1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKAP Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Your Girl Danielle Moody recording an emergency podcast following the 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: breaking news that President Joe Biden has stepped down from 4 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: re election. Folks, you all know how I has felt 5 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: about the calls for Joe Biden to step down. I 6 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: have said emphatically that I felt that it was a 7 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: mistake if the immediate decision following him stepping down was 8 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: not going to be the full throated endorsement of Kamala Harris, 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: his vice president, and in his statement of gratitude to 10 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: the country of putting the country before his own ambitions. 11 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: He has since endorsed fully his vice president, our Vice President, 12 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, to be the Democratic nominee. Since his announcement, 13 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: as I'm recording this in the evening on Sunday. Since 14 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: his announcement, we have had endorsements come in from Bill 15 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton, from the Congressional Black Caucus, from Senator 16 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: Tim Kaine from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, from the Congressional 17 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: Progressive Caucus, and up soon will be that of the 18 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: Congressman Jim Clyburn out of South Carolina. If you all 19 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: remember Congressman Clyburn is the reason why Joe Biden became 20 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee, because he put his thumb on the 21 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: scale and got Joe Biden South Carolina, which then opened 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: up the floodgates for Biden to become the Democratic nominee. So, 23 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: as of right now, it seems that those in establishment 24 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: places are coming out and issuing their support and endorsement 25 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: for our vice president. What I will say is that 26 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: we are going to learn very quickly that America is 27 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: just as racist as it is misogynist, that the vitriol 28 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: that is going to come the Vice president's way is 29 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: going to be like nothing we have ever seen before. Now, 30 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: black women, however, like myself, can say buckle up and 31 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: get ready because we know all too well how very 32 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: racist and sexist this country is. Because as a person 33 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: that in bodies lives at the intersection of blackness and 34 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: womanness and queerness, I am going to say that it 35 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: is not going to be enough for establishment Democrats to 36 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: endorse her. They are going to need to circle the 37 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: wagons to build a barricade of protection, a dome of 38 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: protection around her that deflects whatever nasty white supremacist work 39 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: is underway in the Trump camp to get her over 40 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: the finish line, and that if the convention, which is 41 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: happening a month and one day away, is not about 42 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: the exhilaration and the excitement of the nomination of Vice 43 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: President Harris and whomever she chooses to be her vice 44 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: presidential pick, we're not going to make it. So. There 45 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: is no more room for the airing out of the 46 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: dirty laundry, there is no more room for the infighting 47 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: and the conjecture, there is no more room for the 48 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: white elitist democratic fuckery. It is time to get the 49 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: fuck in line. And if Joe Biden has said that 50 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: his vice president should be the Democratic nominee, then that 51 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: is what we rock with. Because fourteen million people, fourteen 52 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: million Americans voted in the primary for a Biden Harris ticket, 53 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 1: and if Biden is no longer going to serve in 54 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: that position, then we already chose Vice President Harris, and 55 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: that is how we need to be moving forward. We 56 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: are in uncharted territory. We are in a space in 57 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: this country where we have never been before. As I 58 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: am recording right now, the Vice president has issued her 59 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: statement following the President's statement, I'm going to read this. 60 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: As I am reading it to myself, I'm going to 61 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: read it to all of you, which by the time 62 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: you listen to this, you will have heard. Vice President 63 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris says this on behalf of the American people. 64 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President 65 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 1: of the United States and for his decades of service 66 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: to our country. His remarkable legacy of accomplishment is unmatched 67 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: in modern American history, surpassing the legacy of many presidents 68 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: who have served two terms in office. It is a 69 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: profound honor to serve as his vice president, and I 70 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: am deeply grateful to the President, doctor Biden, and the 71 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: entire Biden family. I first came to know President Biden 72 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: through his son BeO. We were friends from our days 73 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: working together as attorney generals of our home states. As 74 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,559 Speaker 1: we work together, Bou would tell me stories about his dad, 75 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: the kind of father and the kind of man he was, 76 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: and the qualities Bo were veered in his father's are 77 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: the same qualities, the same values I have seen every 78 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: single day in Joe's leadership as president. His honesty and integrity, 79 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: his big heart and commitment to his faith, and his 80 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: family and his love of our country and the American people. 81 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,679 Speaker 1: With this selfless and patriotic act, President Biden is doing 82 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: what he has done throughout his life of service, putting 83 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: the American people and our country above everything else. I 84 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: am honored to have the President's endorsement, and my intention 85 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: is to earn and win this nomination. Over the past year, 86 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: I have traveled across the country talking with Americans about 87 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: the clear choice in this momentous election, and that is 88 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: what I will continue to do in the days and 89 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: weeks ahead. I will do everything in my power to 90 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: unite the Democratic Party and unite our nation to defeat 91 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his extreme Project twenty twenty five agenda. 