Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start today on this Woke Wednesday with
Speaker 1: just sharing some honesty, which is what woke Wednesday has
Speaker 1: been about. It's been about, you know, let me run
Speaker 1: through headlines, let me tell you what to be woke to,
Speaker 1: and all of these things. And folks, I got to
Speaker 1: tell you that I am struggling. I am struggling. I
Speaker 1: am struggling. The last several weeks have been absolutely reprehensible,
Speaker 1: and I am struggling with this current administration. I am
Speaker 1: struggling with the idea that we have a lack of
Speaker 1: choice and a lack of leadership at this moment in time.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that President Biden had said
Speaker 1: that Israel and that Yahoo invading Rafa would be a
Speaker 1: red line? I would think that a red line would
Speaker 1: have been crossed. Oh, I don't know, thirty seven thousand
Speaker 1: deaths ago. I would have thought that the red line
Speaker 1: would have been crossed when you had the IDF continuing
Speaker 1: to deny humanitarian aid, medicine, food, that when one of
Speaker 1: their weapons of war has been to starve two million
Speaker 1: people to death. Well, now the supposed red line that
Speaker 1: this administration has had around Rafa has transpired because net
Speaker 1: nyahou has been playing chess. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: fuck Biden is playing. To be honest, I don't even
Speaker 1: know if he's in the game. Biden has followed the
Speaker 1: same line of thinking around Israel that all past presidents
Speaker 1: have followed. It's not new, this capitulation, this you know,
Speaker 1: ironclad quote unquote relationship between Israel and the United States.
Speaker 1: My problem with that is deep because I don't know
Speaker 1: what country outside of Israel gets aid that has absolutely
Speaker 1: no conditions to it whatsoever, just a constant stream of
Speaker 1: money does no matter how bad you act, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what laws you break. You get to do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. And then if America decides to move in
Speaker 1: a different way, then guess what the entire country is
Speaker 1: anti Semitic because apparently in a democracy you're allowed to
Speaker 1: question everything as long as it is okay with the oppressor.
Speaker 1: So I find myself struggling because I'm losing friendships and
Speaker 1: followers because I'm asking questions as I record this. This
Speaker 1: week is Holocausts remembrance and The question that I have
Speaker 1: is how do we want to be remembered in this moment?
Speaker 1: And when people utter the phrase during Holocaust Remembrance Day,
Speaker 1: never again, who are they actually talking about. What does
Speaker 1: that actually mean? Does it mean never again to one
Speaker 1: specific group of people, or does it mean that we
Speaker 1: will never allow for there to be committed against another
Speaker 1: human being the types of atrocities that we are seeing
Speaker 1: right now that have been going on for the last
Speaker 1: seven months in Gaza and now in Rotha. I understand
Speaker 1: that Jewish Israelis were murdered. I understand that there are
Speaker 1: people that are still being held hostage. I also understand
Speaker 1: that if Netanyahu gave a fuck about those people, that
Speaker 1: he would have been open to diplomacy, which he has
Speaker 1: not been because his goal and the goal of his
Speaker 1: radicalized cabinet inside of the Kanesset, is not about returning
Speaker 1: the hostages to their families. It is about eradicating the
Speaker 1: Palestinian people. So I'm going to say something that is
Speaker 1: going to make everybody uncomfortable. Are we okay with that?
Speaker 1: Are we okay with saying that the ends justify the
Speaker 1: means that, oh, well, you can't follow rules of law
Speaker 1: and rules of war that have been set up because
Speaker 1: we're fighting against a terrorist organization. Then tell me what
Speaker 1: makes the IDF any different than Hamas, except one is
Speaker 1: really well funded. Because if you look at the things
Speaker 1: that the Israeli Defects Force has been doing over the
Speaker 1: last several fucking months, and you swap out Israeli and
Speaker 1: put in Russian, what kind of hot energy would be
Speaker 1: coming out of this administration? Mass graves found at the
Speaker 1: sites where hospitals once stood, Those graves unearthed with patients
Speaker 1: and medical staff alike with their arms tied behind their backs.
