Speaker 1: Good morning, Pete Sen. Welcome to Wika F Daily with
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Speaker 1: Today is Indigenous People's Day, and we have named it
Speaker 1: this day because many years ago, not many years ago,
Speaker 1: I guess a couple of years ago, now we decided
Speaker 1: as a country, or some people decided as a country,
Speaker 1: maybe only half of us. Who the fuck knows at
Speaker 1: this point that we weren't going to give credit or
Speaker 1: celebrate a racist, rapist, misogynist explorer who believe that they
Speaker 1: could discover a place where people were already living and
Speaker 1: had already been living for generations. And so Columbus Day
Speaker 1: would be renamed Indigenous People's Day. But what I realized
Speaker 1: as we take time off for this holiday, is that
Speaker 1: we tallet Indigenous People's Day, but we don't actually talk
Speaker 1: about Indigenous people. We don't talk about their suffering, we
Speaker 1: don't talk about their brilliance, we don't talk about their ingenuity.
Speaker 1: We don't actually teach about the indigenous people of this country.
Speaker 1: You know, I can remember a time many many years ago,
Speaker 1: many many moons ago, being in elementary school, and you know,
Speaker 1: on this day or as we were getting ready to
Speaker 1: celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. And mind you, I saw this recently,
Speaker 1: and I was appalled. We would cut out little pilgrim hats,
Speaker 1: you know, from the black construction paper, and cut out
Speaker 1: feathers and moccasins, and the teachers in the classroom would
Speaker 1: have cornucopia and there would be these lovely stories right
Speaker 1: about the Pilgrims and at that time Indians, which now
Speaker 1: we refer to as Native Americans, because you see, when
Speaker 1: you know better, you were supposed to actually do better. Right,
Speaker 1: just because something has always been one way doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that once you've received more information that you can't make
Speaker 1: a pivot. And a couple of years ago, I think
Speaker 1: I might have been home visiting my family on Long
Speaker 1: Island and I saw kids getting off of the school
Speaker 1: bus and I was shocked and appalled because they had
Speaker 1: the same fucking cutouts that I had had decades earlier,
Speaker 1: that they were still carrying home from school, the same out.
Speaker 1: So the pilgrim hats and the moccasins and all of this,
Speaker 1: and we're going to learn about you know, Columbus, and
Speaker 1: we're going to learn about you know, Thanksgiving, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: why is it so god damn hard to just tell
Speaker 1: the truth once you learn it, because I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that from the beginning of time we should have you
Speaker 1: know that we understood who these people were. And what
Speaker 1: America loves to do is that they love to and
Speaker 1: this is present right with actors and directors who we
Speaker 1: want to still love their art but then condemn the
Speaker 1: people that have been sexual predators or what have you. Like,
Speaker 1: we still want to celebrate and listen to certain music
Speaker 1: and watch certain movies and not make the connection between
Speaker 1: the actions of said explorer or said actor and what
Speaker 1: we have benefited from their experience. And I don't understand
Speaker 1: why we make it so difficult to do both. And
Speaker 1: you can acknowledge right that without Columbus, without Columbus having
Speaker 1: drunkenly sailed around and didn't actually discover America, because again,
Speaker 1: you can't discover something that is already inhabited. You can't
Speaker 1: discover a place that is already inhabited. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: even America that he fucking landed on. That we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been able to connect continents in a certain way.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't understand things about geography, things about our Earth,
Speaker 1: and the planet and the water and all of these things.
Speaker 1: And so you can acknowledge that by virtue of his
Speaker 1: exploration that we learned a lot more about the planet
Speaker 1: and its people. You can recognize that, and then also
Speaker 1: understand that he was a rapist, murderer, savage, right like
Speaker 1: he wanted to call the people that welcomed and with
Speaker 1: open arms, these community minded indigenous people welcoming these strangers,
Speaker 1: thinking that they are just as loving and open and
Speaker 1: community minded and earth minded as they are. Unbeknownst to them,
Speaker 1: they literally invited the vampires into their house. Right. You
Speaker 1: can tell both of those stories, because both of them
Speaker 1: are fucking true. But what America does is whitewash and
Speaker 1: eliminate anything anything that is negative about their precious white explorers,
Speaker 1: or their precious white presidents, or their precious white you know, inventors,
Speaker 1: and leave everything else out so that all we're left
Speaker 1: to believe, which is what is the foundation of white
Speaker 1: supremacist ideology, is that white people are the end all
Speaker 1: be all of all things, right, that they are the builders.
Speaker 1: Without white people, Oh my god, where would the planet be.
Speaker 1: I would argue, maybe probably in better shape than with
Speaker 1: the white people that have been in charge of it.
