WEBVTT - American Hypocrisy 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.440 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.759 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.760 I want to start off today with talking about Ukraine 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:33.200 and the news that we all saw yesterday, which showed 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.640 some of the most graphic images that we have seen 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.159 of what war actually looks like. And before I get 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:47.040 into the details of what we've learned thus far with 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:52.400 putin Russian soldiers, the lies that are being told by 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.080 the Kremlin, that are also being embraced by Fox News, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.160 particularly people like Tucker Carlson, who remain a threat to 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.080 our national security and nothing is being done about it, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.320 I want to talk about war, just war in general. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.640 And the reason why I say that is because as 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.920 we are watching these images and we are seeing this 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.600 the NonStop coverage in Ukraine, and if you are following 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.600 also on social media, a part of it can feel 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.840 like a video game. It can feel like you're watching 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:29.480 a movie or a story. We're so desensitized in the 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:35.120 way that we take in and absorb content these days. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.040 We're always like this, you know, swiping on our phones, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.200 looking at the next thing, and just overstimulated. And yet 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.240 also desensitized and when it comes to the actions of war. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.320 You know, we have seen in this country violence glorify 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:57.960 through video games, through movies, through narratives and stories and 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.440 all of these things. And when I saw the images 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.520 as I'm sure many of you did, out of Bucha, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:11.320 which is outside of Kiev in Ukraine, and you see 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:19.040 human beings, human beings laying dead in the street as 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.600 if they are strown about, as if they are trash. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:31.960 The images of dead bodies, people with their arms clasped 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:37.360 behind them, killed murdered execution style. There is a mass 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:43.600 grave in Bucha that has over one hundred and fifty 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:52.040 bodies in it, wrapped in plastic with appendages hanging out. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.400 There were images that I saw before I came to 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:07.480 record of parents writing the names and phone numbers of 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:13.399 relatives on their children's bodies. In the event that they 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:19.560 die and their young children are found are discovered that 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:25.960 on their body would be the numbers to call in 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.639 order to get them to safety. And I hearkened back 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:35.400 as I saw the images of those children and people saying, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.680 this is the most heartbreaking thing that I have seen. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.440 I want to remind you that that is those images 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:51.400 of children with numbers written on them. Hearkens back to 0:03:51.680 --> 0:04:00.320 what the Trump administration did at the border with undocumented immigrants, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:07.640 ripping children away from their families, and families desperately sprawling 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.600 any type of information that they could on the bodies 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:17.320 of their children. This is not new, and while it 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:24.320 is horrific and disgusting and shows the dregs of society 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.800 and where we are. I don't want us to solely 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.400 look at this situation, this war that is playing out 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:42.080 in Ukraine and somehow garner more empathy and thought and 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:47.960 outrage for this situation than we have previously. I say 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.480 that because I was on the phone recently catching up 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:55.159 with my sister and you know, one of her friends, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.800 who I think was volunteering in a way, you know, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:05.560 to how support help support refugees, and that's that's what 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:10.400 they do. And one of their other friends had said, well, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.600 tell me, you know what I can do. I want 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.799 to give money. I want to do something to help 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.400 the people in Ukraine. And the friend says, well, that's wonderful, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.880 but can you tell me why this time rather than 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.800 all of the other times that we have seen atrocities 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.039 and war breakout that I have been working on Are 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.680 you interested now? And it wasn't to say that you 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.920 shouldn't be This is not this is this is not 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.920 me saying that you shouldn't be outraged, that tears shouldn't 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.600 come to your eyes, that you shouldn't see these bodies 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.760 littering the streets of Buscha. Who were you know? But 0:05:54.040 --> 0:06:00.559 days before, full complete souls right, People with loved ones, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:07.400 family members, friends, stories that are now cut completely short. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.960 People whose bodies are dumped into mass graves, that their families, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:19.159 their friends will never know what happened to them, They'll 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.839 never have proper burials because by the time that somebody 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.320 is able to get in right and begin to sort 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.800 out the collection of these bodies, the decay right, and 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.080 who's coming in because you've had three and a half 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:39.800 million people flee so who's coming in to identify them? 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.920 How will they do this? And when I'm just saying 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.440 this out loud and my voice is quivering because I 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:53.800 just think about the pain, the suffering, the tragedy and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.760 the trauma that we are seeing. And then I think 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.360 about also the mass graves that were just discovered in 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:10.480 these United States, that were filled with the remains of 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:16.160 Native American children who this country stole from their families, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.920 put them in residential schools that were essentially legalized torture. