Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikf Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: we are two weeks out until the final day of voting.
Speaker 1: As I've been saying, Election Day is the final day
Speaker 1: of voting, being as how early voting has started in
Speaker 1: a majority of states in the country, I myself, for
Speaker 1: the very first time, will be early voting. Normally, I
Speaker 1: wait until election day to vote because I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: old school and a traditionalist. But this year, I said,
Speaker 1: let's just get this show on the road, frankly, and
Speaker 1: get it done, get it done, and get it done early.
Speaker 1: Right now, millions of Americans, millions millions of Americans have
Speaker 1: already cast their ballot. And what I think is really important,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear from our friend Jonathan later this week,
Speaker 1: but what I think is really important and encouraging is
Speaker 1: the anecdotes that are coming out of states like Georgia
Speaker 1: and North Carolina and most recently in Tennessee, with people
Speaker 1: talking about how long the lines have been in states
Speaker 1: and in places where traditionally early voting folks are in
Speaker 1: and out because you know, they're in gerrymandered places where
Speaker 1: they have been kind of depressed into feeling that their
Speaker 1: votes do not matter. So why would I show up
Speaker 1: early and why would I vote at all? And so
Speaker 1: I think that listening to folks say that the lines
Speaker 1: are long and that people are feeling hopeful, and there's
Speaker 1: something about this moment that feels different is encouraging. I
Speaker 1: know that it is hard, though, to kind of muster
Speaker 1: and hold on to the faith and hopeful. It's because
Speaker 1: we have a fear of being let down. And the
Speaker 1: fact is, folks like that is just part of what
Speaker 1: it means to be human. You know, sometimes things work
Speaker 1: out and sometimes they don't. And I know where my
Speaker 1: anxiety and fear is at this moment as we get
Speaker 1: closer and closer to the final day of voting, because
Speaker 1: we know what's at stake. We've been talking about it
Speaker 1: four years on this show, four years. I kind of
Speaker 1: want to reminisce with you for just like a moment
Speaker 1: about why WOKF started. WOKF started in the spring summer
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, and I had just moved back from Washington,
Speaker 1: DC to New York and I started a new job,
Speaker 1: and I needed an outlet because following the devastation of
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen election. I was just like miserable, and
Speaker 1: I knew that a lot of people were also feeling
Speaker 1: the same way, just depressed and uninspired and devastated, like
Speaker 1: this country that we thought that we knew let us down.
Speaker 1: And so I started the show. I was asked if
Speaker 1: I was interested in continuing podcasting, and I had been
Speaker 1: podcasting for a while, but then it was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is live radio. Do you want to do that?
Speaker 1: And I started the show just as a way to
Speaker 1: get things off of my chest. And it's been several
Speaker 1: years now that I have been doing WOKF and WOKF
Speaker 1: you all have followed me, some of you, from different
Speaker 1: networks into different places and finally landing here. And the
Speaker 1: fact is is that WOKF was started as a reaction
Speaker 1: and a rebuff to Donald Trump and the Republicans and
Speaker 1: this idea that like they were going to drag America
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming back to you know, not even the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, but like the nineteenth century. And I knew
Speaker 1: that there were more people that were conscious but that
Speaker 1: left on the twenty sixteen election, frankly, and they thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not really that excited by Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 1: and her ascension is inevitable, and they just kind of
Speaker 1: let it rock and we all know how that fucking
Speaker 1: ended up. I feel like America, though, since the twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen election, I would like to say, has learned a lot,
Speaker 1: while mainstream corporate media hasn't learned anything, as it pertains
Speaker 1: to their coverage of Donald Trump. I do believe that
Speaker 1: Americans have learned a lot. In twenty twenty, in the
Speaker 1: midst of global health pandemic, people showed up in mass
Speaker 1: to vote against Donald Trump and to say that this
Speaker 1: is not who we are, this is not what we want.
Speaker 1: It was a different time. Thousands of Americans were dying
Speaker 1: a day from COVID, where Donald Trump told them to
Speaker 1: inject bleach, where saving a life could mean just covering
Speaker 1: your fucking face with a piece of cloth. But he
Speaker 1: couldn't bring people to do that and instead divided the country.
