The Breakfast Club - International Women Day

Episode Date: March 8, 2022

Today on the show it was all about representing women and celebrating their achievements, with one woman being entrepruener and host Angela Yee! Moreover, we also had Congresswoman Cori Bush stop by, and she spoke on her journey from activism to politics, calling out democrats, police reform and more. Also, we had Cerise castle breaks down the history of LA deputy gangs, her journey in journalism and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Envy, ye, and Charlemagne. Wake that ass up, get out of bed, and listen to The Breakfast Club. I'm waking up. No envy? All right. Good morning, yo. Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, Angela Yee.

Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday. I didn't want to jump right in there because sometimes Envy is here and I don't know it. And then he gets mad at me for starting the show. Why is that little lady not here? It's International Women's Day. Why is that little lady not here this morning? I don't know what he's doing. Okay? It's International Women's Day. Why is that little lady not here this morning? I don't know what he's doing.

Okay. But happy International Women's Day. March 8th every single year. Today, well this year the theme is Break the Bias for International Women's Day. And we'll talk more about International Women's Day during Front Page News. And is it March Women's History Month as well? Yes, it is. Okay, so you get a date within your own month?

Yeah, but this is an international day, so it's global. It's not just here. Actually, we started in the UK. Okay. So internationally, we celebrate women today and talk about a lot of different women's issues, also celebrate women. It's not good enough just to say, hey, we have a day. You also have to talk about different things that

need to be done and we need all the allies. So men need to also uplift women and make sure we celebrate our accomplishments, our achievements, but also talk about equality, talk about gender parity, making sure we are fundraising for female-focused

charities, all kinds of things. I enjoyed the day a lot more last year when we had the day off. Okay, when they gave all the guys here the day off. That was amazing. Yeah, well, this year we want some equality. That's not equality to me. Y'all got to work, too. What would equality be?

Equality is letting, I mean, I don't know what equality is. How does equality equate to you getting the day off? I don't know what equality is, to be honest with you. Like, equality to me is such a subjective term in a lot of ways, right? Because, you know, when you say you want equality, what exactly does that mean? Now, when you say equity, that's different. Like, equity and equality are two different things to me. Now, equity you can actually slice up, give to a person. Equality is just like, oh, I'm going to treat you like an equal.

Well, equity is part of equality. It's part of it. I would rather have equity. Because equality can't be, I don't think equality can be gauged. I don't think you can quantify equality. Well, it depends. There's a lot of different factors that factor into it. And yesterday was a very windy day,

by the way. I don't know if, I think a lot of people experienced this, but I had just gotten home. And when I tell you they said it was winds in New York about 70 miles an hour. And now they're saying in the Northeast as much as 130,000 people don't have power. Jesus Christ. So we'll talk about all of that in Front Page News. Also, do we have any guests today? I don't know.

Oh, we do. We actually have Congresswoman Cori Bush. Okay. Congresswoman Cori Bush will be here this morning. International Women's Day. She's a perfect example of somebody who is always pushing the envelope and making sure that she's heard. So yes, Congresswoman Cori Bush will be here. Also, Dr. Kim L. Delaney and Yvonne, okay, I'm going to mess up her last name, Mabenefoy, Mabenefoy. Okay, we'll be here this morning. And they have this great series that's on Instagram.

And we'll talk all about it, but if you haven't had a chance to see it, it's Equiano Stories. And it's the second series that they've done. The first one is a story told on Instagram. It's like a movie on Instagram. That one was about the Holocaust, and I think it got like 300 million views.

So now this one dates back to before slavery to show what was happening in Africa, how black people were thriving, how we were getting our own. Our history does not start at slavery. And that's the point of Equiano's story. So we'll talk about that this morning on The Breakfast Club. Front page news next. Hey, it's The Breakfast Club. It's International Women's Day. DJ Envy.

Good morning. You want to bring us into front page news? No. It's International Women's Day. We's falling back today. That is not what it means. What do you mean? How are you supposed to celebrate us today?

I didn't think I had to go to work. I am celebrating. Leave. Go. I seen the flyers and it just had all the women from the stations. Last year we was off. Last year all the guys wasn't on the radio station. And then Eddie said, bring your ass in.

Eddie didn't have off. He's a man. He's a producer. Okay. You don't know what he identifies as. Don't be calling people men nowadays. What's wrong with you? We do know what he identifies as.

We do not. We do not. Eddie, what do you identify as? His name is Eddie F. We don't know what that F stands for. Let's get into front page news. Well, yes, today is International Women's Day, as it is every March 8th. And this year's theme is hashtag break the bias.

So what does International Women's Day mean? Well, imagine a gender equal world. This is according to InternationalWomen'sDay.com. A world for your bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. So together we can forge women's equality. So today you will celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness against bias, take action for equality. And those are some of the themes for this year.

Breaking that bias. We should be doing that every single day. So some of those things include building workplaces where women can thrive. Instead of making women feel less than, talking over them, making them feel like their opinions and values don't matter. Make sure women can thrive in your workplace. Elevate the visibility of women creatives. Improve equality for women in tech. We all know there's a problem with equality with women in

tech. Forge women's empowerment worldwide. Celebrate the women who are forging change. And also empowering women's choices in health. There's a lot of men trying to make decisions about what should happen with a woman's body. So let's make sure we do those things. Also fundraising for female focused charities.

And if you guys want to hit us up and let us know if you're a woman and you have a charity that's focused on women, then let us know. Hit us up. We want to make sure that we can support and elevate you. The colors that symbolize International Women's Day are purple, green and white. And just so you guys know about the history, these colors originated from the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK back in 1908. So it's not any particular country group or organization that is specific to celebrate this. No one government, no one charity. But it's all about a collective effort to make sure that we all care about humans' rights.

All right? All right. Got it? Got it. All right. And that is your Front Page News. Now, get it off your chest. Nope, nope.

Now, let's make sure today when you guys are calling in, you are celebrating the valuable women in your lives. If women want to call in and talk about your accomplishments, we would love to hear it this morning. 800, can I have your number? Yee. 800-585-1051. Call us up.

Happy International Women's Day. No. Close it, yee up. Happy International Women's Day. No. Close it, ye. It's the women's club. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. It's your time to get it off your chest. Say it, say it, say it.

Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Teresa. I'm calling from Washington Heights. I'm a teacher. Good morning, Teresa. I wanted to just shout out all the women that I work with, all the teachers. You know, we all work really hard.

We all got master's degrees and we're working hard to take the kids. And I want to just shout you all out at PS48. One of the most important jobs that we have here. So we appreciate you. Shout out to all the women at what school you out at PS48. One of the most important jobs that we have here. So we appreciate you. Shout out to all the women at what school you said? PS48 in Washington Heights. PS48 in Washington Heights. You know, for a little while I taught in Washington Heights.

I wanted to be a teacher. Oh, amazing. One of the most important jobs, and y'all don't get paid like it. My mom's a schoolteacher. She's been a schoolteacher for 30 plus years. The most I think she said she ever made was $30,000 a year. And, you know, with all our education, if we weren't anything else, we'd be making a lot more money.

But we do it for the kids. Yeah, and not just education, the fact that we trust y'all with our churn. All right. For hours and hours a day. Well, we love you and we appreciate you. P.S. 48 in Washington Heights. Hello. Hello, Washington Heights. Hello. Hello, good morning.

Good morning. How you doing? Bless black and highly favored, brother. How are you? All right, brother. My name is Narvel Starworth. I live in Jacksonville, Florida. Okay.

I started a foundation for men, domestic violence. We had a situation with my daughter, so I'm blessing all women. I'm trying to spread the word. The name of the foundation is A underscore Chianti Foundation. C-H-I-A-T-I-N-T-I Foundation. And I'm just trying to spread the word, trying to spread the love to help and save other women around. So that's all I'm doing, fighting men for women. I'm a minority man, a feminine man of 26 years, and I'm just trying to help women.

I respect it. Why do you call yourself a minority man? Well, I just don't, I don't know. Are you black? Yes, yes, I am. Who said you black? What do you mean minority man? What kind of minority man?

Jesus Christ. Yes, I'm a 53-year-old black man fighting for women's rights. Yes, sir, that's what I'm doing. Well, salute to you, brother. We love that, and we'd love to hear it. So your charity is helping women who have experienced domestic violence, and it's too high of a proportion of women that have had that experience. So we appreciate

and applaud the work that you're doing and we need more men to care about that too. Always. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Curb and out of Houston. What up, brother? What's going on? Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing fine. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, brother.

Good morning, Charlamagne Tha God. Peace, King. How you doing, black man? I'm doing all right. I'm coming to celebrate my beautiful black queen today on International Women's Day. All right, shout her out. What's her name? I want to celebrate Isis Keller. I'm right here out of Houston, Texas, my beautiful black queen.

You know, we're going to celebrate 10 years in July. And I just want to celebrate her and thank her for making me the happiest man alive. Yes, I love to hear it. The happiest man alive. Okay. Thank you, brother. Thank you. All right.

800. Hey, hey, hey. What? It's International Women's Day. What are you doing? You know, he counts. Sounds to me like somebody don't want to do the work. Go ye.

I don't know if he's taking more calls or what. We have to say the number, then we tease, and then we come back. All right. 800-585-1051. It is March 8th, International Women's Day. We are celebrating women all morning on The Breakfast Club. Call us up and let us know who you want to celebrate or if you're a woman and you want to celebrate yourself, your peers, your friends, your family.

Call us up right now. It it off your chest this is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed so you better have the same energy we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this hey how you doing it's ralph from wash height ralph what up ralph going on so i just wanted to kind of, I was trying to get you guys for the last couple of days. And I was thinking about the guy that was talking about Bitcoin last week, if I'm not mistaken. Okay. I was just trying to basically say, why is it that we always got to refer to like selling crack or selling drugs in order for like us like us to understand something you know and i just feel like people go up there and always always bring up cracker drugs when they try to like get get us to understand as opposed to you know say something positive to get us to understand you know why

that's a good point man and i was thinking about this uh last week in reference to just conversations we have about the hood when we talk about providing opportunities, we always make it seem like a majority of the hood is in the criminal activity. And that's just not the case at all. So I understand what you're saying. You know what I mean? It's a new world already. I mean, we got to uplift each other

as opposed to, you know, keep dragging each other. Even in the old world, though. Right, right. Most people didn't sell crack. Majority of people in the hood did not sell crack. That's a fact. That's a fact. The majority used it.

