The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Florida Board Of Education Approves New Standards Of How Black History Should Be Taught

Episode Date: July 21, 2023

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Okay, white supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. It's a breakfast club, bitches. All right, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Well, donkey of the day for Friday, July 21st goes to the Florida Board of Education. What does your Uncle Sharla always say about the great state of Florida? The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. And those folks is going to remain crazy because the current government they have is going to drive them that way.

All right, see, the Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how black history should be taught in the state's public schools. Would you like to know what their new standards are? Let's go to Fox 35 Orlando for the report, please. So the Florida Department of Education Board approved several controversial rules for the upcoming school year. One of the biggest changes is to social studies standards for African American history for kindergarten through 12th grade. The board had a task force rewrite the new African American history curriculum.

The board feels they created a well-rounded curriculum that provides a depth of knowledge of what African Americans have gone through. But there were many in the meeting that voiced their opposition to the new standards, including Senator Geraldine Thompson, who believes this was an effort, but not a comprehensive account of African American history. For example, she believes the Ocoee massacre will not be taught in a way that shares a whole story with both sides. I think we're shortchanging our students. It's the students who are going to suffer by not knowing the history and therefore not really embracing all of who we are.

We can't celebrate progress unless we acknowledge the pain that came about with it very true sister uh if they aren't afraid of the full truth of american history and how come they just won't tell it this is the latest nonsense in florida's debate over black history the education department already rejected a preliminary pilot version of ap african-american studies courses for high school students which which it claimed lacked educational value well i can tell you what has zero educational value, and that's lies. Okay, telling people that the enslaved developed skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit, is a white devil damned lie.

Slavery wasn't no vocational school. Nobody enrolled in slavery so they could learn a trade, all right? They make slavery sound like it was a welding class, all right? You didn't want to implement the ap african-american studies class because you said it didn't tell the whole truth about american history well these new standards y'all created aren't the true visa you can't take credit for the strength and methods of survival that slaves learned based off a matter of necessity they had no choice all right nobody taught them that all right first law of nature uh is self-prespreservation. They're just trying to survive. They gentrified our neighborhoods. Now they gentrify our past and our history.

They really trying to take credit for how resilient we are as people after enslaving us. Could you imagine if, you know, when they were alive, Ike Turner took credit for Tina Turner knowing how to take a punch? How would that sound? Now, let me give you an example of something they want to teach you heard it in the news report uh okoe florida they want to talk about the 1920 okoe florida massacre and under the new rules they require that instruction includes acts of violence perpetrated against and by african americans okay the massacre is considered the deadliest election day violence in u.s history and according to several histories of the incident, it started when Moses Norman, a prominent black landowner in the community, attempted to cast his ballot and was turned away by white poll workers.

That's like the whitewashed version of what really happened. Okay. What happened was a mob of white supremacists murdered at least 50 black people for attempting to exercise their legal and democratic right to vote. OK, on November 1st, the day before the election, with their robes and their crosses, the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, paraded through the streets of two black communities in Okohe. And they had megaphones and it was nighttime and they warned that not a single Negro will be permitted to vote and if any of them dared to there would be dire consequences uh if somebody walks through your neighborhood the night before an election and tells you that if you vote there's going to be dire consequences then the next day

a mob of white supremacists kills 50 black people for voting that is premeditated murder ladies and gentlemen okay all right when you say acts of violence all right when you say acts of violence perpetrated against and by african americans please knock it off there was no violence committed by african americans in regards to the okoe massacre unless of course you think black people exercising their right to vote is an act of violence and if black people did get violent on that day it was in self-defense of the white supremacist mob that was trying to kill them who the hell gonna stand around and just die okay what these people are doing is trying to remix history all right these white people are trying to do what Jermaine Dupri and Diddy have mastered definition of the remix we invented the remix

whatever it is those white folks in Florida are doing it all right they're trying to do it all right that's what they're trying to do right now so to all the education and civil rights advocates who are pushing back against this keep fighting we respect it we riding with you but i have to tell y'all we can't rely on white institutions to teach our kids okay every great black leader we've ever had has told us this you know uh and we must listen we cannot rely on white institutions to teach our kids black history we have to self-educate our kids in regards to black history we have to self-educate each other in regards to black history give book recommendations and encourage each other to learn as much about black history as human humanly possible why would i rely on my open enemy to teach me about me? Florida is showing us what happens when you

do that. Please give the Florida Board of Education the biggest hee-haw. You know, it's crazy. I've been here all morning talking about Nipsey Hussle's book recommendation list, you know, because, you know, Nipsey left us with a bunch of books that he thinks that we should read to educate ourselves. Yep, yep, yep. And I didn't even realize

I got my Nipsey Hussle chain and a Nipsey t-shirt on. I mean, I know I wore it this morning, but I didn't know we were going to be having these conversations. Conversations.

Yes. All right. Salute to Nipsey, man. Long live Nipsey Hussle. Absolutely. Educate yourselves. All right. All right.

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It was a water mouth emoji And an eggplant Alright so let's just have a little fun on this friday so we want to know what uh emojis do you send when you're trying to be a little sexy when you're trying to get it in yeah what does that i would be lost i'm beyond you i'm 45 years i'm so happy i'm married and being with the same woman for 25 years because i would be lost trying to figure some of this stuff out. You're an eggplant type of emoji. Like a small eggplant. I could see you

sending that to somebody. What you seeing? You seeing my bulge or something? Like why would you I said small. Small eggplant. What's a small

than an eggplant? What's another vegetable that's small? A pickle? Nah. A cucumber? No. What else you thinking?

The red is like I'm not getting any of this one. I'm more of a plantain. They got a plantain emoji? More of a P. I'm lying. I think a P emoji. Do they have a P emoji?

First of all, how did we get here? I don't know how we got here, but let's leave here. 800-585-1051. What? What'd you say? What did you say? You always Deborah Cox in a person. Yo, shit.

How did we get here? 800. Nobody's supposed to be here. 800-585-1051. Was that Deborah Cox? That was Deborah Cox, right? Yeah, nobody's supposed to be here. We're asking, what emojis do you send when you're trying to be sexy or you're trying to get it in?

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trying our best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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