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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording still from the Brooklyn Bunker.

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Speaker 1: But apparently COVID is over, so I don't know why

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Speaker 1: I'm still here. I need to re enter into society, folks.

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Speaker 1: Let me start out with giving you some headlines that

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Speaker 1: I find absolutely troubling. And it's only Tuesday. So here's

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Speaker 1: what happened yesterday. Yesterday news report comes out and Jen

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Speaker 1: Saki talked about it in the White House briefing that

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is potentially making a trip to Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: to go and sit with MBS Mohammed bin Salam. You know,

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Speaker 1: the murderer, the murderer, the man who murdered Jamal Kashogi,

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Speaker 1: cut up his body into multiple pieces, and whose family

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Speaker 1: still was just able to bury why an empty casket.

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Speaker 1: So Joe Biden finds himself after referring to Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: as a pariah after you know, the Trump administration doing

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Speaker 1: nothing about the murder of Jamal Kashogi because we know

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Speaker 1: that MBS's friends and besties and WhatsApp text message buddies

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Speaker 1: with who exactly. Jared Kushner. So here's the thing that

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Speaker 1: got me. Why is Joe Biden making this trip to

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Speaker 1: the Middle East potentially, well, because he needs to go

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Speaker 1: shuck and jive in order to get some oil, because

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Speaker 1: our gas prices are skyrocketing. Right And you know, while

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Speaker 1: folks want to attribute this to what is being done

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Speaker 1: in Russia by cutting off Russian oil, understand that America

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Speaker 1: does not get a most of its oil from Russia.

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Speaker 1: You would think that right now, dear friends, would be

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for us to consider putting what is that

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Speaker 1: piece of legislation, Oh, that's right, the Green New Deal

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Speaker 1: back on the table as a way for us to

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Speaker 1: actually start to forecast into the future our future needs

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Speaker 1: as a country, which is around sustainability and renewable energy,

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Speaker 1: not continuing to dig into the ground for a depleting

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Speaker 1: asset that is now skyrocketing and why people go to

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Speaker 1: fucking war. So, folks, here's where I am with this.

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Speaker 1: The Green New Deal, if you all remember, was trashed

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Speaker 1: by none other than guess who, our friend, Senator Joe Mansion,

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Speaker 1: King Cole. Why did he trash the brand new Deal? Well,

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Speaker 1: because he's King Cole, and the dirtier our oil reserves

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Speaker 1: can be the more money that he gets in his

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Speaker 1: pockets from his lobbyist friends that want to keep pushing

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Speaker 1: coal and keep pushing oil. The reality is this, we

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Speaker 1: are running out of that energy source, which is why

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Speaker 1: we have turned into innovative renewable energies like wind, like solar.

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Speaker 1: And you would think that instead of continuing to put

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Speaker 1: could look at the situation that is unfolding right now

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Speaker 1: in Russia and the fact that they are the second

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Speaker 1: largest oil producer two countries in the Middle East, and

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Speaker 1: they have the ability to either turn the faucet on

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Speaker 1: or turn it off depending on who they like and

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Speaker 1: what they want at that time. So this is an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for us to start to be investing in renewable

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Speaker 1: energies in a way that we haven't. And it's a

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Speaker 1: because of what money in politics. It's because of big

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Speaker 1: oil and big coal that are continuing to put money

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Speaker 1: in the pockets of folks like Joe Mansion right and

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Speaker 1: many others who decide to put our future needs ahead

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Speaker 1: of their present desires to be rich. Right, that's the situation,

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Speaker 1: and so here we now have Joe Biden going hat

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Speaker 1: in hand to the Saudi Kingdom to bow before a murderer, right,

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Speaker 1: somebody who does not believe in democracy, who does not

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Speaker 1: believe in accountability, who loves to be as chummy as

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Speaker 1: possible with America's own fascist regime, who will come back

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Speaker 1: to power in just a handful of months. And we're

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Speaker 1: not thinking outside of the box now. Folks will say

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Speaker 1: to me, well, Danielle, we are in a state of crisis,

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Speaker 1: so we have to deal with the crisis at hand

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Speaker 1: is the same rope a dope that motherfucker's have been

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Speaker 1: telling us every single time there is a mass shooting,

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Speaker 1: every single time that there is a killing in the

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Speaker 1: streets of an unarmed black person, it's never the time

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Speaker 1: in that moment to deal with the issue at hand.

