Speaker 1: It's topic time.
Speaker 2: So eight hundred and five five one five one to
Speaker 2: join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Morning everybody, It's DJ Envy Charlamagne de God. We are
Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club now if you're just joining us. We
Speaker 3: were talking about something in Front Page News earlier today.
Speaker 3: It was the fact that Florida Border Education approves new
Speaker 3: Black history standards that teach house slaves develop skills for
Speaker 3: their personal benefit. So we were talking about, since they're
Speaker 3: pulling pretty much Black history out of schools now and
Speaker 3: pulling out the books and don't want to teach Black history,
Speaker 3: what do we need to do as a community to
Speaker 3: make sure that our young kids actually know what went
Speaker 3: on in black history and the future generation and how
Speaker 3: do we educate them?
Speaker 4: That was the question that we were having this morning.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, like I said earlier, you know, you
Speaker 2: can't depend on white institutions to teach teach our kids.
Speaker 2: You know, that is something the Nation of Islam and
Speaker 2: other great black leaders have been telling us since the
Speaker 2: beginning of time. For me, I feel like we just
Speaker 2: got to encourage our kids to read. You know, we
Speaker 2: have to recommend books for them to read. I was
Speaker 2: blessed to have a mother who was a Jehovah's witness
Speaker 2: and an English teacher, so you know, she kept the
Speaker 2: Bible in my face and watched Howers and Awake.
Speaker 1: So that was the first little child was exposed to.
Speaker 2: Then we had the book at program when I was
Speaker 2: a kid in elementary school and I was reading four
Speaker 2: books to get a free pizza, and my mom told
Speaker 2: me read things that don't pertain to you. That's when
Speaker 2: I started reading Julie Bloom and Beverly Clearly and all
Speaker 2: that stuff. And then my pops, you know, he gave
Speaker 2: me books like the Autobiography of Malcolm X, which led
Speaker 2: me down a rabbit hole of wanting to know everything
Speaker 2: I could about the NI But also any book that
Speaker 2: I saw Malcolm X reference, I read it.
Speaker 1: You know, And I've always done that.
Speaker 2: If I read a book and then they reference another
Speaker 2: book in that book, then I'll go read, you know
Speaker 2: that book. That's why I thought, you know, when somebody
Speaker 2: like Nipsey Hustle was alive, you know, he was so
Speaker 2: brilliant because Nipsey would always reference different books in his interviews.
Speaker 2: Nipsey Hustle even had a booklest that he put out,
Speaker 2: you know, And I think that's that's what you have
Speaker 2: to do. You just got to encourage, you know, our
Speaker 2: kids to read and recommend them things to read.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I said earlier that I think we need to develop
Speaker 3: more program like even in the church, right, a lot
Speaker 3: of black families go to church together and have those
Speaker 3: days where we teach about our black history and black heroes.
Speaker 3: But also I think as parents, I think parents need
Speaker 3: to knowledge themselves, you know, because it's very difficult to
Speaker 3: teach your child if you don't have the proper history.
Speaker 3: It's like anything else. Like you know, my father's a
Speaker 3: retired police officer. He was able to teach me laws
Speaker 3: when I was a kid and teach me about just
Speaker 3: things as far as you know, what to do if
Speaker 3: I get pulled over what laws mean and how the
Speaker 3: judicial system works, because he was part of it.
Speaker 4: Same thing with my kids.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I have a daughter that's in the school, you know,
Speaker 3: in college right now for real estate and just past
Speaker 3: or exam. I have a son that is doing real
Speaker 3: estate now and sold his first house. But like these
Speaker 3: are things that they learned from their father. But like
Speaker 3: you said, I think we have to educate ourselves so
Speaker 3: we can actually educate our children, because there's a lot
Speaker 3: with Black history that I'm still learning now because I
Speaker 3: honestly wasn't taught as a child.
Speaker 2: I envy people who've gone to African American studies, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I love the way, you know, somebody like
Speaker 2: an Amanda Seals can just reference history so quickly, somebody
Speaker 2: like a Michael Eric Dyson, and you know, we know,
Speaker 2: we know the literacy race in black and brown communities
Speaker 2: are high.
Speaker 1: That's a whole other conversation.
