WEBVTT - The Matrix of White Supremacy 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.560 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording still from the Brooklyn Bunker. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.000 But apparently COVID is over, so I don't know why 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.239 I'm still here. I need to re enter into society, folks. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.159 Let me start out with giving you some headlines that 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.720 I find absolutely troubling. And it's only Tuesday. So here's 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.599 what happened yesterday. Yesterday news report comes out and Jen 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.120 Saki talked about it in the White House briefing that 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.720 Joe Biden is potentially making a trip to Saudi Arabia 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.120 to go and sit with MBS Mohammed bin Salam. You know, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:54.160 the murderer, the murderer, the man who murdered Jamal Kashogi, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.720 cut up his body into multiple pieces, and whose family 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.400 still was just able to bury why an empty casket. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.640 So Joe Biden finds himself after referring to Saudi Arabia 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.600 as a pariah after you know, the Trump administration doing 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.960 nothing about the murder of Jamal Kashogi because we know 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:20.000 that MBS's friends and besties and WhatsApp text message buddies 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.880 with who exactly. Jared Kushner. So here's the thing that 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.000 got me. Why is Joe Biden making this trip to 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.360 the Middle East potentially, well, because he needs to go 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.440 shuck and jive in order to get some oil, because 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.600 our gas prices are skyrocketing. Right And you know, while 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.240 folks want to attribute this to what is being done 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.680 in Russia by cutting off Russian oil, understand that America 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.600 does not get a most of its oil from Russia. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.800 You would think that right now, dear friends, would be 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.240 an opportunity for us to consider putting what is that 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.800 piece of legislation, Oh, that's right, the Green New Deal 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.720 back on the table as a way for us to 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:09.280 actually start to forecast into the future our future needs 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.840 as a country, which is around sustainability and renewable energy, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.160 not continuing to dig into the ground for a depleting 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.440 asset that is now skyrocketing and why people go to 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.120 fucking war. So, folks, here's where I am with this. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.520 The Green New Deal, if you all remember, was trashed 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.359 by none other than guess who, our friend, Senator Joe Mansion, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.640 King Cole. Why did he trash the brand new Deal? Well, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.880 because he's King Cole, and the dirtier our oil reserves 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.360 can be the more money that he gets in his 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.840 pockets from his lobbyist friends that want to keep pushing 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.359 coal and keep pushing oil. The reality is this, we 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.800 are running out of that energy source, which is why 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:04.560 we have turned into innovative renewable energies like wind, like solar. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.040 And you would think that instead of continuing to put 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:13.080 our money energy into things that are depleting, and we 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.280 could look at the situation that is unfolding right now 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.720 in Russia and the fact that they are the second 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.520 largest oil producer two countries in the Middle East, and 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.560 they have the ability to either turn the faucet on 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.519 or turn it off depending on who they like and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.040 what they want at that time. So this is an 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.600 opportunity for us to start to be investing in renewable 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.120 energies in a way that we haven't. And it's a 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.720 because of what money in politics. It's because of big 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.400 oil and big coal that are continuing to put money 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.560 in the pockets of folks like Joe Mansion right and 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:58.200 many others who decide to put our future needs ahead 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.600 of their present desires to be rich. Right, that's the situation, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.240 and so here we now have Joe Biden going hat 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:13.560 in hand to the Saudi Kingdom to bow before a murderer, right, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.760 somebody who does not believe in democracy, who does not 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.280 believe in accountability, who loves to be as chummy as 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:26.280 possible with America's own fascist regime, who will come back 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.680 to power in just a handful of months. And we're 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.560 not thinking outside of the box now. Folks will say 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.799 to me, well, Danielle, we are in a state of crisis, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.920 so we have to deal with the crisis at hand 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.240 and then we can think to the future. Folks, this 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.240 is the same rope a dope that motherfucker's have been 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.200 telling us every single time there is a mass shooting, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.600 every single time that there is a killing in the 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.360 streets of an unarmed black person, it's never the time 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.119 in that moment to deal with the issue at hand. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.039 We're either told that we're playing Paul. We're told that 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.640 it's not about race. We're told, oh no, we can't 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.240 talk about renewable energies because we have to deal with 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.080 the immediate oil crisis and the crisis at the pump. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.200 When is going to be the right time, When is 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.200 there going to be an opportunity for us as a 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.120 nation to say that what we've been doing and what 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.560 we've been relying on is no longer working. So what 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.920 comes next. My fear with this administration, which has been 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.800 my fear before Biden became President of the United States, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.240 it was when Biden was candidate Biden that he was 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.160 at that time not my number one, two, or third 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.200 choice to be president of the United States. He was 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.600 my number five. And why was that? It's because I 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.920 believe that Joe Biden, while a good person, right, with 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.360 good character, all well and fine, but I believe that 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.680 he is a man. He is a politician from a 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.400 long forgotten past. And how do I know that? Because 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.240 when Joe Biden became President of the United States, he 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.799 thought that, by virtue of his whiteness and the last 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.200 forty years that he had spent in the Senate, that 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.920 he was going to be able to sit down with 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.000 the folks like Mitch McConnell, right, and just hash it 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.200 out over a stake dinner America's future, not recognizing that 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.000 that Republican Party that he had grown up with no 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:30.080 longer exists. They're a motherfucking cult. And so here's Joe 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.279 Biden instead of coming out of the gate pushing voting 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.400 rights and voting rights alone as a way to secure 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.560 our democracy from our homegrown fascists that are trying to 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.240 move us in the direction of the Putins of the world. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:51.120 Instead of doing that, what did Joe Biden find himself doing, Oh, bipartisanship. Bipartisanship. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.839 We're going to pass an infrastructure bill so that I 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.800 can show America and the world that I can work 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.279 with people who literally try to hang their Vice resident 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.839 on the steps of the Capitol. It makes no sense 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.960 and it makes no sense for us. Instead of putting together, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.160 I don't know, an emergency task force, instead of saying 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.600 that while we are dealing with this immediate crisis, this 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.920 administration is going to be putting billions or tens of 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.120 millions or hundreds of millions, you know, maybe taking that 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.720 surplus that the Pentagon did not ask for in their 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:31.720 budget and putting it into renewable energy and clean energy 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.720 resources that are woefully underfunded, so that at some point 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.440 America can start acting like it is in the twenty 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.960 first century. Instead of operating like the good guy from 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.960 Scranton who still believes that there's a bunch of folks 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.040 going to work at construction sites with hard hats and 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.360 a hard lunch pail. Folks, we have got to find 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.080 a way for us to be able to move forward. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.400 And this move to Saudi Arabia, it ain't fucking it. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.320 It is not it. And what is troubling me. What 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.160 is troubling me is that one it shows that America 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:13.480 is in a desperate situation. Right. Desperation is never how 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:18.080 you go into a negotiation. That's just plain facts. With 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.360 whether you're talking to your partner, your spouse, your child, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.440 your boss, Desperation is never the way to go into 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.440 a negotiation. But America is desperate because you are seeing 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.160 gas prices around the country that are at four five, six, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.240 seven eight dollars. I saw in certain areas, and of 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.400 course those are the insane price gougers. But here, folks, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.360 if we had been making a push, an actual push, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:54.080 to renewable energy, to electric cars, to investing in our future, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.520 we wouldn't still be dealing with the dictators from our 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.680 fucking past. All of these things are connected and they 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.559 drive me insane because I feel as if when I 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.000 saw that headline that I'm like, oh, Biden is not 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.079 set up for this time. He is not set up 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:18.640 for this moment right, because I am finding that this administration, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.640 while they have very good intentions and I believe are 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.840 filled with some really good people, are still believing in 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.120 the better angels of the demons that they are facing 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.679 each and every single day, which brings me to the 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:40.280 world of Disney. So another story that came out this week, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.920 and I got to tell you remember a couple of 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.320 weeks ago on Woke Wednesday, when I said, do you 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:53.200 know that the biggest evil that is leading the way 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.040 in our culture war and our political war and the 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.200 fight for our democracy is money in politics? And what 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:05.640 I said during that work Wednesday is that you have companies, right, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:12.720 and moguls who give money to both sides of the aisle. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.880 They give money to Democrats and they give money to Republicans. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.760 So why so that they always have somebody that is 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.920 going to be in their pocket, right, And so you 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.160 can't just give money to one side because our pendulum 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.439 political pendulum, swings back and forth, back and forth. So 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:38.360 come to find out that after death Scantists passes the 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.280 Don't Say Gay legislation that Disney one of the biggest, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:51.880 biggest employers in Florida was mum silent on the topic. Right, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:59.720 So the heiress of Disney comes out and calls out 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:04.360 the company for not taking a stand that Disney is 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.880 supposed to be, you know, the most accepting, loving, fun 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.680 loving place on earth, and that should be for all people, right, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.400 regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Well, now, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.120 after they have been called out publicly, come to find 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.920 out that their tepid response is this that they give 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.280 money to both sides of the aisle, and they are 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.640 not behind any one piece of legislation, but that as 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:35.520 a whole, yes, they do support politicians, Republicans and Democrats 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.560 who are on differing sides of the issue. What that 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.200 boils down to is, I want to have my cake 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.480 and eat it too. I don't want to offend anyone 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.920 who is in charge, and so I'm just going to 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.560 spread out my money and hope that you all don't 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.720 pay attention to who I'm giving my resources too. Then 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.600 they want it to come out and tout the fact 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.400 that this multibillion dollar industry, this multi billion dollar company, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.680 gave three million dollars to LGBT organizations. So what we 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.080 should just shut the fuck up then, because Disney, a 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:16.280 multi billion dollar organization, gave three billion and three excuse me, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:21.920 three million within m spread across how many lgbt Q 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:27.640 organizations And does that counter out the millions, right, the 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.600 tens of millions that you gave out to Democrats and 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:37.600 Republican politicians. You know, folks, Sometimes I just I want 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.400 things to make sense, and I realize that the more 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.240 that you pay attention, the less sense at all actually makes. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:54.000 And I find this really frustrating, right because we as 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.959 people are supposed to matter. Our voice and our vote 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:04.360 is host to be more valuable and more important than 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.920 companies and corporations. But that can't absolutely that can't be 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:12.120 the case, right, absolutely not. How could it be because 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.520 we're not providing the tens of millions of dollars to 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.360 fill the coffers and the political action committees of politicians 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.280 on both sides of the aisle. So who do you 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.280 think that they are ultimately listening to? Are they listening 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:30.320 to their constituents or they're listening to their donors. And 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:31.960 this is the same thing that we know to be 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.480 true about companies. Do you care about the consumer or 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.600 you care about your shareholder. We all know the answers 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.640 to this question. So I'm confused about how we have 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.400 to continue pretending that the problem, the source, right, of 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.679 all of the issues with regard to our body politic 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.720 right now is in capitalism and our addiction to greed. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.520 If you were to remove money from the situation, right 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.840 and go back to a place where you capped the 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.840 amount of money right that politicians could receive from companies, right, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.600 and that you cap that out so that there was 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.560 a level playing field, so that I'm not only having 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.600 my eye on who can provide me millions, right, fucking 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.560 Joe mansion and your yacht and your fucking Maserati that 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.240 you drive around in a state where I think that 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:30.720 the average the average income is like under thirty thousand 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.640 dollars a year, but you're popping your collar living on 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.880 a yacht, like make it make sense. But those people 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.400 have voted this man back in power at all levels, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.920 right for the last four decades. The point being is 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.840 that we need to interrogate what is at the source 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.840 of our troubles, right. It isn't just that we are 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.640 hoping that these companies will be benevolent. It isn't just 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.840 that we're hoping that our politicians have morals and shared values, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.760 because we know that those things are not true. But 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.920 the point is for us to realize, Wait a minute, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.480 who am I voting in? Where do they get their 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.440 money from? Right? How am I supposed to have a 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:20.800 voice when they are getting their resources from the NRA, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.520 from big oil, from big coal, from big pharma like 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:35.440 Kirsten's cinema. It's so incredibly infuriating to me because every 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.520 time that we take a step forward in this country, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.360 we take like seventeen thousand steps backwards. And it's why 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.480 we never get anywhere. Why we have Democrats still applauding 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.120 at the same pieces of legislation that they haven't passed 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.400 in ten years. But somehow this year, with a fifty 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.200 fifty split in the Senate, it's going to be the 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:01.560 magic year that we're going to actually get things done. No, No, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.840 that is not happening. And now I want to transition 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.600 to a couple of conversations that I had at the 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:16.000 end of last week and yesterday with folks on the 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:21.960 Philadelphia station WRUD and then also over in Chicago at 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.960 w v O N. These are two of the last 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:31.640 