Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: I want to start off today with talking about Ukraine
Speaker 1: and the news that we all saw yesterday, which showed
Speaker 1: some of the most graphic images that we have seen
Speaker 1: of what war actually looks like. And before I get
Speaker 1: into the details of what we've learned thus far with
Speaker 1: putin Russian soldiers, the lies that are being told by
Speaker 1: the Kremlin, that are also being embraced by Fox News,
Speaker 1: particularly people like Tucker Carlson, who remain a threat to
Speaker 1: our national security and nothing is being done about it,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about war, just war in general.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because as
Speaker 1: we are watching these images and we are seeing this
Speaker 1: the NonStop coverage in Ukraine, and if you are following
Speaker 1: also on social media, a part of it can feel
Speaker 1: like a video game. It can feel like you're watching
Speaker 1: a movie or a story. We're so desensitized in the
Speaker 1: way that we take in and absorb content these days.
Speaker 1: We're always like this, you know, swiping on our phones,
Speaker 1: looking at the next thing, and just overstimulated. And yet
Speaker 1: also desensitized and when it comes to the actions of war.
Speaker 1: You know, we have seen in this country violence glorify
Speaker 1: through video games, through movies, through narratives and stories and
Speaker 1: all of these things. And when I saw the images
Speaker 1: as I'm sure many of you did, out of Bucha,
Speaker 1: which is outside of Kiev in Ukraine, and you see
Speaker 1: human beings, human beings laying dead in the street as
Speaker 1: if they are strown about, as if they are trash.
Speaker 1: The images of dead bodies, people with their arms clasped
Speaker 1: behind them, killed murdered execution style. There is a mass
Speaker 1: grave in Bucha that has over one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bodies in it, wrapped in plastic with appendages hanging out.
Speaker 1: There were images that I saw before I came to
Speaker 1: record of parents writing the names and phone numbers of
Speaker 1: relatives on their children's bodies. In the event that they
Speaker 1: die and their young children are found are discovered that
Speaker 1: on their body would be the numbers to call in
Speaker 1: order to get them to safety. And I hearkened back
Speaker 1: as I saw the images of those children and people saying,
Speaker 1: this is the most heartbreaking thing that I have seen.
Speaker 1: I want to remind you that that is those images
Speaker 1: of children with numbers written on them. Hearkens back to
Speaker 1: what the Trump administration did at the border with undocumented immigrants,
Speaker 1: ripping children away from their families, and families desperately sprawling
Speaker 1: any type of information that they could on the bodies
Speaker 1: of their children. This is not new, and while it
Speaker 1: is horrific and disgusting and shows the dregs of society
Speaker 1: and where we are. I don't want us to solely
Speaker 1: look at this situation, this war that is playing out
Speaker 1: in Ukraine and somehow garner more empathy and thought and
Speaker 1: outrage for this situation than we have previously. I say
Speaker 1: that because I was on the phone recently catching up
Speaker 1: with my sister and you know, one of her friends,
Speaker 1: who I think was volunteering in a way, you know,
Speaker 1: to how support help support refugees, and that's that's what
Speaker 1: they do. And one of their other friends had said, well,
Speaker 1: tell me, you know what I can do. I want
Speaker 1: to give money. I want to do something to help
Speaker 1: the people in Ukraine. And the friend says, well, that's wonderful,
Speaker 1: but can you tell me why this time rather than
Speaker 1: all of the other times that we have seen atrocities
Speaker 1: and war breakout that I have been working on Are
Speaker 1: you interested now? And it wasn't to say that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be This is not this is this is not
Speaker 1: me saying that you shouldn't be outraged, that tears shouldn't
Speaker 1: come to your eyes, that you shouldn't see these bodies
Speaker 1: littering the streets of Buscha. Who were you know? But
Speaker 1: days before, full complete souls right, People with loved ones,
Speaker 1: family members, friends, stories that are now cut completely short.