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:28.120 And for the kids that did not assimilate into Eurocentric ways, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:35.680 were beaten, were killed and thrown away like trash. That's 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:41.640 in our recent history. There are mass graves that were 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:54.080 discovered in legacy black communities after lynching, mobs, ransacked, burned down, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:08:03.000 and killed hundreds. Tulsa was not the only place. So 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.800 we look, folks, we look at what is happening in Ukraine, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.040 and I say, none of these things to take away 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.640 from what we are currently witnessing. But I don't want 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.800 us to continue to look at these images and look 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.320 at them as if they are isolated, or look at 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.520 these people as if they are the only ones that 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.160 have ever suffered, when we have had and continue to 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.360 have a legacy of suffering and trauma that is waged 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.680 against marginalized communities in this country as well. I want 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.559 us to be able to walk and chew gum at 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.839 the same time. And I want us to be able 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:47.880 to look through a wider lens, a wider lens at 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:53.960 what we see as a humanitarian crisis around the world 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:01.679 and also in this country. You know, I was in 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:06.000 the midst and I'm still trying to I'm working on 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.520 an idea to pitch to an editor, a new editor 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.360 that I started working with. And you know, it was 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:20.120 announced late last week, not announced, but there was a 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:25.920 speech that was given by Hassan L Thawadi, who is 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.920 the Secretary General of Qatar, which is going to be 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.400 hosting for the first time ever in the Arab world 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:41.199 the World Cup, and the Secretary General gave a speech 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:47.080 about the importance of this moment and how the people 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.720 of the Arab world for the first time will be 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.560 able to set their own narrative and be able to 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.719 push back against the stereotypes that have plagued them in 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.760 the conflict lens through which we view the Middle East 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.160 and have the Middle East since two thousand and two 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.240 when George W. Bush in the State of the Union 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.600 referred to that region of the world the Middle East, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.480 and he tacked on North Korea as the axis of evil. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.960 And I've been thinking about it, and I was listening 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.720 to the speech that the Secretary General gave of Qatar 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.679 and thinking about narratives and how they are set and 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:34.079 how they spread, and thinking about, you know, in all honesty, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:45.920 how we are watching this kind of new light, new 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:52.440 emergence of the Middle East, and these very cosmopolitan and 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:58.480 very wealthy countries and cities, you know, are being put 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.240 on the map, whether they're age or fashion events that 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.080 are happening in Doah, whether there are you know, in 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:10.000 major events that are happening in Dubai. We're watching right 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:16.760 this shifting lens with regard to how certain countries within 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.480 the Middle East are viewed. And I started to think 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:27.319 to myself about how we've allowed the United States to 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.360 lead the narrative, to craft the narrative around this quote 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.719 unquote access of evil, and how the United States has 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:40.200 always been able to admonish other countries for their wrongdoing 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:45.440 because we have the biggest mic and the best pr 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.800 And we want to talk now about Putin's war crimes 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.480 and genocide and the things that he are doing, all 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.840 of which are absolutely true. But do we ever talk 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.199 about the ways that the United States has gone into 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.960 countries like Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan, which most recently 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.720 we can see that we go into these places, we 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:15.400 destroy communities, we kill children and women and men, and 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.440 we decide that these people are all terrorists, right and 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:27.840 undeserving of safety and sympathy, and we paint ourselves as 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:33.720 the heroes right as we address and bring to the 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.640 world their human rights violations. Well, folks, I started to 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.640 think about that state of the Union from two thousand 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:48.280 and two. I started to think about who we've allowed 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:52.480 the American government to identify as evil, and then I 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:57.240 started to think about how what is happening in this 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.600 country at the hands of the radical right is no 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.520 different than the things that we have used to admonish 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.040 China as well as the Middle East and other countries 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.240 that the United States has found itself looking its nose 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:17.560 down at. Right now, in the United States, we are 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:22.720 in two months three months about to lose Roby Wade. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.120 Women and people with uteruses in this country will no 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.040 longer be able to access abortion. You will have certain 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.920 blue states while there is a Democratic president that is 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:40.360 in office that will become abortion sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:46.920 But overtly around the country, the United States will no 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.679 longer have abortion access for women and people with uteruses. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:57.319 We have rolled out right over four hundred voter suppression 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:03.000 laws in damn near every state of the country. We 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.400 have just watched Florida past there don't say gay legislation 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:13.320 and death santists gleefully signed that into law. We are 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:21.160 watching Governor Abbott wage an assault against voting access as 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:26.920 well as abortion in the state of Texas. Over this 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:32.160 past weekend, there were not one, but two mass shootings 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:37.200 that took place, One in Sacramento that killed six people 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:44.520 and I believe injured twelve. Another at a Dallas concert 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:51.200 that killed one person and injured a dozen. When you 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:56.800 look at America on paper or in real life, who 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.600 the fuck are we to be talking about anybody's access 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:05.280 of evil when we are in the midst of America's 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:11.520 great regression. Not only is our gun violence at an 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.880 all time fucking high. The only time that we saw 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.320 are rescinding in the numbers of people and the numbers 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.640 of mass shooting was when we had quarantine in twenty 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.720 twenty and schools were shut down. Not it didn't have 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.920 anything to do with of course, no policy that was 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.600 put into place right had had everything to do with 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:40.360 another killer, a virus that would shutter businesses and doors 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.360 and schools, And that would be the only reason. While 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.720 on a monthly basis, there wasn't a series of mass 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:57.640 shooting headlines. When the news even broke over the weekend, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.720 it was pretty much like a blip on social media 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:10.280 until yesterday when a man hunt was underweighed. So that's 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.840 exciting for the media. There's a man hunt, so now 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:18.040 we're going to cover it. But when I'm taking all 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:24.400 of these different pieces, the anti gay, anti trans, anti women, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:32.280 anti black, anti voting, anti democracy, all of the things 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.600 that have happened in this country over just the last 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.160 couple of years, since the reign of Trump began in 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:44.560 twenty sixteen, and Trump is m became a thing. The 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:52.080 regression that we have seen in our democracy is at 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.800 lightning pace. So how is it that we have ever 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.560 been able to look at any other country and have 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.480 the audacity to talk about human rights violations and women's 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.600 rights and girls should have rights to learn and this, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.800 that and the other thing when we can still dictate 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.280 in America, one of the wealthiest fucking countries in the world, 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:25.199 the life expectancy of a child based on their zip code. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.720 How is it that this administration just yesterday released a 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.680 plan to retrofit schools and have clean energy and all 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.280 of these things, and our schools haven't seen any type 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.919 of upgrade. You want to talk about infrastructure, unless you 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:50.840 are living in a wealthy school district. Most schools haven't 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.680 seen any type of retrofitting. I think since the world would, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:02.480 since the word's been invented. So when you take these things, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.239 when you take these issues that are plaguing America and 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.600 have been plaguing America and are being so instituted at 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.520 the hands of the radical right, how is it that 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.439 we have allowed them to talk about other places in 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.639 the world as being uncivilized where I don't see anything 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.040 civilized about what is happening in America and what has 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.760 happened in America or at the hands of the American 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:37.480 government around the world. Right, at least those other countries, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.240 they're upfront and honest about their shit. What I realize 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:46.800 about America is that America is the biggest front. They 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.400 front like they give a fuck about women's rights. But 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:58.879 yet every March we acknowledge equal pay day and show 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:04.119 the disparity. But yet for decades and decades and decades 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:11.200 have had no equal pay passed, no equal pay bill passed. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:17.280 We have consistent conversations right that want to make us 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.200 feel good, and I hear tough talk. Right, Congress needs 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.639 to do something out of every president's mouth, whether Democrat 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:33.719 or Republican, and yet get dick done. We want to 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:39.200 again talk about the devastation of gun violence, and then 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.399 in the same breath to say, but now is not 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.840 the time to politicize it. So let's do the politicizing 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.240 of it when it's not in the news, which at 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.639 this point, when is gun violence not in the news. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.800 We have literally a mass shooting that happens a day. 