The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Joe Biden Forgets LL Cool J’s Name & Refers To Him As ‘Boy’

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

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Damn, the hee-haw again? It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm not even trying to be Donkey of the Day no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. I called Donkey of the Day and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Solomon, who got the Donkey of the Day today? Yes, Donkey of the Day for Monday, September 25th goes to the 46th president of the united states of america joe biden now joe biden gave a speech at the congressional black caucus foundation's annual

legislative conference on saturday i repeat president joe biden gave a speech at the congressional black caucus foundation's annual legislative conference on saturday the reason i repeated where he was at twice is because the audience is very important in this situation you're talking to black people okay not to mention all this stuff is written for the president so his writers going to share some of this hee-haw too okay now president biden was honoring recipients of this year's awards that recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to society one of the recipients was the great james todd smith ll cool j dropping the clues bombs for ll cool j and while giving his speech about ll this happened the two of the great

artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in america ll j cool j uh by the way that boy's got he got man's got biceps bigger than my thighs. I think he's... LLJ Cool J. We'll get back to that in a second. A lot of people are upset that Joe Biden referred to LL Cool J as a boy. As you can hear, he corrected himself on the spot. You know why Joe Biden corrected himself?

Because he's 137 years old. He fully understands the word boy in the racial context around a white man referring to a black man as boy. See, boy is absolutely a white racist word when used in a certain context. And I know that because I'm from South Carolina. Drop on a clues bomb for South Carolina. And because I was raised watching Good Times.

Okay, and a young scholar by the name of Michael Evans broke that down to us. Why boy is a white racist word, word if i'm not mistaken it was season one episode nine you remember this right boy is a white racist word that's all you needed to hear okay once you knew that you understood that boy was a white racist word when the word boy is referred uh when somebody uses the word boy to refer to an adult black man and the speaker is white that takes on a whole different meaning. And do you know in Alabama, a white supervisor passed up a brother for a promotion

and called the brother a boy and that black man sued? Yes, he worked at Tyson Chicken in Gadsden, Alabama, sued his employer for workplace discrimination. Look up the case. His name was John Hithin. I think I pronounced his name right. Hithin, H-I-T-H-O-N. He sued his employee for workplace discrimination and two separate juries awarded Hithin back pay and punitive damages. And the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the use of the word boy could be racist and needed to be examined in the context in which it was spoken. And it sent the case back to the 11th Circuit. Now, here's the rub. On the third trying of the 14-year-old case, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed

and threw out all prior rulings on the case. My point is context and meaning matters. Okay, boy is a white racist word. Joe Biden knows this. That's why he corrected himself. But I'm gonna tell you what I found egregious. The fact that Joe Biden got LL's name wrong to begin with. Can we hear that again, please?

And two of the great artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America, LLJ Cool J. Okay, okay, stop, stop. LLJ Cool J. Why did the audience laugh? They should have been correcting him on the spot. Okay, I don't know if that was Joe Biden

or the teleprompter or the Delaware education system. But here's the thing. Another shot at Delaware. It wasn't. I didn't even know I said that. I don't know why I said that. But listen, here's the thing. Joe Biden should not need a teleprompter. No, there's not two J's in LL Cool J. OK, LL Cool J is a man who has been rapping since President Joe Biden was my age. Literally. Joe Biden was 44. I'm 45.

But Joe Biden was 44 when LL Cool J dropped his debut album, Radio. LL Cool J has been white famous for at least 35 years. There's not too many more recognizable celebrities on the planet. It's not like Joe Biden was speaking on somebody relatively new, someone he wasn't familiar with in any way, shape, or form. It's LL Cool J, not LLJ Cool J. How did he say it? Let me hear it again. Two of the great artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip hop in America, LLJ Cool J. LLJ Cool J. LLJ Cool J. Look, this is a prime example of it. Doesn't matter how many black people you are around. Doesn't matter how many black people you have in your administration.

Doesn't matter how many black people you have right for you. If it's not authentic to him, then it won't come off as authentic to anyone. Okay, y'all keep trying to make this 197-year-old man sound cool simply because he's talking to black people. And there's nothing more uncool than someone trying too hard to be cool. What's that quote? Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows. And that's uncool. Yes, that is President Joe Biden. Please give Delaware's finest President Joe Biden the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw.

I don't like this. What? What don't you like? Delaware ain't got nothing to do with the fact that that man don't sit alone in his room. He's from Delaware. You got to represent. Yo, you got to take him with the good and the bad. Y'all got a president. That's big.

We do. Yes, we do. L-L-J. Cool is hard as hell. All right. B-E-T. We see y'all tomorrow. Peace, B-E-T.

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