Speaker 1: Good morning, keats and welcome to look at up daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording not So Live
Speaker 1: from the Long Island Bunker. Folks, I hope that you
Speaker 1: actually got some time, maybe the whole twenty four hours
Speaker 1: daring your Thanksgiving holiday to not think about our impending doom,
Speaker 1: to not be woken up at a sleep with a
Speaker 1: series of alerts that came through on my phone, as
Speaker 1: I'm sure they did with yours, to alert us to
Speaker 1: the fact that not even twenty four hours after gathering
Speaker 1: with our family and our friends for the first time
Speaker 1: since right the beginning of the pandemic for an actual holiday,
Speaker 1: that we would get the grand old news on Friday
Speaker 1: that yes, amy kron has hit the world. And what
Speaker 1: is that, Well, it's one of the scariest letters in
Speaker 1: the Greek alphabet. It is not a transformer, but it
Speaker 1: has transformed the COVID nineteen vaccine into thirty little nods.
Speaker 1: Thirty different mutations have now been discovered by scientists and
Speaker 1: epidemiologists in South Africa. And guess what gift they get
Speaker 1: for detecting yet a new variant in the world. Oh,
Speaker 1: they get banned from the United States and multiple European countries.
Speaker 1: And what I find really troubling about all of this
Speaker 1: is that it's bullshit. It's not actually based on anybody's
Speaker 1: fucking science. It's based on politics and racism and money.
Speaker 1: So let me take a step back, folks, and let
Speaker 1: us start from the beginning of the announcement of this news. Now, look,
Speaker 1: here's the thing is that until everyone and I don't
Speaker 1: mean everybody in your family, and I don't mean everybody
Speaker 1: in America, but I mean everyone in the world, until
Speaker 1: everyone is fully vaccinated, we are going to continue to
Speaker 1: get different variants of COVID nineteen. Because what we've learned
Speaker 1: through our time with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel and
Speaker 1: other doctors that have come on the show and scientists
Speaker 1: that have been studying this over the last we're headed
Speaker 1: into two years of living in a global health pandemic.
Speaker 1: Is this is that when there is a lot of
Speaker 1: virus that is still floating around in the air, what
Speaker 1: happens well that virus is then looking for different avenues
Speaker 1: and different hosts. And what will continue to happen is
Speaker 1: that what viruses do, they mutate in order to get
Speaker 1: stronger so that they can claim more victims. That is
Speaker 1: what viruses do, they look for hosts. And so here
Speaker 1: is an example where this new variant is discovered in
Speaker 1: South Africa by epidemiologists there. Now, instead of being hailed
Speaker 1: right for their transparency and the fact that they are
Speaker 1: continuing to do this work, and why is it discovered
Speaker 1: there because some of the world's best epidemiologists are in
Speaker 1: South Africa And why is that? Because they have dealt
Speaker 1: with other very serious viruses, some of which have never
Speaker 1: made it to the shores of the United States or
Speaker 1: other countries. Right. And so instead of right us deciding
Speaker 1: that we're not going to ban a virus because you
Speaker 1: can't fucking ban a virus that by the time this
Speaker 1: was discovered, let's say now at this time, it has
Speaker 1: been about a week since this discovery, that guess what,
Speaker 1: that virus has up and gone around that country, multiple
Speaker 1: other countries, gotten on multiple flights, right, and is already gone.
Speaker 1: And what many of the scientists and doctors that we're
Speaker 1: saying over the weekend as we are learning more about
Speaker 1: omikron is this is that these bands from countries are
Speaker 1: nothing more than political maneuvers. They make actually no scientific sense.
Speaker 1: And for an administration that claims to be following science.
Speaker 1: It seems to me that the Biden administration was once
Speaker 1: again politically swayed by what it was other countries were
Speaker 1: doing instead of actually deciding that, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: follow the CDC, We're going to follow the wh show.
Speaker 1: And what they are saying is that the measures that
Speaker 1: need to be put in place are not banning fucking
Speaker 1: nationals from other countries, right, but still accepting your US citizens,
Speaker 1: still accepting those that have permanent residency. What difference does
Speaker 1: it make. The most important thing to be doing at
Speaker 1: this moment would be to do a couple of things.
