D.L. Hughley Covers Kamala Harris Attending Tyre Nichols's Funeral | Domonique Foxworth

I think it's it's cold out there. It should be illegal to be this cold on the first day of Black histuar. I don't even think Black History mothers in February because it's the shortest. I think it's because it's the coldest. That's why. Ain't no where in hell they're gonna march in February. I know that you can have voters rights in May. That's all right. We have a lot to talk about it, so we're gonna get to

the headlines. It's big news today. UM. A very very famous quarterback, a legendary quarterback, Tom Brady, said that he has retired for good. He should have a sandwich Stough because that's that down. He's retiring for good again. This dude retires more than share. I'm like that. But of course you're still breaking records. Not only is there the oldest quarterback in the NFL, there is gonna be the youngest retiree in Florida. I can't wait to see time

Ready riding around the golf court in the villages. It's gonna be hilarious. And here's some very good news for fans of casual sex. Colleges around the country are installed a starting to install vending machines that sell the plan the emergency contracepts appear. Um. I mean, I don't think you should rely on the vending machine for your plan being by the time you find those couple of quarters,

the baby's gonna be born. Dad, Dad, Why do you call me to ritos because that's what dropped out instead of the pill. Now go find your brother, cool ranch and get the car. And then some other news. Of course. The memorial service for Tyree Nichols was heill today. Um. There were a lot of things that were interesting about the funeral, but there was something that was slightly different.

An emotional farewealth in Memphis Tennessee. That's where hundreds of people gathered this afternoon for the funeral service for Terry Nichols, who was remembered as a loving brother, son and father. And this was also a call for justice, with Vice President Harris and the Reverend L. Sharpton pledging to get policing reformed. Past that is right. It is the very first time in history that the president or vice president they have have attended the funeral of a black person

that was slain by the police. So not even Obama, he didn't go either. So he's saying a lot of grace, amazing grace a lot of times, but not by people that were killed. Black people are killed by the police. But but Kamala went, and I'm very proud and I'm happy she showed up in black mode, not in cop mode, because I mean she was a district attorney and that could have been a sting operation. You know, they tell you got a free TV, but you just behind the

child supports, so you go to jail for mine. I would have liked to see Mike Tents go to a black funeral. That would have been funny. John He is that I'm sorry about your loss with my water the classified documents. I'm sorry that's not a um, but seriously, there is a good reason to have a black vice president. If you're not gonna do anything about police reform, at least you can have somebody that goes to those funerals. But here is a crime story that is captivating the nation.

Somebody's as now to some good news overnight about two monkeys that were missing from the Dallas Zoo. They have been found, but police they're still looking for the person who apparently took them. This morning, mystery at the Dallas Zoo to missing Emperor Tamarin monkeys found in the closet of an abandoned home, the latest in a string of suspicious incidents. Dallas police telling ABC News they received a

tip directing them to the monkey's location. Authorities say they're also trying to determine if several incidents at the zoo last month, including an escaped leopard and the suspicious death of an endangered vulture, are connected in any way, and it's not unknown keeping zoo officials cautious. Those monkey monkeys look like Civil War reenactors, don't they. I mean, who snitch on the monkeys? I don't understand that, and they

look like Civil War reenactors. Dear Clara Belle, the war drags h my fondest wishes until the day we meet again. But they actually found the monkeys because somebody the next door heard a suspicious noise and called the cops. So even monkeys got Karen's it's crazy. And they found these monkeys very fast. They found them faster they find most people. So if I ever go missing, don't tell him I'm me. Tell him I'm a pandit I'm not here, is my question.

