1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: I want to start off today with talking about Ukraine 4 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: and the news that we all saw yesterday, which showed 5 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: some of the most graphic images that we have seen 6 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: of what war actually looks like. And before I get 7 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: into the details of what we've learned thus far with 8 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: putin Russian soldiers, the lies that are being told by 9 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: the Kremlin, that are also being embraced by Fox News, 10 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: particularly people like Tucker Carlson, who remain a threat to 11 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: our national security and nothing is being done about it, 12 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: I want to talk about war, just war in general. 13 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because as 14 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: we are watching these images and we are seeing this 15 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: the NonStop coverage in Ukraine, and if you are following 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: also on social media, a part of it can feel 17 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: like a video game. It can feel like you're watching 18 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: a movie or a story. We're so desensitized in the 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: way that we take in and absorb content these days. 20 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: We're always like this, you know, swiping on our phones, 21 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: looking at the next thing, and just overstimulated. And yet 22 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: also desensitized and when it comes to the actions of war. 23 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: You know, we have seen in this country violence glorify 24 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: through video games, through movies, through narratives and stories and 25 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: all of these things. And when I saw the images 26 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: as I'm sure many of you did, out of Bucha, 27 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: which is outside of Kiev in Ukraine, and you see 28 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: human beings, human beings laying dead in the street as 29 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: if they are strown about, as if they are trash. 30 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: The images of dead bodies, people with their arms clasped 31 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: behind them, killed murdered execution style. There is a mass 32 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: grave in Bucha that has over one hundred and fifty 33 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: bodies in it, wrapped in plastic with appendages hanging out. 34 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: There were images that I saw before I came to 35 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: record of parents writing the names and phone numbers of 36 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: relatives on their children's bodies. In the event that they 37 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: die and their young children are found are discovered that 38 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: on their body would be the numbers to call in 39 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: order to get them to safety. And I hearkened back 40 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: as I saw the images of those children and people saying, 41 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: this is the most heartbreaking thing that I have seen. 42 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: I want to remind you that that is those images 43 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: of children with numbers written on them. Hearkens back to 44 00:03:51,680 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: what the Trump administration did at the border with undocumented immigrants, 45 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: ripping children away from their families, and families desperately sprawling 46 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: any type of information that they could on the bodies 47 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: of their children. This is not new, and while it 48 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: is horrific and disgusting and shows the dregs of society 49 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: and where we are. I don't want us to solely 50 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: look at this situation, this war that is playing out 51 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: in Ukraine and somehow garner more empathy and thought and 52 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: outrage for this situation than we have previously. I say 53 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: that because I was on the phone recently catching up 54 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: with my sister and you know, one of her friends, 55 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: who I think was volunteering in a way, you know, 56 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: to how support help support refugees, and that's that's what 57 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: they do. And one of their other friends had said, well, 58 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: tell me, you know what I can do. I want 59 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: to give money. I want to do something to help 60 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: the people in Ukraine. And the friend says, well, that's wonderful, 61 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: but can you tell me why this time rather than 62 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: all of the other times that we have seen atrocities 63 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: and war breakout that I have been working on Are 64 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: you interested now? And it wasn't to say that you 65 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't be This is not this is this is not 66 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: me saying that you shouldn't be outraged, that tears shouldn't 67 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: come to your eyes, that you shouldn't see these bodies 68 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: littering the streets of Buscha. Who were you know? But 69 00:05:54,040 --> 00:06:00,559 Speaker 1: days before, full complete souls right, People with loved ones, 70 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: family members, friends, stories that are now cut completely short. 71 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: People whose bodies are dumped into mass graves, that their families, 72 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: their friends will never know what happened to them, They'll 73 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: never have proper burials because by the time that somebody 74 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: is able to get in right and begin to sort 75 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: out the collection of these bodies, the decay right, and 76 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: who's coming in because you've had three and a half 77 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: million people flee so who's coming in to identify them? 78 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: How will they do this? And when I'm just saying 79 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: this out loud and my voice is quivering because I 80 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: just think about the pain, the suffering, the tragedy and 81 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: the trauma that we are seeing. And then I think 82 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: about also the mass graves that were just discovered in 83 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: these United States, that were filled with the remains of 84 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: Native American children who this country stole from their families, 85 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: put them in residential schools that were essentially legalized torture. 