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Charlamagne Gives Donkey Of The Day To Those Of Us Arguing Over The ‘N’ Word. Listen for more.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch
of donkeys out here. I'd have made donkey of the day.
Call donkey of the day. It really caught me off guard.
We live a life where we bite our tongue. You
are a donkey. That is why Charlemagne is here. Some
(00:22):
donkey of the day just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club. Okay, Chalamet,
who you giving donkey of the day to today?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Listen, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 9th goes
to all of us black and brown people who are
sitting around arguing about who can use the N-word.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Gather round, okay? I just want to talk to you
for a second, man.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This weekend, the never-ending discussion of who can use the
N-word and who can't use the N-word was sparked.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Because of Fat Joe. Again. All right. He was on
the Joe Budden podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
He was defending his use of the N-word by pointing
to his upbringing in the Bronx, growing up in black
housing projects and his deep roots in hip hop culture.
That's not even the conversation I want to have. OK,
all I've seen that conversation do is lead to a
bunch of unserious arguments.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
All right. I like to learn. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And all that dialogue reminded me is that even though
I know better, I'm not doing better. And there was
a time where I said publicly I wasn't using the
N-word anymore. And I want to challenge myself to do
that again. OK, see, for years, there's something we've been
saying that I don't think I've ever really believed. And
that statement is we took the power out.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of the N-word. No, we didn't. No, he didn't. OK,
I'm going to tell you something that you all have
heard a million times.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If we took the power out of the N-word, why
do we get so mad when somebody else who's not
black says it? If there's no power in it, what's
the problem? OK, clearly there's still power in that word. OK,
what we actually did was create rules about who gets
to use it. And I don't think we should play
that game anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
OK, I also don't believe it's a term of endearment either.
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I never, ever use it as a term of endearment. OK,
I use it the way the white man and Uncle
Ruckus meant it to be used. OK, folks will be like,
when I call my man the N-word, it means brother.
It means homie. That means family.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, call him brother. OK, call him homie. Call him fam.
I say peace, black man.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I say peace, king, because those are high vibrational words. OK,
I only use the term N-word when I'm talking about
low vibrational people with low vibrational actions. OK, black people,
we create new slang every damn day. OK, we have
no shortage of words.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So why?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Is the N-word one we can't let go. Okay, the
word that was actually created to degrade and dehumanize us,
we can't let it go. I don't understand it. Okay,
there's a book, all right? I was showing y'all this
book early this morning while I was showing the room. Well,
I was showing Jessalarius, right? There's a book that I love. Okay,
I'm holding it up in my hand. I grew up
reading this book. Okay, every now and then I pick
(02:46):
it up and read it again. It's got two volumes
and it's called, and I'm saying the word for title purposes,
From niggas to gods.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay. By Akil. All right. In this book, there's a
chapter called Return to Cinder. Let me see if I
can see. You see it right there? It's called Return
to Cinder. All right. You see?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
In that chapter, it talks about all the hell black
people have caught in America. And because of the hell
we've caught, some of us have become hell raisers. And
it says in that chapter, we need to give this
hell back to whom it is that we caught it from.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And it says in particular.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
To give the n-word back all right we didn't create
that word white supremacy did all right that was their
word for us so why in the hell are we
fighting for ownership of it okay our ancestors fought to
not be called the n-word now their descendants us will
argue you down about our right to call each other
the n-word how did we get here how Imagine explaining
(03:46):
that to your great grandparents. OK, well, look, I understand,
you know, y'all fought against being called this word because
it was used to degrade and dehumanize you.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But don't worry, we fixed it. We call each other
that now.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, that's OK, Grandma. We changed the E.R. to an A.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
If that makes sense to you, fine. OK, if it
doesn't apply, let it fly. I'm just telling you how
I feel this morning. And I already know what somebody
is saying. We reclaimed it. Reclaimed what?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay. You reclaim something that belonged to you. That word
never belonged to us. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Our dignity belonged to us. Our humanity belonged to us.
