthem is played,
Speaker 1: and when I look at the flag of the United States,
Speaker 1: I envision my two grandfathers who fought for this country
Speaker 1: during World War Two, and in many cases, it brings
Speaker 1: me to tears thinking about all that has been sacrificed,
Speaker 1: not just those in the military, but for that matter,
Speaker 1: those throughout the civil rights movements of the sixties and
Speaker 1: everyone and all that has been endured by so many
Speaker 1: people up until this point. And is everything right with
Speaker 1: our country right now? No? But I think what you
Speaker 1: do by standing there and showing respect to the flag
Speaker 1: with your hand over your heart. Is it shows unity.
Speaker 1: We can all do better and then we are all
Speaker 1: part of the solution. Flag on the play. A violation
Speaker 1: is the current illegal use of white privilege. Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is marginalizing what black people are experiencing in this country
Speaker 1: because he's seeing the world through the lens of the oppressor,
Speaker 1: not the oppressed. I am happy that when Drew Brees
Speaker 1: sees the flag of the United States of America and
Speaker 1: his grandfathers who fought for this country in World War Two,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he shed a couple of tiers. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: But Drew Brees, black people fought in World War Two.
Speaker 1: But imagine fighting for a country that at that point
Speaker 1: didn't even give you the same civil liberties that it
Speaker 1: gave your grandparents. Drew Brees, do you know when the
Speaker 1: US into World War Two, Jim Crow's segregation had it
Speaker 1: entered every single aspect of American society. Do you know
Speaker 1: that there were several segregated units in the military during
Speaker 1: World War Two? So even though we're all supposed to
Speaker 1: have a common enemy in a war, this country still
Speaker 1: had us divided, Okay, still looked at us as an enemy.
Speaker 1: This is why so many black folks have a problem
Speaker 1: with patriotism. How can we salute a country that historically
Speaker 1: enslaved us, marginalized us, it continues to brutalize us. See,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is a white privileged male. That's how he
Speaker 1: sees America. Okay, it's all roses. He's living in his
Speaker 1: life like it's golden. Okay, This white supremacist system works
Speaker 1: well for him because it's supposed to. I am not
Speaker 1: arguing with any white person about why people choose to
Speaker 1: take a knee in regards to police brutality. There's nothing
Speaker 1: to debate, Okay. If you don't get it by now,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get it. And if you're committed
Speaker 1: to misunderstanding the situation, whatever. Now I had a convo.
Speaker 1: I did have a convo with my good brother Michael
Speaker 1: Eric Dison this weekend drop on a clues bombs from
Speaker 1: Michael Eric Dison music, explaining to me why you do
Speaker 1: have to teach white people because whether you know it
Speaker 1: or not, you are unintentionally teaching them, so you might
Speaker 1: as well be intentional about teaching them. So I keep
Speaker 1: that in mind at times like this, and I defer
Speaker 1: to one of our greatest teachers killing Mike. He was
Speaker 1: on with Jaalen and Jacobe and he had some lessons
Speaker 1: for Drew Brees. Let's hear it. I would like to
Speaker 1: know what he considered disrespect because and when I travel
Speaker 1: and we perform in Germany, I never see a Nazi
Speaker 1: flag because Nazis are a part of history that Germany
Speaker 1: understands was a cancer and corrupt and they've grinted themselves up.
Speaker 1: Drew Blees plays in the Deep South. As we traveled
Speaker 1: through the South, we see the Confederate flag everywhere the bounds.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna tell me about flagging disrespecting the
Speaker 1: American flag, the fact that you live in a region
Speaker 1: that they still find a rebel flag in a Confederate
Speaker 1: flag and you don't adambly speak against that on a
Speaker 1: regular basis just tells me that you're protecting the lay
Speaker 1: of life or what you think is right. The American
Speaker 1: flag stands for the First Amendment and the ability to
Speaker 1: say what you feel about situation. Now you bear the
Speaker 1: brunt of that. You may get black ball out in
Speaker 1: the NFL, but you have the right too. So if
Speaker 1: you support and you don't want to see the American
Speaker 1: flag disrespected. Don't look at it on buttweiser shorts at picnics,
Speaker 1: don't look at it edit a bikini shots and Playboy.
Speaker 1: Don't look at it on your favorite album covers because
Speaker 1: you think that rock band is rocking for you, be
Speaker 1: all the way with it. You're an intelligent football player.
Speaker 1: But that was an incredibly stupid thing to stay. But
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be so burdened with the religion
Speaker 1: that has become American news and nationalism that I forget
Speaker 1: that the flag represents the United States Constitution, and the
Speaker 1: United States Constitution was written by a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who chose to protest violently in order to have a friend.