92 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: We have one hundred and seven days until election day. 93 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: Together we will fight, and together we will win. That 94 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: is it, folks. It is the moment. It is the 95 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: moment that I really did not want to come to pass. 96 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: But we are here, and we are here, and we 97 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: have got to unite. We have got to move through 98 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: our fear. And as I'm going to say in the 99 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: rest of this episode that I taped prior to the 100 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: Biden announcement, we are on a walk of faith. We 101 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: are on a walk of faith in this moment through 102 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: the fire, not knowing what lies on the other side. 103 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: But I believe that Americans in this moment can unite 104 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: in the face of fascism and say not in our land, 105 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: not on our watch. So this is our moment. This 106 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 1: is our moment to rise. This is our moment to 107 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: face down evil. This is our moment to do what 108 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: too many spineless and cowardice members of the Republican Party 109 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: refuse to do, which is put Donald Trump to fucking 110 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: bed for good. This is our moment. Coming up next, 111 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: my pre taped commentary on what it means to walk 112 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: in faith in this moment, folks. As many of you 113 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: know who have been listening to me for years now, 114 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: I vacillate between my faith and my rage on a 115 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: regular basis, and the reason being that I have faith 116 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: and faith is something that I have struggled with throughout 117 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: the years because I have never in my life attached 118 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: myself to organized religion. I think that organized religion is 119 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: not rooted in faith at all, but it is rooted 120 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways in capitalism and control. And 121 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: from a very young age I had questions about organized 122 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: religion and churches and it didn't speak to me that 123 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: I should follow a whole list of rules that just 124 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: didn't make sense because I was a girl, because I 125 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: was queer. So I struggled, And for a long time 126 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: I would say that I was never an atheist, because 127 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 1: I do believe in a higher power. I do believe 128 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: in the universe. But through COVID and through my mother 129 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: being diagnosed with a brain tumor that was later, you know, benign, 130 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: and she's thank God one hundred percent, I really began 131 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: to develop a deeper faith practice, which happens to a 132 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: lot of people. You go through dark times, you suffer 133 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: through great loss, and that opens your eyes. Your eyes 134 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: are opened in a different way, your heart is opened 135 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: in a different way. And so my faith practice has 136 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: really been around, you know, connecting to spirit, to ancestors, praying, meditating. 137 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: And I offered this because a friend of mine, a 138 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: very good friend of mine, is in the midst as 139 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: we all are, and in different ways, are all really 140 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of instability right now. The country 141 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: is unstable, the world is unstable, our economic situations are unstable. 142 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: We're moving through a lot of turmoil. What she expressed 143 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: to me was that sometimes you really have to lean 144 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: on faith, and she goes in, I am moving right 145 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: now in a faith walk. In a faith walk, I 146 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: am moving through fire, I am moving through obstacles, and 147 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what is on the other side. But 148 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: this is a walk of faith that I'm doing. I'm 149 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: leaning on what I have always known about my strength, 150 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: about my perseverance, about my ancestors that surround me, and 151 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: that the universe will make a way if I put 152 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: in the effort and continue to put in the effort, 153 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: and put in the effort though and believe right because 154 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: faith is about believing in what you cannot see, what 155 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: you may not be able to hear, what you may 156 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: not be able to touch. Christians move in a way, 157 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: and they say you know that they will move not 158 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: by sight but by faith. And different traditions all offer 159 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: this same thing. And why do I say this today, 160 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: Because I find the place that we are in in 161 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: this darkness, dear friends, the place that I find myself 162 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: and found myself in last week where I did not 163 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: go outside for two days, where I was just stuck 164 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: in a downward spiral, stuck in the darkness. That's hard 165 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: for somebody whose job it is to provide analysis and 166 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: thoughtfulness on where we are, because if I can't see 167 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: a way through, I can't offer a way through for others. 168 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: And that's what I believe that my gift and my 169 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: purpose is on this planet is to be a teacher, 170 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: a teacher that is continuing to learn, that is continuing 171 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: to expand her horizons as a way to be one 172 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: of the many lanterns that our lives offer us. Last week, 173 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: I nearly lost it because I was in such a 174 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: dark place that I felt as if I could not 175 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: breathe and I could not see. And thankfully for me, 176 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: I have an amazing family, I have amazing friends, an 177 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: amazing partner that were checking in on me, and to 178 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: the followers, to all of you, to the listeners that 179 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: DM me and said that they could hear my voice 180 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: cracking in some of my episodes and they were concerned. 