Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording once again from the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, it is with such deep sadness that
Speaker 1: as I make my return to woke f Daily after
Speaker 1: taking a week off for vacation, that we are just
Speaker 1: in the midst of another disaster. And sadly, you know,
Speaker 1: following this horrific, horrific extreme climate event that took place
Speaker 1: in Kentucky, Mississippi across so many states, we continue to
Speaker 1: refer to these environmental disasters as natural disasters, when in fact,
Speaker 1: there's nothing natural about what is transpiring to our climate.
Speaker 1: I was really upset the other day while I was
Speaker 1: watching cable news and listening to the FEMA director, Deanne
Speaker 1: Griswell I believe is her name, yes, Deanne Griswell, and
Speaker 1: when she was asked by a host of a cable
Speaker 1: news show whether or not she felt that what transpired
Speaker 1: across these Midwestern states was related to climate change, her
Speaker 1: response was, I don't know, but what I do know
Speaker 1: is that these events are becoming much more extreme and
Speaker 1: much more frequent. I was really angered by the response
Speaker 1: that she provided because we have allowed the radical right
Speaker 1: to politicize every goddamn thing that makes sense, from the
Speaker 1: truth to science, to healthcare to everything in between, so
Speaker 1: much so that what is normal A normal response would
Speaker 1: be yes, this is related to climate change. How else
Speaker 1: could you understand and wrap your mind around again, a
Speaker 1: once in a century storm? Right? How many times have
Speaker 1: we heard that over the past couple of years. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a once in a century storm. It's a once
Speaker 1: in a century hurricane. It's a once in a century tornado.
Speaker 1: Except it's not once. It's happening every single season, and now,
Speaker 1: outside of the normal tornado season in December, we're seeing
Speaker 1: a catastrophe, a catastrophic environmental event that so far has
Speaker 1: claimed the lives of sixty seven people in one state,
Speaker 1: seventy four across the states that have been affected, and
Speaker 1: over a hundred people still missing. Right, we can no
Speaker 1: longer pretend that this is just God's will. Right, God's
Speaker 1: will is not for us to be cloaked in ignorance
Speaker 1: about how we are effectively rapidly changing our climate. You know,
Speaker 1: I can remember I was having this conversation the other day.
Speaker 1: Do you remember an inconvenient truth? Right? Well, Al Gore
Speaker 1: put up the documentary video about how we were going
Speaker 1: to be affecting our climate. That video. Let let's just
Speaker 1: double check here, because I believe that an inconvenient truth
Speaker 1: right came out dear friends in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and six, Al Gore was one of the
Speaker 1: only people most famous, I would say, at that time
Speaker 1: that transcended the climate field to be talking about what
Speaker 1: we are doing to destroy our environment and the thing
Speaker 1: that pisses me off, just like what we saw in
Speaker 1: terms of the vaccine rollout and how wealthier high income
Speaker 1: nations are not doing their fair share to contribute to
Speaker 1: and to support the lower income nations that they have
Speaker 1: had no problem over generations extracting from right, and so
Speaker 1: we have omicron right, our latest variants because of vaccine
Speaker 1: what hoarding, I don't even know what you call it,
Speaker 1: vaccine greed right, where we didn't do what was necessary
Speaker 1: in order to help lower income nations that were asking right,
Speaker 1: asking for the trips waiver so that they could create
Speaker 1: and manufacture their own and not weight on the supposed
Speaker 1: benevolence of higher income nations. Well, here's the same thing
Speaker 1: with climate change. We know that it is the higher income,
Speaker 1: more industrialized nations that have moved us into this place, right,
Speaker 1: and yet it will be the lower income, small all
Speaker 1: nations that are situated in the Caribbean that are situated
Speaker 1: on coasts, right, that are situated in areas where they
Speaker 1: were going to experience severe drought, severe flooding. Right. We
Speaker 1: were seeing this happen in a high incombination in Germany,
Speaker 1: right with their massive flooding that happened that wiped out
Speaker 1: an entire fucking town. And so my question is how
Speaker 1: much more do we need to see before this nation,
Speaker 1: this world wakes the fuck up? Right? We keep convening
Speaker 1: the G seven, we keep having these you know, Oh Biden,
Speaker 1: one of his first announcements was we're re engaging with
Speaker 1: the Paris Agreement. Well that's great, except what we have
Speaker 1: seen since the initial signing of that agreement is even
Speaker 1: more deadly climate events. Think to twenty twenty, we lost
Speaker 1: a bill in animals on this planet. In the in Australia.