Speaker 1: People whose bodies are dumped into mass graves, that their families,
Speaker 1: their friends will never know what happened to them, They'll
Speaker 1: never have proper burials because by the time that somebody
Speaker 1: is able to get in right and begin to sort
Speaker 1: out the collection of these bodies, the decay right, and
Speaker 1: who's coming in because you've had three and a half
Speaker 1: million people flee so who's coming in to identify them?
Speaker 1: How will they do this? And when I'm just saying
Speaker 1: this out loud and my voice is quivering because I
Speaker 1: just think about the pain, the suffering, the tragedy and
Speaker 1: the trauma that we are seeing. And then I think
Speaker 1: about also the mass graves that were just discovered in
Speaker 1: these United States, that were filled with the remains of
Speaker 1: Native American children who this country stole from their families,
Speaker 1: put them in residential schools that were essentially legalized torture.
Speaker 1: And for the kids that did not assimilate into Eurocentric ways,
Speaker 1: were beaten, were killed and thrown away like trash. That's
Speaker 1: in our recent history. There are mass graves that were
Speaker 1: discovered in legacy black communities after lynching, mobs, ransacked, burned down,
Speaker 1: and killed hundreds. Tulsa was not the only place. So
Speaker 1: we look, folks, we look at what is happening in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: and I say, none of these things to take away
Speaker 1: from what we are currently witnessing. But I don't want
Speaker 1: us to continue to look at these images and look
Speaker 1: at them as if they are isolated, or look at
Speaker 1: these people as if they are the only ones that
Speaker 1: have ever suffered, when we have had and continue to
Speaker 1: have a legacy of suffering and trauma that is waged
Speaker 1: against marginalized communities in this country as well. I want
Speaker 1: us to be able to walk and chew gum at
Speaker 1: the same time. And I want us to be able
Speaker 1: to look through a wider lens, a wider lens at
Speaker 1: what we see as a humanitarian crisis around the world
Speaker 1: and also in this country. You know, I was in
Speaker 1: the midst and I'm still trying to I'm working on
Speaker 1: an idea to pitch to an editor, a new editor
Speaker 1: that I started working with. And you know, it was
Speaker 1: announced late last week, not announced, but there was a
Speaker 1: speech that was given by Hassan L Thawadi, who is
Speaker 1: the Secretary General of Qatar, which is going to be
Speaker 1: hosting for the first time ever in the Arab world
Speaker 1: the World Cup, and the Secretary General gave a speech
Speaker 1: about the importance of this moment and how the people
Speaker 1: of the Arab world for the first time will be
Speaker 1: able to set their own narrative and be able to
Speaker 1: push back against the stereotypes that have plagued them in
Speaker 1: the conflict lens through which we view the Middle East
Speaker 1: and have the Middle East since two thousand and two
Speaker 1: when George W. Bush in the State of the Union
Speaker 1: referred to that region of the world the Middle East,
Speaker 1: and he tacked on North Korea as the axis of evil.