Speaker 1: So what you interpreted disrespect probably is the most patriotic
Speaker 1: thing happening today. Just something to think about, something to
Speaker 1: think about. Drew Brees. If I had a lesson for
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, because I'm nowhere and his eloquent is killer Mike.
Speaker 1: But if I had a lesson for Drew Brees, it
Speaker 1: would be a simple homework assignment. And it's this. If
Speaker 1: you don't understand why players kneil, if you don't understand
Speaker 1: why players take a knee, then go watch the video
Speaker 1: of that White Devil cop kneeling taking a knee on
Speaker 1: George Floyd's neck for eight minutes and forty six seconds.
Speaker 1: If you don't get it after that, well we might
Speaker 1: just need you to shut the f up forever on
Speaker 1: all issues regarding race in this country and sit the
Speaker 1: rest of this season called life out. Please let Chelsea
Speaker 1: Handler give Drew Brees the biggest he huh hee haw
Speaker 1: hee haw. That is way too much, Dan Mann, Is
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's going to address these statements now? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm yeah. I'm sure that he'll have an enlightening moment
Speaker 1: and say that you know, he was taught so much
Speaker 1: in the past twenty four hours. Yeah, I'm sure he will.
Speaker 1: Us he kneeled before, Yeah he did. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was just doing that to be a good
Speaker 1: teammate or he actually knew what was going on. Who knows?
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you for that donkey. Today. Now
Speaker 1: when we come back, ask ye eight hundred five eight
Speaker 1: five one oh five one. If you need relationship advice
Speaker 1: and any type of advice, call ye. Now it's the
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Speaker 1: for ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela, Yee
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. It's time
Speaker 1: to ask yee Hello. Who's this? Eric? Good morning? The
Speaker 1: rouquestion for ye Hey, good morning, good morning. Hey, oh man.
Speaker 1: First of all, I said, blackman, don't chea. That's right
Speaker 1: all day. But your black fist in the king you
Speaker 1: already know, man, it's already up there man making me
Speaker 1: feel like you cheated. Oh boy, No, my wife okay,
Speaker 1: she cheated on you. Yes, and it's been going on
Speaker 1: for far too long. I'm tired of and none needs
Speaker 1: some advice. I have seven year old and I told
Speaker 1: my son that I would never leave him. And I'm
Speaker 1: in a bad predicament because I have to leave my
Speaker 1: wains because I'm tired of it. Well, you know, leaving
Speaker 1: your work doesn't mean you're leaving your son, right right, right,
Speaker 1: But my son is like he wants he wants me
Speaker 1: to be right there with him. You know he want
Speaker 1: me to help them with his homework. You want me
Speaker 1: to be there, you know, to be the father sason
Speaker 1: or not. You know, when I come home troun, you
Speaker 1: better still be a father figure and still help him
Speaker 1: with his homeworks. And I am, I am. I'm always
Speaker 1: as far to favor always, I don't care if i'm
Speaker 1: I could be in New York not New Orleans and
Speaker 1: I still be the same fall of sucker. Right, So
Speaker 1: how did you catch your wife cheating on you? How
Speaker 1: do you know? I ever wis talking about my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm in the bathroom. You know, he was in bathroom.
Speaker 1: She sit in the room in the walls of the thing,
Speaker 1: and she's on the phone and I hear I hear
Speaker 1: talking to her dude and dude, I hear dude say,
Speaker 1: well when, um, you know, when you go back to work.
Speaker 1: This is no more than weekend, you know, And she
Speaker 1: said Tuesday, I'd like to And I hear hustaid, well,
Speaker 1: you know, be on time. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: So I guess something to go was to work, but
Speaker 1: I don't go was to work. I go was fucking
Speaker 1: a parking complax right behind mine. I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to work late that day just to see and
Speaker 1: before yeah, just that, just before, just before this happened,
Speaker 1: like about two weeks before that, you know, because a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, you know right now he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's uh locked up right now for for doing something
Speaker 1: to somebody that that um you know, one of his
Speaker 1: spotns was sleeping with his wife while he was at
Speaker 1: work while he was all shooting. He come home due
Speaker 1: and he killed him to you know, like two weeks
Speaker 1: before that, you know, he called me and gets some
Speaker 1: contact with himself talking to him. You know, that's God
Speaker 1: giving me a sign like thankful for you act. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't do nothing stupid. You don't want to end
Speaker 1: up in jail. Did so? I did, think, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't even go in the house, but I saw it.
Speaker 1: I saw to go in the house. Damn. That's tough
Speaker 1: in your own house. That's disrespectful. Yeah, that's disrespectful. You know.
