1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, keats and welcome to look at up daily 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording not So Live 3 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: from the Long Island Bunker. Folks, I hope that you 4 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: actually got some time, maybe the whole twenty four hours 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: daring your Thanksgiving holiday to not think about our impending doom, 6 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: to not be woken up at a sleep with a 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: series of alerts that came through on my phone, as 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: I'm sure they did with yours, to alert us to 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: the fact that not even twenty four hours after gathering 10 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: with our family and our friends for the first time 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: since right the beginning of the pandemic for an actual holiday, 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: that we would get the grand old news on Friday 13 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: that yes, amy kron has hit the world. And what 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: is that, Well, it's one of the scariest letters in 15 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: the Greek alphabet. It is not a transformer, but it 16 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: has transformed the COVID nineteen vaccine into thirty little nods. 17 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: Thirty different mutations have now been discovered by scientists and 18 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: epidemiologists in South Africa. And guess what gift they get 19 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: for detecting yet a new variant in the world. Oh, 20 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: they get banned from the United States and multiple European countries. 21 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: And what I find really troubling about all of this 22 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: is that it's bullshit. It's not actually based on anybody's 23 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: fucking science. It's based on politics and racism and money. 24 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: So let me take a step back, folks, and let 25 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: us start from the beginning of the announcement of this news. Now, look, 26 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: here's the thing is that until everyone and I don't 27 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: mean everybody in your family, and I don't mean everybody 28 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: in America, but I mean everyone in the world, until 29 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: everyone is fully vaccinated, we are going to continue to 30 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: get different variants of COVID nineteen. Because what we've learned 31 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: through our time with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel and 32 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: other doctors that have come on the show and scientists 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: that have been studying this over the last we're headed 34 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: into two years of living in a global health pandemic. 35 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: Is this is that when there is a lot of 36 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: virus that is still floating around in the air, what 37 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: happens well that virus is then looking for different avenues 38 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: and different hosts. And what will continue to happen is 39 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: that what viruses do, they mutate in order to get 40 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: stronger so that they can claim more victims. That is 41 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: what viruses do, they look for hosts. And so here 42 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: is an example where this new variant is discovered in 43 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: South Africa by epidemiologists there. Now, instead of being hailed 44 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: right for their transparency and the fact that they are 45 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: continuing to do this work, and why is it discovered 46 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: there because some of the world's best epidemiologists are in 47 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: South Africa And why is that? Because they have dealt 48 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: with other very serious viruses, some of which have never 49 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: made it to the shores of the United States or 50 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 1: other countries. Right. And so instead of right us deciding 51 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: that we're not going to ban a virus because you 52 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: can't fucking ban a virus that by the time this 53 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: was discovered, let's say now at this time, it has 54 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: been about a week since this discovery, that guess what, 55 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: that virus has up and gone around that country, multiple 56 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: other countries, gotten on multiple flights, right, and is already gone. 57 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: And what many of the scientists and doctors that we're 58 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: saying over the weekend as we are learning more about 59 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: omikron is this is that these bands from countries are 60 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: nothing more than political maneuvers. They make actually no scientific sense. 61 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: And for an administration that claims to be following science. 62 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: It seems to me that the Biden administration was once 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: again politically swayed by what it was other countries were 64 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: doing instead of actually deciding that, hey, we're going to 65 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: follow the CDC, We're going to follow the wh show. 66 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: And what they are saying is that the measures that 67 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: need to be put in place are not banning fucking 68 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: nationals from other countries, right, but still accepting your US citizens, 69 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: still accepting those that have permanent residency. What difference does 70 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: it make. The most important thing to be doing at 71 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: this moment would be to do a couple of things. 