Speaker 1: A have a quarantine protocol that is place for all
Speaker 1: travelers coming into the United States, regardless of where they're
Speaker 1: coming from. If you're coming into the United States, that
Speaker 1: you need to be quarantining, whether or not you fucking
Speaker 1: live here or not. If you are coming from another country,
Speaker 1: you need to quarantine for whatever it is. If it
Speaker 1: is a week, if it's ten days, if it's two weeks,
Speaker 1: that's what you need to do. And fuck the economy
Speaker 1: and fuck dealing about politics and not actually paying attention
Speaker 1: to the health and the science around this, Right, Maybe
Speaker 1: instead of playing politics, we should do that. So that's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two, having a uniform policy with all
Speaker 1: all airlines in the United States that, guess what, in
Speaker 1: order to fucking fly internationally or domestically, you need to
Speaker 1: show proof of vaccine, right, instead of once again continuing
Speaker 1: to fucking cater to the twenty five percent that are
Speaker 1: never going to get vaccinated in this country because you
Speaker 1: know they would rather follow the Rogans, the Joe Rogans
Speaker 1: of the world than the actual scientists. Right, So instead
Speaker 1: of doing that, we're just going to decide to ban
Speaker 1: full countries. And again, I just want folks to be
Speaker 1: clear that when news of this new omicron variant hit
Speaker 1: and the United States announced that at midnight today that
Speaker 1: they were going to be banning South Africa and several
Speaker 1: other African nations, why the fuck didn't they ban Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: Why not people from Germany? Why not motherfucker's from the Netherlands, Right,
Speaker 1: because again, it had already been announced at the same
Speaker 1: goddamn time that the variant was in these other countries.
Speaker 1: So again, if I'm a reporter, if I'm a White
Speaker 1: House correspondent, and I'm sitting and I'm waiting for my
Speaker 1: Monday briefing you that's fucking believed that. I'm asking Jen Saki,
Speaker 1: and I'm asking whoever is going to be the spokesperson
Speaker 1: on this day from the COVID nineteen task force, how
Speaker 1: the decision to have a band for African nations but
Speaker 1: not the other nations where the variant was already discovered,
Speaker 1: How that came to pass, and how it doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense because several doctors and scientists that have been on
Speaker 1: the Sunday shows and been on all the news stations
Speaker 1: since it was announced have said that your travel bands
Speaker 1: are nothing more than political maneuvers. What do you think
Speaker 1: about that? That's what I would wait for, But of
Speaker 1: course we won't do that because our mainstream media is
Speaker 1: just as racist as every other fucking industry, and so
Speaker 1: you can justify, oh, well, it was discovered here, which
Speaker 1: means that there must be more of it, So we're
Speaker 1: going to put in a racist, xenophobic band, That's what
Speaker 1: we're going to do. I am just so fucking sick
Speaker 1: and tired of the bullshit, and I wish that people
Speaker 1: would just say what it is right like lying to me,
Speaker 1: stop pissing on our legs and telling us that it's
Speaker 1: fucking raining when you know exactly what it is that
Speaker 1: you're doing, and you know why you are making these maneuvers,
Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with keeping people quote
Speaker 1: unquote safe, Because if you wanted to have real safety
Speaker 1: right around around this virus innovating on itself every couple
Speaker 1: of fucking months, then you would put together drastic measures
Speaker 1: that need to be in place in order to keep
Speaker 1: people safe instead of worrying about these fucking twenty five
Speaker 1: percent nut jobs right who would rather beat up school
Speaker 1: board members and punch out their child's pediattrition for saying
Speaker 1: that they should wear a mask. They're the reasons why
Speaker 1: we are never getting rid of COVID nineteen. You know,
Speaker 1: I was sitting around the table on Thanksgiving, and you know,
Speaker 1: thankfully I will say this that my family is not crazy,
Speaker 1: So I did not need to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: all the ways to tiptoe around not talking about politics
Speaker 1: and not bringing up COVID and all of these things. Now,
Speaker 1: my family were all Democrats, right and of sound mind,
Speaker 1: and so I'm grateful for that. That was one of
Speaker 1: the things that I was very grateful for over Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: the holiday, But the reality is as I was saying
Speaker 1: to my mom. And I went on MSNBC over the
Speaker 1: weekend as well, and Aim and Mohadeen, the host of
Speaker 1: the show, asked, you know what people did in order
Speaker 1: to divert conversations around politics or not have those uncomfortable
Speaker 1: conversations with your answer uncles who may think differently than you.
Speaker 1: And I was having this debate with my mother, and
Speaker 1: I want to know what all of you think. I said.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that I believe that we elected
Speaker 1: a Donald Trump, And by we, I don't mean me
Speaker 1: and you because we were to staying for that, I
Speaker 1: mean the rest of America. The reason why Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was elected president and the reason why people were so
Speaker 1: shocked that their neighbors, that their friends, their pta neighbors,
Speaker 1: their kids school teacher, The reason why people were so
Speaker 1: shocked that they would fall for the ropadope of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and literally degrade themselves into a party that is
Speaker 1: nothing more than a cult of white supremacists is because
Speaker 1: we don't have those conversations. We actually have no idea
Speaker 1: how to have conversations with people whose opinions may differ
Speaker 1: from us. Now, I know that that you may think
Speaker 1: that That is a rich coming from me because I
Speaker 1: utilized my rage for my work. But trust and believe
Speaker 1: that when I am in small groups or gatherings with people,
Speaker 1: that I'm one of those people that will dig, that
Speaker 1: will ask you your why, right, Like what made you
Speaker 1: think this way? What made you vote this way? What
Speaker 1: it is about the course of your day to day
Speaker 1: life that made you believe or that makes you believe
Speaker 1: that a Donald Trump or Trumpism is going to be
Speaker 1: better for you, your family, in your community than anything else.
