Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to Okay f Daily
Speaker 1: with Me your Girl, recording once again from the Long
Speaker 1: Island Bunker. Folks, I want to bring your attention to
Speaker 1: a story that I don't think is getting enough news,
Speaker 1: which is on Sunday sixty Minutes did an entire segment
Speaker 1: and story on the rise in depression, anxiety and suicide rates,
Speaker 1: attempted suicide rates and suicide rates of tweens and teens,
Speaker 1: and how devastating COVID nineteen has been, the quarantining, the
Speaker 1: remote work, remote schooling, and all of these things. And
Speaker 1: you know, listening to the kids that they had interviewed,
Speaker 1: there was a study that had come out a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks prior that asserted the same thing. And while
Speaker 1: we are dealing with another announcement coming out of the
Speaker 1: White House only yesterday that you know, we must prepare
Speaker 1: before we even get to fucking experience summer, that we
Speaker 1: are going to be headed into another COVID fall in winter,
Speaker 1: where they are talking about the fact that one hundred
Speaker 1: million people can potentially become infected with COVID. And we
Speaker 1: know this now, like these things are not a shock
Speaker 1: to us. But what I realize is that the persistence
Speaker 1: of this virus the lack of empathy, and I mean
Speaker 1: lack of empathy across the board, not just the assholes
Speaker 1: that don't want to wear masks and the people who
Speaker 1: have put other people in harm's way in the selfishness
Speaker 1: and all of that, But I'm really talking about the
Speaker 1: lack of empathy as it pertains to the emotional strain
Speaker 1: and mental health strain that this has placed on our
Speaker 1: kids and on ourselves, on adults. You know, when I
Speaker 1: think about as I was watching these kids talk about
Speaker 1: the isolation and talk about the loss of being able
Speaker 1: to socialize and the socialization, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: you know, these were like kids that were, you know, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen years old that we're entering into middle school, particularly
Speaker 1: that they were talking about and how devastating it has been.
Speaker 1: And there have been other reports about how there have
Speaker 1: been a lot of fights in schools, you know, and
Speaker 1: a lot of issues with student engagement with one another
Speaker 1: because of the anxiety and depression and all of these
Speaker 1: things that were caused with COVID. And when you pause
Speaker 1: to think about this, folks like not only where we
Speaker 1: and how and we have been just working through a pandemic,
Speaker 1: like all of this shit remains normal right when it
Speaker 1: is not not. I mean, there's a meme that comes
Speaker 1: out every once in a while that says, I'm tired
Speaker 1: of living through historical events every fucking week, right, And
Speaker 1: I don't think that we are taking into consideration the
Speaker 1: stress and the strain that this has caused on our
Speaker 1: kids and on ourselves and what frankly, we should be
Speaker 1: doing to manage and deal with it. So I want
Speaker 1: to share with you that, you know, while I continually
Speaker 1: talk about taking care of your mental health and centering
Speaker 1: joy and grounding yourself, I have found myself and I
Speaker 1: just had a really in depth conversation with my therapist,
Speaker 1: a really in depth session, i should say, because I
Speaker 1: find myself falling back into really unproductive of an unhealthy
Speaker 1: routines because of the level of stress and strain and
Speaker 1: anxiety that I'm under that all of us are under.
Speaker 1: You know, it takes a lot to be able to
Speaker 1: continually follow breaking news all times of day. You know,
Speaker 1: I had put my phone down, for example, I put
Speaker 1: my phone down, you know, last week in the middle
Speaker 1: of the evening because I was finished with work. Then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, text messages, tweet alerts, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the abortion you know decision draft being leaked, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking myself, Jesus Christ, you can't even we have gone
Speaker 1: back to a place where you can't put your phone
Speaker 1: down because you don't know what the fuck is coming next.