Speaker 1: Do you even remember that every fire season now is
Speaker 1: lasting longer and burning much more ground. Now we have
Speaker 1: tornadoes that are spanning across multiple states. If you just
Speaker 1: think about this from an economic perspective, right, if you
Speaker 1: could care less about the loss of life, the fact
Speaker 1: that in Kentucky, Governor Andy Bisheer damn near in tears,
Speaker 1: said that we have lost people from as young as
Speaker 1: five months old to as old as eighty six thus far,
Speaker 1: and that they won't know the extent of the fatalities
Speaker 1: for weeks. Because if you look at the fucking area
Speaker 1: that was hit head on, it looks like a bunch
Speaker 1: of matchsticks that were knocked over, right, that we're built
Speaker 1: up and then just flattened. And I can't believe we
Speaker 1: see these pictures that these were homes, these were schools,
Speaker 1: these were libraries, right, Whole fucking towns wiped out. And
Speaker 1: so when you're directly asked, right as the director of
Speaker 1: the federal emergency response, do you think that these climate
Speaker 1: events are being caused by our lack of urgency around
Speaker 1: tackling climate change? And you say I don't know, Well,
Speaker 1: then you are being intellectually fucking dishonest. And folks can
Speaker 1: say to me, well, it's not her job, Well whose
Speaker 1: fucking job is it? Because it seems not to be
Speaker 1: the President of the United States's job, it seems not
Speaker 1: to be Congress's job, right, because once again you've allowed
Speaker 1: the loudest, most ignorant voices to be able to dictate
Speaker 1: the narrative around what it is that we need to
Speaker 1: do in order to prevent these disasters. This country is
Speaker 1: going to go fucking bankrupt every season, right hurricane season
Speaker 1: to tornado season to fire season, and then at some point, folks,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna all blur together right where they're just
Speaker 1: going to be popping up, much like this tornado that
Speaker 1: is outside of the regular season in December, when we're
Speaker 1: not able to prepare. We know that this is happening.
Speaker 1: We are seeing it right now. I came back from
Speaker 1: my holiday and I'm looking at the weather in New York,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting, you know, assuming that you know, I
Speaker 1: would be returning back to freezing temperatures because it's December. No,
Speaker 1: this whole fucking upcoming week is going to be in
Speaker 1: the high fifties and on Sundays sixty degrees. It's December,
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the month, we are days
Speaker 1: away from the Christmas holiday, and it was sixty degrees
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now folks can say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: you might as well enjoy it, but I want you
Speaker 1: to think about the chain reaction that happens. Right. So
Speaker 1: you have these warmer climates, right, this warmer weather, So
Speaker 1: then you have insects right that would normally die off
Speaker 1: for the winter months that are persisting, right, which then
Speaker 1: produce infection, right, Carrie disease. You know West Nile was
Speaker 1: back to being a big thing last summer, right, because
Speaker 1: you have mosquito season lasting longer, you have the weather
Speaker 1: being damper. Then you look at well, where do we
Speaker 1: get our food from. Many of us think it's just
Speaker 1: the grocery store. Well, the grocery store has to get
Speaker 1: that food from somewhere farms. Well, how do you have
Speaker 1: seasonal planting? And how are you able to get food
Speaker 1: when you can't rely on the precipitation levels, You can't
Speaker 1: rely on weather conditions, on soil conditions, on water conditions.