86 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: And for the kids that did not assimilate into Eurocentric ways, 87 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: were beaten, were killed and thrown away like trash. That's 88 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: in our recent history. There are mass graves that were 89 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: discovered in legacy black communities after lynching, mobs, ransacked, burned down, 90 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: and killed hundreds. Tulsa was not the only place. So 91 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: we look, folks, we look at what is happening in Ukraine, 92 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: and I say, none of these things to take away 93 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: from what we are currently witnessing. But I don't want 94 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: us to continue to look at these images and look 95 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: at them as if they are isolated, or look at 96 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: these people as if they are the only ones that 97 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: have ever suffered, when we have had and continue to 98 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: have a legacy of suffering and trauma that is waged 99 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: against marginalized communities in this country as well. I want 100 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: us to be able to walk and chew gum at 101 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 1: the same time. And I want us to be able 102 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: to look through a wider lens, a wider lens at 103 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: what we see as a humanitarian crisis around the world 104 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: and also in this country. You know, I was in 105 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: the midst and I'm still trying to I'm working on 106 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: an idea to pitch to an editor, a new editor 107 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: that I started working with. And you know, it was 108 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: announced late last week, not announced, but there was a 109 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: speech that was given by Hassan L Thawadi, who is 110 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: the Secretary General of Qatar, which is going to be 111 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: hosting for the first time ever in the Arab world 112 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 1: the World Cup, and the Secretary General gave a speech 113 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: about the importance of this moment and how the people 114 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: of the Arab world for the first time will be 115 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: able to set their own narrative and be able to 116 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: push back against the stereotypes that have plagued them in 117 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: the conflict lens through which we view the Middle East 118 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: and have the Middle East since two thousand and two 119 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: when George W. Bush in the State of the Union 120 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: referred to that region of the world the Middle East, 121 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: and he tacked on North Korea as the axis of evil. 122 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: And I've been thinking about it, and I was listening 123 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: to the speech that the Secretary General gave of Qatar 124 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: and thinking about narratives and how they are set and 125 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: how they spread, and thinking about, you know, in all honesty, 126 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: how we are watching this kind of new light, new 127 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: emergence of the Middle East, and these very cosmopolitan and 128 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: very wealthy countries and cities, you know, are being put 129 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: on the map, whether they're age or fashion events that 130 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: are happening in Doah, whether there are you know, in 131 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: major events that are happening in Dubai. We're watching right 132 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: this shifting lens with regard to how certain countries within 133 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: the Middle East are viewed. And I started to think 134 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: to myself about how we've allowed the United States to 135 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: lead the narrative, to craft the narrative around this quote 136 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,719 Speaker 1: unquote access of evil, and how the United States has 137 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: always been able to admonish other countries for their wrongdoing 138 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: because we have the biggest mic and the best pr 139 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: And we want to talk now about Putin's war crimes 140 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: and genocide and the things that he are doing, all 141 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: of which are absolutely true. But do we ever talk 142 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: about the ways that the United States has gone into 143 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: countries like Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan, which most recently 144 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: we can see that we go into these places, we 145 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: destroy communities, we kill children and women and men, and 146 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: we decide that these people are all terrorists, right and 147 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: undeserving of safety and sympathy, and we paint ourselves as 148 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: the heroes right as we address and bring to the 149 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: world their human rights violations. Well, folks, I started to 150 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: think about that state of the Union from two thousand 151 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: and two. I started to think about who we've allowed 152 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: the American government to identify as evil, and then I 153 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: started to think about how what is happening in this 154 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: country at the hands of the radical right is no 155 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: different than the things that we have used to admonish 156 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: China as well as the Middle East and other countries 157 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: that the United States has found itself looking its nose 158 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: down at. Right now, in the United States, we are 159 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: in two months three months about to lose Roby Wade. 160 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: Women and people with uteruses in this country will no 161 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: longer be able to access abortion. You will have certain 162 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: blue states while there is a Democratic president that is 163 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: in office that will become abortion sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. 