Kamala Harris, Nelly & The Disrespect Black Women Endure

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Dr. Nsenga Burton:

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A black Executive Perspective.

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Now presents need to know with

the award-winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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Dr.

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Burton, what do we need to know?

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Good afternoon and welcome

to Need To Know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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I am she.

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Today I'd like to talk to you about

a washed up rapper named Nelly who,

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uh, has come under Under fire for, um.

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Saying negative things about Kamala

Harris, namely that, uh, he's more black

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than she is 'cause he married a black

woman and she's married to a white man.

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So I don't even really know to start

where to start 'cause Nelly has just

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been problematic his entire career.

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Um, whether you talk about, uh,

the misogyny in his music, whether

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you talk about, you know, the

fact that he lost a sister, um.

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And really needed black women to

donate bone marrow to save her.

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And it just didn't happen.

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Um, and not because people were

like, I'm not gonna give it to him.

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But if people were gonna do that,

they weren't gonna do it for

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someone who just continues to say

negative things about black women.

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So then he circled the black and

he and Ashanti are back together

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and you know, we kind of love it.

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Like people like that they got

back together and all of that.

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It's really sweet.

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Story.

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Um, so we are not, you know, totally

hating on Nelly, but then he does stuff

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like performs for 47 and his inauguration.

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Um, you know, and doesn't see why

that's a big deal, even though you

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know it's problematic when you're

a black man supporting a white

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nationalist white supremacist who's

in bed with working with other white

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nationalists and white supremacists

and has been, um, doing everything he

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can to enact policies and laws that dis

disenfranchise your people, black people.

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Um, erase us from history.

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That means Nelly, you're not gonna be in

there for your hot and here single, you're

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Grammy, you are not gonna be in there.

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Um, erasing black people history, um,

and all the things that is hap that he's

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doing, including this big beautiful bill,

which a lot of those, um, things that

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happen are gonna impact black people.

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Whether you are a mom, uh, you're a

veteran, um, you're a college student, all

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of that is going to negatively impact you.

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So the fact that Nelly just won't

fall on the sword and just say.

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I was wrong or hey, I did it, it

probably wasn't the best decision.

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I needed the money, or I wanted the money.

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It was too good to walk away.

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That would be like acceptable to me.

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Like, 'cause that's keeping

it real and being honest.

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But whenever you, um, pivot or you try to

deflect and then blame a black woman like

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Kamala Harris who hasn't, you know, who

allegedly hasn't done anything for black

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people, but put black people in jail.

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So what I need you to know is

that Kamala Harris actually

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was prosecuting sex crimes.

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So all you people who keep going online

talking about she put my cousin in jail,

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stop telling your cousin's business.

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'cause that means they

probably were a sex offender.

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She also, uh, prosecuted

crimes against, um, uh, uh, the

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environment, environmental crimes.

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So those were the two groups

of crimes that she prosecuted.

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So, you know, unless your

cousin is a tree or something.

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You proud, you know, if you, your

cousin was out there burning down trees,

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starting fires and shit in California,

and we know what that looks like.

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They probably went to jail.

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So this idea that she was just, you

know, going around and just, you

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know, just, uh, corralling black men

and throwing 'em in jail is false.

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Um, and then the black men who did

go to jail needed to go to jail.

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'cause, you know, sexual crimes

should be prosecuted and those are

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the people we actually want in jail.

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We want them in prison.

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Um, and then, you know, she also

started the, the nation's first.

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Um, program to help, um, low

level offenders get back into

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the workplace, the workforce.

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Uh, so she's done some incredible things.

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We're not gonna even talk about

the billions of dollars of

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student debt that she canceled.

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We're not gonna talk about

the $170 billion she gave to

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HBCUs on her way out the door.

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Um, we're not gonna talk

about the legislation.

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She, uh, helped pass, um, when they

were, uh, white nationalists, white

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supremacists, you know, Donald Trump's

people, Nelly, them people, um, were

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threatening to bomb HBCUs, uh, including

the one where my nephew was at the time.

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Um, so Kamala Harris has done

a lot of great things that we

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can continue to talk about.

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Um, um, but I don't wanna talk about that.

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I wanna talk about you jackass.

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I wanna say this.

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First of all, people can date

and love who they wanna love.

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That doesn't make them less black,

doesn't make them more white.

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It doesn't make them more white

or black or Latinx or whatever.

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Life is short.

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You should be with

whomever you wanna be with.

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Secondly, as we see with you, 'cause you

are a black man, just because you are

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black doesn't mean that you are for us.

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So a lot of people married to

black people who are not for them.

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I don't know your business.

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I don't know your situation.

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I'm just gonna pray very hard for

Ashanti and your children, because

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your record was women and I'm not,

I'm talking about the arrests.

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Yeah.

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Uhhuh and the claim claims of sexual

abuse and battery the three times.

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Yeah.

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You should not be, you don't have

a leg, a kickstand to stand on.

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You just don't have it.

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So what you should not do is talk

about women ever just shut up.

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And talk about your life.

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You talk about your sister.

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You seem to be a good dad

from your previous job.

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Um, so you have great

relationship with your children.

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It looks like that.

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Anyway, um, so focus on that and stay

outta politics and not, because, you know,

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I'm not one of those people who, like

celebrities shouldn't be in the politics.

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Celebrities can do whatever they want.

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They're human beings.

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Citizens of the United States

can do whatever they want.

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You can participate, but please know

what the hell you're talking about.

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And stop deflecting.

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And if you really wanna be a good

role model to your children, be a man.

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And say, listen, that probably

wasn't the best decision to make.

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If I had to do it again, maybe I

wouldn't, but this is why I did it.

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And stop trying to throw other people

under the bus who haven't done anything

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to you and have done 2 billion times more

for our community than you have done ever.

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So your little foundation is cute and

all, but yeah, until you cancel, uh,

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$180 billion in student debt debt.

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Positively impacted black people's lives.

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Everybody's lives, not just

us, a lot of students' lives.

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And so you put that $180 billion

into HBCUs, shut the fuck up.

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That's all I have to say.

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So, um, tune in next week to

A black Executive Perspective

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podcast with Tony and Chris.

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It's award-winning.

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You should definitely tune in and

of course to need to know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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And I'm sorry for the, um,

bad language, my mother.

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It's probably clutching her

pearls right now, but, um, I

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just feel very strongly about it.

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And I'm really tired of the

misogyny, the misogyny and

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misogynoir coming from our black men.

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Um, when black women largely uphold them.

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Um, we marry you.

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We have your children,

uh, we take care of you.

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Um.

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And we do the best that we can and

we're not always perfect, but at

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least we're present and we try.

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So give us our respect, um,

because we've earned it.

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Have a wonderful day.

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Goodbye.

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A Black Executive Perspective.