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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to Okay f Daily

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Speaker 1: with Me your Girl, recording once again from the Long

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Speaker 1: Island Bunker. Folks, I want to bring your attention to

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Speaker 1: a story that I don't think is getting enough news,

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Speaker 1: which is on Sunday sixty Minutes did an entire segment

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Speaker 1: and story on the rise in depression, anxiety and suicide rates,

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Speaker 1: attempted suicide rates and suicide rates of tweens and teens,

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Speaker 1: and how devastating COVID nineteen has been, the quarantining, the

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Speaker 1: remote work, remote schooling, and all of these things. And

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Speaker 1: you know, listening to the kids that they had interviewed,

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Speaker 1: there was a study that had come out a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks prior that asserted the same thing. And while

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Speaker 1: we are dealing with another announcement coming out of the

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Speaker 1: White House only yesterday that you know, we must prepare

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Speaker 1: before we even get to fucking experience summer, that we

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Speaker 1: are going to be headed into another COVID fall in winter,

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Speaker 1: where they are talking about the fact that one hundred

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Speaker 1: million people can potentially become infected with COVID. And we

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Speaker 1: know this now, like these things are not a shock

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Speaker 1: to us. But what I realize is that the persistence

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Speaker 1: of this virus the lack of empathy, and I mean

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Speaker 1: lack of empathy across the board, not just the assholes

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Speaker 1: that don't want to wear masks and the people who

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Speaker 1: have put other people in harm's way in the selfishness

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Speaker 1: and all of that, But I'm really talking about the

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Speaker 1: lack of empathy as it pertains to the emotional strain

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Speaker 1: and mental health strain that this has placed on our

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Speaker 1: kids and on ourselves, on adults. You know, when I

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Speaker 1: think about as I was watching these kids talk about

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Speaker 1: you know, these were like kids that were, you know, twelve, thirteen,

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Speaker 1: that they were talking about and how devastating it has been.

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Speaker 1: And there have been other reports about how there have

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Speaker 1: been a lot of fights in schools, you know, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of issues with student engagement with one another

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Speaker 1: because of the anxiety and depression and all of these

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Speaker 1: things that were caused with COVID. And when you pause

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Speaker 1: to think about this, folks like not only where we

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Speaker 1: and how and we have been just working through a pandemic,

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Speaker 1: like all of this shit remains normal right when it

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Speaker 1: is not not. I mean, there's a meme that comes

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Speaker 1: out every once in a while that says, I'm tired

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Speaker 1: of living through historical events every fucking week, right, And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that we are taking into consideration the

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Speaker 1: stress and the strain that this has caused on our

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Speaker 1: doing to manage and deal with it. So I want

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Speaker 1: to share with you that, you know, while I continually

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Speaker 1: talk about taking care of your mental health and centering

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Speaker 1: joy and grounding yourself, I have found myself and I

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Speaker 1: just had a really in depth conversation with my therapist,

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Speaker 1: a really in depth session, i should say, because I

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Speaker 1: anxiety that I'm under that all of us are under.

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Speaker 1: You know, it takes a lot to be able to

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Speaker 1: continually follow breaking news all times of day. You know,

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Speaker 1: I had put my phone down, for example, I put

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Speaker 1: the abortion you know decision draft being leaked, and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking myself, Jesus Christ, you can't even we have gone

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Speaker 1: down because you don't know what the fuck is coming next.

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Speaker 1: You don't know. You know, Tennessee decides that they're going

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Speaker 1: And you know, I even had my neighbor the other

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Speaker 1: two days. Right, These things really matter, And I offer

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Speaker 1: imagine that I'm the only one that doesn't find themselves,

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Speaker 1: And what my therapists offered to me, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to relay an offer to you as a way one

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Speaker 1: to speak out loud to myself but also to share,

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Speaker 1: is that we have got to put ourselves on our calendars.