Speaker 1: Aren't any of that. So then you talk about the
Speaker 1: price of food rising, right, because the areas in which
Speaker 1: we were able to grow that food are now ravaged
Speaker 1: by regular climate disasters, whether it be fires, whether it
Speaker 1: be floods, whether it be droughts. And that's how you
Speaker 1: create climate refugees. And if we think that that is
Speaker 1: not going to happen in the United States, it's already
Speaker 1: happening around the world. And what happens when food becomes scarce, right,
Speaker 1: is what violence becomes rampant. Because now we're no longer
Speaker 1: operating from anybody's abundant standpoint. Now we're operating from a
Speaker 1: scarcity model. And what happens when we all take on
Speaker 1: this scarcity, right, this scarcity ideology, which is what has
Speaker 1: taken over and consumed the Republican Party, is that we
Speaker 1: start fighting amongst each other, We start ravaging every person
Speaker 1: for themselves. Right. This is how war crime, all of
Speaker 1: these things become elevated and increased. So when we're talking
Speaker 1: about the climate crisis, it isn't just a crisis of
Speaker 1: changing whether or oh it's warmer in December and shouldn't
Speaker 1: we just enjoy it? It is what the ramifications of
Speaker 1: that warming will do across all of our needs. You know,
Speaker 1: when I listen and I see these families that are
Speaker 1: being interviewed right now on the news, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think to myself, how devastated I am for them, honestly, right,
Speaker 1: because I cannot imagine. I cannot imagine that everything that
Speaker 1: you've known just being wiped out within minutes. Like, folks,
Speaker 1: just think about this. The destruction that occurred across these
Speaker 1: states happened in minutes minutes, right, your whole life turned
Speaker 1: upside down. You don't know where you're getting food, you
Speaker 1: don't know where you're getting water, there's no electricity, you
Speaker 1: can't send your kids to school. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're still in a global health pandemic. So what do
Speaker 1: you think is going to be happening in these areas
Speaker 1: now following this outbreak of deadly tornadoes? A right is
Speaker 1: probably in hospitalizations due to COVID on top of the
Speaker 1: hospitalizations of those that were already harmed in the tornadoes. Folks,
Speaker 1: we are living in the midst of a perfect fucking
Speaker 1: nightmare right now. We're everywhere that you look, there is
Speaker 1: something that is going dramatically wrong, and we still don't
Speaker 1: seem to have the political will to do what is necessary.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden, the Biden administration right now is
Speaker 1: still going around selling back, build, back better, which a
Speaker 1: part of it is about infrastructure and bracing infrastructure for
Speaker 1: our changing climate. Now, mind you remember Joe Mansion did
Speaker 1: not want to include that in the infrastructure bill. Right,
Speaker 1: you're talking about his state, which has also been ravaged
Speaker 1: by quote unquote natural disasters. But what kills me about
Speaker 1: these people that are being interviewed is that I bet
Speaker 1: if you were to do a poll to figure out
Speaker 1: where they fall on the political spectrum, that a majority
Speaker 1: of them are fucking Republicans, voting once again against their
Speaker 1: own interests, wanting to chuck this up to saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, this is God, this is God's will. It
Speaker 1: is not, you know. I tweeted the other day too
Speaker 1: that I am so fucking tired of hearing thoughts and
Speaker 1: prayers every fucking disaster, whether it is the mass shooting
Speaker 1: and Oxford, Michigan, whether it is this you know, spat
Speaker 1: of deadly tornadoes across the country, everything turns back to
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers from politicians. And what I tweeted and
Speaker 1: said was this, I don't need your thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 1: If I wanted thoughts and prayers, I would go to
Speaker 1: a religious institution. As a politician, thoughts and prayers are
Speaker 1: not your fucking job. Policy is. But yet we allow
Speaker 1: them to get away with the idea that they can't
Speaker 1: change anything, that somehow their hands are tied and I'm
Speaker 1: confused because I'm like, your hands are not tied. You
Speaker 1: actually have all of the power, but none of the will.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden this week is once again sitting down with
Speaker 1: Joe Manchin, who doesn't want to include dental into the
Speaker 1: Human Infrastructure bill. Meanwhile, people in West Virginia I have
Speaker 1: no fucking teeth. And I don't say that as a joke.
Speaker 1: I mean they have serious dental issues. How is it
Speaker 1: a man that is sailing around on a seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars yacht has the audacity to tell people, oh, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to cover these basic fucking needs. And
Speaker 1: when the government right is not actually acting as your
Speaker 1: safety net, that's when desperation begins at all. That's the difference, folks,
Speaker 1: between democracies, which we are not democracies, right, and autocracies cuctocracies.
