WEBVTT - Sil Lai Abrams Interview and more 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.880 In the morning. You gone up the morning. I'm talking right, 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.360 I never you're about to experience a morning show on 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.920 like any yo got out to the breakfast club. What 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.879 you guys are doing right now? It's the hump culture. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.560 Breakfast club is my morning. I need it and I 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.080 love it so jo like you're really not popping until 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.000 you do the breakfast Club. Been waiting Come to yo, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.040 show man. I know you gotta be a big time ce. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.560 Let me be up here. You gotta be you gotta 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.320 be big time d j Enry Atiola Yi and Charlotta 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:43.240 Maine the guy the breakfast club. Bitch. You take good 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.040 morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.680 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.400 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.199 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.040 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.880 yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.280 yo yo yo yo Good morning, angela ye, good money 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.080 d damn me. Charlemagne the got piece to the planet. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.080 Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is? Day? 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:22.400 And of course too, hey Wednesday, middle of the week. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.560 How you guys feeling out there? How are you feeling. Um, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.920 I'm good, I'm a little sluggish. I went for a 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.600 long walk yesterday in Brooklyn, but I was at this 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.280 restaurant called Tillies. I went to go get some takeout 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.920 while I was there, and you know, in Brooklyn, well 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.120 in New York, they've been doing drinks to go. So 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.000 I had this little wine drink and I think I 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.760 haven't been drinking that much. So I had one of 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.560 those yeah out and about all right, Well, um, shout 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.840 out to Revolt. Yesterday I was on Revolt. They were 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.360 talking about let me get the correct beyond black and blue. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.320 So they were talking to me in another lady, I 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.080 can't remember her name, and they were just talking about 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.040 the police and what we feel a police should be doing. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.120 And they were just asking my opinion what my dad said. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.280 Of course, my dad is a retired police officer, and I, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.359 you know, we were just going through you know, how 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.000 I was raised as a son of a cop, and 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.720 what my dad said about police. And I've set it 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.600 up here a million times. You know, my dad number 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.760 one thing is the police and not your friends. Uh, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.120 you don't say anything, keep your mouth shut. Uh you know, Um, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.720 you can always call a lawyer. You can always call 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.799 your your you know, your your parents, but you never 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.920 say anything. You know, don't try to weazle your way 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.200 out of a situation. Just shut the f up, as 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.480 my dad would always say. And the second thing my 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.080 dad always says, you gotta make it home. I always 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.720 talk about, you know, I used to be uh you know, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.000 when I used to give I get I used to 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.240 get pulled over a lot. And one time when I 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.240 got pulled over, my dad was on a speaker phone 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.679 and I was being an ass to the cop because 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.160 the cop was being an ass to me. I could 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.160 just hear my dad yelling streaming, just give them your 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.839 license and registration. Just give them your license to FF 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.000 and registration. So when the cop left, my dad was like, look, 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.639 it doesn't matter if he's right or wrong. Yes, he's 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.360 absolutely wrong, but at the end of the day, I 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.080 need you to come home. I need you to make 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.880 it home. You can't beat him in the street. You can, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.800 we can beat him when you get home, but you 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.280 can't beat him in the street. And that just stuck 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.240 with me, and I tell that to my kids. I mean, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.760 it's you know, it's not right. But at the end 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.880 of the day. I want my kids to make it home, 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.000 you know. So, I mean I've talked about that last 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.040 I will vote. Yeah, that's great advice. The only sad 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.840 part is we've seen people be polite to police and 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.720 comply with police and still getting killed or getting beat 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.480 up or brutalize. So I mean, it's like, you damned 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.000 if you do your damned if I don't think that 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.560 the community, I don't think the community relationship, the black 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.520 community relationship will never be a solid relationship with the 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.880 police until there is an overwhelming amount of people from 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.640 our community that are police officers. I actually think that 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.120 should be one of the community policing incentives, Like they 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.840 should have financial incentive for people who grew up in 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.480 a certain neighborhood who decided to go into law enforcement 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.840 and come back and police said neighborhood, yeah, and they 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.360 should have a financial incentive to do that. Absolutely also spoke, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.040 you know, growing up in Queens, I was like, you know, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.760 it was more community. I remember there was a kid 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.440 on our block and I talked about this, you know, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.560 he had down syndrome when we called him the E 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.800 kid because all he said was and I remember there 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.880 was an incident one time with the police, and my 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.640 dad was there and the police came and if my 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.360 dad wasn't there, I don't know what would happened to 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.920 that kid because he was had down syndrome. He was aggressive, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.200 but my dad knew him. So when the cops came out, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.920 Dad I was like, no, I got this, I got this. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.000 I got this. And my dad was able to call 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.039 his mom and call his pop and de escalate the 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.560 situation because he knew the community, he knew the kid, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.920 you know what I mean. But if it would have 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.720 been anybody else, they wouldn't have known it. They wouldn't 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.200 have known what was going on. If he would attacked, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.440 it might have shot him. So, like you said, yeah, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.760 we absolutely positively need more of that in the community. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.240 And you know, my dad is a Queen's Head. He's 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.200 from originally from Brooklyn, but when we moved to Queens 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.839 that's his block. He's not going away. He knows everybody 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.320 on the block. He knows the kids on the block, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.880 he knows the elderly people on the block. It's it's that, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.719 it's what he does. You know, homeboy who's a copy 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.479 asked me yesterday, he said, how long do I think 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.080 cops should be in training And I said, it depends. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.080 I said, you know, if if, if it depends on 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.680 the play community they're policing. If they're training a community 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.680 that they're not from, they don't have no you know, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.400 experience with the training should be longer. If they're going 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.240 to be policing in the community that they know, the 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.120 training should be shorter. That's right. That's just my personal opinion. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.560 And you feel and you feel a little different when 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.080 your family's in that community, like like like, is my 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.200 dad gonna do something foul in the community when I'm 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.839 running around playing as a kid. No, he's he protects 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.839 that community. He knows his kids and kids kids friends. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.160 So we talked about that last That will revolve very 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.280 great conversations. So shout out to Ebony Kay Williams. Did 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.320 he Charife and everybody on the Revolt team appreciate you guys. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.040 All right, now, we got a special guest joining us 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.479 this morning. He did a one on one with this 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:59.280 young lady. Yeah, still like Abrams. So you want to 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.080 explain to people who sil is, Ye, yes, Sillli is 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.080 women who she's an author and she's an activist and 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.040 she is also one of the women who was featured 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.520 on On the Record, that is the documentary about Russell 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.720 Simmons with the women who are accusing him of rape 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.880 and sexual assault. And she's one of the women that's 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.479 featured on there, and she's told her story before the documentary, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.680 and she's told her story and books that she's authored, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.240 but not said his name until a couple of years ago. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.720 She has said who the person is, and so we'll 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.560 get into what made her come forward, what made her 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.960 say the person who assaulted her is Russell Simmons and 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.719 say his name, and also why she participated in this documentary, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.960 what has been the response since then, and why women's 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.080 voices need to be heard and led. All Right, So 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.320 we'll speak with her a little bit later. But now 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.800 we got front page news. What we're talking about. Well, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.400 since we talked about the police, let's talk about this police, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.960 this executive action signing that Donald Trump had yesterday at 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.040 the White House. All Right, we'll get into that next. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.080 Keep a lot. This the breakfast club, good morning, earning money, envy, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.039 angela ye, Charlemagne, the gad we are the breakfast club. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:15.560 Let's get in some front page news where we starting yet. Well. Yesterday, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.560 Donald Trump was doing an event in the Rose Garden 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.040 and he was talking about an executive order that he 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.120 says creates a federal database of police officers with the 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.280 history of using excessive force. Now, Donald Trump is against 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.520 dismantling the police. Here's what he said. Strongly opposed the 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.280 radical and dangerous efforts to defend, dismantle, and dissolve our 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.560 police departments, especially now when we've achieved the lowest recorded 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.640 crime rates in recent history. Without police, there is chaos. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.160 Without law, there is anarchy, and without safety, there is catastrophe. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.200 Americans believe we must support the brave men and women 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.480 in blue who police are streets and keep us safe. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:02.640 Americans also believe we must improve accountability, increase transparency, and 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.880 invest more resources and police training, recruiting, and community engagement, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.960 dismantling the police, though the funding is not dismantling. Nobody said, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.800 we don't want any police. We just want the police 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.160 to be held accountable when they commit violence against us 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.640 and kill us. And yes, they don't need them big 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.480 ass budgets. Take some of that money and put it 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.360 into the community, nobody said, But some people aren't. Some 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.960 people are saying to dismantled police department. Some people are 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.960 calling for I mean, so we can't say no one 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.880 saying that, Yeah, but that's not what the funding means. Though, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.240 like he keeps trying to twist the words defunding the police, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.600 that's not what defunding the police means. For some people, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.680 they that is what it means. I think it's just 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.440 you do have to be clear because defund does mean 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.839 to take away the funds. And some people they look 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.360 at anybody, Okay. So another thing that he discussed was 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.840 he said that it's only a small percentage, a bad 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.720 huss and he talks about why is he signing this 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.960 executive order because at no point did he address race 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.319 racism as the issue. But here's what he said. Reducing 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.440 crime and raising standards are not opposite goals. That is 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.240 white Today, I'm signing an executive order encouraging police department 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:16.600 stationwide to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:21.199 These standards will be as high and as strong as 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:27.640 there is on earth. All Right. The executive void is 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.559 really nothing to get excited about, I mean, because it's 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.960 just suggestions. Like I do like some of the things 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.679 that are in there, like supporting the registry of bad 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.400 cops and correspondents in mental health case cases. But it's 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:44.959 not a bill, it's just suggestions, suggestions. Okay. Now, you 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.080 also met with the families. He also met with the 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.520 families of him at Arebury, both m John Antoine Rose, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.120 Jamal Robeson, at Tatiana Jefferson, Michael Dean, Darius Tarver, Cameron Lamb, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.040 and Everett Palmer. And according to one person who attended, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.360 they said it was very power full. It took place 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.079 for an hour before he signed the executive order, and 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.320 there were a lot of tears in the room. So 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.120 Kamala Harris, by the way, before we move on from 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.240 Front page News, she tweeted out, Chump's policing Executive Order 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.240 is meaningless since to day one, he's used a racially 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.079 charged rhetoric, all while rolling back efforts to root out 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.080 racism and policing and virtually abandoning police misconduct investigations. We 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.520 need real reforms past the Justice and Policing Act. Now, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.400 she's right, because it's not a bill. It's not a bill. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.520 You put it in the bill, make the goop passage 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.360 sign it. Then you got something but those are the 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.199 executive orders, just suggestions. That's just a whole bunch of 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.040 pomping circumstance, that's all. He probably just wanted the families 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.640 in the White House to be able to get a 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.240 picture with him. To be honest, to me, it looked 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.440 like he's he cares and he's doing something. Selection season, baby, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.360 a lot of dreams being sold. Yeah, cars llesman everywhere 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.360 all right, well at his front page news. Get it 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.760 off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.400 five one. If you need to vent, hit us up 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.880 right now. Phone lines a wide open. It's the breakfast Club. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:05.760 Good morning, breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling. What's you 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.640 doing of yo? If this is your time to get 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.480 it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.839 hundred five five one five one. We want to hear 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.480 from you on the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Let's 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 up this leak man? Hey my card. I'm broke down yesterday. Man, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.160 that girl car to word bro could be worse to 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.280 have a call. You got the walks, Your girl got 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.000 a car? Yeah yeah, I had to take her car 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:37.120 to work. Man. That's embarrassing. What's going on? Charlotte Main 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.600 and why is her car embarrassing? No, not her car. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.120 I'm talking about being broke on the side of the road. Man. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.280 That's man, it happens your car broke down. You're not 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.120 broke on the side of the road. Your car. You 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:52.960 This happens to the best of it. Now it's time. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.319 Now it's time to go and get a brand new 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.679 with up. Man. Right if you guys like that playing play, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.520 I don't see the problem you playing about. That's the 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.840 worst when your car breaks down. I tell you my 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.840 tire flew off my car one day I was on 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.640 the side of the highway. It does feel sad and lonely. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.880 It does. A couple of weeks ago, I was on 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.920 the side of road called the Total Up. Come get me. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:18.160 Thanks for calling broth. Hello, who's this Tan from the Bronx? Hey, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.480 le Shan, get it off your chests. Well, I want 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.400 to know why is it that these cops have to 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.760 do all these professions that they say they have to do, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.760 but yet they requires to have limited education in order 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.080 to perform it. Hair dresses have to go to school 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.800 longer to get trained before cops and cops are able 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.480 to take people live why is that how long police academy? 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.040 The police have to go to academy. They have to 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.960 go to academy. I know that the doctor has to 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.839 go to school for seven years to save a life. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.720 For yet a cops have to go to the academy 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.360 and they get to kill people. That's okay. How long 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:59.760 is academy I don't even know. But yet they have 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.440 to before they have to be social workers. It's psychia, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.760 tricks and all these other professions that yet they don't 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.160 have the education. That's not okay. Get one of sixty 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 credits because they only required to have sixty credits to 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.959 be a police officer. Yeah, yeah, I was reading something. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.560 I thought it was this a high school diploma. I 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.520 was reading something um yesterday and just said, like, it's 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.120 three years of training in Norway to be a police officer. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.120 Three year three year degree is required to become a 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.440 police officer in Finland, two years of training to become 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.760 a police officer in Germany. But in the America you 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.160 just need a high school diploma in twenty one weeks 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.160 of training one twenty four weeks of training. It's still 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.880 a high school diploma. Because I know at one time 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.480 I thought they moved it up. You need a certain 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.760 amount of college credits. I'm not sure them. Don't quote me. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.560 I just looked at up. It says high school diploma 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.160 is often the minimum form of education required an associates 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:53.320 bachelor's a graduate degree. It's rarely mandatory. M d all right, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.760 eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.640 you need to vent, hit us up now. Now we 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.120 got rooms on the way. Ye yes we do. And 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.640 we'll be talking about Matt Barnes what he has to 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.920 say about Kyrie Irving sitting out the NBA season. All Right, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.200 we'll get into that next keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:18.040 Good morning the Breakfast Club. This is the Rumor Report 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:26.840 with Angela Yeast. So, as you know, Kyrie Irving is 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.360 calling for NBA players to reconsider resuming the season so 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.080 that players can focus on fighting oppression and so that 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.680 we don't lose focus. And a lot of people have 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.560 been critical of that. One person who is critical is 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.200 Matt Barnes. Now, he was on his podcast that he 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.400 does with Stephen Jackson, and here's what he had to say, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.000 Kyrie needs to quit, boy, because what I heard was 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.560 Kyrie wanted to go to Orlando to support his team. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.000 They didn't let him, so then he flipped the script, talking, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:54.720 I'm gonna give up everything. Bro. You can give up 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.640 everything to go do the Mier morning if you really 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.120 want to. But at the same time, sitting out without 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.200 a cause or purpose defeats the purpose, and then it 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.960 also divides us. I respect people don't want to play 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.320 because if it's COVID and you're putting your family a risk, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.680 I get that. But if it's for the movement of 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.920 the country right now, we have to take charge of it. Yeah, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.880 I mean, I tend to agree with Matt Bonds, like 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.320 nobody can make me understand why some NBA players think 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.000 playing would be a distraction from the protest. Like athlete 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.040 activism has always been a thing. The demonstrations and things 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.960 you can do before a game, the comments you can 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.840 make after a game will only highlight what's going on 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.640 in the streets. And if you're not absolutely playing, If 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.600 you are not playing, are you about to dedicate your 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.000 life the full time activism If that's the case, cool, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.120 If not, I don't get it. And the reference that 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 he had to Maya Moore. Maya Moore is a w 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.800 NBA star who sat out consecutive seasons to work directly 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.600 on criminal justice before, and we had talked about that previously. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.480 She announced that she was missing a second straight season 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.040 and the Olympics before they were postponed. It's because she 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.600 was helping her family friend overturn a fifty year prison sentence. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.520 So she show she dedicated her life, correct, she was 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.200 on the front Yeah. So so if you dedicate in 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.320 your life the full time activism, if you're not playing 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.280 because you want to be out there on the front lines, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.840 I get it. If not, I don't get it. All right. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.480 Stacy Dash has officially filed for divorce from her fourth husband, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.560 Jeffrey Marty. So they were married for two years, almost 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.120 two years, and she posted the announcement previously. She said, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:23.760 my husband and I have made the hard decision of 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.760 ending our marriage. After much prayer, I feel this is 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.800 the right path for both of us. I wish him 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.520 nothing but the best. And you know, she was arrested 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.960 on domestic battery charges, y'all remember when that happened, But 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.360 she declared after the state attorney did not press charges 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.600 against her. So I wonder, what's the longest um, what's 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.880 the longest lease she's had on a husband two year 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.920 at least this one, Oh boy, that was the two year. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.000 Last husband was the two year least. I wonder, what's 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.280 the longest lease she's ever had on a sheet? Miles? 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:51.880 With that? How many miles did she get it per year? 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.600 That's what I'm saying. I wonder when when did she 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.240 realize it's time to turn it in and get into one? Right? Well, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.760 that one's about to be over, fourth one, all right? 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.200 And Jacole, you know what, I woke up this morning 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.359 and I saw Jay Cole and Kendrick were trending. I 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.680 don't understand why. Still, I was trying to figure it out. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.320 I mean, j Cole, I know, he put out a 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.080 new song and we're gonna play that actually, yes, Snow 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.280 on the Bluff, and that's his first song of twenty twenty, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.399 so you know, he's discussing everything that's been happening. It's 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.639 interesting because I just interviewed Neo for Lift Service. That 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.000 episode just came out yesterday, and he was saying, one 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:28.920 artist who he really wants to work with right now 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.760 is Jay Coole, especially to do a song about everything 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.800 that's happening right now. And Black Lives Matter, and Jay 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.200 Coole just did that himself with Snow on the Bluff, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.520 so I think we should play that. And still, yeah, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.760 we don't appreciate Snow on the Bluff like we should 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:48.679 not the actual movie, classic phenomenal film. Man, we do 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.280 not appreciate that movie like we should. I'm gonna be 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.639 honest now, I like that. I love Snow on the Bluff. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:56.960 Everybody should go watch Now on the Bluff at least 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.400 once in your life. It's kind of like the Hood 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.280 Blair Witch Project. Remember how he didn't ripped. Well, I 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.119 didn't know if the Blair Which project was real at 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.960 first because I saw a documentary about it before it aired. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.440 So I was like, wow, somebody actually was walking around 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.359 with his camera and captured this footage. I thought that 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.520 about Snow on the Bluff as well. Well. Shout out 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.560 to Curtis Snow from Snow and the Bluff. That's right, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.439 classic film, you got, Curtis. All right, Well, I'm angela Ye, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.480 and that's your realm. More important, let's get into Jacole's 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:30.280 new song, Snow on the Bluff Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.280 angela Ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are to breakfast club. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:39.120 Let's get in some front page news where we're starting. You, Well, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.560 let's start which Donald Trump's police perform executive order. What 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.120 is in it? A new database for police misconduct? He said, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.720 They will establish a new national database of police officers 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.760 with the history of using excessive force, mental health corresponders. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.040 They are directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.400 to encourage police departments to embed mental health professionals as 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.640 corresponders on calls related to mental health, homelessness, and addiction, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.720 and also directing to help police department find funds to 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.359 hire this personnel. And banning chokeholds, but technically not really 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.439 so what they said under this executive order is that 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.399 chokeholds will be banned except when an officer's life is 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.439 at risk, and the only police departments that choose to 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.880 get certified would have to comply with that standard. Yeah, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.479 because I saw people saying that there is no banning 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.760 chokeholds initiative in his executive order. Actually saw Maya Harris 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.800 tweeted that out. But I mean, the executive arder is 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.359 really nothing to get excited about. It's just suggestions, you know. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.360 I do like some of those things that are in there, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.280 you know, supporting the registry of bad cops. Definitely to 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.880 respond is in mental health cases. But it's not a bill. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.399 If you put it in a bill, make the goop passing, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.680 and then sign it, then we'll have something to talk about. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.800 That executive order that is nothing but symbolism. A trust 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.000 police officers. If you don't know their record, if you 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.879 don't know that their past, if you don't know if 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.840 they had previous report, it's like that has to be 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.080 public knowledge. I mean, if they pull me over, they 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:04.840 know my past, they know my history. We should know 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.840 everybody's history, honestly. Yeah, And you can't say that you're 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.000 banning choke holds unless you know officer's life. Then you're 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.840 not really banning choke holds. Correct, it's not really banned. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.560 All right. Now, let's discuss Ray Shard Brooks. He was 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.440 killed by an Atlanta police officer outside the Wendy's restaurant 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.560 after failing a sobriety test. Then he fought with two 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.119 officers and took a taser from one and ran away. Well, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.560 now they are saying, according to the police union president, 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:34.400 that shooting was justified under Georgia law. So they said 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.720 the taser is not a deadly weapon when used by 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.359 a trained individual because a trained individual knows where to 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.520 aim it, but an untrained individual does not, and then 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.000 it becomes a deadly weapon at that point. In addition, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:52.680 you know, Gayner said that could he carjack somebody? Could 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.200 he be scared so that he's going to kidnap somebody 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.200 in another car? Is he going to hurt a civilian. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.040 There's a lot of things that come into play that 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.359 you have to play out. And I am responsible for 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.680 this person. I was going to arrest and he now 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.640 has a weapon that I provided him because he took 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:12.720 it from me. So they are saying justified, lawful. No, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.120 there's nothing justified about that killing. I heard so many 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.000 different things. I heard that, uh, once the taser and 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.120 maybe I'm wrong, but they said once the tas is discharged, 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.879 it can't be discharged again. And they said that. I 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:29.000 heard that. Then I also heard that, um. I heard 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.640 that when he was running away they could have It's 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.080 one of those things where the taser is I guess 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:35.879 you have to be within four feet of the person, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.439 and it was further than four feet. There's there's so 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.399 many correlations in different things that I've heard about that 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:49.840 you know, But where they fired, I think they resigned 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:51.879 one of them reasons. I think I thought one was 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.840 and the other one was. Yeah, the officer who shot 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.439 Garrett Rolph was fired after the footage showed him shooting 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.720 up Brooks small ul times and the other officer, well, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:05.760 the police chief resigned, but the police chief wasn't there, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.600 but the police chief did resign. I know officers have 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.639 multiple weapons on them, why not have a gun with 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.720 rubber bullets for a situation like that? If you gotta, 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.840 you know, gun somebody down from the back, why can't 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.240 you use rubber bullets the same bullets you use on protesters? 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:20.760 You know what I mean? Why does it have to 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.159 be real bullets? And how do you justify How did 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.240 somebody you know, snatching your tais and running justify you 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:28.400 shooting them in the back and killing them. I don't 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.600 understand that lot. Well, see that's that's something different than 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.240 there's no way that that one man should be able 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.000 to overpower them to police officers and take his weapon. 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.520 But having an additional weapon, that would be a lot 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:40.480 because you think about it, I mean, it would look 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.359 like Rambo. I mean you'd you'd have a real gun, 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.920 you'd have a gun with bullets. Then you'll have a chaser, 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.879 and then you have a paton. Like it's kind of like, 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.640 do you want to confuse the costs with all those 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:56.080 those choices to shoot me? You giving them giving them 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.920 police budgets anyway, so they might with that. I want 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:02.440 to talk about another start. I don't know if you'all 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.080 heard this, but this also happened in Georgia, and these 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:07.560 moms were pleading with a cop who was holding these 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:09.719 kids at gunpoint. The cop was by himself. He had 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.359 gotten a report that a group of kids had a 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.680 gun and we're fighting in the stores parking lot. Listen 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:24.800 to this, please sar, please go shoot go shoot, shoot, sar. Please. 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:30.600 And so the moms were pleading with the police officer 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.760 to put the gun down and to make sure that 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:36.600 nothing happened. And it was a group of I think 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.679 like thirty people that were there just telling the police 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.080 officer why you got a gun out? They are kids, 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:46.520 their kids. So it was a seventeen minute video and 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.199 they did the children did emit. They were teenagers, that 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.000 they had a BB gun and they had thrown the 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:56.040 gun in the bushes and so, and it resembles a 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.520 semi automatic pistol. But I don't know what are you 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.240 do in that situation. I mean, in that situation, you 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.320 gotta understand, when the police get a phone call at 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.239 somebody has a gun, they're automatically thinking that somebody has 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:08.960 a gun, so they have to make sure that nobody 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:10.640 has that weapon. That's why they told them to put 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:12.359 their hands up, and that's why he read it for backup, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:14.760 to make sure somebody patted them down. In that situation, 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:16.800 when you get a phone call and you say that, 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.200 that's why you know, when we go back to community people, 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.480 and that's when you know, if somebody in that community 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:24.240 like like, oh, Ray Ray, come here, Ray Ray, what 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:25.720 you got on? You know what I mean, that's where 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:27.320 it comes to that. But when a cop comes to 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:29.120 a neighborhood and don't know these kids and they get 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:30.920 a call for a gun, I mean, they got to 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.520 protect themselves as well. In this case. Yeah, but we've 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.640 seen them get that horribly wrong too. I mean, Rice 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:38.359 was a kid, you know what I'm saying, with a 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.760 toy gun at a park or that. We'll always a 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:44.920 time eight. I think I don't know how you're a kid, 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:47.840 you know what you're supposed to be twenty. I think 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:51.480 sometime this week cops pulled up, just jumped out by't 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:53.640 even assessed the situation nothing. They just got to call 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.240 some kids in the park with a gun and they 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.879 pulled up shooting. So I don't know, it's complicated, Jesus 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.200 christ Man. Well, that is your friend. That's made is 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:07.200 somebody losing their life. Absolutely well, that is your front 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.399 page news. I'm Angela Yee. All right, thank you, miss Ye. 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:14.280 Now when we come back, yesterday, Yee had an opportunity 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:19.719 to speak with still Alie Abrams. You want to explain 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:23.080 what that conversation was about you, Yes, well, Russell Simmons 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:26.360 did have a platform to come up here and discuss 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:30.400 and defend himself from the accusations against sim and still 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:32.800 Lie Abrams is one of the women who has said 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.960 that Russell Simmons actually she says that he raped her. 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:38.240 And so we wanted to make sure that these women 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:42.600 also had that equal platform to just say what they 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.639 have to say and express themselves. So we wanted to 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.199 make sure we gave Sillye Abrams that platform. So We 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.879 had a very enlightening discussion on black women, how women 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:54.359 are treated, the sexual violence and all of that. All right, 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:56.320 we'll get into that next, so don't move. It's to 0:25:56.320 --> 0:26:02.520 Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:06.399 DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God. We all the 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:10.080 Breakfast Club. Now we have a special guest, Angela Ye. 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:13.560 Got a chance to speak with sil Lie Abrams. Yes, 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:16.440 she was featured on the Record that is a documentary 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:19.960 with She's one of the women who's accusing Russell Simmons 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:23.840 of assault of rape. Actually in her situation, it was rape, 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:27.680 and she talks about her situation and she's going to 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:29.479 give you all of this firsthand. We wanted to make 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:31.800 sure she had the platform. So here we go. We 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:34.399 interviewed Russell Simmons last week and you appeared in the 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:37.400 On the Record documentary that's on HBO Max, and we're 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:39.680 going to talk all about that. But we did see 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:43.119 on social media that you did not appreciate that interview. 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:44.800 So I do want to give you the platform here 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:49.200 to respond to what happens with that Russell Simmons interview 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.040 and also to be able to have the platform to 0:26:51.080 --> 0:26:54.160 tell you a story. So let's just get that over 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:58.199 with first. You know, I understand that everybody's entitled to 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:03.560 tell their story. Everyone's entitled to share their side of things. 