Reclaim all of that. But the N word, that's them
crackers property. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Return to send it. All right. And I think we've
confused something. We have confused defiance with liberation.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll say that again. We have confused defiance with liberation.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
OK, there's a difference between saying I'm going to use
your insult so you can't hurt me with it.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right. That's the Eminem and 8 Mile move.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And then there is the your insult doesn't have anything
to do with me anymore move.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
OK, for me, the second one sounds a whole lot freer.
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I don't need to prove you can't hurt me with
a knife by stabbing myself with it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
OK, I could just put the damn knife down. That's
how I feel about the N-word, okay?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I call it low vibrational because I don't believe there's
anything uplifting about speaking a word over ourselves that was
created from hatred towards us. And I'm not talking about
some scientific measurement of vibrations.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm talking spiritually.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
OK, I'm talking about what I choose to speak over
myself and other black and brown people. Words mean something
to me. That's why I don't ever use the N
word in an affectionate way. OK, if I love you,
why would one of my terms of affection for you
be somebody else's term of degradation for both of us?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's what I mean when I say this has to
be hilarious to a white supremacist. OK, a word they
created to dehumanize us, a word we used to fight
them for using.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We are now fighting each other to use.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It don't make no damn sense to me. And I'm
not even going to get into the music.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right. That complicates this even more and makes it
even more ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We hand everybody the N word and then get mad
when somebody mishandles it. OK, here's an idea. Let's just
stop handing it out, okay? And by the way, you
don't gotta listen to me. I'm not trying to police
no grown person's mouth, okay? Say whatever you want. I'm
telling you what I believe and what I think will
work for me, okay? I don't think anybody should use it, okay?
(06:12):
Black people included.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't think black.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Liberation requires us to preserve the language of black degradation.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
OK, that's where I'm at with it. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Some things our ancestors gave us because they wanted us
to keep them. And some things were done to our
ancestors that we inherited anyway. OK, those aren't the same thing.
The N-word is not some precious piece of black culture
that needs to be protected.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right. It was put on us and we can take
it off. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We don't need to change the spelling. We don't need
to change the pronunciation. We don't need to debate who's
allowed to say it. We don't need to take the
power out of it, okay? Just give the damn thing back.
Return the sender, as this beautiful book from Niggas to
God says, okay?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't want the package.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Never ordered it. Don't know who signed for it. And
I'm damn sure not paying the shipping, okay? Our ancestors
fought to make sure.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The world knew they weren't that word.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm not going to honor them by fighting for my
right to call myself what they fought not to be called.
Please give those of us arguing over who can use
the N-word the biggest hee-haw. And if you can, go
order this amazing book from Niggas to Gods by Akil. Okay,
(07:24):
I believe it's available on Amazon. I ordered this book
in the 90s. You see how it looks? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's even got water damage.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I've had this book for a long time. I
just ordered it from Amazon. Oh, it's still on Amazon? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
$ 17. 95. Oh, okay. Yeah, and it's a volume two as well.
It's definitely a volume two. Yes, it is. Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, thank you for that donkey today. Yes, indeed. Now,
let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Sherri Shepherd stopped through earlier today, and she said something
about what one of her friends said to her about
her ex at the time.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So, don't I got a good one, Simone? You talk
about taking it slow, but I got it going so
bad that we broke up and Kim Whitley called me
and she said, can I have him? All my friends.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'm telling you. She was like, screw that girl, Cole. Look,
he's a good man.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When we broke up, everybody was sad when we got
back together. I'm telling you, the driver that I have
almost crashed into a tree.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They love him.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because I see how much he loves me and how
good he treats me.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So the question is 800-585-1051. Have you ever dated one
of your friend's ex?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why did the driver almost crash into a tree? Because
he was such a good man?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
No, she was saying that when the driver found out
that he broke up, he was so upset that he
almost crashed into a tree because.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He was such a good dude. Yo, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But 800-585-1051, especially ladies. Ladies, have you ever dated one
of your friend's exes?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Donkey of the.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the
Bull Laminsoff. Don't be a donkey when you need a
fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com.
That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when you mess with the bull, you
get the horns.
It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch
of donkeys out here. I'd have made donkey of the day.
Call donkey of the day. It really caught me off guard.
We live a life where we bite our tongue. You
are a donkey. That is why Charlemagne is here. Some
(00:22):
donkey of the day just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club. Okay, Chalamet,
who you giving donkey of the day to today?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Listen, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 9th goes
to all of us black and brown people who are
sitting around arguing about who can use the N-word.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Gather round, okay? I just want to talk to you
for a second, man.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This weekend, the never-ending discussion of who can use the
N-word and who can't use the N-word was sparked.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Because of Fat Joe. Again. All right. He was on
the Joe Budden podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
He was defending his use of the N-word by pointing
to his upbringing in the Bronx, growing up in black
housing projects and his deep roots in hip hop culture.
That's not even the conversation I want to have. OK,
all I've seen that conversation do is lead to a
bunch of unserious arguments.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
All right. I like to learn. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And all that dialogue reminded me is that even though
I know better, I'm not doing better. And there was
a time where I said publicly I wasn't using the
N-word anymore. And I want to challenge myself to do
that again. OK, see, for years, there's something we've been
saying that I don't think I've ever really believed. And
that statement is we took the power out.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of the N-word. No, we didn't. No, he didn't. OK,
I'm going to tell you something that you all have
heard a million times.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If we took the power out of the N-word, why
do we get so mad when somebody else who's not
black says it? If there's no power in it, what's
the problem? OK, clearly there's still power in that word. OK,
what we actually did was create rules about who gets
to use it. And I don't think we should play
that game anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
OK, I also don't believe it's a term of endearment either.
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I never, ever use it as a term of endearment. OK,
I use it the way the white man and Uncle
Ruckus meant it to be used. OK, folks will be like,
when I call my man the N-word, it means brother.
It means homie. That means family.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, call him brother. OK, call him homie. Call him fam.
I say peace, black man.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I say peace, king, because those are high vibrational words. OK,
I only use the term N-word when I'm talking about
low vibrational people with low vibrational actions. OK, black people,
we create new slang every damn day. OK, we have
no shortage of words.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So why?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Is the N-word one we can't let go. Okay, the
word that was actually created to degrade and dehumanize us,
we can't let it go. I don't understand it. Okay,
there's a book, all right? I was showing y'all this
book early this morning while I was showing the room. Well,
I was showing Jessalarius, right? There's a book that I love. Okay,
I'm holding it up in my hand. I grew up
reading this book. Okay, every now and then I pick
(02:46):
it up and read it again. It's got two volumes
and it's called, and I'm saying the word for title purposes,
From niggas to gods.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay. By Akil. All right. In this book, there's a
chapter called Return to Cinder. Let me see if I
can see. You see it right there? It's called Return
to Cinder. All right. You see?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
In that chapter, it talks about all the hell black
people have caught in America. And because of the hell
we've caught, some of us have become hell raisers. And
it says in that chapter, we need to give this
hell back to whom it is that we caught it from.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And it says in particular.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
To give the n-word back all right we didn't create
that word white supremacy did all right that was their
word for us so why in the hell are we
fighting for ownership of it okay our ancestors fought to
not be called the n-word now their descendants us will
argue you down about our right to call each other
the n-word how did we get here how Imagine explaining
(03:46):
that to your great grandparents. OK, well, look, I understand,
you know, y'all fought against being called this word because
it was used to degrade and dehumanize you.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But don't worry, we fixed it. We call each other
that now.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, that's OK, Grandma. We changed the E.R. to an A.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
If that makes sense to you, fine. OK, if it
doesn't apply, let it fly. I'm just telling you how
I feel this morning. And I already know what somebody
is saying. We reclaimed it. Reclaimed what?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay. You reclaim something that belonged to you. That word
never belonged to us. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Our dignity belonged to us. Our humanity belonged to us.