Speaker 1: In mind my mind was like, well I was you know,
Speaker 1: she just gotta go, she just gotta get out. So
Speaker 1: what is it? So what happened? Did you confront them?
Speaker 1: Did you go back home? Did you call it? Like?
Speaker 1: What happened? Dude? People boy, Oh, it's your friend she
Speaker 1: was cheating with. Yeah, so you confronted them. I confronted her.
Speaker 1: I called him. I called him. I sitting there still
Speaker 1: with mom. First thing he said was I was at work.
Speaker 1: He don't go to work till one o'clock. And this
Speaker 1: is at two o'clock in the morning. She just work.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, man, come on, now, what did
Speaker 1: your wife say when you confronted her. She tried to
Speaker 1: say it like I didn't see nothing, Like I didn't
Speaker 1: hear nothing on the phone, you know, And you know,
Speaker 1: she tried to make it seem like I'm crazy. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to right. So yeah, definitely, yeah, one hundred
Speaker 1: percent over at you ready to move on. I can't
Speaker 1: blame you. She not only did she cheat, she also lied,
Speaker 1: and she trying to act like you a food and
Speaker 1: she cheated in the house, right And I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell you, you know, if you be honest, trying to
Speaker 1: work it out. But she and your first thing, she saying,
Speaker 1: ask the kids, I'm not putting the kids in my business.
Speaker 1: And I'll think, yeah, no, don't do that. That's a
Speaker 1: terrible advice. It sounds like you're very unhappy. You already
Speaker 1: know what you want to do. You want to leave
Speaker 1: this marriage. Your wife is still lying. I can't believe
Speaker 1: that you had the willpower to not go in the
Speaker 1: house after you saw him go in there, because I
Speaker 1: definitely would have been right back inside. But kudos to you,
Speaker 1: Like you said, you had a sign from God after
Speaker 1: what happened with your friend who's in jail right now.
Speaker 1: So you know that took a lot, and I commend
Speaker 1: you for that. Yesterday I told yeah, still you still
Speaker 1: want to talk too, dal till I hate talking to
Speaker 1: like it. Yes it. She's talking to her And the
Speaker 1: first thing she said, work, I'm going to call the police.
Speaker 1: Wow at what we're going through right now. And that's
Speaker 1: a terrible thing to say to you. Oh oh sorry,
Speaker 1: real Tyrone. Listen you are Tyrone, Get your and get out.
Speaker 1: That's all I have to say. So listen, I understand
Speaker 1: your kid is the most important thing to you in
Speaker 1: your life right now, so you need to make sure
Speaker 1: that you handle them. I think you need to be
Speaker 1: the one to initiate everything so that no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: like she can't call the cops on you, you need
Speaker 1: to go ahead and file for divorce so that it'll
Speaker 1: be more favorable, and you're for the position that you're
Speaker 1: in right now. And whatever you do, don't text or
Speaker 1: email or write anything or make any cause that are
Speaker 1: threatening in any way, so that you can make sure
Speaker 1: that everything is straight and smooth with your custody of
Speaker 1: your child and all of that, and get your own
Speaker 1: place or she has to get her own place, whatever
Speaker 1: y'all decide, But you do have to start making those
Speaker 1: steps to get out of there and make sure that
Speaker 1: your son knows this has nothing to do with him,
Speaker 1: that you love him very much. And you're right when
Speaker 1: you say keep the kids out of it, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, so, thank y'all, and so what I mean,
Speaker 1: your man, bro, I appreciate you. King listens to you. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, man, take y'all have well. Go one ask
Speaker 1: ye eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 1: We got more when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Coma, keep a real what what's up for you?
Speaker 1: Some real advice with Angela Ye, It's ask Ye morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne n Gay. We
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. Were in the middle of ask ye, hello,
Speaker 1: who's this. What's up? Bro? What's your question for you?