Speaker 1: You don't know. You know, Tennessee decides that they're going
Speaker 1: to outlaw you know, abortion pills and Plan B and
Speaker 1: all of these things. And then you know, you have
Speaker 1: this state rolling on another anti trans bill, and then
Speaker 1: you've got this state, you know, rolling on another vote
Speaker 1: suppression bill, and it's just it's unrelenting. And when I
Speaker 1: think about the kids and what they're dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: think about what the fuck they are living through as well,
Speaker 1: right like we as adults are struggling with the ability
Speaker 1: to process everything that is being thrown at us every
Speaker 1: single week. By the time we get to Friday, by
Speaker 1: the time I get to Wednesday, and I'm doing woke Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I already feel like I've lived two weeks in one
Speaker 1: and it's only been three days, right, And so I
Speaker 1: imagine that, but on the emotional capacity of like a
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen or fourteen year old teenagers in general,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, and we are expecting them to go
Speaker 1: to school and still learn and still get the grades
Speaker 1: and take the tests and just like move through, like
Speaker 1: none of this is happening. Our societies like obsession with
Speaker 1: work and I put school in that text is really,
Speaker 1: I mean, aside from our democracy of crumbling, is really
Speaker 1: going to be incredibly detrimental to our mental health development
Speaker 1: of our youth and what is that going to look
Speaker 1: like when they enter into the workforce. Right, So I
Speaker 1: find myself really not focusing on the things that I
Speaker 1: need to focus on, like making sure that I am
Speaker 1: exercising daily, that I'm getting outside on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: because I find myself once again strapped to my cell phone,
Speaker 1: strapped in front of my computer and hunched over right.
Speaker 1: And you know, I even had my neighbor the other
Speaker 1: day say to me, had left a package, you know
Speaker 1: for me, And he was just like, have you left
Speaker 1: your house because the package has been you know, in
Speaker 1: the place that I put it for you for two days.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, so thank you for the
Speaker 1: call out, because no, I haven't left my house in
Speaker 1: two days. Right, These things really matter, And I offer
Speaker 1: up the fact that I am struggling because I can't
Speaker 1: imagine that I'm the only one that doesn't find themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, down a rabbit hole on Twitter, you know,
Speaker 1: down just a catastrophe hole on like what can come next?
Speaker 1: And what my therapists offered to me, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to relay an offer to you as a way one
Speaker 1: to speak out loud to myself but also to share,
Speaker 1: is that we have got to put ourselves on our calendars.
Speaker 1: We have got to pull ourselves back every day from
Speaker 1: this unrelenting despair because the shit is just going to
Speaker 1: get worse. It really is. There is no way around
Speaker 1: me telling you that in a couple of months all
Speaker 1: will be well, because I don't believe it. I do
Speaker 1: believe that things are going to get incredibly worse in
Speaker 1: this country. And if I am struggling, now, what is
Speaker 1: that struggle going to look like? And so if we
Speaker 1: all are not pausing each day, taking out thirty minutes
Speaker 1: for ourselves to get some fresh air, to do some exercise,
Speaker 1: to do something that we enjoy, to start and end
Speaker 1: our day with things that we enjoy, and then create moments,
Speaker 1: you know, in the middle to take a mental break.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever that looks like for you, We're all
Speaker 1: gonna fucking lose it. I feel it already. I had
Speaker 1: said to myself, you know, I wasn't going to get
Speaker 1: back on this hamster wheel. I wasn't going to get
Speaker 1: back into this grind culture. I wasn't going to allow
Speaker 1: the catastrophe of the world to suck me back in.
Speaker 1: And here I am not sleeping, waking up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night anxious. And that doesn't allow me
Speaker 1: to do my best work for all of you. It
Speaker 1: doesn't allow me to do my best work for the movement.