Speaker 1: Thus far, I would argue that we would have a
Speaker 1: better understanding of who we are as a people, and
Speaker 1: I mean all people. The contributions of all people to
Speaker 1: define this nation would have made us stronger because we
Speaker 1: would then be working from this collective, communal understanding of
Speaker 1: how each and every community in this nation is integral
Speaker 1: to the success of this nation. But we didn't do that.
Speaker 1: White cis hetero men in charge of all things decided
Speaker 1: that they were the ones to be carved in marble,
Speaker 1: that their accomplishments and theirs alone were the ones to
Speaker 1: lift up and celebrate, so much so that we created
Speaker 1: entire histories and curriculums and good, good bedtime stories about
Speaker 1: the founding of this nation and these great men and
Speaker 1: the Founding Fathers and all of these things without contextualizing
Speaker 1: what was actually happening with the rest of the fucking
Speaker 1: people that inhabited this country. You can talk right about
Speaker 1: the genius and the creativity of the founding fathers in
Speaker 1: their creation of the constitution and this idea of a democracy,
Speaker 1: and also talk about the fact that they alone would
Speaker 1: dictate who was considered human and who wasn't. That while
Speaker 1: they were screaming and dumping tea in the ocean about
Speaker 1: their own oppression, that they shackled human beings, raped and
Speaker 1: tortured them, broke apart families and destroyed tried to, I
Speaker 1: will say, try to destroy the soul of black people,
Speaker 1: enslaved African people, indigenous people, but they did not succeed there.
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Speaker 1: right now from generation's worth of lies. We are suffering
Speaker 1: right now because of the lies about a stolen election,
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Speaker 1: treason as former president told about Mexicans being rapist caravans
Speaker 1: coming to invade your suburban community. We need to put
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Speaker 1: about there being good people on both sides of when
Speaker 1: we are one side is hailing Nazi salutes and the
Speaker 1: other side is fighting for justice. Those lies wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to take hold if we had actually taken
Speaker 1: the time and done the work to educate the masses
Speaker 1: of the truth of this nation. Contrary to what Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis out of Florida believes, that doesn't create white guilt.
Speaker 1: What it creates is a system of accountability and responsibility.
Speaker 1: What it does is allow us to understand the signs
Speaker 1: clearly of what it looks like when fascism and authoritarianism
Speaker 1: begin to take hold, because you will have learned about it,
Speaker 1: maybe we wouldn't be in a situation where we need
Speaker 1: to continue to chant that black lives matter, because you
Speaker 1: would have learned how black lives have shaped this country,
Speaker 1: bringing you everything from stoplights to jazz, to the cotton gym,
Speaker 1: to equity injustice, to so many accomplishments, to the mathematic
Speaker 1: equation that allowed for man to land on the moon.
Speaker 1: The question that I always asked and wish that I
Speaker 1: could really ask if I could sit down with one
Speaker 1: of these white supremacists politicians who are so hell bent
Speaker 1: on pushing back against any form of anti racist teachings,
Speaker 1: any form of critical race theory, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, is not taught in schools in K through
Speaker 1: twelve schools. What has been worked on since I've been
Speaker 1: in elementary school is the inclusion of everyone else's narrative
Speaker 1: and contributions that make this country what it is. So
Speaker 1: what I would ask is, what are you afraid of?
Speaker 1: Why are you so terrified of the entire truth of
Speaker 1: this nation? Wouldn't it make people even more patriotic to
Speaker 1: see that when we know better, when we learn and
Speaker 1: then know better that we seek to do better with
Speaker 1: each and every generation. Why is it And I did
Speaker 1: not say this, but somebody else had said it. Why
Speaker 1: is it that the RHN de santiss and the Mark
Speaker 1: Marco Rubios and the Ted cruises, Why do they believe that?
Speaker 1: Why people would only identify with the worst in this
Speaker 1: nation and make them feel bad. Why is it so
Speaker 1: hard to think that they could identify with leaders and
Speaker 1: innovators and entertainers that don't look like them, but could
Speaker 1: also be inspired by their stories. That's the question that
Speaker 1: I would ask. I don't want to debate these motherfuckers
Speaker 1: because they don't debate with facts, and they're stupid, frankly,
Speaker 1: and I'll say that I don't give a fuck they are.
Speaker 1: You hear some of the ship that comes out of
Speaker 1: their mouth, You're like, damn, our education system really is broken.
