Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with
Speaker 1: Me your Girl. Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I'm not having a great day.
Speaker 1: So you know, those happen. And it is the three
Speaker 1: black soldiers who were killed in Jordan, the black pastors
Speaker 1: in the New York Times article who say that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Biden not doing a great job, not living up to
Speaker 1: his promise of reigning in democracy. And I don't feel
Speaker 1: like we're in a good place, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I'm feeling it in my spirit, I'm feeling it
Speaker 1: in my body. And this morning I woke up and
Speaker 1: I went and I'm doing a new workout regimen which
Speaker 1: I feel very good about, lots of strength building as
Speaker 1: a way to just, you know, learn a different way
Speaker 1: to breathe through my frustration and grief because I realize,
Speaker 1: you know, I know that you all know me to
Speaker 1: have a significant amount of rage, but these days I
Speaker 1: realize that I, yes, I'm angry, and I will still
Speaker 1: like curse up a storm, but all of that is
Speaker 1: really just grief, you know. I don't I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know it just some days, and today is
Speaker 1: one of those days. And I know that tomorrow will
Speaker 1: be better, and I will breathe and I will meditate
Speaker 1: and I will stretch it out. But there are some
Speaker 1: days where I can't see the light. You know, when
Speaker 1: we have a group of black pastors and folks, I
Speaker 1: encourage you to read the piece in the New York Times,
Speaker 1: black pastors pressure Biden to call for cease firing Gaza.
Speaker 1: And you know, these are not the throwaway voters, right, Like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing about how campaigns talk about younger voters,
Speaker 1: right like, oh, they won't show up, they're not reliable,
Speaker 1: so we don't really care what they say. So if
Speaker 1: you're seeing all of these protests that are taking place
Speaker 1: on college campuses or in cities and towns and in
Speaker 1: the streets, and it's a lot of young people that
Speaker 1: are there, and they're also I mean, it's protesting is intergenerational,
Speaker 1: but largely historically it's led by young people, right, And
Speaker 1: how the media and campaigns talk about young people's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're unreliable, so we can neglect them. But when you
Speaker 1: have the very people right in South Carolina who pulled
Speaker 1: out the twenty twenty election and gave Joe Biden the
Speaker 1: nomination in South Carolina because of Congressman Jim Clyburn. That
Speaker 1: should ring all sorts of fucking alarm bells, right, because
Speaker 1: this is your true, real hardcore base, And what they
Speaker 1: are saying is they don't really know if they're going
Speaker 1: to vote for you. And these are people that lead
Speaker 1: congregations of tens of thousands of black parishioners who are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not really sure that we're gonna vote for you.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. We'll be folks that say, well,
Speaker 1: then that's just a vote for Trump. And I will
Speaker 1: say that, right. But I think that we actually have
Speaker 1: to start meeting these people where they are because I
Speaker 1: am these people. Now I go on television, right, I'm
Speaker 1: going on less and less folks. And the reason is
Speaker 1: because I don't really know what to say. Because when
Speaker 1: you have the International Court say that what Israel is
Speaker 1: doing is a genocide, but oh, we're not going to
Speaker 1: tell them to stop their military action when Israel, who
Speaker 1: we know is lying about their intentions, are clearly committing genocide.
Speaker 1: And now they want to say that, oh, it was
Speaker 1: a UN workers who were in on the attacks in October,
Speaker 1: and so now all of the Western countries pull their
Speaker 1: funding for the only palaceine An entity that is providing
Speaker 1: like food and care, because you're gonna take the word
Speaker 1: of the oppressor over those that are Like, I'm just
Speaker 1: fucking done some days, and today is one of those days.
Speaker 1: You can't tell us to continue fighting for democracy here
Speaker 1: when you are funding genocide right, Like, it's just I
Speaker 1: cannot wrap my mind around it. Folks. I am struggling,
Speaker 1: and I am one of I believe hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 1: if not millions of Americans that are currently fucking struggling
Speaker 1: with the decisions that we have in front of us.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I wish we had more time, right,
Speaker 1: I wish we had more time. I wish this country,
Speaker 1: this administration had more fucking sense. I wish we cared
Speaker 1: about humanity, you know, I wish Ugh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Some days it's too much. This is
Speaker 1: from the New York Times article quote Black faith leaders
Speaker 1: are extremely disappointed in the Biden administration on this issue,
Speaker 1: referring to the war in Gaza, said the Reverend Timothy MacDonald,
Speaker 1: the senior pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: We are afraid, and we've talked about it. It's going
Speaker 1: to be very hard to persuade our people to go
Speaker 1: back to the polls and vote for Biden. Folks. That's
Speaker 1: not good. And like I said, I'm not doing a
Speaker 1: lot of TV right now because I'm finding it hard
Speaker 1: to persuade people to vote for Joe Biden. I know
Speaker 1: what the stakes are. I know that Donald Trump, the
Speaker 1: Republican Party Project twenty twenty five are ready, fully funded,
Speaker 1: filled with hate, and ready to finish off our democracy.
