The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: N.C. Gov. Candidate Mark Robinson Believes Black People Owe Reparations

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

N.C. Gov. Candidate Mark Robinson Believes Black People Owe ReparationsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They chose you. The breakfast club, bitches. Who's donkey of the day today? Well, donkey of the day for Tuesday, May 2nd, goes to the current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson. He's also running for Governor of North Carolina. Good morning, Mark. You know I love the Carolinas. I'm Carolina all day. South Carolina, to be exact. So North Carolina is our cousins. So it disturbs me when I hear someone from home talking crazy. And Mark Robinson is indeed talking crazy. See, it's a lot of conversations happening nowadays about reparations. believes that pessimism never wins any battle so even though i know this country will never ever pay black people what they owe i speak optimism because we all know one of the greatest

ends of this country was the slave trade and atonement is needed in the form of reparations even donald trump acknowledges black people built this country and we're just starting to get the credit for it listen african americans built this nation we built this nation. We built this nation. You know, you're just starting to get real credit for that. Okay, I don't know if you know that. That's right. You're just starting to get, you built the nation. That's right. We all built it.

But you were such a massive part of it. Bigger than you were given credit for. Does that make sense? It makes all the sense in the world. And don't just stop at credit. We'll take credit, cash, Bitcoin, EBT, and the credit is great. But until there's some financial compensation, that credit is as worthless as an nft now mark could make history as the first black governor of north carolina a state that is almost 67 percent

white and a little over 21 black but he's a republican so he don't really give a damn about any black votes okay the republican party in north carolina is 89 white and i was looking at some stats from october 29th 2022 and north carolina had about 7.4 million registered voters and their partisan affiliation was kind of equally split between three parties republican democrats unaffiliated it's 34 democrat 36 36 unaffiliated 30 republican about 0.7 registered to another party notoriously red state so mark probably feels like i'm republican all i need is these white folks but imagine if you can get majority of the white republican voters to vote and you know play a little identity politics and get some of the black people to vote for you too sounds like a good idea well mark don't care if

you negroes vote for him because if he did he wouldn't be saying things that would turn Negroes off. And one thing that turns black people off is any talk against reparations. But not only is Mark against black people getting reparations, he thinks we owe. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's listen. There's some people that were talking about reparations in this country. They wanted reparations. Nobody owes you anything for slavery if you want to tell the truth about it it is you who owes it's you who owes because somebody in those fields took

strikes for you somebody after those fields were ended and slavery was ended somebody had to walk through jim crow for you somebody fought wars and died for you. Those folks on the Edmund Pettus Bridge carrying American flags, take that Colin Kaepernick. Living in a society that he could scarcely acknowledge. Something that he has never known, living with a bigotry that none of us can imagine. Carried American flags on that bridge. And when they were hit upside the head with knife sticks and shot with water hoses and knocked to the ground they got up and picked those flags up

and kept marching and they did it for you nobody owes you anything if anybody owes is you lieutenant governor of north carolina mark robinson ladies gentlemen, feels like black people owe reparations. That was Riley Freeman from the Boondocks booing. And I'm glad we used that boo because what in the uncle ruckus is going on in North Carolina? It don't matter if North Carolina is a red or blue state. If Mark Robinson becomes governor, you can guarantee it won't be a black state. All right. All those things he spoke on, you know, the people who fought during civil rights the brothers and sisters civil rights marches who went through the hell called bloody sunday for us to get a sliver of freedom

um they're part of the reason we are old okay yes we owe them but not the way this country owes us and we repay them for fighting for what so many of them came to want and that is reparations okay mark robertson telling black people that we owe reparations is like when your parents used to tell you they were beating our ass for our own good. No. OK, you did nothing but cause me trauma. Trauma that I ended up unpacking in therapy later. The nerve of Mark Robinson to say we owe reparations because we benefited from the freedom. I got freedom in quotation marks. OK, air quotes. All right. You know, free ish. OK, a new old slave drama brought to you by Kenya Barris coming soon to BET+. I mean, oppression of black people 100 percent still exists, right?

When black people are in prison, that exceptionally high numbers are more likely to be arrested for nonviolent offenses. I mean, we make our case for our citizenship every day, make our case for our humanity every day. There is still a system of white supremacy in place that causes us to make cases for our survival every day. I mean, when you are still being denied opportunities because of the color of your skin, it's kind of hard to tell me that I owe. All right. That's like getting sex from a hooker. She gives me an STD and then, you know, ask for gratuity for the gonorrhea. OK, Mark Robinson said we should be paying because there were people that fought for us and took beatings and, you know, got hosed down and lost their lives for us to be free. Those people were majority black. He couldn't be talking about white people, could he?

I mean, there were definitely white people out there marching with black folks during the civil rights movement, but they were marching with us to free us from the oppression of white supremacy. Keyword white. OK, Mark really said black people owe reparations. We owe. OK, the white people should get paid for what their own people did. Huh? Look, in basketball, there's no such thing as the same team foul that I know of. OK, last time I checked, if Steph Curry fouls, Klay Thompson, LeBron doesn't get to shoot free throws. So why do we owe for what people did to us and caused on themselves? This is what happens when you speak to management and your people are indeed the management. Please let Remy Ma give Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson the biggest hee-haw.

Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother f***er. You dumb. All right. It sounds like an articulate Hershel Walker. Good God. Y'all can keep that one. Y'all can keep that one. Y'all can keep that one.

That is just beyond control. And don't be messing with reparations because I'm getting two checks. One in my man name and one in my woman. Do not mess with reparations, man. Don't be messing with my checks. Oh, it's so interesting that you mentioned Kenya Barris. I met him at the Red Carpet of You People when he did You People. So let me tell you what's so strange because being an older trans person, I not on the defense because i've lived my life i know people just see you so when

my publicist went up to him and says um flame would like to take a picture with you he looked because i was about as far as charlemagne is from me now and he looked but the look on his face was maybe he didn't understand or he wasn't sure and she says well if netflix invited flame to come to brew so it gave him a pass and so he brought me over so i could have taken that one way and like oh he was on the defense but i said he said uh did you enjoy the movie i said oh i thought the movie was great i said you could have called the movie frankenstein because he said huh i said because what frankenstein's moral was frankenstein was never the monster he created the monster you showed us that america has created this monster of racism and hate from

all aspects of life and i love that you turned him he said that is a great analogy in those two minutes of talking to him he went from looking at me like he didn't understand until he put his arm around me and he embraced me and the body language said it always that i taught him it was pretty dope it was pretty great so mark robertson wants us to he wants us to pay for a Monster America creator. Exactly. Well, thank you for that donkey today, Charlemagne. Yes, indeed. Hee-haw, Mark Robinson.

And my D-boy, hee-haw. B-E-T, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Has a friend ever thrown you under the bus?

That is the question. Where is this coming from? I hear some personal in your throat. I've realized that sometimes I can't tell Charlemagne certain things. Let's talk about it when we come back, man. That is the question. Tell it, Envy. Tell it. Let's talk about it when we come back.

Charlemagne like an old refrigerator. Your friend's breath state. He can't hold nothing. I wouldn't say, hey, Charlamagne said your breath state. I would just be like, yo, bro, get some toothpaste. Charlamagne's not like that. Charlamagne gonna say Envy said your breath state, but has a friend ever thrown you on the bus?

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Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records, because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, my undeadly darlings. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you. Haunting is crawling out from the shadows, and it's going to be devilishly good.

We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher.

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