164 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: But overtly around the country, the United States will no 165 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: longer have abortion access for women and people with uteruses. 166 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: We have rolled out right over four hundred voter suppression 167 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: laws in damn near every state of the country. We 168 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: have just watched Florida past there don't say gay legislation 169 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: and death santists gleefully signed that into law. We are 170 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: watching Governor Abbott wage an assault against voting access as 171 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: well as abortion in the state of Texas. Over this 172 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: past weekend, there were not one, but two mass shootings 173 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: that took place, One in Sacramento that killed six people 174 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: and I believe injured twelve. Another at a Dallas concert 175 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: that killed one person and injured a dozen. When you 176 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: look at America on paper or in real life, who 177 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: the fuck are we to be talking about anybody's access 178 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: of evil when we are in the midst of America's 179 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: great regression. Not only is our gun violence at an 180 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: all time fucking high. The only time that we saw 181 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: are rescinding in the numbers of people and the numbers 182 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: of mass shooting was when we had quarantine in twenty 183 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: twenty and schools were shut down. Not it didn't have 184 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: anything to do with of course, no policy that was 185 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: put into place right had had everything to do with 186 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: another killer, a virus that would shutter businesses and doors 187 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: and schools, And that would be the only reason. While 188 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: on a monthly basis, there wasn't a series of mass 189 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: shooting headlines. When the news even broke over the weekend, 190 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: it was pretty much like a blip on social media 191 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: until yesterday when a man hunt was underweighed. So that's 192 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: exciting for the media. There's a man hunt, so now 193 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: we're going to cover it. But when I'm taking all 194 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: of these different pieces, the anti gay, anti trans, anti women, 195 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: anti black, anti voting, anti democracy, all of the things 196 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: that have happened in this country over just the last 197 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: couple of years, since the reign of Trump began in 198 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and Trump is m became a thing. The 199 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: regression that we have seen in our democracy is at 200 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: lightning pace. So how is it that we have ever 201 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: been able to look at any other country and have 202 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: the audacity to talk about human rights violations and women's 203 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: rights and girls should have rights to learn and this, 204 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: that and the other thing when we can still dictate 205 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: in America, one of the wealthiest fucking countries in the world, 206 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: the life expectancy of a child based on their zip code. 207 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: How is it that this administration just yesterday released a 208 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: plan to retrofit schools and have clean energy and all 209 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: of these things, and our schools haven't seen any type 210 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: of upgrade. You want to talk about infrastructure, unless you 211 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: are living in a wealthy school district. Most schools haven't 212 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: seen any type of retrofitting. I think since the world would, 213 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: since the word's been invented. So when you take these things, 214 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,239 Speaker 1: when you take these issues that are plaguing America and 215 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: have been plaguing America and are being so instituted at 216 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: the hands of the radical right, how is it that 217 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: we have allowed them to talk about other places in 218 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: the world as being uncivilized where I don't see anything 219 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: civilized about what is happening in America and what has 220 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: happened in America or at the hands of the American 221 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: government around the world. Right, at least those other countries, 222 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: they're upfront and honest about their shit. What I realize 223 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: about America is that America is the biggest front. They 224 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: front like they give a fuck about women's rights. But 225 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: yet every March we acknowledge equal pay day and show 226 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: the disparity. But yet for decades and decades and decades 227 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: have had no equal pay passed, no equal pay bill passed. 