I'm not going to say that either. Jesus Christ, no. You just ruined your whole theory. That's not the case either. I will say, though, for a lot of people, maybe that individual, and I don't know that gentleman's history, but maybe he did sell it, and maybe that's what he compares it to because he knows i can't compare it to selling crack because i never sold crack so maybe for himself maybe that's what he was talking about because maybe he sold it before and knows

the differences but i feel like he did a lot of comparisons though i don't think he just was comparing it to that he was trying to explain in multiple different ways i get what he's saying i mean i agree with the last caller. We do that. When it comes to the hood, we always put things in criminal context. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Jay. Jay, what up?

Nothing much. I was just calling to say good morning. Good morning, Angelique. Good morning. Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, DJ Envy. What's going on? Well, I was just calling to say

I bought enough equipment to start my business, to start my LLC for my business just by my home two years ago. I want to wish women happy Women's Day. Wish my wife, my mother, my mother-in-law happy Women's Day. And just pushing good energy out this morning. All right, brother. All right, we love to hear it. Hello, who's this?

Nicole from Metro Detroit. Hey, Nicole. What up, though? Good morning, Angela. Good morning, Tommy. Good morning, DJ Envy. Peace, queen. How are you?

I'm great. Thanks for asking. I just wanted to wish my circle a happy International Women's Day. We're all veterans, and we've all recently started our own business, so I'm just asking for some positive vibes. Absolutely. What's your business? Right now, I'm into beauty and health care.

I have a foot mask that helps take off the dead skin. So I've been working on that. Oh, I need that. Let me tell you. I will gladly send you a package. What's your website so people listening can support too for International Women's Day? www.victoriorain-E-I-G-N Official.com Alright, Victoria Rain. Shout out to you and your circle

and thank you for your service. Thank you. Alright. 800-585-1051 Now we got rumors on the way, Yee? Yes, and let's talk about another amazing woman, Zoe Kravitz. She's getting rave reviews for her performance as Catwoman but did you know she wanted to be

in another movie, and they said she was too urban. Alright, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it on the Breakfast Club.

Listen up. Well, people are loving Zoe Kravitz in The Batman. And this was not her first time trying to break into this whole universe on the big screen. She had told The Observer that her attempt to audition for a role in The Dark Knight Rises was rejected. She was told she was actually too urban for the part. Can you imagine that? Now, during a 2015 interview with Nylon, she said the role she was seeking in The Dark Knight

Rises was a small one and she couldn't even get in the room because the film wasn't quote going urban for the role. She said at the time, she said it was like yo, what does that have to do with anything? I have to play the role like yo, what's up Batman? What's going on with you? So she said being a woman of color and being an actor and being told at that

time that I wasn't able to read because of the color of my skin and the word urban being thrown around like that. That was what was really hard about that moment. Yeah, I hate the word urban in any context, but especially in that context, because it means you too much of a sucker to say black. Just say, hey, black isn't what we're looking for at this time. Right. So shout out to her, though, because they are saying that she's amazing as Catwoman Right now in the Batman y'all gonna go see it or I don't be supporting DC. You stop it. I'm a Marvel guy. Oh you watch this on this on TV I know I was just asking you. I don't know how that might don't take the kids to go see it

I might if there's any DC I'll spend money on his Batman or the Joker. All right Well 128 million dollars it made in the first week, so congratulations to them. Alright, Mary J. Blige and Pepsi have announced the Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit. So they're doing this in partnership with Live Nation Urban. Let's celebrate that

for International Women's Day. That festival will take place in Atlanta. It's three days devoted to music, comedy and community building. That's going to be happening between May 6th and May 8th. That's coming up really soon. I like that. So it's unapologetically curated for and by women.

That festival has been intentionally scheduled for Mother's Day weekend. Pre-sale tickets do go live actually today at 10 a.m. Eastern. Have they announced everybody yet? Because I know they got a comedy show on Friday and they got a brunch on Sunday. I saw the full music lineup, I think, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so you can actually go.

It's going to happen at the State Farm Arena. And so there's a lot of different performances. Obviously, Mary J. Blige is performing. She'll have all kinds of special guests like Chaka Khan, City Girls, Queen Najah, and more. And there's a Gospel Sunday brunch.

There's a lot going on. Probably one of the clues bombs for Mary J. Blige. You know what's crazy? It's almost like artists can curate better shows than, you know,

corporations nowadays. Because who's going to tell Mary J. Blige when she picks up the phone and tells you what she's doing? You know, other artists are going to show up for her. Absolutely.

And everything kicks off at the Gathering Spot, which I love. I love the Gathering Spot in Atlanta. So that kicks off Saturday, May 7th with the Strength of a Woman Summit. So shout out to all of them. I see Miss Pat is going to be doing a comedy show. My Girl 7 Streeter is going to be performing. Amazing lineup. Amazing lineup.

All right. Now, Grown-ish has been renewed for season five. So congratulations to them. How grown are they now? They can't be in college no more, right? I haven't seen it in a while. I still love the show, but I haven't seen it in a while. Well, season four finale is going to be happening March 24th.

That's going to feature Zoe graduating from college. Got you. Okay, that makes sense. Right. So, Grown-ish, I guess you're always still growing. Season five, she'll clearly be out in the world. Right, trying to figure it out. Okay. And LeBron is getting into the culinary space. He has a new platform.

It's called Kitch. K-I-T-T-C-H. Now, Kitch is a place for foodies to interact and to learn from some of the most famous chefs in the world. This makes sense because people love watching all those food and cooking shows. So he has a really strict diet. He has a different routine for preseason, postseason, pregame, and postgame. He said before competition for me would be like a chicken breast and maybe a little pasta. The carbs help because you're going out and playing a lot of minutes.

But a salad and some veggies will have me perfectly fine and before the game I might have a protein shake and some fruit and I'll be ready to go. So this is going to be pretty exciting for him. They said Kitsch can be described as the Twitch TikTok Zoom of culinary. Y'all watch cooking shows?

Not too much. I do. Even though I can't cook, but I enjoy it. I'm fat ass. You just be watching. I'm trans fat, so I be sitting there looking at them cooking shows mouthwatering. Sometimes I watch exercise programs and I just sit there on the couch and watch people exercise. I be like, I should get up and do that. And I like the cooking shows that make things that we actually would eat.

You know what I mean? What about shows where you see people traveling around and eating things you would never eat? I love that, too. I don't watch those shows. I love those shows, too. I love those. The dude named Guy Ferrara. Guy Fieri.

Whatever the hell. I'm surprised he's still alive, to be honest with you. He eats a lot of crazy stuff. But maybe they just take a couple bites. Exactly. And there's no way he eats like that all the time. Yeah, no. There's you. He eats a lot of crazy stuff. But maybe they just take a couple bites. Exactly, and there's no way he eats like that all the time. Yeah, no, there's fatigue. There's no way. Alright, well that is your rumor report. Alright, now we got front page

news, what we talking about? Yes, let's talk about what was, well you know it is International Women's Day, so we'll discuss that some more, but also the crazy weather across the Northeast, 130,000 people, more than 130,000 people don't have power. And that's because of these crazy winds.

That was crazy last night. Crazy, crazy. All right, we'll get into that next, Mr. Breakfast. What? Why you look up, man? What's wrong with you, man? What?

It's International Women's Day. Stop it, man. I didn't even say nothing. You're about to flirt with me. I seen it all over your face. I am not. You crazy. You start hearing about wind

and blowing and talking about this crazy last night. I ain't got nothing to do with your sick thoughts, kid. It's the breakfast. Come on. This song offends me. I am offended by this song.

I love this song. Okay. Who do I cancel? All right. I'm outraged by this record. Why? You don't have that energy? Not at all.

Because this record is too pro Big D. What about us average D brothers? We're celebrating International Women's Day. We don't want women out there struggling today. Okay? Let them celebrate. Let them celebrate that big energy. All right, Lunel was up here.

Lunel said she don't got time to be having her uterus shifted. She was just trying to make you feel good. She has no idea what I'm working with, even though it's not much. Well, we all know now. But yes, you know, nobody wants anyone to be offended. But today, our International Women's Day, I am offended. We are celebrating. What about us average D humans?

You guys can celebrate that on your own day. All right. Well, let's get into front page news. Where do you want to start? Well, of course, let's start with International Women's Day, March 8th, every single year. In case you don't know what International Women's Day is, it's also celebrating and uplifting all of these missions to help forge a gender equal world.

We celebrate women's achievements. We also support increased visibility for women. We call out inequality, all of those things, which should be happening every day, by the way. But today in particular, we focus on those things. Improving equality for women in tech is one of the missions this year. You know, if you work in the tech space,

you don't see a lot of us there. Also forging women's empowerment worldwide, celebrating all the women who are forging chains, empowering women's choices in health because a lot of men are out here trying to make decisions about what we do with our bodies.

So all of those different things, building workplaces where women thrive. And this is still an ongoing fight for equality. So happy International Women's Day. And y'all make sure you guys go out there and celebrate and do something positive. Okay. All right. Now, more than 130,000 people have been without power in the Northeast as there were some

damaging winds that swept through the region. More than 65 million people from the mountains of North Carolina to Cape Cod, D.C., Baltimore, Philly, New York. They were under wind advisories overnight. They said there were gusts of up to 75 miles per hour possible. Yeah, it was wild. Tree damage, dangerous road conditions. There were 350 reports of damaging winds late Sunday through Monday night also.

They said there was hail falling in some areas. Rain was quite heavy with this system. Saturated the ground. A lot of damage. There were some tornadoes in Iowa. Seven people were killed over the weekend, including two children. Dozens of homes were impacted.

All of that going on with the weather. It was a bit wild last night. I was laying in bed. I never heard wind like that. Yeah, and I kept hearing something like creaking. Like something was about to tear. I was like, yo, what is that? It was crazy.