Speaker 1: I know this. I also know that Joe Biden, I'm
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure is up to the task. There,
Speaker 1: I said it. And what do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: Is it his age? No, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: just his age because Donald Trump it fucking sucks down
Speaker 1: burgers and is you know, three years younger, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't really care about Biden's age. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that the weight and the size of the problems
Speaker 1: that America and the world are facing. I don't think
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden and the Biden administration and the Biden
Speaker 1: campaign have the fucking imagination and the fucking like strength
Speaker 1: to pull this country together and push through because you
Speaker 1: cannot do things the same old, same old, same old
Speaker 1: fucking way and think that things are going to change
Speaker 1: for the better. There are more people who were conscious
Speaker 1: of and aware of the hypocrisy with which America has
Speaker 1: quote unquote led the world. You can tell us all
Speaker 1: you want how fucking complicated issues are. But when I
Speaker 1: see babies and children dead under rubble, when I hear
Speaker 1: that there are men that had hands up holding white
Speaker 1: flags and were still shot by the IDF, do you
Speaker 1: know what I make the connection to Mike Brown, hands up,
Speaker 1: don't shoot, but it didn't matter. Black people are watching
Speaker 1: this play out, and they find more connection with what
Speaker 1: they are seeing the Israeli defense be able to do
Speaker 1: with the will right of the Western world. They've given
Speaker 1: them the green light. Black people have seen this before.
Speaker 1: Our ancestors lived this already. They lived it in enslavement,
Speaker 1: they lived it under Jim Crow. They live it still now,
Speaker 1: having to give their sons and daughters the talk about
Speaker 1: how to stay alive at a police stop, about how
Speaker 1: and what to play with on a playground so that
Speaker 1: you don't get killed like Tamir Rice, right, how not
Speaker 1: to pick up a gun even though you too are
Speaker 1: a citizen of these United States, like John Crawford. How
Speaker 1: do not exercise your right to own a gun like
Speaker 1: Filando Castile? How do not beg for your breath like
Speaker 1: George Floyd and Eric Gardner. Folks, It's too much. It's
Speaker 1: too much. So when I see this new report in
Speaker 1: the Times and I'm reading the words of these pastors saying, quote,
Speaker 1: this is not a fringe issue, said the Reverend Michael McBride,
Speaker 1: a founder of the Black Church PAC and lead pastor
Speaker 1: of Waite Church in Berkeley, California. Quote, there are many
Speaker 1: of us who feel that this administration has lost its
Speaker 1: way on this quote. Black clergy have seen war, militarism, poverty,
Speaker 1: and racism all connected, said Barbara William Skinner, co convener
Speaker 1: of the National African American Clergy Network, whose members lead
Speaker 1: roughly fifteen million Black church goers. She goes on to say, quote,
Speaker 1: but the Israel Gaza war, unlike Iran and Afghanistan, has
Speaker 1: evoked the kind of deep seated against among Black people
Speaker 1: that I have not seen since the Civil Rights movement.
Speaker 1: Black people are not the only group, but they are
Speaker 1: the base of the Democratic Party. And when you have
Speaker 1: black clergy that lead millions of black people saying that
Speaker 1: they don't know how they're going to get their parishioners
Speaker 1: to go back to the polls for Joe Biden, that
Speaker 1: is an alarm. That is an alarm. That is a
Speaker 1: fucking alarm. You think that what appointing a black woman
Speaker 1: vice president gives you what carte blanche to just fuck around? No,
Speaker 1: because this administration is about to fucking find out that
Speaker 1: painting Donald Trump as the criminal that we all know
Speaker 1: he is is not going to be enough to get
Speaker 1: people to the polls when they are knowing that their
Speaker 1: tax dollars are going to fund genocide. Let me take
Speaker 1: another issue, write another issue. In Chicago, there is a
Speaker 1: group of black voters from the Democratic Party that are
Speaker 1: suing the city. Why over, they're caring right for migrants,
Speaker 1: right because the migrant crisis, because of the bussing that
Speaker 1: is coming out of Texas and Florida and what have you,
Speaker 1: is now crushing systems in Chicago and New York and
Speaker 1: other blue quote unquote blue cities. Well, in Chicago, they're
Speaker 1: getting ready to turn a public school right into a shelter.