228 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: We have consistent conversations right that want to make us 229 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: feel good, and I hear tough talk. Right, Congress needs 230 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: to do something out of every president's mouth, whether Democrat 231 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:33,719 Speaker 1: or Republican, and yet get dick done. We want to 232 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: again talk about the devastation of gun violence, and then 233 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: in the same breath to say, but now is not 234 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: the time to politicize it. So let's do the politicizing 235 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: of it when it's not in the news, which at 236 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: this point, when is gun violence not in the news. 237 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: We have literally a mass shooting that happens a day. 238 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: Because a mass shooting is four or more people being 239 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: shot at one time. The only time that it seems 240 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: to really catch the headlines is if we're talking multiple bodies. So, 241 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: while we're looking at the images coming out of Bouscha, 242 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: and rightfully so with horror, with this Dane, if we 243 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: were to take those same photos, minus the blown out buildings, 244 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: you would see bodies littered all over the streets of 245 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: America every fucking day. So how is it that we 246 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: can conjure the outrage and the empathy directed at the 247 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: people of Ukraine, but we're not recognizing how many people 248 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: we are allowing to perish because of gun violence every 249 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: single day in this country because both sides are bought 250 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: and sold by the gun lobby, and that even when 251 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: Democrats are in charge, are in power, they still don't 252 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: pass fucking legislation that were to reduce mass shootings and 253 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: make this country safer. Why because we also have within 254 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: our own ranks people that are fronted like they are 255 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: fucking democrats, knowing, good God damn well, cinema and mansion 256 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: and others that you're not. I'm just tired of America 257 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: going around the globe selling this lie of exceptionalism, selling 258 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: this lie and wagging our finger and turning down our 259 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: nose at other nations and not taking a hard fucking 260 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: look in the mirror and looking at what hypocrites we 261 00:21:53,280 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: look like now. I mean, it's it's incredible. Every day 262 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: during the Trump administration, I would get on here and 263 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: just think to myself, like, Wow, beliefs that I had 264 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: that I thought were laws, that I thought were common 265 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: values that we shared as a nation of democracy, of voting, 266 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: of fairness, of legitimacy, of accountability. We don't. And I 267 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: say that as a black queer woman, knowing, good God 268 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: damn well that black people all that things that I've 269 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: listed have never experienced in this country, not in any 270 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: full throated type of way. It's why my other show 271 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: is called democracy Ish, because we don't experience democracy. It 272 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: is something that we have continually had to fight for 273 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: to have our ability to cast a vote. Right. You 274 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: just saw that down in Florida. Federal judge said, nah, 275 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: so now you all are not allowed to change your 276 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: laws anymore, because there is no way to look at 277 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: the changes that you have made to your voting restrictions 278 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: and not see it as racist because it only impacts 279 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: the black people in this state. They are saying the 280 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: quiet parts out loud, and yet we are still looking 281 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: at other countries and saying, oh, poor them, and not 282 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: looking in our own front and backyard and being like, Yo, 283 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:48,719 Speaker 1: what is happening here? What's happening in this country? You know, 284 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: I went on a radio show, went on a radio 285 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: show that I do once a month out of Philly WRUD. 286 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: It's one of the very few black radio stations still 287 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: left in the country. And one of the conversations that 288 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: we had yesterday morning was with regard to reparations. And 289 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: you know, California apparently has passed legislation or they're thinking 290 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: about it with regard to reparations and how to provide 291 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: reparations to black people. So, but they want to do 292 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: it in a neutral way. Do you know what is 293 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: becoming one of the most hated words, one of my 294 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: most hated words. Neutral. There is no fucking such thing. 295 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: Neutrality is bullshit, right. Neutrality is something that cis gendered, 296 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: straight white men made up to make themselves elves the 297 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: default and make everything else othered, including their own fucking wives. 298 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: So when we used to say, oh, the news should 299 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: be neutral, the news was always coming through sis hetero 300 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: male perspective. But because they had made themselves the default, 301 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: we believe that neutrality actually existed. But it wasn't. It's 302 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: the world seen through one set of eyes, one community's 303 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: set of eyes. So how would California go about turning 304 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: something such as chattel slavery and then the hundred years 305 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: that would follow it of Jim Crow, which was based 306 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: on anything but neutral beliefs about what it is and 307 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: isn't that black people in this country deserve right, namely 308 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: dignity and respect. How is it that you would take 309 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: the atrocities that our ancestors lived through, died through, and 310 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: then turn around and tell me that you want to 311 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: place a neutral lens over it to think about how 312 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: you distribute resources, whether it be cash, money or changes 313 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: to policy that would make up for the genocide that 314 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: happened at the hands of white America against Black America 315 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: since