Rep for Reparations (Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow)

Be utter here, you gotta be you gotta be big time DJ Atlay and Charlomagne the Guy if the Breakfast Club bitching. Good morning us yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo, Good morning angela Ye, Good morning Dandy, Charlomagne the Guy Peace to the plane in this Thursday's happening, Good morning, good

morning Yeah. We all decided to broadcast from home today because it's supposed to be another winter storm hitting the Tri State area. For everybody that listens to us everywhere across the country, wearing new York of course, the New York New Jersey area. There's supposed to be another ten inches today. Yeah, I supposed to be supposed to start already, but they didn't start as it yet, so I decided to, you know, keep my ass home just in case and

not stuck in the city. It's at eleven am. Ye, eleven am now, yeah, yeah, eleven am, which would be which would be our commute home. Right, They're still having a lot of emergencies in Texas. This is ridiculous. I don't know what they're gonna do there. That's crazy that they shut off people's power. People are ice in their own houses right now. People are leaving and having to try to find somewhere to go, sleeping in their cars. Listen to South is not prepared for one of storms,

you know what I mean. Like, I'm from South Carolina, so I remember when one inch of snow literally would shut the whole state down. So I can only imagine what's happen in Texas right now, right and let me shout out Stacy Lynch. Stacy Lynches, she's running for city council in New York City District seven. I actually went to Hampton University with her dad as a prominent political figure in New York City, help David Dinkins become mayor

and help many others. So she decided to I think she was working in DC something and she decided to resign and come back and want to help her community. So yesterday she had her first fundraiser to start. Amazing person. She's an attorney. Like I said, she graduated from Hampton.

She was my big sister. Anytime you go to college, Charlemagne, I don't know if we had the same thing, but when you go to HBCU, they give you like a big sister, a big brother to help you around campus, to make sure you know you know what to do, where you go to the laundry, what not to do, the ins and out to the university. And she was one of my big sisters. And she's running. So you know, we did a fundraiser for her last night. I DJ and had a bunch of Hampton people on there to

start raising money. The person that she's going against don't remember his name. I just know he's a white man and the district is around the Hall of area. So she her and her dad been living in Hall ofm on her life So check out Stacy Lynch if you're in New York City for City Council. She's really really dope, really really bright, and really really wants to give back to the community and help them with education and all those other things. So shout to Stacy Lynch and me

and how I used to go back and forth. You're gonna laugh playing spades. So in between classes, her room was like two rooms above her mine, so her and her roommate and me and Gia would go and play spades in between classes. But she's she's really really dope. So check out Stacy instead of going to classes. Why are you saying people gonna live? That's an HBCU. Remember one time I was at the crig and my mom went to cycle under State. Were just the crib playing spade,

and I said something. My mom was like, you think I'm not a play spade? I went to an HBCU. One of my friends actually had to do another semester because she used to miss class all the time because she would be playing spades. Is that your friend that went to him do with me? No, she went to college to me, you with the college with you? Okay, you said one of your friends say school. Congrats. Congrats to all of y'all who learned how to play spage in college at a nice HPCU. I learned how to

play s page in the county jail? For me, what did y'all play for? Because you know, college we play for things. What did you play for the county jail? What did we didn't play for? Nothing? Play play to play the path to time. That's what we played. Bro, we won't judge. You do what you gotta do. It is what it is. All right, let's get the show crack in front page news. What we're talking about, Well,

let's talk about student loan forgiveness. Now, Joe Biden has rejected a fifteen fifty thousand dollars student loan forgiveness plan, and we'll tell you about the backlash. All right. We'll get into all that when we come back, and Erica, Alexander and Whitney daw will be joining us, so we'll kick it with them as well. It's the breakfast Club.

Good morning. Let's get in some front page news where we're starting you, Well, let's start with this student loan forgiveness because I know that's something that's front and center on a lot of people's minds if you've gone to college, if you have kids that have went to college, and now you have these student loans that are weighing on you. So during Joe Biden's town hall on Tuesday, he did again address a student loan forgiveness and say that he's

not willing to forgive fifty thousand dollars. Here's what he said. We need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential ten thousand dollars. Your administration has a proposed we need at least a fifty thousand dollars minimum. I will not make that happen, but everyone should be able to go to community college for free. And I think any family making under one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars whose kids go to a state university they get into that should be free

as well. And the thing I do in terms of student debt that's accumulated is provide for changing the existing system now for debt forgiveness if you engage in volunteer activity. I agree. So I wonder why they just don't pay a very the student loan there, Like I saw, the biggest student loan debt in America is one point seven trillion dollars, Like we watched them give damn near four trillion dollars out last year. Those corporations get trillions of dollars.

The millionaires and billionaires who already got it get get trillions of dollars when they need a bail out. Why not take care of the student loan there? Why not wipe that off? To wipe that off? Does it matter if the person is making like a lot of money or if their family has a lot of money, should that be forgiven? Because that's another proposal that's come up. If you make up to one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, then yes, but any if you make above that,

then I think it's proportionate. There's all kinds of different things, but I think you've got to raise a board because it depends where you live. Because if you make one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in New York, you're still not doing that well because everything in New York and the prices of rent and everything is so expensive. Or if you make that in LA the price is expensive. But I think that they should if you make a certain amount, maybe one seventy five for both family members.

I think that they should take care of your your college absolutely past. I was gonna say that black class comes from this. Alexandria Kazio Cortes said, who cares what school someone went to. Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. That is wrong. Nowhere does it say we must trade off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness.

We can have both. Yeah, I don't see why everybody can't get paid off, because, like I said, you got these corporations, these millionaires, these billionaires who receive trillion dollar bailouts, and they got it. That true. Do same for the kids one point seven training and student loan debt. Wipe that off for these kids. Give them a head start in life. Don't let them start in debt. Here's what

else Joe Biden have to say. I do think that in this moment of economic pain and strain, that we should be eliminating interest on the debts that are accumulated. Number one and number two, I'm prepared to right off the ten thousand dollars debt, but not fifty with ten thousand dollars help, I'm sure, it would help, right, it

would help. But when kids like hundred twenty five thousand a year and it's one hundred thousand dollars, that ten thous you still ninety thousand, you know, like you said, they make they find all this other money for everything else. They find this money to bail out people, to help the airplane the airline industry. Yeah, help these kids out

as well. I just remember how crippling student loans were for me, knowing that when I first graduated, having to pay those and get a job and pay my bills in you know, have to pay for eating every day to stretch everything. Then I had to keep getting the ferments. Just just just just wipe it off with the kids.

And if he's saying that community college should be free, what she's saying, If you're already saying that should happen, then everybody that went to community college at least they should get their student loans wiped off, right, since you're already gonna make it free anyway. I look at that. It's the same way with the criminalizing marijuana. Once you decriminalize marijuana, or if you want to decriminalize marijuana, you gotta let everybody out of jail. Who's in there for

non violent? Uh drug offenses? We defenses? All right, well that is your front page news. All right, thank you, miss ye. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. If you need to vent phone lines or wide open. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. Is the Breakfast Club the morning the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what'll ye. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five

one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this Texas? How y'all doing? Tia from Texas? How you doing that? Yeah? What's going on? So pauling to tell y'all. I know you're in New York and it's so different if you used to code Texas. We're in a ratition. It's been bad for Sunday on Valentime to day. People are without water, people are without power, and then when they have water, the water gets off because it's the pipes are frozen and then they burst.

It is eighty less here and I just saw pictures that tad cruise. It's only can cool. Why would you eat even if it's not affecting you at your house, Why don't you be here to say, hey, you know we're gonna get this together. We're on this stupid other power grid. No one has power here. I have it, you know a few people have it, but it's still bad. It is horrible here and I just need rough people to get the word out that it is horrible in Texas.

