Speaker 1: Good morning, Keep Send. Welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. So, folks,
Speaker 1: it is Woke Wednesday. And what I launched last week
Speaker 1: was a Woke Wednesday that was a little more formulaic
Speaker 1: in terms of covering stories that I think are really
Speaker 1: important and running through them with you. So Woke Wednesdays
Speaker 1: are going to be top three stories that I think
Speaker 1: that folks should be woke to and having conversations about
Speaker 1: on your own social media platforms with your own friends, colleagues,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And so I want to start off today's
Speaker 1: Woke Wednesday with sharing quickly the feelings that I've been having.
Speaker 1: If you're following me on social media, which I know
Speaker 1: that many of you do, you know, the weeks and
Speaker 1: the days are getting very long. And I don't just
Speaker 1: mean our move towards spring here, I mean just the constant,
Speaker 1: just pounding of bad news. And I want to encourage
Speaker 1: everyone that even as I go through my feelings on
Speaker 1: social media about feeling hopeless, but you know, there are
Speaker 1: times when I feel hopeless as everybody else does, and
Speaker 1: so when you see that, don't think that I am
Speaker 1: like walking away from my work, not yet anyway, but
Speaker 1: that I'm just exhausted, as many of us are. I
Speaker 1: just get fucking exhausted and overwhelmed, and it's usually a
Speaker 1: time when I need to take a absolute break. And
Speaker 1: so what in my break look like after the Supreme
Speaker 1: Courts news, It looked like watching the amazing Disney Plus
Speaker 1: animated series done by Kugali Media called Uwashu. And let
Speaker 1: me just tell you, if you are looking for just
Speaker 1: a little break, a little reprieve, watch this extraordinary little
Speaker 1: animated series. It's the first time that Disney has ever
Speaker 1: partnered with an outside group, an outside media company. Kugali
Speaker 1: is the media company founded by three African men, two
Speaker 1: Nigerian men, and one Ugandan. And the story is about
Speaker 1: a wealthy Nigerian girl whose father is a tech billionaire
Speaker 1: in a futuristic Legos and it is extraordinary the way
Speaker 1: that it was done. It's inspiring, it's beautiful, and I
Speaker 1: just loved it so much. I don't have kids. I
Speaker 1: watched it because I wanted a break. So I say
Speaker 1: all that to say, go ahead and check that out,
Speaker 1: all right. So that's a little good news if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a little reprieve from things. And also I
Speaker 1: think that the more people that watch it, the more
Speaker 1: that Disney will get the message that we want other stories,
Speaker 1: that we want other tales. The world is rich, the
Speaker 1: continent of Africa is rich, and this story and the
Speaker 1: curation and the music all done by people inside the
Speaker 1: continent and it's just it's glorious. And then they follow
Speaker 1: up with a documentary on the making of it because
Speaker 1: it was a huge undertaking in the first time that
Speaker 1: Disney had ever done something like this. So anyway, Awaju
Speaker 1: Disney Plus check it out. I'm not getting paid for this.
Speaker 1: I just really loved it. All right. Now, let's get
Speaker 1: into the news. So what are the top three stories.
Speaker 1: Let's start off with what happened over the weekend in
Speaker 1: Selma at the fifty ninth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Bloody
Speaker 1: Sunday being the day when the late John Lewis among
Speaker 1: other civil rights leaders were beaten because they crossed the
Speaker 1: Edmund Pettish Bridge wanting to seek racial justice, equity, right
Speaker 1: to be treated with dignity and respect, and it was
Speaker 1: televised they were beaten bloody and it was one of
Speaker 1: those inflection moments in the fight for civil rights. Now,
Speaker 1: what happens there on the fifty ninth anniversary, Well, Vice
Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris gives a speech where she calls for
Speaker 1: an immediate cease fire with a caveat of six weeks.
Speaker 1: And while her speech is getting a lot of attention won,
Speaker 1: there is controversy where what is being reported is saying
Speaker 1: that her speech was worded down by the administration. You know,
Speaker 1: right before she was to give it, that she had
Speaker 1: harsher crittiques for Israel that were wordered down. Now, her
Speaker 1: office has pushed back in a statement and said that
Speaker 1: that was not the case, that what she offered was
Speaker 1: in alignment with what President Biden had said two days
Speaker 1: prior when he also called for a six week ceasefire. Folks,
Speaker 1: let me just take a breath. First of all, social
Speaker 1: media is really giving us a front view to genocide.
Speaker 1: We have now, according to the UN, have seen the
Speaker 1: death of a tenth child, the tenth Palestinian child to starvation.