Speaker 1: My girlfriend we've been together about eight years now. There's
Speaker 1: been no problems or nothing like the family. But since
Speaker 1: all this Black Lives Matter stuff that has been going on,
Speaker 1: and I've been to protest, been to bout five protests
Speaker 1: in five days, and we blocked out there the head
Speaker 1: mistake the other day, we were met with guns and
Speaker 1: all that. So my girlfriend's grandmother decided to give us
Speaker 1: a call and she's like telling us how she's disappointed
Speaker 1: in us that we were in following the curfew rules
Speaker 1: and we were on the highway blocking traffic, blah blah
Speaker 1: black basically, you know, dismissing everything about like the cops
Speaker 1: coming on the highway, you know, putting guns in our
Speaker 1: face for no reason and a peaceful protest. And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I kind of got into it. What are
Speaker 1: about it? And I'm warning I continue to educate her
Speaker 1: about it, or try to educate her about it, or
Speaker 1: should I like step back and take caution because it's
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's grandma. I don't want to, you know, start
Speaker 1: anything or me and my girl because grandma's school, you know,
Speaker 1: uneducated about this. What is your girlfriend think about this? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean she's a REMERSI she was a sheriff actually,
Speaker 1: and she's with me in every march, Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. She's screaming black power, she's swimming no justice,
Speaker 1: no peace, she does videos and she's just her grandmother's
Speaker 1: matter her because she's like, oh, you can lose your job,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. She's just like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right, I can. But it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what's right. Right. Well, Listen, whenever people
Speaker 1: are trying to have a revolution, there's always people who
Speaker 1: aren't on board, right, who aren't gonna be agreeing with
Speaker 1: the ways that you do things. And sometimes those people
Speaker 1: are in your own family. And from my own experience
Speaker 1: of having to deal with grandparents who were not like
Speaker 1: that at all, you know, sometimes, first of all, I
Speaker 1: would say, this is more of your girlfriend's situation because
Speaker 1: it is her grandmother. So I don't want you and
Speaker 1: your girlfriend to have issues because of that. And so
Speaker 1: it feels like this might be something that she'll have
Speaker 1: to deal with and you have to follow her lead
Speaker 1: on that because it's her family. Yeah, because she's like
Speaker 1: a real, like family person. That's why I like, I
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know what I mean, educate her the more.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, no, I don't have no trouble with me,
Speaker 1: my girl. We haven't had trouble in a long time,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to start right. I think you
Speaker 1: and your girlfriend should have a conversation about how you
Speaker 1: guys collectively want to handle it and if and I
Speaker 1: think you should follow her lead on that. Now, if
Speaker 1: this was your family, then I would say, you know,
Speaker 1: that's up to you how you want to handle it.
Speaker 1: You know your family, and I know it can be
Speaker 1: really frustrating to have these conversations with people who are
Speaker 1: set in their ways and aren't trying to hear what
Speaker 1: you have to say. So you know, sometimes it is
Speaker 1: a losing battle to have those arguments, and you still
Speaker 1: have to keep going out there and doing the work.
Speaker 1: But I don't want you and your girlfriend, who are
Speaker 1: in accord right now, to have issues. So I would
Speaker 1: let my girlfriend take the lead on this. Tell her, look,
Speaker 1: this is your family, your grandmother. However you want to
Speaker 1: handle it, I want to respect that, and I'm always
Speaker 1: down to have respectful conversations, but that is your grandmother,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of more on her. I just still
Speaker 1: like when I go around now, it's gonna be like different,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, because when I first
Speaker 1: when I first met them, I don't talk as they
Speaker 1: would say, you know, black quote unquote. I talk intelligence
Speaker 1: and I And when I first met they told me like,
Speaker 1: oh people say that, yeah exactly. So I know when
Speaker 1: I go to her house for the next family is
Speaker 1: and or whatever, it's gonna be like really awkward. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just I just feel like we need to
Speaker 1: have a conversation. But at the same time, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's my girlfriend's family, so I'm just back the bullet
Speaker 1: and see what she's gonna be like that she should
Speaker 1: have a conversation with them without you there also, you know,
Speaker 1: and try to have that conversation on her end. But
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, if that means, I'm going
Speaker 1: to support my girlfriend, but I'm not really trying to
Speaker 1: engage in too much conversation. Yeah, you know, it's sometimes
Speaker 1: it's really hard to try to force people to understand
Speaker 1: things that they don't want to understand. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: but we appreciate you, and you keep on doing what
Speaker 1: you have to do and you and your girlfriend and
Speaker 1: don't let things like this cause a wedge in your relationship.
Speaker 1: I even felt like, if I need to just kind
Speaker 1: of fall back and stay away from them, I will,
Speaker 1: you know, but you can't ever force people to understand something.
Speaker 1: All you can do is engage in the conversation, and
Speaker 1: it can be too frustrating for you two at times.
Speaker 1: You've made the attempts. Well, I definitely appreciate that you
Speaker 1: just made it made it clear for me that I'm
Speaker 1: doing the right thing when it comes to this right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you did your part. Yes man, All right, take care
Speaker 1: of time. I want to tell y'all three thank you
Speaker 1: because I work and I'm driving all day and you
Speaker 1: guys help us get through the day right or at
Speaker 1: least the morning. Thank you for listening. You know, we family,
Speaker 1: so we appreciate you. Ask Ye eight on dread five
Speaker 1: A five one on five, and if you need relationship
Speaker 1: advice to any type of advice, you can call ye.