Speaker 1: We're only the rich right are able to have dental
Speaker 1: and vision and healthcare and all of these things that
Speaker 1: everybody else, be damned. And so if we again continue
Speaker 1: to erode our faith and integrity of these institutions that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be our social safety nets, then where
Speaker 1: do we end up? It is terrifying to think that
Speaker 1: we are a couple of weeks away from the end
Speaker 1: of this year, and I want to ask you guys
Speaker 1: right now and tell me in the comments section, what
Speaker 1: would you call twenty one when we're referring back to
Speaker 1: this year? You know, the year of this, you know,
Speaker 1: the Golden Age, the Age of Enlightenment, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: the year of blah blah, the selfie this saying anything,
Speaker 1: What is what characterizes? What are the themes that would
Speaker 1: characterize the year of twenty twenty one? I mean everywhere
Speaker 1: that you look, from the beginning, the insurrection six days
Speaker 1: into the new year, two deadly aggressive climate change, provoked
Speaker 1: tornadoes at the end of the year, and that all
Speaker 1: of the shit that happened in the middle. I mean,
Speaker 1: I will be doing a reflection show, so I'm but
Speaker 1: I'm reflecting in this moment on all that has transpired.
Speaker 1: And frankly, you know, I know that this administration is
Speaker 1: up against a lot of attacks in the media. Politico,
Speaker 1: which was you know, bought out I believe by the
Speaker 1: fucking murdocks, has gone after the Vice President with such savagery.
Speaker 1: It is disgusting. I see that CNN has decided to
Speaker 1: lift up former Trump administration officials and bring them on
Speaker 1: their network. I just, folks, you know, it's like you
Speaker 1: don't face any consequences for doing bad. There's no responsibility
Speaker 1: to be had. You just these people just continue to succeed,
Speaker 1: right while the rest of us are left to scrape around.
Speaker 1: You know, there is a there is a piece that
Speaker 1: Charles Burlough wrote in the New York Times, and I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you it's really good. It's entitled We're Edging
Speaker 1: Closer to Civil War and it begins like this. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court last Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers
Speaker 1: in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans
Speaker 1: most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Speaker 1: But while the conservative majority didn't close the door on
Speaker 1: abortion in Texas completely, the degree to which it's cracked
Speaker 1: open allows in only a sliver of light. For now,
Speaker 1: the law in question SP eight remains on the books.
Speaker 1: Anyone who assists in providing an illegal abortion, from the
Speaker 1: provider down to the person who gives a woman a
Speaker 1: ride to the clinic, can still be sued. Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade has essentially been overturned in the state and soon
Speaker 1: that astonishing reality may not only become permanent there, but
Speaker 1: may also spread to other states. A key component of
Speaker 1: women's rights and body autonomy is being snatched away as
Speaker 1: we watch in a descent. Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Speaker 1: wrote this, this is a brazen challenge to our federal structure.
Speaker 1: It echoes the philosophy of John C. Calhoun, a virulent,
Speaker 1: virulent defender of the slaveholding South, who insisted that states
Speaker 1: had the right to veto or nullify any federal law
Speaker 1: which they disagreed. I found the invocation of South Carolina's
Speaker 1: Calhoun striking. Charles blow Rights for The Times. Yes, he
Speaker 1: was a strong believer in nullification, the idea that states
Speaker 1: could nullify federal laws. But he was also a raging
Speaker 1: racist who went further than the slave owners who saw
Speaker 1: slavery as a necessary evil, seeing it instead as a
Speaker 1: positive good. This is what Calhoun wrote in eighteen thirty seven.