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Speaker 1: We have got to pull ourselves back every day from

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Speaker 1: this unrelenting despair because the shit is just going to

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Speaker 1: get worse. It really is. There is no way around

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Speaker 1: You know, whatever that looks like for you, We're all

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Speaker 1: the other thing too. We all have exit points, and

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Speaker 1: need to take another look. Coming up next, friends, my

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Speaker 1: Conversation monthly conversation that we are revisiting with our friend

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Speaker 1: daily my friend the Reverend Mark Thompson and host of

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Speaker 1: make it plain, Mark, we gather today on in a

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling today? Well, first of all, good

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Speaker 1: to see you, Glad to be with you as always, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: forty nine years, NonStop, most of us, but I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: eternal vigilance. We don't listen to him, though. We listen

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Speaker 1: of a way to join organizations, get involved, be active,

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Speaker 1: This is crazy. And I read part of discipin Have

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Speaker 1: you read some of this? Yes? I did? Hold it.

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Speaker 1: that we've never been removed from the chopping block, we've

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Speaker 1: never had any respect in this country whatsoever? What does

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Speaker 1: this signify for us? Well, I think it shows the

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Speaker 1: danger we're in. We've already had our voting rights undermine.

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Speaker 1: They barely we barely have any voting rights left it

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Speaker 1: and there's no reason for them to be protected under

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Speaker 1: the current circumstances. And I think Democrats, whom we all

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Speaker 1: want invest in although I think that's waning. I am

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Speaker 1: right now. I don't think a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: a reason to go out and vote. Don't have a

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Speaker 1: reason to go out and vote. Now. This may inspiring

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Speaker 1: some women like you said to wake the f up,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of late. It's kind of late. We

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Speaker 1: we we've lost the Supreme Court for practically a generation.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to protect our voting rights. We are

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Speaker 1: back to the way, and I don't know if people

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Speaker 1: are prepared to become the same type of people who

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Speaker 1: fought to get the freedoms we take for granted today.

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Speaker 1: People Montgomery walked to work every day for three hundred

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Speaker 1: six and six days. We do we do? Are we

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Speaker 1: gonna do that? Do we have the makeup to do?

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Speaker 1: We couldn't stay in the house for three fucking months

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Speaker 1: for corn, do you do? You know what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 1: as a collective right in this country, we couldn't stay

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Speaker 1: the fuck home and stream Netflix right, right for those

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Speaker 1: of us who had the privilege to do so, because

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Speaker 1: we were not considered essential. So those of us in

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Speaker 1: the economic class that had the privilege to be at

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Speaker 1: home couldn't do that right, right, That's right? Couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. Um, I don't know where this

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Speaker 1: will end up. It is very very very scary though,

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Speaker 1: And if we don't do something and this goes beyond November,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get worse when the Democrats lose the House

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Speaker 1: and the Senate. What's gonna happen in Mark and Dan

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Speaker 1: Yell are crazy. They were trying to get us to

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Speaker 1: organized and get us to do stuff. Really we're crazy.

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Speaker 1: So I'm telling you this, you might as well get

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Speaker 1: rid of We might have to do the cooking show.

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Speaker 1: I don't know from what, from what federal prison will

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Speaker 1: be doing that as political prisoners in our own goddamn country.

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Speaker 1: But right, right, right, but but we might. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is like because that's what you know, that's what

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Speaker 1: people want to do, that's what they they We are

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Speaker 1: We are in toxicated with distraction all the way around,

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Speaker 1: and the things that people see as important are just

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Speaker 1: not important. Million people did from a plague that did

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Speaker 1: not have to die, and now losing rights. We've lost

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Speaker 1: voting rights, women have lost their reproductive rights. What's left

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Speaker 1: if you don't have those things, what do you have?

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Speaker 1: What do we have the right to do. What do

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Speaker 1: we have the right to do? Now? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: what do we what do we literally have the right

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Speaker 1: to go and do? We don't have a right to

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Speaker 1: protest anymore. They're passing loss that you can run over

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Speaker 1: people who protest with a car. So folks, you know,

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Speaker 1: y'all need to keep listening to Danielle and get motivated.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, y'all we get on the colorton and

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Speaker 1: other stuff to motivate us. We need we need a movement, peloton,

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Speaker 1: something that's gonna and maybe that's Danielle because you'll cut

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Speaker 1: y'all out. I don't cuss everybody out, y'all. Need you

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Speaker 1: need listener because I mean, just get cursed out everything.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? Get yourself together, get your get

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Speaker 1: your raggedy, rusty, dusty up, yeah, together together like our

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Speaker 1: parents used to do, because we ain't doing it. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's what we need, we need we need. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: maybe that's what we need to We need to come

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Speaker 1: up with a with a with our own exercise bike,

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Speaker 1: Danielle that has those kind of motivational messages. Right, are

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Speaker 1: you running in place or running towards your freedom? Food? Come?