Speaker 1: Now we got rumors on the way, yes, and we
Speaker 1: are going to talk about Trina and some remarks that
Speaker 1: she made on her show earlier. This week, and we'll
Speaker 1: tell you the back and forth that happened on social
Speaker 1: media as a result of it. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next keeping lock this the Breakfast Club, Good morning,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Listen, it's just oh gosh, got angel
Speaker 1: and it's the rum of report Breakfast Club. So Trina
Speaker 1: was turned in yesterday and those are because of the
Speaker 1: comments that she made on her morning show when she
Speaker 1: was talking about the protesters in Miami. Now, she was
Speaker 1: upset about her friend's business being destroyed. She was upset
Speaker 1: about people dying and lives that have been taken away.
Speaker 1: And here's what she had to say about the protesters.
Speaker 1: They gin, if you make the curfew and fix PM
Speaker 1: to fix them, that's how I feel. No, keep everybody
Speaker 1: off the street, these animals off the streets that are
Speaker 1: running around in Miami Day County acting like there have
Speaker 1: escaped from a zoo. Locked him up at five PM
Speaker 1: so the streets could be nice and clean. That's how
Speaker 1: I feel. Lives, all right, the black lives that matter, right,
Speaker 1: the same black lives that I take it from the
Speaker 1: hands of other black people that was up that was
Speaker 1: matter two times all y'all fake. But the protests and
Speaker 1: the fake Oh we're so concerned about George Poyd go
Speaker 1: on marching. I don't even care about this man, people.
Speaker 1: I just dormed the wall every body. Everybody wanted to look,
Speaker 1: getting burning up and stuff. When the ponies getting behind
Speaker 1: you and the ram and blue lights come home. You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to be scared. You never scared. I have
Speaker 1: my life of the registration and assurance. I'm not scared, Okay, Trina.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with nothing you're saying, but I like
Speaker 1: the energy you just say that like that, like you
Speaker 1: she got me, I don't. She got me? Am I
Speaker 1: want to I want to scream now. I got time today,
Speaker 1: But I got time today, damnage? All right, all right?
Speaker 1: And then she had it back and forth after that
Speaker 1: on social media with Messica. You know Mesica from loving
Speaker 1: her pop and you know, Messica was saying that she
Speaker 1: needed to come to the front of the congregation basically,
Speaker 1: and she asked Kaye to come and drag this coon
Speaker 1: Trina back to the swamp before I get her, and
Speaker 1: then the two of them had a really nasty back
Speaker 1: and forth on social media. Trina told Messica first of all,
Speaker 1: bumass find out who your baby daddy really is, and
Speaker 1: she told her, and you don't know what the f
Speaker 1: you are talking about. You think you can come up
Speaker 1: here and talk is to me, you scumbag. You can't
Speaker 1: how I'm ready and I'm not the one. And then
Speaker 1: Trina told her, but first of all, that video was
Speaker 1: edited to what I said. Second of all, if you
Speaker 1: don't know the exact facts, stfu. If you want answers
Speaker 1: of clarification, say that. But you will not think you
Speaker 1: come up here and talk ish about me, because you can't.
Speaker 1: And things really spiraled after that. Messica told her, pull
Speaker 1: up okay as a coming, let me book this fight
Speaker 1: so I can fight your dumbass way. Trina, you're acting
Speaker 1: like an animal, don't you dear quote Rihanna or an
Speaker 1: actual activist who pulls up? Girl? The world cloud wasn't
Speaker 1: even the world cloud wasn't even inventive when you were relevant.
Speaker 1: Take your afternoon nap and she will so called her, Karen,
Speaker 1: you take an afternoon nap. I can hear it right now,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I didn't like the afternoon nappart afternoon nap,
Speaker 1: afternoon after great effect it. I was all of that
Speaker 1: in capital letgy I know, but some of it was Ah,
Speaker 1: it was in capitals, all right, But yeah, it went
Speaker 1: on and on and on from there. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest, I did not like seeing these two women
Speaker 1: going at it like that on social media, with the
Speaker 1: world weighing in and speaking to each other in that way. Now,
Speaker 1: this morning, Traina did get on the radio and apologize.
Speaker 1: Here's what she said. Me and my trainers were, I'm
Speaker 1: automatically speaking for black people. I am the black people.