Speaker 1: It is where we stand right now, and I have
Speaker 1: no flights of fancy in believing that if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is defeated again in twenty twenty four that poof you know,
Speaker 1: all of our problems disappear. No, that to me is
Speaker 1: when the real hard work begins, because then it is
Speaker 1: when we will have to as Americans, figure out what
Speaker 1: we want this country to be moving forward and how
Speaker 1: we're going to put the pieces back together again. And
Speaker 1: that is going to take just as much work as
Speaker 1: it took to get rid of Donald Trump in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty to rebuild this country because we know that it
Speaker 1: is broken, and we know that Republicans will continue to
Speaker 1: try and tear it apart. And that's why I pray
Speaker 1: and continue to speak to all of you in saying
Speaker 1: that we need to make this win so resounding, so
Speaker 1: resounding that one that Republicans can't steal it, and two
Speaker 1: so that they get the fucking message that we're not
Speaker 1: interested in their Project twenty twenty five. We're not interested
Speaker 1: in their misogyny, we're not interested in their racism, we're
Speaker 1: not interested in their hate. And so they need to
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board and figure out who
Speaker 1: they're going to be and what the next iteration of
Speaker 1: Republican will be, because this last ten years of trump Ism,
Speaker 1: this ain't it. That's what I hope, that's the place
Speaker 1: that I hope that we get to. And so that's
Speaker 1: the energy that I'm going to put out I'm not
Speaker 1: going to talk about what could possibly happen because it's
Speaker 1: a waste of time with two weeks to go, With
Speaker 1: two weeks to go, we need to just truly get
Speaker 1: Americans in the mindset that this is possible, that everything
Speaker 1: is possible to do, and that with enough hope, with
Speaker 1: enough power, that we can get things done. So that's
Speaker 1: where I am, that's where I find myself today. I
Speaker 1: watched a video Keith Boykin put it out. Keith Boykin
Speaker 1: is the person that has been on the show before,
Speaker 1: and he put up a video of a conversation at
Speaker 1: a black barbershop with a group of black men talking
Speaker 1: about the upcoming election. And what we know right now
Speaker 1: is that there's been a lot of chatter in mainstream
Speaker 1: corporate media about black men voting for Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of chatter about, oh, fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: twenty percent of black men are voting for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: It's not true. The reality is that eighty five to
Speaker 1: ninety percent of black men vote with aligned with black women,
Speaker 1: which is democratic. Nonetheless, what I thought was really important
Speaker 1: about this conversation is that it was a real conversation.
Speaker 1: It was a real conversation with black men about not
Speaker 1: only supporting a black woman, but some of the men
Speaker 1: in the barbershop haven't voted in over a decade because
Speaker 1: they've been really disenchanted with the Democratic Party and haven't
Speaker 1: had their issues and their needs. And so what they
Speaker 1: were talking about was being disappointed, being let down by
Speaker 1: different administrations and unpacking, you know, some of the lies
Speaker 1: that have been told by Donald Trump about what he
Speaker 1: will do, and folks saying, I don't even think about
Speaker 1: myself in this moment. I'm thinking about you know, how
Speaker 1: old is your mother. One gentleman says, my mother is
Speaker 1: fifty six, And he said, well, how would it feel
Speaker 1: if you knew that Donald Trump was trying to raise
Speaker 1: the retirement age. This other man said, well, look, my
Speaker 1: mother is close to sixty and walks with a limb,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't bear to think about her having to
Speaker 1: work another ten to twenty years. She can't, It's like
Speaker 1: physically impossible. She's just barely hanging on now. So what
Speaker 1: does it say that the Republican Party wants to take
Speaker 1: away Social Security, wants to take away Medicaid? And so
Speaker 1: the men in the barbershop were just like nah, that
Speaker 1: can't happen. These are programs that are needed. They're needed
Speaker 1: for our community in particular. You know the conversation that
Speaker 1: I watched, it was about a seven minute clip, and
Speaker 1: it was so heartwarming in its vulnerability and in its
Speaker 1: honesty because nobody was being judged or made to feel
Speaker 1: small or stupid about what they knew versus what they didn't,
Speaker 1: and frankly, they knew a lot. And by the end
Speaker 1: they were just like, look, you know what, I realized,
Speaker 1: this isn't even about me. This is about my mom,
Speaker 1: this is about my sisters. And if black women have
Speaker 1: been trusted to raise all of us and raise us, well,
Speaker 1: then why wouldn't we trust a black women to lead?
Speaker 1: When they said that, When they said that, I really
Speaker 1: like choked up, because that's real. Black women are heads
Speaker 1: of households and are raising sometimes their families their children alone.
Speaker 1: Because of our incarcerle system that punishes black men and
Speaker 1: black boys at greater rates, then they do their white counterparts,
Speaker 1: meaning that they take those black men and black boys
Speaker 1: out of communities and put them in the prison industrial complex.
Speaker 1: And so there has been so much destruction at the
Speaker 1: hands of the state with regard to black families that
Speaker 1: have put black women in really tough pause posicians. They've
Speaker 1: always met the moment, but it doesn't make it any easier.