sixteen nineteen. How does that work exactly? And what 316 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: I said on the show is that if we're not 317 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: going to come from a place of honesty in talking 318 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: about the atrocities that were faced, right, that people had 319 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: to live through. Like, I don't think that sometimes we 320 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: all wrap our minds, but at least, you know, every 321 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: once in a while, I kind of sit back and 322 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: I think to myself, how many generations of black suffering 323 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: had people had to fight and live through in order 324 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: for me to exist? Right? Like, I want folks, particularly 325 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: black folks, to think about that for a minute. How 326 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: much suffering and trauma and torture and discrimination and hate 327 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: and rape and violence that our ancestors had to live 328 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: through and order for us to exist today. And the 329 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: thing about it why I get really frustrated with the 330 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: conversation around reparations is because we're always told, well, how 331 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: will we figure out I'm like, if you are black 332 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: and live in this country, live in this world. You 333 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: are a descendant of an enslaved African person, right, Like 334 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: people want to say, like, oh yeah, there were those 335 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: that didn't get caught, or there were this, that and 336 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 1: the other thing, you are a descendant of that, and 337 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: if not, you were certainly a fucking descendant of Jim Crow. 338 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: So for us to try and put a neutralized lens 339 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: over America's original sin as a way to repay the 340 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: debt that was that to repay the debt that America 341 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: owes of the extracted labor right and genocide that it committed, 342 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: is just absolute bullshit, right, Like just absolute fuckery. And 343 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: so I want and the other lie that I push 344 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: back against as well, is oh, well, we just don't 345 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: have the money. If I hear that fucking lie one 346 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: more time, like, on one hand, you want to tell 347 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: me that America is the wealthiest nation in the world, 348 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: and then on the other hand, you want to tell 349 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: me that you don't have any money. Right. It's like 350 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was just like, I am the smartest 351 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: person ever and I alone can fix this. But oh 352 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I broke Emoliaman's clauses oh, I, 353 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't mean those tweets that I sent 354 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: that almost you know, put us into nuclear war, Like 355 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: you're you're either a genius or you're too fucking dumb. 356 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: Which one is it? Right? Which one is it? Because 357 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: both can't be true. You can't both be the wealthiest 358 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: nation in the world but then not have the funds 359 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: to be able to resource right the basic traumas and 360 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: genocides that you have caused, right, and how that has 361 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: that into the racial wealth gap that continues to widen 362 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: in this country because all of the policies that we 363 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: have are based on racism put through that quote unquote 364 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: neutral lens that just so happened to exclude everyone who 365 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: was in white or male. From the g I Bill 366 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: right to the creation of Levitt Town, and on any 367 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: single policy that was created with the idea of how 368 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: to support uplift the middle class, create the middle class, 369 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: did so purposefully without women being included and without black 370 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: people being included. So for me, don't tell me that 371 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: you don't have the money, Just tell me you don't 372 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: want to. You don't want to give it to the 373 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: people whose ancestors you stole from, Because what I would say, 374 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: is that before we start talking about dollars and cents, 375 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: how about you institute federal policies that are directed at 376 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: righting the wrongs. How about you, oh, I don't know, 377 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, with the flick of your pen, a race 378 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: student loan debt, which affects more black and brown people 379 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: than it does any other group because they are have 380 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: always been the ones that were told that they needed 381 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: to be more and do more in order to compete 382 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: in this racist ass country. And then they get saddled 383 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: with this debt because their parents, their families aren't the 384 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: ones that have the resources, again from extracted fucking labor 385 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: and from loans from the federal government to start said 386 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: businesses and send kids to school and buy homes that 387 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: all would accumulate value over time and be able to 388 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: pass down from generation to generation. So you owe that 389 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: at the very fucking least. But those aren't the conversations 390 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: that we have, because then we want to get into 391 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: this all people deserve shit, just like how we want 392 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: to talk about black lives matter, and then people say, well, 393 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: all lives matter. Well, if all lives did matter, right, 394 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to specifically single out black people would 395 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: I because we wouldn't have had to wait sixty years 396 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: for an anti lynching bill after a fourteen year old 397 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: boy was brutally murdered, if all lives actually fucking mattered. Oh, 398 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: we don't have the money, but we can send right 399 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: trillion dollars budgets with billions, hundreds of billions of dollars 400 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: for our fucking military. But you're telling me we can't 401 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: erase student loan debt to alleviate the noose, the financial 402 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: noose that this country has put around the necks of 403 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,479 Speaker 1: black and brown people. The fuck out of here. You 404 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: want to tell me that we can't make college free 405 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: for black and brown people in this country? Like, if 406 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: you don't want to talk to me about specific dollar 407 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: amount reparations, then how about we go back to the 408 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: housing crisis in the early two thousands that saw black 409 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: homeowners lose their homes at double plus the rate because 410 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: they were the ones that the predatory lenders went to. 411 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: You don't see the United States giving those people back 412 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: what they lost, right, you don't see them. You didn't 413 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: see them making sure that Wall Street fucking hustlers would 414 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: be held accountable and have to pay back what they 415 00:33:52,240 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: stall now, and that again under a fucking Democrat. So 416 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm tired of having conversations that are intellectually 417 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: dishonest when we are talking about reparations and what is 418 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: deserving and who deserves what, and how do we decide? 419 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: How about we acknowledge the generational harm and trauma and 420 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: violence that has been perpetuated against the black community, and 421 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: then we look at policy solves and then you talk 422 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: to me about dollars and cents later, but don't talk 423 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,839 Speaker 1: to me about how well we need to make this 424 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: free for everybody or we need to do us No 425 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: white people have gotten enough, and I will say that 426 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: again and piss a whole lot of people off. White 427 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: America has gotten enough. It is time that if we 428 00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: actually are serious about closing the racial wealth got if 429 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: we are serious about addressing systemic racism, then we do 430 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: targeted responses to the communities that have experienced the most 431 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: fucking harm. But the reality is we're not serious. We 432 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: don't care. Not Republicans for Fox, sure, but not Democrats either. 433 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 1: Because the conversation that I had last week with my 434 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: colleague was Jahat Ali on democracy ish And if you're 435 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: not listening to democracy issue. You can get it wherever 436 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts on democracy ish, we said, we 437 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: had a whole conversation around what Martin Luther King had 438 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 1: coined back in nineteen sixty three and letter to a 439 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 1: Birmingham jail when he said, no, it will not be 440 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: the klu Klux Klansmen, right, the klu Klux Klansmen actually 441 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: isn't our greatest obstacle to justice in America. It is 442 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: the white moderate. It is the both sidesism, which I 443 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: will add, it is the white moderate that will say, oh, 444 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: it's a matter of law, not a matter of justice. 445 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: We need law and order, we need these things. You've 446 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: allowed the white moderates quote unquote moderates to disrupt Biden's 447 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: entire agenda. You have King Cole fucking Joe Mansion is 448 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: head chair of the Energy Committee in the Senate, Like, 449 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 1: we're not honest about the change. Like, so you can 450 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: listen to really good speeches about climate change, but who's 451 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:45,280 Speaker 1: chairing your energy committee. The man that torpedoed multiple clean 452 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 1: energy acts and didn't like the climate language within the 453 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: infrastructure bills. It was taken out because it would offend 454 00:36:54,120 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: his bottom line. Because of his legal connections to Big Cole. 455 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: So how do you tell me that you're serious but 456 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 1: not serious? That's how you tell me? How do you 457 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: tell me that you care about black people but you 458 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: really don't care about them? You pass an anti lynching 459 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:20,240 Speaker 1: bill sixty years after the most the most egregious lynching 460 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: that the world had ever seen. Right, you passed that 461 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: sixty years later, and then tell me that's what that's 462 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 1: what progress and change looks like. So I guess, like 463 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: I said last week, we'll wait another sixty years until 464 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 1: the George Floyd Policing Act has passed as well, and 465 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: then we'll look back and whoever is president of whatever 466 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: fascious nation America has turned into will be like, oh, 467 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 1: look at us. I'm tired of patting this country on 468 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: the back for doing the bare fucking minimum. An anti 469 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 1: lynching bill should have been light work. But the fact 470 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,320 Speaker 1: that you had three Republicans that voted against it today, 471 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,919 Speaker 1: in this day and age, shows you who and where 472 