Speaker 1: That is ISRAELI made right. We are seeing pictures I've
Speaker 1: scrolled on social media to see the hollowed out dead
Speaker 1: faces of children come across my feed. And we are
Speaker 1: seeing the United States pat itself on the back for
Speaker 1: air dropping thirty eight thousand you know, meals for millions
Speaker 1: of people. Millions of people are in danger of starvation
Speaker 1: and dehydration, not to mention, you know, being bombed to pieces.
Speaker 1: But then the United States drops aid and wants to
Speaker 1: be celebrated for that. But you're sending the money, our
Speaker 1: money to drop the bombs that are causing the IDF
Speaker 1: made famine in the first place. Are we in crazy town?
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck is happening? Right? Like? Are we
Speaker 1: in sane where you are both funding the aid and
Speaker 1: funding the war at the same time, and we're supposed
Speaker 1: to think that that shit is normal and not see
Speaker 1: any hypocrisy in that or depravity in that. So when
Speaker 1: I heard the Vice President's speech on the fifty ninth
Speaker 1: anniversary of an inflection point in the civil rights movement,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, not only did I find it to
Speaker 1: be in poor taste, I'm gonna be honest because folks
Speaker 1: will tell me, oh, I'm coming to my senses because
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Israel and Gaza. First of all, I've
Speaker 1: been talking about Israel and Gaza since the beginning of
Speaker 1: the war, which, by the way, is not actually a war,
Speaker 1: because the war is when two sides are fighting each other,
Speaker 1: not just one side committing humanitarian crises. Right. I don't
Speaker 1: see the Palestinian people having the same equipment AMMO or anything.
Speaker 1: I see them trying to fucking bake bread but being
Speaker 1: blown up or shocked to death because they're going to
Speaker 1: humanitarian aid tents to get flower. So it's not a war.
Speaker 1: So let us be very clear about the language that
Speaker 1: is being used to make us believe that somehow there
Speaker 1: is some equal footing that is happening. There isn't. Thirty
Speaker 1: thousand people are dead and counting. So when the United
Speaker 1: States is calling for a six week cease fire, all
Speaker 1: they are doing is pressing pause on a fucking genocide.
Speaker 1: Let us be real about that. So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to congratulate the administration for what doing what exactly, because
Speaker 1: if the Biden administration wanted to put an end to
Speaker 1: this fucking travesty, they could. They could get on the
Speaker 1: horn and tell Natanyahu, guess what, the fucking American gravy
Speaker 1: train that you've been slabbering up is over. It is done.
Speaker 1: You are getting no more aid, you are getting no
Speaker 1: more weapons, You are getting not a fucking thing until
Speaker 1: the atrocities stop. How many more fucking stories do we
Speaker 1: have to see about these disgusting, idf fucking militants. The rape,
Speaker 1: the beatings, the posing with bodies and lingerie and all
Speaker 1: of these things that just show their lack of humanity.
Speaker 1: You want to tell me that that's just a few
Speaker 1: bad apples. Give me a fucking break. So, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna pat the administration on the back for pulling
Speaker 1: some political theatrics just in time for the roundup of
Speaker 1: the primaries. Give me a fucking break. You think we're stupid? So,
Speaker 1: you know, folks, I say this to say and then
Speaker 1: people are just like, so, then what you know? We're
Speaker 1: not gonna vote and we're not gonna do this, that
Speaker 1: and the other thing. No, but if you think that
Speaker 1: I'm going into the voting booth happy to vote for
Speaker 1: Biden and Harris, no i am not. But I'm also
Speaker 1: not gonna put my life, my family's life, and all
Speaker 1: of your lives at risk by another Trump administration or
Speaker 1: any fucking Republican entering into the White House when they
Speaker 1: are telling us very clearly about what they're doing. But
Speaker 1: two things can be true at the same fucking time. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit around and use my social
Speaker 1: media platform and my influence to smoke up people's ass
Speaker 1: or gas like them into thinking that somehow Biden is
Speaker 1: assault of the fucking earth. Not when you are the
Speaker 1: reason why tens of thousands of fucking children are dead.
Speaker 1: But do I think that Donald Trump would be a
Speaker 1: good move? No, I do not. This is what it
Speaker 1: looks like to be between a rock and a fucking
Speaker 1: hard place. This is what it looks like when you
Speaker 1: are forced to make really hard, fucking choices that challenge
Speaker 1: your values, but you have enough common fucking sense to
Speaker 1: know that what is staring you in the face is
Speaker 1: your own demise And do you want to be a
Speaker 1: party to that? Because you can't help anybody if you
Speaker 1: can't help yourself. So don't get it twisted when people
Speaker 1: see me commenting and i'llo so sharing videos and things
Speaker 1: on social media talking about I came to my fucking sensus.