It's like a hurricane or something hit up. It's horrible. Yeah, I've seen I've seen something with it was an animal frozen to a gate. They just had froze that They've never seen temperatures like that. And I've seen roost caved in and all that. Yeah, way are everywhere. I've seen frozen ceiling fans, but icicles coming off of it, coming down toilets that are overflowed. It's it's icicles everywhere. And then we're having a board water. People are putting snow

in their tubs just so they can have water. The woods is out, you know, people bought up all the woods. People were outside chopping down trees like it's bad. And I know y'all don't maybe see that on the news, but it is very very bad. And of course there's a neighborhood called Highland. Parks lives in that neighborhood and all that, and they have not lost a lip of power because you're turning it off, right, they're trying to do like a rolling power, and they're turning off power

so they can. I don't know what they're doing, that's what they said. And then those rolling we're supposed to be only like forty five million intervals or whatever. But some people have been without for hours, thirty six hours, forty eight hours. Some people have been out for two Sunday and on the hotel they're gouging prices at the hotel, and then some hotels they don't have power either. It

is absolutely horrible. And you can't get out and go to Grandma's patch or onto house because the roads are slick with ice. So do you when when the last time y'all had went to storm like this in Texas seventy thirty six years or some like that, Like, it's been a long long time, and right now six hundred and seventy five thousand people are still without power. This is crazy. And then now you're right, yeah, the Governor's like, well, you know we handt into well, yeah, yours. I'm like,

I'm so sick of this. Why are we even on a separate deal? El Paso is not on a separate grid and they're doing fine. That's horrible. That's horrible. That is well. Thank you for calling us up and giving us the update from the ground there. We appreciate that, and we'll make sure we keep on bringing light to the situation. I don't know what we can do, but keep on bringing attention to it. Absolutely, stay safe from you,

you know you can't do anything. And pray for the people that are out there working to get to the power back on because they're cold too. Absolutely well, thank you for checking in. Y'all have a wonderful day. And now I love the Breakfast Club by we love you back all right. You're praying for her man. That is crazy. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man from you on the Breakfast Club. You got something on your mind? Out? Hello, who's this? You know this big Mike from Halem Big Mike from Yeah Yeah, I just want to get off my chest that Yo, we finally do what we had to do it. We got Biden in the office, but now he ain't talking about defunding the police. But you don't want to help the kids, like what's going on. He never was talking

about defunding the police, even on the campaign trail. He don't believe in the funding the police. That's working. They found him money to do all this stuff, But you can't help the kids in the tuition. I agree, put you as he's in office right now that I believe. I agree, man. I don't know. We gotta f we gotta figure something ow, we gotta start. I don't know, we gotta start protesting again. I think we gotta keep

pushing the line. Like you know, democracy works well after we elect who we want to put in the White House, you know what I mean. We gotta keep pressure, keep pressure on them. That's all because they still got they still gotta one that I'm just saying. They still got to win in twenty twenty two. They still gotta win

in twenty twenty four. So I keep telling, you know, people in that administration, especially when it comes to send, when I send it, the Harris Vice president Harris, any future political aspirations, you got to depending on what happens right now, y'all better get it right. Absolutely, but thank you brother man were doing. We had to because I give a shout out ahead. I want to give a shout out to all gb Big Dipper batsman, horse better streaming everywhere. Okay, I don't know what you just said,

he said, big shout out of consolation. He shout out of consolation, the Big Dipper. He shout out a horse from the bravehearts. Goodness, Hello, who's this? Heys mature? How y'all doing? Good morning? So I was just listening to you gotta talk about the student loan debt. So they're not even touching povits with the loan debt either. So even if you don't have over fifty thousand dollars a student loan debt or ten thousand dollars and a public

school school that they're not covering that either. So we need to bring that up as well. I don't even know what that is. What's private student loan that? Well, when you go to a private so when you get a private lender. They're not covering that, okay, right, they only kept the covering about Sally Bay, right, Yeah, they're not doing Nauvian. Navian is a private student long lender. Yeah,

seeing those notice, isn't the mail. Yeah, So for some people, Sally me will only give you a cert and then you got to go somewhere else to get some more money. Like I had to do the same for Hampton. So I had two different You're like, I'm not even opening that, y'all. Let me tell you. They sent me a Valentine's Bay card Navian they did not. Yeah. I was like, are y'all crazy? But I go ahead, mamma, Yes, today six years old, Chloe, Happy birthday. Boom. Mommy loves you, Daddy

loves you. We all love you. All right, we'll have a good one by birthday. Okay. One day, one day people are gonna One day people are gonna realize that the government, I don't care who it is, Republican or Democrat, they don't care about anyone but the rich and the elite. They will take care of each other. Everybody else. We on our absolutely, but get it off your chest. Eight DREI five one oh five one if you need to vent,

you can hit us up right now. Now, we got rumors on the way, yes, and we had reported earlier and gave given our condolences to Nicki Minaj and her family after her father was killed in a hitt and run. Well, now the driver has surrender to the cops. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lock. That's to Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club. This is the rumor report with Angela years Well, the driver who was wanted for hitting Nicki Minaj's father with a car and

a hitt and run has turned himself in. As you know, Nicki Minaj's father passed away. Again, condolences to Niki and her family. But police did arrest seventy year old Charles Polovich. Damn. That's sac He's older than Nikki's father. He's been arraigned in charge with two felonies, leaving the scene of an incident involving death of a person and tampering with or suppressing physical evidenced. He wouldn't have got charged at all if an accident. Ye, dam According to reports, he exited

his vehicle stood over Nicki Minaj's dad. Robert Mirage asked if he was okay, walked and returned to his vehicle and then fled the scene. I mean, what was the response when he asked her asked him, was he okay? Why would you just leave the scene like that? Condolences go to Nikki's family. And I'm sure that you know that seventy year old man conscious was eating him alive.

That's why he probably turned himself in. But it's just a tragic situation all the way around, right, And then they said, and this is how you know he knew he did something crazy. He actually drove home, avoiding intersections and he hit his vehicle in the detached garage at his residence. Absolutely, because I'm sure when he asked, you know, Nicki's father, was he okay? Probably was no response. All he could look and see visibly that you know that

brother wasn't okay. But he should have. I mean, but if you'd have called the police, it might have saved his life, you know. I mean, even if they will absolutely, you know, resuscitate him or whatever, but they definitely should have called the police. Might have saved that man. Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of their actions. Sometimes I'll be thinking it's just a young thing, but clearly

it's not like damn all right. Now, Quevo has a new show coming to YouTube this summer, and this is with content that's being rolled out from the YouTube. Black Voice is fund and so he'll be going to local basketball courts around the country and linking up with NBA stars who live in the area and teaching viewers about the role that basketball courts play in the local community at large and also important historical moments. It's called Supreme Courts and it's his own idea. By the way, it

was his brain child. That's dope. You know. You know he loves basketball so m and by the way, Culture three will be out soon, FYI. They had already announced that now the guerrilla glue girl, Tessica Brown, her go fund me is under investigation, so she can't take out any of the money. She ended up getting twenty three thousand dollars in that go fund me. She said they won't release it to her because many people have called and said it was a fraudulent account. Every time you

look at it, it says it's under investigation. So I guess people are not believing her or I don't know what's going on. But she can't get that money that was in that go fund me, So would you say her goalfund me is a sticky situation right now? Well, she wanted to actually donate to the doctor who helped her hair and helped her get the guerrilla glue out. She wanted to donate twenty thousand to his charity, and that was what she was planning to do with the money.

And she said the rest of the cash she wants to use for families in her parish which she personally knows have been struggling. She wants people to know it was not a social media's done as some believe. A right man, there's a quote. The quote is clever is getting out of a sticky situation? Wise is not getting into a sticky situation. Sounds like this whole situation is sticky with Jessica Brown all the way around. It's interesting that there were so many I be cats after stupid people.

All right. Rowdy Rebel says Bobby Schmirder will be out in less than a week, So we hope this is not another false alarm. But they are saying he wrote on Instagram six days yesterday, so hopefully that means he'll be coming home, like for real, in a few days. Yeah. I thought his mother said February too, So I'm hoping he is coming home in the next couple of days.

That'll be dope. Yeah, I'd be feeling bad. Not bad, but I get like anxiety when I see you know, people post stuff like that because you know a brother like Bobby's murder. He'll be home in six days. He's gonna come home to a lot of love and a lot of fan fair. You got haters in jail. You got people that be jealous and intervious in jail, you know, and try to disrupt something just because they know that brother coming home. So I'll be wondering sometimes if it's

even good to put that out there. All right, Scissor is giving fans an update on some new music now. She was on an interview with CBS this morning talking about her climate justice initiative. She's partnered with American Forrest and Tazzo. It's called Treat Corps, and she's giving fans some information about what's happening. Here's what she said. New music is literally on the way. I haven't slept. I'm coming directly from the studio right now. It is five am.

