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July 7, 2026 12 mins

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey of The Day to Benny Johnson Who Faces Backlash After Challenging Black Women’s Contributions To America. Listen for more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for Donkey of the day. You have a
bunch of donkeys out here to day called donkey of
the day. It really caught me off.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Guards we live a life where we write are tongue
based off who we may have finished.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
He never would say.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Any time.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
You are a donkey.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
That is why Charlamage is.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Some donkey today is just sad. Okay, Charlamage, we would
give a donkey of the day too. What donkey today?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
For Tuesday, July seventh, goes the MAGA influencer Bennie Johnson.
Bennie Johnson is the host of The Benny Show, which
is described as an independent conservative news commentary and podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It focuses on right link right leaning political commentary. Okay,
And yesterday I saw a headline that said MAGA influencer
Benny Johnson says black women's only contribution to America's founding
was getting raped by Thomas Jefferson.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Jesus, let's listen. Name.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
I want a name, Okay, the name of a single
black woman that had something to do with America's founding.
I can think of, like, didn't Thomas Jefferson have like
half his family like with out of wedlock with the slaves,
I think is not historicic anyway, That's like as close
as I can get.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Right wing Watch. I'll put some more sauce on that headline.
I mean, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
What Benny actually said was didn't Thomas Jeffson have like
half his family out of wedlock?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And he said that no black woman was a founding father.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, that was in reply to congress Woman Jasmine Crockett
statement that America owes black women everything.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Can we hit with? Sister Jasmine had to say so.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
When it comes to answering the question of what America
owes black women, the answer is everything. When we think
about the sacrifices that black women have made from the
moment that we were stolen from our homelands and transported
into this country to the fact that black women continued
to stand as the backbone, specifically of the Democratic Party.

(01:59):
We know that black women are always the ones that
are doing the labor, but we are also the ones
that are always the first targets. This fourth of July,
I say, celebrate a black woman that you know, because
whether it's an invention that she made, or whether it's
the very democracy that still hangs by a thread. Right now,
there is a black woman to thank for her contributions.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dropping the clues bonds Jasmin Crockett.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
This is why I hate the end That Jasmine's statement
in his full context makes perfect sense, and that headline
compressed what she actually said into just a provocative SoundBite, okay,
something to get the people going. Jasmine is correct. Black
women have made extraordinary sacrifices and slavery. Black women have
historically contributed significantly to American society and democracy. Black women

(02:45):
have been the key voting block, okay, in organizing force
within the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Therefore, America olds black women a great debt.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, And you can say everything because of those contributions.
Whether somebody agrees, you know, depends largely on how they
interpret the word everything. But America definitely OWDs black women
a great debt. Now, Benny Johnson, why did that statement
prompt that headline? Okay, that type of headline that you know,
black women's only contribution to America's founding was getting raped
by Thomas Jefferson. Well, that's because the internet, you know,

(03:18):
likes provocative headlines.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, it's what gets the people going, all right.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Benny said, didn't Thomas Jefferson have like half his family
out of wedlock?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
The answer is yes.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, it was a sixteen year old enslave girl who
was his property and I'm sure didn't give consents. So
that's how that headline could be crafted, Benny, in case
you're wondering, But I want to talk about what you
said in regard to the black women having no meaningful
role in the founding of the United States of America,
or that it's inaccurate to say that they were foundational
to the country being built. Well, I think it's the

(03:49):
difference between formal political power like being a founding father
father and historical contribution. Okay, you don't have to agree
with somebody saying America olds black women. That's a rhetorical statement.
We can debate whether it's an exaggeration. But when you
respond by acting like black women had no role in
America's founding.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Our development, that's when you earn your heat, Hoss. Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
See, too many people confuse having political power with creating value. Yes,
the founding fathers wrote to documents, that's true, but the
country was built by more than just the people who
signed the founding documents. Okay, enslaved black people, including black women,
performed the label that helped build the economy.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, game cock suckers all right, in federal infrastructure. All right.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
They had no political rights, but they absolutely contributed to
the nation's development. As my sister Angela Riah said, for years,
we built this joint for free. Okay, who was growing
the tobacco, who was picking the cotton, who was raising
generations of children, both their own and often white people's.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, yes, you were sucking often to any of black women.
All right.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Black women were keeping communities together while being denied basic
human rights. Nobody is saying black women's on the Declaration
of Independence or drafted the Constitution. What people are saying
is that you cannot tell the story of America honestly
while pretending to labor, resilience, and sacrifices of black women
weren't essential to what this country became.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, And let's be clear.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
If your version of patriotism required deleting people's contributions because
acknowledging them makes you uncomfortable, that's not patriotism. That's insecurity.
And a good therapist is going to always tell you
to address your insecurities, BENNI, Okay, explore their root causes
so you can replace harsh, self critical thoughts with healthier

(05:36):
emotional patterns.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Listen, Bennie, and you know everybody out there that feels
like him.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
America is a complicated story.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
The founders, I guess, deserve recognition, but so do the
soldiers and the immigrants, and the farmers and the factory workers,
the Native Americans, the enslaved Africans, and yes, black women Okay,
because countries are not built by politicians alone, all right,
built by millions of people whose names never make the
history books, even though there are black women's names in

(06:05):
these history books.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Who helped to build this country?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Salute the right wing watch on Instagram they know pointed
out figures like Phyllis Wheatley, the first African American woman
and one of the first women in the colonies.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
To publish a book of poetry. Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
George Washington personally corresponded with her and invited her to
visit him after she wrote a poem honoring him. Her
work was used by abolitionists as evidence of black intellectual equality.
Also Elizabeth Freeman, who sued for her freedom in seventeen
eighty one, arguing that the state's new constitutional language, all
men are Born, Free and Equal, applied to her too.