Speaker 1: You See, we don't know how to engage in conversation,
Speaker 1: nor do we teach people how to engage in conversation
Speaker 1: so that we can come to a level of collaboration,
Speaker 1: right if that is in fact your goal right to
Speaker 1: be able to work with people that think differently. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking again about rampid racists, because I don't
Speaker 1: want to work with those fucking people. But I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the people who were either middle of the fense right,
Speaker 1: or they started out at actually believing in economic anxiety
Speaker 1: and then that just turned into them having somebody to
Speaker 1: blame for their lat in life. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: I am trying to sit down and cajole racist. But
Speaker 1: I do believe that there was a point in time.
Speaker 1: I think we've fought passed that, But there was a
Speaker 1: point in time when if we were having conversations about
Speaker 1: political ideologies, policies and themes that we want to see
Speaker 1: in our own lives, and we start to ask people there,
Speaker 1: why why is it important to you that trans kids
Speaker 1: are not able to use the bathroom that they identify with?
Speaker 1: Why is it important to you that gay people should
Speaker 1: not be allowed to be married? Why is it important
Speaker 1: to you that everyone that kills an unarmed black person
Speaker 1: should be able to get off and have the reasonable
Speaker 1: doubt right? Like again, asking these questions, because then you
Speaker 1: understand or you force people to articulate their positions right,
Speaker 1: and then we can figure out, well, what is they're there?
Speaker 1: What's the thread that we can pull that would have
Speaker 1: their entire ideology that isn't made on anything collapse right,
Speaker 1: and be able to show them something that is better,
Speaker 1: right and offer that up. But because we've always been
Speaker 1: taught not to talk about politics and not to talk
Speaker 1: about religion, right, that we're just mom on these most
Speaker 1: important topics, these topics that actually dictate how we live
Speaker 1: our day to day life, which makes absolutely no sense
Speaker 1: to me. But I can understand from a politicians point
Speaker 1: of view or the clergy that so long as we
Speaker 1: keep people right isolated within their tribes, never to venture out,
Speaker 1: then you can continue to have control over them. But
Speaker 1: you see, if we learn how to coordinate, how to collaborate,
Speaker 1: how to be in conversation, and we no longer see
Speaker 1: each other as the enemy, right, then these other people
Speaker 1: that are above us don't have the power to rule
Speaker 1: us underneath their thumbs. This is what this all comes
Speaker 1: back to, folks, money and power, right, And I don't
Speaker 1: understand why we make everything so damn complicated. Why is
Speaker 1: it that we are going to continue to see new
Speaker 1: variants pop up all over the world. We'll let me
Speaker 1: tell you. Because the wealthiest fucking nations, right, who had
Speaker 1: their pledge to help the lower income nations, right, the
Speaker 1: lower the lower wealth earning nations, decided not to Right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get theirs right, much in the same way
Speaker 1: that the fucking wealthy in this country and in all
Speaker 1: countries around the world don't pay their fair share, don't
Speaker 1: you know, don't don't have their income tax, but have
Speaker 1: this tax and blah blah blah, and literally have all
Speaker 1: of these loopholes that were built for them right to
Speaker 1: continue to build their wealth right while everyone else arounds
Speaker 1: them suffers. It's the same way that these wealthy nations think, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we've got the vaccines for our people, So what difference
Speaker 1: does it make if we don't send over the vaccinations
Speaker 1: to lower wealth countries. Well, because it's a fucking virus.