I left the studio like three thirty and I'm here with y'a awesome lady's like you're on the way. I'm looking forward to a new Scissar album. You know that last album was amazing. Now, she also talked about her own mental health. Nope, oh okay, maybe not. All right, well that is your rumor report. I'm Angela Yee. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now we got front page news next. What were talking about? Yes, and so you know when that vaccine comes down NB, I know you're taking it

as soon as possible and soon it's your turn. But NBA players are very hesitant to promote these vaccines. And we'll give you some more information. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping locked this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same. Angela Yee here, and I know you've heard me talking about my friends at the General Insurance. The General has been giving their customers excellent customer service for over fifty

five years. Find out why they are a trusted brands called eight hundred General or visit the General dot com. Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela. Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news. No, my tennis fans. Naomi Osaka beat Serena in Australian Open semifinals yesterday. So Naomi Osaka beat Serena. Also, I would saying the equivalent of that,

I was telling dramas this early. The equivalent of that is like if Patrick Mahomes had beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. Correct, absolutely, yeah, Well US Open is considered I guess I think the super Bowl of everything. But yes, similar to that. And also you see that they imploded Trump Tower out in Atlantic City. Yeah, so everybody gathered around applauding the shout to the mayor, Marty Smalls. He wanted us to come broadcast out there. He was like,

why don't y'all come broadcasts out there? I was like, nah, I'm good days, stay with that. I'm pretty good. All right? What else we're talking about? Easy all Russia. Limbad died. He was seventy years old. He announced that he was battling advanced lung cancer about a year ago, and things took a turn for the worst recently. He missed some shows and His wife Katherine, announced the news on his radio show yesterday morning. Yeah, I saw that seventy years

old died of lung cancer. That's I don't I don't want to go out that way, and I don't want nobody that I love to go out that way. I saw people celebrating the fact that he passed away yesterday, and I didn't understand that because I just don't want that kind of energy back on me. Seven y years old died of lung cancer. Nah, no, way, I don't want that. Yeah. I didn see too. My sympathy from our community when it came to Russia limbad, which is which is great. It's not even to me. It's not

even about Russia. It's just about the situation. Sometimes you got to look at somebody and say, what I want that to happen to me? Would I want that to happen to somebody I love? That's like no, because I can, by the way, that can happen. To stay quiet. That's one of those situations. Say anything business that could happen to you. You can get lung cancer, your mom can get lung cancer, your dad, people close to you, people

that you love. Is just like no, absolutely not you know, but sometimes when you do certain things and then you know, yeah, I do be thinking about that, Like when you die, you want to leave a positive mark on the world. Well, if you heard, if you heard a community, and you heard somebody, and somebody is affected by your words. Like you said, for every action is a reaction. It is what it is. That's not a right people are reacting to. How do you feel? You know what I mean. All

I'm saying is lung cancer. It's something that's out of all of our control, which is true. That's what I'm saying, all right. A lot of top NBA players are hesitant

to promote coronavirus vaccines. They've been trying to get them, you know, because it's not a lot of trust when it comes to vaccines in the United States, and the NBA has reached out to the agents of many of the league's elite play they wanted to try to get some PSA is going to promote the safety and effective effectiveness of the vaccine, but not too many players are excited about being on the front lines of telling people to go get vaccinated, and sources are saying there's a

number of factors that contribute to many players reluctance to participate, which includes some of them don't want to take it themselves. They're not too certain about that, they don't want to advocate its use for others, and also they don't want to extend favors to a league amidst the largely unpopular plans for All Star. For all of them distrust, they act like the distrust is not warranted. It's absolutely warranted. Like the medical system in this country has been historically racist.

We have every reason not to trust this country when it comes to the vaccine. And like I've always said, they have not put any remedies for any other virus. And in the Black community, whether it's been poverty, poor schools, police brutality, you know, they don't. They don't care about us any other time. But now all of a sudden, it's like, hey, y'all need to get this vaccine first. Like, but I would say they're not just giving it to

the Black community. They're given to everybody, doctors, healthcare workers, teaches, making everybody just very true, but it's not like there's not a real push for they're getting in the black community, like running running commercials on black radio. Tyler Perry got b teach specials about it, like they're really making a real push a right. They've asked me to be on coronavirus vaccine task forces to try to get black people to take it the same thing I just said, Yeah,

me too. But it's also a lot of black people have underlying conditions, and we have diabetes, we have other things that that affect us and having COVID. Very facts such a small percentage of black people aren't getting the vaccine that is gonna if it's a you know, being that it's effective, which is what we are hoping, that is going to be a disadvantage for us. Yet again, all that is true, but my point stands the trust,

the distrust is warranted. We have every reason not to trust this country when it comes to that vaccine, because it's even worse if none of us get vaccinated and then that we can't move around, we can't do anything, and then we're the only ones getting sick. Kamala Harris not our fault. We don't trust him. President Kamala Harris has stressed that teachers should be given priority for getting COVID nineteen vaccinations, and she wouldn't say if she thinks

that's what should be the prerequisite for reopening schools. Teachers should be a priority along with other frontline workers, and we're going to make them a priority. I believe that twenty two states, I believe have prioritized, but they're not vaccinated. Is it safe for them? Well, I think that we have to decide if we can put in place safe measures. This is why, and it's so important we pass the American Rescue Plan. The American Rescue Plan is a plan

that is about getting our schools back open. Right, Doctor Fauci is thing. Doctor Fauci was very clear he doesn't think it should be a requirement for every teacher to reopen schools. Listen to this. I think if you were going to say that every single teacher needs to be vaccinated before you get back to school, I believe, quite frankly Tony, that that's a non workable situation. I think teachers should absolutely be priority among those who we consider

essential personnel. But you don't want to essentially have nobody in school until all the teachers get vaccinated. I mean that makes sense, right, I don't know. I mean, well, teachers I think should be vaccinated, you know, I mean because you have all these students. They and these students come in and a teacher could have it, and the students bring it back home to their parents, and their

parents bring it to their grandparents. So yeah, I think teachers absolutely should have to have to be vaccinated to teach in school. I agree. Maybe I heard doctor, Maybe I heard doctor FID, youre wrong. I thought that's what he said. I agree. I think teachers should be vaccinated because you know, they say that. I guess younger students can't you know, get it, but they still it pass it to the teachers. But I'm like, yo, let the

teachers get vaccinated. Teachers right, usually won't have as bad symptoms. I actually spoke to it professor the other day who got COVID from one of her students in the classroom and then they shut the whole school down. All right, Well, why aren't teachers considered essential workers? Shouldn't they be? Some places? I think that they're doing it. In certain places they are, And so some states are saying that, yes, they are

frontline workers, and some aren't. So states are making decisions individually about who will be on the list that gets vaccinated first. All right, and that is your front Page News. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when we come back,

we have Erica Alexander join us in Whitney. Now. They have a podcast with the name of the podcast well you know it's yeah, it's Black History Muff and Black History Muff is all about teaching and learning, you know, all things black and one conversation that's been happening for a long time in this country in the black community

as reparations and Yes. The podcast is called The Big Payback and launches today on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, and it's brought to you by Color Farm Media, hosted by Erica Alexander in Whitney Now. So they were joining us next, so we're kicking with the next and don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. He got some special guests on

the line. We have Erica Alexander, who's been here several times as welcome back system, and we also have Whitney Now, Good morning, sir, at you having me? What's up Whitney, what's up Queen Erica. They're here to talk about reparations now were never the big payback podcasts? Yes? How about that? How about that? It's time has come? As time has come,

and we're happy to do it. Actually, it's been a really good conversation but also a great education not only into the history of America but also the history of African Americans in America and the all the injustices from slavery. It's it's actually overwhelming. You can hear people saying, what makes you and Whitney qualified to discuss reparation? And how did you get this podcast started? Oh? Sure, okay, we'll

do both. I'll answer the second one. Indeed, we were working on a documentary and it was about reparations, and obviously you start to get some of the stars of reparation to people that have been pioneers and people that are in it and really qualified experts. And then something extraordinary happened. There was an older woman in Evanston, Illinois.