72 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: A have a quarantine protocol that is place for all 73 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: travelers coming into the United States, regardless of where they're 74 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: coming from. If you're coming into the United States, that 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: you need to be quarantining, whether or not you fucking 76 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: live here or not. If you are coming from another country, 77 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: you need to quarantine for whatever it is. If it 78 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: is a week, if it's ten days, if it's two weeks, 79 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: that's what you need to do. And fuck the economy 80 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: and fuck dealing about politics and not actually paying attention 81 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: to the health and the science around this, Right, Maybe 82 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: instead of playing politics, we should do that. So that's 83 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: number one. Number two, having a uniform policy with all 84 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: all airlines in the United States that, guess what, in 85 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: order to fucking fly internationally or domestically, you need to 86 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: show proof of vaccine, right, instead of once again continuing 87 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: to fucking cater to the twenty five percent that are 88 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: never going to get vaccinated in this country because you 89 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: know they would rather follow the Rogans, the Joe Rogans 90 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: of the world than the actual scientists. Right, So instead 91 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: of doing that, we're just going to decide to ban 92 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: full countries. And again, I just want folks to be 93 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: clear that when news of this new omicron variant hit 94 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: and the United States announced that at midnight today that 95 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: they were going to be banning South Africa and several 96 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: other African nations, why the fuck didn't they ban Hong Kong. 97 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: Why not people from Germany? Why not motherfucker's from the Netherlands, Right, 98 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: because again, it had already been announced at the same 99 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: goddamn time that the variant was in these other countries. 100 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: So again, if I'm a reporter, if I'm a White 101 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: House correspondent, and I'm sitting and I'm waiting for my 102 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: Monday briefing you that's fucking believed that. I'm asking Jen Saki, 103 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: and I'm asking whoever is going to be the spokesperson 104 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: on this day from the COVID nineteen task force, how 105 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: the decision to have a band for African nations but 106 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: not the other nations where the variant was already discovered, 107 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: How that came to pass, and how it doesn't make 108 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: sense because several doctors and scientists that have been on 109 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: the Sunday shows and been on all the news stations 110 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: since it was announced have said that your travel bands 111 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: are nothing more than political maneuvers. What do you think 112 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: about that? That's what I would wait for, But of 113 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: course we won't do that because our mainstream media is 114 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: just as racist as every other fucking industry, and so 115 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: you can justify, oh, well, it was discovered here, which 116 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: means that there must be more of it, So we're 117 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: going to put in a racist, xenophobic band, That's what 118 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: we're going to do. I am just so fucking sick 119 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: and tired of the bullshit, and I wish that people 120 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: would just say what it is right like lying to me, 121 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: stop pissing on our legs and telling us that it's 122 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: fucking raining when you know exactly what it is that 123 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: you're doing, and you know why you are making these maneuvers, 124 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with keeping people quote 125 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: unquote safe, Because if you wanted to have real safety 126 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: right around around this virus innovating on itself every couple 127 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: of fucking months, then you would put together drastic measures 128 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: that need to be in place in order to keep 129 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: people safe instead of worrying about these fucking twenty five 130 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: percent nut jobs right who would rather beat up school 131 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: board members and punch out their child's pediattrition for saying 132 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: that they should wear a mask. They're the reasons why 133 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: we are never getting rid of COVID nineteen. You know, 134 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: I was sitting around the table on Thanksgiving, and you know, 135 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: thankfully I will say this that my family is not crazy, 136 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: So I did not need to figure out, you know, 137 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: all the ways to tiptoe around not talking about politics 138 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: and not bringing up COVID and all of these things. Now, 139 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: my family were all Democrats, right and of sound mind, 140 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: and so I'm grateful for that. That was one of 141 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: the things that I was very grateful for over Thanksgiving 142 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: the holiday, But the reality is as I was saying 143 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: to my mom. And I went on MSNBC over the 144 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: weekend as well, and Aim and Mohadeen, the host of 145 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: the show, asked, you know what people did in order 146 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: to divert conversations around politics or not have those uncomfortable 147 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: conversations with your answer uncles who may think differently than you. 148 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: And I was having this debate with my mother, and 149 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: I want to know what all of you think. I said. 150 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: One of the reasons that I believe that we elected 151 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: a Donald Trump, And by we, I don't mean me 152 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: and you because we were to staying for that, I 153 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: mean the rest of America. The reason why Donald Trump 154 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: was elected president and the reason why people were so 155 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: shocked that their neighbors, that their friends, their pta neighbors, 156 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: their kids school teacher, The reason why people were so 157 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: shocked that they would fall for the ropadope of Donald 158 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: Trump and literally degrade themselves into a party that is 159 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: nothing more than a cult of white supremacists is because 160 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: we don't have those conversations. We actually have no idea 161 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: how to have conversations with people whose opinions may differ 162 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: from us. Now, I know that that you may think 163 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: that That is a rich coming from me because I 164 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: utilized my rage for my work. But trust and believe 165 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: that when I am in small groups or gatherings with