Speaker 1: And until all of us are safe, none of us
Speaker 1: are safe. So until we have nations like Haiti, like
Speaker 1: South Africa, like Greece, like these other countries Austria, right,
Speaker 1: let the wait until we have these places right, have
Speaker 1: the amount of vaccines that they need, have the help
Speaker 1: with their rollouts, right, and so we know that we
Speaker 1: are doing all of our fair share. Right. You again,
Speaker 1: because there are people that I mean folks. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, small island Martinique right over the weekend,
Speaker 1: massive protests, shootings at journalists and shootings at cops. Why
Speaker 1: because of the COVID nineteen protocols that are being put
Speaker 1: in place, that are being forced on them, because they
Speaker 1: are still colonized by the French. Right, And so I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you're never going to be able to force people,
Speaker 1: while in some countries you actually can, but in democratic
Speaker 1: or at least democratic presenting countries, you're never going to
Speaker 1: be able to force people to take the vaccine. But
Speaker 1: if their government doesn't even have enough vaccine to pro by,
Speaker 1: that means that then they are the ones that are
Speaker 1: playing any meany miny mo and saying, well, we'll get
Speaker 1: you folks vaccinated, but not you folks over here, because
Speaker 1: guess what, they don't have enough. Meanwhile, in America, we
Speaker 1: have more than enough vaccines to get everyone in America
Speaker 1: vaccinated more than once, right on top of all of
Speaker 1: the booster shots that we're giving out right. And so
Speaker 1: my whole thing is that we are paused in this
Speaker 1: country at roughly fifty nine to sixty percent of the
Speaker 1: whole entire population of adults being vaccinated. Right. So if
Speaker 1: that be the case, and you know that you have
Speaker 1: a certain expiration date to be able to utilize these vaccines,
Speaker 1: then why aren't they being sent to the places that
Speaker 1: need them the most? And it is because of capitalism
Speaker 1: and because of racism, all of the reasons that if
Speaker 1: you look at where the fault lines are in this
Speaker 1: country and where most of the fault lines are around
Speaker 1: the world. That's what it comes down to, those two
Speaker 1: very things. Now we can right pretend that it's all
Speaker 1: a bunch of other issues and all a bunch of
Speaker 1: other things. Oh it's economic anxiety. Oh it's family choice.
Speaker 1: Oh it's this that there thing. No it's not. It's
Speaker 1: capitalism and racism, right, the two things that make this
Speaker 1: world go round or will make an implode, you know,
Speaker 1: pick a side. And then I saw something else over
Speaker 1: the weekend that literally made my skin crawl, which was
Speaker 1: this number. And again I'm not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 1: if this number is correct, but I'm going to throw
Speaker 1: it out there, and I'm going to say that it
Speaker 1: would cost this is what was being tweeted out when
Speaker 1: it was retweeted by a couple of news outlets, twenty
Speaker 1: five billion dollars to vaccinate the world. And again, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that is actually the right number, if
Speaker 1: it's so low, but let's say that it was a
Speaker 1: hundred billion, right, Let's just throw that out there. Let's
Speaker 1: say that it's a hundred billion dollars to vaccinate the world.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos is worth one hundred and fifty billion, right,
Speaker 1: and do you know what we did for the last
Speaker 1: couple of months, would celebrate him and Richard Branson and others,
Speaker 1: right with their billion dollars dick measuring competition that they're
Speaker 1: doing into outer space, celebrating their vast wealth that they
Speaker 1: can just shit away tens hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: so that they can take a little fifteen minute trip
Speaker 1: to outer space. Right meanwhile, we have a virus that
Speaker 1: is ravaging the planet, and people want to say, well,
Speaker 1: if we just had enough money, then we would be
Speaker 1: able to get people vaccinated. No, there is enough money.
Speaker 1: There's just not enough will, there's not enough interest to
Speaker 1: actually get those things done. But then we want to
Speaker 1: turn around and we want to celebrate greed. We want
Speaker 1: to give it wall to wall coverage from multiple days
Speaker 1: in a row, and then we want to blame the
Speaker 1: lower income countries that don't have the resources, and then
Speaker 1: we want to ban them. It's just like when you
Speaker 1: look at the picture that is continually painted, it's so
Speaker 1: disgusting and it's so hard not to look at it.
Speaker 1: You know. I tell folks like no rest, like get
Speaker 1: your rest recharge, and I tried desperately to do that
Speaker 1: and for the most part, I was successful until I
Speaker 1: got the breaking news alerts coming across my phone and
Speaker 1: I looked at my mother and we said, God damn,
Speaker 1: we had one day, one day and we still couldn't
Speaker 1: not talk about COVID because we're having our Thanksgiving in
Speaker 1: the shadow of what Thanksgiving looked like the year prior,
Speaker 1: you know, when it was just many of us with
Speaker 1: just our pod with the windows open, like, you know,
Speaker 1: probably washing our turkey with fucking bleach to make sure
Speaker 1: that there was no coronavirus on it, because that was
Speaker 1: where we were in terms of our understanding. Look how
Speaker 1: much we have learned? Well, you know, I would say
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of us. Look how much we have learned?