Speaker 1: And I've been thinking about it, and I was listening
Speaker 1: to the speech that the Secretary General gave of Qatar
Speaker 1: and thinking about narratives and how they are set and
Speaker 1: how they spread, and thinking about, you know, in all honesty,
Speaker 1: how we are watching this kind of new light, new
Speaker 1: emergence of the Middle East, and these very cosmopolitan and
Speaker 1: very wealthy countries and cities, you know, are being put
Speaker 1: on the map, whether they're age or fashion events that
Speaker 1: are happening in Doah, whether there are you know, in
Speaker 1: major events that are happening in Dubai. We're watching right
Speaker 1: this shifting lens with regard to how certain countries within
Speaker 1: the Middle East are viewed. And I started to think
Speaker 1: to myself about how we've allowed the United States to
Speaker 1: lead the narrative, to craft the narrative around this quote
Speaker 1: unquote access of evil, and how the United States has
Speaker 1: always been able to admonish other countries for their wrongdoing
Speaker 1: because we have the biggest mic and the best pr
Speaker 1: And we want to talk now about Putin's war crimes
Speaker 1: and genocide and the things that he are doing, all
Speaker 1: of which are absolutely true. But do we ever talk
Speaker 1: about the ways that the United States has gone into
Speaker 1: countries like Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan, which most recently
Speaker 1: we can see that we go into these places, we
Speaker 1: destroy communities, we kill children and women and men, and
Speaker 1: we decide that these people are all terrorists, right and
Speaker 1: undeserving of safety and sympathy, and we paint ourselves as
Speaker 1: the heroes right as we address and bring to the
Speaker 1: world their human rights violations. Well, folks, I started to
Speaker 1: think about that state of the Union from two thousand
Speaker 1: and two. I started to think about who we've allowed
Speaker 1: the American government to identify as evil, and then I
Speaker 1: started to think about how what is happening in this
Speaker 1: country at the hands of the radical right is no
Speaker 1: different than the things that we have used to admonish
Speaker 1: China as well as the Middle East and other countries
Speaker 1: that the United States has found itself looking its nose
Speaker 1: down at. Right now, in the United States, we are
Speaker 1: in two months three months about to lose Roby Wade.
Speaker 1: Women and people with uteruses in this country will no
Speaker 1: longer be able to access abortion. You will have certain
Speaker 1: blue states while there is a Democratic president that is
Speaker 1: in office that will become abortion sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1: But overtly around the country, the United States will no
Speaker 1: longer have abortion access for women and people with uteruses.
Speaker 1: We have rolled out right over four hundred voter suppression
Speaker 1: laws in damn near every state of the country. We
Speaker 1: have just watched Florida past there don't say gay legislation
Speaker 1: and death santists gleefully signed that into law. We are
Speaker 1: watching Governor Abbott wage an assault against voting access as
Speaker 1: well as abortion in the state of Texas. Over this
Speaker 1: past weekend, there were not one, but two mass shootings
Speaker 1: that took place, One in Sacramento that killed six people
Speaker 1: and I believe injured twelve. Another at a Dallas concert
Speaker 1: that killed one person and injured a dozen. When you
Speaker 1: look at America on paper or in real life, who
Speaker 1: the fuck are we to be talking about anybody's access
Speaker 1: of evil when we are in the midst of America's
Speaker 1: great regression. Not only is our gun violence at an
Speaker 1: all time fucking high. The only time that we saw
Speaker 1: are rescinding in the numbers of people and the numbers
Speaker 1: of mass shooting was when we had quarantine in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and schools were shut down. Not it didn't have
Speaker 1: anything to do with of course, no policy that was
Speaker 1: put into place right had had everything to do with
Speaker 1: another killer, a virus that would shutter businesses and doors
Speaker 1: and schools, And that would be the only reason. While
Speaker 1: on a monthly basis, there wasn't a series of mass
Speaker 1: shooting headlines. When the news even broke over the weekend,
Speaker 1: it was pretty much like a blip on social media
Speaker 1: until yesterday when a man hunt was underweighed. So that's
Speaker 1: exciting for the media. There's a man hunt, so now
Speaker 1: we're going to cover it. But when I'm taking all
Speaker 1: of these different pieces, the anti gay, anti trans, anti women,
Speaker 1: anti black, anti voting, anti democracy, all of the things
Speaker 1: that have happened in this country over just the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, since the reign of Trump began in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and Trump is m became a thing. The
Speaker 1: regression that we have seen in our democracy is at
Speaker 1: lightning pace. So how is it that we have ever
Speaker 1: been able to look at any other country and have
Speaker 1: the audacity to talk about human rights violations and women's
Speaker 1: rights and girls should have rights to learn and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing when we can still dictate
Speaker 1: in America, one of the wealthiest fucking countries in the world,
Speaker 1: the life expectancy of a child based on their zip code.
