Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

I'm also African.

He's an African American.

Uh, he just, he just started saying that.

He's an, he's an African American and an Arab American.

Um, the problem is, um, there's this kind of, uh, line of demarcation between, uh, Sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Saharan Africa, and the, uh, the countries above, uh, the, uh, northern part of the, uh, the Sahara, uh, enslaved a lot of the southern Saharan Africans for centuries.

And you can be both Arab and African.

Now, what what struck me, uh, Wajahat, was you bent over backwards to get her out of the mess that she had created with this comment.

And, you know, I am reminded of what she herself said about Ron DeSantis when he talked about, "Don't monkey this up," by electing his African American opponent, Andrew Gillum.

She said, "Republicans never fail to fall back on disgusting, blatant racist rhetoric as opposed to running on issues.

Trump will continue race-baiting all the way till November." Now, she didn't give Ron DeSantis, uh, the kind of pass that you gave her.

Hang on.

Hang on.

She herself, we know this from her post on X, when Ron DeSantis also inadvertently used the word monkey to talk about his African American opponent in terms of mon- "Don't monkey this up," he said to voters, clearly didn't intend to be remotely racist, but she d- gave him no pass.

She gave him no 10-minute wait, and she gave him no get out and said, "I just want to be fair to you."

I use that joke a lot.

That's my, that's my excuse, like, you know, I, I think, uh, uh, African American folks in America will use the excuse of like, hey, not a lot of Black quarterbacks, so just root for a Black quarterback that's real, like Lamar Jackson or Pat Mahomes, whatever.

Mm-hmm.

I'm like, hey, I'm gonna use it too, basketball minorities.

our bowels, mainly colon cancer, are on the rise in America today.

and particularly of those in younger age ranges and in certain groups like African-American men.

And, you know, this has been a concern of a lot of people.

A lot of people are still looking at the reasons why.

And someone chimed in, it's, you know, he's like, it's always been a mixture of white and black.

And I'm like, dude, I'm like, there are white cat, brilliant white jazzers, but don't forever, don't, this was a black American art form that was co-opted by the white, corporate structure.

I mean, Charles Lloyd told me he'd go to...

He'd freaking go to...

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iconic first African-American woman to be president of Spelman.

But it's covered so much ground in her amazing career.

And she joined us yesterday on the show.

blue.

But let me come back to that seriously because what I hear in that, particularly as it relates to African-American voters, is that we should continue this blind, undying love for Democrats and the Democratic Party, which you and I have discussed time and time again, has not always had our back.

I ain't got time to break that down 18 million ways from Sunday in ways that you and I could.

But this notion of vote blue no matter who just suggests to me that we should continue to blindly vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.

Right.

Now, what is incredibly important to note, right, is that boycotting is something that is recognized as As a constitutional right in the United States, part of freedom of speech for Americans.

This goes back to this has been recognized since the Claiborne decision and the NAACP.

I was just writing about this NAACP versus Claiborne, and it was recognized in the context of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Right.

The right of African-Americans and their supporters.

Right.

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Many of these are still practiced, such as Santeria in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil, Vodou in Haiti, and Orisha-Vodun in South Carolina? Let's go to the Thought Bubble.

As a 15-year-old growing up in Detroit during the 1930s, Walter King asked his mom, "Who is the African god?" And she wasn't sure how to answer, so King set out on what would become a lifelong mission to bring African religion to African Americans.

He read everything he could about African traditions and eventually changed his name to Ofuntola Oseijeman Adeghbu Adefumi I.

And it was actually from a National Geographic magazine that he finally learned about the religion of one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, the Yoruba people.