people, 166 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: that I'm one of those people that will dig, that 167 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: will ask you your why, right, Like what made you 168 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: think this way? What made you vote this way? What 169 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: it is about the course of your day to day 170 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: life that made you believe or that makes you believe 171 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: that a Donald Trump or Trumpism is going to be 172 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: better for you, your family, in your community than anything else. 173 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: You See, we don't know how to engage in conversation, 174 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: nor do we teach people how to engage in conversation 175 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: so that we can come to a level of collaboration, 176 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: right if that is in fact your goal right to 177 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: be able to work with people that think differently. And 178 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: I'm not talking again about rampid racists, because I don't 179 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: want to work with those fucking people. But I'm talking 180 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: about the people who were either middle of the fense right, 181 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: or they started out at actually believing in economic anxiety 182 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: and then that just turned into them having somebody to 183 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: blame for their lat in life. I'm not saying that 184 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: I am trying to sit down and cajole racist. But 185 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: I do believe that there was a point in time. 186 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: I think we've fought passed that, But there was a 187 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: point in time when if we were having conversations about 188 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: political ideologies, policies and themes that we want to see 189 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: in our own lives, and we start to ask people there, 190 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: why why is it important to you that trans kids 191 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: are not able to use the bathroom that they identify with? 192 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: Why is it important to you that gay people should 193 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: not be allowed to be married? Why is it important 194 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: to you that everyone that kills an unarmed black person 195 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 1: should be able to get off and have the reasonable 196 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: doubt right? Like again, asking these questions, because then you 197 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: understand or you force people to articulate their positions right, 198 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: and then we can figure out, well, what is they're there? 199 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: What's the thread that we can pull that would have 200 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: their entire ideology that isn't made on anything collapse right, 201 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: and be able to show them something that is better, 202 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: right and offer that up. But because we've always been 203 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: taught not to talk about politics and not to talk 204 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: about religion, right, that we're just mom on these most 205 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: important topics, these topics that actually dictate how we live 206 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: our day to day life, which makes absolutely no sense 207 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: to me. But I can understand from a politicians point 208 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: of view or the clergy that so long as we 209 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: keep people right isolated within their tribes, never to venture out, 210 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: then you can continue to have control over them. But 211 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 1: you see, if we learn how to coordinate, how to collaborate, 212 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: how to be in conversation, and we no longer see 213 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: each other as the enemy, right, then these other people 214 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: that are above us don't have the power to rule 215 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: us underneath their thumbs. This is what this all comes 216 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: back to, folks, money and power, right, And I don't 217 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: understand why we make everything so damn complicated. Why is 218 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: it that we are going to continue to see new 219 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: variants pop up all over the world. We'll let me 220 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: tell you. Because the wealthiest fucking nations, right, who had 221 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: their pledge to help the lower income nations, right, the 222 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: lower the lower wealth earning nations, decided not to Right, 223 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: They're gonna get theirs right, much in the same way 224 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: that the fucking wealthy in this country and in all 225 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: countries around the world don't pay their fair share, don't 226 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, don't don't have their income tax, but have 227 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: this tax and blah blah blah, and literally have all 228 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: of these loopholes that were built for them right to 229 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: continue to build their wealth right while everyone else arounds 230 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: them suffers. It's the same way that these wealthy nations think, oh, well, 231 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: we've got the vaccines for our people, So what difference 232 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: does it make if we don't send over the vaccinations 233 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: to lower wealth countries. Well, because it's a fucking virus. 234 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: And until all of us are safe, none of us 235 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: are safe. So until we have nations like Haiti, like 236 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: South Africa, like Greece, like these other countries Austria, right, 237 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: let the wait until we have these places right, have 238 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: the amount of vaccines that they need, have the help 239 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: with their rollouts, right, and so we know that we 240 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: are doing all of our fair share. Right. You again, 241 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: because there are people that I mean folks. Let me 242 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: tell you something, small island Martinique right over the weekend, 243 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: massive protests, shootings at journalists and shootings at cops. Why 244 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: because of the COVID nineteen protocols that are being put 245 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: in place, that are being forced on them, because they 246 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: are still colonized by the French. Right, And so I'm 247 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: saying that you're never going to be able to force people, 248 