Speaker 1: I am black people. That's why I'm speaking for and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say black people are animals. And this
Speaker 1: is why the day after where we spoke to the commissioner,
Speaker 1: I said to Trick, well, I learned a lot more
Speaker 1: about what's really happening. And it's more than just in
Speaker 1: the streets of people, you know, doing whatever. It's it's commissioners,
Speaker 1: it's the governor's to me, it's all these people, it's
Speaker 1: the chief of police. I had no idea of that,
Speaker 1: So now I'm understanding that, and these are the people
Speaker 1: that has to protect the CDs. No, I don't like
Speaker 1: that energy training. I want I need that hand clapp
Speaker 1: and I got time to day energy. I don't like
Speaker 1: that little docile apology energy. I don't like that. Well,
Speaker 1: she's explaining herself. She's explaining herself with what she met.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when we get upset and we get mad, things
Speaker 1: come out of our mouth that we could have said differently,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what she's clearing up. Well, listen, apologies
Speaker 1: are always great when you know you're wrong. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with acknowledging that wrong, but it's just backlash apologies.
Speaker 1: I don't like backlash apologies. I don't like apologies that
Speaker 1: when you know people have been coming at you, you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry now. Well, she did say she had conversations
Speaker 1: with local officials and they did educate her on some things.
Speaker 1: So you know, it is a big to be able
Speaker 1: to apologize and admit that you were wrong and have
Speaker 1: these conversations with people, you know. I still don't really
Speaker 1: like the dragging of people like that on social media,
Speaker 1: and I am all for educating. I love training it though.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what she thought was wrong in
Speaker 1: that situation, you know what I'm saying, Like, you have
Speaker 1: to know why people are protesting, you know, you have
Speaker 1: to know why they're angry, even when it comes to
Speaker 1: the looting. You may not like it, but you know,
Speaker 1: you don't got to call them animals. It's not like
Speaker 1: they just out there doing that for no reason. It's
Speaker 1: a reaction to, you know, black people getting killed in
Speaker 1: this country at the hands of the police over it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she's seen it from a different side, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't make it right. She's seen it from
Speaker 1: the side one of her best friends owns a clothing
Speaker 1: store or a store, and you know, everything that she
Speaker 1: worked for they pretty much took. So that's what she
Speaker 1: was saying. I think material Yeah, I get it, but
Speaker 1: it's material things and property that can't take place. Insurance
Speaker 1: you can't you know, fix it. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that led up to this. So uh, And
Speaker 1: this is an ongoing conversation because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who have felt like that, and I see a
Speaker 1: lot of people expressing themselves in that way and wondering
Speaker 1: why are people are protesting, why are they doing this,
Speaker 1: why are they going after target I see people saying
Speaker 1: this all day long, up and down the timeline. So
Speaker 1: I build those buildings will be back, those black bodies won't,
Speaker 1: all right, And now another person who actually had to
Speaker 1: roll back what he said was Drew Brees. He made
Speaker 1: some comments about NFL player protests, and he was asked
Speaker 1: about whether or not he thinks players will be kneeling
Speaker 1: during the national anthem when football resumes. And here's what
Speaker 1: Drew Brees said. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting
Speaker 1: the flag of the United States of America. Let me,
Speaker 1: let me just tell you what I feel when the
Speaker 1: national anthem is played, and when I look at the
Speaker 1: flag of the United States, I envision my two grandfathers
Speaker 1: who fought for this country during World War Two? And
Speaker 1: is everything right with our country right now? No, we
Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. But I think
Speaker 1: what you do by standing there and showing respect to
Speaker 1: the flag with your hand over your heart, is it
Speaker 1: shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together,
Speaker 1: we can all do better, and then we are all
Speaker 1: part of the solution. Well, of course, those comments cause
Speaker 1: a huge amount of backlash from other NFL players, players
Speaker 1: on his own team, from everybody, Lebron James, you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson. Now Drew Brees has posted. First, he posted
Speaker 1: a picture of a black and white hand interlocked, and
Speaker 1: then he said, I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates,
Speaker 1: the city of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community,
Speaker 1: and anyone I hurt with my comments yesterday, And speaking
Speaker 1: with some of you, it breaks my heart to know
Speaker 1: the pain I have caused. So he said he wants
Speaker 1: to talk about respect, unity and the solidarity centered around
Speaker 1: the American flag and the national anthem. And he made
Speaker 1: comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on
Speaker 1: the issues we are facing right now as a country.
Speaker 1: They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead,
Speaker 1: those words had become divisive and hurtful, and I had
Speaker 1: misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy.
Speaker 1: This could not be further from the truth and is
Speaker 1: not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character.
