Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sin. Welcome to Bokay, a daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I cannot express on this good, good Friday, what a
Speaker 1: fantastic fucking week America has had. And I say that
Speaker 1: knowing that there are too many times when I come
Speaker 1: on air where it is to share yet another disappointment,
Speaker 1: another devastation and try to muster the strength to provide
Speaker 1: you with some level of hopefulness. But on this good Friday,
Speaker 1: waking up to the news that Britney Griner is free,
Speaker 1: that after ten months in Russia in captivity, after being
Speaker 1: sentenced to nine years for empty vape cartridges found in
Speaker 1: her suitcase as she was working in Russia, because we
Speaker 1: don't pay female athletes anything on par with male athletes
Speaker 1: in this country, let alone just you know, women in general,
Speaker 1: that required her to be in Russia on the offseason,
Speaker 1: is finally released. President Biden. The Biden administration had been
Speaker 1: working behind the scenes, as we know, to negotiate an
Speaker 1: exchange and it was a one on one exchange with
Speaker 1: a notorious arms dealer that had been in prison convicted
Speaker 1: in New York and it was serving out a twelve
Speaker 1: year prison sentence to be released in twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: has been swapped for Brittany Griner. Now, folks, do not
Speaker 1: trouble yourselves with the bullshit that is going to be
Speaker 1: coming out and that has already started spewing out from
Speaker 1: the right about how this was a terrible decision on
Speaker 1: Biden's part. And yes, of course, because we don't get
Speaker 1: they don't give a fuck about black people, they don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about queer people, and they just want
Speaker 1: to uphold Putin, you know, as their savior. Do not
Speaker 1: let that news take away from what an incredible story
Speaker 1: this is. Now we have no idea what kind of
Speaker 1: condition Brittany Grinder is in, but we do know that
Speaker 1: her healing process can begin now that she is finally
Speaker 1: on her way home to her wife, to her family,
Speaker 1: to her friends, to her teammates, to her community. This
Speaker 1: comes on top of Georgia once again showing up and
Speaker 1: showing out and denying white supremacy in the face of
Speaker 1: voters suppression, in the face of all that is evil
Speaker 1: that was propping up herschel Walker, the most unqualified man
Speaker 1: to do mostly anything, but damn sure unqualified to be
Speaker 1: a Senator of the United States. Defeating him at the
Speaker 1: ballot and electing Reverend Warnock for a six year term
Speaker 1: as a US Senator. To be the first black man
Speaker 1: elected in Georgia for a six year term is nothing
Speaker 1: short of herkey Land, and so I tweeted this earlier today.
Speaker 1: It is not often that we get to celebrate victories
Speaker 1: these days. It feels like we are always hanging on
Speaker 1: by a thread. And so when victories do find themselves
Speaker 1: at our doorstep, folks, embrace them, embody them, celebrate them,
Speaker 1: uplift them, and hold them close to your heart, because
Speaker 1: we will need that as energy to keep going, to
Speaker 1: keep fighting, to keep persevering. This was an incredible week
Speaker 1: for democracy, an incredible week for justice, and an incredible
Speaker 1: week for freedom. And I can think of no one
Speaker 1: better to join me in conversation with regard to how
Speaker 1: we are closing out this midterm election and how we
Speaker 1: are closing out this horrific traumatic experience for Britney Griner.
Speaker 1: Then my friend the host of Make It Plane, the
Speaker 1: Reverend Mark Thompson, that conversation is coming up next. Folks.
Speaker 1: You know, for the entire year we have been doing
Speaker 1: a countdown to the midterm elections with our good good
Speaker 1: friend the Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plane,
Speaker 1: and you know we were able to talk. Mark, I
Speaker 1: believe it was the day, the day of the final
Speaker 1: day to vote for midterm elections. Now the results are in,
Speaker 1: and not only are the results in general of where
Speaker 1: we stand as Democrats in both the House and the Senate,
Speaker 1: but we have just completed what feels like Georgia's seventeen
Speaker 1: thousandth election that it has had over the course of
Speaker 1: this year. So I just want to get your initial
Speaker 1: thoughts on, you know, based on all of our conversations
Speaker 1: that we have had, how you think things have turned
Speaker 1: out and how you feel about it. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: as always a pleasure to be here with you. And yes,
Speaker 1: first you have to congratulate Georgia voters for once again
Speaker 1: black voters in the South and some white voters even
Speaker 1: for saving America. I went over the course of the
Speaker 1: past weeks and several days in Georgia canvassing with black
Speaker 1: voters matter, and I felt as though I had to
Speaker 1: do it. My conscience would not allow me to sit
Speaker 1: idly by with the risk of my people waking up
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning and herschel Walker being in the Senate, I
Speaker 1: just could not live with myself. So I had to
Speaker 1: do something, as others did. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: my contribution to what Black Voters Matter had already been
Speaker 1: doing in Georgia was just a drop in the ocean.