(06:41):
She won in the case helped the endslavery in Massachusetts. So, Benny,
a nation's foundation isn't just the people who signed the papers,
it's also the people whose labor made the nation possible.
Please give Bennie Johnson the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh, no, you are the dog.

Speaker 7 (07:03):
Of the day, the dog ge.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Ah the day.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was another part too, where he said, uh, what
was the part about. I couldn't understand what he was saying,
But he.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Was name an invention without black woman. Yeah, he's just in.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Rocket right now, name of invention from black woman. He
wanted to watch it explode on the name.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
What's wrong with his Google?

Speaker 8 (07:32):
I had no idea because, like I'm looking at so
many inventions from black women. Doctor Gladys West invented the GPS.
Doctor Shirley Jackson, she invented colorad Valley. Valerie Thomas, a
NASA scientist who invented the illusion transmitter in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Like it was a black woman who invented the Home
security system.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
Yes, that is Marie Brown yep, doctor, I think she
was a nurse, nurse Marie around yep, yep, yep. Yeah,
but it's some madam C. J. Walker hair carry. We
got black women who invented.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't understand women everyday.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Life, medicine and science like that.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
You just had the Google. Still your Googles. That's it.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
M all right, Well, thank you for that donkey today.

Speaker 7 (08:18):
Now let's open up the phone lines eight hundred five
eight five one oh five One was Lauren at We
were talking behind the scenes about something that allegedly happened
during essence conference or essence talk.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
What hell was Lauren?

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Common? But look real quick.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
The first black woman to invent something was Judy W. Reid.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
In eighteen eighty four.

Speaker 8 (08:38):
She invented the dough kneader and roller designed to mix
and roll dope more evenly.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right, you know that you said, do kneader, do kneader? Yeah?
What I say?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't know sid you was saying donator, No done roller,
do nader.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
So the question is five eight five.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Don't think God sposed to.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
What have y'all done so far?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
With all?

Speaker 4 (09:16):
And so on Sunday to close out the Essence Festival.

Speaker 9 (09:19):
They did like they honored like black women in music,
and there was a line of people taking a photo
at the event. You had Monica, Anthony Anderson, Brandy, Candy
Birds and you see Tamar walk up to like getting
that line of the photo. But as she does that,
she stops and she speaks to Candy briefly, and Candy
doesn't really give her much at all.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
And then.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
The video it was it.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Was very like, yeah, it was. It was very like, No,
I wasn't there.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
I don't ready I saw the video, but I have
speaking to people that were there though, So yeah, so
she speaks, she said something of Candy. Candy keeps it
very brief, and then she tries to get in the
line of the photos. Like they're holding hands, so she
tries to like either open Monica's hand and get in
the line or like just taps it just also acknowledge
her as well to Monica keeps it very brief and
cute as well too. So people are you know, just

(10:13):
talking about the fact that they basically paid her dust
as she was trying to.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Just be nice.

Speaker 9 (10:16):
Of course, you know, Tamar has been on that like
I don't want any issues in my life right now,
I'm restarting.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I don't you know what I mean? And if had
pass things.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
So this came out of this question.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
We were talking behind the scenes eight hundred five eighty five,
one oh five to one. Right, if you don't like
a person, right, or this is a feeling of I
don't f with you, why speak to them?

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Right? And the reason is you speak to them.

Speaker 7 (10:37):
I don't speak to them. If I don't f with you.
You know you you can feel it.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't talk to you.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Don't look at me, don't even come past my way,
don't don't reach your hand out because you did some
f ish to me.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I don't want you. I don't want your energy around me.
It's middle finger to you.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Die.

Speaker 9 (10:49):
But but essence was so much love. It's black women
in music. You got Missy being honest.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
If I don't like you, and if I don't like
you and queens, I ain't gonna like you in New
Orleans no matter where.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
But the reason the question came up is because Charlemagne.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
If somebody doesn't like Charlemagne and he's in the room,
Charlomagne still speaks, how you doing, God bless you?

Speaker 9 (11:08):
That's not me parents, Kennedy spoke, she kept a cute.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
First of all, there's only a few people I really,
really truly don't like, and if I'm in the room
with them, then I probably don't really have an issue
out your head.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
You said hello, you.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Said, because it's just like most of the time people
don't be having that same energy and nobody, but there's nobody.
There's only a couple of people on this planet I
really truly don't like.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, but I don't even want that energy like and if.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm in the same room with them, my life has
gotten very terrible. Guys, there's no.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Shit.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Would you ever be in a room with me? That's great?

Speaker 7 (11:52):
Eight hundred five eighty five, one oh five one. If
you're in a room with somebody, do you you don't
like it? Everybody's being called you? Do you speak? I don't, simple,
but let's discuss. It's the breakfast Club.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
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