Donkey ( The breakfast club )

0:00Hey, this is Strawberry One Click Samary Anderson. How y'all doing out there today? I hope everybody is doing well. If you're not doing well, let's find a way to get well. Look well. And of course, you already know it being well. Right now, we're gonna tune in to the Breakfast Club. Every moment I'm not talking about new eggs, new baking, new ham, new sizes, new waffles, new pancakes. Not even talking about that glass of orange juice or cold glass of milk. Not even a hot tea or the coffee. Talk about that 411 on celebrities, you, me, and the donkey of today, with Charlotte Manning, the God and his crew. You're the bunch of donkey's out here, miss. Out of here, don't hit the dead. Aw, donkey of the day. It really caught me off guard. We have a life where we might have something to do. I don't know. You never was saying it. Come back to the tour. Get the tour. You are a donkey. That is my Charlotte Manning.

1:00Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Some donkey's days just started on the Breakfast Club. Okay, Charlotte Manning, we've given donkey of the day to today. Listen, donkey of the day, from Wednesday to September 9th, goes to all of us black and brown people who are sitting around arguing about who can use the N word. Gather round. Okay, I just wanna talk to you for a second, man. This weekend, the never ending discussion of who can use the N word and who can't use the N word was sparked because of Fat Joe again, all right? He was on the Joe button podcast, he was defending his use of the N word by pointing to his upbringing and the bronze growing up in black housing projects and his deep roots and hip-hop culture. That's not even the conversation I wanna have. Okay, all I've seen that conversation do is lead to a bunch of unserious arguments, all right? I like to learn, all right? And all that dialogue reminded me is that even though I know better, I'm not doing better, and that was a time where I said publicly, I wasn't using the N word anymore. And I wanna challenge myself to do that again, okay? See, for years, there's something we've been saying that I don't think I've ever really believed

2:02and that statement is, we took the power out of the N word. No, we didn't. No, we didn't, okay? I'm gonna tell you something that you all have heard a million times. If we took the power out of the N word, why do we get so mad when somebody else who's not black-sethic? If there's no power in it, what's the problem? Okay, clearly, there's still power in that word, okay? What we actually did was create rules about who gets to use it. And I don't think we should play that game anymore. Okay, I also don't believe it's a term of indemity, all right? I never, never. Use it after term of indemity, okay? I use it the way the white man and other blackest men have to be used. Okay, folks will be like, when I call my man the N word it means brother, it means homie, that means family, what call him brother? Okay, call him homie, call him fam. I say peace black man, I say peace king because those are high vibrational words, okay? I only use the term N word when I'm talking about low vibrational people with low vibrational actions, okay? Black people, we create new slang every damn day, okay? We have no shortage of words.

3:03So why is the N word one we can't let go? Okay, the word that was actually created to degrade and dehumanize us, we can't let it go. I don't understand it, okay? There's a book, all right? I was showing y'all this book early, this one of our show in the room. Well, I was showing just hilarious, right? There's a book that I love, okay? I'm holding it up in my hand. I grew up reading this book, okay? Every now and then I pick it up and read it again. It's got two volumes and it's called, and I'm saying the word for title purposes, from Niggas to Gods, okay? By a kill, all right? In this book, there's a chapter called Return to Sinda, let me see if I can see it. You see it right there? It's called Return to Sinda, right? You see? In that chapter, it talks about all the hell black people have caught in America. And because of the hell we've caught, some of us have become hell raises. And it says in that chapter, we need to give this hell back to whom it is that we caught it from. And it says in particular to give the N word back.

4:04All right, we didn't create that word. White supremacy did, all right? That was that word for us. So why in the hell are we fighting for a ownership of it? Okay, our ancestors fought to not be called the N word. Now their descendants, us, will argue you down about our right to call each other the N word. How did we get here? How? Imagine explaining that to your great grandparents. Okay, well look, I understand. You know, y'all fought against being called this word because it was used to the trade and dehumanize you, but don't worry, we fixed it. We call each other that now. What? No, that's okay, grandma. We changed the ER to an A. If that makes sense to you fine. Okay, if it doesn't apply, let it fly. I'm just telling you how I feel this morning and I already know what somebody is saying. We reclaimed it. We claimed what? Okay, you reclaimed something that belonged to you. That word never belonged to us. Okay, our dignity belonged to us. Our humanity belonged to us. Reclaim all of that. But the N word asked them to crack his property. Okay, return to send it.