Speaker 1: But I was thankful that they allowed me to participate
Speaker 1: with them and go out and meet voters and talk
Speaker 1: to people and encourage people to get out to vote. Now,
Speaker 1: to be clear, we operated under nonpartisan auspices. But when
Speaker 1: you get people to vote, when you save the people,
Speaker 1: this is your sacred, blood stained obligation to do this.
Speaker 1: They tend to vote the right way. One woman, even
Speaker 1: on Tuesday we engaged. She kept asking me, well, who
Speaker 1: do you want me to vote for. I can't really
Speaker 1: tell you that in this capacity, but I don't know
Speaker 1: who to vote for. I said, we'll just vote, and
Speaker 1: then I said, you don't know who to vote for?
Speaker 1: And then she looked at me and she says, well,
Speaker 1: I know who I don't want to vote for. I said, well,
Speaker 1: then you need to act on that. You need to vote.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is, and I don't think
Speaker 1: we say this enough, So I'm going to say it
Speaker 1: as much as I can, Ladies and gentlemen, when one
Speaker 1: doesn't vote, you are still voting because you're helping the
Speaker 1: person whom you might not want to see in office
Speaker 1: get in office, because you haven't cast your vote for
Speaker 1: the other person, the right person, the person you've chosen.
Speaker 1: So when that young woman said to me, I don't
Speaker 1: know who to vote for, but she knew who she
Speaker 1: didn't want to vote for, That's when I explained to
Speaker 1: her how important it is to vote. And I've been
Speaker 1: saying that to everyone. When you don't vote, you are
Speaker 1: actually really voting. When people don't vote for Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and they just assume he's gonna win, you're casting a
Speaker 1: vote for Trump. Objectively, those of us who represent the
Speaker 1: progressive community, whom also intersectionally represent what doctor King called
Speaker 1: the beloved community before he died, the the the assignment,
Speaker 1: the moniker, the designation that got him killed. We are
Speaker 1: in the majority in America, African Americans and Latinos, all
Speaker 1: people of color, Indigenous people, lgbt qia, the working class,
Speaker 1: youth women. Obviously, we are in the majority voter. So
Speaker 1: if we all vote, then we win. When we don't vote,
Speaker 1: we don't and those non votes go to the benefit
Speaker 1: of other people. So I was thankful to be a
Speaker 1: part of that. It was exhilarating, although in exhaustive experience,
Speaker 1: I still have not caught up on sleep. I was
Speaker 1: on a zoom when I got back home, flew flew
Speaker 1: back in the six am flight Wednesday morning. By four
Speaker 1: o'clock Wednesday afternoon, I'm on a zoom and I literally
Speaker 1: fell asleep on a zoom and everybody felt so sorry
Speaker 1: for me. They just left me on his zoom. See
Speaker 1: I'm not literally crashed out in the zoom all the
Speaker 1: way back like this in the chair, just gone, and
Speaker 1: everybody just you know, prayed over me and they understood,
Speaker 1: and I had everybody's forgiveness later in today. But this
Speaker 1: was important, and you're right, seventeen thousand times to be specific,
Speaker 1: people had to vote five times in two years for
Speaker 1: Raphael Warnock. Georgians are thankful they get to exhale from
Speaker 1: voting every year for something. They get a little break now,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, and they've earned it. But but God bless Georgia,
Speaker 1: God bless all the voters, and God bless all of
Speaker 1: you who contacted your friends and family and Georgia and
Speaker 1: got them to get out to vote. You know, I
Speaker 1: have to tell you that I had uh Latasha James
Speaker 1: on another show, um to to talk about the vote,
Speaker 1: to talk about the energy on the ground. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I want to talk about because I
Speaker 1: think that we take for granted those of us who
Speaker 1: live in quote unquote blue States, those of us who
Speaker 1: live um in you know, in kind of democratic le
Speaker 1: protected or so we think, protected areas and regions of
Speaker 1: the country. We take for granted the exhaustion right to
Speaker 1: your point about this, about the zoom, the exhaustion that
Speaker 1: people of Georgia have faced over the last five years,