Her name is Robin Ruth Simmons, and she passed the first reparations bill in American history in the four hundred year meaning last year twenty nineteen, or I guess the year before last, and did something that no one had ever done. So they called her the Rosa Parks of Reparations, and we started following her. We'd already been starting starting to follow HR forty and it's sort of turgid moved through Congress with Sheila Jackson Lee as she inherited it

from John Conyers. But why am I qualified? I'm black, I'm African America. I didn't get qualified me to say a little bit about reparations because I think i'm it. And the other thing is that I think I'm a person who's curious enough to know that this is an important issue, and I wanted to look at it from a greater point of view, and the black effects said, yeah, we'll do it. So there you go. And why are you well, you know, first of all, I'm white, so I guess I'm off by to pay it right. So

that's the first. The second thing, I've been making films about racing difference, always with a cross race with partners, and the more I started like making films and projects about it, I always felt like there was this big conversation left that or like, what is white people's role in it? I know it's changed a lot in the last few years, and so as I started digging into it, and started really digging into all the all the different

ways that races impacting the country. I really come to the point where just believe that a the racial division in this country is the thing that's driving all the divisions, and the fact that we've never had a reconciliation this country is driving all the divisions, economic divisions, political dilivisions, social divisions, and that until we deal with that, we're not able to deal with anything. Now do you guys think we'll ever see reparations in our lifetime? Honestly? You

know what, here's the problem. For thirty years, they've been trying to have a discussion about reparations, not trying to give it to us. That what HR forty is. It's named after famously, the forty acres in the Mule, but it's the House of Representation has this bill in front of them and they can't even bring it in to discuss it. And this is among people who a lot of them want it. So I don't know if we're

going to actually get reparations. There's in pockets. But I think that Robert ru Simmons might have something of a blueprint because people are starting to talk about it locally, so maybe that's the way it comes in. Can we talk about that blueprint? Because when you hear reparations, everyone has a different opinion on what reparations actually looks like. And I know you guys are exploring that on the podcast, but from your own personal opinions, what do you think

is the best way that reparations should happen? Money I'm just cash is kiding, but that's me think, yeah, check exactly. But you know, by the way, that's that's the conversation of why the conversation or discussing it, or the analysis and the diagnosis of it is so important because a lot of people think that it's just about a check, or it's only about a check or you know, and that's so crude, it's kind of grotesque. The problem is

there's a pain and suffering of all these people. Millions and millions of Africans die, and we weren't we denied citizenship, We were denied all sorts of restitutions. They did experimentation on a Tuskegee mass incarceration. These are all plagues among us. So should it just be a check note? Should it be a check? I absolutely we should leave. It should

because I think that money is power. No, Y, you talk a lot about real estate, you talk about ownership and part of owning it, I think for white people who is paying and having, you know, an outright payment for it. But there's programs, there's all sorts of things that you come into play. There's the mental and health conversation. There's so many things that are involved that it's going to take I think, a mask or the program and

really the real experts to come and do it. But I do think that money should be a part of it because I think that that's how Americans and most people human beings, wigh value. I'm afraid to give people just money though, because if you give people just money with no financial competency, no financial literacy, he's gonna get it right back to the white man. Yeah, call somebody called killer Mike. You're trying to you're trying to teach us how to spit in our well. You know, Whitney.

Do you think that you're gonna get it right back? I'm hoping no. All right, now, you're gonna take then out of your name, calling you whitey down. I got one something that you asked you, Is it just money, and I think, actually, I mean because I you know, I taught eric and I have this you know, I'm here to save white people too, because I feel that, like it's not just about the money. But I acciltally like that's like the baseline onsibility. I think one when

you ask me, is it going to happen? One of the big things that has to happen. One reason why why repreation hasn't happened. It's forced. It's going to force white Americans to reimagine their own story. And that's the existential threat to get white people to say, accept their history, accept their legacy of being part of this white supremacist structure.

That's why people are storming the capital, not because that they're thinking that they think that somehow the election was stolen, but they're being told that, hey, the bills come due. This is the reality of the world and it's an end for you know someone I did this project called the Whiteness Project, where I talked to three hundred white people out being white. It's an existential threat, Like to accept that means I'm not who I think I am.

All Right, we got more with Erica Alexander and Whitney down from the Big Payback podcast and don't Move It's to Breakfast Club go moaning moaning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy we are to Breakfast Club was still kicking in with Erica, Alexander and Whitney down from the Big Payback podcast. Chellamone. One thing that intrigues me about this this podcast A Big Payback is Whitney's perspectives.

So I want to hear from both of y'all. You know, Erica, you start, why was it important to include the perspective of a white male in this conversation because it's their death and it may not be the death that they say, Oh I know. So if this is the conversation and that most people say are they say, I wasn't there. My ancestors did it, but I wasn't there. Why should

I paid? And said, well, you know, you can't say that to the victims of Hiroshima, that you know, they're deformed babies that come out years and years and years after that bomb was dropped and the original victims are dead, that they're not ongoing disfigurements. And so to me, the disfigured position of African Americans is because of the historical

precedent of race and slavery in America. So you talk about redlining, you talk about loans and how it's not only difficult to get a decent loan, but also the discrimination and the prejudice behind it. Talk about the women that go missing all the time and nobody looks to them. They will launch a huge thing for for white women, but not for Black people and black women. It goes on and on and on, how many disparities that we are vulnerable too. So it's white people's debt, they should

pay it, but it's America's debt. They don't have to worry about paying. Let the federal government pay it, because that's their debt. They're the ones who paid it to the Japanese. They're the ones who started it. Now they don't officially call reparations to the Native Americans. Millions of acres of land, billions of dollars. It's their debt and it's our debt as Americans to make sure that African

American descendants are considered and more properly. This huge apology has to do with an acknowledgement that they've done something to a specific population in America. But who apologize you? Is it their president? Is it you know, who do we get this apology from? Which had a couple go ahead, but there's already been an apology, right, And I think the sen and voted for apology, but they said, let's just be clear, this apology can't be used for reparations.

I mean, there's like what you know, it wasn't a true apology. But I do think it's the federal government created the system. The federal government created all great the structures to like impress black people. It's a federal government responsibility to make that better. But I want to answer something that you said, you know, Charlie, about why white people and it's like it is our death, and it's like it's our responsibility to clean it up. It's like when your kids mess up that makes it up, you

make them clean it up. And I really feel that it's that until white people acknowledge that they can't really behold, they can't be full Americans, they can't be part of this community. So what I really hope that this worked, but this podcast does, and is that I have few my role, my job. There's lots of black voices out there, But I want to create white ears who can hear them, and I feel like sometimes I can be the interpreter.

Is that you know how it is like white people and black people speak, they don't hear them, They don't want to hear them, and so they pretend they can't hear them. But you know, someone like me perhaps can be the interpreter and allow them to come to the project, like let's come to the podcast with open minds and hear it differently than if we're just rat How do you determine who gets reparations? Because I see that argument also going on, and that's an interesting one for me.