Speaker 1: Tell me what threat a doctor or a patient inside
Speaker 1: of a hospital is causing to incur that type of
Speaker 1: vicious death. Tell me what the fifteen thousand children that
Speaker 1: have been murdered, what they have done well? According to
Speaker 1: Senator Cotton, you're born a terrorist, so you need to,
Speaker 1: just as Nikki Haley said, finish the job. But it
Speaker 1: isn't just Republicans. I wish that it was, because that's
Speaker 1: where I find my faith in our government completely wavering.
Speaker 1: And when I say wavering, folks, I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: else uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how we vote for
Speaker 1: Biden in November. I know that we have to, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know how we stomach it.
Speaker 1: And people will tell me, as they have been on
Speaker 1: social media, that I am doing this administration a disservice. No,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll tell you, this fucking administration is
Speaker 1: doing themselves a disservice. You think I don't understand politics
Speaker 1: after twenty years of being in this fucking game, Oh,
Speaker 1: I have an idea of how things work and where
Speaker 1: the donors are and who gives the most money has
Speaker 1: the loudest voice. I also understand why these young people
Speaker 1: have been occupying their fucking college campuses the way that
Speaker 1: they did in the nineteen eighties against apartheid, the way
Speaker 1: that they did in the nineteen sixties against the Vietnam
Speaker 1: War and civil rights. And you know what I will
Speaker 1: continue to say it that I don't know a student
Speaker 1: movement that has been on the wrong side of history.
Speaker 1: We have made this issue more complicated than it needs
Speaker 1: to be because we have decided whose side we're on.
Speaker 1: But when your allies start to act more like terrorists
Speaker 1: than allies, where is our ability to question, Where is
Speaker 1: our ability to discern right from wrong? Everything is not
Speaker 1: fucking absolute. People change situations change. Victims can become victimizers.
Speaker 1: Those that are oppressed can become the oppressor. Because if
Speaker 1: you have the power and the ability to tell people
Speaker 1: how to move, when to move right, whether or not
Speaker 1: they can eat, whether or not they can breathe, how
Speaker 1: they can live, you're not the oppressed. You are the oppressor.
Speaker 1: You become the threat to other people's ability to exist.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make you or the trauma that generations of
Speaker 1: Jewish people have experienced any less, But the facts are
Speaker 1: what the fects are right the fuck now? What is
Speaker 1: happening in the name of trauma that was committed seven
Speaker 1: of these someone years ago is not okay. It's not okay.
Speaker 1: And that's why there are thousands of Israelis that are
Speaker 1: in the streets that are calling for the resignation of
Speaker 1: this fucking radical right wing homicidal maniac because they don't
Speaker 1: want this to be done in their names. Because the world,
Speaker 1: the world is now opening up their eyes. The world
Speaker 1: is now asking questions, how did we get to the
Speaker 1: place of October seventh? What's been happening inside of Israel
Speaker 1: and Gaza and the West Bank and Rafa and Ramala
Speaker 1: and Jerusalem. What's been going on? What have we been funding?
Speaker 1: Because I will tell you, folks from my own experience,
Speaker 1: with my own two eyes. Nine years ago, when I
Speaker 1: went to Israel and Palestine, I saw things that caused
Speaker 1: me nightmares for over a month until I just had
Speaker 1: to shut it out of my mind. I came back
Speaker 1: broken and disturbed from the trip that I took there
Speaker 1: because I had never felt the type of fear and
Speaker 1: hatred in front of my face the way that I
Speaker 1: felt there. And what was wild is that depending on
Speaker 1: who you are, what you look like, what your religion is,
Speaker 1: what your ethnicity is, you'll have an entirely different experience
Speaker 1: depending on who brings you there. I went with the
Speaker 1: Foundation for Italy East Peace on a journalist week long,
Speaker 1: in depth journey through this seven decade plus nightmare. It
Speaker 1: was a crash course for me because I was going
Speaker 1: there as somebody who's only ever followed and focused on
Speaker 1: domestic issues, our own racial, racist policies, white supremacy, two
Speaker 1: tier justice system. So I was going with an open
Speaker 1: mind and open heart and excited to go to this
Speaker 1: region of the world that has only been filtered through
Speaker 1: mainstream media and Hollywood as like this center of Hell,
Speaker 1: the accesses of evil. Right before I went in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: there was unrest that was unfolding in Jerusalem. There were