Speaker 1: Right while the twenty five percent continue to listen to
Speaker 1: you know, Tucker Carlson, who by the way, is vaccinated
Speaker 1: and boosted. It just pisces me off. You know. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I just get to a
Speaker 1: place of such a deep aggravation because I realize it's
Speaker 1: never going anywhere. We're going to be wearing masks. That
Speaker 1: is our future. I was looking at my local stations
Speaker 1: here on Long Island, and they have segments that they
Speaker 1: run every day called the New Normal and it is
Speaker 1: your latest coronavirus up day, which again, folks, we are
Speaker 1: going to be changing calendar year the calendar year in
Speaker 1: just a few short weeks. We are right now the
Speaker 1: last four weeks to go of twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: I can't help but think, and I'm sure all of
Speaker 1: you are doing this too, is thinking about the last
Speaker 1: year one. Where the fuck did twenty twenty one go? Right?
Speaker 1: And then also as we're heading into the new year,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, we are we are, folks,
Speaker 1: two years, two years into this with no end in sight.
Speaker 1: And my fear, as is everyone else's fear, is that
Speaker 1: we will continue to have this virus and at some
Speaker 1: point we're going to get a mutation that is going
Speaker 1: to get around our current vaccines and then what right
Speaker 1: right now, I just want folks to realize everything that
Speaker 1: transpires in Europe, for the last two years, we have
Speaker 1: been a month behind. They are on lockdown once again
Speaker 1: in Austria. As the TAO was tanking on Friday at
Speaker 1: news of the latest mutation, the latest strand peloton prices,
Speaker 1: we're going through the roof right. Their stock was up
Speaker 1: about six seven percent. Why is that because people are
Speaker 1: anticipating that all of this return to work in January,
Speaker 1: which for a lot of places right there are still
Speaker 1: twenty five percent twenty to twenty five percent of businesses
Speaker 1: never went back, and there were more that are like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we're going back in January of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: And now you see Peloton prices up. The rest of
Speaker 1: the DAO is crashed because we have no idea. There's
Speaker 1: now a new strand, right, and there's always going to
Speaker 1: be a new strand because you are always going to
Speaker 1: have this segment that until we have uniform rules across
Speaker 1: this country right, vaccine protocols on all public transportation, restaurants
Speaker 1: on indoors, this, that, and the other thing you're seeing.
Speaker 1: Austria is shut down. The UK has just issued now
Speaker 1: that you need to wear masks indoors outdoors, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you are, and it is uniform all across
Speaker 1: the UK. Folks are instituting new policies because what they
Speaker 1: are seeing is fucking grim. What they know is that
Speaker 1: these could potentially be that strand that is working around
Speaker 1: the vaccines, but we won't know for a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and in that time you were going to watch
Speaker 1: Omicron take over Delta as it has already done and
Speaker 1: set in parts of South Africa. And then what we're
Speaker 1: back to square one and again we can, much like
Speaker 1: the Democrats, continue to cater to the middle of these
Speaker 1: people that they think are going to vote for them
Speaker 1: once again. Once again, we continue to cater to the
Speaker 1: lowest common denominator. Because if you were to tell a
Speaker 1: majority of this country, right, not the fucking loud minority,
Speaker 1: not the loud crackpots of Trumpism, but if you were
Speaker 1: to say you can no longer fly, take a train,
Speaker 1: rent a car, right, if you are not vaccinated, you
Speaker 1: can no longer right fly in and out of the
Speaker 1: country without quarantining on either side, then you are going
Speaker 1: to seriously mitigate the issues that we're having, not putting
Speaker 1: together arbitrary, racist and xenophobic fucking travel bands, but following
Speaker 1: science and understanding, how do we mitigate this by making
Speaker 1: it almost impossible for people to live their lives without
Speaker 1: getting vaccinated. You know, I want to tell you the
Speaker 1: difference between what it's like an hour and a half
Speaker 1: where I live in Brooklyn at versus out East Summong
Speaker 1: Island where my family is. Out east Oumong Island, particularly
Speaker 1: Suffolk County. So Long Island has two counties, Nassau and Suffolk,
Speaker 1: and Suffolk County has always traditionally been more Republican. It's
Speaker 1: more rural the further out east that you get. And
Speaker 1: yes you have those poets of the places that people
Speaker 1: know about the Hamptons and this that weird thing where
Speaker 1: the wealthy are, but those are their summer homes. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it is mostly republican out here, and through redistricting it
Speaker 1: will be republican for us some time to come. But
Speaker 1: when you go into the stores here, right, and again
Speaker 1: just an hour and a half away from the city,
Speaker 1: they have in Suffolk County, no mask mandates, indoors, no
Speaker 1: vaccination mandates, indoors that they need to show. Right, the people,
Speaker 1: the store workers, whether it's the grocery store, clothing store,
Speaker 1: they're wearing masks. And I share is fucking wearing a mask, right,
Speaker 1: But ninety percent of the people in stores when I
Speaker 1: was going grocery shopping for a Thanksgiving no mask whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Now an hour and a half into the city, New
Speaker 1: York City, densely populated seven and a half eight million people. Right,
Speaker 1: you cannot eat indoors, workout indoors, shop indoors without showing
Speaker 1: proof of vaccination. Also, it is more likely than not
Speaker 1: that all of the stores also, on top of that,
Speaker 1: have mask mandates. You can't get on the subway. Now again,
Speaker 1: when I've been taken the subway over the last couple
Speaker 1: of months, you maybe have one or two people in
Speaker 1: the entire car that are not wearing a mask. Okay,
Speaker 1: go with God, is what I say to those people.