How is a zoo gonna accuse anyone else of stealing a monkey? Where the hell did you get the monkey? Front? For more on this kid that, we turned to Michael Costa, who is at the Dallas Zoo right now. Michael, why the hell are you dressed like that? Well, because I'm a professional DL, I wanted to see who's been stealing the animals, so I went undercover as a monkey and I infiltrated the zoo. I spent dollars on this disguise. You wasted your money. That disguise is shitty. I can't

believe the zookeepers they haven't noticed you. Well, I don't know if you've been paying attention to this story, but the zookeepers here aren't exactly the best and the brightest. They asked me if I was a monkey, and I said yes, and that was good enough for them. All right, So how is the uncovered operation going? Not great? I've been here a week, but I haven't seen any kidnappers. Even worse, one of the monkey has been trying to mate with me. I've been going along with it to

keep my cover, but now it's getting pretty serious. I mean, she wants me to groom her back, and that's a big commitment in the monkey kingdom. Now I'm flattered, but I want to keep my options open. There's a lot of hot monkeys in here. And Michael, why don't you get the hell out of there? Just tell the zoo who you are and they're gonna and then you want to leave. I can't deal. I'm a professional journalist and I won't rest until I figure out who the kidnapper is.

Plus I want to stay for lunch. We're getting grapes today, So but but okay, okay, sorry, deal, I gotta go. Lucy's getting jealous. So he's just a friend. I'm allowed to have friends. Maybe come on, don't mean like that. I mean it's just what are you gonna have to luck in your new relationship? Michael Coslin, Michael Coxson, everybody. When the win come back, I am going to find out how you are celebrating by hing us this. Don't want to go away? Welcome back to the Daily Show.

I was telling you that this is the very first day of Black History Month, so I thought I'd hit the streets to as black and white people how they were celebrating as we enter yet another Black History Month. We thought it was important to connect with people and to to find out what their idea of black history was. And nothing says black history like Hollywood Boulevard. Actually is the closest that the crew will come to mart Luther King Boulevard zone. How are you doing good? Um? It's

Black History? Absolutely? What excites you the most about it? I think it's an opportunity we can celebrate ourselves, our contributions as a people. Like it makes me feel good. I love Black History Month? What do you love about it? Our kids are getting more educated. Not in Florida though, well I don't know about Florida. Nobody there. What do you know about black issue. I'm first, so I don't know much about I respect everyone, I like black, brown,

everyone I love, but they already had their turn. It's our turn now. What is black History? Monther may need celebration? Celebration? Are there any black people you like to celebrate? Mark Lawrence? All of black people do? I mean? I love Black History Month? Excited it'll get my first if your first Black History Month? How long have you been black? But we don't good? Oh you don't do it to South Africa.

What's the blackest thing you've ever done? I think when we have guests over, I don't want to share out, dude, so we just all go hungry until they leave. That's the blackest thing you've ever done? Oh? Man? I put a cereal in the glass bad so I can keep it from the roaches because if the roach I ate at first, I'm damn, you ain't gonna eat it. That's so black. I'm embarrassed. Every time about go to a

new city. I like to go to the grocery store. Right, I'll stop, I'll get some watermelon and some chickens, and I'll see if they'll say something to me at the rest. Has anybody ever don't go to Mississippi. Have you ever been denied alone? No? I haven't. That's that's probably the whitest thing you've ever done. What is the whitest thing you've ever done with surfing? You set up and how did that work out? Not very good, But it's the whitest thing you've ever done. Improv pay my taxes. Can

you name any other members of the wool Tang clan? No, I can't. You know any of the words of the Black National anthem? That's mess stuff. But I don't know you know any the words of a Black national anthem? I know to stand up even if you don't know the word, I don't know the word will be respectful in your name? Any members of the wood Tang clan. Have you ever been late? Someone hack? No, I'm very punctual. That's pretty way. I know. You think Kanye should be forgiven?

I think yeah, he just he needs hope. Do you know any of the members of the wood Tang clan. That's that's the check my car for you right now? Give it here? Give it here. You know any of the words to the Black National Anthem? No? You know any of the members of the wood Chang clan ghost space Killer Ray Kwan got just a riz h. That's it. What is the blackest thing you've ever done? Um? I went to Roscoe's Chicken and waffle. Yeah, but is the I guest thing you've ever done? Oh damn, that's pretty

black right there? Can you follow anybody on black Twitter? I don't have a black Twitter smoke week. I was in a hip hop group in high school. Were I what was your name in the in the in the group? Big and tasty, Big and tasty. Give me something, look at me, look at me, look at me. Bread chasing like a bakery like I like that. What is the blackest thing you've ever done? That's racist question? Of course, what is the blackest thing you've ever done? Talking to you?