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.200 Because a mass shooting is four or more people being 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.200 shot at one time. The only time that it seems 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:08.960 to really catch the headlines is if we're talking multiple bodies. So, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:14.280 while we're looking at the images coming out of Bouscha, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.800 and rightfully so with horror, with this Dane, if we 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:27.000 were to take those same photos, minus the blown out buildings, 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.800 you would see bodies littered all over the streets of 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:37.119 America every fucking day. So how is it that we 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.719 can conjure the outrage and the empathy directed at the 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:48.200 people of Ukraine, but we're not recognizing how many people 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.240 we are allowing to perish because of gun violence every 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.480 single day in this country because both sides are bought 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.440 and sold by the gun lobby, and that even when 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:05.480 Democrats are in charge, are in power, they still don't 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:11.600 pass fucking legislation that were to reduce mass shootings and 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.879 make this country safer. Why because we also have within 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.080 our own ranks people that are fronted like they are 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.120 fucking democrats, knowing, good God damn well, cinema and mansion 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:31.480 and others that you're not. I'm just tired of America 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:38.120 going around the globe selling this lie of exceptionalism, selling 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.920 this lie and wagging our finger and turning down our 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:46.040 nose at other nations and not taking a hard fucking 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:53.119 look in the mirror and looking at what hypocrites we 0:21:53.280 --> 0:22:02.840 look like now. I mean, it's it's incredible. Every day 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.359 during the Trump administration, I would get on here and 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:12.520 just think to myself, like, Wow, beliefs that I had 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:18.080 that I thought were laws, that I thought were common 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:23.919 values that we shared as a nation of democracy, of voting, 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:31.000 of fairness, of legitimacy, of accountability. We don't. And I 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.560 say that as a black queer woman, knowing, good God 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.640 damn well that black people all that things that I've 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:42.200 listed have never experienced in this country, not in any 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:46.560 full throated type of way. It's why my other show 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:53.439 is called democracy Ish, because we don't experience democracy. It 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.080 is something that we have continually had to fight for 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:02.280 to have our ability to cast a vote. Right. You 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:06.960 just saw that down in Florida. Federal judge said, nah, 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.119 so now you all are not allowed to change your 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:13.080 laws anymore, because there is no way to look at 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:16.840 the changes that you have made to your voting restrictions 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.000 and not see it as racist because it only impacts 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:27.480 the black people in this state. They are saying the 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.879 quiet parts out loud, and yet we are still looking 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:36.400 at other countries and saying, oh, poor them, and not 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.720 looking in our own front and backyard and being like, Yo, 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:48.719 what is happening here? What's happening in this country? You know, 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:54.720 I went on a radio show, went on a radio 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:59.640 show that I do once a month out of Philly WRUD. 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.920 It's one of the very few black radio stations still 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:07.800 left in the country. And one of the conversations that 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:14.480 we had yesterday morning was with regard to reparations. And 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:20.200 you know, California apparently has passed legislation or they're thinking 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:24.080 about it with regard to reparations and how to provide 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.960 reparations to black people. So, but they want to do 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:35.680 it in a neutral way. Do you know what is 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:39.240 becoming one of the most hated words, one of my 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:45.920 most hated words. Neutral. There is no fucking such thing. 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:54.359 Neutrality is bullshit, right. Neutrality is something that cis gendered, 0:24:55.119 --> 0:25:00.480 straight white men made up to make themselves elves the 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:08.119 default and make everything else othered, including their own fucking wives. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:12.439 So when we used to say, oh, the news should 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:17.480 be neutral, the news was always coming through sis hetero 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:22.920 male perspective. But because they had made themselves the default, 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:27.240 we believe that neutrality actually existed. But it wasn't. It's 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:31.800 the world seen through one set of eyes, one community's 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:39.240 set of eyes. So how would California go about turning 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:44.359 something such as chattel slavery and then the hundred years 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.439 that would follow it of Jim Crow, which was based 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:54.119 on anything but neutral beliefs about what it is and 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:58.680 isn't that black people in this country deserve right, namely 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.119 dignity and respect. How is it that you would take 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:08.600 the atrocities that our ancestors lived through, died through, and 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:11.160 then turn around and tell me that you want to 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:14.800 place a neutral lens over it to think about how 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:20.080 you distribute resources, whether it be cash, money or changes 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:26.760 to policy that would make up for the genocide that 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:32.119 happened at the hands of white America against Black America 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:41.640 since sixteen nineteen. How does that work exactly? And what 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:43.919 I said on the show is that if we're not 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:47.880 going to come from a place of honesty in talking 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:54.800 about the atrocities that were faced, right, that people had 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:58.760 to live through. Like, I don't think that sometimes we 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:02.080 all wrap our minds, but at least, you know, every 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:05.399 