Speaker 1: And so I think about the ripple effect that the
Speaker 1: lack of self care and attention and intentional joy and
Speaker 1: intentional slowing of the pace does. And so I say
Speaker 1: to you, if you have kids, and our caregivers to
Speaker 1: or our caregivers to children, or you're a teacher, figure
Speaker 1: out what it is that will get your kids to
Speaker 1: talk each day about how they are feeling. If they
Speaker 1: are artists, maybe they write about it, maybe they do
Speaker 1: a poem, maybe they do something, but something that allows
Speaker 1: you to have some insight so that you can intervene
Speaker 1: before they get to a place where they're even contemplating
Speaker 1: taking their own lives. I say the same thing for
Speaker 1: all of the adults, you know, do something that allows you,
Speaker 1: whether it is, you know, beginning a journal or a diary,
Speaker 1: if it's written, if it's auditory, if you're drawing, if
Speaker 1: you're writing poetry, something that allows the feelings not to
Speaker 1: enter this dark place but find an exit point for it.
Speaker 1: And one is that is healthy, you know, because that's
Speaker 1: the other thing too. We all have exit points, and
Speaker 1: lots of them involve martinis and wine and cocktail and weed,
Speaker 1: you know, and these things. And I'm not passing any judgment.
Speaker 1: I partake just like everybody else does. But when that
Speaker 1: seems to be the only thing, the only direction that
Speaker 1: is a allowing there to be a bomb, then we
Speaker 1: need to take another look. Coming up next, friends, my
Speaker 1: Conversation monthly conversation that we are revisiting with our friend
Speaker 1: the Reverend Mark Thompson, to talk about where we are
Speaker 1: as we make the long death march to midterms and
Speaker 1: what it is that Democrats need to do. Folks. I
Speaker 1: am very happy to welcome back to Woke a f
Speaker 1: daily my friend the Reverend Mark Thompson and host of
Speaker 1: make it plain, Mark, we gather today on in a
Speaker 1: week that I don't think any of us expected to see,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't say that any of us expected to see,
Speaker 1: because we actually knew where this was going and how
Speaker 1: it was kind of how it was going to evolve.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling today? Well, first of all, good
Speaker 1: to see you, Glad to be with you as always, Danielle.
Speaker 1: I think that some of us felt and knew this
Speaker 1: was likely to happen, that the Supreme Court would strike
Speaker 1: down the road. We didn't necessarily expect to learn this way,
Speaker 1: and it may be a blessing that we are learning
Speaker 1: this way. But the problem is, I think what has happened.
Speaker 1: So many people have been victims of the skies falling
Speaker 1: Chicken Little, and so nobody really believed it until they
Speaker 1: saw it. Our enemies have been organizing for almost for
Speaker 1: forty nine years, NonStop, most of us, but I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say most. Many of us have given up since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Stuff's not happening fast enough. I'm not getting what I want.
Speaker 1: Biden ain't doing this, ain't doing that, which is not false.
Speaker 1: But we quit after a year and a half. They
Speaker 1: have not quit after forty nine years now. One of
Speaker 1: our ancestors, Frederick Nuglas, said, the price of freedom is
Speaker 1: eternal vigilance. We don't listen to him, though. We listen
Speaker 1: to what is immediate, and we react and respond on
Speaker 1: social media that we don't control and are going to
Speaker 1: lose even more control of when elon Must takes over.
Speaker 1: That's that's how we make our decisions. That's where our
Speaker 1: ideology a lot of times is formed. And so this
Speaker 1: is a big time l There's no other way to
Speaker 1: put it. And those who may not want to hear that,
Speaker 1: or may resent me saying it, I'm signing, but you
Speaker 1: got we have to join. We have to figure out
Speaker 1: of a way to join organizations, get involved, be active,
Speaker 1: not just emote with words on social media. And I'm
Speaker 1: sister to the word emote too. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: just women. I'm talking about men too. Men need to
Speaker 1: decide to step up more and defend women's bodies and lives.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. And I read part of discipin Have
Speaker 1: you read some of this? Yes? I did? Hold it.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait, wait, go ahead and say something else?
Speaker 1: What I look because I want to pull up something
Speaker 1: I don't want it to be bil there, but I
Speaker 1: just want to find something. While I'm looking for something,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I will say that. You know, folks have
Speaker 1: been very clear right as we were going through the
Speaker 1: confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsch, for Brett Kavanaugh, for Amy
Speaker 1: Covid Barrett, they have all been very clear about where
Speaker 1: they fall on ideological lines. Right. This has never been
Speaker 1: about the rule of law and and and and justice
Speaker 1: and uh and equity. It has been about control. And
Speaker 1: to your point, they never let up for forty nine years, right.