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:51,239 Speaker 1: while in some countries you actually can, but in democratic 249 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: or at least democratic presenting countries, you're never going to 250 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: be able to force people to take the vaccine. But 251 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: if their government doesn't even have enough vaccine to pro by, 252 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: that means that then they are the ones that are 253 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: playing any meany miny mo and saying, well, we'll get 254 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: you folks vaccinated, but not you folks over here, because 255 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: guess what, they don't have enough. Meanwhile, in America, we 256 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: have more than enough vaccines to get everyone in America 257 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: vaccinated more than once, right on top of all of 258 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: the booster shots that we're giving out right. And so 259 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: my whole thing is that we are paused in this 260 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: country at roughly fifty nine to sixty percent of the 261 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: whole entire population of adults being vaccinated. Right. So if 262 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: that be the case, and you know that you have 263 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: a certain expiration date to be able to utilize these vaccines, 264 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: then why aren't they being sent to the places that 265 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: need them the most? And it is because of capitalism 266 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: and because of racism, all of the reasons that if 267 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: you look at where the fault lines are in this 268 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: country and where most of the fault lines are around 269 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: the world. That's what it comes down to, those two 270 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: very things. Now we can right pretend that it's all 271 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: a bunch of other issues and all a bunch of 272 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: other things. Oh it's economic anxiety. Oh it's family choice. 273 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: Oh it's this that there thing. No it's not. It's 274 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: capitalism and racism, right, the two things that make this 275 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: world go round or will make an implode, you know, 276 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: pick a side. And then I saw something else over 277 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: the weekend that literally made my skin crawl, which was 278 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: this number. And again I'm not one hundred percent sure 279 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: if this number is correct, but I'm going to throw 280 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: it out there, and I'm going to say that it 281 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: would cost this is what was being tweeted out when 282 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: it was retweeted by a couple of news outlets, twenty 283 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: five billion dollars to vaccinate the world. And again, I 284 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: don't know if that is actually the right number, if 285 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: it's so low, but let's say that it was a 286 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: hundred billion, right, Let's just throw that out there. Let's 287 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: say that it's a hundred billion dollars to vaccinate the world. 288 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos is worth one hundred and fifty billion, right, 289 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: and do you know what we did for the last 290 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: couple of months, would celebrate him and Richard Branson and others, 291 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: right with their billion dollars dick measuring competition that they're 292 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: doing into outer space, celebrating their vast wealth that they 293 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: can just shit away tens hundreds of millions of dollars 294 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: so that they can take a little fifteen minute trip 295 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: to outer space. Right meanwhile, we have a virus that 296 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: is ravaging the planet, and people want to say, well, 297 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: if we just had enough money, then we would be 298 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: able to get people vaccinated. No, there is enough money. 299 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: There's just not enough will, there's not enough interest to 300 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: actually get those things done. But then we want to 301 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: turn around and we want to celebrate greed. We want 302 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: to give it wall to wall coverage from multiple days 303 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: in a row, and then we want to blame the 304 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: lower income countries that don't have the resources, and then 305 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: we want to ban them. It's just like when you 306 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 1: look at the picture that is continually painted, it's so 307 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: disgusting and it's so hard not to look at it. 308 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: You know. I tell folks like no rest, like get 309 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: your rest recharge, and I tried desperately to do that 310 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: and for the most part, I was successful until I 311 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: got the breaking news alerts coming across my phone and 312 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: I looked at my mother and we said, God damn, 313 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: we had one day, one day and we still couldn't 314 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: not talk about COVID because we're having our Thanksgiving in 315 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: the shadow of what Thanksgiving looked like the year prior, 316 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, when it was just many of us with 317 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: just our pod with the windows open, like, you know, 318 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: probably washing our turkey with fucking bleach to make sure 319 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: that there was no coronavirus on it, because that was 320 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: where we were in terms of our understanding. Look how 321 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: much we have learned? Well, you know, I would say 322 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: seventy five percent of us. Look how much we have learned? 323 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: Right while the twenty five percent continue to listen to 324 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: you know, Tucker Carlson, who by the way, is vaccinated 325 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: and boosted. It just pisces me off. You know. At 326 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: the end of the day, I just get to a 327 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: place of such a deep aggravation because I realize it's 328 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: never going anywhere. We're going to be wearing masks. That 329 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: is our future. I was looking at my local stations 330 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 1: here on Long Island, and they have segments that they 331 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: run every day called the New Normal and it is 332 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: your latest coronavirus up day, which again, folks, we are 333 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 1: going to be changing calendar year the calendar year in 334 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: just a few short weeks. We are right now the 335 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: last four weeks to go of twenty twenty one, and 336 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: I can't help but think, and I'm sure all of 337 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: you are doing this too, is thinking about the last 338 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: year one. Where the fuck did twenty twenty one go? Right? 