Speaker 1: How is it that this administration just yesterday released a
Speaker 1: plan to retrofit schools and have clean energy and all
Speaker 1: of these things, and our schools haven't seen any type
Speaker 1: of upgrade. You want to talk about infrastructure, unless you
Speaker 1: are living in a wealthy school district. Most schools haven't
Speaker 1: seen any type of retrofitting. I think since the world would,
Speaker 1: since the word's been invented. So when you take these things,
Speaker 1: when you take these issues that are plaguing America and
Speaker 1: have been plaguing America and are being so instituted at
Speaker 1: the hands of the radical right, how is it that
Speaker 1: we have allowed them to talk about other places in
Speaker 1: the world as being uncivilized where I don't see anything
Speaker 1: civilized about what is happening in America and what has
Speaker 1: happened in America or at the hands of the American
Speaker 1: government around the world. Right, at least those other countries,
Speaker 1: they're upfront and honest about their shit. What I realize
Speaker 1: about America is that America is the biggest front. They
Speaker 1: front like they give a fuck about women's rights. But
Speaker 1: yet every March we acknowledge equal pay day and show
Speaker 1: the disparity. But yet for decades and decades and decades
Speaker 1: have had no equal pay passed, no equal pay bill passed.
Speaker 1: We have consistent conversations right that want to make us
Speaker 1: feel good, and I hear tough talk. Right, Congress needs
Speaker 1: to do something out of every president's mouth, whether Democrat
Speaker 1: or Republican, and yet get dick done. We want to
Speaker 1: again talk about the devastation of gun violence, and then
Speaker 1: in the same breath to say, but now is not
Speaker 1: the time to politicize it. So let's do the politicizing
Speaker 1: of it when it's not in the news, which at
Speaker 1: this point, when is gun violence not in the news.
Speaker 1: We have literally a mass shooting that happens a day.
Speaker 1: Because a mass shooting is four or more people being
Speaker 1: shot at one time. The only time that it seems
Speaker 1: to really catch the headlines is if we're talking multiple bodies. So,
Speaker 1: while we're looking at the images coming out of Bouscha,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so with horror, with this Dane, if we
Speaker 1: were to take those same photos, minus the blown out buildings,
Speaker 1: you would see bodies littered all over the streets of
Speaker 1: America every fucking day. So how is it that we
Speaker 1: can conjure the outrage and the empathy directed at the
Speaker 1: people of Ukraine, but we're not recognizing how many people
Speaker 1: we are allowing to perish because of gun violence every
Speaker 1: single day in this country because both sides are bought
Speaker 1: and sold by the gun lobby, and that even when
Speaker 1: Democrats are in charge, are in power, they still don't
Speaker 1: pass fucking legislation that were to reduce mass shootings and
Speaker 1: make this country safer. Why because we also have within
Speaker 1: our own ranks people that are fronted like they are
Speaker 1: fucking democrats, knowing, good God damn well, cinema and mansion
Speaker 1: and others that you're not. I'm just tired of America
Speaker 1: going around the globe selling this lie of exceptionalism, selling
Speaker 1: this lie and wagging our finger and turning down our
Speaker 1: nose at other nations and not taking a hard fucking
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and looking at what hypocrites we
Speaker 1: look like now. I mean, it's it's incredible. Every day
Speaker 1: during the Trump administration, I would get on here and
Speaker 1: just think to myself, like, Wow, beliefs that I had
Speaker 1: that I thought were laws, that I thought were common
Speaker 1: values that we shared as a nation of democracy, of voting,
Speaker 1: of fairness, of legitimacy, of accountability. We don't. And I
Speaker 1: say that as a black queer woman, knowing, good God
Speaker 1: damn well that black people all that things that I've
Speaker 1: listed have never experienced in this country, not in any
Speaker 1: full throated type of way. It's why my other show
Speaker 1: is called democracy Ish, because we don't experience democracy. It
Speaker 1: is something that we have continually had to fight for
Speaker 1: to have our ability to cast a vote. Right. You
Speaker 1: just saw that down in Florida. Federal judge said, nah,
Speaker 1: so now you all are not allowed to change your
Speaker 1: laws anymore, because there is no way to look at
Speaker 1: the changes that you have made to your voting restrictions
Speaker 1: and not see it as racist because it only impacts
Speaker 1: the black people in this state. They are saying the
Speaker 1: quiet parts out loud, and yet we are still looking
Speaker 1: at other countries and saying, oh, poor them, and not
Speaker 1: looking in our own front and backyard and being like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what is happening here? What's happening in this country? You know,
Speaker 1: I went on a radio show, went on a radio
Speaker 1: show that I do once a month out of Philly WRUD.
