Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA app Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording pre recording from the
Speaker 1: home bunker. Folks. I can't express enough one thank you
Speaker 1: all for your DMS and feedback on some of the
Speaker 1: shows that were focused around Israel and Palestine and our
Speaker 1: collective humanity. I really appreciate it. Like all of you,
Speaker 1: I continue to just be in shock and awe over
Speaker 1: the just catastrophic amount of life that is being taken
Speaker 1: right now. If I think about it for too long,
Speaker 1: I will burst back into tears, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do that today. But I want to start out
Speaker 1: today's show with talking about the young boy whose life
Speaker 1: was taken from him in the United States, which is
Speaker 1: a six year old in Illinois, Wadia L. Fayoumi, who
Speaker 1: six years old and was stabbed to death, stabbed to
Speaker 1: death in his home after his landlord broke in, killing
Speaker 1: him with twenty six stab wounds and critically injuring his mother.
Speaker 1: Bill Landlord is being charged with first degree murder, attempted
Speaker 1: first degree murder, two counts of a hate crime, and
Speaker 1: aggravated battery with the deadly weapon. Was released by Will
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office. These types of acts the media loves
Speaker 1: to portray as lone wolves, as this one deranged individual,
Speaker 1: this person, this crazy person. Because if we were to
Speaker 1: actually talk about the issues and the policies that lead
Speaker 1: people like Joseph Zuba, seventy one year old piece of
Speaker 1: shit to commit murder, then it wouldn't be a SoundBite,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying? It would be real talk.
Speaker 1: It would be real conversations of having to reckon with
Speaker 1: America's legacy of white supremacy, of Islamophobia, racism, anti semitism, misogyny, patriarchy,
Speaker 1: like we would have to reckon right with the truth
Speaker 1: that when you have an entire political party, the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: that runs candidates on hate, on lies, you have an
Speaker 1: entire media network of Fox that primes and pomps their
Speaker 1: audiences with lies and hatred and fear of anyone other
Speaker 1: than white sith head Christian men. This is what you
Speaker 1: get when you make it the norm and okay to
Speaker 1: pass policy that would ban people from majority Muslim countries
Speaker 1: from entering this country. This is what you get. This
Speaker 1: is what happened after nine to eleven. I talk about
Speaker 1: it often on my other podcasts with my friend jashaht
Speaker 1: Ali on Democracy Ish, where he has told me about,
Speaker 1: you know, Muslims having to register right in New York
Speaker 1: City to show that they weren't terrorists. Right when you
Speaker 1: make up terms like the axis of evil, when you
Speaker 1: demonize an entire region of the world, when you call everyone,
Speaker 1: when Hollywood feeds you consistent storylines of Middle Eastern Muslim
Speaker 1: terrorists and you see them in the midst of like
Speaker 1: the call to prayer and then bombs exploding, what the
Speaker 1: fuck kind of message do you think you're sending. It
Speaker 1: isn't a good one. It isn't one that says that
Speaker 1: they're just like me. It isn't one that says open
Speaker 1: your arms in your heart, come from a place of
Speaker 1: compassion and love. No, what it tells you is to
Speaker 1: fear for your life. Don't let those people move into
Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Take them out right, burn down their homes
Speaker 1: before they can burn yours down, Harm them before they
Speaker 1: can harm you. That's what it does. But we don't
Speaker 1: want to have those conversations. Instead, every time there is
Speaker 1: an act of violence, whether it is shooting up a
Speaker 1: synagogue right, which we saw in this country that took
Speaker 1: the lives of several people. Whether it's shooting up a
Speaker 1: black church, which we saw at Mother Emmanuel in South Carolina, right,
Speaker 1: whether it's shooting up a walmart where a predominantly Latino
Speaker 1: population shops, whether it's shooting up a place that is
Speaker 1: largely patronized by Asian Americans, is punching an Asian American
Speaker 1: in the face, yelling kung flu and pushing people off
Speaker 1: of subways because people get their directives from where our
Speaker 1: supposed fucking leaders. When you have Ron DeSantis running for
Speaker 1: president of the United States telling us not to open
Speaker 1: up our borders, not to take in any Palestinians because
Speaker 1: they're all anti Semitic, what the fuck are you saying? Right?
