{"id":385419,"date":"2021-03-09T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385419"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:08:47","slug":"when-rush-reached-out-to-the-breakfast-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/09\/when-rush-reached-out-to-the-breakfast-club\/","title":{"rendered":"When Rush Reached Out to The Breakfast Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Rush made a decision after the George Floyd incident and the tragedy of that man losing his life. We\u2019ll talk later in the show in some detail about this. Rush decided that he wanted to have the hard conversations about race that other people wouldn\u2019t. All sorts of, you know, celebrities will have-risk-free conversations about race, which is the attendant woke racism, and, “I\u2019m an anti-racist.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not good enough to not be a racist,” and all these things, but they won\u2019t have the risky conversations. Being honest and vulnerable and talking with people who are really gonna disagree with you and really, really scary times like after the George Floyd death as we watch our cities burn — and later, we understand the groups that did that. It was a very hard time.<\/p>\n

Rush made a decision that he wanted to try to have these hard conversations on race. So last June, Rush interviewed the three hosts of The Breakfast Club about George Floyd story, and Rush\u2019s desire was for it was to be the beginning of many conversations he hoped to have on the issue of race relations in America. Sadly, of course, we lost Rush, before he could have more of those conversations. But we decided to revisit a portion of that one, and we\u2019ll continue to share others in the weeks and months ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been doing this program for 31 years and during this period of time we\u2019ve gone through civil unrest, we\u2019ve had race riots, we\u2019ve had kind of what is happening now, although this may be unprecedented in a couple of ways. The one thing I\u2019ve never done throughout this entire period is reach out to people on the other side of this. I mean, I\u2019ve wanted to, I just have never done it, and I decided that I need to do this.<\/p>\n

\"\"I decided that I need to not just assume the people in my audience are gonna hear me. I need to reach out to people who aren\u2019t there. So I started asking around, “If I wanted to reach the largest number and the most influential number of African-Americans and other minorities in America, who should I talk to?”<\/p>\n

And everybody kept coming back at me with The Breakfast Club. “You have to have the people on The Breakfast Club. You have to talk to them.” And so they have graciously agreed to do this. We\u2019re taping this on Sunday afternoon. They have been very kind and giving up a portion of their day to make this possible — and I want to introduce them to you now.<\/p>\n

They are three people who have earned the trust of their audience in the mornings. They are syndicated morning drive. You don\u2019t know how hard that is. It\u2019s amazing. They have built a substantial audience. They are Charlamagne Tha God —<\/p>\n

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Angela Yee and DJ Envy. They are cohosts of what\u2019s called The Breakfast Club. Can I tell you why I wanted to have you here? You know, the George Floyd story is being lost.<\/p>\n

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are two things happening in America, and it sickens me what happened to him, legitimate national outrage about a policeman\u2019s criminal brutality has been hijacked. And I don\u2019t want to forget about George Floyd. What happened to George Floyd sickened me. And I wanted to reach out and tell you all this. I want to make sure you have no doubt. And I\u2019m not the only American who feels this way, the senselessness of it.<\/p>\n

And I think most Americans are just as angry and sad about this as I am, and I\u2019m also the angry the cops that stood around there and didn\u2019t do anything to stop it. I can\u2019t tell you how frustrating it is, and I just wanted to share the emotion I have with you guys about this and to try to convey to you that I actually think most Americans are just as sickened and outraged by it as I am.<\/p>\n

ANGELA YEE: I feel like we\u2019re so accustomed to being in these situations where we get frustrated, where nothing happens, and these police officers are back out doing the same thing over and over again, and that\u2019s part of the frustration, is this is not an isolated incident. This is something that\u2019s been happening in our community. It hasn\u2019t stopped, we don\u2019t see when it will stop, and I think people are frustrated, and it\u2019s a combination of so many different things right now.<\/p>\n

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Let me ask you a question, Rush. This is Charlamagne talking. We\u2019ve seen numerous police killings of unarmed black people in this country. Why is the George Floyd situation the one that\u2019s making you say, “Enough is enough and this needs to stop”? Why this situation in particular?<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Cause I\u2019m fed up with it. I mean, I\u2019m not tolerant of any of them, but I\u2019m fed up with it, Charlamagne. None of this… To me, this is not America. It\u2019s a sad —<\/p>\n

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Oh, no, it\u2019s definitely America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, but it\u2019s not what we can be. It\u2019s not what we have been. We\u2019re the greatest nation in the history of the world, and we haven\u2019t achieved that on the basis —<\/p>\n

\"\"CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: For who, though, Rush? I think it\u2019s easy for you to say because you\u2019re — you\u2019re a white male and that comes with a different level of privilege, and I do think America does work, but it works for the people that it was designed to work for. It doesn\u2019t work for everybody else the way it works for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it can. That\u2019s the point of America: It can for anybody who wants to adapt to it, for anybody who wants to try to take advantage of the unique opportunities that exist in the United States.<\/p>\n

ANGELA YEE: George Floyd wasn\u2019t doing anything wrong. Breonna Taylor got killed in her house. She wasn\u2019t doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no! I didn\u2019t mean to conflate that George Floyd could have stopped what was gonna happen to him. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n

ANGELA YEE: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: George Floyd is the essence of innocence. But what I\u2019m saying is is that America is a place with robust opportunity if you want to go out and look for it and find it. Now, the people ripping up the streets today and last night, the Antifa types, they don\u2019t care to find the opportunity. They disagree with the whole construct of America.<\/p>\n

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Well, no. I gotta push back on you with that too. It\u2019s not just the Antifa types, you know what I\u2019m saying? Like you see all these white folks out there protesting, looting, raising hell. People of all races are broke. They don\u2019t know where their next meal is coming from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. The Antifa people are the violent ones. The Antifa people are the ones that are trying to capitalize on it. Of course there\u2019s some legitimate heartfelt people out there peacefully protesting. But look, you guys, let me tell you: You are a testament to the opportunity available in America. Look at you. How did you do it? What did you have to overcome to become The Breakfast Club…? T<\/p>\n

The opportunity is there, is the only thing I\u2019m saying. You know, we all have preconceptions that we live under and biases that we live under, and I wanted to reach out to you guys specifically. You were the ones that I was told to speak to, that this is intolerable. Now — but — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

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