Speaker 2: That's that's actually why Kevin Hart and I started our
Speaker 2: company with Audible SBAH Production, because you know, I think
Speaker 2: that sometimes it's not that kids aren't reading, there's just
Speaker 2: other ways for them to get that information.
Speaker 1: So instead of reading nowadays, people are listening, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's like I always had the idea of even
Speaker 2: though we did put out you know, finding to me
Speaker 2: because some of it, some of the eighty five, some
Speaker 2: of eighty five is about you know, what happened the
Speaker 2: move organization in Philadelphia. But I always thought that kids,
Speaker 2: always thought that kids could take in this information by listening.
Speaker 1: I lost my train of thought. Just now, how the
Speaker 1: hell I lost my train of.
Speaker 2: Thought, like, oh, I was saying, I think I think
Speaker 2: that kids can learn, you know, more more by listening
Speaker 2: now than actually picking up books and reading.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I wanted celebrity, That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I wanted celebrities to do the audiobooks, right. That that
Speaker 2: was an I then we had when we launched this company,
Speaker 2: have celebrities reading audiobooks, right, And you know, Audible kind
Speaker 2: of took the idea and they had launce Fishburn READAUGHTERI
Speaker 2: bigraphy of Malcolm X.
Speaker 1: But that's fine as long as it happens, you know.
Speaker 4: But but you know what too, And I would also
Speaker 4: say this for a lot of parents.
Speaker 3: A lot of times we take our kids to, you know,
Speaker 3: on vacation, and vacation can mean many different things from
Speaker 3: many different people. It can mean taking them to six Flags,
Speaker 3: it can mean taking them to Miami for Disney World
Speaker 3: or whatever. And I think sometimes and that's fine, but
Speaker 3: we we're gonna have to think of alternative things to do,
Speaker 3: like going to somebody experiences, right, but like going to museums,
Speaker 3: like the museum that just opened up in South Carolina, one.
Speaker 4: That's opened up in DC. And even when in South Carolina,
Speaker 4: I want.
Speaker 3: To go to because there's so much history, right you
Speaker 3: learn that's where you know a lot of that's where
Speaker 3: the first ships came that a lot of us, you know,
Speaker 3: touch touched down on on this land. So I would learn.
Speaker 3: I would love to learn that history. I've been fortunate
Speaker 3: enough to go to Africa and fortunate enough to go
Speaker 3: to South Africa and see these different places that you know,
Speaker 3: from where from where Bob Marley was in Jamaica to
Speaker 3: where uh to think of some of the houses that
Speaker 3: we went to over there, so many different houses.
Speaker 2: Even with that, and you're absolutely right what you're saying,
Speaker 2: but just speaking from a person who has the financial means.
Speaker 3: Right, But that's what I'm saying, Like instead of maybe
Speaker 3: going to six Flags, going to the museum, and sometimes
Speaker 3: there's museum that prices are not that expensive. They're ten
Speaker 3: dollars for a ticket, and I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 3: times they do it for free just to teach our
Speaker 3: own but just experiences like that that we can actually see,
Speaker 3: touch and get the proper knowlogy.
Speaker 2: How about your how about do something as simple as
Speaker 2: go get a library card. That's true, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, go get a library card and then go,
Speaker 2: you know, look up some books to go get. I
Speaker 2: always tell people all the time. Start with the autobiography
Speaker 2: of Malcolm X. There's a great book that I read
Speaker 2: when I was young, called from n Words to Gods,
Speaker 2: Buy and Kill. And the way that he wrote the book,
Speaker 2: he wrote the book the way we actually talk, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So it was like he's cursing
Speaker 2: it and he's using street banacular, right, but he's educating
Speaker 2: at the same time, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: everything don't have to be eighteen letter Shakespearean words.
Speaker 1: Right for you to learn.
Speaker 3: Like I was able to go to Nelson Mandela's house.
Speaker 3: I was able to go to where Nelson Mandela grew up.
Speaker 3: So I was able to see it. But I had
Speaker 3: to He used to do it, but before I had
Speaker 3: the means, my mom had me and those museums. Let's
Speaker 3: go to the phone lines. We got Jamisha on the line, Jamisha,
Speaker 3: good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6: Jamisha, Hey god, I want a first day that I
Speaker 6: love you guys and I listen to you guys every morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Jamisiha. We appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Yes, so I just wanted to time in and just
Speaker 6: give my advice. I ain't on thirty seven, just to
Speaker 6: give you guys the idea of where I'm coming from.
