Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the day. Donkeys of the
Speaker 1: day a chuma may.
Speaker 2: I'm a Democrat, so being donkey of the day is
Speaker 2: a little bit of a mixed ye.
Speaker 1: So like a donkey Donkey.
Speaker 3: Of the day.
Speaker 1: The Brectae club bit you.
Speaker 4: Now, I've been called a lot of my twenty three years.
Speaker 1: That donkey of the day is a new wife.
Speaker 5: Yes, Donkey today for Thursday, December seventh goes to Damien Green,
Speaker 5: who is Damian Green. He is a man who is
Speaker 5: running for city council in Thurston County, Washington, and he
Speaker 5: is a prime example of why voting matters, especially on
Speaker 5: a local level. I know, y'all hear all the sayings
Speaker 5: about voting. If your vote didn't matter, why would they
Speaker 5: be trying so hard to take it from you. If
Speaker 5: we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away
Speaker 5: the future. Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves,
Speaker 5: one another, of this country, in this world. Barack Obama
Speaker 5: said there is no such thing as a vote that
Speaker 5: doesn't matter, and I agree with Barack, and this story
Speaker 5: is a great example of that. Okay, voter suppression and
Speaker 5: the way they are gutting to vote and right, Zach,
Speaker 5: lets me know how much voting matters, especially at the
Speaker 5: local level, and that is what This was a local
Speaker 5: election in Thurston County, Washington that Damian Green lost.
Speaker 1: By one vote.
Speaker 5: Damn, he was beaten by his opponent two forty seven
Speaker 5: to two forty six. One vote cost Damien the election
Speaker 5: one vote. But it's not that he lost by one vote.
Speaker 5: It's the fact of who didn't vote that cost him
Speaker 5: the election. What do you mean, Uncle Charle, is the
Speaker 5: fact of who didn't vote that cost him the election? Well,
Speaker 5: let's go to King five News for the report police.
Speaker 6: The council race in Thurston County decided by just one vote.
Speaker 6: Ryan Roth won the Rainier City Council position number two
Speaker 6: race with two hundred and forty seven votes, one more
Speaker 6: than his opponent's two hundred and forty six. Thurston County
Speaker 6: burea chief for Mickelson, was there as the candidates learned
Speaker 6: how every single vote counts.
Speaker 3: When the five hundred and fifty five ballots were submitted,
Speaker 3: tabulation machines called the race as closed as possible. Watching
Speaker 3: the results has been stressful, especially since candidate Roth almost
Speaker 3: did not vote in his own election.
Speaker 1: I was like this one vote, you know, it's whatevers
Speaker 1: gonna happen, is gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I'm not like super worried about it, but my wife
Speaker 4: was pushing it.
Speaker 3: Opponent Damian Green had to work at premier collision. Well,
Speaker 3: the recount was going on.
Speaker 1: If the Lord wants me to have it, I'll have it.
Speaker 3: That was his philosophy during the campaign too. He worked
Speaker 3: to convince voters but did not vote in his own race.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel comfortable voting for myself. I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of narcissistic, so I didn't.
Speaker 3: These one vote would have made a.
Speaker 5: Different Damian Green lost the vote, I mean lost the
Speaker 5: election by one vote because he didn't vote himself. Lost
Speaker 5: the election because he didn't vote himself. He said he
Speaker 5: didn't feel comfortable. He thought it was kind of narcisstic.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, man, if you don't celebrate yourself,
Speaker 5: nobody will. Okay, this is the prime example that it.
Speaker 5: Don't wait for others to applaud you. Clap for yourself.
Speaker 5: You are worthy of celebration. Clap for yourself loudly and proudly.
Speaker 5: The reason Damien really has to get donkey of a
Speaker 5: day here because if you didn't vote for himself, that
Speaker 5: means means he didn't vote at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have to practice what you preached, Damien.
Speaker 5: You can't be out here telling people to vote in
Speaker 5: voting matters that you didn't even vote.
Speaker 1: And there is nothing wrong with voting for.
Speaker 5: Yourself, especially if you believe you are the best person
Speaker 5: for the job. Okay, clapping for yourself is important. That's
Speaker 5: the problem with society today. Everyone is always seeking validation
Speaker 5: from others. All of those followers y'all got on social
Speaker 5: media that y'all wake up to every day trying to impress.
Speaker 5: They don't love you. They not clapping for you for real.
Speaker 5: They don't like you for real. Those hearts that come,
Speaker 5: your hearts that flutter, Okay, when they like your posts,
Speaker 5: all right, that's not real love.
Speaker 1: Those people aren't showing up for you when you need them.
Speaker 5: But you can and should show up for yourself. You
Speaker 5: should always be your biggest fan, and if you're not,
Speaker 5: something is wrong. Okay, I promise you, Dammian. If you
Speaker 5: would have told people that you aren't even voting for yourself,
Speaker 5: I don't think people would have voted for you either. Okay,
Speaker 5: why would I support someone who's not supporting themselves. Now, Damnian,
Speaker 5: I understand the thought process here. There's been times that
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club has been nominated for things, in particular best
Speaker 5: Platform at the BET Hip Hop Awards, and you know,
Speaker 5: I vote for those things. I'm on you know, the
Speaker 5: boards and stuff to vote for BT hip Hop Awards
Speaker 5: and BET Awards. I've voted for other people in those
Speaker 5: situations the last two years. I think I voted for
Speaker 5: a million dollars worth a game and drink hips, Sluta,
Speaker 5: Gillian Wallow, Slutherinrii in EFN.
Speaker 1: But that's just because I truly feel the last couple.