Speaker 1: It's one of the very few black radio stations still
Speaker 1: left in the country. And one of the conversations that
Speaker 1: we had yesterday morning was with regard to reparations. And
Speaker 1: you know, California apparently has passed legislation or they're thinking
Speaker 1: about it with regard to reparations and how to provide
Speaker 1: reparations to black people. So, but they want to do
Speaker 1: it in a neutral way. Do you know what is
Speaker 1: becoming one of the most hated words, one of my
Speaker 1: most hated words. Neutral. There is no fucking such thing.
Speaker 1: Neutrality is bullshit, right. Neutrality is something that cis gendered,
Speaker 1: straight white men made up to make themselves elves the
Speaker 1: default and make everything else othered, including their own fucking wives.
Speaker 1: So when we used to say, oh, the news should
Speaker 1: be neutral, the news was always coming through sis hetero
Speaker 1: male perspective. But because they had made themselves the default,
Speaker 1: we believe that neutrality actually existed. But it wasn't. It's
Speaker 1: the world seen through one set of eyes, one community's
Speaker 1: set of eyes. So how would California go about turning
Speaker 1: something such as chattel slavery and then the hundred years
Speaker 1: that would follow it of Jim Crow, which was based
Speaker 1: on anything but neutral beliefs about what it is and
Speaker 1: isn't that black people in this country deserve right, namely
Speaker 1: dignity and respect. How is it that you would take
Speaker 1: the atrocities that our ancestors lived through, died through, and
Speaker 1: then turn around and tell me that you want to
Speaker 1: place a neutral lens over it to think about how
Speaker 1: you distribute resources, whether it be cash, money or changes
Speaker 1: to policy that would make up for the genocide that
Speaker 1: happened at the hands of white America against Black America
Speaker 1: since sixteen nineteen. How does that work exactly? And what
Speaker 1: I said on the show is that if we're not
Speaker 1: going to come from a place of honesty in talking
Speaker 1: about the atrocities that were faced, right, that people had
Speaker 1: to live through. Like, I don't think that sometimes we
Speaker 1: all wrap our minds, but at least, you know, every
Speaker 1: once in a while, I kind of sit back and
Speaker 1: I think to myself, how many generations of black suffering
Speaker 1: had people had to fight and live through in order
Speaker 1: for me to exist? Right? Like, I want folks, particularly
Speaker 1: black folks, to think about that for a minute. How
Speaker 1: much suffering and trauma and torture and discrimination and hate
Speaker 1: and rape and violence that our ancestors had to live
Speaker 1: through and order for us to exist today. And the
Speaker 1: thing about it why I get really frustrated with the
Speaker 1: conversation around reparations is because we're always told, well, how
Speaker 1: will we figure out I'm like, if you are black
Speaker 1: and live in this country, live in this world. You
Speaker 1: are a descendant of an enslaved African person, right, Like
Speaker 1: people want to say, like, oh yeah, there were those
Speaker 1: that didn't get caught, or there were this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing, you are a descendant of that, and
Speaker 1: if not, you were certainly a fucking descendant of Jim Crow.
