November 21, 2025 • 8 mins
Tina Knowles is featured in a Peacock documentary on Black jockeys and cowboys. Knowles references her 2024 visit to the 150th Kentucky Derby and how she was horribly mistreated on the red carpet when a White couple was ushered in ahead of her. THE HORROR!
Terry explains the red carpet chaos and adds another dimension to Tina Knowles' day that likely explains her sour experience. Race was not a factor. The proper credentials to enter certain areas was the real roadblock. Apparently, saying "I'm Beyonce's mom" does not make all doors fly open for the self-aware Knowles. Sad!
LISTEN to Terry's explainer on Tina's Bad Backstretch!
Terry explains the red carpet chaos and adds another dimension to Tina Knowles' day that likely explains her sour experience. Race was not a factor. The proper credentials to enter certain areas was the real roadblock. Apparently, saying "I'm Beyonce's mom" does not make all doors fly open for the self-aware Knowles. Sad!
LISTEN to Terry's explainer on Tina's Bad Backstretch!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The whining never stops with some people. I mean, the whining, whining,
whining over and over and over again by some people.
It's just ridiculous. We live in a world that offers
so much. This country offers so much to so many
people who have opportunities, and some seize upon it and
(00:24):
they become so successful. It's hard to even imagine the
level some people do. And most people stand back and go,
that's awesome, and they appreciate where they are too, and
they do their best to treat other people kindly and
do all that. And I'm not saying this person doesn't
treat people kindly, but this is so nitpicky, so cry
(00:46):
baby ish that it's laughable, laughable to me because I
happen to know a little bit about the inside info
on this. Now on Twitter x, I just posted a
picture of my wife and me from the red carpet
at the Derby last year, the one hundred and fiftieth
Kentucky Derby. We were invited by good friends and so
(01:08):
we got to go the whole red carpet round. All
that was fun. It's the first time we've ever done
that red carpet deal. And so there's a cute picture
of my stunning, beautiful wife, and we're standing there in
front of the board behind you says one hundred and fiftieth,
Kentucky Derby, Longeane, NBC, all those other things. And it's
(01:29):
only a joke that I'm posting it, but it's just
so funny because of the pettiness, the cry baby ness
of some people who have everything at their disposal, and
I mean everything. Here's the blazing headline in the Courier
Journal posted a couple of hours ago. Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mom,
(01:52):
says that Kentucky Derby is racially charged in a peacock documentary.
Oh boooooo. The writer is Marina Johnson from be Lollvil
Courier Journal. What's the complaint? I will read I will
(02:14):
read you some of the piece that Marina Johnson wrote
a little while ago, apparently. And there's a peacock documentary
about the Kentucky Derby or about black jockeys and black cowboys.
It's called High Horse the Black Cowboy. But Beyonce's mother
and Beyonce's a billionaire. She and jay Z have everything
(02:34):
they want. They got jets, they got buildings, they got homes,
they got a yachts, they have everything they want. They're
the American dream come true. So very few people get
a chance to do the amazing things they get to do.
God bless them. Good for them. America's a great place.
(02:55):
Just as a side note, my mother and father, they're
both gone now, never went to the Kentucky Derby. It's
too expensive. They're raising kids. They didn't do it when
they were kids. Locals didn't really pay that much attention
when they were kids in the forties and fifties. But
they never went to the Kentucky Derby. And all the
(03:16):
whining that I've heard over the years of people we're
not allowed to go to the Derby, and know, this
is such nonsense. It's like anything else. If you want
to go to the derby, buy a ticket. But I
don't know if it's fifty dollars, eighty dollars, whatever it
is to go to the infield. You're at the derby,
but it's not ver Beyonce's mother is whining about the
(03:43):
red carpet at the Kentucky Derby. I mean, it's hilarious.
I will read part of the Courier Journal article Tina Knowles,
who attended the one hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby said
the event was quote a very big way cup call.
She's black and unless you're unaware of that, a white
(04:06):
couple was allowed to cut in front of her on
the red carpet. This is their complaints. My wife's gonna
be mad at me because I posted our picture. We
weren't near Tina Knowles. I'm just doing it as a joke.
This's a bald guy. I put our fixer up there,
and then hers, and then her complaint. What a cry baby.
(04:27):
Your daughter's a billionaire, your son in law and your
daughter billionaire status. You fly around you and you're a
fashioned show whatever that is, and you get your behind
kissed wherever you go. Stop with all this. Here's the
quote from the Peacock documentary. I mean, just blatant. On
(04:49):
the red carpet. Someone came up and said, oh, Tina
Knowles is next, and the other young lady walked up
and said, oh no, because we need a and ran
right into my face and I said, a white person.