Speaker 1: But a majority of folks, what are they doing masking?
Speaker 1: Because it is the rule. So my whole thing is like,
Speaker 1: why do we have different rules an hour and a
Speaker 1: half apart? Right? Again, you want to keep every rate low,
Speaker 1: then have uniformity, have some fucking stability. This is what
Speaker 1: this new administration had told us that they were all about,
Speaker 1: We're going to follow science, except they're not following science,
Speaker 1: except they are continuing to follow politics and be afraid
Speaker 1: of the twenty five percent instead of doing what's right
Speaker 1: for the seventy five percent. How does that make sense?
Speaker 1: But that is where we are. So what I believe
Speaker 1: is for you all follow the news, not the news
Speaker 1: that is in the United States, but the news everywhere
Speaker 1: else and understand that the United States is about a
Speaker 1: month behind where Europe is. So the UK wants to
Speaker 1: announce new COVID protocols. Austria's on lockdown. Germany is looking
Speaker 1: around trying to avoid a recession because if they shut
Speaker 1: down then all hell is going to break loose in
Speaker 1: the EU. But you want to battle the economy against
Speaker 1: the Kilo virus again and see what happens, right, Because
Speaker 1: if you're dead, you can't work. If you're dead, you
Speaker 1: can't pay taxes. Right. Shifting gear as folks to the
Speaker 1: other stories. At the end of last week, we had
Speaker 1: the verdict in the McMichael's trial for the killing of
Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey, and the McMichaels were found guilty on all
Speaker 1: charges and as well as the third person that murdered
Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey. And I don't want people to be confused
Speaker 1: and think that somehow, because the McMichaels in a very obvious,
Speaker 1: very clear cut case of lynching and racism, we're convicted,
Speaker 1: that that somehow means that our criminal justice system is working.
Speaker 1: It isn't. And the reason why it isn't working is
Speaker 1: because we all collectively had to hold our breath to
Speaker 1: see if the same bullshit that unfolded with the Written
Speaker 1: House case was going to happen with the McMichaels. Right,
Speaker 1: the belief is that, oh, so long as people follow
Speaker 1: the law, then everything will be fine. So long as
Speaker 1: the jury came back and they say Written House isn't guilty, right,
Speaker 1: so he can be a murderer of two people and
Speaker 1: then get a congressional internship after the fact. That that
Speaker 1: is justice, right, the jury has spoken. But if you
Speaker 1: paid attention to that case, which I told you I
Speaker 1: was not vigorously paying attention to because I care more
Speaker 1: about my mental health, was that the judge told from
Speaker 1: the jump when he did not allow for the victims
Speaker 1: to be referred to as such. The judge told us
Speaker 1: from the beginning. When then he decided to throw MSNBC
Speaker 1: out of the courtroom, when then he would admonish right
Speaker 1: the prosecution and not the defense and basically give the
Speaker 1: defense a roadmap right to overturning the verdict if it
Speaker 1: had come out guilty. We knew exactly where Judge Schroeder
Speaker 1: was in this case, right, But you want to tell
Speaker 1: us that this is justice, that an underage teenager can
Speaker 1: buy an AAR fifteen or get one bought for him,
Speaker 1: drive across state lines to say that he's protecting property,
Speaker 1: murder two people, fatally injure another one and get off.
Speaker 1: And then you want to tell me that because then,
Speaker 1: in another racist, fucking case, right, that three men decide
Speaker 1: that they have the ability to stop a black man
Speaker 1: in his own community shoot him dead. Two district attorneys
Speaker 1: refused to prosecute them, And if it had been left
Speaker 1: up to the fucking Georgia police, those men would have
Speaker 1: been sitting at home. No guilty verdict would have happened.
Speaker 1: The only reason why those men were found guilty, the
Speaker 1: only reason why those men were put on trial, was
Speaker 1: for public outrage. If you remember, we did not learn
Speaker 1: collectively about the killing of Ahmad Aubrey until months after
Speaker 1: it happened, Months after those men who had blood all
Speaker 1: over their clothing were sent home. Right, nothing to see here, folks.