Speaker 1: He gave a speech. I'm sorry, he gave a speech
Speaker 1: on the Senate floor that slavery quote quote had grown
Speaker 1: up with our society and institutions and is so interwoven
Speaker 1: with them that to destroy it, to destroy slavery would
Speaker 1: be to destroy us as a people. This is what
Speaker 1: he said, and I want you folks to listen to this,
Speaker 1: because again the attack on facts, history, truth, the truth
Speaker 1: of our founding, the purpose of which is to have
Speaker 1: us continue to repeat the same cycles of white supremacy
Speaker 1: and terror over and over and over again. It is
Speaker 1: to have us believe that this has always been the
Speaker 1: way right, and that how dare any of us challenge
Speaker 1: an institution that would have some one like a Calhoun
Speaker 1: say there is no way for us to give up
Speaker 1: holding slaves, torturing, beating, raping, murdering, lynching these enslaved Africans,
Speaker 1: because it's just too part of who we are, and
Speaker 1: it's for the greater good, the greater white good. What
Speaker 1: Blow will go on to say in this piece are
Speaker 1: the parallels between Calhoun's sensibility, which is what son Justice
Speaker 1: Sonia Sotomayor had said in her descent, and to this
Speaker 1: new wave of the white supremacist domestic terror party that
Speaker 1: we see morphing bigger and bigger in front of us,
Speaker 1: much in the same way as the tornadoes did across
Speaker 1: the Midwest, destroying everything and anything in its path. Calhoun
Speaker 1: said this in this floor speech. But let me not
Speaker 1: be misunderstood as admitting, even by implication, that the existing
Speaker 1: relations between the two races in the slaveholding states is
Speaker 1: an evil. Far otherwise, I hold it to be a good,
Speaker 1: as it has thus far proved itself to be both
Speaker 1: and will continue to prove so if not disturbed by
Speaker 1: the fell spirit of abolition. I appeal to facts. Never
Speaker 1: before has the Black race of Central Africa, from the
Speaker 1: dawn of history to the present day, attained a conditioned,
Speaker 1: so civilized, and so improved, not only physically, but morally
Speaker 1: and intellectually. You ripped poets, engineers, farmers, caregivers, tribe leaders,
Speaker 1: people from their homes. You had the audacity of the
Speaker 1: place your Eurocentric white supremacist lens to look at their
Speaker 1: experience their lives as what savagery. But you don't think
Speaker 1: the beating, the brutalization, the rape, and the bondage and
Speaker 1: captivity that you would place enslaved Africans in for hundreds
Speaker 1: of years. You deem that as a necessary good and
Speaker 1: not an evil. It is with that lens. It is
Speaker 1: with that lens that white supremacs have been able to
Speaker 1: justify everything that they do. And it is with that
Speaker 1: lens right, that we continue to allow the media to
Speaker 1: create a narrative around communities of color, around the black
Speaker 1: community in particular. That all comes from this way of thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: you see, they're better off in bondage because left to
Speaker 1: their own devices, what would they do? This paternalistic, white
Speaker 1: patriarchal mess that America is and has always been. And
Speaker 1: we don't just feel right the sentiments the residue of
Speaker 1: this now it's still in deeply in practice. But to
Speaker 1: not understand that history, to not understand the Calhoun sensibility
Speaker 1: that is now occupying the Republican Party and their belief
Speaker 1: they're taking their belief of states rights to supersede that
Speaker 1: of the federal government. So the Supreme Court is now
Speaker 1: in cahoots with these Republican state governors right, who are
Speaker 1: in cahoots with Republicans at the national level to create
Speaker 1: a patchwork. It is no longer the United States, right,
Speaker 1: it is the disheveled states of America where you can
Speaker 1: get an abortion in California and New York and that's it, right,
Speaker 1: So what else do you think that they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to institute allow states to decide what it
Speaker 1: is that they choose to cherry pick from the Constitution
Speaker 1: what they choose to cherry pick right from federal statutes
Speaker 1: in law that no longer sit well with them. Charles
Speaker 1: Blow goes on to write this, In Calhoun's view, the
Speaker 1: states had the right to control and oppress black bodies
Speaker 1: as they saw fit, regardless of any actions to the
Speaker 1: contrary on the federal level. States, he felt, should be
Speaker 1: able to choose whether or not they wanted slavery. I
Speaker 1: see too many uneasy parallels between what is happening nearly
Speaker 1: two hundred years ago and what is happening now. I
Speaker 1: see this country on the verge of another civil war
Speaker 1: as the Calhounian impulse is reborn. There are enormous obvious differences.