Speaker 6: I'm a mom of a threeting boy, and I tried
Speaker 6: to just share stories with him because the literature out
Speaker 6: there is not very fun for the kids to read
Speaker 6: or interstite. So I feel like it starts at home.
Speaker 6: We as the parents have to be encouraged to learn
Speaker 6: it so that we could spend simply verbally share those
Speaker 6: stories with our kids, so that hopefully when they get older,
Speaker 6: they'll read those stories or watch those movies that we
Speaker 6: watched when we got older, or sometimes when we were
Speaker 6: given younger and we didn't understand what was going on.
Speaker 1: Totally agree.
Speaker 6: I agree that it's I just feel like it starts there.
Speaker 1: Totally agree. All right, thank you. I totally agree starts
Speaker 1: in the house.
Speaker 4: Hello, who's this Jerry? Hey, Jerry, good on and talk
Speaker 4: to us. What's your thoughts?
Speaker 7: I wanted to say fun because I just want my
Speaker 7: child's father some of them, but I think we have
Speaker 7: to meet kids where they are. There's like so many
Speaker 7: social media acts TikTok and stuff like that. I feel
Speaker 7: like maybe artists in different acts or just different people
Speaker 7: in the media in general should start maybe relaying Black
Speaker 7: history facts that way where they are.
Speaker 2: You're right, but you do realize on TikTok one of
Speaker 2: the biggest uh things on TikTok, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you call it.
Speaker 1: It's book talk.
Speaker 2: Is it's a hashtash tag book talk, bok halshtag, book talk,
Speaker 2: like like even when I'm putting out books, you know,
Speaker 2: on my own or through my d like these these
Speaker 2: these public these barns and Nobles and Time and his shoes,
Speaker 2: they always talk about book talk. They want book talk
Speaker 2: to be talking about their books because it's so big.
Speaker 2: So these kids are having these conversations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those are the conversations that I love. And
Speaker 3: let's open up the phone lines again. Eight hundred five
Speaker 3: eight five one oh five to one. What are some
Speaker 3: suggestions to better educate future generations on black history? That
Speaker 3: is the question. And I just want to say one thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, sometimes you know, what's that? What's the saying?
Speaker 3: Sometimes your your your skin folk and your kim folk skin.
Speaker 3: And the reason I say that is because a lot
Speaker 3: of times I see people trying to educate and people
Speaker 3: the first thing they say is, oh, it's a lie,
Speaker 3: like and I remember when you started talking mental health, right,
Speaker 3: and people.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, he's just doing it for a check. He
Speaker 4: doesn't really care it is.
Speaker 3: That and he ever, I got nothing from it. And
Speaker 3: this man has has gave up his is I don't
Speaker 3: want to give up his life. But he's put his
Speaker 3: life in books to explain and to see how he's felt,
Speaker 3: and he's done so many things.
Speaker 4: And the same thing with me and trying to teach
Speaker 4: people about real estate.
Speaker 3: It's like when we try to do these things, we
Speaker 3: try to really put on for our community so that
Speaker 3: we can learn to get the education that we didn't have.
Speaker 3: And we're not saying that we know everything, but we
Speaker 3: just want to open the door for you guys to
Speaker 3: start reading, to start doing research on these things, to
Speaker 3: start asking questions.
Speaker 4: Just to ask questions. That's all we want. And we'll
Speaker 4: take your calls when we come back. It's the Breakast
Speaker 4: Club the morning.
Speaker 1: It's topic times.
Speaker 5: Called eight hundred and five eight five five one to
Speaker 5: join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club, talk about it.
Speaker 3: Warning Everybody's DJ Envy Charlamagne the God.
Speaker 4: We are the breakfast club.
Speaker 3: Now if you're just joining us, This conversation comes from
Speaker 3: Front Page News. Now, Florida Border Education approves new black
Speaker 3: history standards that teach how slaves develop skills for their
Speaker 3: personal benefit. So obviously they're trying to take our black
Speaker 3: history out of the school system. And we're asking, you know,
Speaker 3: what's the solution. You know, how can we change that?