Speaker 1: I've had sense switching gears the Supreme fucking Court. You know,
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Supreme Court issues are ruling via their website,
Speaker 1: by the way, because the courts were actually closed to
Speaker 1: say that in a nine zip decision. Oh, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: can remain on the ballots in Colorado and in other
Speaker 1: states that tried to remove him because of the Constitution
Speaker 1: in the fourteenth Amendment that says that participation in a
Speaker 1: insurrection disallows you from the ballots. And apparently states rights
Speaker 1: only matter if you are a red state and you
Speaker 1: are taking away the rights of your constituents. But if
Speaker 1: you are a blue or purple state and you were
Speaker 1: trying to uphold the Constitution, apparently actually just a step
Speaker 1: too far. Let me tell you something. One of our friends,
Speaker 1: Elie Mistel, wrote a piece for The Nation that says
Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court must be stopped, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Speaker 1: There is nothing supreme about the Supreme Court that is
Speaker 1: filled with fucking grifters right, that are filled with radical
Speaker 1: right wing white supremacists right. And Clarence Thomas is absolutely
Speaker 1: a white supremacist. Don't get it twisted. Who are an
Speaker 1: unelected body that get to make rules and judgments for
Speaker 1: the rest of us, right, that get to decide who
Speaker 1: has bodily autonomy and who doesn't that get to decide.
Speaker 1: After fifty some years of affirmative action and trying to
Speaker 1: rebalance the scales of slavery and Jim Crow, oh you've
Speaker 1: gone a step too far. There's just too many successful
Speaker 1: black and around people. I can't fucking stand the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: I have lost all faith, hope, and respect for that body.
Speaker 1: And so this decision is not unlike the less bunches
Speaker 1: of decisions or what is coming at us in June,
Speaker 1: which is just more guns, less rights, less access, and
Speaker 1: more white supremacy and patriarchy. That's what this is. And
Speaker 1: so like what pissons me off about America and Americans,
Speaker 1: I mean, the list is so long right now, but
Speaker 1: it's the fact that, like every other fucking country, as
Speaker 1: their rights are being violated and taken away, people just
Speaker 1: up and fucking get in the streets for however long
Speaker 1: that it takes. And I don't know if it is
Speaker 1: that Americans are just so exhausted and overworked, are just
Speaker 1: so like aloof I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: this Supreme Court is fucking wrecking havoc on our democracy.
Speaker 1: I posted this week and I said, look, I just
Speaker 1: like I think that it's cruel for us to wait,
Speaker 1: have to be forced to wait until fucking November to
Speaker 1: find out that democracy is officially dead, right, Like I
Speaker 1: would just love I would love it if and to
Speaker 1: save the what's left of my nerves to just know
Speaker 1: this ship is sailed. We're like on the Titanic and
Speaker 1: everything is just slipping away. But it's so slow, it's
Speaker 1: so goddamn painful. Right, I'm just like, I don't want
Speaker 1: death by a thousand cuts. I'm like, just off it already, right,
Speaker 1: just pull the plug on democracy so that we all
Speaker 1: just figure out what our next steps are. But this
Speaker 1: slow fucking role death that is happening right now, it
Speaker 1: is exactly what Steve Bannon wanted. It is the flooding
Speaker 1: of the zone, the weakening of the spirit, the breaking
Speaker 1: of the heart, the lifting of the veil, the clearing
Speaker 1: of the rose colored glasses, like you name it. I
Speaker 1: can keep going. And then at the same time, my
Speaker 1: third story, right is France, France sitting back watching the
Speaker 1: United States and saying, you know what, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: do here. We're not even gonna play around. We're gonna
Speaker 1: enshrine abortion into the constitution. We're not even going to
Speaker 1: waste time for there to be another right wing push
Speaker 1: in this country, which, by the way, there was because
Speaker 1: the wing, the fascists are on the rise, on the move.
Speaker 1: They're all the rage these days. It's just trend. Be
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker. And they said, so now we're not
Speaker 1: gonna play games, We're not gonna make assumptions because look
Speaker 1: at America. And so they just enshrined abortion into the constitution.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself, wow, this is really it.
