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DONKEY: Diary Of A Mad Black Name: Man Arrested After Holding His Disabled Wife Captive For 5 years
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Cause you use that donkey thing that hee haw hee haw Some punching donkeys around here. It's time for Donkey of the day. I got the donkey of the day for being toxic. They may be the donkey of the day by the what I said damn Charlemagne. Some dog in the days just sell themselves it was you. What accountability? Are you taking me off guard? I'm not making I made dung you today I'm the breakfast club. That being said, I want to start off with this donkey right here. Donkey of the day for Wednesday, March 11th goes to a 46 year old Houston man named James Earl Johnson. Black. Guess what race it is.
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Black.
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It will not be needed today. Okay, that is one of the blackest names I've ever heard in my life. All right, this man is named after somebody's great great grandfather. Okay? He sounds like he was a custodian in a high school when they ended segregation in America in 64. Okay, a James or Earl Anna Johnson. I know he done got denied for a loan quite a few times. Okay? Probably discriminated against during a hiring process or two. I know he didn't get a call back. You know, studies show people with black sounding names get 50% fewer callbacks than identical resumes with white sounding names. So I know James Earl Johnson wasn't getting no callbacks. But anyway, James Earl Johnson. How is he not James Earl Johnson iii. Okay, that name is too old to be the first. Okay? But anyway, James Earl Johnson has been arrested and charged with abusing his wife. Okay? His wife is disabled and investigators are saying he held his disabled wife captive inside their home for years. What do you mean, Uncle Charlotte? He held his disabled wife captive for years. Well, let's go to ABC13 for the report, please. From the outside looking in what some might consider A dream home. But police say for one woman, the house at Crown Ridge Court was in fact a house of horrors. Investigators say the 46 year old woman, who's disabled, was allegedly held captive in a bedroom for five years by her own husband, James Johnson. James Earl Johnson arrested Friday morning, but is since bonded out of jail with an order to stay away from the victim and the house with the couple's children also reside. It's here. Court documents say the victim was held under lock and key with no phone access. Finally, Friday, police say her husband left a phone on the nightstand which he used to call 911. But police say Johnson cut the call short, slapping his wife and carrying her back to bed, then hanging up on the 911 dispatcher.
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You've got a woman who's being held captive, and that is a pure form of coercive control, which is a form of abuse.
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James Earl. Mr. Johnson. Why? Why? You know, you know, years ago, Larry King, the great Larry King, rest in peace to Larry King. He said to me, you know, Charlamagne, the greatest question you can ask in an interview is why? I think that's the greatest question to ask in life. You know, I've. I've been going to therapy for a solid decade now. And that is what I'm always trying to get to the root of the why of things. Why did I react this way? Why did this trigger me? Why did I behave like this in this moment? So it makes me ask that question of other people often. And for James Earl Johnson, that's the question. Why. Why couldn't James Earl Johnson just get a divorce? Why couldn't he just break up with his wife? What made him treat his wife the way Helen treated Charles in Diary of a Mad Black Woman? Okay, was this Diary of a Mad Black name? Okay, did y' all try mediation? Did y' all try legal separation? Was there any exit strategy discussed at. Not even discuss with each other. Did you have a meeting with yourself, James Earl Johnson? Okay, I'm just trying to figure out why you thought captivity and torture was the best course of action here. I can't believe I have to say this on Breakfast Club this morning, but leaving a spouse rather than mistreating them is always the better option, okay? It's way more ethical than leaving in her. Leaving her in a room like he did with a single egg to eat and giving her dinner one time a day. This woman had to call 911 when her husband, James Earl Johnson, accidentally left a phone on the nightstand. This would be Tyler Perry's version of Misery. Okay? I was born in 1978, so I remember the movie Misery from the 90s when Annie held Paul captive. This is that. Okay? At least in the movie Misery though, we knew the why. Because Annie was an obsessive fan. There was no reason for James Earl Johnson to be doing what he was doing to his wife other than pure evil. Okay? Just leave her, bruh. Divorce her. Alright? Any expert you ask, any counselor you ask will tell you that no one deserves to be treated badly. And staying in a miserable or harmful situation often causes more long term damage than leaving. Is this story not proof of that? Is this story not proof that those experts and counselors are correct? Please let Remy Ma give James Earl Johnson the biggest hee Hawk. Hee haw.
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Hee haw.
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You stupid motherfucker. Are you dumb? And this is why you can't have the wrong man providing for you, okay? We've been having that discussion for like the past week, right? Didn't somebody call up here this morning? Yeah, somebody called up this morning. Well, thank you for that donkey today. But somebody called this morning and this is what he said earlier today during. Get it off your chest, man. I'm getting off my chest. It was a conversation y' all had last week with it was Emmy Novato and Keke Palmer about how younger women were dating older men. And my wife and I were talking about it and something that Lauren LaRosa said and Charlamagne said that really sat with her. Lauren LaRosa said when she was younger, her parents or her mother would tell her to get somebody who provides for her. And then Charlamagne had said, well, she was probably talking to your older version of yourself. And, man, that really sat with us because me and my wife are just sitting like, man, this is scary raising a daughter because she was told the same thing. And it just, man, and then just the mentality that men have when they tell younger women, like, you're mature for your age. What does that even mean? Let's open up the phone lines. Let's have a discussion. 800-585-1051. Are you still giving your daughters the advice to find a man to take care of you? Yeah. Let that story I just told you about James Earl Johnson serve as an example. Okay? You teach your daughters, or you should teach your daughters to provide for themselves and then they should find a man that can match their. Well, let's talk about it when we come back again. 800-585-1051. You know, the advice, the common advice back in the day was find a good man who could take care of you. I mean, that's what Lauren's mama told her. Just that's what your mom and dad told you too? No. No. All right, well, we'll discuss when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Donkey of the Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Laminsoft. Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to michaelthebull.com that's michaelthebull.com and when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
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