I've had that trampoline at my house for 15 years and never had no problem. Bolted down. When I woke up this morning, it was upside down. Sheesh. Hey, man. Climate change is real. Because, it was upside down. Sheesh. Amen. Climate change is real. Because yesterday it was like, what, 70 degrees? We're in New York for everybody listening to us around the country.

It was like 70 degrees here in New York. Then now today it's like 30 something. Yeah. And with the rain and the weather, it feels like 18 degrees. So, all right. Now, Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week. That will be the first step toward regulating how digital currency is traded.

They have raised concerns in recent weeks about Russia's use of crypto to evade the impact of all the sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine. So, as you know, the ruble, which is their money, has sunk to historic lows. And also they closed the country's stock market. Two people familiar with the process said the executive order on cryptocurrency was expected to be issued. And it had been in the works long before the war. So people were speaking on the condition of anonymity to preview the order. It's going to describe what government agencies, including the Treasury Department, need to

do so that they can develop policies and regulations on digital currencies. And they expect that to include a request for the State Department to ensure American crypto laws are aligned with those of U.S. allies. And also they'll be monitoring the stability of the U.S. financial system and studying illicit finance concerns. What does that mean? Does that mean that a lot of the cryptocurrencies are going to fall to the wayside and it's only going to be one that people focus on? No.

I don't think there ever will be one that people focus on, but they just need to regulate it because there's been a lot of concerns. You know, it's a global currency. And that's what I've been saying for a long time. It's been wild, wild west. So now that the government starts to regulate these things, a lot of people are getting over on people, hopefully won't

anymore. A lot of people lost a lot of money. A lot of people also made a lot of money, but they're going to start regulating. So we'll see how this turns out. Can you regulate all of them, though? They're going to try. I would think that you would pick one. Bitcoin is probably the most successful one

you probably regulate. No, they got to regulate all the coins and what's the value of them and what their worth is because people put money into it and there's all these schemes and scams and you put your money into it and people take their money out. You are schemes and scams and you put your money into it. And, you know, people take their money out.

You would last to know and you lose your money. So hopefully they regulate it so people, the average person don't lose. And a lot of those are like cryptos that pop up that you never heard of. So somebody is like pushing a cryptocurrency. Then they get some influencers to post about it. Then you go ahead and buy this new crypto thinking you're getting in at a rock bottom price. But that's what I mean. They're not going to regulate all of those.

They have to. The regulations will probably handle all of those. Yeah, that's illegal. That's like a pump and dump scheme. People do that with stocks and they can do that with crypto also. I think they're going to get rid of a lot of those and it's going to be like one or two that they really focus on and regulate. And that'll be the ones everybody gravitates towards. Yeah, I think Ethereum is going to be around.

I think Bitcoin will be around. Solano. There's a lot that will still be different options and different choices, but they do have to make sure. And just seeing what's happening in Russia is really showing how people are managing to evade the sanctions because they're still able to finance things using cryptocurrency. Which is good for people in Ukraine. People are sending them crypto so they're able to use it. But how do you regulate that? So we'll see what happens and we'll see what these sanctions are looking like. And that is your Front Page News. Now when we come back, we have Congresswoman

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We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. We have Congresswoman Cori Bush. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Good morning. How are you?

I'm great. Glad to be here. Absolutely. You know, I like you a lot. I watch you when you pop up on MSNBC and stuff like that. And I like you because as a member of the Democratic Party, you aren't afraid to call out the Democratic Party. Why is that? Jr. hanging up in the room next door. That's how I got into this was just feeling like we were out there on those streets of Ferguson for more than 400 days. And it was like we were doing all of that work, putting our lives on the line every single day. But we didn't have we didn't have much inside that could make change that needed to happen inside. That was that was fighting for us,

like fighting to the point of putting their name and reputation on the line and so i didn't want to be in congress to have a name or a title or to make more money or any of that i don't care about any of that i care that i'm saving lives it's black people dying every single day at the hands of police or whether it's health care disparities environmental injustice so much over and over again and i feel like if we don't address poverty head on if we just do what's comfortable people will keep dying that's right so i don't have time but what got you into politics my dad's been in politics for most of my life and so i swore i would never do it you know but it was like how do we get this change what did you see when your dad was in politics

that made you say i don't want to be involved um he was just like always giving himself so much of himself to every person that he met he was the person that would build one person at a time but so many like criticism and scrutiny and the corruption that would come around and i would wonder like why do you volunteer to do this work now i get it now i understand because i've been able to see youth that he helped when they were 16 17 their families that he helped come back to him and say because of what you did you changed my life you know and so but i just didn't want to have any parts of that i just felt like you know that can't my role. You got it now. You in the eye of the storm right now.

Yeah. So for most people that don't know, what is a congresswoman's job? What is your job day to day? I represent a district within the state of Missouri. So it's about roughly 750,000 people. Usually mine is a little less than that. And our job is to legislate, to think about what's happening in our communities. What do we need? And write bills that would affect change in that area to speak up for the district.

So I know that St. Louis is my district is St. Louis. Let me rep my city and my town. Look, and so St. Louis, usually number one or number two for homicides fluctuating year after year. Usually we are number one for police murder year after year. Number one for the murder of children. We have all of these environmental issues and so much that just attacks the black community. So for me and as the congresswoman, I'm looking at how do I make sure that I affect those things. Now, let me ask you this. We've heard people say and Charlamagne, you've said this, too, that the Democrats suck at messaging. Yes. And so in particular, defund the police always comes up. Always. Right. And so I wanted to ask you, what are some messages that you think Democrats need to get across so that people are clear on what needs to get done? You know, I think

that when we look at the American Rescue Plan last year, so much money and still money is still being allocated, being dispersed. But, you know, so much came out of the American Rescue Plan in St. Louis alone. We were able to get 700 million dollars that we wouldn't have gotten had we not had our own office not pushed to get money. It's money for housing. It was money for, you know, because so many people lost homes or needed the rental assistance. You know, it was money for health care. It was money for just going to so many different areas. You know, but we got to message them and say how that money actually affected the education

system. Money went into schools. So we got to talk about that. But we also cannot be afraid to talk about what defund the police means. You know, we cannot. And that's my issue. It's like the anger cannot be. Oh, defund the police makes people it pushes people back. It makes people feel a type of way. We don't want to say that, you know, because the Republicans are coming against us. No, you know, they don't get to tell us what our message is. Fix the problem. And then I won't have to say defund the police. Fix the problem and I won't have to talk about livable wages. Fix the problem.

And I won't have to sit here figuring out how I'm helping black women right now, because even as we're saying, oh, these great job numbers came out today. Oh, America added three hundred and seventy eight thousand more jobs, which is wonderful. But for black women, again, black women, our numbers did not get better. Our numbers got worse. Why is it that black women are the only ones whose unemployment numbers got worse? Our messaging has to target that. Why do Democrats always let the right like co-opt their slogans like defund the police instead of just simply explaining what defund the police is? Forget the slogan. Just explain what it is. Why don't they do that? Bipartisanship. You know, that's what I hear all the time. Forget the slogan. Just explain what it is. Explain it. Why don't they do that? Bipartisanship.

You know, that's what I hear all the time. Oh, it's bipartisanship. We got to make sure that we don't upset them because when they become it, when they come back into power, they're going to mistreat us. Well, they already mistreat us. They do whatever they want. They're doing that now. Right.

And they don't care about bipartisanship. No. I'm really confused on how that works. Yeah. I don't get it. As the party, we should be able to stand up. Yeah, this is what we said. This is what we mean. You know, and we take over that narrative. all that stuff so billions of dollars like it's nothing absolutely 10 billion dollars actually right now i'm looking at okay while we're talking about all of this that's happening in ukraine and russia what else is happening that is not being talked about because that's how so many things senate rejecting uh to build a codify abortion rights yeah stuff like that exactly like i haven't

like three four days ago i haven't heard nobody talking about that really yeah everything is just being like passed on you know even talking about how the black asylum seekers over in Ukraine, how they're being treated. You know, we can't get enough attention put on that, you know, but everywhere we're seeing black and brown people

being pushed to the side no matter what part of the world you're in. Can I comment on your fingernails? Your fingernails are fire, by the way. People, you know, oh, you're supposed

to change your nails and you're supposed to change your hair and all of this. I'm who I am and it's good because you use your hands a lot I do

I'm like damn we're thinking about fire who did that yeah these are still my black history nails you don't want to shout out your nail tech

oh you know but that means she's still paying full price that's why she she don't get no shout out I understand but should

so should the United States be sending over money and weapons to Ukraine? I look at this two ways. I look at it from the standpoint of the person who's on the ground, who has to move and get out of there, get out of where they are, just in case their home is bombed. So do we need to make sure that humanitarian aid is there? Absolutely. But it should not just be us.

Other countries should be helping to make sure that that is done. Because if it was us and we needed help, someone we would need someone else to help us. Weapons. You know, I'm anti-war, so I'm not for that. But I do understand. I keep going back to what if it was me? What if it was my kids and they had nothing to fight with? The thing is, for me, why are we talking about sending more weapons and more weapons? And we are not even talking about a diplomatic solution. What about a cease? What about really making it clear that we need a ceasefire?

What about talking to the allies, to those folks that do have good relationships with Russia? Why not bring them to the car? Why aren't we talking about Saudi Arabia? Why aren't we talking about some of these countries that have those relationships? Because I don't want to keep thinking about sending sending weapons because weapons hurt you know at the end of the day those weapons will hurt innocent people do you think that will end up sending troops into ukraine i thought they did already no they're they're in the neighboring countries um if the president keeps saying not i honestly don't know but i also don't think that

this is going to be something that's just going to last this year or next year this is probably going to be a decade you know or more if we don't actually do something all right we got more with congresswoman cory bush so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning charlamagne what do you think about mansion and cinema making biden looking so ineffective? Are the Biden administration just ineffective, period? You know, to have these two senators that have been able to totally disrupt his agenda, like it bothers me day to day when I think about the four million children that just went back into poverty because that child tax credit ended. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema should not be able to make decisions for the entire country, for people that don't have to live the way that other people have to live.