Speaker 1: The rest of the world is looking at America and saying, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: America is really at the find out stage. They've been
Speaker 1: fucking around with everyone else's democracies, with everyone else's autonomy,
Speaker 1: with leadership, and moving people in and out of different
Speaker 1: countries and bombing these places and keeping quiet and all
Speaker 1: of those things. And now the right wing, the white supremacists,
Speaker 1: the Christian fascists, have taken hold. And while America was
Speaker 1: looking down its nose at everyone else and saying, oh,
Speaker 1: look at their elections. Look how crazy these things are.
Speaker 1: Thank god, we're okay and safe. And now it's our turn,
Speaker 1: because America's empire is done right like it's been. Actually,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen was the beginning of the end, and over
Speaker 1: the last eight years we have unraveled, backslid and are
Speaker 1: in an essential free fall. And it was the Daily
Speaker 1: Beast that said recently that the Supreme Court just picked
Speaker 1: up where the January sixth mob left off. And those
Speaker 1: are facts. Right. We didn't want to believe Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: but her emails, but this, that and the other thing
Speaker 1: she told us, whoever the next president is going to
Speaker 1: be of these United States, is going to control the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. So any of the rights that you think
Speaker 1: that you have are going to be gone? Was she wrong?
Speaker 1: So my feeling about America is that folks are still
Speaker 1: in this place of disbelief. It can't possibly happen here,
Speaker 1: but they're watching it day by day. Right, they're watching
Speaker 1: what happened in Oklahoma with the young non binary youth
Speaker 1: that succumbed to trauma of being beaten, right, and the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma governor not giving a fuck. He didn't lose his job. Right,
Speaker 1: he could come right out and say, we don't want
Speaker 1: these people in our state. But we're looking at Ghana
Speaker 1: getting ready to pass new laws that say that you
Speaker 1: can't even say that you're gay without going to jail,
Speaker 1: and we say, oh my god, how archaic the fuck
Speaker 1: you think they get those rules from? Because white evangelical
Speaker 1: Christians do their dirty work in nations in Africa to
Speaker 1: see how things will play out. Right, what is happening
Speaker 1: in Ghana is no different of what will happen in
Speaker 1: the United States and a Trump administration or a Hally
Speaker 1: administration or any Republican administration, they are telling you everything.
Speaker 1: They're gonna outlaw IVF, They're gonna outlaw being gay, They're
Speaker 1: gonna ban all of the books. They're gonna close down DEI,
Speaker 1: They're gonna close down HBCUs. They're gonna close down any
Speaker 1: access to any money for any initiative that is not,
Speaker 1: gonna deny climate change, gonna rid the country of child
Speaker 1: labor laws, going to get rid of unions. I just
Speaker 1: talked about a law the other day in Kentucky that
Speaker 1: they're trying to put in place that would make it
Speaker 1: okay for employers to no longer provide lunch breaks or
Speaker 1: rest breaks. This is what the Republican Party is doing.
Speaker 1: So yes, can I start out at the top of
Speaker 1: the show cursing the Biden administration out and saying that
Speaker 1: they are putting us between a rock and a hard place. Apps,
Speaker 1: So fucking lutey do I also know what the fuck
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is doing apps fucking lutey. Two things
Speaker 1: can be true at the same time. I can absolutely
Speaker 1: be disgusted with the Biden administration's actions in Israel, and
Speaker 1: I can absolutely know that we are in the midst
Speaker 1: of an existential crisis. And do I think that if, if, if,
Speaker 1: by the grace of God, Biden is re elected in November,
Speaker 1: do I think that we are safe and clear. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I don't think that we'll ever be safe or clear again,
Speaker 1: because unless somebody wants to actually take control and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, the Department of Justice is opening up
Speaker 1: an investigation into the Supreme Court. You know what, We're
Speaker 1: not only going to try and convict the footshoulders of
Speaker 1: the insurrection, but we're going after members of Congress. You
Speaker 1: know what. That We're going to pave the way for
Speaker 1: the Justice Department to take down Donald Trump and then
Speaker 1: go after all of his sick offens, all of the
Speaker 1: people that aided and abetted his crime spree. Like, unless
Speaker 1: you're going to go to the root of the rot,
Speaker 1: you can just expect a new crop every few fucking years.
Speaker 1: So all the election re election of Joe Biden will
Speaker 1: do is bias time unless we're willing to use that
Speaker 1: time to get to the rot. That's the question that
Speaker 1: we have to ask ourselves. But understand again that we
Speaker 1: are absolutely between a rock and a hard place. The
Speaker 1: decisions that we make in the next several months are
Speaker 1: going to affect the next several generations. What will it be? That?
Speaker 1: Is it for me? Today? Dear friends on wokf as
Speaker 1: all power to the people and to all the people power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck. M.