Speaker 1: And then he talks about where he stands with the
Speaker 1: black community and the fight against systemic racial injustice and
Speaker 1: police brutality, and he said support the creation of real
Speaker 1: policy change that will make a difference. He also condemned
Speaker 1: the years of oppression. I mean it goes on. So
Speaker 1: you know I gave donkey. I gave him donkey to
Speaker 1: day to day, and Donkey that day still stands. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he's ever spoken out against a police officer
Speaker 1: killing a black man. You know, you know how that's
Speaker 1: so quick to be like, you shouldn't disrespect the flag,
Speaker 1: and you know the flag means something. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he's ever had that same energy for you know, a
Speaker 1: police officer killing an unarmed black man, as he ever
Speaker 1: jumped out there and said, you shouldn't kill anar black people,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't kill black people, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I wonder, But you know he's he's he's knelt with
Speaker 1: his teammates before and just reading his comments, you see that.
Speaker 1: You know some of the people that that follow him. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to apologize, you were right.
Speaker 1: Don't apologize now that was just your opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that believe in what he said,
Speaker 1: which which I don't understand. I really don't. And and
Speaker 1: by the way, putting the black hand shaking the white hand,
Speaker 1: that's the whitest apology in the world. Like I would
Speaker 1: rather you put cream vanila ice cream and chocolate ice cream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would rather you put vanilla ice cream and chocolate
Speaker 1: ice cream. Oh my goodness, Like that had that handshake
Speaker 1: look crazy. All right, well, we'll see you what happens next.
Speaker 1: And that was very well crafted as like more of
Speaker 1: a press release. Damn man, I just don't end the black.
Speaker 1: The black and white hand shap looked like the beginning
Speaker 1: of a purp at stupid. All right, well, let me
Speaker 1: answer the yee and that is your room of report.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, miss ye revolt. We'll see you
Speaker 1: guys tomorrow. Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up next,
Speaker 1: get your request in. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, putt,
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlotmae, nic Gay. We all the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We have a special guest on the line,
Speaker 1: Deanna Williams. Welcome. Good to be here with you and
Speaker 1: v Angela and Charlotte Maine. Now, Deanna Williams, I know
Speaker 1: this is an important time because we have so many
Speaker 1: things to talk about, but it is also Black Music Month,
Speaker 1: something that you actually was one of the architects of.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about that, yes, Angelo. Nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter hosted the first June Black Music Month
Speaker 1: event at the request of the Godfather, Clarence Avant and
Speaker 1: some other prominent people in the industry. But the co
Speaker 1: founders of this period of time are multi Grammy Award
Speaker 1: winning songwriter, producer Kenny Gamble, broadcaster Edwright, myself, and members
Speaker 1: of the Black Music Association. And it's the forty first
Speaker 1: anniversary of June Black Music Month. Tell us ab important Black? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's very important because the music industry generated twenty billion
Speaker 1: dollars last year. And when you look at the top
Speaker 1: of the charts right now, at the top of the
Speaker 1: one hundred list of top selling records, eight of those
Speaker 1: top ten records are by Black artists. You guys know
Speaker 1: that hip hop is the number one genre around the world,
Speaker 1: not just here in America, but all over the planet.
Speaker 1: So what does that tell us? Black people are making
Speaker 1: and selling a ton of music, and that's important because
Speaker 1: it's our culture and it's indigenous to America. You talk
Speaker 1: about those billions of dallas, you know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is not trickled down to the artists.
Speaker 1: A lot of us is not trickled down to the producer.
Speaker 1: A lot it's not trickled down to the actual singer,
Speaker 1: which is very, very sad. You know, people are making
Speaker 1: billions of dallars and they're artists there that are still struggling,
Speaker 1: losing their homes, losing their cars, and that have sold
Speaker 1: millions of millions of records. That's that's the horrible thing
Speaker 1: about that. That's been going on for a long time,
Speaker 1: which is why as a proud member of the National
Speaker 1: Museum of African American Music based in Nashville, we will
Speaker 1: be opening September twenty twenty. It is an institution designed
Speaker 1: to highlight the contributions of black folks in this country
Speaker 1: from the sixteen hundreds onto now. But we are also
Speaker 1: fighting for artists to get more, not just artists, reducers, engineers,
Speaker 1: music makers in general to get a larger piece of
Speaker 1: this twenty billion dollars. And and be back to your
Speaker 1: question about why is June Black Music Month important, Well,
Speaker 1: this is a multibillion dollar business. One we don't tend
Speaker 1: to think of our music that way, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's created by black people, it's co opted and imitated
Speaker 1: by others, and we appreciate the compliments, but we want
Speaker 1: to be able to economically participate in all of these
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. And I might add it's the everyday
Speaker 1: man and woman who's enriching the coffers of those major
Speaker 1: record companies. We want our fair share. So the museum
Speaker 1: is a repository. We have over seven galleries of beautiful
Speaker 1: information artifacts about our contribution. Our contributions keep getting overlooked
Speaker 1: Black folks. We were forced immigrants to this country and
Speaker 1: music is what we use to soothe us in this
Speaker 1: terrible you know, situation where we were taken from our
Speaker 1: original homes in Africa, brought over here and free labor
Speaker 1: for four hundred years. So what you hear in our
Speaker 1: music is passion, it's joy, it's pain, and it's our
Speaker 1: soundtrack every day. Think about how much music you consume.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me also just say that June
Speaker 1: Black Music Month is an opportunity to celebrate the three
Speaker 1: of you. You are promoters of the culture. Think about
Speaker 1: how much music you've played amby in your career. Absolutely okay.