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Speaker 1: We're either told that we're playing Paul. We're told that

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Speaker 1: it's not about race. We're told, oh no, we can't

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Speaker 1: talk about renewable energies because we have to deal with

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Speaker 1: the immediate oil crisis and the crisis at the pump.

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Speaker 1: When is going to be the right time, When is

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Speaker 1: we've been relying on is no longer working. So what

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Speaker 1: comes next. My fear with this administration, which has been

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Speaker 1: my fear before Biden became President of the United States,

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Speaker 1: it was when Biden was candidate Biden that he was

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Speaker 1: at that time not my number one, two, or third

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Speaker 1: my number five. And why was that? It's because I

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Speaker 1: long forgotten past. And how do I know that? Because

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Speaker 1: when Joe Biden became President of the United States, he

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Speaker 1: thought that, by virtue of his whiteness and the last

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Speaker 1: the folks like Mitch McConnell, right, and just hash it

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Speaker 1: out over a stake dinner America's future, not recognizing that

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Speaker 1: that Republican Party that he had grown up with no

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Speaker 1: longer exists. They're a motherfucking cult. And so here's Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden instead of coming out of the gate pushing voting

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Speaker 1: rights and voting rights alone as a way to secure

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Speaker 1: our democracy from our homegrown fascists that are trying to

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Speaker 1: move us in the direction of the Putins of the world.

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Speaker 1: Instead of doing that, what did Joe Biden find himself doing, Oh, bipartisanship. Bipartisanship.

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Speaker 1: We're going to pass an infrastructure bill so that I

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Speaker 1: with people who literally try to hang their Vice resident

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Speaker 1: and it makes no sense for us. Instead of putting together,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, an emergency task force, instead of saying

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Speaker 1: that while we are dealing with this immediate crisis, this

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Speaker 1: administration is going to be putting billions or tens of

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Speaker 1: surplus that the Pentagon did not ask for in their

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Speaker 1: resources that are woefully underfunded, so that at some point

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Speaker 1: America can start acting like it is in the twenty

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Speaker 1: a hard lunch pail. Folks, we have got to find

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Speaker 1: a way for us to be able to move forward.

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Speaker 1: And this move to Saudi Arabia, it ain't fucking it.

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Speaker 1: It is not it. And what is troubling me. What

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Speaker 1: is in a desperate situation. Right. Desperation is never how

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Speaker 1: you go into a negotiation. That's just plain facts. With

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Speaker 1: course those are the insane price gougers. But here, folks,

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Speaker 1: if we had been making a push, an actual push,

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Speaker 1: fucking past. All of these things are connected and they

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Speaker 1: set up for this time. He is not set up

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Speaker 1: for this moment right, because I am finding that this administration,

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Speaker 1: world of Disney. So another story that came out this week,

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Speaker 1: I said during that work Wednesday is that you have companies, right,

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Speaker 1: So why so that they always have somebody that is

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Speaker 1: political pendulum, swings back and forth, back and forth. So

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Speaker 1: come to find out that after death Scantists passes the

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Speaker 1: So the heiress of Disney comes out and calls out

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Speaker 1: supposed to be, you know, the most accepting, loving, fun

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Speaker 1: regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Well, now,

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Speaker 1: And I find this really frustrating, right because we as

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Speaker 1: companies and corporations. But that can't absolutely that can't be

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Speaker 1: the case, right, absolutely not. How could it be because

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Speaker 1: all of the issues with regard to our body politic

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Speaker 1: right now is in capitalism and our addiction to greed.