339 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: And then also as we're heading into the new year, 340 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, we are we are, folks, 341 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: two years, two years into this with no end in sight. 342 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: And my fear, as is everyone else's fear, is that 343 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: we will continue to have this virus and at some 344 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: point we're going to get a mutation that is going 345 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: to get around our current vaccines and then what right 346 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: right now, I just want folks to realize everything that 347 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: transpires in Europe, for the last two years, we have 348 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: been a month behind. They are on lockdown once again 349 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: in Austria. As the TAO was tanking on Friday at 350 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: news of the latest mutation, the latest strand peloton prices, 351 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,959 Speaker 1: we're going through the roof right. Their stock was up 352 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: about six seven percent. Why is that because people are 353 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: anticipating that all of this return to work in January, 354 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: which for a lot of places right there are still 355 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: twenty five percent twenty to twenty five percent of businesses 356 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,719 Speaker 1: never went back, and there were more that are like, okay, 357 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 1: well we're going back in January of twenty twenty two. 358 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: And now you see Peloton prices up. The rest of 359 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: the DAO is crashed because we have no idea. There's 360 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: now a new strand, right, and there's always going to 361 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: be a new strand because you are always going to 362 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: have this segment that until we have uniform rules across 363 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: this country right, vaccine protocols on all public transportation, restaurants 364 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: on indoors, this, that, and the other thing you're seeing. 365 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: Austria is shut down. The UK has just issued now 366 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: that you need to wear masks indoors outdoors, it doesn't 367 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: matter where you are, and it is uniform all across 368 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: the UK. Folks are instituting new policies because what they 369 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: are seeing is fucking grim. What they know is that 370 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: these could potentially be that strand that is working around 371 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: the vaccines, but we won't know for a couple of 372 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: weeks and in that time you were going to watch 373 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: Omicron take over Delta as it has already done and 374 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: set in parts of South Africa. And then what we're 375 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: back to square one and again we can, much like 376 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: the Democrats, continue to cater to the middle of these 377 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: people that they think are going to vote for them 378 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: once again. Once again, we continue to cater to the 379 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: lowest common denominator. Because if you were to tell a 380 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: majority of this country, right, not the fucking loud minority, 381 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: not the loud crackpots of Trumpism, but if you were 382 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: to say you can no longer fly, take a train, 383 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 1: rent a car, right, if you are not vaccinated, you 384 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: can no longer right fly in and out of the 385 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: country without quarantining on either side, then you are going 386 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: to seriously mitigate the issues that we're having, not putting 387 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: together arbitrary, racist and xenophobic fucking travel bands, but following 388 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 1: science and understanding, how do we mitigate this by making 389 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: it almost impossible for people to live their lives without 390 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: getting vaccinated. You know, I want to tell you the 391 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: difference between what it's like an hour and a half 392 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: where I live in Brooklyn at versus out East Summong 393 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: Island where my family is. Out east Oumong Island, particularly 394 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: Suffolk County. So Long Island has two counties, Nassau and Suffolk, 395 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: and Suffolk County has always traditionally been more Republican. It's 396 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: more rural the further out east that you get. And 397 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: yes you have those poets of the places that people 398 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: know about the Hamptons and this that weird thing where 399 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: the wealthy are, but those are their summer homes. Nonetheless, 400 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: it is mostly republican out here, and through redistricting it 401 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: will be republican for us some time to come. But 402 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: when you go into the stores here, right, and again 403 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: just an hour and a half away from the city, 404 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: they have in Suffolk County, no mask mandates, indoors, no 405 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: vaccination mandates, indoors that they need to show. Right, the people, 406 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: the store workers, whether it's the grocery store, clothing store, 407 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: they're wearing masks. And I share is fucking wearing a mask, right, 408 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,719 Speaker 1: But ninety percent of the people in stores when I 409 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: was going grocery shopping for a Thanksgiving no mask whatsoever. 