So who determines that? What if you know your mixed, like just so many different things about reparations, So how do you determine that? Well, I know I gets it, you know it, I gets it right now that that by the way, if you look at ATOS and some of the leaders in that movement, they believe that it should solely be descendants of African American slaves. Now it's hard to determine who that is right now, but I

think it's pretty clear. You know, let me put it to you, like this Obama don't get it Okay, I don't think Kammaly gets it. You know, if you really start to look at where they come from, she might have to ask for restitution from Jamaica, baby go to you know, her mother's East Indian. Of obviously, Obama is from Kenya and his mother is Kenazine. But Michelle Obama gets it. Her children gets it because they have the

blood of slaves running through them. From her side, I think that one of those things that we get hung up on is who gets it. But the truth is America gets it because what happens is when you eat, when you start to really compensate African Americans, and it goes into side of their community. It lifts all those people. Poor whites are in this conversation partly because of the

historical damage done to African Americans. But you know, we shouldn't look at obviously, Angela yee, you're mixed, and you know somebody might look at Indians say look how light he is. He don't get it, but probably his lights him. Yeah yeah, oh really, Well, I don't know if you gets it, you might have to, you know, throw some dice. Brother. Look, But I just believe that it's a conversation about that we got to find the people. But I think that overall we can figure out where to put that money

in those programs Erica and Whitney. Can we achieve true equality in America without reparations with some form? I don't think so now. I mean it's because reparations is about it means repair right, repairs the relationship. And I don't think you can have true equality until you really, until you acknowledge you're wrong, you you repair that relationship. But then it's also the question, shan Man, is what is true equality? Sometimes I get to the point it's like

do you actually need that? Do you mean? Do you just take it? You know what I'm saying, Like, what is what does that actually mean to to to achieve true equality? Does that mean that we're all color blinds? We have this? It's hard to understand the question. I work a lot of Haiti and there's always like Haiti gonna change? Is Haiti gonna change? Like change to what Jamaica? Bahamas? Like what do you think it's? What do you have you been to Haiti? Like what do you want it

to be? In some ways it's a really cool place because it's not totally owned by the cruising Just Street and it's kind of this unique spot in the world. So you say that, so it's hard to know what actually true quality needs. Yeah, I always say I don't even know if we can ever achieve civil rights in this country because it's not civil rights that I think the problem is. I think it's human rights. They just

don't look at black people is humans. How could we ever did with the civil aspect of it if we don't even deal with our regular human rights? True? You know, Reverend Barbera calls this our market, this time period as the third Reconstruction, So I think that means this is the time to rebuild American's foundation as it should have been built since reconstruction. And he knows that's not possible without looking at the moral monetary obligation as he calls it,

towards the least of these. And he doesn't just stop at African Americans. He includes poor whites, he includes people of color. Includes this because of the continuation of Reverend doctor Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, which talked about usion politics uniting marginalized communities. But that recipe includes the advancement and the implementation of reparation towards descendants of enslave Africans. I believe, like climate change. You're talking about climate change,

it's an urgent call. We need to save the planet for human beings. But I believe this is our last chance to create America for all Americans, not just as it was meant to be meeting the Founder's minute, to be for white American men, but as it should be. Do you and Whitney bump heads on certain things, but we hear that on the podcast, you know, and it's about usually about emotion. I get emotional about things. I cry very easily because I realized that there's a lot

of anger that I have suppressed. I'm frustrated. You know, so many people would ask me, have I am I the angry black woman? And I used to say no. I used to be offended, and I realized, I'm so freaking angry. I don't know what to do. I'm angry a lot of the times, and so it comes out in these conversations. I didn't understand what my mother was talking about. What she always talked about white people, white people. She was angry because she couldn't get past their barriers,

and she was so deserved. She worked so hard. Again, I always say my were orphans. They had no help in a familiar way. They had to do it with just bearing down, willfully determination, try to get education. And she couldn't get a job after she got her master's one semester's from a doctorate and she was fifty years old. So I look at Whitney. He's a Columbia, he's a professor from Columbia. He's got a beautiful family, and I don't I don't think he shouldn't have those things. I'm

happy for him. I'm also mad that he has those things. I work hard, but it's not hard enough to get past my skin color a gender, certainly not my skin color. And so yes, be bump heads, because I sometimes I'll be honest to take out on him, but I can't take out on the world as you should. Thank you, whitey down. You're talking about Charlin here, just got him white down down? Yes, yes, do you feel like that? I do that with me because we I mean, he argued.

If we do argue, we've had you know, look, we're kind of working out for a couple of years, and I think what's interesting about is that you can have like shared goals with different motivations. So we're trying to get to the same destination. So we're locked in nets. We're locked in mission, but we kind of had different missions and we had different roads that we're traveling along at. But look, it's complicated because we live in different realities and so yeah, we you know, I think that that

going into it. When I first met Erica, I was like, I was very skilled. I don't know if I want to work with this woman. She's an actress, movie star guy. I'm like, this guy, documentary filmmaker, works in the basement. I don't know if this is a good deal of it. And I said, Erica, I don't if this is gonna work. We feel like she said, Whitney, you think I survived in Hollywood for thirty years without don't how to handle white people like you. I was like, I can work

with that. Well. The Big Payback Podcast check it out right now, Eric Down, thank you for doing me this morning. The Big Payback Reparations now whenever it's available on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. I'm blessed to be able to thank you. Thank you for believing and committing to the journey. And thank you in congratulations to y'all being in the Hall of Fame. Killer all right, thank you, Hi. It's about angela ye, the breakfast clubs. So doctor Dre's

strange wife, Nicole Young, has fouled documents. She wants the court to let her get access to their marital home because she has some personal belongings there. And get this, She's saying that she's observed several different women posting photos and videos inside the house and some of them might be wearing her stuff. Can you imagine that you are separated and then you see videos of people wearing your chanel slides or whatever it is that you some of

the belongings that you left. She also says that she has a closet with twenty four coats and a cedar and temperature control environment and she wants to go and get those because if he packs up her stuff and puts it in storage, that would be catastrophic for her furs. They have to remain in that temperature control closet. Rich people problems exactly? People wear furs in Lato? Is it that cold? Probably? Sometimes, I guess at night, and you know how the temperature drops at night. I guess she

just has travels. You just said it's rich people problems, right, Rich people do rich things. If I want to wear a fur in seventy degree weather, let me wear my fur and seventy degree weather, Okay, cold out in sixty degrees, put on and callie. All right. Well April Jones who people are saying the rumor is that she's been dating doctor Dre because they were photographed out together going to dinner.

She recently did an interview and she was talking to Madame Noir and she was talking about why she was on Love and hip Hop. She said, the whole situation with me and Oh on Love and Hip Hop was completely controlled. As far as on Marion, she said, I never even wanted to freaking reality TV. His management thought it would be good for him to show who he was in his life because they were gay rumors, so the show he was in a relationship with a woman

and having kids and all that. They thought it would be great. If you love somebody, you're going to do it. But I just felt very controlled. I wasn't really myself. On top of that, I was pregnant both times, so I was really not myself. And when I came out of that relationship which was fully effing controlled, and it was a lot going on. I was like, oh my god, I totally lost myself in that. Managers and publicians come

up with the most stupid ideas. But you know what I mean, because sometimes because sometimes you just gotta let people believe what they believe, let them think what they think. If you're not gay, who cares? If you're not gay and you know you're not gay, who cares? Right? But she stayed on the show after that, so you know, she's saying it was controlled and she didn't want to do it, and I don't know, go ahead, all right?

Donald Glover has signed an eight figure deal with Amazon Studio, so they're saying he has left the Disney owned effects for Amazon Studios. They're saying he secured that deal which includes a prime video channel that will highlight his work as well as other curated content. So they have not yet confirmed the details at Amazon Studios, but insiders are saying he'll executive produce a number of projects under that deal, including a potential series called Hive Dope. What did that

mean for Atlanta? Under contract for that So it's not going to affect Atlanta that's been renewed for two more seasons, so he'll figure. You know, I'm sure that's carved out for him to finish his contract deal that he has with FX for Atlanta. But they do expect that Atlanta will resume in the upcoming months, with season three perhaps premiering later this year. Look at him, man, that's amazing, all right, um meek Mill. People are upset about his lyrics.

It's a song with little Baby that he has and he references Kobe Bryant, and not in a positive manner. Listen to this, and if I ever let him going out with my travel to be a novel Kobe the shot could tell that they never know me because if they knew me, they would have never showed me. Who's about some money? Sweety to be lonely? Because at home, I know'll never show me. I made the promise before. Gone don't want another hope me. So he said, I'm

going out what my chopper like Kobe Chopper. He said, if I ever lack, I'm going out with my chopper would be another Kobe ish. I can tell they ain't never know me. That's what he said. He's talking about the un Actually it's like, what do you call it a double one hundra? Yeah, the Chopper and the Chopper. I just that hurt my heart because I just thought about how his wife with Phil and daughters and people

close to him like making a joke about it. I mean a pun in music about the Chopper and Kobe. It's painful. I mean, yeah, it is, but you know, and I thought the line was whacking, this tasteful, but it's rap music, like the rapper. Yeah, rappers have been saying, wow, it has you know, stuff like that. You know, I guess it adds to the shock value of hip hop. But you know, personally, I know I would be standing on really shaky moral ground to criticize me too much,

especially with the stuff we let slide on the regular. Like, yes, Kobe was beloved, so that's probably why it hit home. The accident was tragic, and personally, I don't see why people play with folks death like that. But it's it's rap. I just think about Vanessa Brian and she's even said like, I can't please do not post any tribute to about Like she's been asking people please don't post this, please

don't do that. We're still grieving. True, but what about Okay, what about a line like when Eminem says when when the concert? The bombing happened at the Ariana Grande concert and he said, I'm contemplating yelling bombs away on the game like I'm outside and Ariana Grande concert. People died in that. Yeah, yeah, and people were outraged about that.