They don't have those same issues that other people have to face. And to make those decisions, it's rehensible that they just don't even, that nothing happens. And so they have no business being in those types of positions if they don't care about regular people. If you are so corporate backed that all you care about is those is those corporate donors then go go do that work you know um i feel like me and five of my friends people called the squad you know we stuck our necks out as much as we want the infrastructure money we absolutely want that money we want to make sure that our roads and bridges and you know all of that we want that money that was in there for climate and but when you say well we can give you this, but oh,

health care, home health workers, we don't want to we don't want to deal with that. Oh, children need child care. Oh, no, no, we don't want to pay for that. You know, we don't we don't want money for community violence prevention and we don't want to lower prescription drug costs. We don't want to cap insulin at thirty five dollars. No, we don't need all of that. We just need to take care of our roads and bridges. I have a problem with that. We stood up when the president made the phone call. He made a phone call to say, I need you all to stand with me and go ahead and vote. We have to move forward. You know, we need to get the infrastructure package. We need to get that deal done today, that vote done. I was clear and I said,. I said I wasn't supporting that.

I didn't go to Congress. I didn't run the way that I ran. After my very first run to get in Congress, I suffered a very violent rape three and a half weeks later. And I still ran. I still started running again four months later. After my second race, I was

T-boned and couldn't walk the last two and a half months of my race. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What is T-boned? Another car hit me. A car was revving up and hit me. But I still turned around and ran again. And then even I had COVID the next time when I was running.

But I still ran again because I was thinking about how do we make sure that these voices end up there that can make change, even if it hurts me? It was like, how can I turn my back on the people now? You know, and it's not that I don't respect our president. It's not that at all. But I came here to represent the people of my district. I do respect that. But, you know, sometimes they say, you know, staying busy is a trauma response. It keeps you from thinking about all the things that you're going through.

So are you okay after all of that stuff that you went through? Yeah, I'm, you know, I still, therapy is, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I have a therapist and I do things that help me to get through. So like, this is a, this is a little self-care. That's right. Yeah, well, the little things on it, these rhinestones, if I'm having a moment where I'm starting to feel triggered, then you rub on that and it helps to bring you back. Oh, yeah.

I got all kinds of tricks. So you're actively healing. Like, I got my Palo Santo here. We do all that. See, exactly. Absolutely. What can the president do right now to get some of these bills passed? Because some people feel like he's not being aggressive enough.

Yeah. So what I've been talking about with people that that I work more closely with, one of those people being Senator Bernie Sanders is just the pull outs. Like what can we pull out of that Build Back Better Act and to at least get some of these things done? So what can we do as a standalone bill? So can we do community violence prevention money? Can we pull that five billion dollars out and go ahead and get that money? You know, can we do the child care? You know, can we make sure that three and four year olds are able to go to school and the parent not have to pay anything? And so some of those just looking at how we can do that. You know, we didn't

get George Floyd justice and policing, but can we do something to get in ending qualified immunity? You know, I was just yesterday I was at a press conference with the Joseph family, Andrew Joseph, the third 14 year old who was killed in Tampa, Florida, eight years ago, eight years. His family has been fighting for justice for them, for their child and accountability, actually, for their child. But eight years and we still don't have, we're no closer to any qualified immunity. So those are things

that we need to be looking at what we can pull out from that bill, from any of the bills that we haven't gotten. We don't even have voting rights. Do you remember on the campaign trail

when Democrats actually cared about police reform? When they used to at least talk about it? Like what happened? Joe Biden didn't even mention it in the State of the Union. Yeah. What happened? You know the republicans have been able to shape the narrative just so it's to the point of no matter what you say about police reform it means defunding the police no matter

what you say about police reform it means division and for us our voice has to be louder on what it actually means. And you don't get to tell us how we can react or how we are, how we should behave or what our anger looks like or what type of policies we should push forward. You don't get to tell us that if the problem still persists, because 2021 had the highest number of police killings in the last several years. Millions of people were out in the streets in 2020 fighting for justice. And the numbers went up. Why is that? Because we're not doing what we need to do to address the problem. And like you said, if we would have heard that come across at the State of the Union the other night. That would have set the stage, set the narrative. It would have said for the rest of the year, this is

something that is a priority. Yes. They didn't even mention it. Have you gotten a response from the White House? Because I know you said that you criticized Joe Biden for not even mentioning saving black lives at the State of the Union. Have you gotten a response from them? No, I have not. I'm surprised we haven't.

But the thing is, our president and the administration, I have not. I'm surprised we haven't. Wow. But the thing is, our president and the administration, they know exactly how I feel in my conversations that I've had with the president

or the vice president or other parts of other members of the administration. I have been very clear from day one. I don't believe they were surprised.

Dems don't care about black people no more. I feel like they know they got us. Our votes are damn near guaranteed and it's just like our issues and everything else can go to the back burner. You know what ends up happening is, and this

is something that, at least this is my opinion, when I came to Congress, I was oftentimes told, well, shh, don't say those things because we got to make sure that we get our more moderate Democrats reelected because it's more important that we keep these seats than it is that we like really push in some areas.

And I can understand wanting to keep seats because we need the numbers to be able to get things done. But, you know, we can no longer push those communities to the side to be able to save seats. We got to do both at the same time. You save lives and you figure out how to communicate to save seats. But Congresswoman Bush, how is voting rights become a far left issue? The cornerstone of our democracy. How has that become a far left issue?

Why is that radical to talk about people having voting rights? When we look at the history, you know, we had to fight to get those rights in the first place. You know, it was it was definitely an issue of, you know, of what white supremacy looks like in this country. And white supremacy is not dead. It didn't go anywhere. It didn't even have to morph. It is ingrained into this society. And so what we're doing is we're pulling the threads, trying to break that apart. But when we have people who get in power and want to hold those structures, that's why that's where we get this from. We get the rhetoric that says that, you know, if we talk about voting rights, then that means that you're trying to push a black agenda.

You're pushing a black agenda. Well, the problem is when black folks and brown folks and our native community members are the ones that are targeted with the voter suppression. That can't continue to be the strategy for Dems, though, right? Dems can't always energize us to vote by telling us that our right to vote is being taken away. At some point, they should be governing like they want us to go out there and vote for them. I want to go vote for them because they're actually doing things for us as opposed to scaring me and telling me, go vote because they're trying to take your right to vote away. Yeah, yeah.

And so that's what I'm hoping. I'm hoping that at least with these pullouts that we're talking about, these standalone bills, that at least we can bring something home to say, look, these are the promises we made, so we have to deliver on them. You know, I don't blame people. I hear it all the time when they say, well, why, you know, like you told us that if we did this, that we would get these things and now those things didn't happen. And so why should I, why should I believe that something will change now? You know, I get it.

I absolutely get it. But one thing that I tell them is that your vote is not just for that one person or that one thing, you know, there are ballot initiatives on that same ballot. There are other more local people running for office on that same ballot. So I make it clear that it's so much more than I know that sometimes Congress and the presidency looks like, oh, well, they don't care about us. But is there also it's a lot of local issues there that we

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We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Congresswoman Cori Bush. Charlamagne? So why should voters vote for Democrats in the midterms when Democrats haven't gotten done what they said they would thus far? Yeah, but the alternative to that is people who are actively working against us. But then people will say,

well, Joe Manchin's actively working against us. Yeah, but they were more Democrats in the office. Yeah, it wouldn't matter run somebody against him yeah oh absolutely speak out against him absolutely

absolutely he might as well just go ahead and be a Republican you know you know you're one of the only ones that say that everybody else be scared to death to even say his name

like he's Candyman yeah you know let me tell you I from what I've seen in my life they you know they messed up by not killing me during Ferguson.

So now, yeah, they missed. And so those bullets that hit my car, they didn't hit me. They didn't hit my daughter. That happened recently, right? Well, that was another time. But what happened? Yeah, I heard about this. So just recently, somebody came up to my car door.

I was not in the car. I was inside of my home. Someone was in my car. They came up to the car. i was not in the car i was inside of my home um someone was in my car that came up to the car the person was like what are you doing um and they got spooked and they turned around and they started shooting and dumped about 10 bullets into my vehicle the person didn't get hit thank god yeah so i came running like what is happening but yeah so no we we were fine but is that a message was that did they was it random? I think it was just random.

There was no investigation or anything into that. There was no investigation. Police didn't come? I mean, they came and they took pictures. Fingerprints, nothing. How can you just chalk that up as random, though? Because I do live in a lethal, toxic environment, and we didn't catch anyone we don't know

exactly who it was and it's not the first time I happened the place where I live now I moved from the other place that my car got hit with bullets at that place right in front of my home again you know another time like I brought up that was during Ferguson though when our car was hit with bullets so you

know I've gone through so much you know I'm more afraid of what happens to our people who don't have any type of help that don't have that are looking for an advocate. When I was sleeping out on the street, I didn't know who to talk to. I was sleeping on the street with my babies in the car. We hadn't had nowhere to go and I didn't know who to talk to. I didn't know how to get out of that situation. I remember being so hungry that I was only feeding my babies and I would go for days without eating. I don't want anyone else to go through those issues. So I'm more afraid of not being effective enough to help those folks that are going to dealing with that.

Then I am about some bullets that somebody can shoot at me. Then I am about somebody hurting me and all of that. But I'm smart enough to know I got to be alive in order to do this work. So that's why I have security. Yeah. I know God protected me, but I still sleep in my gut. Look, he gives us wisdom. I only got a couple more questions. I know you got to go. But I love this tweet you put out. Democrats trying to out Republican Republicans is not a winning strategy. What did that mean? The whole idea that was another part of the whole defund the police. It was just that rhetoric and you know just making

sure that they just keep drilling those points. But not just defund the police anything like if we take the Republican talking points or if we allow them to tell us what we think or to stop us. You know when I think about the insurrection, when I think about being there that day when the insurrection happened, when these folks attacked

the Capitol, you know the next day we were right back at work still working alongside people who were involved yeah and I have to look at them every single day I'm in committees with them I'm in the halls with them they hop on the elevator like those folks are around us all in their staff around us all the time you know um and so I listening to the things that they say they talk every no matter what the conversation is about it always goes back to the border and so I listening to the things that they say, they talk every no matter what the conversation is about. It always goes back to the border and who's trying to hurt us at the border and who are the thugs and just all of this kind of craziness. Those folks aren't standing up for us. Those folks don't don't believe that it should be equal. Think about the folks that gave their lives, their blood, sweat, and tears. Think about what happened during Reconstruction.