All right? Sing you guys when we come back. I'm a fox work. We joined me on the show. We don't want to make say welcome back to the voting saw. My guest to life is from the NFL player and the president of the NFL Players Association. He's a now writer and a commentator. Please welcome Dominique Foxworth. Happy Happy Black History Month, Oh, happy Black History Month? Through too. I appreciate all the white people celebrating. I don't know who I am, but for me anyone, they both think

we're in. You know what's interesting. It is Black History Month and the first day Tom bradytirement, I mean, and on the day or that, we're leading up to the Super Bowl. First two black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl of ever. And we also had we also had um over the weekend what I believe to be the blackest moment in playoff history. I don't know if you saw Patrick mahomes Daddy on the sideline, Patrick Lavon my homes Daddy on the side. I loved it. It sounded so

much like my black uncle's. And when you say it was, then you know it's gonna be Oh yeah, it was. It was the familiar den of a black It sounds like a like a leather baseball cap and black good that don't kind of come over you hide the jewelry. I'm moving on that job. But right so, just like but it is, it's historic to black waterback story for the first time. And then what does that mean your former play No, I mean I think it represents I hate the word progress, but it does kind of represent

some progress. I mean, there's lots of other things in the NFL and in the world frankly, that we need to work towards. But one thing that we've had to finally accepted. Black quarterbacks are perfect leaders perfect quarterbacks. The problem was that they didn't think they had the intelligence. I think it's it's one about the intelligence and also

in the leadership, and it's also about y'all. Like Frankly, it's about what the what the quarterback represents on the football team is something that uh, white people in America in general were never comfortable with seeing a black person represent that. So it's been it's been great to see not only have so many successful black quarterbacks, and we saw even some quarterbacks that are black that aren't good, which is assuring progress too, because we could be just

a SI that is. That is progress. But the most like exciting thing about it is the future of the league. The best quarterback that I think any of us have ever seen is Patrick Mahomes. I think I've never seen anybody hever to do the things he does. Now you gotta, of course, you gotta be great over a long period of time because people who started out that way I thought with Cam Newton was doing was remarkable and then

and then, and then you see what happens. It's interesting because we talk about football and there's there's a market difference between the way players in the NFL are treated and the way players in the NBA are treating. And I think primarily is it is the ownership. Um, I think that the the ownership in the NFL has a decided any different view of their commodity than the NBA does.

Like you would never see an NFL NBA owner talk to a major star like like NFL if if somebody talked to Lebron James like they talked to some of these stars, it would be over. Yeah, I mean Lebron James has a disproportionate amount of power. But like singling out the NFL, and trust me, I'm not gonna be up here defending the NFL, But the NFL exists in our society, and frankly, NFL is no different than any

other workplace. And so like the hierarchy that exists in the NFL, it's like it's gonna be blacker at the bottom and or minorities at the bottom, and you get up higher and higher and there's less risk, there's less dangerous, there's less injury, there's less pain, but there's more money, there's more success, there's more protection. And that's like, that's true in the NFL, and frankly that's true in the NBA. Everywhere that y'all work is true. It's true in this building.