410 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: Now an hour and a half into the city, New 411 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: York City, densely populated seven and a half eight million people. Right, 412 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: you cannot eat indoors, workout indoors, shop indoors without showing 413 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: proof of vaccination. Also, it is more likely than not 414 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: that all of the stores also, on top of that, 415 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 1: have mask mandates. You can't get on the subway. Now again, 416 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: when I've been taken the subway over the last couple 417 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 1: of months, you maybe have one or two people in 418 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: the entire car that are not wearing a mask. Okay, 419 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,679 Speaker 1: go with God, is what I say to those people. 420 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: But a majority of folks, what are they doing masking? 421 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: Because it is the rule. So my whole thing is like, 422 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: why do we have different rules an hour and a 423 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: half apart? Right? Again, you want to keep every rate low, 424 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: then have uniformity, have some fucking stability. This is what 425 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: this new administration had told us that they were all about, 426 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: We're going to follow science, except they're not following science, 427 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: except they are continuing to follow politics and be afraid 428 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: of the twenty five percent instead of doing what's right 429 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 1: for the seventy five percent. How does that make sense? 430 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: But that is where we are. So what I believe 431 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: is for you all follow the news, not the news 432 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: that is in the United States, but the news everywhere 433 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: else and understand that the United States is about a 434 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: month behind where Europe is. So the UK wants to 435 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: announce new COVID protocols. Austria's on lockdown. Germany is looking 436 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: around trying to avoid a recession because if they shut 437 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: down then all hell is going to break loose in 438 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: the EU. But you want to battle the economy against 439 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: the Kilo virus again and see what happens, right, Because 440 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: if you're dead, you can't work. If you're dead, you 441 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: can't pay taxes. Right. Shifting gear as folks to the 442 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: other stories. At the end of last week, we had 443 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: the verdict in the McMichael's trial for the killing of 444 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey, and the McMichaels were found guilty on all 445 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: charges and as well as the third person that murdered 446 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey. And I don't want people to be confused 447 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: and think that somehow, because the McMichaels in a very obvious, 448 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: very clear cut case of lynching and racism, we're convicted, 449 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: that that somehow means that our criminal justice system is working. 450 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: It isn't. And the reason why it isn't working is 451 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: because we all collectively had to hold our breath to 452 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: see if the same bullshit that unfolded with the Written 453 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: House case was going to happen with the McMichaels. Right, 454 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: the belief is that, oh, so long as people follow 455 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: the law, then everything will be fine. So long as 456 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: the jury came back and they say Written House isn't guilty, right, 457 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: so he can be a murderer of two people and 458 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: then get a congressional internship after the fact. That that 459 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: is justice, right, the jury has spoken. But if you 460 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: paid attention to that case, which I told you I 461 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: was not vigorously paying attention to because I care more 462 00:30:54,800 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: about my mental health, was that the judge told from 463 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: the jump when he did not allow for the victims 464 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: to be referred to as such. The judge told us 465 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: from the beginning. When then he decided to throw MSNBC 466 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: out of the courtroom, when then he would admonish right 467 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: the prosecution and not the defense and basically give the 468 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: defense a roadmap right to overturning the verdict if it 469 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: had come out guilty. We knew exactly where Judge Schroeder 470 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: was in this case, right, But you want to tell 471 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: us that this is justice, that an underage teenager can 472 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: buy an AAR fifteen or get one bought for him, 473 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: drive across state lines to say that he's protecting property, 474 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: murder two people, fatally injure another one and get off. 475 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: And then you want to tell me that because then, 476 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: in another racist, fucking case, right, that three men decide 477 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: that they have the ability to stop a black man 478 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: in his own community shoot him dead. Two district attorneys 479 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: refused to prosecute them, And if it had been left 480 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: up to the fucking Georgia police, those men would have 481 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: been sitting at home. No guilty verdict would have happened. 482 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: The only reason why those men were found guilty, the 483 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: only reason why those men were put on trial, was 484 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: for public outrage. If you remember, we did not learn 485 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: collectively about the killing of Ahmad Aubrey until months after 486 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: it happened, Months after those men who had blood all 487 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: over their clothing were sent home. Right, nothing to see here, folks. 