Speaker 1: And what you see in parts of the opinion that
Speaker 1: I did read, um, is this, you know, clarification around
Speaker 1: quote unquote life. Right? Is this you know, discussion around privacy? Right?
Speaker 1: Because what what we understand is that the way that
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade was constructed was about was around a
Speaker 1: woman's right to privacy. It was not around equity, right, Um,
Speaker 1: It was not around the equity of women and pregnant persons. Right.
Speaker 1: And so what what what they are not tipping their
Speaker 1: hat at are all of these others decisions, particularly those
Speaker 1: around LGBTQ people, that had been made with regard to
Speaker 1: privacy and not equity. Yeah, yeah, this is. This is
Speaker 1: from the draft that was leaked via Politico. The inescapable
Speaker 1: conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply
Speaker 1: rooted in the nation's history and traditions. Now let's just
Speaker 1: stop there for a minute. Replace a right to abortion
Speaker 1: with a blank and just filling a blank. The inescapable
Speaker 1: conclusion is that is that a blank is not deeply
Speaker 1: rooted in the nation's history and traditions. On the contrary,
Speaker 1: an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion or blank, I'm doing
Speaker 1: it for a reason now on pain of criminal punishment
Speaker 1: persisted from the earliest days of common law until nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three when the law was changed. Now, if you
Speaker 1: just put blank there, you can apply that it's about anything, yea.
Speaker 1: The inuscapable conclusion that the right of African Americans to
Speaker 1: read is not deeply rooted in the in the nation's
Speaker 1: history and traditions. On the contrary and unbroken tradition of
Speaker 1: prohibiting reading on the part of African Americans on pain
Speaker 1: of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of common law.
Speaker 1: So you can just give you another example. The the
Speaker 1: interscapable inclusion that a that desegregation Yep, we can go
Speaker 1: on the right to vote. These people. This is evil. This,
Speaker 1: the wording of this is evil, and it's not something Frankly,
Speaker 1: when you read this that you have any reason to
Speaker 1: believe that they just wrote this the other night. They've
Speaker 1: been working on this for decades. This is one hell
Speaker 1: of an argument to say that because something was outlawed
Speaker 1: since the founding of this country, it should still be
Speaker 1: outlawed today. If folks, if that does not shake you
Speaker 1: up and wake you up, then ain't nothing else we
Speaker 1: can do do it? Nothing else Danielle Moody can say,
Speaker 1: or I can say, I'm telling you this, you know,
Speaker 1: we might as well just go ahead and do the
Speaker 1: cookie show, because you know, because here's the thing, Mark,
Speaker 1: because folks keep saying on social media right to your point,
Speaker 1: oh well, now people are going to be galvanized. Now
Speaker 1: people are gonna fight, and I'm saying, you lost the war.