Think about how Black Americans built enslaved Africans and then Black Americans built this country and how we still don't have what we should have from. There's been no reparations. We can't even get equity. Talk about equality. We can't even get equity to even get to equality. We ain't even hear Biden talk about that.

All of those things that they use as talking points to real black people during the campaign trail. I didn't hear him talk about racial equity during the State of the Union. Didn't hear him talk about police reform. Nothing. No. And so I talk about it. He talked about voting rights real briefly. So I'll talk about it. Congresswoman Bush, does it benefit black

people to be a part of any one particular party? Let me just say this. When my very first run, I ran as an independent. I was running as independent at first, and then I had to switch to a Democrat. I wanted to be able to go where the legislation was that meant the most for my community. But the issue is when we look at what has happened over the last even few years since Donald Trump became president, the way he ran and what he believed is not only in Congress anymore. It's

in our secretaries of state. It's in our school boards. It's all over the place. So now we're at a place where now we got to make that decision because the Republican Party is so much like there's a lot of just anti-blackness

in an anti- brown community, anti-Asian community, anti-anti-anti. So I think looking at who is going to care enough about your situation, I think right now we're still looking at the Democrats, even though it's not great. I'm not even going to lie. It's not great. But that's why I'm pushing for help, getting more folks that are willing to do that fight. You know, that's where we have to be. I often wonder nowadays, are Democrats really pro-black or are they just tolerant

of blacks? That's what it feels like. It feels like that's the party that tolerates us. But I can't call them pro-black because their actions don't show it. I think what's weaved in there, though, is still money. I sit with these people all the time and they'll talk about like, yeah, Corey, we believe that.

Yeah, we'll do that. And I say, well, why won't you? Why won't you support me on this bill? Why won't you do this? Well, see, you know, I, you know, I can't go against X or I can't. So part of it is, you know, yeah, I support those things. But because of this money that I took or because of how I ran, you know, those things. So that

comes into play. My last question, Congresswoman Bush, how would you define our democracy right now? Oh, it's suffering. Our democracy never was strong in the first place. Let's just be easy. It never was strong because when you have whole groups of people where there

is no equity and we're not equal in this country was never strong. But we're in a place now where I feel like it's being the little bit that we did have is being pulled apart, ripped to shreds. And there has been this mobilization happening that we didn't even see that we didn't know about. And so we got to come out just as hard if we want, if we want to reclaim this democracy, you know, to the point where we actually feel it should be, not just where it was, because we got to do better than what we had. If we're going to do that, we got to come out harder than we've ever been. And we've got to do this thing differently than we've ever done it. And so I'm looking for more, you know, quote unquote, warriors,

soldiers, that's willing to do that fight. Right. Well, Congresswoman Cori Bush, we appreciate you for joining us this morning. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. And it's the Breakfast Club.

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Let me shout out to, nothing makes me feel better than you speaking to your kids in the morning. Shout out to my babies and my wife. you speaking to your kids in the morning. Shout to my babies and my wife. They just dropped off for school. Little Brookie Chu, London Jackson, and of course, Peyton. All right.

Milwaukee. I ain't got that many. Syracuse. No, that's it. Stops there. Sarasota. So in school, you know, they were asking, I guess they're teaching the kids about respect and understanding. So I was asking, Brooklyn, what do you want in life?

She said, I want love and respect. That's what I want. I love the fact that the schools are really teaching them that. I like that. Made me happy. Made me happy. That's all life is about. When you're a parent, life is about your kids. All you want to do is point to your children. And when you see your children turning into well-formed humans, that makes you feel great.

Yeah, it does. 100%. It gave me a happy smile this morning. All right. Let's get to the rumors. Let's go. It's about time. What's going on?

Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Alright, well, let's talk about this mansion that's sold in LA. It's $126

million. It's LA's biggest mansion, 105,000 square feet. Who purchased that mansion? Well, that person has been revealed. Richard Segi, and he is the founder of Fashion Nova.

$141 million after all fees. That's crazy. That is crazy. Fashion Nova. 21 bedrooms. That house better be nuclear bomb proof. 105 square feet. It better have the best oxygen in the house.

105,000 square feet. What are you going to do with it? Listen, God bless him, but that's a lot for a house. What does the house do? Give me some more. He told the Times in a statement. I'm going to do with it? Listen, God bless him, but that's a lot for a house. What does the house do? Give me some more. He told the Times in a statement. I got to be able to do more than live in it. He said, the One Bel Air is a once-in-a-lifetime property that can never be duplicated.

There is nothing else like it. As a lifelong Angeleno and avid collector of real estate, I recognize this as a rare opportunity that also lets me own a unique property that is destined to be a part of Los Angeles history. Now, mind you, this house was going for $500 million. That was the asking price. What does it do? So I guess he got it for a bargain at $126 million. He did.

Is it a spaceship on the weekends? Can I visit Mars? It kind of looks like a spaceship. What does it do? I mean, it's a house. It just has every amenity that you could possibly imagine from bowling alley to movie theater, tennis courts, basketball courts.

There's, you name it, numerous bedrooms. He needs to have a lot of kids, boy. I have six of my kids who probably live in a couple of rooms. He needs like 12 kids, in-laws, all types of things in there. I mean, congratulations to him. I love it. Well, Drake is selling three homes that he has in Hidden Hills, California. And he is selling those three homes.

You can buy them all together, all three, offered at $22.2 million. And, you know, if you want to get that, you can make it happen. We told you earlier that he also just bought a new home as well that's in Los Angeles proper. I'm going to buy it in Bitcoin. You're buying in Bitcoin.

Listen, people are buying mansions with Bitcoin. Well, what Drake did with that house is dope too Because he purchased the house and he purchased the properties next to him So nobody would live next to him He has the space to put a gated vicinity around it So nobody could just run up on his property It's just wild to hear that kind of money being thrown around And people paying that kind of money for houses

When we have such a homeless epidemic in America That's just wild to me Alright and since we're talking about money, Chris Brown is listing his custom 2012 Lamborghini Aventador for $300,000. No, he sold that already. He sold it to somebody else. And the person that bought it. That person, Hermosa Motors in Los Angeles is listing it.

But that is Chris Brown's. Ex-Lambo. Yep. Ex-Lambo. I better not hear none of them people complaining about the price of gas. If I see Chris Brown or Drake or any of them people complaining about the price of gas with all that money they throwing around. Gas was $2 and change, $3 and change.

Now the fact that it's $5. You got it. All right, and Chris Rock and Kevin Hart have announced they are co-headlining a comedy tour. I love this. Rock Heart. Can't wait. Only headliners allowed. So Kevin Hart posted

breaking news, excited to announce a run of shows with Chris Rock this summer. A pre-sale starts this Wednesday at 10 a.m. with Code Comedy. I can't wait for that.

So you can go to kevinhartnation.com and you can go ahead and pre-order those starting tomorrow. He said, Chris has been a mentor of mine forever

and more importantly a brother and a friend to me in this comedy game. I can't wait to make history with him and destroy these markets. And then Chris Rock also said more dates to come. So if you can see the dates they have listed, they got Brooklyn. They'll be at the Barclays. They got Holmdale, New Jersey.

They got the Garden. They got Newark, New Jersey, the Prudential Center, and Wontaw, New York as well. And I wonder how different will Chris Rock's show be with Kevin than it will be on his Eagle Trip show. Because he's going on tour for the Eagle Trip as well this year. And isn't Kevin Hart going on tour too, right? Well, Kevin's on tour now.

Alright, well that is your rumor report. I can't wait to see both of those shows. All three of them actually. Individually. Alright, usually we do Donkey of the day but today is women

international women's day March 8th every year is international women's day I don't know what they have planned they just told me that I wasn't doing donkey of the day

I didn't even know that right so we're gonna no I'm saying I didn't know nobody told me that earlier so so who's planning with who

I don't know but we gonna figure it out when we come back but hashtag break the bias today for international women's we're going to figure it out when we come back. But hashtag break the bias today for International Women's Day. We're talking International Women's Day when we come back. All right? And the platform is all yeez. Right.

We want you guys to call in and say what you plan to do to celebrate women today. No, we wasn't doing that. And forever. We were just letting you do whatever you wanted to do. I thought we were having calls. Y'all have to produce the show, guys. I don't know what's going on. They said,

let's give Angela more work for International Women's Day. We just said, she's going to take the reins for the... No, it's not more work. It's your day.

It's knowing she's going to be able to talk about what she wants to talk about, break down International Women's Day, talk about how hard it was for her to get in industry and everything that she went through. Let me know.

Y'all ain't playing nothing. We didn't. It sounded good. I had no idea. This is not like women. Women organize and plan very much better than this. It sounds like a man put this together. Shout out to Eddie, the producer.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. International Women's Day. Good morning to all the women out there. What's happening? We appreciate Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. International Women's Day. Good morning to all the women out there. What's happening?

We appreciate you. We respect you. And we salute you. Yes. And this year's theme is hashtag break the bias. So we are celebrating women's achievements. We're also raising the awareness against biases and taking action for equality. So we're celebrating a world where difference is valued and also a world for

your bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. You know we're not there yet, okay? We're all aware of that, right? And so some of the things that people are saying, I will forge positive visibility of women. I will celebrate women's achievements. I will challenge gender stereotypes, discrimination, and bias. We will call out gendered actions or assumptions. I will help forge a gender equal world. So those are some of the themes for this year as we break the bias. We want to make sure that we continue to empower women's choices in health as it has been being challenged so much frequently. Making sure women have control over decisions about their own bodies.

Also, forging women's empowerment worldwide. This is not just something in the United States. This is a global movement. Building workplaces where women thrive. Y'all know you can create a better environment for women who are your co-workers. So make sure you do that. Elevating visibility of women creatives and improving equality for women in tech. We all know tech is the future.