488 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: So if it wasn't for the marching, if it wasn't 489 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: for the phone calls, if it wasn't for the constant 490 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: attention on mainstream news, then guess what the McMichaels would 491 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: have been let off Scott free. And now I want 492 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: folks to think about how many Mick Mike goals there 493 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: are around this country in your community, a living on 494 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: your block, how many written houses have now been newly 495 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: activated because they know that all they have to do 496 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: is say, well, I'm protecting property right over people and 497 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: be able to get off. That's who this country is. 498 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: Privilege looks like white people having the ability to stop 499 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: a black person in their tracks and then essentially say 500 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: show me your papers, show me where you're going, show 501 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: me that you have proof to be here, and thinking 502 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: that that is justifiable. That was their fucking defense to 503 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: try and utilize the law that was just recently taken 504 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: off the books because it was racist. Do you know 505 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: how many community across this nation still have sunset laws 506 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: on the books. Do you know what those are? The 507 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 1: ones that would provide white mobs the cover to lynch, murder, rape, 508 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: brutalize black people that had the audacity to be in 509 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: out out of doors in their community after the sunset. Oh, 510 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: you could be there as a domestic worker, but lord 511 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: knows that if you were caught out on the street 512 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: trying to get home from point A to point B, 513 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: you could be murdered by a white mob and they 514 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: would be justified in doing so. That was what the 515 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: McMichaels used as their defense for killing Amad Aubrey, a 516 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: twenty five year old that went out for a jog 517 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: and never came home. And what the written houses of 518 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: the world they're trying to do as well, is to 519 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: ensure that even our allies, because it was white people 520 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: that he murdered, that even our allies should be terrified 521 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,240 Speaker 1: to show up and to declare that black lives matter 522 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: because they too can be taken down. And I want 523 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:16,320 Speaker 1: folks to remember that while black people were being lynched 524 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: and murdered right at alarming rates, names that we will 525 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: never know, mass graves that probably still are yet to 526 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: be discovered. But we have cemeteries, honorary cemeteries filled with 527 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: Confederate fucking soldiers in this country. But we put those 528 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: that wanted to abolish slavery, those that were fighting for 529 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: their freedom, We burned their communities into the ground and 530 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:53,760 Speaker 1: put them into mass graves alongside those people, those white 531 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: allies that were also fighting for liberation. Kyle Rittenhouses was 532 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: just a throwback to that error. I'm just so sick 533 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 1: and tired of the lies of our criminal justices and 534 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: just follow the law. Oh why don't these people just 535 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: follow the law? The laws were not built for us. 536 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 1: What law did a mod Aubrey break? Hmm? What law 537 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,280 Speaker 1: did Brianna Taylor break? What law did John Crawford break? 538 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: What law did to me or Rice break? What law 539 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,959 Speaker 1: did tray Von Martin break? And that's just the ones 540 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: that are on the top of my mind right now. 541 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: There are tens of thousands, if not millions, of others. 542 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,839 Speaker 1: So no, I did not celebrate the verdict of the McMichaels, 543 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,280 Speaker 1: because if we had a justice system that was actually just, 544 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: then it was a foregone conclusion that they would have 545 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: been found guilty, not a bunch of finger crossing on 546 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,879 Speaker 1: a hope and a prayer that the law would come 547 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: out on our side, because the law we were told 548 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: was supposed to be applied equally across the board. But 549 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: we know that that is not the case. Everyone always 550 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,799 Speaker 1: loves to play on social media, well what if Kyle 551 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: Rittenhouse is black? You don't have to what if because 552 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 1: he would have been shot dead the moment that he 553 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: was seen within a R fifteen over his fucking shoulder. 554 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 1: What if the insurrectionists were But you don't have to wonder, 555 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: because all you would have seen in Washington, DC were 556 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: chalk lines and blood splattered all over the pavement. Just 557 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 1: in the same way, and let me bring it back us, 558 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: in the same way that this country will decide that 559 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:09,439 Speaker 1: we're going to punish and ban black and brown countries. Right, 560 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: but ignore the fact that the virus is already spread around, 561 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:21,399 Speaker 1: the new variant is already spread around. But no, it's 562 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: those nations that we're going to ban. You want to 563 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: tell me, right, You want to tell all of us 564 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 1: who pay attention that the problem that we're having right 565 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: now is wokeness. The problem is that people are too conscious, 566 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: or is the problem that the lies that have been 567 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 1: told since the formation of this nation are now beginning 568 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: to unravel. That the thread has been pulled, not just nared, 569 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:02,600 Speaker 1: but actually pulled, and the whole fucking guilt is falling apart. 570 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,480 Speaker 1: And we're just seeing, right, many people for the first time, 571 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, this shit ain't new, but they keep 572 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: trying to dish it out to us like it is. 573 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: It is, folks. And as we're coming to the end 574 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,279 Speaker 1: of this year, a year that has taught so much 575 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: but also taken so much. And that's how I feel 576 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,959 Speaker 1: that these years continue to go and just will be right. 