Speaker 1: And some of you motherfucker's paid to go to school,
Speaker 1: to go to private school, and you're still stupid. But
Speaker 1: the fact is that I think that we debate the
Speaker 1: wrong things because I'm not here to debate the merits
Speaker 1: of my humanity. No, I'm here to ask you what
Speaker 1: you are afraid of? Because you are clearly, clearly terrified
Speaker 1: of people understanding the truth, of people seeing the value
Speaker 1: outside of being chadow, the value of black lives, Indigenous lives,
Speaker 1: Latin X lives, Asian Pacific Islanders, Asian lives. What is
Speaker 1: so terrifying about the brilliance the genius of other people
Speaker 1: that are not white sis hetero men? I would ask,
Speaker 1: why are you so fragile? Why did you need to
Speaker 1: create such tall tales about who you are and what
Speaker 1: you've accomplished, Because there are some that have accomplished great things,
Speaker 1: but we can tell the whole truth about the person.
Speaker 1: It's the same way that you watch these leaders die
Speaker 1: and then people say, well, don't speak ill of the dead. Well,
Speaker 1: if you did not do good in life, remind me
Speaker 1: why I should respect you in death. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: mean to degrade anybody or spit on anybody's grade, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's fuck not going to talk about them
Speaker 1: as this wondrous philanthropist when they're a colonizer and a thief.
Speaker 1: We watch this play out with the death of the queen.
Speaker 1: The death of the queen should have been the death
Speaker 1: of the entirety of the idea of monarchy. Monarchies only
Speaker 1: exist because of raping and pilla chain other nations taking
Speaker 1: them over bit by bit, stealing their jewels and literally
Speaker 1: putting them in your crown. So why is it that
Speaker 1: people were pooh pooed for telling the entire truth about
Speaker 1: what it is Queen Elizabeth was presiding over and what
Speaker 1: her entire family generations benefited from. Now is not the time?
Speaker 1: Tell me when the fucking time is. I never understand
Speaker 1: when the right time is to do anything here. It's
Speaker 1: not the right time, and the aftermath of it yet
Speaker 1: another catastrophic once in a century storm. To talk about
Speaker 1: climate change, it's never the right time. After a major
Speaker 1: mass shooting takes away nineteen children's lives, never the right
Speaker 1: time to talk about gun control. When another unarmed black
Speaker 1: person is murdered by police, is never the right time
Speaker 1: to talk about police reform. When we are looking at
Speaker 1: a city or multiple cities in these United States that
Speaker 1: don't have clean drinking water for taxpaying citizens, it's never
Speaker 1: the right time to talk about systemic racism. And when
Speaker 1: we have a federal holiday whose name has been changed
Speaker 1: but the history hasn't really been taught, it's never the
Speaker 1: right time. So my feeling, folks, is that we need
Speaker 1: to make time. We need to use right these federal
Speaker 1: holidays that again, not everybody gets to take off, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to say most people get to take off,
Speaker 1: but I don't know the statistics. But we should use
Speaker 1: this time that we're not having to toil away to rest. Yes,
Speaker 1: but while we're resting, let's use the time to educate ourselves.
Speaker 1: Let's learn a little bit and then let's share what
Speaker 1: we have learned. Let's do a deep dive into who
Speaker 1: Columbus was, what he did, where he actually went, and
Speaker 1: share that with people. Because when we know better, when
Speaker 1: we learn, we should want to teach, We should want
Speaker 1: to share. We should want to uplift, not hide the
Speaker 1: bad and hide behind the good or what you presume
Speaker 1: to be the good. We need to tell the whole
Speaker 1: story because generations from now, Lord only knows what type
Speaker 1: of government even if this kind, who knows? I have
Speaker 1: no idea what people will be living under forty years
Speaker 1: from now. I know it won't be a democracy. Who
Speaker 1: knows what education will look like. But I do know
Speaker 1: that we have an opportunity right now to be able
Speaker 1: to share information, real information, do our real research with
Speaker 1: credible outlets and tell the truth. That was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the beauty behind social media was to connect us more,
Speaker 1: and all it's really done is divide us. But we
Speaker 1: should take these opportunities when we have these collective holidays
Speaker 1: to understand stand these holidays, because otherwise we just continue
Speaker 1: to believe the lies that have been fed to us
Speaker 1: our entire lives. And then turn around and wonder how
Speaker 1: we got to the place that we're in. How we
Speaker 1: have a quarter of the population that still is not
Speaker 1: vaccinated because they believed that this was all a hoax.
Speaker 1: Million plus people dead in this country, their neighbors, their friends,
Speaker 1: and they still believe that this is all a hoax.
Speaker 1: Tell the truth. Let's all tell the truth so that
Speaker 1: we don't continue to repeat history over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. That is it for me today, dear friends
Speaker 1: on wokate f as always power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.