Speaker 1: Of course, the civil war I see is not the
Speaker 1: kind that would leave hundreds of thousands of young men
Speaker 1: dead in combat. That is not to say that we weren't,
Speaker 1: that we aren't seeing spats of violence, but rather that
Speaker 1: this new war will be fought in courts, state houses,
Speaker 1: and ballot boxes rather than in the fields. And this
Speaker 1: war won't be only about the subjugation of black people,
Speaker 1: but also about the subjugation of all who challenge the
Speaker 1: white racist patriarchy. It will seek to push back against
Speaker 1: all others, he writes, black people, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ people,
Speaker 1: and yes, women, particularly liberal ones. You see, I disagree
Speaker 1: with Charles Blow on one account. I do think that
Speaker 1: we are going to see thousandstead Do you think that
Speaker 1: we are going to see an escalation of violence in
Speaker 1: our streets? I think that the decision in the Written
Speaker 1: House case made that all but certain that white vigilanteism
Speaker 1: will become the norm. That you will be allowed to
Speaker 1: roam around with your AAR fifteen slung over your shoulder
Speaker 1: or your nine millimeter guns stuck into your genes and
Speaker 1: be able to stand your ground so long as you
Speaker 1: are white and male and straight wherever the fuck you want.
Speaker 1: So what does that say for the safety of the
Speaker 1: rest of us? Because remind you, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: this with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel, there is a
Speaker 1: court case that has the ability to throw out a
Speaker 1: hundred year old law in New York that makes it
Speaker 1: illegal for you to carry weapons, and it is going
Speaker 1: and is being heard at the Supreme Court. This comes
Speaker 1: on the heels, folks, of a fifteen year old being
Speaker 1: able to just pull out a draw in his parents' house,
Speaker 1: take a nine millimeter gun and go shoot off twenty rounds,
Speaker 1: killing four of his classmates. This will be the first
Speaker 1: case where parents are actually charged for their fucking reckless
Speaker 1: negligence for four counts of manslaughter each. And I think,
Speaker 1: in all honesty, if convicted, that that may in fact
Speaker 1: be the turning point in the gun rights argument in
Speaker 1: this country, because if parents much in the same way
Speaker 1: that we have been locking up black and brown parents
Speaker 1: for their children's truancy, because that's who gets locked up,
Speaker 1: by the way, it is black and brown parents, because
Speaker 1: we love to pathologize them right for their ill parenting,
Speaker 1: But not all of these white motherfuckers like Lauren Bobert
Speaker 1: who posed with her four boys with assault rifles in
Speaker 1: front of a fucking Christmas tree. You have got to
Speaker 1: be kidding me. But shit like that, we think it's normal, right,
Speaker 1: that's not endangering the welfare of a child, that doesn't
Speaker 1: that doesn't require child protective services. We think that that
Speaker 1: shit is okay. But we will throw black and brown
Speaker 1: parents in jail for the bare minimum, you know, having
Speaker 1: to work multiple jobs, and it's just so that they
Speaker 1: can put food on the table, and then their kids
Speaker 1: skip school for a number of reasons, right, and we're
Speaker 1: finding them and throwing them in jail. But you can
Speaker 1: pose with your kids or amp them up and tell
Speaker 1: them ha haha, don't get caught next time when you're
Speaker 1: scrolling for ammunition in your fucking high school class. But
Speaker 1: those white quote unquote conservative parents are able to seem
Speaker 1: normal when they are anything but. So I disagree with
Speaker 1: Charles in terms of we won't see hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of bodies, because let me tell you something, I didn't
Speaker 1: think i'd see a global health pandemic in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I would witness a police officer squeeze
Speaker 1: the fucking life out of a man in broad daylight,
Speaker 1: captured on a myriad of recorded phones. I didn't think
Speaker 1: that in the twenty first century that a black man
Speaker 1: couldn't go jogging down the street without being lynched. I
Speaker 1: didn't think that we would see the rollback of Rovie Wade.
Speaker 1: But yet here the fuck we are. So let us
Speaker 1: not presume that this next iteration of a civil war
Speaker 1: is going to be one that it's going to be
Speaker 1: quote unquote civilized and fought within the ballot boxes and
Speaker 1: within the courts, that it's going to be a paper
Speaker 1: battle and a verbal battle. These people are ripe and
Speaker 1: ready for fucking war, and they tell us every day,
Speaker 1: and we still don't believe them. I didn't think that
Speaker 1: I would see smoke billowing out of the Capitol Building
Speaker 1: with thousands of enraged white people building a fucking guillotine
Speaker 1: in the twenty first century calling for the hanging of
Speaker 1: the vice President of the United States. And we are
Speaker 1: coming up, folks, on the year anniversary of that national nightmare,
Speaker 1: and yet but a handful of motherfuckers are in jail.