Speaker 5: Of years they have been the best solely hip hop platforms.
Speaker 5: So it would be disingenuous of me to vote for
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club knowing I feel like I don't deserve to win,
Speaker 5: so I cast the vote for who I believe she'd win.
Speaker 1: But that's different than running for city council. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you're running for city council, that.
Speaker 5: Means you feel like you're the best person for the job.
Speaker 5: So if I was running for a political office, I'm
Speaker 5: absolutely gonna vote for myself.
Speaker 1: Laura Laaro said, my tripping should Damian Green have voted
Speaker 1: for himself.
Speaker 4: Larkin, he should voted for himself two times.
Speaker 1: Carrie, champion of my tripping, voted for himself.
Speaker 2: No, but you're given a bigger message right here, you preaching,
Speaker 2: you saying listen, if you why do you must be
Speaker 2: validated by other people?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: We live in a world where everybody has to tell
Speaker 2: us we're dope, and that's insane, that's insane.
Speaker 1: And if you have a chance to actually validate yourself
Speaker 1: through a vote, why wouldn't you show up for yourself?
Speaker 4: Voted for a Breakfast club too.
Speaker 1: I voted for Breakfast.
Speaker 4: I would have voted for.
Speaker 1: I love Gilly Waller, but I voted for myself.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But that's why you have a vote, because everybody
Speaker 5: has difference of opinion and made the best show win
Speaker 5: or I made the best elected, the best of person win.
Speaker 5: When it comes to you know these positions, Please give
Speaker 5: Damian Green the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you are the dog of the day.
Speaker 5: The dog.
Speaker 1: Of the day. All right, Well, thank you for that
Speaker 1: donkey today. That's great. Are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 1: Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 5: I think you know what Carrie said is true, and
Speaker 5: I didn't even think of it like that, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: this is a bigger mess. Like you should clap for
Speaker 5: yourself right, like you should, you know, validate yourself.
Speaker 2: We live in a world where we have to have people,
Speaker 2: and that's what I look. I love social media, I
Speaker 2: understand it, but it really truly determines people's self esteem
Speaker 2: and their worth and their value. This job when you
Speaker 2: are an influencer, these new jobs, all these things, and
Speaker 2: it's and I suffer to him too. I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not different. I'm not set apart syndrome. Well I have
Speaker 2: that as well. But the reality is is that I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna wait for you to put me on. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put myself on. Like you can't allow people to
Speaker 2: determine if you are it. Conversation we were having in
Speaker 2: the corner with the brown girls grinding and the brown
Speaker 2: girls dreaming, I'm all like us.
Speaker 1: He's a here. We having serious conversations at you. You
Speaker 1: just don't want to stab at you. Serious conversations.
Speaker 7: I can't see my face face right now, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He said, love you. This is what this is love language.
Speaker 1: That's his love language.
Speaker 4: Telling people be like is he as horrible as he
Speaker 4: comes off. I said, it's.
Speaker 1: Love language.
Speaker 7: He's just old from the South. But but to your point.
Speaker 2: About validating you, don't. You don't need anybody to put
Speaker 2: you on. You don't.
Speaker 1: And if they're not putting you on, we all said
Speaker 1: a little juice, little juice something, this more.
Speaker 7: You got to change bag?
Speaker 1: What don't play with me? You all for juice something?
Speaker 1: How to play the little juice?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a change bag. I think you could.
Speaker 5: Get well, you know, your little granny.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the conversation was having.
Speaker 7: I think this is such a this is a day
Speaker 7: I like this day.
Speaker 2: I was just she was saying so I said to
Speaker 2: her briefly, I was like, I don't I don't want
Speaker 2: to like and I wasn't being mad or anything. I
Speaker 2: was just like, I just don't want you to ever
Speaker 2: say there's nobody helping you. Especially I don't want to
Speaker 2: hear that a brown woman's not helping you. While that
Speaker 2: might be the case.
Speaker 7: In certain instances, because there have been a lot of
Speaker 7: black women that have helped me as whole rest.
Speaker 2: But while that might be the case, we can't even
Speaker 2: give them any energy because they don't matter.
Speaker 1: We were Yes, we were talking about open the phone.
Speaker 5: Do other people feel like how they want to learn
Speaker 5: how you you said you feel like said.
Speaker 4: So what I said was being on camera.
Speaker 7: I've never had another woman on camera person that is
Speaker 7: reporting or whatever personality be open arms and hey, what
Speaker 7: you're going through? Like I remember when George Floyd passed
Speaker 7: away and all that stuff's happening. I was the only
Speaker 7: black woman on camera for TMG and I was very
Speaker 7: new to at space. Van had just left for KEL
Speaker 7: wasn't there. It was I literally probably cry like.
Speaker 5: Every you're basically saying that you feel like I didn't
Speaker 5: have nobody to have an assistance, is what you're saying.
Speaker 7: So now, yeah, like they don't want it. Well, let
Speaker 7: me not say they don't want to. But I haven't
Speaker 7: had the open arms experience to other women that are
Speaker 7: actually sitting in the seat of what I'm doing and
Speaker 7: not behind the scenes, so it's different. They don't understand
Speaker 7: the conversation.
Speaker 5: It's open the phone line to see if other women
Speaker 5: feel that way. And five one five one why do
Speaker 5: women hate each other? Let's call them.
Speaker 1: Question each other to support.
Speaker 4: That to reroute that question.
Speaker 1: Women as supportive to each other. In private to be.
Speaker 4: More supportive to each other in public versus private.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is on the way?
Speaker 4: I said you should have breakfast club