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:09.800 What was incredibly painful for me as a survivor was 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:15.720 being silenced for so long and the first time that 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:20.720 Russell pops up is on a show with such a 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:25.639 reach as The Breakfast Club, and that he was unchallenged 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:30.280 essentially throughout the entire interview. And not only was he 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:34.280 unchallenged and allowed to perpetuate a lot of very harmful 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:40.040 myths around rape and around the women that have accused him, 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:47.080 but it was very retraumatizing. It was a traumatic experience 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:51.600 because we didn't have an opportunity to speak. There's been 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:55.600 this huge vortex of silence around the film within the 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:59.720 black community, which in large part I believe has been 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:04.479 managed and negotiated by him. He's a man with incredible power, 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:09.119 and so Russell is the Harvey Wine scene of the 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:14.399 hip hop community. He even prior to Harvey being convicted, 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:19.639 Harvey had become a pariah because of the multiple allegations 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:23.280 by so many different women against him. But those same 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:28.480 standards don't apply to our community with r Kelly or 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:32.400 anyone else that has perpetuated these types of crimes by 0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:37.000 Bill Casby or Bill Cosby, we ride or dive for 0:28:37.040 --> 0:28:40.160 them until the end. And I get that. We can 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:45.920 get into that later, but just specifically, why I've been 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:50.640 so vocal is because there is a tremendous responsibility that 0:28:50.720 --> 0:28:57.320 comes with having the privilege of the position that your 0:28:57.360 --> 0:29:03.320 show has, and at times the show hasn't done right 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:07.640 by the community that it says it long and so 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:12.320 in this case, it was it was just wrong. It 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:15.480 was just like it was just not a good look 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:18.440 and it was painful. Well, I will say this, as 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:21.440 soon as HBO reached out to me to have the 0:29:21.520 --> 0:29:23.840 women from on the record on the show, I responded 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:26.040 immediately and said absolutely. And that was the first time 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:29.400 anyone had reached out to me. And so because I 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:31.800 had done I may destroy you a campaign with that 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:34.960 with them, they had my information and hit me up directly, 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:37.560 and so as soon as I was asked, there was 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.880 no question. So I believe that I would say the 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:43.000 Breakfast Club is not perfect, as I don't feel like 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:46.520 any platform gets it right all the time. But I 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:49.080 know and I can speak I think on behalf of 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.680 all of us that you know, we do try to 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:55.240 make sure that we uplift our community in many different ways, 0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:58.400 and if things are triggering, I do apologize for that 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.960 because that's never my intention for that to happen. And 0:30:02.000 --> 0:30:03.920 so that's why I want to make sure and I 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:06.920 would have given you this space regardless if that interview 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:09.960 happened or not. It was just that the way that 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:12.640 it works. It's not that we reached out to anyone 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.280 for an interview. People reach out to us normally, and 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:19.040 that's usually how interviews are booked, and so you know, 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:21.440 and you're right, like I do feel like the documentary. 0:30:21.520 --> 0:30:24.160 I reported on it multiple times. I played the trailer 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:26.840 you know, in my roomor report, and we talked about 0:30:26.880 --> 0:30:29.360 Oprah when she signed on to do it, we talked 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.239 about it when she decided not to do it, and 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:34.520 then when it got picked up by HBO Max. So 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:36.920 while I do feel like a lot of platforms hadn't 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:40.840 been even covering that this documentary happened, it was something 0:30:40.880 --> 0:30:43.560 that we have discussed and I have put in my 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:47.719 roomor report as things unraveled. So I just want to 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.400 put that out there for you, and I do want 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:51.400 to talk about that, since you brought it up with 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:56.240 the documentary, just what happened with Oprah, because we've heard 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:59.840 that she felt like the stories were conflicting and she 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:02.640 couldn't sign on. She does believe the women, she said, 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.360 but you feel like they were too many contradictions. So 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:07.920 can you, from your own space talk about what happened 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:10.560 before I go there, I just want to say that, 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:15.040 according to our side, there was outreach that began at 0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:18.200 the top of May. Now whether or not that went 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:22.120 from the specific booker at your show, I don't know 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:24.200 how many bookers there are, I don't know, but I 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:27.320 know that the outreach had begun because we all know 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:32.480 if there is a film anything of any import, people 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:34.480 want to go on the Breakfast Club to talk about it. 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:36.960 We know if we want to reach Black America, you 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:40.120 come here, which is why Joe Biden comes on here 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:45.040 presidential nominee. So yeah, I just wanted to touch on 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:49.280 that because there might be a little miscommunication there. But 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:54.320 as far as Oprah's pulling out, there was a lot 0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:59.120 of reporting around the drama on that preceded the release 0:31:59.160 --> 0:32:02.120 of the film, and I get it. It's tantalizing people 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:04.720 want to know, Oh, well, what's going on. Oprah said 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:09.520 that there's some inconsistencies with this person. And you've got 0:32:09.520 --> 0:32:13.480 a campaign that's happening with fifty seven and Russell Simmons's 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:19.240 operating on social media and people. You've got people from 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:21.840 other communities who are just diving in saying this is 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:24.920 just another attempt to take out a black man and 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:28.320 we can't let this happen. But all of this is occurring, 0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:32.680 and people are forgetting Hello, there are survivors involved here, 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:38.280 and we're collateral damage. And so Oprah choosing to step back, 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:42.320 that's her prerogative. I wasn't in the room. She stayed 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:45.240 it in the New York Times. She said on TV 0:32:45.880 --> 0:32:51.360 her issue would created differences period. She also said that 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:57.200 she believed us, and so I believe that she has 0:32:57.240 --> 0:33:00.360 a right to do whatever she wants with her money 0:33:00.520 --> 0:33:04.840 and with her platform. I also think it's incredibly disingenuous 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:08.080 for Russell to come on the show last week and 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:12.360 start to invoke Oprah like, oh oh, oh, Oprah, She's 0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:16.800 so wonderful, when Oprah straight up just said nah, like 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:20.720 you had nothing to do with this, Like your whatever 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:26.080 you're saying to try and imply that Oprah is co 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:30.840 signing you. That's not fair because you also know Miss 0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:33.800 Oprah Winfrey is not going to come back out to 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:38.400 relitigate something that's in the past. That's irrelevant. What's important 0:33:38.800 --> 0:33:42.680 is the fact that I saw one article for an 0:33:42.680 --> 0:33:47.240 Okay player, a tweet about how our film almost became 0:33:47.440 --> 0:33:51.920 an urban legend, one of those. And really it's been 0:33:52.320 --> 0:33:55.360 this very skittish road to get here because of the 0:33:55.400 --> 0:33:59.360 fact that there has been so much controversy. So it 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:03.960 wasn't painful. Yeah, the whole damn experience has been painful 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:07.640 since I chose to come forward, going back in twenty seventeen. 0:34:07.760 --> 0:34:10.960 But that is the price that survivors pay when they 0:34:11.040 --> 0:34:15.560 choose to tell their stories, irrespective of how powerful their 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:18.839 perpetrator is. All right, when we come back, we got 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:20.960 more with sil Lie Abrams, so don't move. It's to 0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:26.000 Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela, Yee, 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:29.120 Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Were still 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.640 speaking with Abrams. Angela, you got a chance to speak 0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:35.640 with her yesterday. Let's get back into the interview and 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:39.319 you can see the documentary on the record on HBO Max. Now, 0:34:39.680 --> 0:34:41.719 you know what I've read a lot about what you've 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.960 been through and how Joyanne Reid was supposed to interview you, 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:48.880 and you had given her your story which she was writing, 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:51.600 and she was doing to sit down an interview with you, 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:55.640 and you had to provide all kinds of receipts to 0:34:55.800 --> 0:34:59.800 improve that what you said happened to you did indeed happen, 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:04.879 and then the story never ended up going on air, 0:35:06.120 --> 0:35:08.640 and I know that had to be difficult. And then 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:11.440 you know, we're talking about your son sitting next to you, 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:15.239 and that was one of the most heartbreaking scenes. Was 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:17.080 and I don't even want to bring things up, but 0:35:17.120 --> 0:35:18.960 I know for people who haven't seen it that are 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:22.080 listening right now, you know you did detail having to 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:24.880 be taken to the hospital and kissing her son goodbye 0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:27.920 because you didn't even want to be here anymore after 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:31.160 that happened. Was that the first time he had heard 0:35:31.200 --> 0:35:33.520 about that. It was the first time that he knew 0:35:33.520 --> 0:35:36.320 the details. And that's the thing that, let me be clear, 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.200 I didn't tell. I mean I told there were people 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:45.160 who were present that day immediately after the assault, people 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:49.480 from Russell's camp that came to be with my son. 0:35:50.000 --> 0:35:54.279 There are people that my friends that took me to 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:58.839 the hospital, and I never thought that it would go 0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:01.960 further than that. You know what, mother wants to tell 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:08.200 their child about something that painful, something that I still 0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:10.959 have a lot of mixed feelings about. But you know what, 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:16.800 sexual violence not only impacts the individual who is hurt, 0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:21.480 it impacts their families. You know, when we talk about 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:26.279 the restorative justice model or the transformative justice model, the 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:31.440 first thing that has to occur is for a perpetrator 0:36:31.600 --> 0:36:36.040 to acknowledge the harm that they've done, not only to 0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:41.000 the victim, but to the victim's family, to the community, 0:36:41.520 --> 0:36:45.040 and to the society at large. And you cannot even 0:36:45.080 --> 0:36:52.000 begin a dialogue of healing without first having accountability. That's 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:57.480 what's missing in this is that Russell did apologize to 0:36:57.800 --> 0:37:02.879 me at Mumba a couple of years later, and this 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:06.640 is detail in the Hollywood Reporter piece. He did he 0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:10.520 change person now? Right? He said he's changed, and he 0:37:10.600 --> 0:37:14.840 was alluding to being fully sober and also I guess 0:37:15.560 --> 0:37:19.680 having a different mindset around what consent is, I guess, 0:37:20.760 --> 0:37:22.960 But he happened to be having dinner with Donald Trump, 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:27.080 you know, I mean so it's like and I just 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:30.400 stopped him. I was just like, first off, he blindsided 0:37:30.440 --> 0:37:33.840 me because my sister had died of a drug overdose 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:37.040 a couple months before. That's what he approached me to say, 0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:41.480 I'm sorry, I heard about your sister. I just she 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:46.200 Melee was a really good girl. And I was so raw, 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:49.360 like you could have knocked me over. And I was 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:54.000 just so glad someone, anyone would acknowledge that my sister 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:56.600 died of a drug overdose because nobody wants to talk 0:37:56.640 --> 0:38:00.920 about that. Had he not started with my sister, I 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:04.759 would have walked away. I had nothing to say. But 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:10.239 your question encompassed a lot. You mentioned joy read and 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:12.960 I don't know. I'm not going to guess why, but 0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:19.360 I'll say that my story was vetted, it went through 0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:25.040 it passed standers and practices at NBC. I have receipts. 0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:30.240 It was just NBC, as we saw with Ronning Pharaoh 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:34.880 and other stories. They have their own ongoing issues within 0:38:35.000 --> 0:38:40.799 that news organization of how they handle sexual harassment and 0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:46.239 misconduct and Russell's attorneys strong arms, and I mean it 0:38:46.320 --> 0:38:49.040 went all the way to the top, to the head 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:53.479 of the news divisions and of the company so that's 0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:57.200 the power he has to shut something down. And so 0:38:57.600 --> 0:39:01.560 when by the time I finally to the Hollywood Reporter, 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:06.040 the story morphed and it became one that was about 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:12.240 how of me too story is killed? And that's what's unfortunate, 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:17.279 is that it no longer becomes something linear. Is well, 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:21.240 why did you come forward? You know everyone came out 0:39:21.280 --> 0:39:25.600 in November December, and here it is June, almost July, 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:30.000 and now your story is breaking. Well, it's not my fault. 