181 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: Sending me a lot of love and light was so 182 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: needed and received with open arms. And I say it 183 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: just from a deep place of gratitude for all of 184 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: those that felt that something was not well with me 185 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: to check in, and I really hope that you are 186 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: checking in on all the people that you care about 187 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: in your lives right now, because there is not a 188 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: person that I come across who is not struggling in 189 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: some type of way. So in this moment, I believe, 190 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: as my friend Alicia offered to me, that we are 191 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: on a faith walk, that we are walking not by 192 00:14:54,560 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: sight but by faith, faith in humanity, faith in the 193 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: people around us, that folks, that regardless of what is 194 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: to come, that we must find strength and source and 195 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: light in our lives to be able to get through now. 196 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: While I want to believe that this dark episode in 197 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: America will have a Hollywood fairy tale ending, history tells 198 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: me otherwise. And so if I believe, as a student 199 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: of history that oftentimes patterns need to be repeated until 200 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: you learn, then what is it that we can do 201 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: to prepare ourselves in the best way possible for what 202 00:15:54,760 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: is coming and what is already here? Because in so 203 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: many ways our lives have been fundamentally changed over the 204 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: last eight years. We had been brought up to believe 205 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: that America was unbreakable, unshakable, that we could go about 206 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: our daily lives and not really give too much thought 207 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: to how government was operating and whether or not things 208 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: were going to be delivered to us, like healthcare or 209 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: quality public education, or clean water and clean air and 210 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: sanitation and workers' protections and all of these things that 211 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: much kind of like breathing at our heartbeat, which just 212 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: happens unconscious of us really connecting to it unless we 213 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: are in meditation, prayer or some type of practice that 214 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: we kind of just assume that it will all keep 215 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: working and we don't really have to pay attention to it, except, 216 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: of course, when your body falls ill and then all 217 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: of a sudden, all you can feel is the pain. 218 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: All you can concentrate on is the wound. And that 219 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: is where we find ourselves right now. Where we believed 220 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: that America would always keep churning, always, you know, vacillating 221 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: between just good enough, but that our day to day 222 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: lives would not be so adversely impacted by our government. 223 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: Because that has never been our experience. And I say 224 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: that knowing the Civil rights movement. I say that knowing 225 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: that black people used to hang from trees and still 226 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: in many places do I say that, knowing the ills 227 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: and the betrayal that this country has had against indigenous people, 228 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: black people. But we have been able to write a 229 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: history that has allowed us to be proud of how 230 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: far we have come over the last two hundred and 231 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: forty eight years. But over the last eight we have 232 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: been tested and tested to a place of breaking. What 233 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: I have said so many times is that sometimes you 234 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough. 235 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: But the breakthrough only comes when we believe and search 236 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: for the opportunities that exist inside of the obstacles, because 237 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: the obstacles are always going to be I will not 238 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: bullshit you into thinking that all things will turn out 239 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: well and all we need to do is vote, because 240 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: right now, folks, m m, that's not what the numbers 241 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: are telling us. So what does it mean to then 242 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: walk by faith and not by sight? It means too 243 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 1: know that you have everything inside of you to make 244 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: it through. That does not mean that it's going to 245 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: be easy, but it means that we must find a 246 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: way to shut out the noise that is pervasive, the 247 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: disinformation that we thought was going to come from a 248 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: foreign entity but is actually coming from inside the house. 249 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: This is a time for us to shut down the 250 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: outside noise and to go inside ourselves, to go deep 251 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: withinside ourselves and ask those real questions, who do I 252 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: want to be in this moment, How can I best 253 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: show up? Because the decisions that we are making in 254 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: our individual lives impact the collective, and so if each 255 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: of us decides right that we will make it through this. 256 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: We don't know what the other side holds, but we 257 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: will know that we will continue to walk in our truth, 258 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 1: in our integrity, be guided by our morals and our values. 