Speaker 1: So if it wasn't for the marching, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for the phone calls, if it wasn't for the constant
Speaker 1: attention on mainstream news, then guess what the McMichaels would
Speaker 1: have been let off Scott free. And now I want
Speaker 1: folks to think about how many Mick Mike goals there
Speaker 1: are around this country in your community, a living on
Speaker 1: your block, how many written houses have now been newly
Speaker 1: activated because they know that all they have to do
Speaker 1: is say, well, I'm protecting property right over people and
Speaker 1: be able to get off. That's who this country is.
Speaker 1: Privilege looks like white people having the ability to stop
Speaker 1: a black person in their tracks and then essentially say
Speaker 1: show me your papers, show me where you're going, show
Speaker 1: me that you have proof to be here, and thinking
Speaker 1: that that is justifiable. That was their fucking defense to
Speaker 1: try and utilize the law that was just recently taken
Speaker 1: off the books because it was racist. Do you know
Speaker 1: how many community across this nation still have sunset laws
Speaker 1: on the books. Do you know what those are? The
Speaker 1: ones that would provide white mobs the cover to lynch, murder, rape,
Speaker 1: brutalize black people that had the audacity to be in
Speaker 1: out out of doors in their community after the sunset. Oh,
Speaker 1: you could be there as a domestic worker, but lord
Speaker 1: knows that if you were caught out on the street
Speaker 1: trying to get home from point A to point B,
Speaker 1: you could be murdered by a white mob and they
Speaker 1: would be justified in doing so. That was what the
Speaker 1: McMichaels used as their defense for killing Amad Aubrey, a
Speaker 1: twenty five year old that went out for a jog
Speaker 1: and never came home. And what the written houses of
Speaker 1: the world they're trying to do as well, is to
Speaker 1: ensure that even our allies, because it was white people
Speaker 1: that he murdered, that even our allies should be terrified
Speaker 1: to show up and to declare that black lives matter
Speaker 1: because they too can be taken down. And I want
Speaker 1: folks to remember that while black people were being lynched
Speaker 1: and murdered right at alarming rates, names that we will
Speaker 1: never know, mass graves that probably still are yet to
Speaker 1: be discovered. But we have cemeteries, honorary cemeteries filled with
Speaker 1: Confederate fucking soldiers in this country. But we put those
Speaker 1: that wanted to abolish slavery, those that were fighting for
Speaker 1: their freedom, We burned their communities into the ground and
Speaker 1: put them into mass graves alongside those people, those white
Speaker 1: allies that were also fighting for liberation. Kyle Rittenhouses was
Speaker 1: just a throwback to that error. I'm just so sick
Speaker 1: and tired of the lies of our criminal justices and
Speaker 1: just follow the law. Oh why don't these people just
Speaker 1: follow the law? The laws were not built for us.
Speaker 1: What law did a mod Aubrey break? Hmm? What law
Speaker 1: did Brianna Taylor break? What law did John Crawford break?
Speaker 1: What law did to me or Rice break? What law
Speaker 1: did tray Von Martin break? And that's just the ones
Speaker 1: that are on the top of my mind right now.
Speaker 1: There are tens of thousands, if not millions, of others.
Speaker 1: So no, I did not celebrate the verdict of the McMichaels,
Speaker 1: because if we had a justice system that was actually just,
Speaker 1: then it was a foregone conclusion that they would have
Speaker 1: been found guilty, not a bunch of finger crossing on
Speaker 1: a hope and a prayer that the law would come
Speaker 1: out on our side, because the law we were told
Speaker 1: was supposed to be applied equally across the board. But
Speaker 1: we know that that is not the case. Everyone always
Speaker 1: loves to play on social media, well what if Kyle
Speaker 1: Rittenhouse is black? You don't have to what if because
Speaker 1: he would have been shot dead the moment that he
Speaker 1: was seen within a R fifteen over his fucking shoulder.
Speaker 1: What if the insurrectionists were But you don't have to wonder,
Speaker 1: because all you would have seen in Washington, DC were
Speaker 1: chalk lines and blood splattered all over the pavement. Just
Speaker 1: in the same way, and let me bring it back us,
Speaker 1: in the same way that this country will decide that
Speaker 1: we're going to punish and ban black and brown countries. Right,
Speaker 1: but ignore the fact that the virus is already spread around,
Speaker 1: the new variant is already spread around. But no, it's
Speaker 1: those nations that we're going to ban. You want to
Speaker 1: tell me, right, You want to tell all of us
Speaker 1: who pay attention that the problem that we're having right
Speaker 1: now is wokeness. The problem is that people are too conscious,
Speaker 1: or is the problem that the lies that have been
Speaker 1: told since the formation of this nation are now beginning
Speaker 1: to unravel. That the thread has been pulled, not just nared,
Speaker 1: but actually pulled, and the whole fucking guilt is falling apart.