Speaker 1: So for us to try and put a neutralized lens
Speaker 1: over America's original sin as a way to repay the
Speaker 1: debt that was that to repay the debt that America
Speaker 1: owes of the extracted labor right and genocide that it committed,
Speaker 1: is just absolute bullshit, right, Like just absolute fuckery. And
Speaker 1: so I want and the other lie that I push
Speaker 1: back against as well, is oh, well, we just don't
Speaker 1: have the money. If I hear that fucking lie one
Speaker 1: more time, like, on one hand, you want to tell
Speaker 1: me that America is the wealthiest nation in the world,
Speaker 1: and then on the other hand, you want to tell
Speaker 1: me that you don't have any money. Right. It's like
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was just like, I am the smartest
Speaker 1: person ever and I alone can fix this. But oh
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I broke Emoliaman's clauses oh, I,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't mean those tweets that I sent
Speaker 1: that almost you know, put us into nuclear war, Like
Speaker 1: you're you're either a genius or you're too fucking dumb.
Speaker 1: Which one is it? Right? Which one is it? Because
Speaker 1: both can't be true. You can't both be the wealthiest
Speaker 1: nation in the world but then not have the funds
Speaker 1: to be able to resource right the basic traumas and
Speaker 1: genocides that you have caused, right, and how that has
Speaker 1: that into the racial wealth gap that continues to widen
Speaker 1: in this country because all of the policies that we
Speaker 1: have are based on racism put through that quote unquote
Speaker 1: neutral lens that just so happened to exclude everyone who
Speaker 1: was in white or male. From the g I Bill
Speaker 1: right to the creation of Levitt Town, and on any
Speaker 1: single policy that was created with the idea of how
Speaker 1: to support uplift the middle class, create the middle class,
Speaker 1: did so purposefully without women being included and without black
Speaker 1: people being included. So for me, don't tell me that
Speaker 1: you don't have the money, Just tell me you don't
Speaker 1: want to. You don't want to give it to the
Speaker 1: people whose ancestors you stole from, Because what I would say,
Speaker 1: is that before we start talking about dollars and cents,
Speaker 1: how about you institute federal policies that are directed at
Speaker 1: righting the wrongs. How about you, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, with the flick of your pen, a race
Speaker 1: student loan debt, which affects more black and brown people
Speaker 1: than it does any other group because they are have
Speaker 1: always been the ones that were told that they needed
Speaker 1: to be more and do more in order to compete
Speaker 1: in this racist ass country. And then they get saddled
Speaker 1: with this debt because their parents, their families aren't the
Speaker 1: ones that have the resources, again from extracted fucking labor
Speaker 1: and from loans from the federal government to start said
Speaker 1: businesses and send kids to school and buy homes that
Speaker 1: all would accumulate value over time and be able to
Speaker 1: pass down from generation to generation. So you owe that
Speaker 1: at the very fucking least. But those aren't the conversations
Speaker 1: that we have, because then we want to get into
Speaker 1: this all people deserve shit, just like how we want
Speaker 1: to talk about black lives matter, and then people say, well,
Speaker 1: all lives matter. Well, if all lives did matter, right,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to specifically single out black people would
Speaker 1: I because we wouldn't have had to wait sixty years
Speaker 1: for an anti lynching bill after a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: boy was brutally murdered, if all lives actually fucking mattered. Oh,
Speaker 1: we don't have the money, but we can send right
Speaker 1: trillion dollars budgets with billions, hundreds of billions of dollars
Speaker 1: for our fucking military. But you're telling me we can't
Speaker 1: erase student loan debt to alleviate the noose, the financial
Speaker 1: noose that this country has put around the necks of
Speaker 1: black and brown people. The fuck out of here. You
Speaker 1: want to tell me that we can't make college free
Speaker 1: for black and brown people in this country? Like, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk to me about specific dollar
Speaker 1: amount reparations, then how about we go back to the
Speaker 1: housing crisis in the early two thousands that saw black
Speaker 1: homeowners lose their homes at double plus the rate because
Speaker 1: they were the ones that the predatory lenders went to.
