Braids at Private School

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A caller claims that other Black parents at a private school want a girl's braids removed so she appears more polished. Her father angrily defends her, threatens the caller, and is pranked by his husband.

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Speaker 1

How are we on your Hello?

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I'm trying to get Francis.

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Hey Francis, how you doing?

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My name is uh Daryl.

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Daryl our kids they go to uh together.

Speaker 3

Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1

Your daughter's uh Caitlin, right?

Speaker 3

Yes.

Speaker 1

Okay, my son is uh uh DJ, Daryl Jr.

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He they uh I think I may have met you at the uh beginning.

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at the school year.

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You remember meeting me, Daryl?

Speaker 3

Oh, I met a lot of people, but I'm sorry, I can't place you right now.

Speaker 1

Okay.

Speaker 1

All right, no problem.

Speaker 1

Hey, listen, um I was giving you a call, you know, there's only a uh a handful of uh black kids at the school, you know, being a private school and all.

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And uh we the the uh the black parents we all got together and had a meeting a couple nights ago.

Speaker 3

Okay, you said all the black parents okay I wasn't there.

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Why wasn't I called?

Speaker 1

Uh well we actually had a meeting about your daughter Kayla.

Speaker 1

Oh well what about Caitlyn is she is there a problem at school that she's crazy or something I don't even know about what's what's going on with well actually we we're you know we feel privileged to be you know you know like I said there's only a handful of blacks and we try to carry ourselves in a dignified way uh our presence, our attitude, the way we handle ourselves and uh you know Kayla's doing very good

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in school from what I understand and very nice with all the rest of the kids she's getting along that's not the problem.

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Well we're what we're trying to get is um the grooming of Kalen.

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You know, Caitlin has these braids and what we were trying to do is is give you know we had a meeting about it.

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Did you just say her grooming something wrong with her grooming well it's not necessarily her clothing of course you know the kids wear the uniform but the the braids you know we we want to represent ourselves with a lot of dignity the way we carry ourselves we want to be um you know pretty much nice and clean spit and polished we would really prefer if her hair was straight and opposed to being braided up.

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You know you pay it man I mean that kind of gives off a a a ghetto type of look to it and that's what we're trying to to avoid.

Speaker 3

Are are you crazy?

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Is something wrong with you?

Speaker 3

You don't first of all how the hell you get my dump if you couldn't call me for the meeting why are you calling me not?

Speaker 1

Well like I said ma'am the meeting was to get the general consensus on where all the parents feel in the same way about your daughter and her braids.

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You know, we're just trying to keep everything classy at c when it comes to the blacks.

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There's only ten of us, you know, ten children attending.

Speaker 3

I tell you what you can attend.

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You could what you can attend to is this phone hanging up in your d face.

Speaker 3

You tell the parents, all of them for me.

Speaker 3

Y'all can go straight and hit rock bottom out of hell talking about my child and her braids.

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Her braids are ethnic.

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They are nice.

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She is well groomed.

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And I don't know how in the hell you got my d telephone number, but tell all the parents for me to kiss the crack of my you know what.

Speaker 1

Listen, well, first of all, I don't like the way that you're talking to me.

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Okay, I carry myself with class, with dignity.

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I'm spitting polish, ma'am.

Speaker 3

Uh I wanted to call and talk to you.

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You're acting just as ghetto as her hairstyle.

Speaker 3

Let me say something real ghetto to your okay.

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You and all parents can hit rock them out of hell.

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Don't call me no more with no like this.

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This is ignorant.

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I'm far beyond this.

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My child is well groomed.

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She is gonna go to that school.

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As a matter of fact, as much money as it costs to go there to y'all should have been meeting on how we can get together and pay the d tuition.

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How about that?

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Uh are you trying to sit here and tell me that you got a problem taking her braids down and wearing her hair straight so she can look a lot more classy than what she looks right now?

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It's a pathetic look that she's having right now.

Speaker 3

You know what?

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I don't what's your hair look like?

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Take a picture of your d self and send it to me.

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Text it to me.

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Since you just spoke phone numbers and give it to you.

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Take a picture of your d self and text it to me.

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I bet you you look like a who would have thought it.

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My daughter's braids are gonna stay up for the rest of the d year.

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As a matter of fact, we ain't gonna even rebraid it.

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It's gonna stay that way so it can be matted and represented.

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That's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 1

Francis, listen, I don't I don't want an argue.

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I just wanted to call and see if we could actually you know come to a medium on this.

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Do you think that there's a possibility that I mean while I'm I'm picking up DJ tomorrow after school?

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Would it would would it be all right if I picked up um Lil' Kaylin and brought her home and let my wife do her hair?

Speaker 3

Please.

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I wish the

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you would pick my daughter up and see what the hell I do.

Speaker 3

I'ma call my husband and tell him to come over your house and whoop your f after you braids your ass.

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I wish you would pick up my d daughter.

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I'll call the police on as a matter of fact, you're gonna have to call the police on me and my husband.

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Do it and see what happens.

Speaker 1

We're not wanting to fight with you.

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It's just the blocks here at We think that we want a little bit more classy look of the way we are groomed.

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That's the only thing we're looking for.

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Only person gonna be taking the class is when we get to whoop, you gonna be taking the class.

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How about that?

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Yeah, I can't stand up

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like you.

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Y'all get five dollars and one penny in your pocket that think you're better than every body that you forget where you came from.

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As a matter of fact, what your uh what's your name?

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Because I'm calling the principal on your a day.

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Give me your f name and uh Mr.

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Who?

Speaker 1

What's your name?

Speaker 1

Uh uh uh uh that that's that's that's that's not that's not really what my name is.

Speaker 3

But that's what the told me when you first called me.

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What is your real name?

Speaker 1

My name is my name, um my real name is Tommy.

Speaker 1

Tommy's No, no, my last name either.

Speaker 3

Well, what the hell is your name?

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Do you know?

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My name is Tommy, nephew Tommy from the Steve Harbin morning show.

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Your husband Keith got me to prank phone call you.

Speaker 3

Oh my god.

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He put your

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you got me ready to click your cheeks to T PS the girl's school and every d out here.

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I tell you what, keep out for the rest of the week for

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me.

Speaker 1

He told me, he said, man, he said it don't take but about two and a half minutes for my wife to go off.

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He said, It don't take but two and a half.

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He said, and I promise you.

Speaker 1

You alright?

Speaker 3

Oh baby, calm down, baby.

Speaker 3

Let me ask you something.

Speaker 1

What what I got one more thing to ask you.

Speaker 1

What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.

Speaker 3

You know it's a Steve Harvey morning show.

Speaker 2

Let's go, cat job.