Speaker 1: So what is it exactly that we want people to
Speaker 1: wake up too? Because I'll tell you this, Nicole Hannah Jones,
Speaker 1: and let me pull this up. Nicole Hannah Jones had
Speaker 1: offered a tweet that I thought was so on point
Speaker 1: because every time people want to turn around and say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, well, now folks are gonna be galvanized. She
Speaker 1: said this, She's on Twitter, she said, Folks on here
Speaker 1: saying this will energize quote women voters are blatantly ignoring
Speaker 1: that the majority of black latina Asian indigenous women voted
Speaker 1: against Republicans and a majority of white women voted for
Speaker 1: voted for despite ours explicit promises to end row So
Speaker 1: what are you really saying? That's what she said in
Speaker 1: her tweet. So when folks are like, oh, this will
Speaker 1: galvanize folks, we had a historic goddamn election in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty because black and brown people, indigenous people, API people,
Speaker 1: queer people were galvanized in recognizing that another term under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was gonna mean certain devastation. So when folks
Speaker 1: are saying it's, oh, they're gonna wake up, I said,
Speaker 1: wake up to what the fifty three percent of white
Speaker 1: women that voted for a man that said that he
Speaker 1: could grab that by the pussy in twenty sixteen, and
Speaker 1: they still show it up in mass and then did
Speaker 1: so in increased numbers in twenty twenty. Well, the question
Speaker 1: becomes whether or not it's because those women know and
Speaker 1: believe that just like before in nineteen seventy three, there
Speaker 1: were those who had access to things that everybody else
Speaker 1: didn't have. Come on, So if you if you know
Speaker 1: for a fact that you'll still have the access to
Speaker 1: that which you want and need or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you don't really care. I'm gonna get it anyway. I
Speaker 1: can still go somewhere and get an abortion or have
Speaker 1: access to I mean, do you all really think it
Speaker 1: stops at abortion? Do you really think it stops you
Speaker 1: think it really? Are we just we're gonna let you'all.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you have contraception and access to free
Speaker 1: clinics and playing parenthood. We're gonna let you do that.
Speaker 1: We're just not going to allow abortion. How far back
Speaker 1: do they go? Mark? Do do you know? Because to
Speaker 1: your point, it is it is not going to stop
Speaker 1: an abortion. It is going to go to contraception. It
Speaker 1: is gonna go to every single way to be able
Speaker 1: to control right women. But I'm talking about, as you
Speaker 1: were reading through the opinion and inserting different things, I
Speaker 1: think we can go all the way back to plessy.
Speaker 1: We can go all the way back. I mean, every
Speaker 1: single right mark that we have gotten hasn't come through
Speaker 1: an Act of Congress. It has come through the courts.
Speaker 1: So if this after fifty years falls you telling me
Speaker 1: that folks believe that lie, Oh this is gonna be
Speaker 1: done because Susan Collins said that, oh, she trusts Brett Kavanaugh,
Speaker 1: that she trusts the Supreme Court. How far back do
Speaker 1: you think that this is going and what is the
Speaker 1: preparation here? Because I feel like they've been at war
Speaker 1: and we thought we were at a picnic. They've been
Speaker 1: at war and we thought that we were friends, and
Speaker 1: they dropped the hammer and we're still sitting around going, well,
Speaker 1: my friends from across the aisle, believing that they believe
Speaker 1: in the rule of law, that they care about the Constitution. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's we We've all been really demobilized. And the dependency
Speaker 1: on social media, the intoxication that we get from streaming
Speaker 1: all of these things are like the perfect confluence of
Speaker 1: events and situations that make it impossible for us to
Speaker 1: really um, for us to really organize, and for us
Speaker 1: to really wake up. And so most people are watching
Speaker 1: this unfold on television. We're riveted. It's the drama. We
Speaker 1: were addicted to watching drama rather than doing something about it. M.
Speaker 1: I mean, imagine what other countries in the world must
Speaker 1: be thinking. There was even one other phrase in there.
Speaker 1: I want to see if I can pull that up too,
Speaker 1: where they were in the document where they basically said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, uh uh, the whole thing about having the
Speaker 1: right to liberty doesn't really matter either. You don't, I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't have the right right to to that. That's
Speaker 1: not anything I want to I want to lift it
Speaker 1: up because it was such an incredible statement and so
Speaker 1: right wing. Uh, suggesting that that liberty isn't something that
Speaker 1: is just automatic and you can just do whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. That sounds like Vladimir poutin. Come on,
Speaker 1: it really does. So I mean, is that is that?
Speaker 1: What what did Vladimir putin? Right? This? Is that what
Speaker 1: we're going back to? Uh? The here, here's something else.
Speaker 1: Um oh no, I'm sorry, that's the same thing. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry forgive me, forgive me, give me, give me a second.