Speaker 1: and how the policies have been in put in place
Speaker 1: purposefully to exhaust the voters. And I just wanted you
Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, share a little bit
Speaker 1: more about what you heard from people on the ground,
Speaker 1: about the things, the ways that they have been you know, targeted, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it must have been like to
Speaker 1: watch television in Georgia for the last like for the
Speaker 1: last five years. I mean, this senatorial race, I believe
Speaker 1: was historic in the amount of money that was spent
Speaker 1: on advertising on targeting the people of Georgia. So I
Speaker 1: just want to get a sense from you Mark about
Speaker 1: you know, the energy of the people there, right, the
Speaker 1: resolve and the perseverance of the people of Georgia when
Speaker 1: they are inundated with vote of suppression, when they continue
Speaker 1: to be taxed year after year. Well, I was there
Speaker 1: weekend and watching TV was not a pleasant experience, So
Speaker 1: there is an inundation. Although I do think Ralphael Warnock
Speaker 1: had the most effective commercials. Oh yes, I mean they
Speaker 1: were clear, they were cutting people of all racest talking
Speaker 1: about what was important in the election, and I think
Speaker 1: that helped him. I mean it. Georgia showed out again
Speaker 1: even on Tuesday in very respectable numbers. You talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, the fatigue. I've never really bought into fatigue
Speaker 1: and politics, but I have now because of Georgia. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, and people imber with two people we talk
Speaker 1: about Clinton fatigue. Wow, I mean it's a blessing. People
Speaker 1: didn't get Warnock fatigue having to go out and do
Speaker 1: this all the time every year for the past five years,
Speaker 1: practically for the past two years. Five times in the
Speaker 1: past two years. I should say so, But I think
Speaker 1: the commercials got over on people. I think that now
Speaker 1: it's time for Georgia. So these need need to be
Speaker 1: the next commercials. Now it's time for Georgia to get
Speaker 1: rid of this primary system. It no longer serves the
Speaker 1: purpose that the white supremacists who set it up wanted
Speaker 1: it to serve, because we are now empowered to vote.
Speaker 1: It was originally meant to dilute our voting power, but
Speaker 1: now that we've shown the discipline that we have, it's
Speaker 1: made a difference. A matter of fact, Republicans are so stupid.
Speaker 1: If the if there had been no runoff in the
Speaker 1: first election with us Off, then us Off would not
Speaker 1: be in the Senate and the Republicans would have a majority,
Speaker 1: see because he lost it anyone to run. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're so stupid they set themselves up for that failure.
Speaker 1: So so again, these are decisions. They make all decisions.
Speaker 1: They may end up causing losses for them, So maybe
Speaker 1: we shouldn't complain. Um, we beat back the red wave,
Speaker 1: the so called tsunonymy tsunami, the tsunami, let forgive me
Speaker 1: for and that never happening. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: that this is this is a turning point and a
Speaker 1: major one. And let me just also say this, if
Speaker 1: I could Danielle and feel free coming out because I
Speaker 1: know I'm talking too much, um um, but I don't
Speaker 1: get talking my own show. So when i'm against I
Speaker 1: try to. You know what I'm saying. When you talk,
Speaker 1: when you're host, you don't talk. You guests talk. So
Speaker 1: I'm a guest. I get talked. I'm saying stuff, do
Speaker 1: you I don't even get time to say on my
Speaker 1: own show. Um in. This is the week, the week
Speaker 1: of the runoff was the week of the anniversion of
Speaker 1: my gummy best boy Cat. When was the last time
Speaker 1: we as a people, or any people in America was
Speaker 1: so disciplined as they were in nineteen fifty five to
Speaker 1: not take the buses for over a year and walk
Speaker 1: to work. Who Who's going to do that today? What? What?
Speaker 1: What Americans are gonna do something like that? So selfless
Speaker 1: and self sacrificing for the good of all today, that's
Speaker 1: a lot to walk to work every day for three days.