577 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 1: That I don't know how to tell you that things 578 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,280 Speaker 1: may not get better, that they may actually get worse, 579 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 1: but that if you are not taking care of yourself right, 580 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,799 Speaker 1: your health, your well being. You know one of the 581 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:59,359 Speaker 1: things that we were going around my family's table and 582 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: we're staying you know what we have deep gratitude for? 583 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,879 Speaker 1: Or you we're playing this game that my mother loves. 584 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,840 Speaker 1: Which of these conversation starters like what gave you your 585 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,840 Speaker 1: biggest laugh this year? Like what brought you your most joy? 586 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: Like if you could do something over again, what would 587 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,799 Speaker 1: it be? And I love these things because I love reflections. 588 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: I love reflections on the lessons as well as on 589 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 1: the joy. And you know one of the things that 590 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: I say, and it's again, it's not about selfishness. It 591 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,880 Speaker 1: is about self care. That when everything around you seems 592 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: to be going wrong, it is not only revolutionary, but 593 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,239 Speaker 1: it is necessary to ground yourself and what is going right? 594 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: To ground yourself and find and ask yourself, what is 595 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: my center? What can I hold on to as these 596 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: storms around me? Build up speed right, and continue to 597 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:09,240 Speaker 1: linger that. If you are following every single Arbory case, 598 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: if you are following every single written house, then what 599 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: is it that you were doing to recharge? What is 600 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: it that you were doing to remind yourself that all 601 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: of humanity isn't ship? Because if you marinate and ship, 602 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: there is no way for it not to seep into you. 603 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: And again, this is why I say to all of you, 604 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: take breaks so that you do not have a breakdown, right, 605 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,560 Speaker 1: But that I mean that on a daily basis. Not 606 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:46,400 Speaker 1: just to store up your anxiety and depression and frustration 607 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,319 Speaker 1: right and trauma for a day and a half over 608 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: the weekend. No, I'm saying to find the ways, the 609 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:58,120 Speaker 1: healthy ways, every single day that allows you to have 610 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: a collective deep breath, that allows your shoulders to relax, right, 611 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,600 Speaker 1: that reminds you that all is not lost, because think 612 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 1: about it, this world has been through so much, so 613 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: many wars, so many lives lost, so many diseases, so 614 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:27,200 Speaker 1: much cruelty, And still art is created, Still songs are created, 615 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,680 Speaker 1: Still babies are created, and love is created. And the 616 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 1: sun rises and sets and the moon still comes out, 617 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: The leaves still fall and regain right. So we have 618 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 1: to find a way each and every day to reset 619 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:56,200 Speaker 1: ourselves right, to maybe dip our toes in, but then 620 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:02,879 Speaker 1: pull our entire foot out to understand enough ask those 621 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: questions and then wait for the answer. You know. For me, 622 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 1: I tell you that it has been my daily walks 623 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,200 Speaker 1: or workouts that just allow me to take some time 624 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,880 Speaker 1: to be grateful for my body and its ability to 625 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,760 Speaker 1: move and still gain strength, you know, for my moments 626 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,920 Speaker 1: in nature to look how the sun is hitting the 627 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,439 Speaker 1: trees or the grass, and to be able to take 628 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 1: in full, deep breaths and be grateful for that. For 629 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity to spend time with my family, to spend 630 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: time taking care of plants, and you know, catching up 631 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 1: with friends and family. Find joy in each and every day. 632 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: It's all we have because if you look, I tell 633 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,839 Speaker 1: you the last thing that I'll say is that my 634 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: mother and I one day we had this joke over 635 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,440 Speaker 1: the holiday where we had decided that we were going 636 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,680 Speaker 1: to turn on the news for roughly about fifteen to 637 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,799 Speaker 1: twenty minutes thirty minutes max. Because we were having such 638 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: a good day, but we wanted to see what was 639 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:20,880 Speaker 1: happening with the latest five variant, and in fifteen minutes, 640 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,719 Speaker 1: my mother was hysterical because she had said, oh, we 641 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,080 Speaker 1: should just take a sip of wine for every bad 642 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,840 Speaker 1: news story. And I'm like, are you trying to get wasted? 643 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,560 Speaker 1: And she just started laughing because she's just like, if 644 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,560 Speaker 1: we don't laugh, we will just cry. And frankly, Danielle, 645 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: I don't feel like crying. So sometimes you gotta look 646 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,960 Speaker 1: at it all and just be like, goddamn, you know, 647 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,880 Speaker 1: and then take a moment to hold something that is 648 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 1: good right, hold it to you and give thanks for that, 649 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: give gratitude for that, because there's too much that is 650 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 1: circulated right now that is trying to destroy us, and 651 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:10,239 Speaker 1: I'm here to remind you do not let it. That 652 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,600 Speaker 1: is it for me today, folks, on this wonderful, wonderful Monday, 653 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, power to the people and to 654 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:24,600 Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get get vaccinated, get boosted, and 655 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,160 Speaker 1: stay the woke as fuck.