Speaker 1: Well, I already told you.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't depend on white institutions to teach
Speaker 2: your kids, you know what I mean, Like, we have
Speaker 2: to start encouraging our kids to read, and we have
Speaker 2: to recommend books for them to read at home.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: Another of the good thing that I do, you know,
Speaker 2: around our house is so much black.
Speaker 1: Imagtry right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So you know you hear just a Liary's making jokes
Speaker 2: about the big guys Harriet Tubman picture, but that's true.
Speaker 2: I got four daughters, so I want him to see
Speaker 2: strong images of black women. So they'll they'll ask questions,
Speaker 2: who is that? You say, Oh, that's Harriet Tubman. And
Speaker 2: like the young lady said, then you can have a
Speaker 2: conversation about that's right, who Harriet Tubman is. And you know,
Speaker 2: you hope that education continues on as they get older.
Speaker 4: Right, let's go to the phone line. We have Diane
Speaker 4: on the line. Diane, good morning, good morning, how good morning?
Speaker 1: Doing well?
Speaker 4: Talk to us? What's your thoughts? Mama?
Speaker 8: Okay, well good morning. Let's go out to everyone to
Speaker 8: get out rugs and charlemade the god ladies said, let's
Speaker 8: uh figure out. I just wanted to say good morning.
Speaker 8: But I myself, I'm a grandma and my oldest child
Speaker 8: was older than you, my god. But what happened is
Speaker 8: because of the climate. I'm just tired and I would
Speaker 8: face with the opportunity to come to school with my
Speaker 8: eleven or sixteen year old grand I've been doing this
Speaker 8: for a couple of years. We were registered through the
Speaker 8: border beds in North Carolina. I'm from New York, but
Speaker 8: my family is from South Carolina. I took it upon
Speaker 8: myself to incorporate black history as a subject, and I
Speaker 8: seached them and we've been We're in all the books
Speaker 8: sixteen nineteen. Black history is our social studies books.
Speaker 5: We do that.
Speaker 8: We talk about history. We have there's a link black
Speaker 8: facts dot com website which gives you so much pertinent
Speaker 8: information black history. We talked about that. We're in the Quran,
Speaker 8: we're in the Bible, your book shook one. We're just
Speaker 8: all over the place. But I make sure that they
Speaker 8: know the foundation. I also, because I've gone through something
Speaker 8: some years ago. I send out inspirations every morning, six o'clock.
Speaker 5: In the morning.
Speaker 8: Used to be one or two people, is now one
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty people. And I do it one by
Speaker 8: one because I don't do But what I do is
Speaker 8: I am like them.
Speaker 5: On Black history.
Speaker 8: We're not just for February, but for every month. And
Speaker 8: we talk about things, not but the normal things people
Speaker 8: would talk about. Martin Luther Kings, not that we don't
Speaker 8: talk about them, but we've gone into everything. We talk
Speaker 8: about the masscreadd, we talk about the history. So I
Speaker 8: do that. Growing up in New York's history was something
Speaker 8: that Black history we were a part of. There was
Speaker 8: a lot of boos. There was a foundation's history, and
Speaker 8: we were kind of taught that in the schools a
Speaker 8: little bit, but the rest really lived. We grew up
Speaker 8: in that era. It's different now. And it's true a
Speaker 8: lot of black families children in history, A lot of
Speaker 8: them don't have mind to teach their children. A lot
Speaker 8: of them do depend on the schools. But you have
Speaker 8: to be minding children of what's going on in the schools.
Speaker 8: They were there in the school during the pandemic, how
Speaker 8: they were handling that, and they're not being caught. But
Speaker 8: they can't blame the things because a lot of them
Speaker 8: don't know themselves.
Speaker 1: You're right, queen, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: By the way, how old are you? How old are
Speaker 1: you as a grandmother, I'm close to seventy.
Speaker 8: I never thought I would be in this permission, would
Speaker 8: be doing this, but I am brave that I love it.
Speaker 1: We we love it.
Speaker 2: Too, glad that we're glad that God kept you here
Speaker 2: to be able to do it.
Speaker 8: That's right, Mama, Absolutely absolutely, you don't have a blessed
Speaker 8: and thank you so much. Keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4: A great weekend.