Speaker 1: And so for those black men to acknowledge that and
Speaker 1: then say, like, why wouldn't we then trust the black
Speaker 1: woman to lead the country when she's been leading us
Speaker 1: and carrying us and taking care of us, It really
Speaker 1: struck me. And so those conversations feel new as well
Speaker 1: and feel really welcomed. So I do believe that something
Speaker 1: different is happening. I do believe that we are in
Speaker 1: a different place and space with this election, and I
Speaker 1: will continue to hope that what we are seeing with
Speaker 1: early voting and these long lines, that people are exhausted
Speaker 1: by Donald Trump, as Obama you know, has said on
Speaker 1: the campaign trail, he was just like, we're tired, you know,
Speaker 1: we're tired of this man. We're tired of the vulgarity,
Speaker 1: We're tired of the depravity, we're tired of the insanity.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's finally time to close the book
Speaker 1: on him. You know. My hope is that not only
Speaker 1: do we close the book on him, but that we
Speaker 1: throw the book at him. Just this week, Today's only Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but on Monday, the former Central Park five, now exonerated five,
Speaker 1: have sued Donald Trump for his defamation. And what we
Speaker 1: know about all of these lawsuits that are waiting in
Speaker 1: the wings, that are pending, is that if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: loses this election, he loses his get out of jail
Speaker 1: free card, which means that he will finally, in shallah,
Speaker 1: finally have to face some type of accountability, whether that
Speaker 1: is monetarily. Because I'd love to see this mfor broke,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying? Like, I would love
Speaker 1: to see Donald Trump broke, broken, shunned. Those are my
Speaker 1: two favorite things because I still believe that it is
Speaker 1: less likely that this man will end up in prison
Speaker 1: because he's still a former president, whether or not he
Speaker 1: was a good one. So what I would like is
Speaker 1: that he's broken, shunned, can't afford his you know, legal fees,
Speaker 1: and like no one is coming to mar A Lago anymore, nobody,
Speaker 1: you know, Like he's not getting invitations anywhere anymore. Like
Speaker 1: that to me would be perfect for a man that
Speaker 1: just needs and craves attention. Is that if he loses,
Speaker 1: and he's a two time loser, that all the people
Speaker 1: that have been hyping him up and holding him up
Speaker 1: like weekend at Bernie's. Will walk away and then we'll
Speaker 1: watch him slowly crumble. That's what I hope, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for. Just think about it for a moment.
Speaker 1: Think about not having to worry about Donald Trump anymore,
Speaker 1: not have to talk about him anymore, not have to
Speaker 1: give a shit about any of the things that are
Speaker 1: coming out of his mouth anymore, because they bear no fruit.
Speaker 1: I think about the way that I felt almost ten
Speaker 1: years ago, in twenty fifteen, Almost ten years ago. I
Speaker 1: don't even remember what it's like to have that kind
Speaker 1: of ease anymore, but just the idea. Just allow it
Speaker 1: to kind of swirl around in your head and like,
Speaker 1: my shoulders drop. So that's what's possible in two weeks, folks,
Speaker 1: And that's what I am hopeful for two weeks, you know.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing, and I've said this before, I
Speaker 1: was like, how long was it until we knew who
Speaker 1: won the election in twenty twenty? It was only five days.
Speaker 1: It felt like five months. It was five days. We
Speaker 1: had the election on Tuesday, and by that Saturday it
Speaker 1: was official, God willing, It's not that long but just
Speaker 1: the thought that in two and a half weeks we
Speaker 1: could not care anymore about Donald Trump. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just like thinking about it. I will close out with
Speaker 1: this today, which is to make sure that all of
Speaker 1: you go to ballot dot org and make sure that
Speaker 1: you know of all of the ballot measures propositions that
Speaker 1: you may be voting on in your state. That you
Speaker 1: have an idea of what you're voting for, what you're
Speaker 1: voting against. That there isn't be in a lot of states,
Speaker 1: including in New York, there is you know, abortion that
Speaker 1: is on the ballot and protecting that. There are other
Speaker 1: places where abortion, the rights of certain elected officials, the
Speaker 1: power that certain elected officials and offices have, all of
Speaker 1: those things are also being voted on. And while they
Speaker 1: explain things to you on the back of your ballot,
Speaker 1: I think that it's important to go in knowing in
Speaker 1: greater detail about the measures. So if you head to
Speaker 1: ballot dot org, you get a good rundown put in
Speaker 1: your state and it'll tell you what you're voting on,
Speaker 1: and that is a good way to keep track, so
Speaker 1: that you're walking in with the understanding of how many
Speaker 1: measures you're voting for. And whether you're voting yes or
Speaker 1: no or what have you. Glean as much information as possible,
Speaker 1: continue to send notes and text messages and have those
Speaker 1: conversations with your family members, young and old about what
Speaker 1: their voting plan is. And you know, if you have
Speaker 1: the treasure, donate. Continue to do so so that Kamala
Speaker 1: and Walls can blast the last bit of their money
Speaker 1: on television, on radio and do the blanketing that they
Speaker 1: need to do. Continue to canvas. All of these things matter,
Speaker 1: particularly in the last two weeks. So buckle up, friends,
Speaker 1: and let's get this shit done. Let's get it done.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on wok
Speaker 1: app as always, Power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.