Speaker 1: So to put it in a relative context, going back
Speaker 1: out and voting in numbers like this five times to
Speaker 1: ensure that crazy people aren't seated in the Senate, especially
Speaker 1: herschel Walker. It to me is reminiscent of the discipline
Speaker 1: it took. It's not quite the same, but I think
Speaker 1: in the same objective context, it is folking going to
Speaker 1: walk to work every day for over a year now. People,
Speaker 1: we're not made like that anymore. People aren't built that way.
Speaker 1: We aren't built for that. But if we can go
Speaker 1: out out in all these consecutive times to vote, then
Speaker 1: that's that's an important thing. And frankly, everyone will say
Speaker 1: that Jesus suffered and Dad, so we don't have to.
Speaker 1: Those who who suffered during the Montgomery bus boycott, those
Speaker 1: who died in Selma did so that so we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to. So the least we can do is do
Speaker 1: what we did and vote as we did in Georgia
Speaker 1: during the runoff. Yeah, I mean amen to that in
Speaker 1: so many different ways, because when people say, you know
Speaker 1: that I don't vote, or one side is just as
Speaker 1: bad as the other, you know, I get a sick
Speaker 1: pit in my stomach because I do believe right, and
Speaker 1: remember every time I vote, who died so that I
Speaker 1: could be able to press that button, right like I
Speaker 1: I think about that all the time, And that is
Speaker 1: you know, that that's the problem with teaching history, right,
Speaker 1: with not reminding, having constant reminders, having constant anniversaries that
Speaker 1: lift up the people who did sacrifice their own lives
Speaker 1: so that yours could be better. So I appreciate you
Speaker 1: Mark for lifting that up. The last thing I want
Speaker 1: to say on Georgia is herschel Walker was an embarrassment,
Speaker 1: was an embarrassment of a candidate, was an embarrassment of
Speaker 1: so many different things. And I just wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you if you think at all at all if Republicans
Speaker 1: will learn anything from trying to prop up literally prop
Speaker 1: up this man because he went on he by himself,
Speaker 1: always had his white handlers with him. If they will
Speaker 1: have learned anything from this loss and the kind of
Speaker 1: candidates that they should be running moving forward. Well, see,
Speaker 1: even when they lose, they win because I think they
Speaker 1: actually get off on demoralizing us and putting people like
Speaker 1: that up, so to some extent, you know, they still
Speaker 1: got something out of that. They are probably more interested
Speaker 1: at this point because they know it's going to be
Speaker 1: challenging and continue to win elections with the changing demographics
Speaker 1: in this country, So they're still interested in demoralization and
Speaker 1: cultural attack and the preservation of white supremacy. So they
Speaker 1: still got something out of that. They got a black
Speaker 1: man to say out loud, he doesn't mind being called
Speaker 1: a coon. Now, I had some white friends call me
Speaker 1: and so, man, we don't know what to say. This
Speaker 1: is just saying, you know, we don't want to speak
Speaker 1: out about I'm saying you're just said on man, I'm
Speaker 1: giving all white folks permission. Then whenever you see somebody
Speaker 1: call themselves a coon, you have permission to call them out.
Speaker 1: You know what I say, it's one of my friends.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't know what to say?
Speaker 1: You know what that is. You know what a coon is,
Speaker 1: and how disgraceful that is? Say it, say something about
Speaker 1: it called out? Well, I don't know because I'm not black. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be black to say that an
Speaker 1: African American referring to himself and embracing himself as a
Speaker 1: coon is a setback and and something wrong there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you want to debate. You wanted to call me
Speaker 1: and ask my permission. You know we're not Hey, let
Speaker 1: me say this carefully. Were not like other folks who
Speaker 1: don't allow others to speak about our experience. Hello, I
Speaker 1: think you know y'all get that later, h and when
Speaker 1: they're no consequences for its standing with us, in solidarity
Speaker 1: with us to say, you don't need to call somebody
Speaker 1: a coon, or you don't need to refer yourself as
Speaker 1: a coon. So I don't know that they learn anything, Danielle.