Speaker 1: You don't see the United States giving those people back
Speaker 1: what they lost, right, you don't see them. You didn't
Speaker 1: see them making sure that Wall Street fucking hustlers would
Speaker 1: be held accountable and have to pay back what they
Speaker 1: stall now, and that again under a fucking Democrat. So
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm tired of having conversations that are intellectually
Speaker 1: dishonest when we are talking about reparations and what is
Speaker 1: deserving and who deserves what, and how do we decide?
Speaker 1: How about we acknowledge the generational harm and trauma and
Speaker 1: violence that has been perpetuated against the black community, and
Speaker 1: then we look at policy solves and then you talk
Speaker 1: to me about dollars and cents later, but don't talk
Speaker 1: to me about how well we need to make this
Speaker 1: free for everybody or we need to do us No
Speaker 1: white people have gotten enough, and I will say that
Speaker 1: again and piss a whole lot of people off. White
Speaker 1: America has gotten enough. It is time that if we
Speaker 1: actually are serious about closing the racial wealth got if
Speaker 1: we are serious about addressing systemic racism, then we do
Speaker 1: targeted responses to the communities that have experienced the most
Speaker 1: fucking harm. But the reality is we're not serious. We
Speaker 1: don't care. Not Republicans for Fox, sure, but not Democrats either.
Speaker 1: Because the conversation that I had last week with my
Speaker 1: colleague was Jahat Ali on democracy ish And if you're
Speaker 1: not listening to democracy issue. You can get it wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts on democracy ish, we said, we
Speaker 1: had a whole conversation around what Martin Luther King had
Speaker 1: coined back in nineteen sixty three and letter to a
Speaker 1: Birmingham jail when he said, no, it will not be
Speaker 1: the klu Klux Klansmen, right, the klu Klux Klansmen actually
Speaker 1: isn't our greatest obstacle to justice in America. It is
Speaker 1: the white moderate. It is the both sidesism, which I
Speaker 1: will add, it is the white moderate that will say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a matter of law, not a matter of justice.
Speaker 1: We need law and order, we need these things. You've
Speaker 1: allowed the white moderates quote unquote moderates to disrupt Biden's
Speaker 1: entire agenda. You have King Cole fucking Joe Mansion is
Speaker 1: head chair of the Energy Committee in the Senate, Like,
Speaker 1: we're not honest about the change. Like, so you can
Speaker 1: listen to really good speeches about climate change, but who's
Speaker 1: chairing your energy committee. The man that torpedoed multiple clean
Speaker 1: energy acts and didn't like the climate language within the
Speaker 1: infrastructure bills. It was taken out because it would offend
Speaker 1: his bottom line. Because of his legal connections to Big Cole.
Speaker 1: So how do you tell me that you're serious but
Speaker 1: not serious? That's how you tell me? How do you
Speaker 1: tell me that you care about black people but you
Speaker 1: really don't care about them? You pass an anti lynching
Speaker 1: bill sixty years after the most the most egregious lynching
Speaker 1: that the world had ever seen. Right, you passed that
Speaker 1: sixty years later, and then tell me that's what that's
Speaker 1: what progress and change looks like. So I guess, like
Speaker 1: I said last week, we'll wait another sixty years until
Speaker 1: the George Floyd Policing Act has passed as well, and
Speaker 1: then we'll look back and whoever is president of whatever
Speaker 1: fascious nation America has turned into will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at us. I'm tired of patting this country on
Speaker 1: the back for doing the bare fucking minimum. An anti
Speaker 1: lynching bill should have been light work. But the fact
Speaker 1: that you had three Republicans that voted against it today,
Speaker 1: in this day and age, shows you who and where
Speaker 1: we are now, folks. I want to make the transition
Speaker 1: quickly into talking picking up where the conversation with Glenn
Speaker 1: Kirshner left off yesterday and talking about the insurrection and
Speaker 1: where things stand with this Department of Justice. Again, over
Speaker 1: the weekend, you had a great piece written in The
Speaker 1: New York Times by Katie Benner, Katie Rogers, and Michael S.