Speaker 1: I want to because I want our audience to hear this,
Speaker 1: because go ahead, I'm sorry, no, no, no, because as
Speaker 1: you're as you're looking at up, because I'm saying to myself,
Speaker 1: these people people do not like this is the fundamental
Speaker 1: nature of white evangelical Christian dumb is that they do
Speaker 1: not believe in democracy. They believe in theocracy and authoritarianism.
Speaker 1: They believe that men and white men alone should lead.
Speaker 1: That the breakdown of the perceived quote unquote nuclear family
Speaker 1: came from right the ability of women to have rights,
Speaker 1: right to have rightful autonomy over their bodies, to have
Speaker 1: rightful autonomy over all of these the pieces of themselves.
Speaker 1: And so if you then go back to the way
Speaker 1: that it was, where white men alone can lead and
Speaker 1: do so with impunity, that they alone are the ones
Speaker 1: that disperse liberty to those they feel like have earned
Speaker 1: it right, then that will reorder things in our society
Speaker 1: and our culture. It's why we are going into classrooms
Speaker 1: to uphold what they perceived to be the rightful gender right,
Speaker 1: the rightful order of things. These are boys, these are girls.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to know their place in this hierarchy. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't put my finger on it right now, but
Speaker 1: I've read it for another guest and then I lost it.
Speaker 1: I should have bookmarked it. But basically the argument that
Speaker 1: so they're arguing for something called ordered liberty, which also
Speaker 1: was a very right wing concept I was speaking with
Speaker 1: the president National Organization for Women, and she was talking
Speaker 1: about the other part just read in terms of what
Speaker 1: the nation's laws used to be. We'll wait a minute, Women,
Speaker 1: African Americans, other people of color, we're not even considered
Speaker 1: in the constitution, right, We're not even considered, right, So
Speaker 1: you might as well just nullify right, every protection that
Speaker 1: we have had it And don't tell me all you're
Speaker 1: going too far. It's not what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Uh No, you're not going to convince me of that
Speaker 1: you have. You have jeopardized every protection that exists for
Speaker 1: all of the groups that have been impacted by racism
Speaker 1: and white supremacy and the very founding of this country.
Speaker 1: So none of these this is this is a monumental decision.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's a wake up call in terms of the
Speaker 1: mid terms. I don't know. I think you just made
Speaker 1: the point. I mean, people didn't get it in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: And and the woman who ordered the red dress at
Speaker 1: the mid gala the other night told y'all but couldn't
Speaker 1: stand her who. I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we should if she should be her, she should be
Speaker 1: a woman, or if we're done I mean, we went
Speaker 1: through all of that, and now this is what you have.
Speaker 1: And I'm speaking as a man. You know, if if if,
Speaker 1: if women don't give a damn men like me or
Speaker 1: not me, and like because I'm not like that, but man,
Speaker 1: well why should I give it? In? Why should I care?
Speaker 1: But I think it goes back to what you said
Speaker 1: is that white women have always been a part of
Speaker 1: this elevated protected class. Yeah, right, where the harms that
Speaker 1: are bestowed on everyone else they're protected from, right, And
Speaker 1: that has always been the way. And what for me,
Speaker 1: We have allowed white women in this country to be
Speaker 1: able to both be in proximity with and then disassociate
Speaker 1: from their access to power, which is white men. And
Speaker 1: so you know, it didn't really hit me until twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen when I was watching these white women jump up
Speaker 1: and down with signs that said he can grab me
Speaker 1: wherever he wants, right, these women in these rallies and
Speaker 1: on these streets. And this is not the fringe. These
Speaker 1: people are now a member of Congress. This is Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green, this is Lauren Boebert. Right, So if if
Speaker 1: this is who they are, Trumpism has allowed them to
Speaker 1: really come from behind the curtains that they have been
Speaker 1: hiding behind. It has taken the lady right of the
Speaker 1: master outs out of the house where she was stepped
Speaker 1: and protected. Oh it's not me that's doing the whip
Speaker 1: and the beating and the rap thing, right, But you're
Speaker 1: complicit in all of it because you profit off of it.