0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:33.920 It's because I got hemmed up. But the Hollywood Reporter 0:39:34.000 --> 0:39:37.959 had all the access to all of the same information 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:43.320 that NBC did, and yes, they were pressured by Russell's 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:48.480 attorneys and they ran it. They ran it and there 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:51.600 has not been any civil suit. And to Russell's point 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:55.279 last week, I've never filed the civil suit. I never 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:58.960 wanted anything from him. But what I will not do 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:06.480 is be complicit in silencing survivors, nor will I be silenced. 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:11.360 Think about it. The privilege that I have, the many 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:15.040 levels of privilege that I have, of the relationships within 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:19.000 the industry, of having a certain attorney, all this stuff 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:22.799 that I have at my disposal is what allowed my 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:27.160 story to end up being published after it was killed 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:31.000 by one news outlet. And you know how it works. 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:34.239 When your story gets squashed at one news outlet, the 0:40:34.400 --> 0:40:38.120 bar is set double as high to get published that 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:43.719 with another one. And so again, I keep thinking about 0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:48.280 all of rape is a crime that happens in private. 0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:51.320 It happens in the private sphere, but it's litigated often 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:57.480 in the public, and so many victims don't have receipts right, 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:00.960 And I think people are awesome mistakenly think that because 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.279 you cannot get convicted right after getting a kised. But 0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:07.680 that doesn't necessarily mean it didn't happen. A lot of 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:11.480 people will say, well, the charges got drapped or it 0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:13.759 didn't happen, and a lot of times that doesn't necessarily 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:18.000 mean the person is innocent. You know that we as 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:24.280 a people know that police brutality committed against black people 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:29.320 is an epidemic. We know even if the media doesn't 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:33.640 report on it, which it hasn't forever. It's only now 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:37.160 because we have our own cameras and making the news 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:41.440 through social media that people are really starting to see 0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:45.520 the extent of the harm that's been done to us 0:41:45.680 --> 0:41:51.320 for centuries. We know what happens to our people because 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:54.600 we know how corrupt the system is and it's stacked 0:41:54.800 --> 0:42:00.120 against us, So we don't question when police brutality occurs, 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:05.279 we accepted as truth. But when a black woman says 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:09.680 that she's been sexually violated, and when you look at 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:16.360 all the statistics we know it's a global women's health epidemic, 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:21.320 it's all of a sudden, Well, you know, she's lying, 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:26.719 she wants something, she's a hole, she was drunk. All 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:30.920 of these rapemisters employed, and I'm like, this is why 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:34.040 I think, in the middle of the movement for black 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:40.360 lives that's occurring, why the death of toy In Salow 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:47.000 just hits right at that intersection of what we're talking 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:52.600 about about a black woman speaking up and using her 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:56.520 voice on a platform like social media to talk about 0:42:56.520 --> 0:43:00.680 the fact that she had been assaulted, and then the 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:05.360 very person who she trusted to provide her some type 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:11.120 of care ends up hurting her and then her body 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:16.680 is discovered. There are parallels that exist in many women's 0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:22.720 lives where we know that the majority of crimes happened 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:26.480 between people who know each other, whether it's domestic violence 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:32.040 or intimate partner abuse, and especially rape and sexual assault 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.040 all right, well, old move, we got more with sil 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:38.200 Lie Abrams. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning Morning, everybody 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:42.160 is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Gay We are 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:45.759 the Breakfast Club. Now yesterday, Angela Yee got a chance 0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:48.920 to kick it with sil Lie Abrams. Yes sel Lia 0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:52.600 Abrams has accused the Russell Simmons of rape and you 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:56.000 get to hear what happened to her firsthand. And she's 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.000 also featured on the record, which is on HBO. Max 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:02.640 has been can rape their wives. Some people don't feel 0:44:02.680 --> 0:44:05.920 like that's even possible, right, They were like, well, you're married, 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:10.239 so that can't happen. But the truth of the matter 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:13.160 is I know women who will tell you that they've 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.960 been raped by their husband. And then I think when 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:19.680 that happens, it's difficult to speak up because you feel ashamed. 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:22.160 You also know that people will say, well, you know, 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:24.879 you guys are married, so if you you've already had sex, 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.680 you already have kids, Like, I don't see how that's 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:31.080 even possible. But then when you hear the violence that occurred, 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:33.799 and I think, especially when it happens to somebody you know, 0:44:33.960 --> 0:44:37.080 I think we all know a woman or women, multiple 0:44:37.120 --> 0:44:40.440 women who who have been sexually assaulted and will never 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:43.239 speak up about it or never tell this story. I 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:44.960 can't think of too many people who don't have a 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:49.080 story to tell. Certain people who have questioned me because 0:44:50.000 --> 0:44:53.319 Russell and I had dated before I look, I put 0:44:53.320 --> 0:44:55.920 it all out on the table. I had to say 0:44:56.000 --> 0:45:03.160 that he and I had Kis it right? Consentually creates me? Yeah, 0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:09.160 it had, you had a boyfriend, it ended, and we 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:12.640 were supposed to be friends forever, according to him. And 0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:15.880 so like last week when he's talking about all his friends, 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:20.799 how he's still friends with all these women, I might, well, 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:25.319 I was your friend. I trusted you, and now we're 0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:31.480 not friends because you violated me and you destroyed our friendship. 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:37.560 And that is something that it's still hard to wrap 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:42.400 your head around. You know, years later, I think about 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:48.399 my time working in entertainment and in media, and I 0:45:48.440 --> 0:45:51.640 think hearing all of the horror stories to your point 0:45:52.200 --> 0:45:58.120 that many women share privately but will never share publicly. 0:45:58.880 --> 0:46:03.439 I'm lucky it was only two men. When you think 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:06.680 about all of the allegations that have come up, and 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.839 all of the conversations and the whisper talks that we 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:13.080 have amongst each other where we don't come forward and 0:46:13.200 --> 0:46:18.359 talk about what's really going down in the industry, right, 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:24.960 and how nobody is holding the perpetrators accountable. And that's 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:30.919 where I think that media outlets, by at least providing 0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:37.000 an opportunity to hear the voices of survivors, can level 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:40.440 the field. How does it fail then that people still 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:43.800 legally have to say allegations because as you know, Restsell 0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:46.200 Simmons is saying he took a lot of detective tests, 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:49.719 he hasn't been charged with anything, and so legally it 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:55.000 still is considered allegations. And that others the to you 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:57.600 to have. How many women have come forward so far? 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:01.880 I mean it depends upon what you're talking about. I 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:05.600 believe it's six or seven who publicly accused him of rape, 0:47:05.600 --> 0:47:08.760 and then the rest are various forms of sexual misconduct 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:14.880 and harassment, which I guess in total is twenty. I mean, 0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:19.560 as far as allegations, news media has got to cover 0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:22.600 their behind, right, So legally, you can't get sued if 0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:28.440 you eat, don't ry allegedly allegedly, right, And so you know, 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:34.319 I have accused him publicly of assault, and so I 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:38.920 don't have an issue with the fact that people say allegations. 0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:44.640 What I have a problem with is when your identity 0:47:44.760 --> 0:47:48.520 as a survivor becomes secondary to that of your perpetrator 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:53.480 simply because he is famous, even around everything that happened 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:56.960 last week, it was, you know, Russell Simmons rape accuser 0:47:58.080 --> 0:48:01.000 last breakfast club, and I'm like, I have a name, 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:07.719 and if you go back, I have an identity, I 0:48:07.840 --> 0:48:14.880 have professional bona fides. I'm not just an accuser. Don't 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:19.080 minimize and marginalize me and tie me into the headline 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:21.879 of who this man is. Because that was a big 0:48:21.920 --> 0:48:24.759 part of my decision not to include his name in 0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:31.080 my first book, because I explicitly outline what happened. But 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:35.040 I gave a pseudonym in the book because I never 0:48:35.160 --> 0:48:39.319 wanted because I'm painfully aware that there are people who 0:48:39.400 --> 0:48:42.880 think that the reason why I've achieved any type of 0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:45.440 success is because of the way that I look. And 0:48:45.600 --> 0:48:50.600 let's be real, I have certain privileges that have helped 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:53.240 make things easier. But you don't stay in the game 0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:55.880 just because you look cute. You've got to actually be 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:58.640 able to bring something to the table. You have to 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:05.080 know your as they say, and so with respect to 0:49:05.719 --> 0:49:10.440 my identity getting erased and all survivors getting erased. Like, 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:13.319 I get it. It happens to people. I see it 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:15.840 all the time. I'm just very sensitive to it because 0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:19.279 I remember the night before my story dropped, I went 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:23.160 on Google and I screenshot. I did a search and 0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:26.400 I screenshot my name, and it was like, rest in 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:32.680 peace to sly Abrams, nationally recognized domestic violence awareness activists, 0:49:32.960 --> 0:49:36.959 because henceforth you're going to be known as a woman 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:41.319 who accused Russell Simmons of great And that's nothing that 0:49:41.480 --> 0:49:45.879 I ever wanted. I didn't want my work to be 0:49:46.080 --> 0:49:52.680 built around the identity of a man that had hurt me. 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:57.440 I did not want, and certainly not as a feminist. 0:49:57.560 --> 0:50:00.680 I certainly was not going to try par lay this 0:50:00.800 --> 0:50:03.560 into any type of what did he say? He said 0:50:03.600 --> 0:50:06.080 last week? He said, to be famous or infamous? Who 0:50:06.160 --> 0:50:10.120 the hell wants to be infamous or not? For that? 0:50:12.400 --> 0:50:15.560 What do you win? What could Russell do? Now? Is 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:20.319 there anything? I want accountability? If we're not able to 0:50:20.440 --> 0:50:26.280 navigate the criminal justice system, because what happened between us 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:31.200 is outside of the statute of limitations. And to be 0:50:31.400 --> 0:50:34.840 very clear, like, let me bring you back. I chose 0:50:35.000 --> 0:50:38.880 not to press charges at the time because I was 0:50:39.000 --> 0:50:41.799 drunk that night, because of the fact that he and 0:50:41.920 --> 0:50:47.879 I did have a prior sexual relationship, and because I 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:52.520 was terrified because of the imbalanced empower and money between 0:50:52.600 --> 0:50:57.880 us and what happened in the examination room. So I 0:50:58.040 --> 0:51:02.360 was scared. Now today, as a woman who is going 0:51:02.440 --> 0:51:07.799 to be turning fifty in a month, what does the 0:51:07.920 --> 0:51:13.240 grown ask woman want? What I want is a chance 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:19.960 to begin restorative justice. I want Russell to actually stop 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:26.719 the pantomime of being an innocent and truly acknowledge the 0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:31.120 harm that he's done and then start to make the 0:51:31.200 --> 0:51:37.040 amends to the individuals and the community that he continues 0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:44.440 to harm by peddling mistruth that he ends up contradicting 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:48.120 himself on. So, like, just pointing to the interview last week, 0:51:48.520 --> 0:51:55.279 he said that he misinterpreted what happened with Jenny, right, 0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:58.320 And I'm like, dude, you just said in essence that 0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:01.680 you raped her, Like that's what you said, right, I mean, 0:52:02.239 --> 0:52:06.520 I guess I got my signals crossed. Well, if Jenny 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:10.319 says it wasn't consensual and you don't know what consent is, 0:52:10.360 --> 0:52:15.680 well I'm sorry that right, there was an admission of 0:52:15.760 --> 0:52:19.840 some sort, even in the case of me, a drunk 0:52:19.840 --> 0:52:24.239 woman can't consent, right. It's my hope that having this 0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:29.480 conversation is an opportunity, to your point, to try and 0:52:30.560 --> 0:52:38.080 shift the needle and get something right. By us having 0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:42.040 this dialogue on the heels of what happened last week, 0:52:42.239 --> 0:52:45.719 at least there's some contexts. And I can't speak for 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:49.319 the other survivors, but I can say that I am 0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:56.920 appreciative of this conversation and of this opportunity because you 0:52:57.040 --> 0:53:02.080 all have tremendous power and you help shape culture, but 0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:05.440 there are parts of our culture that absolutely have to change. 