So we have to make sure that there are more women involved in that space. All right. So happy International Women's Day. Yes. And let me let me shout out to a couple of women, if you don't mind. Let me shout out, of course, to my wife, who is the love of my life. One of the CEOs of my life. She is the CEO of your life.

And my daughter as well, who's another CEO of my life and my BFF and my pain in the ass. I love my little daughter. My wife is my mother as well. I'm not giving none of my daughter's CEO status yet. Oh yeah, alright. My daughter runs these things. My mother as well who is the teacher and the nurturer and the worrier. She's the one

that worries all the time. Let me shout out to Thea Mitchum. That's our boss up here. Salute to her. Alright, Let me shout out to Thea Mitchum. That's our boss up here. Salute to her. All right. Shout out to Thea. She makes things move in here. And I want to shout out to Benz. I thought this was my break.

No, I'm sorry. I was just shouting out a couple of women. All I hear is patriarchy. That's all I heard. All I saw was patriarchy. I'm just shouting out women. I just saw him just co-op, just straight up co-op everything that you was just saying. Just took it from you.

That's the last one, Benz. That's what I saw. Just shouting out women in my life, that's all. But yes, and I think for so many of us, our mothers are the main person who we learn so much from at an early age. Shout out to my mom who works hard to this day, okay? And she won't stop.

She works seven days a week. So shout out to my mom, Celeste. Technically, daddies won't stop because of Puff Daddy, but never mind. I mean, I hear so many stories. It's International Women's Day. Stop cutting off. That's your problem.

You're rude. I hear so many stories about women who work two or three jobs just to make sure that there's food on the table. Also, come home and take care of the household. So, shout out to you. We love and appreciate you. Okay. And, yeah, just a lot of women.

I feel like I'm surrounded by women all the time. Shout out to the ladies of lip service too. And that show was started really just to celebrate women and also make sure that we had a space that was safe where we could talk about anything we wanted to when it came to relationships, when it came to sex. There's so many different taboos and restrictions when it comes to women discussing things about ourselves.

So I find that show to be really empowering. And so just so much going on and we want to hear your stories as well. And actually coming up, we have two amazing women who will be joining us for International Women's Day. We have Kim Delaney. She's the Director of Education and Programs at the DuSable Museum of African American History from Chicago. Also, Yvonne Mbenafo. She's a filmmaker, a cultural consultant, and historian.

And they're here to talk about Equiano stories. And I don't know if you guys have seen this, but it's basically a movie that's on Instagram. This is the second of the series that they're doing these Stilo stories. And so it's an award winning film studio. And basically what they're doing is they're telling a story that's based on truth about a young boy named Equiano who was kidnapped and enslaved in West Africa in 1756. But it shows what his life was like before he was kidnapped, before he was enslaved. And you get to actually watch him tell his story through social media on Instagram. And so it's great for kids to be able to relate to these stories today. It's really,

it's hard to watch at certain parts, but I do feel like it's really educational so when you watch these stories on Instagram you can follow Equiano dot stories and see everything but it's over 400 people were on the cast in making this and it's a multi-million dollar production but it's done in a really special way on Instagram

so I want to celebrate these women and they're here to talk about Equiano stories coming up next on The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. 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,

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Got it? Live, love, mess. Listen to Mess with Sydney Washington and Marie Faustin on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We have some special guests joining us today. I can't wait to hear this.

We have Dr. Kim Delaney. Huh. Yes. And we have Yvonne Bonneville. Bonneville. Oh, my gosh. I was close. Yeah, you were close.

That's how it's spelled. It's the M, the M. Bonneville. Oh, my gosh. I was close. Yeah, you were close. That's how it's spelled. It's the M, the M. Bonifo. Well, welcome, guys. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. Now, tell us about...

We're talking about these Equiano stories. Equiano stories. Yeah, we've been watching it, and it's pretty dope how you guys have been putting it out there and creating these movies. So creative. So for people that don't know, explain what these are. Equiano Stories is part of a series of movies we're trying to make at Stellar Stories. So Stellar Stories, the first series is a series of 10 remarkable young people throughout history. So we're trying to get the history to the people. And our main target are young people.

And the best place to get them is where they are which is social media that's why we tried that we're trying this new genre of you know boy with the phone girl with the phone kind of storytelling so that we've removed that idea of a director so you know it's as if they're talking to you one-to-one so we believe that's the easiest way to get to people and get people to learn without realizing they're learning how did this idea come about because it's fascinating to me watching these instagram stories that are really educating you but also entertaining you so whose idea was this tell me how this whole thing happened um

well that was before i joined stellar stories because i'm an executive there but um from what the founders said like they've been doing research thinking of ways to you know break that chain of if you don't read a book you you don't learn history so i think from research and then finding out what's out there and you know kind of you know thinking of out of the box ways to you know make movies accessible to everyone so that's how you know it just came about and then with the first film the first film was um eva stories which is a story about um a young girl eva hayman who lived during the holocaust and you know we turned her diary into a movie. So for each one we make,

we perfect our craft. And how long is the movie? It's 80 minutes in total for Equiano movies. And why do you put it on? I've seen it, and I love the stories that I was watching. But why on the story? Because in the story,

after 24 hours, it disappears. For Instagram, it doesn't disappear yeah so you can set in such a way that it's there it's like underneath you know underneath your picture yeah so it's it's there that's why we chose that and um we also have it on we're about to launch it um tomorrow on tiktok as well because um one of kim's people said oh why why isn't it on tick tock what we do a low stellar stories we try to be reactive and we're

not stuck to one kind of technology or platform where the people are we go there now you know everything is of course it's cost right and although you guys are doing such a great thing it has to be paid for somehow some way uh usually when you sell it to a you know tv show or something like that there's commercials that pay the bills so how are you guys you know getting money is it donations to make sure that you guys can continue to tape and travel and do all those things? It's being funded. What we're trying to do is we're trying to get our name out there because we're not Disney, but we're trying to get to Disney level. Okay.

So the only way, what we're trying to do is to get our name out there and then we start, you know, for now we're not commercializing it because first and foremost, you know, the first one was a Holocaust. Second one about enslavement, which are very sensitive topics. commercializing it because um first and foremost you know the first one was a holocaust second one um about enslavement which are very sensitive topics so we're not commercializing that yeah it's funded by a philanthropist yeah her name for that philanthropist it's a multi-million dollar project yeah it's a dream come true for disabled and for myself i'm a retired professor of african american studies this particular story is a story

that I learned in FM Lit and then taught in FM Lit. So when it came to us to partner and consult on it, it was like a dream come true, especially on somebody else's dollar. That's what I told them. This is the best project I ever worked on because somebody else is paying for me to live my dream and teach African American studies to the world. So this is a true story. Let's talk about the story of Equiano. Yeah. So Equiano was a child in West Africa, right, in Nigeria, in Igbo land.

And he was born in 1745. In 1756, he got kidnapped into slavery. But what's so beautiful about this story, what's different about this story, is that normally the story starts in slavery. The power of this story and why I'm on the project is because when we tell our own stories, we start with humanity, right? So he told his own story.

He was the first person to write his own slave narrative, right? The difference in his narrative and other narratives you see is that he begins it in Africa. We see the love of his family. We see culturally specific things. And in all the years that I taught African-American studies, that's what I loved most about the story, that it started with his family. And that's what we wanted to tease out. So this, our particular telling of this story starts at age 11 and it ends at age 11 it's just that 11 year old period of him as Yvonne said all of the stories Stella are attempting to tell with this particular project they've committed to 10 stories all told through the eyes of children

so we're passing the mic to kids to tell their own stories Ava told her own stories and now Equiano is telling his own story. Yeah, you get to see him with his mom, with his sister, living at home, you know, celebrating, having fun.

Absolutely. Having fun, getting embarrassed by his parents dancing. And most of all, we also want to, youths of today, to relate to, you know,

people that lived before. Right. So that they can say, oh, they lived normal lives. I can relate to that to you know people that lived before so that they can say oh they really lived normal lives I can relate to that you know hanging out with friends going on sleepovers right and he's actually talking like he's doing his Instagram stories like I'm doing today but you get to see it all play out and it was hard because I knew what was gonna happen yeah you know when they're like do not talk to those people he told you don't talk to those people that's what's hard and yeah so i'm like man you you know what's powerful though that's the hard part but the powerful part is to at the end we tell how he was successful so he was able to save enough money to buy his own freedom right and then he did today what we would call

crowdfunding where he went to people and got money and self-published his own book. To be popular, a book had to do two runs. His book did nine. And then he used that power that he garnered to help end slavery, which England had the highest slave trade industry at the time. He used the power that he got from self-publishing, crowdfunding his book to help end slavery. All right. When we come back, we have more with Dr. Kim Dulaney and Yvonne Benet. For when we come back, it's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Well, where can people watch this so we can let them know how to find it? Okay. So, um, right. Equiano. The full movie right now is on Instagram. And it's, um, the handle is Equiano.stories E-Q-U-I-A-N-O

.stories and like I mentioned before it's going to be, we're going to start releasing it on TikTok and they've agreed to put us on the Discover page so that's the where everything's trending, where everything's happening

and they're expanding they're expanding. Yes. They're expanding their Black Twitter. You know, it was Black Twitter Month because Black History Month. I'm not Twitter. Black TikTok. Because of Black TikTok. Because of Black History Month.

But they saw the project and so believe in the project that they're extending that. Right. It is amazing to watch when I tell you just the story that you told and like you said I mean I knew that what was about to happen but I didn't know it was a real story I love the way that it started I love the fact that he was resilient overcame like you said it is like something to be proud of thank you you know the other thing when the when the story was told it's so funny to me that uh like when he saying, are they going to eat us? Remember when he said that?