Sorry that nothing day. You know, it's interesting because we we watched. When I watched what happened to hambling on the field, Um, I was personally like, because I'm I watched football very long time and I'm sure you've seen a lot of injuries. I don't know that I've ever seen anything like that, and um, the way that the players reacted, um, it was, it was. It was hurtful. I mean, obviously you were sad that somebody was suffering there. It was such a beautiful human moment because the NFL

got to be human. They like the cultures like when you're playing this game, and owners like, yes you are. So you got to see men that just were empathic and and just men who were crying and praying and not because they want a little lost, because they were praying for for somebody who wasn't there. I played for a long I played a long time. I was in a game where a player got paralyzed on the field and he was taking off. We waited five minutes, warmed up,

and played again. I played in the preseason game where a player died in the locker room afterwards. Like, I've been around some ugly parts of football, but to your point, I've never seen anything like what do you think it was different about that that particular play his heart stopped on the field. I mean, but we've seen people pass out, We've seen people have but it was something different about that that because I didn't think it was all that

bad at first. I passed out doing COVID so but there was the way because I think that people are used to certain types of injuries or seeing certain types of things. But that's scared everybody. Yeah, the reaction from the players really like scared all of us. And I think this all goes back to the original conversation that we were having about like American culture and the hierarchy

that exist. Is you show up at those games as a player, and you know that there is no limit to the risk that you're taking, right, but what would you do with them? Well, you do it because you grow up so when you were a kid and you want to play football. You decide before you're like of clear mind, then you're showing propensity for it, and people just keep pushing along, keep pushing along, And nothing's wrong

with that. And frankly, when I came up, we were unaware of the ct stuff that came out while I was in che your mind. I like to think it would, but I doubt that it would. And to be honest with you, I don't begrudge any of the players now for participating in the game knowing the risk that it takes. The thing that frustrates me is there is a cap on the amount of money they can make, on the

amount of uh like healthcare they can receive. The league negotiates for a cap on that, but on the other side, the owners, the coaches, the general manner, the players really because there's a say if if if if NFL players didn't play, that ship would be Rugby, right, Yeah, And I think the goal is to make you pretend like you don't have a choice. I believe you don't have a choice. You go through some of the finest institutes of higher learning. On the face of there, you went

to Harvard, you're very right, man. But to make you believe that fuel the holding to a thing because of your mind is the biggest game in town. So I agree and I understand. So to be clear, I went to Harvard Business School. I'm aa turp through and through first of all. But the first he's plays down playing Harvard. Yeah, man, I know somebody went to the new school. I would say quality called back. Harvard is no news school. I

would say that I get your point. And I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but like we all exist in the society, and I think the players as a whole, it's solidarity is power. If they stop, you can get what you want, and all of us can get the things that we want if we band together. But the challenging thing about negotiating with the owners, it's the same thing that we all faces trying to change the system that's in trench the people who are already

in power in that situation. So if you are to strike, if you're a player too, if you're a group of players, to get which one, that's essentially a war of attrition the commanders. The Washington Football Team reporter is gonna sell for eight billion dollars. How do players win a war of attrition? Against them. And then you compound that by the fact that we get pressure from everywhere. No one comes down so rarely. I think it's changing from now, But so rarely do fans come down on the owners

when there's an issue. Not at all. They're mad at the players because that's the face that they they are get to see, the face because they have a helmet on. UM. I think you guys have a tremendous amount of pressure on you externally because um, if you're an athlete, um, people aspire to be and and there's amount of external pressure that society from a civic perspective, from a cultural perspective, UM,

from activism perspective. So and and it's it's it's really important because the only time generally they see black people were running, jumping, singing, the dancing. It really is. It's the only time we have everybody's wrapped attention. And so how do you balance the fact that you are a professional, you have commitments you have to uh, you know, obligated to, but you still have a commitment to making things better for our community. It's so it's unfair, but that's life.

It's unfair that that responsibility falls on black players. Because it doesn't fall on black on white players, like no one has this expectation of white players to do the same thing, but as black players, they all know that that expectation falls on them. But I think Howard Bryant wrote a great book called The Heritage about the history of activism and athletes, and it's changed. The position of

the players um and and activism has changed. And I think that that's incumbent on us as spectators and people who care about it to understand that athletes aren't activists anymore. As much as they are like flashlights there, they are not entrenched in the fight and the way that say