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Speaker 1: If you were to remove money from the situation, right

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Speaker 1: and that you cap that out so that there was

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Speaker 1: Joe mansion and your yacht and your fucking Maserati that

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Speaker 1: series of investigative reporting and show families and talk to people. No,

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Speaker 1: because we don't care. Because when we see areas of

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Speaker 1: the world right that are inhabited by black and brown people,

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Speaker 1: the assumption is made on just exactly what was said

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Speaker 1: on BBC, CBS and others. Well, you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: have Starbucks, they don't have Instagram like we do. You know,

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Speaker 1: these are middle class people, so we must empathize with them,

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Speaker 1: because it's not Afghanistan or Syria where we just expect

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Speaker 1: people to live a certain way. They said the quiet

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Speaker 1: part out loud, and I will say the quiet part

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Speaker 1: out loud, which is that we don't actually care, regardless

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Speaker 1: of political party, about people who flee war, famine, drug cartels, right,

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Speaker 1: unless they look a certain way and that certain way

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Speaker 1: is white. And one of the things that I was

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Speaker 1: said to said to me was it's impossible for us

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Speaker 1: to care about everything right. That is impossible for us

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Speaker 1: as global citizens to put our attention to everything in everywhere,

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Speaker 1: and it's impossible for mainstream media to do so. My

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Speaker 1: pushback again is that if we are going to be

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Speaker 1: picking and choosing, why can't those that we are empathizing

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Speaker 1: with have brown skin sometimes? Why can't we also tell

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Speaker 1: their story? Why can't we look for the shared humanness

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Speaker 1: that we all have regardless of what our homes and

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Speaker 1: our communities look like. That's the thing that gets me

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Speaker 1: about the situation in the Ukraine's watching these reporters say, well,

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Speaker 1: they look just like us. So because people in Yemen

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Speaker 1: and Afghanistan and Ethiopia don't look like the quote unquote

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Speaker 1: mainstream we can't empathize with the plight of a mother

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Speaker 1: with children on her back, leaving everything that she knows

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Speaker 1: in order to flee genocide. We as parents, as humans like,

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Speaker 1: can't empathize with that because we don't share the same

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Speaker 1: Starbucks and soul cycle routine. Like I'm just fucking confused, right,

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Speaker 1: and I find it disgusting. And so again I will say,

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Speaker 1: there is no right time to talk about systemic racism.

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Speaker 1: There is no time right time to talk about anti blackness.

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Speaker 1: Right it is genuinely when it is unfolding on such

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Speaker 1: a large scale that we can't turn away from it.

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Speaker 1: So for me, there's no time like the present. And

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Speaker 1: is it because I believe that it's going to be

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Speaker 1: ever eradicated? No, I don't, But I believe that you

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Speaker 1: can place accountability and responsibility on people to do better.

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Speaker 1: You can hold those that abuse and oppress people to

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Speaker 1: the highest of standards and make examples of them so

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Speaker 1: that people begin to think twice. But we don't do

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Speaker 1: that because again, we move and operate under the assertion

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Speaker 1: that some people are deserving of empathy and sympathy and

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Speaker 1: others just are not. And we need to interrogate why,

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Speaker 1: why have we allowed that to be the case? Why

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Speaker 1: is that okay should not be and whether or not

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Speaker 1: you know? And here was another thing that was said

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Speaker 1: about the African immigrants or African students as a whole

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Speaker 1: fleeing Ukraine was well, why didn't Nigeria, where a lot

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Speaker 1: of the students are from, why didn't Nigeria as a

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Speaker 1: country get itself together to get the people to get

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Speaker 1: their country men and women out of harm's away. And

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Speaker 1: you know, again I said, I agree. I agree with

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Speaker 1: the fact that there was miscalculation on the part of

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Speaker 1: the Nigerian government. But at the same time, why is

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Speaker 1: it always the onus on the oppressed as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the oppressor, Like and there was another conversation about being

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Speaker 1: able to insulate ourselves from racism, like if Nigeria had

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Speaker 1: just stepped up and took care of their people, then

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Speaker 1: they would not have experienced the racism, and so they

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Speaker 1: should have insulated their people from white supremacy. There is

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Speaker 1: no insulation from the matrix of white supremacy. It literally

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00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: is everywhere. There is no way to steal yourself against

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Speaker 1: anti blackness, right because I would say to you, oh,