So she threw in the thing a white person. The
article says Knowles described one of the most prestigious horse
(05:10):
racing events of the year as racially charged and a
closed off culture, quoting her again, Beyonce's mother, she just
went behind me, got the couple behind me, and brought
them on. It's a lot of racially charged energy, which
is ironic because we really started this stuff. She's talking
about black jockeys back in the day. The Courier Journal
(05:33):
has reached out to Churchill Downs for comment comment about
what that Beyonce's mother is an ungrateful little fool who
thinks somebody's everything is about race. At the Red Carpets,
you have to go through a certain area that's this
tanted off area, and you know, I saw there's Jack
(05:54):
Harlow over there. There's such and such, and you go
on through and then they just grab you and say
come on. They're just trying to run people through at
a certain time, and that's all it is. But she
turned it into a I'm blackboy's white, My god, the
racism all and then she got on her private jet
and went home. Well that's not the only incident. I
(06:17):
don't know if they bring this up in the Peacock
documentary because I haven't seen it. We happen to be
in an area because our guests are host rather invited
us as guests in an area where you had to
have certain bracelets to get in there. Tina Knowles tried
to come in there and they said, no, that's what's
really she's mad about Smokey Robinson from the Motown fame,
(06:42):
you know, the singer. He also popped out of the
elevator and they said, I'm sorry, you don't have the
right credential for this area. You're supposed to be on
the whatever floor. It was like sorry, but I mean,
so that's where the real problem is. They don't want
black people in this area. It's race. And then I
looked through my pictures from that day. Here I am
(07:03):
with Isaiah Pacheco. You know what that is running back
for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here I am with Nate
burleson NFL Guy, he's on the NFL show CBS this morning,
shakings legend. Yeah, those are black people. I got a
bunch of pictures of people African Americans who were there.
(07:24):
The late Great Junior Bridgeman is in this area with
all of his family too, and I saw him and
there I got a picture of him with Mary and me,
and then a picture of his whole family and just
all everybody having a good time. There's no color issue
going on there. She's mad because she didn't have the
credential to come into this one particular area, and so
(07:46):
she uses that to throw acid on the Kentucky derby.
Don't come back, lady, We don't need you here, you
cry baby. And that whole red carpet thing, that's just nonsense.
These are twenty year olds who are just going next.
Please come on, come on, we need this, and they're
trying to move people along. But suddenly, oh, the racial
dagger has been jabbed into my soul. You white people,
(08:10):
I'm so exhausted. Make it stop. Find a real issue,
Tina Knowles. I wouldn't buy your fashion design that they
were available at kmart. I think there is still one
kmart left open, big lots. That's probably where they are.
Back in a minute on news radio eight forty whas
The whining never stops with some people. I mean, the whining, whining,
whining over and over and over again by some people.
It's just ridiculous. We live in a world that offers
so much. This country offers so much to so many
people who have opportunities, and some seize upon it and
(00:24):
they become so successful. It's hard to even imagine the
level some people do. And most people stand back and go,
that's awesome, and they appreciate where they are too, and
they do their best to treat other people kindly and
do all that. And I'm not saying this person doesn't
treat people kindly, but this is so nitpicky, so cry
(00:46):
baby ish that it's laughable, laughable to me because I
happen to know a little bit about the inside info
on this. Now on Twitter x, I just posted a
picture of my wife and me from the red carpet
at the Derby last year, the one hundred and fiftieth
Kentucky Derby. We were invited by good friends and so
(01:08):
we got to go the whole red carpet round. All
that was fun. It's the first time we've ever done
that red carpet deal. And so there's a cute picture
of my stunning, beautiful wife, and we're standing there in
front of the board behind you says one hundred and fiftieth,
Kentucky Derby, Longeane, NBC, all those other things. And it's
(01:29):
only a joke that I'm posting it, but it's just
so funny because of the pettiness, the cry baby ness
of some people who have everything at their disposal, and
I mean everything. Here's the blazing headline in the Courier
Journal posted a couple of hours ago. Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mom,
(01:52):
says that Kentucky Derby is racially charged in a peacock documentary.
Oh boooooo. The writer is Marina Johnson from be Lollvil
Courier Journal. What's the complaint? I will read I will
(02:14):
read you some of the piece that Marina Johnson wrote
a little while ago, apparently. And there's a peacock documentary
about the Kentucky Derby or about black jockeys and black cowboys.