Speaker 1: They want us to believe that all people that wear
Speaker 1: the red hat and swear allegiance to Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: MAGA are an all white supremact, which is a fucking lie, right,
Speaker 1: But their logic would have me believe that every white
Speaker 1: person in America is affiliated with Trump. They would have
Speaker 1: me believe, then, by their logic alone, that every white
Speaker 1: person in America must be associated with the KKK. If
Speaker 1: we are to judge every country every ethnicity, every race,
Speaker 1: every group by their worst representatives in America should take
Speaker 1: about a million fucking seats and shut the fuck up,
Speaker 1: because let me tell you what the situation unfolding in
Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine, the crisis, the humanitarian crisis that is
Speaker 1: unfolding there, that's largely of our doing. Where do you
Speaker 1: think that they got their idea of separate but equal from?
Speaker 1: We exported that shit? Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Where do you think that the Nazis? They took it
Speaker 1: to a whole other level, But where do you think
Speaker 1: that they got their ideas from? It was exported from
Speaker 1: the United States? Do as I say, but not as
Speaker 1: I do. Joe Biden wanted to come out and condemn
Speaker 1: this attack, as he should, But let me tell you
Speaker 1: that when you green light anything and everything that Israel does,
Speaker 1: but you have no problem calling out Putin, but not Netanyahu.
Speaker 1: His own people don't fucking like him. His own people,
Speaker 1: even families right now who have loved ones that were
Speaker 1: taking hostage, have been in the streets protesting that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: That's how much they don't like him. Because for all
Speaker 1: of his hot fucking talk about terrorism and being on
Speaker 1: the ready. Somehow he was caught completely outdone and took
Speaker 1: no intel that came from Egypt or elsewhere that there
Speaker 1: was potentially going to be a terrorist plot that was
Speaker 1: taking place, and he did nothing with all of the
Speaker 1: billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel
Speaker 1: for their defense. Every time that we see things unfolding
Speaker 1: what seems to be so far away from us, it
Speaker 1: always shows up on our shore, but America doesn't take
Speaker 1: any responsibility for that. The media will have you believe
Speaker 1: that this is one crazed act and one crazed act
Speaker 1: only we'll say Waggia's name for maybe a week, and
Speaker 1: then we'll go back to condemning and okaying the assault
Speaker 1: on a civilian population that is taking place right now
Speaker 1: that has killed over a thousand Wadias because fifty percent
Speaker 1: of the population in Gaza are children. That's not me
Speaker 1: saying that those are reports and facts. So you know,
Speaker 1: I find myself and I have found myself. If you're
Speaker 1: following my social media just at an absolute loss, you know,
Speaker 1: I am not a person connected to the Jewish faith.
Speaker 1: I'm not a person connected to the Muslim faith. I'm
Speaker 1: a person connected to humanity. I'm a person that is
Speaker 1: connected to the pursuit of justice and equity, not only
Speaker 1: in this country but around the world. And it just,
Speaker 1: you know, the darkness is so encompassing right now, because
Speaker 1: this story isn't going to be the only story that
Speaker 1: we hear. And as soon as I heard it, I
Speaker 1: thought about my Jewish friends who kept their children home
Speaker 1: last week from school because of a possible jihad for
Speaker 1: that was supposed to happen on Friday. That was misinformation
Speaker 1: that of course was spread. But the fact that people
Speaker 1: are having to decide to keep their children home from
Speaker 1: a Jewish day school, that Muslim families have to decide
Speaker 1: to keep their children home, the people who women who
Speaker 1: are wearing that he job have to be concerned about
Speaker 1: whether or not they can be They're going to be
Speaker 1: attacked on the streets, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and you see this if you live, you know, anywhere
Speaker 1: where there is a diverse population. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was walking around my neighborhood and like an uber driver
Speaker 1: had his prayer rug laid out and he was doing
Speaker 1: his prayer as I was walking by, and I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, God, what an amazing city. This is the
Speaker 1: thought that I had, what an amazing city, that like
Speaker 1: this faithful man can pull over on the side of
Speaker 1: the road, take out his prayer mat and just practice
Speaker 1: his faith, and that you know, in so many parts
Speaker 1: to this country, you would never see that, right, And
Speaker 1: that's part of the problem that we are so segregated.