0:53:05.800 --> 0:53:11.319 And letting people come on and not be interrogated on 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:15.120 their behavior, that's not cool. That's not going to bring 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:19.440 about any liberation. That's not black love. That's not accountability. 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:23.600 And when you love someone, you hold them accountable. So 0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:26.799 I do appreciate you for taking the time to come 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:29.160 on this platform. I know you are on the board 0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:32.000 for the National Domestic Violence Hetline, and you were on 0:53:32.000 --> 0:53:35.720 the board for a Safe Horizon, So just so people 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:37.640 know that there are safe spaces that they can go 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:42.359 to if they do need to seek out help and support, absolutely, 0:53:42.360 --> 0:53:46.359 and they call the Sexual Assault the National You can 0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:52.040 contact Brain as well, which is a national sexual assault hotline. 0:53:52.360 --> 0:53:55.960 I mean urban times where I've just picked up and 0:53:56.120 --> 0:53:59.839 called either one. I called Safe Horizon not too long 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:02.440 ago and just said I need to talk because the 0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:06.279 pressure of being of going through something like this, I 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:09.919 just need to anonymously speak to someone and just say 0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:13.839 this is really hard. I'm having a hard time handling this. 0:54:14.680 --> 0:54:19.239 And it's been twenty five years, right, but so much appreciated, 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:21.560 and we will definitely make sure we stay in touching. 0:54:21.600 --> 0:54:24.400 If you need our platform, make sure you let me know. 0:54:25.040 --> 0:54:28.839 All right, thank you, thank you, Sail Abrahams. All right, 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:34.760 take care boarding. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:36.440 the guy. We all to Breakfast Club. Let's get to 0:54:36.440 --> 0:54:39.000 the rooms. Let's talk Will Smith. Okay, are you ready 0:54:39.000 --> 0:54:49.520 to watch the bulls Smith? It's about Angela Ye, the 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:52.920 Breakfast Club. Okay, are you ready to watch the bus. 0:54:52.920 --> 0:54:56.640 Smith's starting a new movie as a runaway slave. Why not? 0:54:56.680 --> 0:54:59.439 It's Will Smith. Will Smith gets busy on that screen. Well, 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.440 the new movie is called Emancipation. It'll be directed by 0:55:02.480 --> 0:55:05.359 Antoine foo Quads, based on a true story, and Will 0:55:05.400 --> 0:55:07.840 Smith is playing Peter, a runaway slave for us to 0:55:07.880 --> 0:55:10.320 flee and outwit slave hunters on his journey to the 0:55:10.440 --> 0:55:14.200 Union Army and his only chance of freedom. Now I've 0:55:14.280 --> 0:55:17.120 said I'm a record saying I'm tired of seeing slave more. Yes, 0:55:17.200 --> 0:55:20.200 you are, only because only because they show us, you know, 0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:22.480 being the victims all the time, which we were. But 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:24.640 I'm intrigued about this one because it's based off that 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.800 classic picture we always see with the brothers showing the 0:55:27.800 --> 0:55:30.080 whelps on his back. Right, if I'm not mistaken, I 0:55:30.080 --> 0:55:33.560 think I read that yesterday. I'm interested. All right, Well, 0:55:33.560 --> 0:55:36.480 that production is going to start early in twenty twenty one. Now. 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:39.279 Will Smith is also starring in a Father's Day documentary 0:55:39.360 --> 0:55:42.960 called Dads alongside Keenan Thompson, and it will be available 0:55:43.000 --> 0:55:47.640 on an Apple TV Plus June nineteen. More stories of 0:55:48.040 --> 0:55:52.120 black liberation that don't have to do with slavery. But yeah, 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:55.040 all right, speaking of Dads, let's talk about Deja Harris. 0:55:55.200 --> 0:55:58.480 And you know, I actually was watching Ti and Tiny 0:55:58.520 --> 0:56:01.200 Friends and Family Hustle and this is the hymen Gate 0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:05.440 episode where ti it is comments about taking his daughter 0:56:05.480 --> 0:56:08.920 to the gynecologists and making sure that her hyman is 0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:12.319 still intact. Well, here is what Deja had to say 0:56:12.440 --> 0:56:14.600 she found out while they were on vacation in Mexico. 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:22.040 My heart sank very shocked, hurt, angry, embarrassed by be 0:56:22.120 --> 0:56:24.480 honest for real, that he goes to the Ghyana coologists 0:56:24.480 --> 0:56:27.520 with you to make sure that you're feel aversion. Yeah, 0:56:27.640 --> 0:56:29.360 he goes, Well, what we want you to do is 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:31.279 talk to him about it. Man, I'm not gonna be 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:34.120 able to really get through to him like connect here. Yeah. 0:56:34.480 --> 0:56:37.840 He always plays big, honestly, So like, are you angry? 0:56:38.120 --> 0:56:40.560 I just don't really care to be around him right now. 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:42.080 Do you feel like this is not going to put 0:56:42.080 --> 0:56:47.799 a frame over it? Come on, No, this situation is 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:50.560 just a little traumatizing for me. Yeah. I hate the 0:56:50.560 --> 0:56:52.520 fact that she has to relive that, you know, especially 0:56:52.560 --> 0:56:54.920 being as she said it was traumatic. I'm sure it was. 0:56:54.960 --> 0:56:58.080 So I hate to see people have to relive trauma. Yeah, 0:56:58.080 --> 0:57:00.160 And there's a certain conversations in a certain situations you 0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:02.279 just want to keep in the household, you know. And 0:57:02.320 --> 0:57:04.920 I blazed a lot with my daughter too, and you 0:57:04.960 --> 0:57:06.839 know what too, I was watching it and I did 0:57:06.960 --> 0:57:10.680 feel real like she was, you know, breaking down about 0:57:10.719 --> 0:57:14.640 to cry, and he didn't really want to like apologize 0:57:14.719 --> 0:57:17.720 or approach her about it and ruining the trip and 0:57:17.760 --> 0:57:22.040 things like that, so it was very difficult to watch. Yeah, 0:57:22.080 --> 0:57:23.720 I just don't want my daughter's him and to be 0:57:23.760 --> 0:57:26.200 your entertainment, because that's what it turns out to be, right, Like, 0:57:26.240 --> 0:57:29.280 even if you're even if if Tip had the best intentions, 0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:31.680 which I'm sure he did, it still ends up being 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:35.440 somebody's entertainment because it's on television, you know what I mean. Yeah, Well, 0:57:35.440 --> 0:57:37.440 that's what happens when you have a show and you 0:57:37.480 --> 0:57:39.360 talk about your family and your life so much, but 0:57:39.440 --> 0:57:42.480 you sometimes you don't realize you know, well you do 0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:44.760 realize what's going to be, you know, really hurt your 0:57:44.840 --> 0:57:46.680 daughter's feelings, you know what I mean. I've been through 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:48.280 that too with my daughter. I said some stuff that 0:57:48.360 --> 0:57:49.840 my daughter didn't like and I had to have a 0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:52.920 conversation and apologize to it. It is a process being 0:57:53.000 --> 0:57:55.560 having daughters. I got three daughters. Having daughters is like 0:57:55.640 --> 0:57:58.280 having a landmine, right because you don't know when you 0:57:58.360 --> 0:58:00.720 might step. It caused them them to blow up, and 0:58:00.720 --> 0:58:03.480 it's not like it was your intention, you know, it's like, 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:06.320 oh my god, you know right, and you know, and 0:58:06.360 --> 0:58:08.760 I said this at the time. I think as a 0:58:08.960 --> 0:58:10.960 young as a woman, and I know when I was 0:58:10.960 --> 0:58:13.320 a young girl. You know where you are very there's 0:58:13.320 --> 0:58:15.439 a lot to do with women's bodies, and you don't 0:58:15.480 --> 0:58:18.320 want to be invasive over things like that because I 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:22.720 can't affect somebody forever. So it's just really important to 0:58:22.800 --> 0:58:26.160 listen to women. Listen to what your daughters have to say, 0:58:26.320 --> 0:58:28.400 and make them feel empowered and let them know their 0:58:28.400 --> 0:58:31.240 body is their body and they control that. And have trust. 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:33.040 You know, you have to be able to trust that 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:35.080 you raise your daughters in the right way and that 0:58:35.160 --> 0:58:38.000 they'll make smart decisions when you're not around and you 0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:40.800 don't have to check their hymen. All right, I'm angela 0:58:40.880 --> 0:58:45.680 yee and that is your christ Oh my god. Yes, 0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:49.360 well all right, all right, we'll give me a donkey. 0:58:50.960 --> 0:58:52.760 We need Vice President Mike Pence to come to the 0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:54.320 front of the congregation. We like to have a world 0:58:54.360 --> 0:58:57.280 with them. I and also ask ye it don't drip 0:58:57.320 --> 0:58:59.840 five five one or five one. If you need relationship advice, 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:01.680 you and hit e right now with the Breakfast Club. 0:59:01.720 --> 0:59:04.960 Good morning, Charlemaine say the gang. Don't get out a 0:59:05.080 --> 0:59:13.440 shape man you are Donkia Today does not discriminate. I 0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:15.160 might not have the song of today, but I got 0:59:15.160 --> 0:59:17.600 to donkey that, if ever I need to be a 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:21.840 Donkey man, give it with the eyes the breakfast club bitch. 0:59:22.080 --> 0:59:25.440 I just don't give Today today. Donkia Today for Wednesday, 0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:28.600 June seventeenth, goes to the leader of the Trump Administration's 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:32.560 coronavirus task for us, the Vice President and worst sidekick 0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:36.080 since Aquaman had Aqua Girl, Mike Pince. Oh. Yes, I 0:59:36.160 --> 0:59:39.640 come from the era of Aquaman being highly uncool, not 0:59:39.760 --> 0:59:43.160 the Lisa Bonaide and Niece Huxtable husband version y'all have now. 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:45.840 I come from the era of Aquaman being a laughing 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:48.760 stock and having a sidekick named Aqua Girl who was 0:59:48.880 --> 0:59:52.320 killed off in a mini series called Crisis on Infinite Earth, 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:56.920 and ironically, Aqua Girl drowned. You know how trash you 0:59:56.960 --> 0:59:59.320 have to be if your only superpower is being able 0:59:59.360 --> 1:00:01.800 to breathe on the water and you die by drowning. 1:00:02.000 --> 1:00:04.920 Were you ever really a superhero? Anyway? Google it so 1:00:04.960 --> 1:00:07.360 you can see how trash and pathetic her character was, 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:10.200 and you won't understand why Mike Pence is the worst 1:00:10.280 --> 1:00:13.320 sidekick since Akua Girl. Now, Donald Trump is having a 1:00:13.400 --> 1:00:17.040 clan rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend, the twenty if 1:00:17.040 --> 1:00:20.320 our belief the rallies are a big part of Trump 1:00:20.360 --> 1:00:23.880 galvanizing support. He goes out, He tries his new stand 1:00:23.920 --> 1:00:26.600 up routine for the MAGA crowd, makes a few jokes, 1:00:26.640 --> 1:00:29.520 tells a lot of lies, hands out a few false promises, 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:32.840 and asked to see you in November at the polls. Well, 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:36.440 that disease they keep down playing COVID last name nineteen 1:00:36.640 --> 1:00:38.640 because put a halt to a lot of those rallies. 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:40.960 So Trump has to get back out there and rally 1:00:40.960 --> 1:00:44.000 the clan okay, or the first one since the pandemic 1:00:44.040 --> 1:00:46.360 happened is this weekend in Oklahoma, and people want to 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:49.560 know is it safe? How do you social distance at 1:00:49.560 --> 1:00:52.800 a clan rally? Now? Mask or optional? All right? Even 1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:55.960 the hooded ones at Trump's rally, which confuses the hell 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:58.000 out of me because I've been told one of the 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:00.919 main ways to stop transmission of the viruses to wear 1:01:00.960 --> 1:01:04.280 a mask. Okay, what does the Trump administration have against 1:01:04.280 --> 1:01:07.800 wearing masks? Mask are actually great for the Trump administration 1:01:07.920 --> 1:01:11.440 number one. The magamask would not only be insanely popular 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:14.840 and a best seller. It's so much easier to lie 1:01:14.960 --> 1:01:17.640 with a mask on because people can't see your face 1:01:17.720 --> 1:01:21.000 being able to read facial expressions to detect lies. A 1:01:21.080 --> 1:01:24.280 magamask will cover that up. A magamask will hide that 1:01:24.400 --> 1:01:27.440 false smile. Donald Trump, does you know that false smile? 1:01:27.480 --> 1:01:29.920 He does just with his mouth and nothing else moves. 1:01:30.120 --> 1:01:33.880 Magamask hide that. Magamask could hide the fact that sometimes 1:01:33.920 --> 1:01:37.080 people push their lips to counteract the dry mouth that 1:01:37.120 --> 1:01:40.720 comes with lying. Okay, sometimes people blush when they're lying. 1:01:40.800 --> 1:01:42.480 Donald Trump does it all the time. That's why he 1:01:42.520 --> 1:01:46.520 turns bright orange. Magamask will cover all of that. Okay. 1:01:46.520 --> 1:01:50.280 A magamask will keep us from reading Trump's facial expressions 1:01:50.280 --> 1:01:53.240 when he lies. So why are they against mask at 1:01:53.280 --> 1:01:56.680 his rallies? I have no idea. Now, clearly people don't 1:01:56.720 --> 1:02:00.240 feel safe about attending this rally for obvious coronavirus virus 1:02:00.360 --> 1:02:04.520 related reasons. So Mike Pinch, being the Jenkie concert promoter 1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:07.680 that he is, decided to do what most Jenkie concert 1:02:07.680 --> 1:02:11.040 promoters do, and that's lie to make people feel comfortable 1:02:11.160 --> 1:02:13.600 enough to come. Now, Mike pinch Told reported on Monday 1:02:13.680 --> 1:02:17.480 afternoon that numbers for the virus in Oklahoma had declined. 1:02:17.480 --> 1:02:20.160 In fact, he didn't just say declined. He used the 1:02:20.240 --> 1:02:23.520 word I have never heard Ti R. Stephen A. Smith used, 1:02:23.640 --> 1:02:27.120 And that word is precipitously. Did I pronounced that right, 1:02:27.200 --> 1:02:33.920 ANGELI ye, precipitously sounds right. Well, you asked me please precipitously. 1:02:34.200 --> 1:02:36.080 All right, Let's listen to what Mike pins had to say. 1:02:36.160 --> 1:02:39.040 President and I both spoken to Governor Kevin Stood in 1:02:39.120 --> 1:02:42.560 the last several days and even earlier today. And Oklahoma 1:02:42.600 --> 1:02:45.520 has really been in the forefront of our efforts to 1:02:45.720 --> 1:02:48.480 slow the spread, and in a very real sense, they 1:02:48.880 --> 1:02:53.040 flattened the curve. And today their hospital capacity is abundant. 1:02:53.640 --> 1:03:00.280 The number of cases in Oklahoma's declined precipitously, and we 1:03:00.320 --> 1:03:05.920 feel very confident going forward. Now. Precipitously means very steeply, 1:03:06.080 --> 1:03:09.480 so it's really really, really declined. Huh. Well, you know what. 1:03:09.560 --> 1:03:11.440 The celebrity and a chief, Donald Trump, didn't use the 1:03:11.480 --> 1:03:14.200 word precipitous sleep I had too big a word for him, 1:03:14.440 --> 1:03:16.880 but he said basically the same thing. Let's listen, Well, 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:19.240 Oklahoma has done very well. I just spoke to the governor. 1:03:19.280 --> 1:03:22.520 He's very excited about it. Oklahoma is at a very 1:03:22.520 --> 1:03:26.640 low number. They've done really fantastic work. But Oklahoma has 1:03:26.680 --> 1:03:29.280 been a place that I think one of the reasons 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:31.720 we chose it is because of how well that because 1:03:31.760 --> 1:03:34.720 it's early, because of what a great job the governor 1:03:34.720 --> 1:03:37.680 and everybody else has done in Oklahoma. Okay, both Mike 1:03:37.720 --> 1:03:40.680 Pence and Donald Trump say it is all good in Oklahoma. 1:03:40.720 --> 1:03:44.400 For their clan rally Maska optional including your hooded ones. 1:03:44.680 --> 1:03:49.400 What they said this about coronavirus declining steeply on Monday, Well, 1:03:49.400 --> 1:03:53.200 what is the actual coronavirus forecast in Oklahoma? What is 1:03:53.280 --> 1:03:56.480 actually going on with coronavirus in Oklahoma? For asking one 1:03:56.520 --> 1:04:01.320 simple question, here have cases in Oklahoma declined precipitously. Let's 1:04:01.320 --> 1:04:04.240 go to Koco ABC file for the report police. In fact, 1:04:04.320 --> 1:04:08.480 cases have done just the opposite. Another record increase today, 1:04:08.720 --> 1:04:11.439 the one week average now higher than it was back 1:04:11.480 --> 1:04:15.200 when the outbreak first peaked, some suggesting could this be 1:04:15.200 --> 1:04:18.360 because of more testing. In fact, total testing is down 1:04:18.400 --> 1:04:21.360 over the past two weeks compared to the two weeks before. 1:04:21.640 --> 1:04:24.240 Just listen to that. The same day, Mike pinchon Donald 1:04:24.280 --> 1:04:27.640 Trump said that Oklahoma is declining steeply. I'm tired of 1:04:27.680 --> 1:04:32.320 pronouncing precipitously. Tosa County sees highest single day increase in 1:04:32.400 --> 1:04:37.080 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Pinch and Trump absolutely 1:04:37.160 --> 1:04:39.760 need to wear a mask, not just to spread, not 1:04:39.840 --> 1:04:42.520 just to stop the transmission of the virus, but to 1:04:42.680 --> 1:04:46.480 hide their lying ass facial expressions. Okay, America is on autopilot. 