5:04All right, and I think we've confused something. We have confused the science with liberation. Hmm. I'll say that again. We have confused the science with liberation. Okay, there's a difference between saying, I'm going to use your insult so you can't hurt me with it. All right, that's the M&M and 8-mile move. And then there is the, your insult doesn't have anything to do with me anymore move. Okay, for me. Hey, this is Strawberry. Shalame, I agree with you 100%. I'm Black, African-American. And I feel as though, yes, that word nigger is a word that, I mean, we should not be as proud of as we seem to be. I mean, like you're saying, I mean, it was a damaging word for the people that, you know,

6:06hurt it in that sleep time. And then at the same time, we have grown to say, oh, let's only give, certain amount of people permission to say it, and be angry at the same time that somebody of Caucasian or somebody of our different rates said. But like you said, that's not a word that we should be proud of, the own to fight for, to kill each other over or whatever. That's a word that should be buried underneath all this slavery, all this hate, all this challenging of us turning against each other. And that would basically seem like a word that was created is a word that, you know, most of us didn't get the chance to understand. But being so, it seems like it points right to us Blacks.

7:07Individuals, they feel as though it's something that, you know, only Black people could say, but in my opinion, a Caucasian or anybody in that sense can be that in word, because if you look up that definition, it's not something good that you wanna be, but, you know, as, you know, sticks and stones are names and stuff that are called people that don't understand life. They just, you know, except what they hear or don't understand without the full definition of it. So, no, I don't think that we should fight the power for that in word. I think that in word should be buried with slavery, which, you know, in this time and day, there are still some people that are being treated like such,

8:09like slaves, like they don't deserve their freedom. And so, as we fight for our freedom, and they wanna make it worse though, only this person is allowed to say that we're not free, are always free in our own self-world. I mean, hey, it's the thing that's destroying us. This end word is destroying us. And my opinion, it seems like people are finding ways to just take one little word, which words are powerful. Take one little word to make us fight against each other. Make us hate each other. Make us not wanna be around each other. Meaning, to destroy ourselves, where we do not exist as the dinosaurs though. And we gotta wake up, and we gotta smell the coffin. We gotta define ourselves as individuals, humans, people, and persons, because the end word only says one thing,

9:10that we are animals, and we don't deserve to be at the top. We don't deserve to be in the middle. We deserve to be at the bottom, buried until they give us permission to rise to the top. But we don't need permission to rise to the top if we learn and love ourselves with the words that make us find hate among ourselves. Okay, I call it low vibrational, because I don't believe there's anything uplifting about speaking a word over ourselves that was created from hatred towards us. And I'm not talking about some scientific measurement of vibrations. I'm talking spiritually. Okay, I'm talking about what I choose to speak over myself and other black and brown people. Words mean something to me. That's why I don't ever use the end word in an affectionate way. Okay, if I love you, why would one of my terms of affection for you be somebody else's term of degradation for both of us? All right, that's what I mean when I say this has to be hilarious to a white supremacist.

10:13Okay, a word they created to dehumanize us. A word we used to fight them for using. We are now fighting each other to use. It don't make no damn sense to me. And I'm not even going to get into the music, right? That complicates just even more and makes it even more ridiculous. We hand everybody to end word and then get mad when somebody mishandles it. Okay, here's an idea. Let's just stop handing it out. Okay, and by the way, you don't got to listen to me. I'm not trying to police no grown persons mouth. Okay, say whatever you want. I'm telling you what I believe and what I think will work for me. Okay, I don't think anybody should use it. Okay, black people included. I don't think black liberation requires us to preserve the language of black degradation. Okay, that's why I'm mad with it. All right, some things are ancestors gave us because they wanted us to keep them. And some things were done to our ancestors that we inherited anyway. Okay, those aren't the same thing. The end word is not some precious piece of black culture that needs to be protected. Right. It was put on us and we can take it off.

11:13All right, we don't need to change the spelling. We don't need to change the pronunciation. We don't need to debate who's allowed to say it. We don't need to take the power out of it. Okay, just give the damn thing back. Return the syndrome. As this beautiful book from Niggas DeGarde says, okay, I don't want the package. Never ordered it. Don't know who signed for it. And I'm damn sure not paying the shipping. Okay, our ancestors fought to make sure the world knew they weren't that word. I'm not going on of them by fighting for my right to call myself what they fought not to be called. Please give those of us arguing over who can use the end word the biggest he heard. And if you can, go order this amazing book from Niggas DeGarde to buy a kill. Okay, I believe it's available on Amazon. I ordered this book in the 90s. You see, I look just even got water damage. All right. Yeah, that was a book for a long time. I just ordered it at Amazon. Oh, it's still on Amazon? Mm-hmm.

12:14Okay. 1795.