People have been doing it for a long time. I mean there's LUNs with Hove doing it, there's LUNs with and like you said, Eminem doing it is I'm sure. I'm sure Fab might have said a line. There's something similar when when to talk about like that. That's how the Columbine lines. I think you also have to know when they do something like that, you know it is going to affect people, and people are going to have an issue with it. I mean, in your head you have to say, if I say this, I know there's

going to be some backlash. There's no question. Absolutely little way said I like this has happened so many times out and apologize. Yeah. I just feel like I would be standing on really shaky moral ground to criticize me, because it'd be hypocrisy because it's so much stuff that we let slide on the regular. All right, now their body. Have you guys ever used that they're a gun? No, it's like a massage gun. Yeah, yeah, local because he

plays football. But yeah, all right. Well, in their latest round of investing, their Body is a company that makes They're a Gun. They got us a lot of support for more than one hundred names in sports, business, culture and entertainment, people like Kevin Durant, Rihanna, Russell, Wilson, Sierra. All of these people have now in vested in their Body. They said, their Body is at the forefront of incredible opportunities in the wellness space, and we look forward to

seeing what else they're going to accomplish. So they tripled its overall revenue since twenty seventeen. The company has one hundred and twenty six patterns globally and another one hundred and thirty eight pending, and they have their products and approximately ten thousand stores around the world. A lot of support there. All right, Well that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye charlemagn Who are you

giving that donkey too? Oh man? We need a Texas marrit named Tim Boyd to come to the front of the congregation like This ain't rap. You know what I'm saying, the wild distasteful stuff that Tim Boyd said, This ain't rap. We'll talk about it for after the hour, all right, we'll get you that next it's the breakfast Club. Good Morning's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the day a little bit of a mixed day. Now, I've been called a lot in

my twenty three years. That Donkey of the Bay is a new wife. Yes, donkey here today for Thursday, February eighteenth, goes to Texas Mayor Tim Boyd. Tim Boyd is, or should I say, was, the mayor of Colorado City. Before I tell you what he did, let me tell you the backstory. We all are in our own worlds here on this planet, so some of us may not be familiar with what's going on in Texas right now, but a deadly and record breaking winter storm has left much

of the state without power. This week, I saw a good brother, Trade the true shop clus to trade the truth. I saw him post that people are sleeping in cars and dying due to carbon monoxide poisoning, and Trade pointed out something that is clearly ringing true. Because Trade said, and I quote, the problem for us is the people who in positions of power in Texas felt the money was more important. How the f government and politicians allowed us and allowed Arcot to f us over. Arcott is

the electric Ability Counsel of Texas. By the way, they operate the electric grid for seventy five percent of the state. From what I read now, people in Texas have gone without powerful our food for three days, says Trey. So really serious situation happening in Texas, you know what I mean? Prayers are for everybody in Texas. Who do people turn to in times like this? Who helps folks in situations like this? Because the Avengers of fictional characters, so is

a justice league. I would love for wand to create an alternate reality in Texas right now where they are not being hit with a winter storm. But that's not reality. Okay, this isn't a Marvel Disney Plus TV show. In times like this, the people that are supposed to help are the elected officials, the public servants we put into office to protect, provide, and serve our communities. So we think I literally said to you in the six am hour in regard to Joe Biden not wanting to cancel student loan.

That I don't care if it's Republican a Democrat. They don't care about helping anyone except the rich and elite. Okay, that always comes for us in this country. These operations will get bailouts, but the people will starve. It never fails in this situation in Texas is no different. Keep in mind what I said about Texas. Okay, keep in mind what Trade said about Texas. Deadly win it's done.

Trade to Truth said, elders and babies are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning because they have to sleep in their cars. Folks haven't eaten or had power in three days, says Trade to Truth. And the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, Tim boy the mayor had this to say, Let's go to KRBCNBC nine for the report. Police. The strong will survive and the week will perish. Harsh words from Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd as residents continue to fight the cold.

Mitchell County Judge Mark Merrill says the area husband struggling to keep water and some electricity on since Monday, and as many in the county look for help, Colorado City's mayor says, don't look to him, quoting it's not the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this, sink or swim, it's your choice. Colorado City's Maorhouse was signed, but others say the city is still working to step up and keep residents warm during the storm. I'm gonna

be honest with you. That news report didn't you know do it didn't give what Tim Boyd wrote any real justice, Like they really watered what he said down. Let me read it for you. Okay, this is Tim Boyd verbatim raw. I'm not putting no sauce on this. I will read you Tim Boyd's old statement in full. Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute. No one owes you or your family anything, nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this.

Sink or swim is short choice. The city and county, along with power providers or any other service, owes you nothing in capital letters. I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout with an exclamation mark. If you don't have electricity, you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water, you deal without and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to

your family. If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because you're lazy, it's a direct result that you're raising. Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish. Folks, God has given us the two to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the fuel will work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry

that you have been dealing without electricity and water? Yes? I can't tell, Tim, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves. We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mess them into one group. Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout, Get off your ass and take care of your own family. End quote Tim boy that I need you to shut the f up forever, all right. These are the folks

who are and leadership positions in America. How can you say power providers or any other service owes the people nothing. Of course they do. They owe the people power and good service. That's what they pay for every month. You know what happens if a regular, everyday citizen tells the power company, I owe you nothing, the power company will say, oh word, and they will cut off that person's power.

See the reason this mayor thinks the power company doesn't owe the people anything is because he knows the people need the power companies more than the companies need the people. The people have no choice but to have power, and the man owes this, and that's why he's flexing on his constituents in this manner. The mayor said, he's sick and tired of people looking for a handout. Sir, this was a storm. This winter storm is an act of God.

Folks are in distress. They need help. If my house is on fire and I called a fire department to come put it out, that's not me asking for a handout. That's me, as a taxpaying citizen utilizing resources that I help pay for. For you to tell those residents in Texas, if you don't have electricity, you don't have water, to come up with a different game plan to keep your family warm and safe, to think outside of the box to survive. Tim Boyd, tell me your plan. I bet

you got water, I bet you got electricity. I bet you got food. Meanwhile, you're on Facebook talking down on the people you're supposed to be serving, sounding like you're quoting the hook of huh by juvenile. You told the residents of Texas you know what it is. You make nothing out of something. You handle your bins and don't be crying and suffering if you don't get your human jar helmet's head ass up out of here. I hate when people chastise folks for problems that the people they

chastised and didn't create. You called these people lazy, as if they created this snowstorm, as if they put themselves in these positions. You blame their present condition on the way they were raised. Okay, you might be right, because a lot of these people weren't born privileged. Okay. They were raised in the poverty, all right, grew up they were raised pouring disenfranchise okay, and because of socioeconomic conditions of this country, they just simply haven't been able to rise.

Because a good old boys like Tim Boyd, systemically keeping their foot on folks. Next, that is the American way, ladies and gentlemen, Okay, the American way. It's systemically oppressed and marginalized folks. And then when the most vulnerable, vulnerable among us is exposed by situations like this, situations that are out of their control, the people in positions of power of victim blame instead of taking accountability what you

and your piss poor administration, Tim Boyd is clearly not doing. Now. Of course the post was deleted. Tim received backlash or he gave us the mandatory fake apology after things like this happened. Let me read it. I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need to help, to be left to fend for themselves. I was only making a statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and find for themselves, but are capable, should not be dealt a hand out.