Reclaim all of that. But the N word, that's them
crackers property. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Return to send it. All right. And I think we've
confused something. We have confused defiance with liberation.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll say that again. We have confused defiance with liberation.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
OK, there's a difference between saying I'm going to use
your insult so you can't hurt me with it.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right. That's the Eminem and 8 Mile move.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And then there is the your insult doesn't have anything
to do with me anymore move.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
OK, for me, the second one sounds a whole lot freer.
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I don't need to prove you can't hurt me with
a knife by stabbing myself with it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
OK, I could just put the damn knife down. That's
how I feel about the N-word, okay?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I call it low vibrational because I don't believe there's
anything uplifting about speaking a word over ourselves that was
created from hatred towards us. And I'm not talking about
some scientific measurement of vibrations.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm talking spiritually.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
OK, I'm talking about what I choose to speak over
myself and other black and brown people. Words mean something
to me. That's why I don't ever use the N
word in an affectionate way. OK, if I love you,
why would one of my terms of affection for you
be somebody else's term of degradation for both of us?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's what I mean when I say this has to
be hilarious to a white supremacist. OK, a word they
created to dehumanize us, a word we used to fight
them for using.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We are now fighting each other to use.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It don't make no damn sense to me. And I'm
not even going to get into the music.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right. That complicates this even more and makes it
even more ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We hand everybody the N word and then get mad
when somebody mishandles it. OK, here's an idea. Let's just
stop handing it out, okay? And by the way, you
don't gotta listen to me. I'm not trying to police
no grown person's mouth, okay? Say whatever you want. I'm
telling you what I believe and what I think will
work for me, okay? I don't think anybody should use it, okay?
(06:12):
Black people included.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't think black.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Liberation requires us to preserve the language of black degradation.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
OK, that's where I'm at with it. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Some things our ancestors gave us because they wanted us
to keep them. And some things were done to our
ancestors that we inherited anyway. OK, those aren't the same thing.
The N-word is not some precious piece of black culture
that needs to be protected.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right. It was put on us and we can take
it off. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We don't need to change the spelling. We don't need
to change the pronunciation. We don't need to debate who's
allowed to say it. We don't need to take the
power out of it, okay? Just give the damn thing back.
Return the sender, as this beautiful book from Niggas to
God says, okay?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't want the package.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Never ordered it. Don't know who signed for it. And
I'm damn sure not paying the shipping, okay? Our ancestors
fought to make sure.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The world knew they weren't that word.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm not going to honor them by fighting for my
right to call myself what they fought not to be called.
Please give those of us arguing over who can use
the N-word the biggest hee-haw. And if you can, go
order this amazing book from Niggas to Gods by Akil. Okay,
(07:24):
I believe it's available on Amazon. I ordered this book
in the 90s. You see how it looks? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's even got water damage.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I've had this book for a long time. I
just ordered it from Amazon. Oh, it's still on Amazon? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
$ 17. 95. Oh, okay. Yeah, and it's a volume two as well.
It's definitely a volume two. Yes, it is. Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, thank you for that donkey today. Yes, indeed. Now,
let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Sherri Shepherd stopped through earlier today, and she said something
about what one of her friends said to her about
her ex at the time.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So, don't I got a good one, Simone? You talk
about taking it slow, but I got it going so
bad that we broke up and Kim Whitley called me
and she said, can I have him? All my friends.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I'm telling you. She was like, screw that girl, Cole. Look,
he's a good man.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When we broke up, everybody was sad when we got
back together. I'm telling you, the driver that I have
almost crashed into a tree.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They love him.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because I see how much he loves me and how
good he treats me.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So the question is 800-585-1051. Have you ever dated one
of your friend's ex?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why did the driver almost crash into a tree? Because
he was such a good man?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
No, she was saying that when the driver found out
that he broke up, he was so upset that he
almost crashed into a tree because.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He was such a good dude. Yo, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But 800-585-1051, especially ladies. Ladies, have you ever dated one
of your friend's exes?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Donkey of the.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the
Bull Laminsoff. Don't be a donkey when you need a
fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com.
That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when you mess with the bull, you
get the horns.
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