Donkey Of The Day: Charlamagne Calls Out People Who Let Social Media Influence Their Individualism

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The practice club bitches don'ty to day for Thursday June
is a teachable moment um. It's such a teachable moment
that I don't want to hand out donkey to day
to an individual because it's bigger than anyone individual. Okay,
It's something that is impacting all of us, and I
don't know what we have to do to get out
of this mindset. I really don't. I don't care what

(00:23):
your race is, your gender is, your sexuality is, what
religion you are, what your financial status is. None of
that matters because we all have and all could be
impacted by what I want to talk about the day,
and that's social media. Okay. It's a reason I recommend
books like Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport to people. It's
the reason I recommend the book The Internet to the

(00:44):
Internet by Gopie last name I can't pronounce. I recommend
these books because it pains me when I care too
much about what the Internet thinks, and it pains me
when I see other people getting caught up in what
the Internet thinks too. The latest example I saw it
was yesterday with Robert Griffin at the okay, uh, the
NFL player Okay, the headlines for this story are he
Larry us by the way, Black Sports Online said Robert Griffin.

(01:07):
The third goes viral for telling people he's proud to
have a white wife with a booty. Larry Brown Sports
said Robert Griffin. The third since bizarrely racist tweet about
his wife. I didn't think it was racist, but whatever,
total pro sports headline was Robert Griffin. The third says
he was pointing out that white women have asked cheeks
after posting his wife's booty. Somebody text me this yesterday

(01:30):
and I had no idea what was going on, but
I'm clear now. Apparently r G three posted a video
of his wife working out with the caption, come on, bro,
your wife is white. Also very proud that my wife
is wife. Very random, But he went on to clarify
that he was getting some nasty comments when he pointed
pointed out his wife was having a hard time finding

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filling out a sun dress because her booty is too big.
I don't know are finding a sun dressed because her
booty is too big. He wanted to show the video
pointing out her cheeks and that she was breaking the
white woman's stereotype about them not having a booty. Look
your Twitter, your choice, okay, your social media your choice.

(02:11):
I told you all yesterday. We have this tool called
the smartphone, and we got access to all these platforms YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
you know what they are, and it makes us want
to say something. We need content, whether you are a
willing content creator or just someone in this case like
r G three, who is constantly listening to people say
things about him, so you feel like you have to
say something back. But when it comes to some things,

(02:34):
I have one question why r G three, that's your wife,
who cares if the world knows she got to ask?
Those cheecks are for you, okay, and if you love
it then it should not matter who don't like it.
Why are you allowing the world to have an opinion
about your wife? Not trust me, I'm sure she's got
her own social media. People know that's, you know, r

(02:56):
G three's wife, so they critique her already. But why
are you encourage that. I know you're a football player
and football is a team sport, but man, we as
individuals have to remember we have nothing to prove that anybody.
We only play for ourselves. I'm not even lying. This
hurts my feelings because r G three or thirty one
years old, successful by all intents and purposes. Okay, he's

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one in life. If he feels the need to prove
something on social media, if he feels the need to
prove something on social media to a bunch of people
he has never met in his life, imagine how a
kid feels, does' Imagine how a kid who hasn't accomplished
anything yet, just growing up trying to figure things out.
Imagine how they feel. That's no way to live. This
is why I don't want my kids on social media,
because it's literally creating a generation of people who do

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not think for themselves. People don't even formulate their own
thoughts anymore because they're too busy caring about what social
media thinks and whatever the popular opinion is online they
run with that. Do you know for years online they
said my wife was white. Did you ever see me
post a picture to prove otherwise? You know why? Because
I don't care the truth, don't no defense, only witnesses,

(04:01):
and the biggest witnesses me. A lie is a lie,
no matter how many people on social media believe it,
and the truth will be the truth, regardless of who
says it isn't so when they come in at you.
Robert Griffin. The third about your wife having an absence
of ass who cares as long as you know the truth? Okay,
this scares me because when does this need to prove something?
The social media stop? What if they would have said, hey,

(04:23):
your wife don't give good for Lacio, or you're gonna
post the video proven you know that she does. I mean,
I mean this sincerely because it's bigger than Robert Griffin.
The third, Okay, how many of y'all are truly dictating
your own existence online? Are you really moving to the
be to your own drum? Are you being dictated by
the crowd? I know it's hard, okay, but don't follow

(04:45):
the crowd. Let the crowd follow you. Hell, I don't
even want the crowd to follow me, Okay, the way
my anxiety is set up, I don't want nobody following
me because my anxiety makes me think I'm always being followed.
I just don't want social media to drive us crazy.
But maybe it already has. Okay. Social media is a
tool that we control. It shouldn't control us, all right,
because these people are savages. Don't give them that kind

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of power. They are savages who don't care. They don't
care about you, they don't care about your wife. You
just the entertainment for the day. And please remember that
same social media crowd that will applaud your coordination is
the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. In fact,
they will be the ones that attempt to cut your
head off because people like a show. Stop entertaining the clowns.

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Are you become a part of the circus. Please give
anyone who has ever felt victim to following the social
media crowd, which would be all of us, the biggest
here are all right, Well, thank you for that donkey today, Yes, ma'am,
Donkey to Day is brought to you by the law
office of Michael s lammens Off. Don't be a donkey.

(05:55):
Dive pound to fifty on yourself and say the bull.
If you've been hurting a construction accident, that pound two
five old from your cell and say the bull.