1:04:46.800 --> 1:04:50.080 We've been on autopilot. We just freestyle, and this is 1:04:50.080 --> 1:04:52.480 a game of rhyme antics. Whatever the last word is 1:04:52.520 --> 1:04:54.640 that was uttered, find a way to freestyle it. I 1:04:54.640 --> 1:04:57.520 don't care if it was Corona police brutality protests. Now 1:04:57.640 --> 1:05:00.400 back to Corona. Just pick a word and find something 1:05:00.440 --> 1:05:03.240 that rhymes with it. I am tired, Okay, I don't 1:05:03.240 --> 1:05:06.040 know what to do in regard the Corona. I am confused. 1:05:06.240 --> 1:05:08.959 I envy folks who are yolo with it. I envy 1:05:08.960 --> 1:05:10.760 folks who don't believe in it and think it's a 1:05:10.800 --> 1:05:13.520 conspiracy theory and just be throwing caution to the win 1:05:13.600 --> 1:05:15.600 and just be out chair. When I'm not one of 1:05:15.640 --> 1:05:17.920 those people, I'm still in the house. Okay. The way 1:05:17.960 --> 1:05:20.880 my anxiety is set up. The whole family is still quarantine. 1:05:21.040 --> 1:05:23.080 We might venture out towards the end of this month 1:05:23.120 --> 1:05:26.080 to go to another state where coronavirus cases of spiking, 1:05:26.200 --> 1:05:29.560 and that's South Carolina, But I don't know. All I 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:33.120 would tell Oklahoma in every place where cases of spiking 1:05:33.280 --> 1:05:36.920 is this simple advice given to me by every older 1:05:36.960 --> 1:05:40.919 black person in my license I was a child. Never 1:05:40.960 --> 1:05:44.320 trust the white man. That quote maybe a broad generalization, 1:05:44.560 --> 1:05:46.480 but in the case of Donald Trump and Mike Pince, 1:05:46.720 --> 1:05:50.439 it's absolutely true. Please let Kathy Griffin give aqua girl 1:05:50.640 --> 1:05:53.880 aka Mike Pence the biggest he hall. Please give this 1:05:54.000 --> 1:06:00.160 giant jar of male the biggest he hall. Yeah, man, 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:03.360 never trust the white man. Simple advice that could save 1:06:03.440 --> 1:06:05.360 your life. And also too, I want to tell h 1:06:05.680 --> 1:06:09.040 South Carolina this Friday, and this Friday and Saturday, I'll 1:06:09.080 --> 1:06:13.240 be doing a free COVID nineteen drive through testing. Okay 1:06:13.920 --> 1:06:18.080 at Benedict Collegist Charles W. Johnson Stadium from ten am 1:06:18.120 --> 1:06:21.360 to three pm just Friday, June nineteenth, from Saturday, June twenty. 1:06:21.360 --> 1:06:24.360 If it's free COVID nineteen drive through testing, and when 1:06:24.360 --> 1:06:26.080 you pull up and get tested, we'll give you an 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:30.200 essential supplies packet which includes a face mask and hand sanitizer, soap, 1:06:30.360 --> 1:06:32.720 educational materials. And you know why you can trust me 1:06:33.040 --> 1:06:35.840 because I'm not a white man. All right, thank you 1:06:35.880 --> 1:06:39.160 for that. Donkey of the day. Up next, ask ye 1:06:39.240 --> 1:06:41.360 eight hundred five A five one oh five one. If 1:06:41.360 --> 1:06:43.720 you need relationship advice, any type of advice, call ye 1:06:43.880 --> 1:06:47.000 right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Go back, what what? What? 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:50.160 What you wanna know? Baby mama issues, sneak some words 1:06:50.160 --> 1:06:53.120 of wisdom. Call up now for asking eight hundred five 1:06:53.160 --> 1:06:59.400 A five one oh five one, Breakfast Club. Come on, 1:07:00.720 --> 1:07:05.160 new relationship advice? Need personal advice, just the real advice? 1:07:05.280 --> 1:07:12.000 Call up now for asking. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela, Yee, 1:07:12.080 --> 1:07:15.160 Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. It's time 1:07:15.240 --> 1:07:19.000 for asking. Ye. Hello, who's this? Yeah? This kad Katie. 1:07:19.040 --> 1:07:21.800 What's up? Bro? What's your question for? You? Really was 1:07:21.840 --> 1:07:25.480 really mad last week? Uh my ex wife we got 1:07:25.480 --> 1:07:28.800 a divorce. We uh, we stopped saying with each other 1:07:28.880 --> 1:07:31.480 when we moved. She's in the military. We moved to 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:34.680 another state and au gusts. That's when we split up. 1:07:35.400 --> 1:07:39.160 Divorce was done in October and then last week I 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:43.720 found out that she moved in a guy in December 1:07:44.160 --> 1:07:47.400 to live with her and my kids. And I just 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:53.160 found it out last week. I found out by um 1:07:53.800 --> 1:07:58.040 because in our divorce years uh uh, and I decreed 1:07:58.080 --> 1:08:00.440 that basically, when you were in a relationship or you 1:08:00.520 --> 1:08:03.520 starting one, that one the background chick gotta be sent 1:08:03.680 --> 1:08:06.800 and we post to meet the person, not approve of them, 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:11.920 but just to meet the person. And basically, come December, 1:08:12.960 --> 1:08:15.520 I saw a picture of hers and one of my 1:08:15.920 --> 1:08:18.840 people sent me one of her Facebook posts of her 1:08:19.040 --> 1:08:21.759 taking a picture with a god, and then my kids 1:08:21.760 --> 1:08:24.759 were taking a picture in the same area. So I asked, 1:08:24.840 --> 1:08:26.720 I said, is this guy but you got a guy 1:08:26.760 --> 1:08:29.800 around my kids? I haven't met him, and she was like, well, yeah, 1:08:29.840 --> 1:08:31.920 that's my fault. It was my birthday. I wanted to 1:08:31.960 --> 1:08:34.840 do that, whatever, whatever, And I'm like, okay. Then we 1:08:34.960 --> 1:08:38.800 moved on. Two days after that, I go on her 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:42.639 page and then go look at his page on Facebook 1:08:42.640 --> 1:08:46.160 and see that he's taking pictures around her house. And 1:08:46.200 --> 1:08:48.559 then I asked her two days later, as this guy 1:08:49.080 --> 1:08:52.280 stand with you, and she's finally gonna sit that miss 1:08:52.320 --> 1:08:55.400 that the guys staying there. Then when this prandemic hits. 1:08:55.600 --> 1:08:58.840 Because I'm working, I decided not to be around my 1:08:58.920 --> 1:09:00.559 kids because I used to have my on the weekend. 1:09:00.840 --> 1:09:03.280 I was like, no, she's in the military and she's 1:09:03.280 --> 1:09:07.280 not working. They super quarantine, that's what I'm thinking. But 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:10.080 find out last week there's a man living in the 1:09:10.120 --> 1:09:13.160 house with my kids who's going to work. And she 1:09:13.200 --> 1:09:17.200 didn't say not one word to me. Wow, that's really 1:09:17.240 --> 1:09:20.800 really disrespectful. Yeah, I don't know what other way. I don't. 1:09:20.840 --> 1:09:22.920 I don't know what to do because if that was 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:24.760 the shoe was on the other foot, or I would 1:09:24.760 --> 1:09:27.000 be all up in court. As soon as I found 1:09:27.000 --> 1:09:30.320 out that the guy even was around my kids. I 1:09:30.439 --> 1:09:32.840 met him eight SAP, with him five minutes. I can't 1:09:32.880 --> 1:09:35.160 say you've mad hand now, Oh yeah, I'm at him. 1:09:35.240 --> 1:09:37.719 I wasn't mad at him because it wasn't his fault. 1:09:38.080 --> 1:09:40.479 And guy didn't even know that. Guy didn't even know 1:09:40.520 --> 1:09:42.200 that I didn't know. He was like, broy even though 1:09:42.240 --> 1:09:44.519 you didn't know I was there. But she with him 1:09:44.520 --> 1:09:47.200 for a while before she moved him in. I do 1:09:47.320 --> 1:09:50.839 not even know. So legally, if you wanted to, legally 1:09:50.960 --> 1:09:54.040 you could you could take her to court for this does, 1:09:54.200 --> 1:09:57.720 and that's what I gotta like. My my people was like, yeah, 1:09:57.720 --> 1:10:00.840 the lord's just gonna take your money. N I mean, look, 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:02.680 so how do you so? Okay? So you don't have 1:10:02.720 --> 1:10:04.360 a problem with the guy. You just don't like the 1:10:04.360 --> 1:10:08.599 fact that she didn't follow what y'all had agreed upon. Yeah, 1:10:08.720 --> 1:10:11.680 she did not follow me leaving the person. That's all 1:10:11.720 --> 1:10:13.880 I want to do. And I met him, I told him, 1:10:13.880 --> 1:10:17.320 I deal, he agreed those ope issues. Well, at this point, 1:10:17.360 --> 1:10:18.720 you don't want to take her to court. You don't 1:10:18.720 --> 1:10:20.439 want to pay a lawyer and do all of those 1:10:20.479 --> 1:10:22.840 things and make this that type of situation. But she 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:26.120 is definitely dead wrong and you need to express to her. 1:10:26.240 --> 1:10:28.920 Look at this point right now, you've done what you did, 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:31.760 but this was not what our agreement was, and I'm 1:10:31.800 --> 1:10:34.000 not comfortable with how you went about things, and you 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:35.880 need to have a conversation about that so that in 1:10:35.920 --> 1:10:38.800 the future she's respectful of what she needs to do 1:10:38.840 --> 1:10:41.519 as somebody who you know, you are a parent to 1:10:41.560 --> 1:10:45.080 those children as well, so you guys have shared responsibilities 1:10:45.280 --> 1:10:48.439 and because you are respectful to what you guys agreed upon, 1:10:48.600 --> 1:10:50.760 she needs to respect that as well. And you need 1:10:50.800 --> 1:10:52.519 to make sure I'm moving forward, because the main thing 1:10:52.560 --> 1:10:55.080 I would think is the children, right, It's not really 1:10:55.080 --> 1:10:57.200 about her. It's about you making sure your children are 1:10:57.240 --> 1:10:59.320 safe and that you know what's going on in their lives, 1:10:59.520 --> 1:11:01.640 and you need to let her know that. No, and 1:11:01.720 --> 1:11:04.920 I've done that. My saying is that this is not 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:07.400 like the first Foot incident, that you just do what 1:11:07.479 --> 1:11:10.280 you want. The problem is that you do whatever you 1:11:10.320 --> 1:11:13.559 want that zero consequence maybe, but this is something that 1:11:13.640 --> 1:11:15.920 you need to just make sure that you document so 1:11:15.960 --> 1:11:17.960 that in the future and let her not be like, look, 1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:20.720 I am documenting these things and the next time that 1:11:20.800 --> 1:11:23.280 something like this happens, I will take you to court. 1:11:23.720 --> 1:11:26.800 She's the most farder call a first hurt. Hopefully they 1:11:27.840 --> 1:11:30.439 I mean that Scar's military PY for some reason. I 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:32.840 don't know why I would consult with the lawyer, not 1:11:32.880 --> 1:11:34.360 that you're gonna take it to court right now, just 1:11:34.400 --> 1:11:36.760 so that you know what your options are, and then 1:11:36.920 --> 1:11:38.240 if there's some way that you can go on the 1:11:38.320 --> 1:11:40.160 record so that you have all of these things, even 1:11:40.160 --> 1:11:43.080 if you send her an email just detailing everything and 1:11:43.160 --> 1:11:45.959 letting her know I have an issue with you violating 1:11:45.960 --> 1:11:48.000 what our agreement was these are the things that you did, 1:11:48.439 --> 1:11:50.760 and I'm giving you right now warning that if you 1:11:50.840 --> 1:11:55.000 do something else without following what we agreed upon, then 1:11:55.200 --> 1:11:58.320 I will pursue a legal recourse. I would do that 1:11:58.680 --> 1:12:01.439 so that you that way, you have documented, and that 1:12:01.520 --> 1:12:03.320 if she does something else, she knows that there will 1:12:03.360 --> 1:12:06.240 be some repercussions, because it feels like there's no repercussions, 1:12:06.479 --> 1:12:10.599 so she's just going rogue. Yah. All right, good luck, 1:12:10.880 --> 1:12:14.120 Thank you brother. All Right, ask ye eight hundred five 1:12:14.200 --> 1:12:17.160 eighty five one oh five one if you need relationship advice, hee, 1:12:17.240 --> 1:12:21.439 Right now, it's the breakfast Club. Go Morningna, keep read 1:12:21.520 --> 1:12:25.799 some real advice with Angela. Yet's ask Ye morning. Everybody 1:12:25.960 --> 1:12:29.599 is DJ Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are 1:12:29.680 --> 1:12:32.800 the breakfast Club. It's time to ask yee. Hello? Who's this? 1:12:33.720 --> 1:12:38.920 I want to remain anonymous? All right, what's your name? Mike? Well, 1:12:39.240 --> 1:12:41.320 you almost said your name. I'm just joking. I'm just joking, man. 1:12:42.000 --> 1:12:44.680 What's your question for you? Bro? All right? I'm I'm 1:12:44.880 --> 1:12:48.519 I'm a male about thirty three years old. UM. I 1:12:48.680 --> 1:12:50.559 was in a situation I was listening to Miss Abrams 1:12:50.640 --> 1:12:53.760 this morning to live and you know she had been 1:12:53.800 --> 1:12:56.280 in a situation where she you know, she was intoxicated 1:12:56.360 --> 1:13:01.240 and and taking advantage of allegedly. And I had the 1:13:01.280 --> 1:13:03.280 same situation happened to me and I got a child 1:13:03.960 --> 1:13:06.639 by the mom and uh, I never I never, well, 1:13:06.640 --> 1:13:09.160 I spoke about it to people in my circle. Even 1:13:09.240 --> 1:13:11.720 my wife, she doesn't, you know, never believe me. I 1:13:11.760 --> 1:13:14.280 mean she kind of takes it lightly. Um. You know, 1:13:14.439 --> 1:13:17.680 men men being raped, just as you know, heard of 1:13:17.920 --> 1:13:20.280 a lot. And I was just wondering, like what could 1:13:20.320 --> 1:13:23.040 I do. It's been since twenty and twelve, and I 1:13:23.160 --> 1:13:26.600 was just wondering what could I do in that situation. 1:13:26.760 --> 1:13:30.439 Like I never wanted to you know, trust charges or anything. 1:13:30.640 --> 1:13:35.000 And I was intacticated, possibly drugged, I'm not sure, you know, 1:13:35.200 --> 1:13:36.920 but I just kind of let it go, especially with 1:13:37.040 --> 1:13:40.519 me having a child. Um, it's just something that's always 1:13:40.520 --> 1:13:42.560 stuck with me. You know what. I think that it 1:13:42.720 --> 1:13:44.840 is important for you to be able to express yourself 1:13:44.960 --> 1:13:47.960 because yes, this can happen and does happen to men 1:13:48.040 --> 1:13:51.559 as well. And I do feel like there are spaces 1:13:51.600 --> 1:13:54.040 that you can go to to speak your truth. That's 1:13:54.040 --> 1:13:56.439 a safe space so that you can't express yourself and 1:13:56.520 --> 1:13:59.240 that's important to be able to do. Like a safe 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:04.719 horizon is someplace that you could um actually go to. Also, 1:14:04.920 --> 1:14:08.720 rain r AI n N, you should speak with them. 1:14:08.840 --> 1:14:13.200 That's the nation's largest anti sexual violence organization, and they're 1:14:13.200 --> 1:14:15.920 available by phone, they're available online. You can talk to 1:14:16.040 --> 1:14:18.920 them also. And it is so important for you to 1:14:19.000 --> 1:14:22.080 be able to express yourself and get the proper tools 1:14:22.160 --> 1:14:23.920 that you'll need because you don't even know how this 1:14:24.080 --> 1:14:27.960 is affecting you, right, Okay, okay, I got so look 1:14:28.040 --> 1:14:32.559 at that brain dot org that's r ai nn dot org. 1:14:32.600 --> 1:14:34.160 Because I want to make sure you have the proper 1:14:34.280 --> 1:14:36.560 tools to deal with this and to be able to 1:14:36.640 --> 1:14:39.720 express yourself. And you know, I do appreciate you for 1:14:39.880 --> 1:14:43.040 calling us this morning, because I know you're right. They 1:14:43.120 --> 1:14:48.000 don't discuss this too often with men, right, and uh, 1:14:48.360 --> 1:14:51.000 I appreciate that they forage in the rain dot org 1:14:51.360 --> 1:14:55.080 and uh, you know, I appreciate that it took a 1:14:55.160 --> 1:14:56.240 lot of for you to call me in and I'm 1:14:56.320 --> 1:14:59.639 kind of nervous now, you know, just just speaking out 1:14:59.640 --> 1:15:02.920 about it. Right. Well, I'm glad you listened to a 1:15:03.000 --> 1:15:07.479 salalized interview and I'm glad that you felt empowered enough 1:15:07.520 --> 1:15:10.040 to be able to call up and express yourself here 1:15:10.080 --> 1:15:11.720 on the Breakfast Club, because we definitely want to make 1:15:11.760 --> 1:15:14.320 sure you have the platform to be able to do that. 1:15:14.520 --> 1:15:17.479 And I want to see you be heard, and I 1:15:17.640 --> 1:15:19.400 want to see you get the help and the tools 1:15:19.439 --> 1:15:21.360 that you need to be able to move forward. And 1:15:21.479 --> 1:15:23.760 to know that it was not your fault. Well, I 1:15:23.840 --> 1:15:28.479 hope a lot was. I was intoxicated, right, It's not 1:15:28.600 --> 1:15:30.960 your fault whether you nobody should do that to you 1:15:31.080 --> 1:15:33.479 if a person is not in the state of mind 1:15:33.520 --> 1:15:36.120 to be able to give consent, and that is rape 1:15:36.479 --> 1:15:38.680 for sure. For sure, I hope a lot more. You know, 1:15:38.880 --> 1:15:41.720 people speak out, whether it be men or women. No, 1:15:43.080 --> 1:15:45.720 but I appreciate you'all thinking my call, and you know 1:15:45.800 --> 1:15:48.800 I love y'all self. All right, thank you, brother, Thank you. 1:15:49.800 --> 1:15:52.479 Eight hundred five eight five one oh five. One of course, 1:15:52.600 --> 1:15:54.760 ask ye Now we got rumors on the way, yes, 1:15:54.840 --> 1:15:57.479 and we'll be talking about Lacrex. He has some things 1:15:57.520 --> 1:15:59.640 there he wants to get off his chest about the 1:15:59.760 --> 1:16:02.160 end that he did earlier this week. All right, we'll 1:16:02.160 --> 1:16:04.160 get into that next. Keep a lot this to Breakfast Club. 1:16:04.200 --> 1:16:11.040 Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wanting everybody a CJ Envy, 1:16:11.240 --> 1:16:13.960 Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club. 1:16:14.040 --> 1:16:20.360 Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Lacreix's filling the team. 1:16:20.640 --> 1:16:23.840 This is the rumor report with Angela Yee on the 1:16:23.960 --> 1:16:28.080 Breakfast Club. So Lacre ended up having a conversation with 1:16:28.200 --> 1:16:31.200 the pastor Louis Giglio. I don't know how you say 1:16:31.200 --> 1:16:35.519 his name, Giglio Giglio, And people were very uncomfortable with 1:16:35.800 --> 1:16:39.519 him in that interview when these comments were made about 1:16:39.680 --> 1:16:43.600 slavery being a white blessing. People thought that he was 1:16:44.240 --> 1:16:47.760 okay with it because he was sitting there and kind 1:16:47.800 --> 1:16:51.080 of nodding. Well, since then, LACRAI has this to say. 