Speaker 1: Hello, who's this? Hey?
Speaker 5: This is out of trend?
Speaker 1: Hey? What's up? Brother?
Speaker 4: Talk to us?
Speaker 5: Hey man, I don't want to give our shooting the
Speaker 5: shout out for giving people information as far as how
Speaker 5: to learn their history. But I got the easiest format
Speaker 5: for anybody. You can't follow this for me, I just
Speaker 5: don't want to learn. All you got to do is
Speaker 5: go to YouTube and google Caress one. Then you also
Speaker 5: do certain songs because hip hop has information of it.
Speaker 5: You got the Grave Diggers picked sick on shovel with
Speaker 5: Riss actually break it down a whole slave trade, the
Speaker 5: song I fought in the verse. You know you got
Speaker 5: sons and man, you got skiller armor. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. You got to pull right to teachers, out
Speaker 5: the trend and shout out for right.
Speaker 2: You got killer, Mike you got, you got, you got
Speaker 2: early ice you Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: You're right public aemy, California, public enemy.
Speaker 3: But a lot of a lot of those artists are
Speaker 3: artists that are our era of artists. What people are saying,
Speaker 3: like you know, like you said Charris One, you know
Speaker 3: Karas one where he's breaking down, I want to play
Speaker 3: that Charas when.
Speaker 4: You must learn, you got you must learn, you must learn.
Speaker 4: We're gonna put that record up.
Speaker 3: He breaks down all the you know, he talks about,
Speaker 3: you know, who created the stop light and who created
Speaker 3: this and this that and the ever but.
Speaker 5: Exactly along with all black cops. Even even like you
Speaker 5: said you would learn, but listen, I know it's our error.
Speaker 5: But still if you're trying to learn and you listened
Speaker 5: to hip hop. Well, this is lazy waits you to
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 2: I'll give him another You're absolutely right. I'll give him
Speaker 2: another suggestion. Google Kendrick Lamar's reading reading Look Reading reading recommendations.
Speaker 2: Google Nipsey Hustles reading recommendations. I'm looking at Kendricks right now.
Speaker 2: Invisible Man by Rob Ellison, Things Fall Apart, The Black
Speaker 2: of the Barry by Wallace Thurmot, Roots by Alex Haley,
Speaker 2: The Color Purple by Alice Walker. That's that's Kendrick's readingless.
Speaker 2: So it's not like we don't have people out here
Speaker 2: that are encouraging people to read.
Speaker 4: What's the more of the story, man, and more of
Speaker 4: the stories?
Speaker 2: What I said earlier, you can't rely on white institutions,
Speaker 2: you know, to teach your kids black history, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like you do have to do a
Speaker 2: lot of self education at home, man. And I also
Speaker 2: want to say, please, let's stop repeating white propaganda talking
Speaker 2: points in regards to black people. If we start having
Speaker 2: conversations about black people self educating and encouraging each other
Speaker 2: to read, please, folks, let's not start saying black people
Speaker 2: can't read and black parents don't teach their kids to read.
Speaker 1: That's not that's nonsense, and that's not all the way accurate.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: All these people who called up here, you know, telling
Speaker 2: us how they teach their kids at home. The grandma
Speaker 2: who says she homeschooled her kids talked in black history.
Speaker 2: Y'all give me a lot of hope. There's nothing dumb
Speaker 2: about us. There's nothing uneducated about us. Don't listen to
Speaker 2: these white propaganda talking points about us and in regard
Speaker 2: to literacy, and please don't repeat them.
Speaker 4: Man, all right, all.
Speaker 3: Right, when we come back, we got your room and
Speaker 3: report Dwight Howard he's in a sticky situation.
Speaker 4: We'll get to it next.
Speaker 1: Nasty, but not Dwight Howard. You because the way you
Speaker 1: worded that.
Speaker 4: But you know what you just did, just said the
Speaker 4: White House stupid.
Speaker 3: You like to play dumb, I said, Dwhite how is
Speaker 3: it a sticky situation?
Speaker 2: When we hear about the situation, you're gonna hear why
Speaker 2: it's sticky, the sticky predicament.
Speaker 1: See why do guy be a predicament?
Speaker 4: We'll get to it next. It's the breakfast lull going.
Speaker 4: It's freaking freaking right, up