remaining black run, black owned radio stations in the country. Now, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.160 I went on because I go on these networks at 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.240 least once a month to just give a rundown on 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.120 the things that people need to pay attention to. This 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.280 past week, I went on in order to talk about 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.160 the Ukraine and the potential of World War three and 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.520 the fact that Putin is now in control of the 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:57.720 largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and that should we 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.440 this is the question that was being post Should we 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:08.280 put racism right? The racism that is being experienced by 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.880 African immigrants and other immigrants of color who are also 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.199 alongside with their white counterparts trying to flee war and 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.800 certain death. Should we put the racism and the discrimination 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:26.240 that we have seen now finally find its way into mainstream, 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.960 if only for a brief segment, on hold, because quote unquote, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.840 we have bigger fish to fry. This goes back to 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.399 what I just said earlier. When is the right time 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.120 for us to talk about racism? Think about this? When 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.240 the when is the right time? Is it when over 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.919 three hundred voter suppression laws are rolled out across the country, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:53.600 particularly targeting black and brown people. Is it when jerrymandering 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.080 is set up? Is it when we noticed right back 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.840 in was it twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, I 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.200 don't know. The years blurred together when Texas had their 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.879 big snowstorm, you know, the one that Senator Crews decided 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.800 to hop on a plane and go to Cancoon while 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.800 his constituents were literally freezing and were out of water. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.160 But there, when the power did start to come on, 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.680 it was very clear in what neighborhoods and where it 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.800 was going on, which was in none of the highly 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.720 populated black and brown neighborhoods. They remained in the dark, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:34.800 without electricity, without heat, right in these frigid temperatures. It 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.120 wasn't the right time then to talk about race and racism. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.520 Apparently it was the right time for that brief summer 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.439 of twenty twenty to talk about race and racism and 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.240 systemic racism at that particularly within the police department, when 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.679 we all collectively watched George Floyd lose his life, not 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.160 lose his life, excuse me, had it stolen from him 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:03.360 right as he was suffocated to death by Derek Chauvin. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:09.840 So if these acts, these major acts of war of violence, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.879 right are not the opportunity for us to talk about 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:19.600 the underlying issues than when is the time? Because for me, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.480 there was no better time to talk about global anti 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.280 blackness and the fact that in all honesty, there is 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:33.440 no place for black people right in throughout the diaspora 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.800 to be safe because whether or not you get accepted 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:43.280 into foreign elite institutions in order to do study. And 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.560 you think in that time, as many of these African students, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.280 did you know, I am enjoying my time in the Ukraine. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.040 These people are lovely. Everything is great until push comes 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.400 to shove, and then you're told to get the fuck 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.040 off of a bus and walk twelve hours to a 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.120 border to be met by white border officials who are like, no, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.040 not you, not you, not you, black person, brown person. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.720 You get into the separate line and into the back 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.480 of the bus if you're allowed on the bus at all, 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.960 while we go ahead and tend to the blonde eye, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.520 to the blonde hair, blue eyed folks that are fleeing. 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.159 So I was on these radio stations and one of 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.880 the gentlemen that I was on with said, and he's 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:34.200 a black man. David Seaton, one of the stars of 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.159 the Buchanan and Seaton Show on wv O N in 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.959 Chicago said that he did not believe that this was 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.320 racism that we were seeing play out, that he believed 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.399 that it was nationalism that was playing out instead. Now 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:53.680 I pushed back against that because to me, one, there 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:58.040 is no difference, right, there is no way that you 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.600 look at what is happening in the Ukraine or what 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.040 was happening in mainstream media what continues to happen where 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.439 they are going through and showing you these stories of 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.679 people that are fleeing, children that have no home, people 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.840 that are sleeping in subway stations, folks that are trying 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:22.240 to get out, and you're showing this perspective of for 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:27.200 the public to invoke empathy. But what Aim and Mohadeen 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.840 had said on MSNBC over the weekend is that if 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:35.520 you were to look at the world map, we have 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:45.480 a global refugee crisis in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Ukraine, 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:51.720 Venezuela like it isn't just in Europe. And so if 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:56.080 we can't have honest conversations one about coverage and then 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.240 two about racism versus nationalism, then what are we doing 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:05.560 and why why do we find ourselves contorting ourselves into 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:09.119 all of these different machinations in order to say that 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.159 something isn't racism when we know obviously that it is. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.280 So the question then was posed to me, and I 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:18.800 want to pose it to all of you, and you 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:22.280 tell me in the comments section what you think about this. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:29.560 The question was, Danielle, if war breaks out in America right, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.360 which you know I have said is a definite possibility, 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.479 and that Ukraine is foreshadowing not for us to have 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.399 an outside foreign invasion, but for us to have these 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:45.680 homegrown fascist white supremact cells do what they did on 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:52.680 one six all over cities around the country, right, just 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.080 like they did in Michigan, to take over state capitals, 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.760 to take over Washington, d C. In the way that 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.639 Ottawa was taken over in Canada. These things can happen. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.159 So he said, Danielle, if this were to happen in 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.560 the United States, and the United States is prioritizing American 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:15.000 citizens to get out of Dodge, is that wrong? And 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:20.640 I said yes, right, because here's the thing. No one 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:26.359 is checking passports right of these people when they're coming 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.600 on to the buses in the Ukraine and they're saying 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:33.399 you you, and you get off right, they're making the 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.600 assumption based on skin color, which is what I'm assuming 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.159 America would do. It would be white people first, not 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:44.320 women and children. White people first, and then everyone else 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:46.400 gets to be crabs in a barrel for how they're 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.400 going to get off of the Titanic. That's exactly how 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.639 it would play out in America and how things have 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:56.200 always played out. So I'm confused about how we want 0:23:56.240 --> 0:24:01.840 to pick apart nationalism right versus racism when we know 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:06.760 that in America in particular, there is no fucking difference right, 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:11.520 because you remember that Donald Trump's entire mantra and Trumpism's 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:17.280 entire mantra was about making America great again. The underlying 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:24.000 real mantra make America white again. Somebody brought up another 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:29.000 interesting point over the weekend, and I never really thought 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:31.560 about it, And I know we're going to be having 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:35.440 a conversation later in the month with my friend Danielle 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:40.160 Campamore from the Today Show. Today's show writer an abortion 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.720 activists to talk about abortion and where we stand, which 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:46.440 is not in a great place. Being as how. One 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:48.520 of the other things that transpired at the end of 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:53.160 last week was Florida's bill to ban abortions after fifteen 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:55.520 weeks when a majority of people with US says don't 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.560 even know that they are pregnant. Right, And they make 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:03.520 no exceptions, not for incests, not for rape, not for anything, 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.439 not for human trafficking. Right, And you are trafficked and 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.960 you are pregnant because you've been repeatedly rape in Florida, 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:14.280 they do not care. Republicans in Florida are making The 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:20.639 Handmaid's Tale look like a Disney show. Okay, So the 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:24.320 reality that we are facing, and this was the thing 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.200 that was posted on Twitter, and I think that it's 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:33.919 interesting is that anti abortion laws are not that are 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:40.080 crafted by these white men, are not really for black 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.639 and brown people. This is what was said. This is 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:44.520 not what I'm saying. This is what was said to 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:50.920 me on Twitter, is that it is to the underlying 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:56.840 reason for anti abortion law is to do what force 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:03.480 white women into birth. Because the numbers the white population, 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.159 as we know by through the demographic shift that is 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:11.119 going to take place in twenty twenty fifty, depending on 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:17.800 what metrics you're using, their numbers are dropping. So how 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:23.200 do you preserve or bolster the number of white children, 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:30.440 white people being born? Well, you enforce a um anti 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:36.200 abortion policy. Now, I have argued the opposite actually, which 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:43.520 is that who anti abortion laws hurt are black and 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:50.400 brown people because they are, by comparison to their white counterparts, 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:56.159 coming from more low income backgrounds. So while white women 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.960 can say, Okay, I need an abortion, I can hop 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:02.760 a plane, get on a bus and go a couple 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.640 of states over. I can call out of work right, 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.280 or because I work from home, I can make the 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.800 arrangements that I need in a state where I will 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:16.280 have access to That is all about access and about wealth. 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:26.880 So for me, is our anti abortion policies really steeped 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.439 in white supremacy? I would say that there is a 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:34.000 deep possibility right that one of those check marks and 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:40.240 checkpoints is in fact to bolster up right the white race. Now, 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:43.959 I want to go back to Donald Trump for a moment, 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:47.440 because if you remember, and I know that we all 0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:50.400