Speaker 1: There's there's a sickness that they still get off on
Speaker 1: saying these things, doing these things, projecting these and having
Speaker 1: him running around and saying those types of things. I
Speaker 1: don't they they're not. I don't think for one minute
Speaker 1: they're finished. They may ultimately be finished politically, they may
Speaker 1: ultimately and they may know that, I mean sooner later
Speaker 1: numbers are gonna bear that out. There is no way
Speaker 1: that this is going to continue. So let you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna you know, grasp, you know, hold on. What
Speaker 1: did Charlton Heston say that those who will take a
Speaker 1: gun from me, mister n ra A here, they have
Speaker 1: to pride from my cold dead hands. You know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to pride whatever, We're gonna have to pride
Speaker 1: from those who ultimately will go to the grave because
Speaker 1: Father Time is undefeated. But um, I don't know that
Speaker 1: they learned a dog on thing, switching gears with the
Speaker 1: with the time that we have left. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it isn't often that I say I tweeted this as
Speaker 1: that platform still stands, but on you know, it's like
Speaker 1: a three legged stool that our celebrations are very far
Speaker 1: and few between these days. Georgia being a major victory
Speaker 1: for the Senate for democracy, for true leadership. Right. Brittany Griner,
Speaker 1: after ten months in a Russian prison, after being sentenced
Speaker 1: to nine years of hard labor in a Russian penal
Speaker 1: colony for having empty vape cartridges that other people, mind
Speaker 1: you in Russia, have just been deported for right, used
Speaker 1: as a political tool in this geopolitical warfare that has
Speaker 1: been going on between the United States and Russia for
Speaker 1: quite some time. As Russia is in the midst of
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, has finally been released and been traded
Speaker 1: for a Russian prisoner. I woke up to that news
Speaker 1: Mark and was in tears because as a black queer woman,
Speaker 1: my heart was breaking for Brittany to be held prisoner
Speaker 1: in a known homophobic, abusive country. We know how little
Speaker 1: we think about black people in this country and their worth.
Speaker 1: So the idea that our government would actually fight for
Speaker 1: her release. I want to get your reactions to this news.
Speaker 1: It is great news. In fact, I'll put it this way,
Speaker 1: hang all the missile too. Brittany Ground is coming home
Speaker 1: this Christmas. It's it's beautiful, it's touching. Um. And a
Speaker 1: lot of hard work went into this. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say something else that might sound controversially some people are
Speaker 1: getting credit and taking credit for this, but it was
Speaker 1: a lot of folk, including some of you who are
Speaker 1: our listeners, who join us in these prayervisials to to
Speaker 1: bring her home. Um. Some represented that some of the
Speaker 1: things we were preparing to do, go out in the streets,
Speaker 1: have more privilege, which really always was a plan which
Speaker 1: we were planning to be in the streets more, to
Speaker 1: be at the we we had provisions at the Russian
Speaker 1: Embassy and the Russian Consulate. We were going to do more.
Speaker 1: And then some folks, well, don't do that, because that's
Speaker 1: gonna upset the White House, and the White House is
Speaker 1: gonna look bad and the Russians. But Malcolm said, bandon
Speaker 1: means necessary. The very assertion that there were those of
Speaker 1: us who might do that made the White House get
Speaker 1: up an act. So it worked. So I want to
Speaker 1: commend those who involved in all those all those efforts.
Speaker 1: Victoria Kirby York at the National Black Justice Coalition, one
Speaker 1: of our LGBATS, great LGBT organizations, Angela Rye, Tamika Mallory,
Speaker 1: rem doctor Barber, so many who were involved in that
Speaker 1: process that that kind of moved the White House to
Speaker 1: do something. It's high time she come home. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm grateful. I'm overjoyed as well. It makes me
Speaker 1: emotional too because the thought of that sister in that
Speaker 1: condition was absolutely horrifying, and we've yet to learn exactly
Speaker 1: how she was treated. I was on a call earlier
Speaker 1: today and even some of the government officials are going
Speaker 1: to give her the send the support to decide when
Speaker 1: she wants to share, Yeah, what her experience was. So, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad that she's home and we all should
Speaker 1: celebrate this. It's it's been from the run off to
Speaker 1: Brittany Grinder, Well, we'll remember the week when all of
Speaker 1: that happened as one of the greatest weeks in our time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I will say that I cannot imagine, um,
Speaker 1: what she was put through for those ten long months.