I apologize for the wording and some of the phrases that were used. Once again, Tim, shut the f up forever. It's an act of God. You do realize that an act of God can bring anyone to their knees. Rich Paul black White. It doesn't matter, Tim, you and your family to be in that position one day, just like that snap of thin no stump, okay, earthquakes, her queen's blizzards. They don't give a damn about your financial status. They will take your home right out and then what we're

gonna tell you to get it? How you live, just like you did those families in their time of need. Now Tim Boyd has resigned, which I'm shocked about. Usually the privilege to let us among us just say the hell with y'all. I said what I said, but he resigned and his wife got fired for his comments. See, knowing when to open your mouth and when to keep it shut is valuable wisdom. Tim, you should have kept the lid on the Mayonnaid's jaw aka your mouth. All right?

Please let Chelsea Handler give Tim Boyd the biggest he haw he haw he haw. That is way too much. Dan Man is all right. People all right up X ask Ye eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call Ye right now. Phone line to wide open. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Come on the relationship advice, need personal advice, just the real advice. Call up nown for ask ye Morning. Everybody is DJ

Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to breakfast club. It is time to ask ye Hello? Who's this? Hi? Is Sean Tell? Hey, Sean Tell? What's your question for you? Um? I've been with my boyfriend now for eight years. Ye have two children together, and like any young couple, we've been off and on, you know, we've had our problems, but more recently with this last love town we made,

we were doing good. Everything I needed was being you know, Matt communication, our goals was in wine and then I don't nowhere. Back in September, I went through his phone and I think that he was entertaining females on social media through Yes. I mean like really, you know, just doing the most. Like one girl was begging her to cut him back on. I was just confused, like what did she cut you out of? But anyway, we talked about it. Nothing was physical, and that's fine. I was

like willing to move on. Nothing I came across and made it seemed like he was getting down with anybody, So I was like, okay, I gave when we talked about it, and I taught him there. I said, you know this, I'm not gonna keep going through this. I'm too old. I got too much going on to be going. I feel like this is childish if that's where you want to be leading me off, you know. So that was in September. Out of nowhere, Here we go February team he fasted out, drunks. I go through his phone

and now he's been sneaky about it. He's actually still conversating with these females, but he's deleting it and to show it's fun. Wow, that's embarrassing. Hey, this is crazy because I want to say a few things here. You guys have been off and on. It probably feels like to him, y'all will go through it, but you're always going to be back together with him. So he can kind of do him because you ain't going nowhere. It's been eight years, you have two kids together, So he's

not concerned about that at all. Secondly, all his friends know what he's doing. That's embarrassing. Now you gotta be around them. I gotta see you, you gotta be and you always think, oh, his friends is laughing at me because they know what he's doing behind my back. They know he don't even take me seriously family, right, so everybody knows. So now you feel like boo boo the fool. Yeo, I listen, he loved me and he there's nothing. But I guess my question is, is Hill's flirting? I mean,

to me, it's it's working. I'm not willing to put out with it. But is that? Is that now what twenty one is about? Like, it is not, and there is no way you should be excusing his behavior as just flirting or this is what twenty twenty one is about. Don't let him convince you that, okay, because that is dead wrong. He's out here seeking validation and who knows if this will lead to something physical, because if not, what's the point of him even doing that? Does he

feel like it makes him feel attractive? Is it good for his ego? What is it that you feel like? Am I not doing what he needs me to do for this relationship to work? And is completely disrespectful? Yeah? So I just think that you know, y'all have been through a lot, Like you said, you've been off and on. Y'all been together for eight years and he's still not taking it seriously. What do you need to do for yourself?

Because don't you want to be in a relationship where you're not going through someone's phone where you don't even have to think like that? Yes? I do. And I've never been that type. I've never been a jealous type. I've never been to go through a phone type. He never even gave me any clue, but I had to do that. It was really like, I'm just so you

all like, and then I became that person. Yeah, And I do think when you realize you're not who you are in a relationship, then that means things aren't going well. When I'm acting out a character and I'm like, why am I feeling jealous? Why am I feeling like I got to go through his phone? Why am I feeling insecure? That's not a good sign. So he needs to get some help he needs to do. You need to decide what it is you have to tell him he needs

to do. And in the meantime, I feel like you have to realize that we are not in a committed relationship until you can fulfill these goals. And I just can't see it working until he does what he needs to do and you feel more comfortable, and that's going to take time. Is he willing to step up to the plate to do that, though, is the question. So you need to figure out what I have to tell him. Well, tell him what it is specifically that he needs to

do to make you feel comfortable. And if that means making his account private, if that means that you have access to his account so you can see what he's doing, whatever it is that you need, don't let him tell you know. And if he's not willing to do those things, that he's not willing to save your relationship. Okay, thank you, all right, you're welcome, girl. I wish you so much luck. I do hope things work out for you. Guys. But he has to make the most effort right now because

you can't trust him. And once that trust is broken, no one wants to live in a relationship where they're always second guessing everything. When he leaves the house, who is he on the phone with? Why it's his phone

turned upside down? M? I mean he always in his fall, always is glued in his hand, in his face, and then he's my kind of look over he go, you know, basketball related, M. You know right, all right, Well, sounds like you're a good woman, but you can't keep holding down somebody that's doing things like that and embarrassing you and being disrespectful. Yeah, thank you, You're welcome, good luck, all right? Ask ye eight hundred five eight five one

oh five one. If you need relationship advice, hit ye right now? Was the breakfast club? Good morning? I'm gonna keep for real some real advice with angels. Ask ye morning. Everybody is the jay Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the breakfast club with in the middle of ask ye, Hello, who's this? This small from? What's up? Yo? So what's your question for you? So basically, I got I got a thought pregnant and I don't want to

know liked do our Steward do our group? You got a woman pregnant and you don't know if you should stay with her? Do you want to be with her? I mean, she a good girl whatever, but she so being around So I don't know what I don't want to do. So you're trying to say in the past, she's got a lot of bodies, but that bothers you, now, I mean from me, I ain't planning to get her pregnant, but he all right, let's take the pregnancy out of this. Is this somebody that you would want to be with? No? No,

really why not? Because is like from me, I'm funny for I'm living okay, So you just not ready to be in a relationship. It has nothing to do with her past. You just said she's a good girl. But she's been around for me, for me, so your heart refuse a love? So what she did? What about you? Have you been around? You feel me? But that's a double stairs of the life bore like you know, you supposed to get around, you know, like, oh, so you're saying it's okay for you, but it's not okay for her.

It's definitely okay for me. I'm a god, It's like a woman is is what? Oh? No, what I'm supposed to And I'm not ridiculous to you. So you could do whatever you want in the past. But when she was single and mingling, that was it. That's an issue now even though it's in her past and you said she's a good girl. You know, if you're real confident in yourself and securing who you are, it should not matter what anybody thinks about your girl. True, true, But no,

I understand, I understand. I'm man for advice. I'm listening. So if you want to be with this woman, you want to at least give the relationship a chance, then you do that because you said she's a good girl. If you don't let what other people might think about your girl bother you. It should only matter what you think about your girl. And if you now if she treats you well, if she's great to you. Man, you

got her pregnant, take care of your responsibility. You can't take the pregnancy out of this, and you better be a good father because now he is gonna be It's not about that he's asking if he should be with her. That is what it's about. It's about taking care of that child. You can take care of your child and not be together. You don't have to be with somebody just because you go to him. You told him take the pregnancy out of if you can't in this situation,

what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if his question is does he want to be with her or not, you're not. You don't stay with somebody just because they're pregnant. You can still be a father of his responsibilities. But what I'm saying is if you want to be with her, it's not about whether she's pregnant that you want to be with her. It's about whether or not you want to be with her. Yes, still be your father, still handle your responsibilities, but you're not for should be number

one one. I'm so you feel me. So it's like, you know, people look down on that she's not on the same playe. But tom is you know what I mean, Like, I'll be having a coach and father. You're saying, so, so yeah, I'm so you're hustling as a as a street hustler, or you just hustle like you get money. I mean like, yeah, I'm getting money both both way, Okay, And I'm sure people judge you for that, right Yeah,

but you know I live in know bros. It's like it's like it's like, I don't know, there's no judgment. Once you're getting money, It's like, damn, at least you gotta take care of your kid regardless. You gotta take care of your kid regardless, And you have to have a relationship with the mom, whether you want to be with her or not. You have to have a great relationship for your child. You laid down with that woman and things happen, and now you gotta be a man man. Uh,