It's called High Horse the Black Cowboy. But Beyonce's mother
and Beyonce's a billionaire. She and jay Z have everything
(02:34):
they want. They got jets, they got buildings, they got homes,
they got a yachts, they have everything they want. They're
the American dream come true. So very few people get
a chance to do the amazing things they get to do.
God bless them. Good for them. America's a great place.
(02:55):
Just as a side note, my mother and father, they're
both gone now, never went to the Kentucky Derby. It's
too expensive. They're raising kids. They didn't do it when
they were kids. Locals didn't really pay that much attention
when they were kids in the forties and fifties. But
they never went to the Kentucky Derby. And all the
(03:16):
whining that I've heard over the years of people we're
not allowed to go to the Derby, and know, this
is such nonsense. It's like anything else. If you want
to go to the derby, buy a ticket. But I
don't know if it's fifty dollars, eighty dollars, whatever it
is to go to the infield. You're at the derby,
but it's not ver Beyonce's mother is whining about the
(03:43):
red carpet at the Kentucky Derby. I mean, it's hilarious.
I will read part of the Courier Journal article Tina Knowles,
who attended the one hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby said
the event was quote a very big way cup call.
She's black and unless you're unaware of that, a white
(04:06):
couple was allowed to cut in front of her on
the red carpet. This is their complaints. My wife's gonna
be mad at me because I posted our picture. We
weren't near Tina Knowles. I'm just doing it as a joke.
This's a bald guy. I put our fixer up there,
and then hers, and then her complaint. What a cry baby.
(04:27):
Your daughter's a billionaire, your son in law and your
daughter billionaire status. You fly around you and you're a
fashioned show whatever that is, and you get your behind
kissed wherever you go. Stop with all this. Here's the
quote from the Peacock documentary. I mean, just blatant. On
(04:49):
the red carpet. Someone came up and said, oh, Tina
Knowles is next, and the other young lady walked up
and said, oh no, because we need a and ran
right into my face and I said, a white person.
So she threw in the thing a white person. The
article says Knowles described one of the most prestigious horse
(05:10):
racing events of the year as racially charged and a
closed off culture, quoting her again, Beyonce's mother, she just
went behind me, got the couple behind me, and brought
them on. It's a lot of racially charged energy, which
is ironic because we really started this stuff. She's talking
about black jockeys back in the day. The Courier Journal
(05:33):
has reached out to Churchill Downs for comment comment about
what that Beyonce's mother is an ungrateful little fool who
thinks somebody's everything is about race. At the Red Carpets,
you have to go through a certain area that's this
tanted off area, and you know, I saw there's Jack
(05:54):
Harlow over there. There's such and such, and you go
on through and then they just grab you and say
come on. They're just trying to run people through at
a certain time, and that's all it is. But she
turned it into a I'm blackboy's white, My god, the
racism all and then she got on her private jet
and went home. Well that's not the only incident. I
(06:17):
don't know if they bring this up in the Peacock
documentary because I haven't seen it. We happen to be
in an area because our guests are host rather invited
us as guests in an area where you had to
have certain bracelets to get in there. Tina Knowles tried
to come in there and they said, no, that's what's
really she's mad about Smokey Robinson from the Motown fame,
(06:42):
you know, the singer. He also popped out of the
elevator and they said, I'm sorry, you don't have the
right credential for this area. You're supposed to be on
the whatever floor. It was like sorry, but I mean,
so that's where the real problem is. They don't want
black people in this area. It's race. And then I
looked through my pictures from that day. Here I am
(07:03):
with Isaiah Pacheco. You know what that is running back
for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here I am with Nate
burleson NFL Guy, he's on the NFL show CBS this morning,
shakings legend. Yeah, those are black people. I got a
bunch of pictures of people African Americans who were there.
(07:24):
The late Great Junior Bridgeman is in this area with
all of his family too, and I saw him and
there I got a picture of him with Mary and me,
and then a picture of his whole family and just
all everybody having a good time. There's no color issue
going on there. She's mad because she didn't have the
credential to come into this one particular area, and so
(07:46):
she uses that to throw acid on the Kentucky derby.
Don't come back, lady, We don't need you here, you
cry baby. And that whole red carpet thing, that's just nonsense.
These are twenty year olds who are just going next.
Please come on, come on, we need this, and they're
trying to move people along. But suddenly, oh, the racial
dagger has been jabbed into my soul. You white people,
(08:10):
I'm so exhausted. Make it stop. Find a real issue,
Tina Knowles. I wouldn't buy your fashion design that they
were available at kmart. I think there is still one
kmart left open, big lots. That's probably where they are.
Back in a minute on news radio eight forty whas
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