Speaker 1: But my heart rests easy that her healing, which will
Speaker 1: probably be lifelong UM emotional, mental, physical healing UM, can
Speaker 1: begin as as as she makes her way back home
Speaker 1: to her wife and to her family, to her friends,
Speaker 1: to her team mates, and to the community. As you said, Mark,
Speaker 1: that has lifted her up in prayer, in coverage for
Speaker 1: the last ten months brought attention where without that attention,
Speaker 1: who knows what her fate UM would have been. And
Speaker 1: I think that it's really important for people to recognize.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we say that if the only action
Speaker 1: that you can do is to share something, to share
Speaker 1: a photo, to share some information, that all of us
Speaker 1: have a voice and have a platform, whether it's for
Speaker 1: five people or five million people. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to downplay the fact that you know, images of her,
Speaker 1: articles of her you know, t shirts, all of these
Speaker 1: things were made and done to continue to have her
Speaker 1: name be said so that she wouldn't be erased and
Speaker 1: that she wouldn't be forgotten. That those things are powerful.
Speaker 1: You know, we we we all don't um march y'all
Speaker 1: can't afford to give money, UM, but understand that lifting
Speaker 1: her name up and her presence up is what also
Speaker 1: played a part um in in having her en route home. Um.
Speaker 1: Mark last question for you, you know, as we get
Speaker 1: ready to turn the page on this year and go
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty three, Um, you know what what what
Speaker 1: message do do you want to send to people who again,
Speaker 1: this has been a weary year. Right, we're we're hopefully
Speaker 1: going to be ending on these on these high notes,
Speaker 1: but it's been a weary, long year that has tested
Speaker 1: uh so many parts of our country, our democracy, our
Speaker 1: wherewithal um and so what do what do you what
Speaker 1: message do you want to leave for folks as they
Speaker 1: prepare to close out this year and begin anew in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three? What, as the scripture says, let us
Speaker 1: not grow weary in well doing Danielle for in due
Speaker 1: season season we shall reap if we don't lose heart.
Speaker 1: That has borne true in our experience in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: We didn't give up. We didn't give up, and we
Speaker 1: stopped the juggernaut that was predicted from the right wing.
Speaker 1: We stopped it. And they may have a majority air
Speaker 1: quote in the House, but it's a very slim one.
Speaker 1: And if someone sneezes that majority might be gone overnight.
Speaker 1: We've held the Senate, we gained governorships. None of this
Speaker 1: has happened. No incumbent has held President has held the
Speaker 1: Senate in the midterms this way since nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 1: No incombent president has gained governorships this way since the
Speaker 1: thirty since Roosevelt. So this is the reward, folks, for
Speaker 1: eternal vigilance, for not growing weary. We have reaped the harvest,
Speaker 1: and so we should use this and be energized by
Speaker 1: this to go forward. Let's make voting up and down
Speaker 1: the ballot, throughout the ballot second nature, just second nature.
Speaker 1: Just make that the absolute priority. And all were doing
Speaker 1: once has become second nature. We won't even realize. There's
Speaker 1: like blinking our eyes. We won't even realize we're doing it.
Speaker 1: And we will vanquish those who would continue to disenfranchise us,
Speaker 1: that would continue to take away our bodily autonomy, that
Speaker 1: would continue to discriminate against us on the basis of
Speaker 1: race or gender or sexual orientation, that would bring harm
Speaker 1: to our loved ones, that would that would allow those
Speaker 1: who are law enforcement officers to continue to lynch us
Speaker 1: and to subjugate those who are immigrants to all types
Speaker 1: of harsh treatment. When we do that, we will continue
Speaker 1: to win. So, folks, celebrate now what we've done, but
Speaker 1: remind yourselves that it happened because of you and because
Speaker 1: none of us grew weary. Reverend Mark Thompson, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for making time for us all year long
Speaker 1: in our in our monthly conversations. I tell you that
Speaker 1: I have deeply appreciate appreciated them. I look forward to
Speaker 1: continued conversations into twenty twenty three, and I wish you
Speaker 1: a happy, healthy New Year. If I don't get to
Speaker 1: speak to you on air before them, well all of
Speaker 1: you and your entire audience, that woke air audience, may
Speaker 1: God bless you all. Merry Christmas, Happy Kuanza, happy honek
Speaker 1: or whatever holiday you celebrate. Me me, all the peace
Speaker 1: and joy be yours. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: dear friends, on this good, great Friday. As always, power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.