once in a while, I kind of sit back and 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:10.399 I think to myself, how many generations of black suffering 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:16.040 had people had to fight and live through in order 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:22.040 for me to exist? Right? Like, I want folks, particularly 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:26.760 black folks, to think about that for a minute. How 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:32.560 much suffering and trauma and torture and discrimination and hate 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:39.040 and rape and violence that our ancestors had to live 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:47.600 through and order for us to exist today. And the 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:51.639 thing about it why I get really frustrated with the 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:56.120 conversation around reparations is because we're always told, well, how 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:59.640 will we figure out I'm like, if you are black 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:05.080 and live in this country, live in this world. You 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:13.840 are a descendant of an enslaved African person, right, Like 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:16.440 people want to say, like, oh yeah, there were those 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:18.720 that didn't get caught, or there were this, that and 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:21.919 the other thing, you are a descendant of that, and 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.000 if not, you were certainly a fucking descendant of Jim Crow. 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:31.480 So for us to try and put a neutralized lens 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:35.159 over America's original sin as a way to repay the 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:39.520 debt that was that to repay the debt that America 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:45.720 owes of the extracted labor right and genocide that it committed, 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:57.600 is just absolute bullshit, right, Like just absolute fuckery. And 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:02.920 so I want and the other lie that I push 0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:06.480 back against as well, is oh, well, we just don't 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:10.040 have the money. If I hear that fucking lie one 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:13.400 more time, like, on one hand, you want to tell 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:16.320 me that America is the wealthiest nation in the world, 0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:18.600 and then on the other hand, you want to tell 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:21.640 me that you don't have any money. Right. It's like 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:24.240 when Donald Trump was just like, I am the smartest 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:29.520 person ever and I alone can fix this. But oh 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:32.360 I didn't realize that I broke Emoliaman's clauses oh, I, 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:35.800 you know, I didn't mean those tweets that I sent 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:38.720 that almost you know, put us into nuclear war, Like 0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:41.720 you're you're either a genius or you're too fucking dumb. 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:46.000 Which one is it? Right? Which one is it? Because 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:48.760 both can't be true. You can't both be the wealthiest 0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:51.480 nation in the world but then not have the funds 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:56.280 to be able to resource right the basic traumas and 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:59.840 genocides that you have caused, right, and how that has 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:03.520 that into the racial wealth gap that continues to widen 0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:07.760 in this country because all of the policies that we 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:12.920 have are based on racism put through that quote unquote 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:17.680 neutral lens that just so happened to exclude everyone who 0:30:17.800 --> 0:30:22.120 was in white or male. From the g I Bill 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:29.600 right to the creation of Levitt Town, and on any 0:30:29.640 --> 0:30:34.040 single policy that was created with the idea of how 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:38.120 to support uplift the middle class, create the middle class, 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:44.680 did so purposefully without women being included and without black 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:48.920 people being included. So for me, don't tell me that 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:50.880 you don't have the money, Just tell me you don't 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:53.280 want to. You don't want to give it to the 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:58.640 people whose ancestors you stole from, Because what I would say, 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:02.520 is that before we start talking about dollars and cents, 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:07.120 how about you institute federal policies that are directed at 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:11.600 righting the wrongs. How about you, oh, I don't know, 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:15.080 Joe Biden, with the flick of your pen, a race 0:31:15.200 --> 0:31:19.680 student loan debt, which affects more black and brown people 0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:23.560 than it does any other group because they are have 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:26.760 always been the ones that were told that they needed 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:29.600 to be more and do more in order to compete 0:31:29.640 --> 0:31:34.520 in this racist ass country. And then they get saddled 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:37.360 with this debt because their parents, their families aren't the 0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:41.440 ones that have the resources, again from extracted fucking labor 0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:45.200 and from loans from the federal government to start said 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:49.160 businesses and send kids to school and buy homes that 0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:53.120 all would accumulate value over time and be able to 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:57.960 pass down from generation to generation. So you owe that 0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:02.600 at the very fucking least. But those aren't the conversations 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:05.040 that we have, because then we want to get into 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:09.680 this all people deserve shit, just like how we want 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:11.880 to talk about black lives matter, and then people say, well, 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:15.240 all lives matter. Well, if all lives did matter, right, 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:18.600 I wouldn't have to specifically single out black people would 0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:22.800 I because we wouldn't have had to wait sixty years 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:26.800 for an anti lynching bill after a fourteen year old 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:33.600 boy was brutally murdered, if all lives actually fucking mattered. Oh, 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:37.200 we don't have the money, but we can send right 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:43.480 trillion dollars budgets with billions, hundreds of billions of dollars 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:46.920 for our fucking military. But you're telling me we can't 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:52.720