Speaker 1: If you don't live in a diverse city, if you
Speaker 1: don't live in a diverse place like you don't get
Speaker 1: to see the beauty of what it is like to
Speaker 1: see so many different people to walk I walk through
Speaker 1: some of my favorite parts, and I tell you that
Speaker 1: I could hear ten twenty different languages being spoken by
Speaker 1: the time that I leave. I could smell spices of
Speaker 1: so many different ethnic groups that are using the barbecues,
Speaker 1: and I think that is beautiful. I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes this country special. And every time that I find
Speaker 1: myself in awe of those moments, I realize that there
Speaker 1: is an entire political party trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: we all look the same, act the same, pray the same,
Speaker 1: talk the same. And I think, how fucking boring, how
Speaker 1: fucking boring and narrow. Who the fuck wants to live
Speaker 1: like that? If your choice is to live in a homogeneous,
Speaker 1: you know, sterile type of environment. Go with God, but
Speaker 1: don't bring that bullshit to any other place, because that's
Speaker 1: not what we're interested in. That's why all those motherfuckers
Speaker 1: leave small towns and go move to the big city
Speaker 1: because they're tired of the sameness. They want to explore
Speaker 1: and be exposed and be expanded by difference. That's what
Speaker 1: makes us beautiful. And to think that a grown ass
Speaker 1: fucking man could look I used to teach first and
Speaker 1: second grade, that is six and seven year olds. I
Speaker 1: know how little they are, and a grown man grabbed
Speaker 1: and stand up boy to death. I folks, er er er.
Speaker 1: I keep posting that we have got to hold on
Speaker 1: to our shared and collective humanity during this time, because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it is too fucking easy to allow
Speaker 1: the political noise and rhetoric to come in to detach
Speaker 1: you from your soul's truth, which is that the reason
Speaker 1: why your heart is heavy right now, the red, and
Speaker 1: why you find yourself bursting into tears or waking up
Speaker 1: sad or just like wanting right to tune it all out,
Speaker 1: is that is your soul trying to connect with other
Speaker 1: souls that are in need. Our hearts know, our hearts
Speaker 1: always know. It is our minds that are infected by misinformation, lies,
Speaker 1: and bigotry. I remember after Donald Trump was elected and
Speaker 1: this show was on Serious Exam, and I remember sitting
Speaker 1: in studio and saying in the microphone, like I'm about
Speaker 1: to say now that things in this country are going
Speaker 1: to get bloodier before they get better. And I say
Speaker 1: that with no glee, no joy, No I told you so.
Speaker 1: But that is the reality that we all have to
Speaker 1: be prepared for. And I don't know how we prepare.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we prepare other than those of
Speaker 1: us that understand and express empathy and compassion, those of
Speaker 1: us that are doing things to try and center community
Speaker 1: and connection and joy will be best suited for what
Speaker 1: is to come. It's just so hard, you know. It's
Speaker 1: so hard to look around at people whose opinions you
Speaker 1: used to value, whose work you used to care about,
Speaker 1: all professing to have become foreign relation experts overnight. I
Speaker 1: am not one of those people. I do not know
Speaker 1: the ins and outs in the historical context than the
Speaker 1: thousand years of the land of Israel and Palestine. I
Speaker 1: do not know what I know about is humanity. What
Speaker 1: I know about is justice. What I know about is
Speaker 1: the fact that we were all born to be free,
Speaker 1: not to live oppressed, small, compartmentalized, fearful lives. None of us.
Speaker 1: I don't care what continent you were born on, what region,
Speaker 1: what race, what ethnicity. That is not what we were
Speaker 1: born to do. Be subjugated and subjugate, right to harm,
Speaker 1: to hate. And so when you find yourself exhausted, know
Speaker 1: that you've taken in too much information and it is about, now,
Speaker 1: what can my heart do right? How can I show compassion?
Speaker 1: How can I show care? What does that look like?
Speaker 1: And I will tell you, folks, it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: continuing to doom scroll. It doesn't look like sitting in
Speaker 1: front of your television or whatever screen that you're getting
Speaker 1: your information in front of, and staying there until the
Speaker 1: dark circles form and you can't sleep and you haven't eaten,
Speaker 1: and you have like It doesn't look like lack of
Speaker 1: care of yourself. We are just, folks, a bunch of wounded,
Speaker 1: unhealed souls walking around. And to stop the cycle of
Speaker 1: violence and hatred, we have got to tend to those
Speaker 1: open wounds. That is going to be the only way.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cover another story like wadj Ya.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cover another story like Trayvon Martin.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cover another murder, another death at
Speaker 1: the hands of hatred and bigotry. But I know that
Speaker 1: I will because until we decide to break this cycle
Speaker 1: right and respect each other, not just tolerate, but respect,
Speaker 1: except be excited by, expanded by difference, this will repeat itself.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on woke
Speaker 1: app as always power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.