So when I was teaching, when I first came across the story, you see all these horrific slave movies or slave stories that we had to read. Right. And then I came across this story where he's saying, I didn't understand these people. Like we always wash our hands before we eat. And then he said,

so it was funny to me that in a way, he's not being disrespectful. Right. But he's saying, look, we're not the savages. We wash our hands before we eat. We don't,

y'all doing bad stuff to each other. I'm wondering like, are y'all going to eat us? What's up? You know. I know how kids talk. They just, you know,

say what they feel. Yeah. Can I just put in that during the filming of this movie, we were at 400 um cast and crew wow from all walks of life and at every point of this the shooting of this film everyone cried at some point yeah we cried working on it we cried walking on it it didn't matter whether

you were the snake catcher because we had snake catchers. The village was built in the middle of a forest. So every morning the snake catchers would come around and check for snakes and things like that. I wouldn't want that job. No, no, no. Me neither. Let me add to that in Chicago. Yeah, man. I would be like, help.

You know how to turn the camera off. Give me a minute, you know, because it's too much. It was too much at times when we have to dig in and find a way to explain it. We don't want, you know, trauma porn and re-injury of people. So how, but we got to absorb it and then find a way to release it, you know, in a

way that's respectable. But at the Sable Museum in Chicago, we have a brand new exhibit that accompanies it. It's awesome. We have pieces from our own collections uh danny dunson is a curator of that and brenda and martin built that is absolutely awesome so uh if people are in chicago or come to chicago stop by and see that it's a whole exhibit it's it has what looks like a phone on the wall and shows parts of the movie

on the wall in there with the artifacts that are placed in there. The film is best viewed on the phone, on the cell phone because that way you get the real power

of the filming of the film. You feel as if you're in there with Okwiano and experiencing what he's experiencing. And you don't have to watch the whole thing at once

but it's hard to put your phone down. Right, right. But it is true that you can like, if you have't have to watch the whole thing at once, but it's hard to put your phone down. Right, right. But it is true that you can, like, if you have other things to do, you can do that and come back to it. It's 18 minutes long, so you can sit down and watch.

You can sit down. Listen, also his voice, it means the voice that echoes. So we want to thank you all today for passing the mic and giving us space. And you all are now helping with us to have this voice echo all these years later. Again, he wrote the book and published it in 1789. Wow.

And all these years later, here, this story is so relevant to you all for sharing it. I feel like I'm in another movie out of this. Well, we can't say, but somebody had the option to do it. Somebody very famous. Will Smith made the trailer for us The trailer for the movie for us Colin Kaepernick has commented Offset commented

That was dope to me Offset yeah that was cool Who else Was it a result of this Of the film Oh no no Yeah a result of us working on the film Of you guys doing the acting

Yes and somebody said It'd be cool to tell this whole story. Oh, I'm ready. And so I heard that he's working. I was predicting that right away. I was like, somebody's about to make this into a feature. It's a stellar story. And the Sabo Museum worked together on that.

We're very proud of it. And again, we appreciate you all for that. You should be proud of it. It's amazing. Thank you so much. We thank you all for flying in to share this with us so we can share it with our audience. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Well, Nas has been named in a lawsuit, and that's all because he posted a picture. It was Nas, Tupac, and Redman outside a club, Amazon, in 1993. And that picture was from noted photographer Al Perriera, and he posted that without permission or licensing the work. He uploaded that to his personal Instagram account.

Yeah. I mean, I heard Snoop talk about it yesterday. We have Snoop's audio. Snoop was upset about it. And think about it like this. You take a picture. Somebody takes a picture of you. That's your likeness.

That's your face. You can't post your own picture? That's an old hustle, though. They got me for that, like, years ago. Like, I posted a picture somebody took on my Instagram page. Or maybe it was Breakfast Club that posted it. Whoever posted it, they definitely hit up.

On Instagram? Yeah. This is where Nas posted the picture, on Instagram. So he didn't get paid for it. And he's in the picture. He didn't get paid?

No, you don't get paid for it. No, I mean, Nas didn't get paid for that. No, he did not get paid. No, it's just on Instagram. And now, even like when iHeart posts stuff,

they won't post any pictures that they haven't either licensed the use or they don't have exclusive use for. That's probably because of when they hit me. Yeah. And they had to pay for that. But it's not just them. I mean, it's a lot. Like they can't post anything. It's an old hustle. Photographers have been doing.

They gotta stop that. It's hard because they can have a picture of you. You don't have to sign anything. And they own that picture of you. And then they can do whatever they want with it. And this same photographer is the same one who sued, I think it was Kylie and Kendall Jenner for using photographs he took of Tupac and Biggie as part of a clothing line. Now, you can't do that, which I understand.

But I also feel like that should more go to the family, too. All right. Now, Keisha Cole is on TV One's Uncensored. And one story she's talking about is actually being good friends with Eve, but Eve stopped hanging out with her. Here's what happened. It took a long time to learn to not put my hands on people. It was a thing that happened with Eve that, you know, we walking out and somebody grabbed her bag or something like that. And, you know, I just kind of turned around and slapped the girl, you know, it's like, girl,

what are you doing? You know what I'm saying? Like, period, like back up, you know? And Eve is really pissed off about that. Like we stopped hanging out. Like she was like, I can't hang with Keisha. Like she can't be slapping people. I was like, wait, I'll slap somebody for you. What the fuck is this? But I just, you know, I should have left that to security. Somebody gets paid for that. You know what I mean? Hey, listen, man. I think we all learned that, though. Hey, man, I appreciate all my friends that are willing to put hands on

people for me. All right? Male and female. All right? We'll figure it out later. No. No. That was early on. Now that doesn't work like that. We'll figure it out later. Because guess what? Even if it's your security, you still gonna get held liable regardless. If it's your security and you're walking and somebody does you something just because security puts hands on the person don't make you any more or less liable. Security tries

to de-escalate the problem most times. But, you know, we all had that one friend that'll swing first and usually get you in trouble. Got me in trouble many a time. I'm sure it's got you in trouble. In this era, somebody reaching for a pocketbook. That's my pocketbook. In this era, I don't know if you're trying to rob me or not. I don't have time to de-escalate.

I'm going to punch you in your face. Slow things down. You better not. You say that to that person, get snatched, and you run off. You snatched my purse, I'm assuming. All right, now let's talk about Skip Bayless versus Nina and Russell Westbrook.

Now, Skip Bayless and Russell Westbrook clearly don't have the best relationship. Now, Skip Bayless was talking about a time when he actually had to hire security to go back to his own hometown. As we roll toward those finals, death threats from Thunder fans in my hometown of Oklahoma City, real, live, hardcore death threats. I thought legitimate death threats, but I passed them along to ESPN security who came back to me. Yep, legit need to be taken seriously. So as we are about to venture to Oklahoma City, my hometown, they had to hire

me a bodyguard, a bodyguard. Now, Russell Westbrook's wife, Nina Westbrook, is saying that she and her family have been subjected to death wishes. She said, if you're a public figure, you have to be responsible for the type of example you set. Unfortunately, you must keep in mind the consequences of your behavior. When I'm being harassed on a daily basis over basketball games and I'm having obscenities and death wishes for me and my family sent my way because you're expressing your, quote, truth. It's hard for me to get on board with that. And that's all because Skip Bayless always has a lot to say about Russell Westbrook, and here's a compilation of some of those things.

Well, you're stuck with Russell Westbrook. We are, Skip. What do you want me to do about that? I don't know. Could we just display the magnitude of the 10 turnovers by running through them quickly? This is Russell Westbrook on display last night turning the basketball. What was that? That's just crazy. Ron James still has one big fly in his soup.

One big fly, and I first guessed this. I don't think you can overcome Russell Westbrook. He is completely out of control. And, of course, he Westbrooked the free throw. I'm more mad that he called him a big-ass fly in somebody's soup. But, you know, I get what Russell is saying about his last name. He's very upset about that. But that's how fans are.

They love you when you balling. They slandering you when you down. And the only thing that changes the name Westbrook is if Russell Westbrook starts balling. Well, Russell Westbrook's wife, Nina Westbrook, goes on to say, I don't do the things I do to receive attention, to get clicks, or for show. This is not a game to me. Basketball is a game. This is my life, my children's lives, and my family's life.

Shaming anyone for any reason is never the answer. My hope is that the amazing and talented players that come after him don't have to be subjected to this type of shaming, name-calling, and public scrutiny for playing the game that they love. And Russell Westbrook also spoke about this in a press conference. Here's what he had to say about his wife. You know, I 100% stand behind my wife and how she's feeling because it's not just about this year.

Right now, she's reached a point, and my family has reached a point to where it's really weighing on them. And it's very unfortunate just for me personally, because this is just a game. The moment it becomes where, you know, my name is getting shamed, it becomes an issue. The only reason the name is getting shamed, though, is because of Russell Westbrook's play. The only thing that's going to change this is your play on the court. You're not going to stop fans from slandering you when they're upset

that you're not balling for their team. It's just not going to happen. Everybody gets it. You think of LeBron at the beginning of time? Like, every player in every sport gets slandered like this when they're not performing. So the only thing that's going to change that is your play. Alright. Well, that is your rumor report.

Damn, on International Women's Day, I can't end my rumor report. We're late, but go ahead. Alright, well, thank you so much. That is your rumor report presented by me, Angela Yee on International Women's Day. MV? You see how MV disrespects you? That's why it's good to have friends that'll slap somebody for you. See? And when we come back after the mix, Cerise Castle will be joining us.

She's a crime-fighting journalist out of L.A. She's going to be talking about some of the gangs within the police department. Deputy gangs. Deputy gangs. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Police gangs. Police gangs.

Deputy gangs. Do they have names? They have all kinds of names. We've got the Executioners, for one. The Cavemen. The Vikings. Tasmanian Devils, Cowboys, Pirates. There's

a ton. Man, that's got to be a dangerous job for you. They got to hate you. Oh, 100% they hate me. I mean, matter of fact, just on Monday night, the Sheriff of Los Angeles County did an hour-long radio show where he just spent an hour bashing me and threatening me.

That's not the first time that happened. He actually threatened to post my home address the sheriff yes that is crazy it's it's crazy and so do people support this sheriff initially yes um initially he campaigned as a progressive um and he was able to get the support of the Los Angeles County Democrats. But once he got into power, he's started doing all kinds of, frankly, really bad things. We've seen an increase of deputies killing civilians since our sheriff has been elected, as well as an increase of deaths inside the jails. And our sheriff, he really thinks that this is OK. He said twice now that every police shooting across the United States is justified. Wow. So why? I'm sure somebody asked why when he said that. So what was his reasoning?