I think, yeah. The first thing is, of course are you planning. You are planning to take care of your child, right, That wasn't the question. I mean, yeah, of course I take care of my child, take care of my bam me. I'm the one who play everybody, but you know I play the building. It's on me, put the food on the table and all that. You just don't know if you want to wife her, it's all it's crazy. Yeah, I think take your time. All you can do is to make sure is make sure that she has a

safe pregnancy. Just be good and be there for her throughout her pregnancy so the baby is safe and healthy and you can work on your relationship and decide. You don't got to make that decision right now as far as whether you guys are co parenting or in a relationship. But I think you know, just handle your responsibilities as a father and then you guys will decide in time. But don't judge her based off of her past. Her past is you know, it's cliche, but your past is

what makes you who you are today. She wouldn't be the person that she is right now that you say is a good girl if she hadn't done the things that she would have done in her past and lived her life and you and you add it to her body count. You know she had a lot of bodies before you slept with her. You got her pregnant. Take care of your responsibilities. She's filling the team. This is

the Rumor Report with Angela Ye on the Breakfast Club. Well, Tammy Roman posted a video of herself and she's very emotional. She's in Atlanta working. She said her house into and Texas is destroyed. Here's what you had to say. I'm siding me my trailer, just trying to keep it together because I know I gotta go and perform today. Like everything is okay, everything open. Work is so hard for thee My children just hurted away in an instant and

I know everybody it's going through something. But I just wanted to offer prayers up for you in your situation. That's horrible. M Yeah. So um. You can watch her full statement on Instagram now. Kanye, according to reports, is not doing well amidst to split from Kim Kardashian. So some people that they would get back together, but it looks like it's not happening. A source told People magazine.

He's anxious and very sad. He knows the marriage is over and there's nothing that can be done right now. He also knows what he is losing in Kim. She has defended him privately to her family. She has stopped beside him at a time where a few wives, where a few wives would have done that. There is very little hope of reconciliation. It would have to be a miracle, but Kanye does believe in miracles. It feels like this

source is the Kardashian. Yeah, it definitely seems like I would say, no matter what happens in anybody's family, especially your wife, it doesn't matter what happened that that will hurt you. That'll put you into an adult place if you ever think about losing your family or losing your wife. So I get it. I understand completely. Yeah, that's your that's your wife, that's the mother of your kids. It's like, you know, who wants to live like that? You know

what I mean? Who wants to live without without a wife? By the inside. Gotta go see the same. Insiders said, Kim doesn't want to hurt him. She just knows she can't be married to him anymore. He's very aware that she's been a good wife. He still loves her very much, but he understands. Chris, we can see you. We can

see you, Chris. Okay. Now, Another source, I don't know if it's the same source told E News exclusively that while Kim and Kanye's relationship may be nearing its end, their kids do remain the top priority and that he can see his children whenever he wants. And they said she's moving on and having a lot of fun. At this stage in her life, she feels like she is already divorced. And they are at a standstill currently, and neither of them are pushing to make their split official

at this point in time. There's no rush for paperwork to be finalized. Okay, Chris just passed the phone to Kim. That was Kim, just now, So Chris Chris Kim, and then Kim started whispering and said that second part. Okay, we got it. They all these sources telling all these different mainstream outlets all right. Lebron says he wants to create an album, he said on social media. My love for music is insane. I think I'm going to do an album. No, I won't be rapping or anything like that.

I'm not crazy. I know what I'm great at. But I tell you one thing, I do have so many friends that can thinking out loud. Yeah, that'd be hope. I think that would be dope. We put together a complicate, A complict. I was gonna say complication, A compilation, complicated NBA all Odyssey supports. I think that'd be dope. All right, now, Nicky Jam when he was on the Breakfast Club, he was excited to talk about his wedding. He was planning to get married to his fiance and you know they

got engaged on Valentine's Day last year. Well, and here he is on the Breakfast Club talking about his upcoming wedding. Where's the wedding going to be? We're thinking about Malibu in LA. You know what I'm saying to y'all, Yeah, I mean, y'all want to go? You know what I'm saying, just being I know Charlet Main's not gonna go over. They're like, ain't going. I know that wedding is gonna be amazing. I like it all right. Well, now he's single A year later, I guess it's not happening anymore.

He said in an interview that they're no longer together. He said the situation of the pandemic of quarantine affected the situation a bit. And the truth is it just didn't work out. There a lot of things involved different culture, languages, many little things that at the end it just didn't work out. So oh, and I'm excited for this. Regina King is going to produce and star as Shirley chishom

and a biopic that's directed by John Ridley. I am so excited because I feel like we all need to see Shirley Chisholm story on that big screen, and so now it's going to happen. And there are several different projects focused on her. She was the first black woman in the Senate and she also had launch of nineteen seventy two presidential campaign, which was historical at that time. And now they're doing a movie on her. So that's

gonna be really dope, all of them. But Shirley Chishm, I think, is so amazing and she's from Brooklyn, so yeah, you gotta get it right. You know what I'm saying, because you know Judas and The Black Messiah hit hard definite. When you do those type of films on you know, great black icons, you gotta get them right. Well, the film is being to do based on the life story rights through an exclusive agreement with the Chisholm Estate. Also, yo,

because the bar I hold it too. I hold it to you know, the autobiography and Malcolm Max, I hold it to do this in The Black Messiah like those are the bars I hold. You know, movies like that too. So all right, all right, well that is your room or report now a revote, will see you tomorrow. Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up next. Today is doctor Dre's birthday, in Juel Santana's birthday, so we're gonna get some of that on during the mix. It don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. That's Black History Month, were repping today, Charlomagne Man. Today, I want to honor and celebrate a man who has become a friend of mine. I'm glad to be able to call him an oge. I'm talking about none of

them than doctor Claude Anderson. Earlier in the show, we had Erica Alexander and Whitney down on to talk about their podcast that just launched today called The Big Paybackers on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network available everywhere you listen to podcasts now, and the conversation is about what

black people are old economically in this country. And yesterday we had a shot in Troy on from the Earn Your Leisure podcast talking about, you know, financial literacy and in the black community, financial empowerment because financial freedom might be our only hope. Okay, and doctor Claude Anderson has been on the forefront of that conversation forever. If you've never read Power Nomics, his book, you need to because he describes black economic empowerment as building a proverbial structure

with multiple floors. Let's listen to when he was on The Breakfast Club breaking it down. The Breakfast Club presents a new Black History Month legend. This is my power Nomics plan. I'm giving you the power and I'm playing out one I gave you about the social construct. The second thing I want you to do is the man that there'll be a permanent office for made Black Affairs established in the White House, which means any asia goals down.

You got a piece of person sitting there with where the president is that I saw dictating what your needs are and what kind of what your resources needs are. That's the second thing. The third thing I want you to be able to demand that black now that we have a I have a power nomics plan for setting up jobs in the United States for black vote. I want them to build a southern high speed rail system in the South that would run from Atlanta, Georgia to Dallas, Texas.

It'll run at one hundred and fifty miles an hour, take you from Atlanta, Georgia to Dallas, Texas. That you build businesses around those centers. This is for the black vote because that's that's called a southern black belt, running from from from the east coast to the west coast.

The fourth thing I want you to do is to also tell them to the knowledge before they start bringing in the more immigrants in this country, tell them that require Congress, that Congress do an examination or the negative impact that immigration has owned black vote. Nobody ever makes that point. They're only people that's that's damage and injured

by immigrants coming in this country is black vote. And the next point is this that I want you to extabish a focusing on the reparations for black folk in the country and the question they keep the white school, where's the money going to? It should be set up in what we call I would call regional distribution banks where black folk and bar had money to start businesses in those in the major black urban areas in the

United States. Every major and black cities, you should get about five or six of them should have a reparations bank there. That's what I want now for reparations funds. And don't be worried about how much money with each black person getting off, I want to put into a special revolve revolving loan fund where Blacks can ball that money and be able to start businesses in those are those urban areas. And that was another New Black History

Month legend courtesy of the Breakfast Club. That's right once again, go grab power. No nomics man his book if you've never read it, that is a great Black History Month read man slew to doctor Claude Anderson. I love that brother dey all right now when we come back. We got the positive notes. You don't move. It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning, Wanting. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club Good Morning, Yes

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