Speaker 1: You play music that can elevate the spirits of people,
Speaker 1: and we use it to get us through hard times,
Speaker 1: good times, turn up, fall in love, fall out of love.
Speaker 1: Music is intricral to our survival in this country. You
Speaker 1: know what else, though, it is fascinating to me, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna I want to talk more about the museum,
Speaker 1: and I do, of course, I want to talk more
Speaker 1: about black music man, how you actually got this legislation
Speaker 1: pass because I read about how you had never done
Speaker 1: anything like this before, and I know a lot of
Speaker 1: us right now feel really powerless as far as what
Speaker 1: can we do in our government to make things happen,
Speaker 1: you know, to create change. And so can you discuss
Speaker 1: how that actually happens, because I don't think people understand
Speaker 1: the process of how you can initiate that and actually
Speaker 1: bringing out some type of change. Oh well, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you sharing that. Okay. So nineteen seventy nine, President Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter hosting this big event that on the lawn of
Speaker 1: the White House. It had been done by the Country
Speaker 1: Music Association in years earlier, but then he said June
Speaker 1: is Black Music Month. This was at the encouragement of
Speaker 1: the Black Music Association. Well, fast forward to when President
Speaker 1: Clinton was in office. I wrote him and asked him
Speaker 1: to host a similar event. Well, the White House came
Speaker 1: back and said, well, we've gone through the archives and
Speaker 1: we see where President Carter declared June black Music Month.
Speaker 1: But go get us some legislation. Come back, President Clinton
Speaker 1: will sign a proclamation and we'll celebrate June Black Music
Speaker 1: Month officially from the perspective of the White House and Congress.
Speaker 1: So I put on my most comfortable pair of shoes
Speaker 1: and started walking office to office on Capitol Hill, knocking
Speaker 1: on people's doors, writing letters. We just really worked hard.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to take the credit alone, because
Speaker 1: again there were group of people, but I was out
Speaker 1: in the front pushing. And finally the legislation. I wrote
Speaker 1: the draft for it. They put all the ware as
Speaker 1: and it got passed, and then I was in and
Speaker 1: out of the White House, private meetings in the Oval
Speaker 1: Office for President Clinton, President George Bush, on and on,
Speaker 1: and that's basically the story of June Black Music Month.
Speaker 1: But we're in our forty first year, and again I
Speaker 1: want to stress that it's an economic engine, and it's
Speaker 1: our American soundtrack. It's how we get up in the morning,
Speaker 1: it's how we function through the day. And now, as
Speaker 1: we see American cities and international capitals supporting our efforts
Speaker 1: here in America against police brutality, music has always been test.
Speaker 1: Music has always been at the forefront of our endeavors
Speaker 1: here in this country. And it's no different right now.
Speaker 1: So as the co chair of the Music Industry Relations
Speaker 1: Committee and on behalf of Henry Hicks, who is the
Speaker 1: CEO of the museum, we're taking a strong scand in
Speaker 1: solidarity with people who are protesting around the world about
Speaker 1: the injustices of racism. Part of what the birth of
Speaker 1: black music in this country was born out of the
Speaker 1: cruelty of racism. So long answer to your short question,
Speaker 1: but that's how the legislation got passed and it has
Speaker 1: been celebrated by every American president since and again, if
Speaker 1: people want to become part of our movement and support
Speaker 1: they can do so by joining go to Black Music
Speaker 1: Museum dot com and happy birthday June black music must
Speaker 1: one years young, but anyway years and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: you and Henry Hickson as closer to when the museum
Speaker 1: is going to open so we can make sure we
Speaker 1: really ramp that UPPs, thank you so much for your support.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Support you. Thank you all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you Diana Williams for joining us. Now, Charlemagne, you
Speaker 1: got a positive note, yes man for everybody out there
Speaker 1: that's a you know, doing a little so we y'all
Speaker 1: don't have to do a lot. I just want you
Speaker 1: to know that act as if what you do makes
Speaker 1: a difference, because it does. Breakface Club, this is you all.
Speaker 1: Finish with y'all, doune