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:52.679 First of all, I want you to know I wasn't 1:16:52.720 --> 1:16:54.800 okay with it. Even as I sat there, I was 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:57.559 very uncomfortable and I was processing on like, man, how 1:16:57.600 --> 1:16:59.080 do I what do I say? In light of this? 1:16:59.280 --> 1:17:01.520 Um I ended up in a conversation with him subsequently, 1:17:01.640 --> 1:17:03.559 you know, right after we talked, and then I talked 1:17:03.560 --> 1:17:05.760 to him again last night and let him know my 1:17:06.120 --> 1:17:08.960 views and my perspectives, and obviously I wasn't okay with it, 1:17:09.040 --> 1:17:10.960 and we can't just be virtue signal and doing this 1:17:11.040 --> 1:17:12.800 because it's the end thing to do to talk about 1:17:12.880 --> 1:17:15.880 race on platforms. And I didn't have any Ontario motives 1:17:15.920 --> 1:17:18.640 other than to, you know, help and articulate, you know, 1:17:18.720 --> 1:17:20.200 some of what's going on in our world and in 1:17:20.280 --> 1:17:22.560 our culture. Now. I know y'all wanted to create a 1:17:22.680 --> 1:17:25.560 challenge that guy on that, But the only thing to 1:17:25.640 --> 1:17:28.280 be said is the white man's blessing has always been 1:17:28.360 --> 1:17:30.560 black people's curse. But that's a that's a fact. But 1:17:30.680 --> 1:17:33.000 I can totally understand how a white person would think 1:17:33.000 --> 1:17:36.200 their white privilege is a blessing. I can totally get 1:17:36.280 --> 1:17:39.320 why they would feel that way. But right to please 1:17:39.360 --> 1:17:41.760 remember that the Craze tweeted out the man's choice of 1:17:41.800 --> 1:17:44.120 words wasn't the best, but I got his point. Who's 1:17:44.160 --> 1:17:46.479 putting their career, freedom in life on the line. Me, 1:17:46.920 --> 1:17:48.880 if anyone has the right to be upset, it's me. 1:17:49.080 --> 1:17:51.200 Grace and love lead me though he's learning, he's not 1:17:51.320 --> 1:17:54.799 shying away or silent. Though it's a marathon, not a sprint. 1:17:54.880 --> 1:17:58.160 And here is what the pastor Louis Giglio had to say. 1:17:58.479 --> 1:18:01.760 All right, like so many am so burdened about what 1:18:01.920 --> 1:18:04.040 is happening in our nation right now, and one of 1:18:04.120 --> 1:18:07.120 the things that I'm most heartbroken about is trying to 1:18:07.240 --> 1:18:10.240 help myself continue to learn and to help my white 1:18:10.320 --> 1:18:14.720 brothers and sisters understand that white privilege is real. And 1:18:14.840 --> 1:18:18.040 in trying to get that sentiment across on Sunday, I 1:18:18.240 --> 1:18:21.240 used the phrase white blessing, for which I'm deeply sorry, 1:18:21.600 --> 1:18:25.400 horrible choice of words. Does not reflect my heart at all. 1:18:25.560 --> 1:18:28.439 I don't to be clear, I believe there's any blessing 1:18:28.720 --> 1:18:32.920 in slavery. I mean, he also tweeted out, yeah, absolutely, Yeah. 1:18:32.920 --> 1:18:35.559 He also tweeted out not seeking to refer to slavery 1:18:35.600 --> 1:18:37.960 as blessing, but that we are privileged because of the 1:18:38.080 --> 1:18:40.559 curse of slavery and calling it a privilege benefit blessing. 1:18:40.600 --> 1:18:43.200 Word choice wasn't great. Oh that's what the pass is it? 1:18:43.760 --> 1:18:45.840 M Yeah, he's right, and I mean that's all the 1:18:45.880 --> 1:18:48.000 creed to tell him, lacred to say, look, your blessing 1:18:48.600 --> 1:18:52.280 was a black person's curse. So yeah, that's that's that. 1:18:52.439 --> 1:18:54.479 That was the challenge. But yeah, I would have just 1:18:54.560 --> 1:18:56.120 sat there and night in my head. But maybe Lacraze 1:18:56.160 --> 1:18:58.639 was praying. Maybe Lacre decided in that moment to pray 1:18:58.680 --> 1:19:03.439 for him right there. That's would have say, was right. 1:19:04.160 --> 1:19:06.640 I was actually praying, well, I was thinking hmm, I 1:19:06.720 --> 1:19:12.080 was thinking amen. Amen. All right, Well, happy belated birthday 1:19:12.160 --> 1:19:14.639 to Gunna. He got a really nice present. Young Thug 1:19:14.760 --> 1:19:18.000 brought him a Rolls Royce for his twenty seventh birthday. 1:19:18.040 --> 1:19:22.280 Gonna posted it that big body Rolls coming, Young Thug, 1:19:22.400 --> 1:19:26.720 Thank you twin hashtag big Yeah. That was all though. 1:19:27.000 --> 1:19:28.439 That was a Rolls Royce. Color it what you say. 1:19:29.400 --> 1:19:31.320 Dn't gonna just buy a new call? Yeah, but he 1:19:31.320 --> 1:19:33.880 didn't buy the collection, but now he has another. He 1:19:33.920 --> 1:19:37.439 has one to the collection, a four hundred thousand. That's 1:19:37.479 --> 1:19:39.760 a really nice present, all right. For you fans of 1:19:39.880 --> 1:19:43.320 thirty Rock, thirty rockets returning to NBC for a remote 1:19:43.400 --> 1:19:46.960 one hour special, and that's going to be happening next month. 1:19:47.000 --> 1:19:49.000 They will also double as an upfront special for the 1:19:49.120 --> 1:19:53.280 NBC Universal Properties. So that's gonna air Thursday, July sixteenth, 1:19:53.320 --> 1:19:55.519 and it will feature the return of cast members Tina Fae, 1:19:55.600 --> 1:19:59.519 I like Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jan Krakowski, uh and others. 1:20:00.000 --> 1:20:02.360 I sing their roles from thirty Rock, thirty rocks really funny. 1:20:02.479 --> 1:20:06.920 So I'll be interested to watch that, watch them working together, 1:20:07.479 --> 1:20:12.320 although remotely. Now, Tianna Taylor's juneteenth album that release is 1:20:12.880 --> 1:20:15.639 We've been discussing this, right, She's been putting out amazing music. 1:20:15.760 --> 1:20:19.479 And who's gonna be on that juneteenth album? Well, and 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:22.880 it's called the album Lauren Hill. Miss Lauren Hill will 1:20:22.920 --> 1:20:27.919 be on there, Missy Elliott, Erica Badu, Rick Ross, Quevo, Kailani, Future, Davido, 1:20:28.040 --> 1:20:31.840 Big Sean, Kim Coombs, Emon Chumpert, and of course Junie 1:20:32.240 --> 1:20:35.040 will be featured as well. Isn't no secret of a 1:20:35.080 --> 1:20:38.080 Tianna Taylor fan. I think Tiana Taylor gets busy. I 1:20:38.160 --> 1:20:41.840 think she's highly, highly entertaining on all levels. The album 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:43.719 is dope. I got a chance to hit the album 1:20:44.200 --> 1:20:47.080 a couple of months ago, Join with Erica Bado, joined 1:20:47.080 --> 1:20:49.680 with Rick Ross, Rianna got Some, got some, got some, 1:20:49.760 --> 1:20:51.720 got some stuff. But the crazy bat, Miss Lauren Hill. 1:20:51.760 --> 1:20:54.599 I want to hear that too. Lauren Hill record is dope. 1:20:54.600 --> 1:20:56.800 I thought it was. I don't want to say, but 1:20:57.080 --> 1:21:02.200 listen once again. I don't know why Tiana Taylor musically 1:21:02.320 --> 1:21:05.679 doesn't connect with people the way that she should, because 1:21:05.720 --> 1:21:08.760 the musically always there. I have to say it's a 1:21:08.880 --> 1:21:11.559 label problem. I just have to. I have to say 1:21:11.600 --> 1:21:14.320 it's a label problem because people, even as an entertainer, 1:21:14.439 --> 1:21:18.720 just her dancing, her videos, her presentations amazing. But even 1:21:18.760 --> 1:21:20.280 like I said, this song that just came out, I 1:21:20.400 --> 1:21:23.639 love you know the we made the graduation. I think 1:21:23.680 --> 1:21:25.840 it's a great song. This is perfect for the times, 1:21:26.400 --> 1:21:27.400 you know what I mean. I don't know why it 1:21:27.439 --> 1:21:29.240 hasn't been pushed away. It should be. I don't know. 1:21:29.720 --> 1:21:31.560 I think they should have gave Tiana Taylor money to 1:21:31.640 --> 1:21:34.920 do like an hour long movie, like how Beyonce did Lemonade, 1:21:34.920 --> 1:21:37.240 because Tiana's a beast with dividuals, you know what I mean. 1:21:37.400 --> 1:21:39.439 Do something like that, put the music together and maybe 1:21:39.439 --> 1:21:41.040 it would have been received differently. But we'll see you 1:21:41.080 --> 1:21:43.240 on Friday. The album comes out Friday. Let's go get that. 1:21:43.320 --> 1:21:46.400 Let's support Tiana Taylor. People absolutely all right. And lastly, 1:21:46.520 --> 1:21:49.920 even Marsalis leaving The Real Housewives of Atlanta after three 1:21:50.000 --> 1:21:52.679 seasons on the show. She did make the announcement yesterday 1:21:53.240 --> 1:21:55.559 and she said she does appreciate the bond of friendship 1:21:55.600 --> 1:21:57.600 I've made with my cast mates and strong person of 1:21:57.680 --> 1:22:00.200 relationships I have with the numerous execs and producer is 1:22:00.240 --> 1:22:03.759 at Bravo, and she's thankful for the opportunity. So she's 1:22:04.040 --> 1:22:06.880 not on there anymore. All Right. I don't know what 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:09.720 talking about that because Ninny doesn't like her. So yeah, 1:22:09.720 --> 1:22:11.240 I don't know why she would come back anyway, because 1:22:11.400 --> 1:22:14.160 all they did was bully of the whole season that 1:22:14.200 --> 1:22:18.240 I've seen her a lot. Yeah, I'm sure that baby, 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:21.280 she don't go through that stress absolutely. All right. Well, 1:22:21.280 --> 1:22:23.720 I'm anti Lagie and that is your room of report. Wow, 1:22:23.800 --> 1:22:25.840 all right, thank you for really trying to y'all really 1:22:25.880 --> 1:22:28.760 trying to silence black women, which I'm not gonna report that. 1:22:28.920 --> 1:22:31.720 I'm not gonna report that. Aunt Jamma quit. Aunt your 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:34.639 mamma is tired of just being on y'all pancakes. Aunt 1:22:34.680 --> 1:22:38.360 your mamma tied y'all working for y'all every morning. Okay, 1:22:38.479 --> 1:22:40.679 whenever you want pancakes, you just grab her and spread 1:22:40.680 --> 1:22:43.519 her on pancakes. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't even ask 1:22:43.520 --> 1:22:46.120 if she wants to be on the pancakes. It says 1:22:46.280 --> 1:22:49.720 here is that Quaker Oats is retiring it because it's 1:22:49.800 --> 1:22:53.360 origins are based on a racial stereotype. That's right, and 1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:56.840 your mamma deserves a break. She deserves to be retired. Okay. 1:22:57.200 --> 1:22:59.760 It's based off a song old Aunt Jemima from a 1:23:00.080 --> 1:23:04.160 still show performer and reportedly sung by slaves. So who 1:23:04.160 --> 1:23:06.600 are gonna put on the box now? I don't know 1:23:06.720 --> 1:23:09.559 are you trying to position? If they put a white 1:23:09.560 --> 1:23:10.960 person on the face of the box and then they 1:23:11.040 --> 1:23:13.680 called the white name, still would you still eat? It 1:23:14.520 --> 1:23:19.400 wouldn't taste that surf, won't have no flavor on it. 1:23:19.760 --> 1:23:22.920 It doesn't have to have a face. It is just 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:25.240 st all I know. Is nobody's free in telling this's 1:23:25.240 --> 1:23:31.599 butterworth is free? Okay? Oh my goodness? All right? Well 1:23:32.760 --> 1:23:34.960 up next to the people's choice mixed get your requesting 1:23:35.040 --> 1:23:37.000 right now is Kendrick Lamar's birthday, so we start to 1:23:37.040 --> 1:23:39.280 mix up with some Kendrick Lamar born day to the 1:23:39.479 --> 1:23:42.400 God him see Kendrick Lamar leader to New School. When 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:44.719 it comes to these these these rappers over the past 1:23:44.760 --> 1:23:46.960 ten years, I don't care what nobody says. Tramping the 1:23:47.000 --> 1:23:49.080 clues Kendrick Lamar, I have you born that? I really 1:23:49.120 --> 1:23:52.000 appreciated that man music and man created a soundtrack for 1:23:52.120 --> 1:23:54.800 this moment that we're in five, six years ago. When 1:23:54.840 --> 1:23:57.320 did you Pip Butterfly come out? I don't remember five, 1:23:59.280 --> 1:24:02.040 So that's my I love Kendrick Lamart. Let's get into 1:24:02.120 --> 1:24:04.760 that mix now and also revote. We'll see them all. 1:24:04.840 --> 1:24:08.679 It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, 1:24:08.880 --> 1:24:12.800 Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club now. 1:24:12.920 --> 1:24:16.679 Shout to seal Lie for joining us this morning. Yeah, 1:24:16.760 --> 1:24:20.000 such an important conversation and it really did inspire someone 1:24:20.080 --> 1:24:23.160 to call in for asking Yee. He remains anonymous, but 1:24:23.439 --> 1:24:26.479 he said that hearing her story inspired him, and I 1:24:26.600 --> 1:24:28.880 hope that that was inspirational for a lot of people 1:24:29.760 --> 1:24:31.880 to be able to feel like they can start to 1:24:31.920 --> 1:24:34.519 seek the help and the healing that you know that 1:24:34.600 --> 1:24:37.880 you need and to feel empowered to speak up. I 1:24:38.240 --> 1:24:41.280 want to say, God bless seal Lie. I've never met her, 1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:43.920 don't notice, sister, but I am definitely gonna pray for 1:24:44.000 --> 1:24:46.360 her today. I wish her her best and I hope 1:24:46.400 --> 1:24:48.800 she finds the healing that she deserves. And I just 1:24:48.920 --> 1:24:51.120 want everybody out there to know that the Breakfast Club 1:24:51.479 --> 1:24:55.120 will always be open for anyone, especially black people who 1:24:55.200 --> 1:24:57.160 have something to say, because there are three sides to 1:24:57.240 --> 1:24:59.360 a story, and you know, if we can get all 1:24:59.439 --> 1:25:02.040 three sides, I welcome all three sides, even if the 1:25:02.160 --> 1:25:04.400 person only wants to speak to one of us. I 1:25:04.479 --> 1:25:07.479 am fine with that, Okay, but I do I must say, 1:25:07.520 --> 1:25:11.080 still lie. I highly disagree with you thinking Russell shouldn't 1:25:11.120 --> 1:25:13.360 have been on the show, the same way I would 1:25:13.400 --> 1:25:16.719 disagree with someone thinking you shouldn't be on the show. 1:25:16.960 --> 1:25:18.840 You know, if accusations are being made, people have a 1:25:18.960 --> 1:25:21.040 right to make those accusations, and people have a right 1:25:21.080 --> 1:25:24.400 to reply to those accusations as well. So I'm sending 1:25:24.479 --> 1:25:27.599 you nothing but positive love and light. Still a lie, 1:25:28.160 --> 1:25:31.240 even if you wish me to opposite she doesn't. Yeah, 1:25:31.680 --> 1:25:33.760 I don't know, And let's just make sure. I want 1:25:33.800 --> 1:25:36.840 to make sure that people are also just making sure 1:25:36.880 --> 1:25:39.200 that you show love to still live for everything that 1:25:39.320 --> 1:25:41.519 she's had to go through. If you watch on the record, 1:25:41.560 --> 1:25:43.599 and make sure you do, it's on HBO Matts, it's 1:25:43.640 --> 1:25:46.040 out and it's available now for you to watch on 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:48.640 the record. She actually ran through a lot, and she 1:25:49.000 --> 1:25:51.120 did try to take her own life, and she did 1:25:51.600 --> 1:25:55.360 even kiss her son goodbye. And fortunately, you know, she 1:25:56.040 --> 1:25:58.240 went to the hospital and was able to recover from that. 1:25:58.439 --> 1:26:01.240 But I know it's still a lot of healing that 1:26:01.400 --> 1:26:03.680 has to happen, and it's an ongoing process. But I'm 1:26:03.720 --> 1:26:06.120 glad that we were able to give her a safe 1:26:06.200 --> 1:26:08.439 space where she could tell her side of the story. 1:26:08.840 --> 1:26:12.760 Right And you can see the full interview on No. 1:26:12.960 --> 1:26:14.679 I heard you say that this morning about how still 1:26:14.760 --> 1:26:16.000 Lie I tried to take her own life. And you know, 1:26:16.120 --> 1:26:18.719 as a as a person who just had a friend 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:23.080 commits suicide, you know last week Jasmine Waters, Yeah, I 1:26:23.560 --> 1:26:25.680 want everybody to get to healing they deserve. You know, 1:26:25.760 --> 1:26:27.519 you never know what people are going through. You never 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:30.960 know what you know, trauma's people have experienced that. You know, 1:26:31.200 --> 1:26:33.519 they still have those pain bodies about. So you know, 1:26:33.760 --> 1:26:38.160 I wish still Lie nothing but the best. And you know, 1:26:38.400 --> 1:26:41.840 I see people on Instagram saying, you know, she sounds bitter. 1:26:42.520 --> 1:26:44.719 If you've been through what she's been through, you probably 1:26:44.760 --> 1:26:47.000 would sound like that too. And I wouldn't call that bitterness. 1:26:47.000 --> 1:26:49.760 I would just call that hurt and anger and pain. 1:26:49.880 --> 1:26:52.320 And she has every right to feel that. And one 1:26:52.360 --> 1:26:53.920 thing I will say that she said in an interview 1:26:54.000 --> 1:26:57.280 that really struck me was the fact that giving up 1:26:57.320 --> 1:27:01.040 that anonymity that she had before, and she had discussed 1:27:01.040 --> 1:27:03.320 this in books and she hadn't named Russell Simmons. And 1:27:03.439 --> 1:27:06.000 now you know, people are taking away her name and 1:27:06.040 --> 1:27:08.680 just calling her Russell Simmons accuser or the woman who 1:27:08.720 --> 1:27:12.800 accused Russell Simmons of rape, and I can you know, 1:27:12.920 --> 1:27:14.840 we have to sympathize with the fact that she was 1:27:14.920 --> 1:27:19.559 out here successful writing books, you know, winning awards, essays 1:27:19.760 --> 1:27:23.920 and doing the work already, working with Safe Horizon, working 1:27:23.960 --> 1:27:26.360 with the National Domestic Violence Hotline and all of that, 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:30.519 and you know, just to have to give up her 1:27:30.680 --> 1:27:32.840 identity in order for her to come forward. Just make 1:27:32.920 --> 1:27:36.120 sure that when you discuss her her name is Pelli Abrams. 1:27:36.479 --> 1:27:40.120 She had something to share and to talk about. And 1:27:40.240 --> 1:27:42.040 make sure that her voice is heard and her identity 1:27:42.560 --> 1:27:46.479 is always known. And this platform was open for people 1:27:46.600 --> 1:27:49.479 like her, absolutely right And you can hear the full 1:27:49.560 --> 1:27:53.080 interview on our YouTube page right now, so definitely click 1:27:53.120 --> 1:27:55.599 the link and definitely listen to that all right now, 1:27:55.680 --> 1:27:57.720 when we come back, we got the positive note, don't move. 1:27:57.760 --> 1:28:00.400 It's to Breakfast Club, Good morning, wanting every body is 1:28:00.479 --> 1:28:04.200 dch Envy, Angela Yee Charlomagne the guy. We are the 1:28:04.280 --> 1:28:06.719 breakfast club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlomagne, 1:28:06.720 --> 1:28:08.720 you've got a positive note for the people. Yes, the 1:28:08.840 --> 1:28:11.479 positive note is simply this. It's just more of a reminder. 1:28:11.520 --> 1:28:13.400 It's kind of like an affirmation I put on my 1:28:14.080 --> 1:28:17.280 social media this morning for everybody out there man that's 1:28:17.360 --> 1:28:20.800 just trying to heal from their emotional trauma. Grow a 1:28:20.920 --> 1:28:23.720 business that's changing the world. Be the best person that 1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:26.080 you can be for the people you love, for giving 1:28:26.120 --> 1:28:29.760 the people hurt you, who hurt you, eating right, exercising, meditating, 1:28:30.000 --> 1:28:32.519 Just keep growing and working hard to be the first 1:28:32.600 --> 1:28:35.639 in your family to break generational trauma patterns. Okay, stay 1:28:35.680 --> 1:28:39.559 on your path. That's all you finish for y'all. Dum