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Speaker 1: Come on? Where you running? Too, were running to you know,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, trying to keep doses or trying to

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Speaker 1: keep up with your freedom. M going on a stagecation

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Speaker 1: of vacation or vacation and folks, ain't nothing funny, no more,

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Speaker 1: ain't nothing fun. This is real with kids, it's hrt

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Speaker 1: just got real. Yea. And again for y'all who think

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Speaker 1: why y'all talking about abortion, read that opinion. It says

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Speaker 1: this must be struck down because the history of our

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Speaker 1: country was that people were prosecuted and persecuted for doing

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Speaker 1: this throughout our history. They can apply that line any

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Speaker 1: and everything they want to. Daniel Moody's existence and my

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Speaker 1: very existence going back is illegal. Yes, yes, we should

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Speaker 1: be here. We should not be talking, We should not

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Speaker 1: be doing anything that we're doing. It is illegal. People

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Speaker 1: take that for granted. M People take for grant did

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Speaker 1: the sound of our voices and what we're trying to

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Speaker 1: say that can just be thrown around and discard and

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Speaker 1: whatever can be done with it. This is this is

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Speaker 1: an act of civil disobedience to talk about this kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. So our voices, your voices all on the block, literally,

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Speaker 1: So y'all, we got to get it together. I'm for that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we need a motivational exercise type of something, get

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Speaker 1: yourself together, boots on the ground, organizing and struggle. And

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Speaker 1: what's interesting is the Supreme Court knew it. They put

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Speaker 1: barricades up around the Supreme Court because they were afraid

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Speaker 1: people are gonna protest. But the reality is what it was.

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Speaker 1: It was it Poland where they were threatening to take

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Speaker 1: away women's reproductive rights and they shut that country down.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Poland. Don't Quoe be on that,

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Speaker 1: But I mean it was looked like the million man

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Speaker 1: march out there. The million woman marched, a million people

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Speaker 1: march two million people. What are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: We need to shut the country down. We can do that.

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Speaker 1: We can do it economically, women not men. The domestic

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Speaker 1: workers were women in nineteen fifty five. They walk to work.

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Speaker 1: They shut down the bus system in Montgomery. When have

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Speaker 1: no mon Luther King holiday? If that ain't happened, King,

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Speaker 1: Luke King. I love mon Luther King. No, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you don't understand what he did in one little

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Speaker 1: town and how disciplined people were, and what he really

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Speaker 1: died doing. Because the question, the question that I will leave,

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Speaker 1: I want us to leave folks with today, and folks,

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Speaker 1: if you were not listening to make it plain, you

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Speaker 1: should be, because Mark is the spiritual side and the

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Speaker 1: movement side of my anger, of my anger and my rage.

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Speaker 1: But the question is what are you willing to sacrifice?

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Speaker 1: What are you willing to give up? Right? Because freedom

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Speaker 1: is not free, freedom is has never been free. And

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Speaker 1: that's the question that is being presented again that our

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Speaker 1: generation that this time is asking us to answer, what

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Speaker 1: are you willing to sacrifice in order to get free? Mark,

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Speaker 1: as always, thank you so much for making the time

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Speaker 1: to join us on woke f We appreciate you, your voice,

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Speaker 1: your work, and continue to send you strength as we

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Speaker 1: figure out how to move through this next iteration of

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Speaker 1: the American Project. Sam, you queen, appreciate your work, appreciate

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Speaker 1: your voice. And I'm serious we might need some kind

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Speaker 1: of motive movement organization, motivational exercise plan for folks to

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00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: wake up here your voice every morning you curse them

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Speaker 1: out to get up, get up out of their bed,

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Speaker 1: get you get out that bed, and get them do something.

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Speaker 1: Join an organization, Yes, do something, do something. Appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you. That is it for me today. Dear friends

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Speaker 1: on this woke a f as always, Power to the

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Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and

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Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.