Speaker 1: This is the same space that we're in now. You know,
Speaker 1: we continue to always look at the monsters of these
Speaker 1: white men that are created, and we don't pathologize the
Speaker 1: white women that are the ones raising them. And I'm saying,
Speaker 1: wake the fuck up, right, Like, I mean, what what other? What? What?
Speaker 1: What else do you need to see? Yeah? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so my question, you know, for you Mark, as we
Speaker 1: close today is that, like, as black people who know
Speaker 1: that we've never been removed from the chopping block, we've
Speaker 1: never had any respect in this country whatsoever? What does
Speaker 1: this signify for us? Well, I think it shows the
Speaker 1: danger we're in. We've already had our voting rights undermine.
Speaker 1: They barely we barely have any voting rights left it
Speaker 1: and there's no reason for them to be protected under
Speaker 1: the current circumstances. And I think Democrats, whom we all
Speaker 1: want invest in although I think that's waning. I am
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think a lot of people have
Speaker 1: a reason to go out and vote. Don't have a
Speaker 1: reason to go out and vote. Now. This may inspiring
Speaker 1: some women like you said to wake the f up,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of late. It's kind of late. We
Speaker 1: we we've lost the Supreme Court for practically a generation.
Speaker 1: That's not going to protect our voting rights. We are
Speaker 1: back to the way, and I don't know if people
Speaker 1: are prepared to become the same type of people who
Speaker 1: fought to get the freedoms we take for granted today.
Speaker 1: People Montgomery walked to work every day for three hundred
Speaker 1: six and six days. We do we do? Are we
Speaker 1: gonna do that? Do we have the makeup to do?
Speaker 1: We couldn't stay in the house for three fucking months
Speaker 1: for corn, do you do? You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: as a collective right in this country, we couldn't stay
Speaker 1: the fuck home and stream Netflix right, right for those
Speaker 1: of us who had the privilege to do so, because
Speaker 1: we were not considered essential. So those of us in
Speaker 1: the economic class that had the privilege to be at
Speaker 1: home couldn't do that right, right, That's right? Couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Um, I don't know where this
Speaker 1: will end up. It is very very very scary though,
Speaker 1: And if we don't do something and this goes beyond November,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get worse when the Democrats lose the House
Speaker 1: and the Senate. What's gonna happen in Mark and Dan
Speaker 1: Yell are crazy. They were trying to get us to
Speaker 1: organized and get us to do stuff. Really we're crazy.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling you this, you might as well get
Speaker 1: rid of We might have to do the cooking show.
Speaker 1: I don't know from what, from what federal prison will
Speaker 1: be doing that as political prisoners in our own goddamn country.
Speaker 1: But right, right, right, but but we might. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like because that's what you know, that's what
Speaker 1: people want to do, that's what they they We are
Speaker 1: We are in toxicated with distraction all the way around,
Speaker 1: and the things that people see as important are just
Speaker 1: not important. Million people did from a plague that did
Speaker 1: not have to die, and now losing rights. We've lost
Speaker 1: voting rights, women have lost their reproductive rights. What's left
Speaker 1: if you don't have those things, what do you have?
Speaker 1: What do we have the right to do. What do
Speaker 1: we have the right to do? Now? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: what do we what do we literally have the right
Speaker 1: to go and do? We don't have a right to
Speaker 1: protest anymore. They're passing loss that you can run over
Speaker 1: people who protest with a car. So folks, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all need to keep listening to Danielle and get motivated.
Speaker 1: Like you know, y'all we get on the colorton and
Speaker 1: other stuff to motivate us. We need we need a movement, peloton,
Speaker 1: something that's gonna and maybe that's Danielle because you'll cut
Speaker 1: y'all out. I don't cuss everybody out, y'all. Need you
Speaker 1: need listener because I mean, just get cursed out everything.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Get yourself together, get your get
Speaker 1: your raggedy, rusty, dusty up, yeah, together together like our
Speaker 1: parents used to do, because we ain't doing it. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's what we need, we need we need. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: maybe that's what we need to We need to come
Speaker 1: up with a with a with our own exercise bike,
Speaker 1: Danielle that has those kind of motivational messages. Right, are
Speaker 1: you running in place or running towards your freedom? Food? Come?