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Speaker 1: just stay in your home, but you can be shot

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Speaker 1: dead and there. Right. So the assumption again that if

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Speaker 1: we that to me, boils down to respectability politics, if

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Speaker 1: we just dressed the right way, act the right way,

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Speaker 1: then somehow we can insulate ourselves from the abuser. And

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Speaker 1: that is false, That is a lie. And I really

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Speaker 1: want us in this moment as people who care about

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Speaker 1: other people to not let this shit slide and say, oh, well,

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00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: we have bigger fish to fry. There is always bigger fish, right,

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00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: There's always something else. And the fact that we keep

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Speaker 1: sweeping anti blackness and white supremacy under the rug is

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Speaker 1: how we are at the place and point that we

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Speaker 1: are in American history and life. The same tactics are

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Speaker 1: being used with different technologies and tools, but the goal

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00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: is still the same to keep those black and brown

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Speaker 1: people on the bottom, trapped at the bottom, so that

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Speaker 1: life can be easier and more comfortable for white people.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up, folks. It's the reason that slavery,

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Speaker 1: the slave trade was started. All these white folks. They

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Speaker 1: didn't want to do the work. They didn't have the

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Speaker 1: power or the numbers or no. They wanted lives of leisure.

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Speaker 1: So it's easier to bring in people, say that they

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Speaker 1: are subhuman, work them to death because for you, their

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Speaker 1: equipment and not human beings. Right, so that you could

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Speaker 1: be comfortable take that same frame of thinking and apply

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Speaker 1: it to today's world. Right, it hasn't changed, and it's

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Speaker 1: because we've never interrogated it, we've never challenged it, we've

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Speaker 1: never held people accountable or companies accountable for how they

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Speaker 1: have abused black and brown people. And so no, folks,

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Speaker 1: there is never a quote unquote right time. It is

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Speaker 1: always the right time to do the right thing. And

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Speaker 1: I just think that we have moved so far away

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Speaker 1: from that that it's so much easier to blame everybody

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Speaker 1: else than what is sitting right in front of us,

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Speaker 1: you know, which brings me to the really troubling story

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Speaker 1: right now of Britney Griner, who is a WNBA player

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Speaker 1: who the world just learned over the weekend has been

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Speaker 1: detained in Russia for the last month. And why has

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Speaker 1: Britney been detained Because Russian officials are saying that there

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Speaker 1: was some vape containing THHC containing marijuana found in her

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Speaker 1: luggage as she was being moved through security, and so

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Speaker 1: they detained her. No one knows from when, no one

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Speaker 1: knows where she's being held. And now Brittany Griner, w

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Speaker 1: NBA player, has become a political pawn in this larger

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Speaker 1: geopolitical fucking war games that are being played right now.

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Speaker 1: And I fear for her. Why do I fear for her?

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Speaker 1: She's a black woman, and she is an out black

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Speaker 1: lesbian in a country that has had killed the gay bills,

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Speaker 1: right with a dictator who is turning on his own

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Speaker 1: fucking people and has arrested thousands upon thousands of people,

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Speaker 1: going to send them into somebody's work camp because they

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Speaker 1: are protesting his war of aggression with their neighboring country

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Speaker 1: where they have family and friends. I worry for her

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Speaker 1: because what is this administration going to do? Her, along

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Speaker 1: with several other Americans, have been in Russian prisons for

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Speaker 1: years and right now we're not on speaking terms with

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Speaker 1: this maniac. So what is happening to Brittany Griner? What

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Speaker 1: will happen to her? We do not know because until

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Speaker 1: this past weekend, no one even knew, aside from her

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Speaker 1: family and her teammates, that she had been detained. I

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Speaker 1: think that we are going to hear more of these stories.

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Speaker 1: There are going to be more pawns in this larger game,

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Speaker 1: and I am very concerned. I am very concerned about

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Speaker 1: her safety, about her emotional well being. And that is

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Speaker 1: a story that we are going to continue to follow

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Speaker 1: here on Woke af That is it for me today. Friends,

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Speaker 1: As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck,