Charlamagne tha God Quotes
One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.
Charlamagne tha God. The Breakfast Club. Power 105.1, iHeartMedia.
At the time, racial discrimination was so rampant in America that when one of the units of Pepsi Cola, under the leadership of Walter Mack, hired Emmons to sell to Black communities, the Black residents of Northern communities were so unused to seeing Blacks in a “white collar” job, that they were treated as celebrities. Emmons and a few other black salesmen had incredible results yet despite that, the practice did not grow at the time as there were too many white executives who were so prejudiced that the practice was not increased after Mack retired. This short quotation paints a good picture of the nature of racial job discrimination in the North prior to WWII.
†he Congressman came under tremendous pressure from people all over the country including many political Republican colleagues. The next evening he appears on a CNN interview an apologized. What made his statement all the more absurd was that many of the protesters were upper and middle class people angry at yet another police killing of Black men—a pattern that had come to light in the [previous months. In addition, many of the demonstrators were white.
Lenard Larry McKelvey, known professionally as Charlamagne tha God, is an American radio presenter, television personality, actor, and author. He is a co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy and Angela Yee, all of whom were inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame in 2020 for their work on the show.