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was, which is fine. So when they get an opportunity and they say, look over at Tyree Nichols, then it's our job to jump in because we can't expect them to commit themselves to being the best in the world and then also commit themselves to be on top of the latest reading and the latest life. Virtually every skill set that got you in that field will get you makes you a hero on Sunday, will makes you a target on Monday. If you big, you fast,

you strong, and you're black on Sunday. That's an attribute on the streets of the of of this country. It is a detriment. So it is self prevent preservation. There's one there's only one standard I have. Do what you can to the best of your ability. Do what you can for as long as you can, for all that you can. And I think that one thing I would say about you, even if I got a chance to

meet you, I love how area that you are. I love how nuanced you are because most things aren't just black and white and and and and I love how you don't just depend on your physicality. You have never just depended on that. But I hate how you play. You said I want to. I'm a nobody would ever. But it ain't no news to You've seen that there's a pretty broad continued experience of between when the NFL was then it is now. Are you more hardened or

more disappointed by the direction it's going? Um, I think that's a tough question. I think I am. Yeah, I think that it's not about the NFL. And I'm guilty of this as much as anybody else. As we think of the NFL as a single entity, which like, yeah, it's an institution, but the NFL is made up of a bunch of different things, and the most important entity

in the NFL is the players. And so that like gives me optimism because I've never been more impressed, more excited, more invigorated by not only the talent, but the perspective and the engagement of these players. We talked about Patrick Mahomes and how he's the best quarterback in football right now and on the trajectory to be one of the best of all time. He spoke out he was one of the first faces in that video about Colin Kaepernick.

And I know that Colin Kaepernick is not back in the league, but the idea that a black quarterback who can obviously avoid this conversation if he wants to, like they that opportunity is presented to him time time again,

and he does not. And that's an example to everyone else and players like Lamar Jackson who are willing to be outspoken and fight for players right, Like all of these players in the league, and it's not just the black players, it's the white players also, Like the league is in so much better place because of the players. And if only the players like really understood that they're invested interest in making sure you don't realize everything you

have because somebody look like you sacrifice. That's why you have. Um, you want to leave the union. I don't even pay my dudes. Um, what would the you're you're older, now, you have a family, you've been married, you lived in various places, You've seen in the world. What would the adult you tell the rookie you, the wide eye, the wide eyed, the white kid that we walk into. What would you tell you have as much fun as you can. Oh, no,

that's a different conversation. That's no. I think the most important thing is to get as many different experiences as possible. And we are so focused and we're celebrating. Did a bunch of ESPN stuff today, celebrating tom Brady's career, and his career deserves to be celebrated. It was great, And part of the reason why it was so great was because it appeared to me that nothing else was more important than football to him. And that's fine. If you

could be Tom Brady. Not everybody can be tom Brady. And I know that having all these other experiences. The tough thing about being a player in professional sports is your skills aren't applicable anywhere else. So if you don't hit that home run. And this goes back to like the challenge for being a player versus in the ownership class.

If you are a player and you play three or four years, then the league minimum goes up and you're out of the league, and your experience, I mean set you up to be a bouncer like what you are in a tough situation. So like, one of the things that I did, and I would encourage all the players did that is get involved in the Union as much as possible. They're like that helped open my mind to how many other opportunities there were out there in the world.

Get involved in community things obviously, and also like when you have time, One of the things that we negotiated was for a longer off season. Sure, use that off season to go do something else. It will make you a better football player and will make you a better person, to make you better husband. And I just I did talking to you, but I'll say this, I want you to understand this. I truly want you to understand this.

And I most of the men who are on that football field go through the finest institutions of how I learned in the world It is not their physical attributes, it is their minds. And when you understand that your mind is the most valuable piece of rena state on the face of the earth, they can't beat you. They can't. It is not your body. Your body will fail you wait before your mind. Does you know you you're here not because your your You may think that because you

hurt yourself you're here, but your mind was ready. And these maybe I'm just you know, I got the g D. So who am I to say? But if you go to college dropped by a class every once in a whire, you know what I'm saying, it ain't gonna be the new school. But Dominique a Fox Club gotten them. Dominique Fox Club the show O Kavin got right? We will be right back after the war. Well that is our

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