Speaker 1: And we're just seeing, right, many people for the first time,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, this shit ain't new, but they keep
Speaker 1: trying to dish it out to us like it is.
Speaker 1: It is, folks. And as we're coming to the end
Speaker 1: of this year, a year that has taught so much
Speaker 1: but also taken so much. And that's how I feel
Speaker 1: that these years continue to go and just will be right.
Speaker 1: That I don't know how to tell you that things
Speaker 1: may not get better, that they may actually get worse,
Speaker 1: but that if you are not taking care of yourself right,
Speaker 1: your health, your well being. You know one of the
Speaker 1: things that we were going around my family's table and
Speaker 1: we're staying you know what we have deep gratitude for?
Speaker 1: Or you we're playing this game that my mother loves.
Speaker 1: Which of these conversation starters like what gave you your
Speaker 1: biggest laugh this year? Like what brought you your most joy?
Speaker 1: Like if you could do something over again, what would
Speaker 1: it be? And I love these things because I love reflections.
Speaker 1: I love reflections on the lessons as well as on
Speaker 1: the joy. And you know one of the things that
Speaker 1: I say, and it's again, it's not about selfishness. It
Speaker 1: is about self care. That when everything around you seems
Speaker 1: to be going wrong, it is not only revolutionary, but
Speaker 1: it is necessary to ground yourself and what is going right?
Speaker 1: To ground yourself and find and ask yourself, what is
Speaker 1: my center? What can I hold on to as these
Speaker 1: storms around me? Build up speed right, and continue to
Speaker 1: linger that. If you are following every single Arbory case,
Speaker 1: if you are following every single written house, then what
Speaker 1: is it that you were doing to recharge? What is
Speaker 1: it that you were doing to remind yourself that all
Speaker 1: of humanity isn't ship? Because if you marinate and ship,
Speaker 1: there is no way for it not to seep into you.
Speaker 1: And again, this is why I say to all of you,
Speaker 1: take breaks so that you do not have a breakdown, right,
Speaker 1: But that I mean that on a daily basis. Not
Speaker 1: just to store up your anxiety and depression and frustration
Speaker 1: right and trauma for a day and a half over
Speaker 1: the weekend. No, I'm saying to find the ways, the
Speaker 1: healthy ways, every single day that allows you to have
Speaker 1: a collective deep breath, that allows your shoulders to relax, right,
Speaker 1: that reminds you that all is not lost, because think
Speaker 1: about it, this world has been through so much, so
Speaker 1: many wars, so many lives lost, so many diseases, so
Speaker 1: much cruelty, And still art is created, Still songs are created,
Speaker 1: Still babies are created, and love is created. And the
Speaker 1: sun rises and sets and the moon still comes out,
Speaker 1: The leaves still fall and regain right. So we have
Speaker 1: to find a way each and every day to reset
Speaker 1: ourselves right, to maybe dip our toes in, but then
Speaker 1: pull our entire foot out to understand enough ask those
Speaker 1: questions and then wait for the answer. You know. For me,
Speaker 1: I tell you that it has been my daily walks
Speaker 1: or workouts that just allow me to take some time
Speaker 1: to be grateful for my body and its ability to
Speaker 1: move and still gain strength, you know, for my moments
Speaker 1: in nature to look how the sun is hitting the
Speaker 1: trees or the grass, and to be able to take
Speaker 1: in full, deep breaths and be grateful for that. For
Speaker 1: the opportunity to spend time with my family, to spend
Speaker 1: time taking care of plants, and you know, catching up
Speaker 1: with friends and family. Find joy in each and every day.
Speaker 1: It's all we have because if you look, I tell
Speaker 1: you the last thing that I'll say is that my
Speaker 1: mother and I one day we had this joke over
Speaker 1: the holiday where we had decided that we were going
Speaker 1: to turn on the news for roughly about fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty minutes thirty minutes max. Because we were having such
Speaker 1: a good day, but we wanted to see what was
Speaker 1: happening with the latest five variant, and in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: my mother was hysterical because she had said, oh, we
Speaker 1: should just take a sip of wine for every bad
Speaker 1: news story. And I'm like, are you trying to get wasted?
Speaker 1: And she just started laughing because she's just like, if
Speaker 1: we don't laugh, we will just cry. And frankly, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like crying. So sometimes you gotta look
Speaker 1: at it all and just be like, goddamn, you know,
Speaker 1: and then take a moment to hold something that is
Speaker 1: good right, hold it to you and give thanks for that,
Speaker 1: give gratitude for that, because there's too much that is
Speaker 1: circulated right now that is trying to destroy us, and
Speaker 1: I'm here to remind you do not let it. That
Speaker 1: is it for me today, folks, on this wonderful, wonderful Monday,
Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get get vaccinated, get boosted, and
Speaker 1: stay the woke as fuck.