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 1: we are now, folks. I want to make the transition 473 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 1: quickly into talking picking up where the conversation with Glenn 474 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,759 Speaker 1: Kirshner left off yesterday and talking about the insurrection and 475 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: where things stand with this Department of Justice. Again, over 476 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: the weekend, you had a great piece written in The 477 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: New York Times by Katie Benner, Katie Rogers, and Michael S. 478 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:48,479 Speaker 1: Schmidt entitled Garland faces growing precious as January six investigation widens. Now, 479 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 1: we did get good news right that Glenn walked us through, 480 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: that there were signals and signs that the investigation has expanded, 481 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:02,359 Speaker 1: that when Merritt Garland said in January of twenty two 482 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 1: that we were going to look everywhere at both the 483 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: foot soldiers of the insurrections as well as those donors 484 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:17,720 Speaker 1: that supported them. And I'll tell you that what gets 485 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,719 Speaker 1: me about this article, and what gets me about Garland 486 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,640 Speaker 1: in general, is that everybody is pissed off at this man, 487 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: like he is moving at a sloth's pace, and that 488 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: every time that I turn on the TV and I'm 489 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: listening to strategists and Democrats say with deep frustration, like 490 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:47,880 Speaker 1: there is more than enough fucking evidence to indict Donald Trump, 491 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: to indict Mark Meadows. Right, We're begging the Justice Department 492 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: to do its fucking job, and I'm just confused as 493 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: to why. So they say in this article that the 494 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,600 Speaker 1: Attorney General's deliberative approach has come to frustrate democratic allies 495 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: of the White House and at times, the President himself. 496 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,960 Speaker 1: As recently as late last year, mister Biden confided to 497 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: his inner circle that he believed former President Donald Trump 498 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according 499 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,400 Speaker 1: to two people familiar with his comments, And while the 500 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: President has never communicated his frustrations directly to Merritt Garland, 501 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: he has said privately he wanted Garland to act less 502 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who 503 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,880 Speaker 1: was willing to take decisive action over the events of 504 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,400 Speaker 1: January sixth, And this article will go on to say that, 505 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,960 Speaker 1: you know, everyone is always so concerned about their fucking legacy, 506 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: and I find it laughable in a country that doesn't 507 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,200 Speaker 1: actually teach history, right, that doesn't actually teach the fucking 508 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,600 Speaker 1: truth about history. So I'm never confused. I'm always confused 509 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,440 Speaker 1: about why people are so concerned about their legacy. And 510 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,360 Speaker 1: Bill Barr said it right, like, I don't give a 511 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: fuck about my legacy, right, remember, and CBS he was 512 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,439 Speaker 1: just like, they're like, what about your legacy? And He's 513 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I'm all like, I'm good. You know, 514 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get mine while I'm still breathing, right. And 515 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: so when I hear this, oh, people are worried about 516 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 1: the legacy, I'm just like, and who is writing that story? 517 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 1: Because I'm certain that by the time that it matters, 518 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: it will be banned anyway. But this is what Representative 519 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 1: Elaine Luria, Democrat out of Virginia, said about Garland. The 520 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 1: Department of Justice must move swiftly. Attorney General Garland, do 521 00:41:55,280 --> 00:42:01,280 Speaker 1: your job so that we can do ours. In a statement, 522 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,280 Speaker 1: Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said the President believed 523 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,279 Speaker 1: that mister Garland had decisively restored the independence of the 524 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: Justice Department. But what is being said in here is 525 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: that they don't communicate at all. Right, There's no communication 526 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,359 Speaker 1: between the White House and the Department of Justice, and 527 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 1: so there is an overcorrection that has happened from the 528 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: Trump days. Now we know that Trump was hot on 529 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 1: Twitter cursing out Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr, calling them 530 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,960 Speaker 1: to the White House via tweet, But how do you 531 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:42,239 Speaker 1: have no communication with your attorney general when both of 532 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,439 Speaker 1: your legacies, Again, that word hang in the balance with 533 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 1: regard to making it definitively so than any attempt to 534 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,840 Speaker 1: overthrow the government will be met with the full force 535 00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice. So I remain confused about 536 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 1: where this is going, how quickly we are going to 537 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 1: see anything, and whether or not this Department of Justice 538 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:17,319 Speaker 1: is actually set up to do its job and do 539 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:22,200 Speaker 1: so in an expedient way that restores not the integrity 540 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: or perception of integrity, but the actual faith in institutions 541 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:32,240 Speaker 1: that Americans have lost over the last few years. That friends, 542 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 1: is left up for debate. That is it for me 543 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:45,239 Speaker 1: today here on woke f as always Power to the 544 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 545 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,319 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.