Speaker 1: Schmidt entitled Garland faces growing precious as January six investigation widens. Now,
Speaker 1: we did get good news right that Glenn walked us through,
Speaker 1: that there were signals and signs that the investigation has expanded,
Speaker 1: that when Merritt Garland said in January of twenty two
Speaker 1: that we were going to look everywhere at both the
Speaker 1: foot soldiers of the insurrections as well as those donors
Speaker 1: that supported them. And I'll tell you that what gets
Speaker 1: me about this article, and what gets me about Garland
Speaker 1: in general, is that everybody is pissed off at this man,
Speaker 1: like he is moving at a sloth's pace, and that
Speaker 1: every time that I turn on the TV and I'm
Speaker 1: listening to strategists and Democrats say with deep frustration, like
Speaker 1: there is more than enough fucking evidence to indict Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: to indict Mark Meadows. Right, We're begging the Justice Department
Speaker 1: to do its fucking job, and I'm just confused as
Speaker 1: to why. So they say in this article that the
Speaker 1: Attorney General's deliberative approach has come to frustrate democratic allies
Speaker 1: of the White House and at times, the President himself.
Speaker 1: As recently as late last year, mister Biden confided to
Speaker 1: his inner circle that he believed former President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according
Speaker 1: to two people familiar with his comments, And while the
Speaker 1: President has never communicated his frustrations directly to Merritt Garland,
Speaker 1: he has said privately he wanted Garland to act less
Speaker 1: like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who
Speaker 1: was willing to take decisive action over the events of
Speaker 1: January sixth, And this article will go on to say that,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone is always so concerned about their fucking legacy,
Speaker 1: and I find it laughable in a country that doesn't
Speaker 1: actually teach history, right, that doesn't actually teach the fucking
Speaker 1: truth about history. So I'm never confused. I'm always confused
Speaker 1: about why people are so concerned about their legacy. And
Speaker 1: Bill Barr said it right, like, I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about my legacy, right, remember, and CBS he was
Speaker 1: just like, they're like, what about your legacy? And He's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I'm all like, I'm good. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get mine while I'm still breathing, right. And
Speaker 1: so when I hear this, oh, people are worried about
Speaker 1: the legacy, I'm just like, and who is writing that story?
Speaker 1: Because I'm certain that by the time that it matters,
Speaker 1: it will be banned anyway. But this is what Representative
Speaker 1: Elaine Luria, Democrat out of Virginia, said about Garland. The
Speaker 1: Department of Justice must move swiftly. Attorney General Garland, do
Speaker 1: your job so that we can do ours. In a statement,
Speaker 1: Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said the President believed
Speaker 1: that mister Garland had decisively restored the independence of the
Speaker 1: Justice Department. But what is being said in here is
Speaker 1: that they don't communicate at all. Right, There's no communication
Speaker 1: between the White House and the Department of Justice, and
Speaker 1: so there is an overcorrection that has happened from the
Speaker 1: Trump days. Now we know that Trump was hot on
Speaker 1: Twitter cursing out Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr, calling them
Speaker 1: to the White House via tweet, But how do you
Speaker 1: have no communication with your attorney general when both of
Speaker 1: your legacies, Again, that word hang in the balance with
Speaker 1: regard to making it definitively so than any attempt to
Speaker 1: overthrow the government will be met with the full force
Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice. So I remain confused about
Speaker 1: where this is going, how quickly we are going to
Speaker 1: see anything, and whether or not this Department of Justice
Speaker 1: is actually set up to do its job and do
Speaker 1: so in an expedient way that restores not the integrity
Speaker 1: or perception of integrity, but the actual faith in institutions
Speaker 1: that Americans have lost over the last few years. That friends,
Speaker 1: is left up for debate. That is it for me
Speaker 1: today here on woke f as always Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.