Speaker 1: Come on? Where you running? Too, were running to you know,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, trying to keep doses or trying to
Speaker 1: keep up with your freedom. M going on a stagecation
Speaker 1: of vacation or vacation and folks, ain't nothing funny, no more,
Speaker 1: ain't nothing fun. This is real with kids, it's hrt
Speaker 1: just got real. Yea. And again for y'all who think
Speaker 1: why y'all talking about abortion, read that opinion. It says
Speaker 1: this must be struck down because the history of our
Speaker 1: country was that people were prosecuted and persecuted for doing
Speaker 1: this throughout our history. They can apply that line any
Speaker 1: and everything they want to. Daniel Moody's existence and my
Speaker 1: very existence going back is illegal. Yes, yes, we should
Speaker 1: be here. We should not be talking, We should not
Speaker 1: be doing anything that we're doing. It is illegal. People
Speaker 1: take that for granted. M People take for grant did
Speaker 1: the sound of our voices and what we're trying to
Speaker 1: say that can just be thrown around and discard and
Speaker 1: whatever can be done with it. This is this is
Speaker 1: an act of civil disobedience to talk about this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So our voices, your voices all on the block, literally,
Speaker 1: So y'all, we got to get it together. I'm for that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need a motivational exercise type of something, get
Speaker 1: yourself together, boots on the ground, organizing and struggle. And
Speaker 1: what's interesting is the Supreme Court knew it. They put
Speaker 1: barricades up around the Supreme Court because they were afraid
Speaker 1: people are gonna protest. But the reality is what it was.
Speaker 1: It was it Poland where they were threatening to take
Speaker 1: away women's reproductive rights and they shut that country down.
Speaker 1: I think it was Poland. Don't Quoe be on that,
Speaker 1: But I mean it was looked like the million man
Speaker 1: march out there. The million woman marched, a million people
Speaker 1: march two million people. What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: We need to shut the country down. We can do that.
Speaker 1: We can do it economically, women not men. The domestic
Speaker 1: workers were women in nineteen fifty five. They walk to work.
Speaker 1: They shut down the bus system in Montgomery. When have
Speaker 1: no mon Luther King holiday? If that ain't happened, King,
Speaker 1: Luke King. I love mon Luther King. No, you know,
Speaker 1: because you don't understand what he did in one little
Speaker 1: town and how disciplined people were, and what he really
Speaker 1: died doing. Because the question, the question that I will leave,
Speaker 1: I want us to leave folks with today, and folks,
Speaker 1: if you were not listening to make it plain, you
Speaker 1: should be, because Mark is the spiritual side and the
Speaker 1: movement side of my anger, of my anger and my rage.
Speaker 1: But the question is what are you willing to sacrifice?
Speaker 1: What are you willing to give up? Right? Because freedom
Speaker 1: is not free, freedom is has never been free. And
Speaker 1: that's the question that is being presented again that our
Speaker 1: generation that this time is asking us to answer, what
Speaker 1: are you willing to sacrifice in order to get free? Mark,
Speaker 1: as always, thank you so much for making the time
Speaker 1: to join us on woke f We appreciate you, your voice,
Speaker 1: your work, and continue to send you strength as we
Speaker 1: figure out how to move through this next iteration of
Speaker 1: the American Project. Sam, you queen, appreciate your work, appreciate
Speaker 1: your voice. And I'm serious we might need some kind
Speaker 1: of motive movement organization, motivational exercise plan for folks to
Speaker 1: wake up here your voice every morning you curse them
Speaker 1: out to get up, get up out of their bed,
Speaker 1: get you get out that bed, and get them do something.
Speaker 1: Join an organization, Yes, do something, do something. Appreciate you,
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. That is it for me today. Dear friends
Speaker 1: on this woke a f as always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.