Well, he doesn't really give a reason. He's very much of the belief that the police are just justified in anything they do, whether that's shooting an unarmed black man 33 times like they did Frederick Holder or sitting by while someone like Jelani Lovett overdoses in a solitary cell in jail. Wow. And just to bring it back to how Cerise actually came up,

we were talking about, one of our listeners called in about Frederick Holder and it was a case that we hadn't even heard about, which is a shame because there's so many things that happen that go under the radar because there's so many things that happen. And I don't want us to ever get numb to what goes on. But like you said, he was an unarmed black man on the highway. He was shot 33 times. They shot at him 33 times. He was hit 17 times by gunfire. He was shot almost at point blank range with an assault rifle. There are pictures of his autopsy that you can see, and they have actually shot his mouth off. The deputies that did this to him are still on patrol. They have not been disciplined at all.

And that's the case in so many of these shootings. Just this year, it's only March, right? The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has already killed four civilians this year. I was going to ask, what got you into this? Was it something that was affecting your family? Or were you tired of seeing something on television? What got you working so hard on this? Well, I grew up in Los Angeles.

I've always known about sheriff's gangs. Growing up, I would hear it from my friends, my teachers, my mom. They would always tell me, yo, be careful because these police out here are in gangs. Watch out for the white ones with the bald heads. Those are probably Vikings. And it was something that always interested me. And I've always been a bit of a nerd. You know, I go to the library. I love to read books. So yeah, you know, so I'd always be going and trying to find out who these gangs are, what are they doing and what do they want? But there really wasn't anything there. There weren't too many newspaper articles, and there definitely wasn't any books.

So fast forward to 2020, I was working at a local radio station, and I was out in the streets covering the protest that had erupted in response to the murder of George Floyd. And while doing my job, I was actually shot with a less lethal munition by a police officer. Really? Yeah. Rubber bullet? Rubber bullet straight on my arm. And the resulting injuries, I fell down, I hurt myself pretty bad. And I had to be on bed rest for six months. I couldn't get up. I couldn't walk. I was in a cast on crutches. But I didn't want to just sit back and rest because we were in a moment. And I think we're still very much in this moment I wanted to make sure that I was doing something to contribute and to you know raise awareness so I thought to myself you know what I should start researching those deputy gangs a couple of days after I got shot an 18 year old by the name of Andres Guardado was killed by two alleged deputy gang members in the gang called

the executioners and it came out pretty quickly that the two deputies that shot him were alleged gang members trying to get into the gang because that's how you get in. You get in by killing a civilian. So a cop gets into a gang, a cop gang, allegedly by killing a civilian. That's correct. This is so interesting to me because people already look at the police as a gang, like in general.

Right. But to know that there's subsidiaries inside of the police force. What do the actual police say about this? When y'all bring this to the police's attention and you say there's deputy gangs, what do they say? Well, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, he said multiple times that I made this all up just to get rich. I have not gotten rich off of this. If anything, this has put a target on my back. Yeah. What is the benefit to it really for you personally?

No, I mean, that's, I mean, Eric Alexander, you come highly recommended. Thank you. She was like, you got to have Sharice on the show. But she was saying because they want to increase the profile because you have become a target. I have, yes. The sheriff has spoken about me multiple times

in many press conferences. They also attempted to arrest me at a press conference that I attended. Just two weeks after I finished publishing the series detailing the deputy gangs, I went to a press conference hosted by the sheriff's department, and I was there probably for 10 minutes, and I was surrounded by sheriffs. They tried to drag me behind the Hall of Justice and I don't know what was the charge. They didn't say nothing. Do you think

that the more you put your face out there the safer and I'm putting safer in quotation the safer you become? I think so. I think keeping the profile high and you know letting them know that I'm going to keep talking about this. Nothing is going to shut me up. Will keep me safe. Now for people who want to read about this, you did.

Is it a five part? Fifteen. Fifteen part. Fifteen part. It's long, but it's worth the read. And it just goes to show that this has been going on for so long. These deputy gangs have been around in Los Angeles for at least 50 years. And I'm the first person to chronicle this history.

This is stuff that they don't want you to know. But this is stuff that everyone in Los Angeles and even outside of Los Angeles, you need to know because these deputy gangs, they don't play. We're still talking with Cerise Castle. She's a crime-fighting journalist out of LA. She's telling us about the gangs inside the police department. Sounds like Spider-Man.

Right? Crime-fighting journalist. And we'll talk to her more when we come back at the Breakfast Club. Good morning when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still talking with Cerise Castle.

She's a crime-fighting journalist out of L.A. And we were just asking her about how difficult it was to talk to members about the police games. Yeah, well, did people want to talk on the record? Were they willing to do that, or people want to talk on the record? Were they willing to do that or were they very nervous off the record? Yeah, so I got a couple of deputies that spoke

to me off the record or on deep background, but for the most part, yeah, most of them are really scared to go on the record because they get threatened. They get death threats. You're talking about other police officers? Other police officers that want to speak out about what these deputy gangs are doing and the control that

they have in the department. They get targeted too. One of my sources had a headless rat placed on his car. Yeah. Now, what proof do you have, Sharice, that these deputy gangs exist? You know what I mean? When you make claims that they

kill a civilian to get into the gang, that's a big claim. So what proof do you have? Well, I've got photos of hundreds of tattoos that these deputy gang members have. They're all numbered. They have different designs. And as their police career goes on and they hurt

or kill more civilians, you can see in the photos how the tattoo changes. Maybe a bullet is added to the chamber of a gun that the skeleton of the executioner is holding. Also, there's a lot of litigation, right? That's how I found out all this stuff. Los Angeles County actually tracks every case that is brought to the county that mentions deputy gangs.

So for example, Andres Guardado, his family brought a claim saying, yo, your deputy gangs, you know, killed our son. And the county actually tracks that. They have a spreadsheet of all these cases. It's like 60. So they know that this is happening, but no meaningful action or policy change has been made. But there have been lost. How much has this cost? About one hundred million dollars. And that doesn't come out of the sheriff's department either. That comes from taxpayers. Right. Right. So they're just white gangs or they're black gangs or they're Mexican or Latino. Like, or is it just primarily white gangs? So all of the gangs have white supremacist themes and underleanings. Definitely. There are some only Latino gangs. For the most part, they do not

allow black people to join. They do not allow women to join. There are some exceptions and what they'll do if you're black, maybe they'll change the tattoo a little bit. For example, the Vikings, they had a Viking tattoo, but if you were black, instead of two horns pointing up on the helmet, they would have one horn pointing down.

Not really sure what that means, but there you go. The L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva? Yes. He's facing calls for impeachment from community organizations. Yes. What are the reasons? Well, he doesn't think anything is wrong with this. He's said both that deputy gangs don't exist exist and he also says that he's the only

person that has done anything about deputy gangs which one is it exactly so that's that can't be the only reason they're impeaching them though right yeah well it's a big reason okay okay um you know he has not he supports deputies that you kill people. And as I mentioned at the top, we've seen a huge increase in civilians that are killed. And he is fine with that. He supports these deputies. He doesn't discipline them. He allows them to continue to be on the street. If they do impeach the sheriff, who do you think is qualified to replace him and clean up such a corrupt system?

I don't even know if that's... You gotta fire everybody, really. I don't know if that system can ever be cleaned up. I think it needs to be dismantled. People always say there's good cops, right? And there's just a few bad apples. But even with, quote, good cops, can you even exist within that system? No. Not in this system. I mean, I've talked to a few good cops and they've been pushed out because they tried to do the right thing. Is there somebody you think could replace him?

Well, that's the interesting thing. We are in an election year this year in Los Angeles. We do have several candidates running. Interesting point is that more than half of the candidates that have entered the field are also affiliated with deputy gangs. Yikes. How do you get an internal investigation going? Because that's never happened either, you said. It has not.

No. It's and that's never happened either, you said. It has not, no. It's, and that's a great question, Angela. Maxine Waters has sent multiple letters to the Department of Justice requesting a federal probe into this. We haven't heard anything back yet. I'm steady hoping that the Fed show up because- It's like an emergency.

It is an emergency. People are dying out here in incredibly violent ways. I don't even trust the feds, though. The feds could have internal gangs. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, that's a good point. The feds did come and investigate the sheriff's department in 2013, I believe. And that actually resulted in our then sheriff and undersheriff, who is the number two going to federal prison. I'm going to ask who has your back? Who's the one that that supports you and make sure that you're OK in L.A. while you're running around and you're doing what's right? I have a great community. You mentioned Maxine Waters. I didn't know if that was part of your

Maxine Waters is a great supporter. Who's your gang, Sharice? My gang. I'm not affiliated. But I have a good community. You know, the families that have unfortunately lost loved ones at the hands of these deputy gangs are really great to me. They're really thankful that I'm out here telling their stories. I also want to shout out my girlfriend. She takes great care of me and she's been my rock through all of this. And yeah, I mean, I really couldn't do it without the community trusting me and, you know, supporting me through this because it is tough. Now, how can people support you and make sure that they support what you're doing or even help if they can? Yeah, I appreciate you asking. I would want everyone to check out the series.

It's available at LASdgangs.com we also have a database on there where you can actually look up and see all of the police all of the sheriff's deputies i should say that i have identified that are either full-fledged members in these gangs or associates you can follow me on twitter i'm at cerise castle i'm on instagram at your majesty i would also implore all of the listeners to learn about qualified immunity because exactly that's what makes it so that when a police officer kills your loved one, they aren't responsible. You can't personally sue them or get, you know, damages. And we also have to do something about the police officer bill of rights that makes it so when a police officer does something that could be a crime, they get to review all the evidence with a union representative and a lawyer while they're at work. And if the charges aren't filed in a year, they get to walk free.

I never heard of police officer Billeroy. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I'm actually taking all this information and I'm going to be doing a podcast on I Heart Radio called Tradition of Violence. It's going to be all about these deputy gangs and going into a lot more detail. Well, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

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