Speaker 1: And not the donors, not the Trumps, not the Jiuliani's,
Speaker 1: not the masterminds that orchestrated it. We're still filing paperwork
Speaker 1: around that a year later. Everyone needs to have their
Speaker 1: eyes wide open to every battle that we are facing
Speaker 1: right now, all of which are man made. From the
Speaker 1: climate crisis to the rise and hate to the disintegration
Speaker 1: of our democracy, all of it has been done at
Speaker 1: the hands of greedy, white conservative cis gender men, helped
Speaker 1: along by their handmaids. That's the fucking truth. That's the
Speaker 1: truth that you're not going to get on cable news
Speaker 1: because they want to pontificate about who is to cause,
Speaker 1: who is to blend? Is it climate change that caused
Speaker 1: the tornadoes? Is it white rage and the pushback against
Speaker 1: the Obama administration and the fact that the demographics are
Speaker 1: changing that caused the election of Donald Trump? Did Donald
Speaker 1: Trump cause the insurrection? Did he knowingly spread the coronavirus? Right?
Speaker 1: And you weaponize it. Let's think about it, let's pontificate,
Speaker 1: let's build ratings around it instead of telling the fucking truth.
Speaker 1: If there's any group that needs to be pathologized right now,
Speaker 1: it is white folks. And I say that very real.
Speaker 1: We have no problem talking about every other group as
Speaker 1: a community. What do lackdnext people think, what do black
Speaker 1: people think? And what about the Muslims? Right? But we
Speaker 1: don't dare talk about the legacy of violence, right and
Speaker 1: terrorism within the white community. We don't dare talk about
Speaker 1: why you are seeing this pushback and why we all
Speaker 1: wait with bated breath for the return of guilty verdicts
Speaker 1: that we know will never come because there's never been accounted.
Speaker 1: What have you ever seen a wealthy white man hold
Speaker 1: another wealthy white man accountable for shit? Give me a
Speaker 1: fucking break, do you know, which was probably one of
Speaker 1: the most bipartisan, the most collegial spaces that you'd ever seen,
Speaker 1: probably Jeffrey Epstein's fucking private island. Because they all have
Speaker 1: that disgust, that greed, that cruelty, that viciousness in common.
Speaker 1: But we don't interrogate that truth. We say, oh no,
Speaker 1: they're individuals. Oh no, it was a lone wolf. Oh no,
Speaker 1: was a siloed event. Oh it was an act of nature.
Speaker 1: Should have called that fucking tornado that tour through Kentucky.
Speaker 1: You might as well call it McConnell because he's been
Speaker 1: devastating families across this country, in his own state and
Speaker 1: across the country. We should call the tornadoes the Republicans right,
Speaker 1: the GOP, the GOP's climate disaster. But of course we
Speaker 1: won't do that because you know, we don't want to
Speaker 1: play politics. But it's totally fine with the radical right
Speaker 1: to do so. It is time, it is past time
Speaker 1: that we begin to find ways to fight fire with fire,
Speaker 1: because if you think that what Charles Blow is writing
Speaker 1: about isn't going to transpire, you're not paying attention. I
Speaker 1: want us to suspend the reality that we've been living
Speaker 1: in because one we're never going back to that, and two,
Speaker 1: right at this point, anything can fucking happen, literally anything.
Speaker 1: He ends with this in his piece, we're edging closer
Speaker 1: to civil war in some ways. The abortion battle now
Speaker 1: being waged in the courts is a test case. Can
Speaker 1: the States make an argument that a civil right can
Speaker 1: be reversed on the state level? Can they make the
Speaker 1: case that all that the Constitution has not explicitly spelled
Speaker 1: out should be reversed for the States. The Constitution has
Speaker 1: been silent on quite a bit since it was written
Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty seven, and the last time it was
Speaker 1: amended was nearly thirty years ago in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: when the States ratified the twenty seventh Amendment. When did
Speaker 1: Congress first approve that amendment in seventeen eighty nine, having
Speaker 1: not gotten enough states to ratify it. After passage, it's
Speaker 1: simply languished for two hundred years. All of us should
Speaker 1: be very worried about what we see happening with these
Speaker 1: abortion cases. Not just women who might need abortions or
Speaker 1: relatives and friends of women who might need them. We
Speaker 1: should worry about whether or not we are at an
Speaker 1: inflection point for an age of aggression. And that's right, folks,
Speaker 1: the age of aggression, the age of aggression and darkness
Speaker 1: and hate. It's hard to think back to the election
Speaker 1: of Barack Obama. It's hard to even think about the
Speaker 1: term post racial and how America wanted to pat itself
Speaker 1: on the back. Look at us giving this black men
Speaker 1: an opportunity after you know, we murdered so many viciously,
Speaker 1: After we burned down their towns and cities and killed
Speaker 1: their leaders and bishops and preachers, and bomb their schools
Speaker 1: and their churches. We are headed toward an age of violence.