Speaker 1: They're getting ready to spend millions of dollars to care
Speaker 1: for the migrants that are being busted in right well,
Speaker 1: the black people who have been asking for resources for
Speaker 1: their community, to fix schools, for health care, all of
Speaker 1: these different things are now seeing this money magically appear
Speaker 1: that wasn't available to them, that is now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden available for migrants, people who are not from
Speaker 1: this country. This is the arguments that these folks are making.
Speaker 1: Do I believe that we need to care for those
Speaker 1: that are seeking asylum? Absolutely? Do I wonder where Chicago
Speaker 1: is getting this money when in fact they do very
Speaker 1: little for the black community there. Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: do fucking wonder. And do understand now the anger because
Speaker 1: you see, when there are crabs that are placed in
Speaker 1: a barrel who are fighting for limited resources, is when
Speaker 1: they know that there are abundant resources if they had
Speaker 1: the complexion for the protection. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: When asked whether or not these people were gonna come
Speaker 1: out and vote for Joe Biden, they said absolutely not.
Speaker 1: We're looking for a third party candidate and we are
Speaker 1: staunch Democrats. We have a fucking problem. Then I move
Speaker 1: to the drone strike that killed three black service members
Speaker 1: in Jordan. Why does this matter because these are people
Speaker 1: who are defending our country or what they think they
Speaker 1: are defending. I don't know, right because right now I
Speaker 1: really don't know. And you have these warhawks in both parties,
Speaker 1: particularly in the Republican Party, who are saying, we need
Speaker 1: to bomb Iran, not bomb Iran, blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But guess who is largely on the front lines. Not
Speaker 1: their fucking kids. They didn't even fucking serve, right, It's
Speaker 1: black and brown kids, twenty something year olds. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that are on the front lines because they've been
Speaker 1: fed the lie that if they risk their lives for
Speaker 1: this country, then in return, they'll get an education, they'll
Speaker 1: get housing, but it always comes with great risk of
Speaker 1: death on the side of black and brown Americans. I'm
Speaker 1: so fucking tired of this. Our tax dollars don't go
Speaker 1: to do anything that actually matters to the day to
Speaker 1: day existence of Americans. We saw that during COVID all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Oh they had this money, right, but normally, Oh,
Speaker 1: they don't want to give it to us because we're lazy. Right.
Speaker 1: If you give Americans a handout, then they won't work,
Speaker 1: or how about they'll be able to work without drowning.
Speaker 1: It's just like the more I learn, the more I know,
Speaker 1: the more I want to unknown, the more I understand
Speaker 1: why ignorance is bliss. Everything is a lie. There's more
Speaker 1: than enough money. The one percent just doesn't want to
Speaker 1: redistribute wealth. Right. The things that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Warren have been talking about, they're all true. Why are
Speaker 1: we facing inflation right now? It's because of greed. It's
Speaker 1: because of companies and CEOs and shareholders running up the
Speaker 1: prices on shit. It's because of no regulation, which will
Speaker 1: just get worse under a Trump administration, because you know,
Speaker 1: he'll be off the fucking rails and take off all
Speaker 1: the guardrails, and you know, for everybody else that's in
Speaker 1: his network in space, fuck the rest of us. But
Speaker 1: this country has been fucking the middle class and low
Speaker 1: income workers and the poor since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1: Just saw right before I came on, UPS is getting
Speaker 1: ready to lay off twelve thousand workers after their historic
Speaker 1: strike that got them all raises. Now the company says, oh, well,
Speaker 1: because of having to deal with the union, now we
Speaker 1: have to fire twelve thousand people. So you advocate for
Speaker 1: better wages, better quality of work, Oh, they give it
Speaker 1: to you, caveat, but we're going to cut you off
Speaker 1: at the knees so that we make sure that we
Speaker 1: can continue to put money in our shareholders, in CEO's pockets.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if you advocate and you fight
Speaker 1: for that change, because in the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they'll come for you. Regardless, twelve thousand people are going
Speaker 1: to be fired. So today I'm not feeling it. Today
Speaker 1: is one of those days where I need to sit quietly, breathe, meditate, pray,
Speaker 1: try and imagine something that is not as awful as
Speaker 1: our current present. It's almost nine months until the election.
Speaker 1: I've never felt this way leading this early into an
Speaker 1: election season. I want to leave you all with a
Speaker 1: quote that my mother posted today, which I really need
Speaker 1: and so maybe some of you do as well. The
Speaker 1: quote reads, life is amazing, and then it's awful, and
Speaker 1: then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful,
Speaker 1: it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing,
Speaker 1: hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during
Speaker 1: the ordinary. That's just living. Heartbreaking, soul healing, amazing, awful,
Speaker 1: ordinary life and its breathtakingly beautiful. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today. Dear friends on Woke a f as always
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.