259 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: Whether or not this country has ever lived up to 260 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: them is not my issue at hand. It is whether 261 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: or not we can live up to our truths. I 262 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: have been thinking so much lately that my allegiance is 263 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: not to a party. I am a Democrat, I am 264 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: a registered Democrat and have been. But my true allegiance 265 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: is to justice. My true allegiance is to equity. My 266 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: guiding light and moral is one that is wrapped in love. 267 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: Because I don't believe that we hate ourselves into a 268 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: better place. I believe that we have to love ourselves 269 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: to the next level, particularly when everything around us is 270 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: closing in that when the noise is too great outside, 271 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: you go inside and you find the power and the 272 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: will to conjure the faith and the strength and the 273 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: courage that is necessary to persevere. That's what this moment 274 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: is calling all of us to do. It isn't just 275 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: to shut down the news, don't pay attention, but it 276 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: is actually to pay attention to yourself. What do I 277 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: need in this moment? What does my family need in 278 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: this moment? What does my community need from me in 279 00:21:51,880 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: this moment? How can I take care of myself mentally, spiritually, emotionally, 280 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: and physically so that I can be of service? And 281 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: so when I find myself in these dark places, I 282 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: am so grateful for the people that come and find 283 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: me with a flashlight and offer me a hand, offer 284 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: me a hug, offer me levels of gratitude and appreciation 285 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: for what it means for me to show up in 286 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: their lives. So if we can do that with friend 287 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: and stranger alike, then we cease to be controlled by 288 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: the noise, because it's going to get worse. I promise 289 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: you that. So our roots have got to be thicker 290 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,719 Speaker 1: and deeper than they have ever been because right now 291 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: we are being fed so much bullshit, so much misinformation, 292 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: so much conjecture, so much empty, vapid opinion. You have 293 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: white cis hetero men that are on the internet talking 294 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: about this political cycle like it is a game, like 295 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: they are in Vegas and they're placing bets. Real people 296 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: are going to die, Real people are going to lose 297 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: their livelihood, their dignity, their rights. This is not a 298 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: fucking game, as Nate Silver and other idiots would have 299 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: you believe. Aaron Sorkin puts up a fucking op ed 300 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: today as I'm taping this on Sunday puts up an 301 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: op ed talking about Democrats should choose Mitt Romney. Are 302 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: you stupid? Because I realize that the people that are 303 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: creating the most noise are the ones with the least 304 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: to lose, So this is a fucking game to them. 305 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: For the rest of us, however, this is in fact existential, 306 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: and so we need to be steadfast in what our 307 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: truths are moving us towards. Because I'm gonna say something 308 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: real provocative. Ain't no white cis wealthy straight man gonna 309 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: be leading you to freedom. They really truly are fucking not. 310 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 1: So pay attention to who you are following, who is 311 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: wooing you, and ask about their real intentions, Ask whether 312 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: or not they actually really do have skin in this game, 313 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: because it's those that are sitting in ivory towers in 314 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: the protected class that are the ones that are the 315 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: loudest and the only one that are being heard. So 316 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: now is the time where we need to support independent voices. 317 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: And I mean financially, I mean spiritually, I mean with 318 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: your follows and your likes and your subscriptions, because let 319 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: me tell you something, I'm also going to be very vulnerable. 320 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: You know, those economic pathways and windows for people like 321 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: myself are beginning to close because the powers that be 322 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: have already decided that Donald Trump is going to be presidents, 323 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: so they're not going to have use for a voice 324 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: like mine. So right now, while I'm also trying to 325 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: figure out the country, I'm also trying to figure out 326 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: my own paths forward. So think about the people who 327 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: you do respect and whose voices you do hold on 328 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: to you in this moment, and if you do have 329 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: the ability to those people in any which way that 330 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: you can do, because many of us in the coming 331 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: months are basically fighting for our lives and our livelihood 332 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: because that's what white supremacy does. It bigfoots over everyone 333 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: moving through a place of scarcity and fear, so opportunities 334 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: that once existed begin to dry up, forcing you into 335 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: their oppressive capitalist regime just so that you can survive. 336 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: I for one am not going out like that. So, friends, 337 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: as we vacillate, as humans do, between walking by faith 338 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: and stumbling through darkness, know that we have everything that 339 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: we need inside of us to make it through. And 340 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: that when you lose faith, reach out because there is 341 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: someone that will be there to reach back and to 342 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: lift you up when you can't lift yourself up. And 343 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 1: that that is what I have faith in, is us 344 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: as humanity, is us as compassionate, loving people who do 345 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: want more than what is being offered to us right now. So, 346 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: in this moment of deep fear, anxiety, and hopelessness, my 347 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: dear dear listeners, walk by faith and not by sight. 348 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends, on woke 349 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: a f as always Power to the people and to 350 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.