Speaker 1: And what scares me the most is that there were
Speaker 1: so many active and former military and police officers that
Speaker 1: were part of the insurrection that believe that it was
Speaker 1: their duty to go out into the streets for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump to beat police officers their own, their own right.
Speaker 1: And I think about this setup that is taking place
Speaker 1: right now, over four hundred voter suppression bills, hundreds of
Speaker 1: electioneering bills. They are gearing up to take over forever.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two. The midterm elections will be their warm up.
Speaker 1: Let us see what sticks and what doesn't. On top
Speaker 1: of you know, the redistricting that is happening, that is
Speaker 1: forcing Democrats to lose seats and increasing the stronghold of
Speaker 1: white neighborhoods and whiteness. But our refusal to call a
Speaker 1: spade a spade, our refusal to have conversations that are
Speaker 1: rooted in truth about who is to blame and who
Speaker 1: is to have a finger pointed at them, and who
Speaker 1: we should be building strategy and a plan around instead
Speaker 1: of trying to, you know, go and get the Karen's
Speaker 1: right to come and vote with us, to go and
Speaker 1: get these people that have been so aggrieved by the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party that they fled to Donald Trump. Like we
Speaker 1: think that these motherfuckers are coming back. They're not. They
Speaker 1: haven't been back since the nineteen fifties. But the reality
Speaker 1: is is that if we don't create strategies to protect
Speaker 1: ourselves against their resurgence, we are going to be caught
Speaker 1: completely off guard by what they are planning. And they
Speaker 1: are doing it in broad fucking daylight. Can you think
Speaker 1: about the boldness to put together a PowerPoint presentation to
Speaker 1: overthrow the fucking government and that motherfucker is not in jail.
Speaker 1: Can you think about Lauren Bobert posing with her kids
Speaker 1: and automatic rifles, and what that would look like if
Speaker 1: it was ilhan Omar in the same pose with her kids.
Speaker 1: We are so fucking unbalanced in this country. We have
Speaker 1: teacher We have teachers right in a viral video from
Speaker 1: South Dakota that we're competing on the ground scraping for
Speaker 1: dollar bills so that they can buy school supplies. They
Speaker 1: turned it into essentially the Teachers Hunger Games and posted
Speaker 1: it on social media as if look at this fun
Speaker 1: activity and you don't think that there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: a country that would have teachers begging and scrounging for
Speaker 1: dollar bills to support our nation's children, to support our
Speaker 1: fucking future. But we're out here putting billionaires like Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: these fucking narcissists on the cover of magazines and applauding them.
Speaker 1: But we think that teachers should have to beg You
Speaker 1: think that the Hunger Games and these movies and Black
Speaker 1: Mirror like these are just shows. We are living in it,
Speaker 1: and it's happening so fast, it's so fucking unsettling. This week,
Speaker 1: America has hit a new record. Over eight hundred thousand
Speaker 1: Americans have died from COVID nineteen and still twenty five
Speaker 1: percent of the population won't get vaccinated. Over eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand is more than the population of Washington, DC and
Speaker 1: many fucking states like the North Dakotas and the South Dakotas.
Speaker 1: It is wild where we are, and yet we want
Speaker 1: to talk about some in fighting within the administration and
Speaker 1: whether or not Joe Biden likes Kamala Harris or you know,
Speaker 1: lauding attacks when literally everything around us is crumbling. Where
Speaker 1: are our values? Where is our sense of urgency? And
Speaker 1: I'm afraid by the time that we find it and
Speaker 1: answer those questions, it will be too late. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today. Folks on woke app as always
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.