Speaker 1: attacks and shootings and all of this shit that was
Speaker 1: going on, and I almost didn't go on the trip,
Speaker 1: but I said, when will I ever have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go with this small cohort of authors and academics
Speaker 1: to this region, many of which were well more versed
Speaker 1: and studied than I was. So I went, and from
Speaker 1: the moment that I stepped off of the plane into
Speaker 1: the airport, surrounded by plane clothes, IDF officers asking why
Speaker 1: we were there, what we were doing. I had never
Speaker 1: felt so unwelcomed upon landing in another country in my
Speaker 1: entire fucking life, just by virtue of who was inside
Speaker 1: of our group, which was a mix of Persians, black,
Speaker 1: white Jewish folks that were in this group questioned from
Speaker 1: the moment having to show papers that we were okay
Speaker 1: being navigated around, told that this is the road for Israelis,
Speaker 1: that's the road for Palestinians. Oh my god, I'd never
Speaker 1: seen walls so fucking high that like literally block out
Speaker 1: the sun depending on what side you're on the kinds
Speaker 1: of humiliation and indignities and security systems that the Palestinian
Speaker 1: people are forced to go through. And these Raelies have
Speaker 1: no problems saying that, while we need this for our
Speaker 1: security because they're trying to kill us. Folks, When I
Speaker 1: tell you that, it came to a point when we
Speaker 1: were eating dinner outside and whispering in our conversations because
Speaker 1: you don't know who is listening, who's in a plane,
Speaker 1: close officer, who is not If you say the wrong thing,
Speaker 1: ask the wrong question, the eye of the people inside
Speaker 1: of the West Bank, of the Palestinians, the absolute evaporation
Speaker 1: of hope like it is, Oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: explain it. And I was so naive because I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, well, if people really understood what was happening here,
Speaker 1: then of course they would speak out, and of course
Speaker 1: things would change. I had no idea that everyone knows,
Speaker 1: everyone that is in power knows, every administration that has
Speaker 1: ever come in to the White House knows, whether it's
Speaker 1: a Republican or Democrat. They know what the fuck has
Speaker 1: been going on over there. It was the rest of
Speaker 1: us then until October seventh, and the month's following the
Speaker 1: masses of the American people did not know and did
Speaker 1: not know where three to four billion dollars of our
Speaker 1: tax dollars are going to every year and what it's
Speaker 1: going to fund Israel security. No, it's going to fund apartheid.
Speaker 1: Where did they learn it? America, the same place that
Speaker 1: Hitler learned how to conduct the Holocaust. All he did
Speaker 1: was do what the UK and the United States had
Speaker 1: been doing over centuries. He just sped it up. But
Speaker 1: we don't talk about that. We think that he concocted
Speaker 1: the encampments, the internments, the chain, the torture, He was
Speaker 1: the mastermind. He made that all up. No, the fuck
Speaker 1: he did not. He had expert teachers in terms of segregationists.
Speaker 1: Go back and look at the documents of the enslavers
Speaker 1: and what they were doing to enslaved Africans, to the
Speaker 1: Native Americans that they put on what in camps, ripping
Speaker 1: them from their homeland, the abuse, the torture, the psychological warfare.
Speaker 1: All Hitler did was speed up what England and America
Speaker 1: have been doing over hundreds of years. That's why it
Speaker 1: was so unnerving, because he managed to kill six million
Speaker 1: people people in a few years I don't even know
Speaker 1: if we know the number truly of enslaved Africans that
Speaker 1: were killed during the Middle Passage when they arrived in
Speaker 1: the Americas, how many Native Americans were actually slaughtered. So, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm struggling because Biden isn't doing anything new. But the
Speaker 1: moment is calling for something new. The moment is calling
Speaker 1: for honesty, for integrity, for a moral compass, none of
Speaker 1: which his administration seems to have. And so what is
Speaker 1: this election in twenty twenty four in six months? Sophie's
Speaker 1: choice And if you don't know that book, that movie,
Speaker 1: that book from nineteen seventy nine, the movie starring Meryl
Speaker 1: Streep in nineteen eighty f google that the choice that
Speaker 1: she was given as a Polish immigrant who had survived
Speaker 1: the Holocaust when the German officers said to her, which
Speaker 1: child do you want to live? Because one of them
Speaker 1: is gonna die. It's the idea of an unbearable choice,
Speaker 1: but one has to be made. And that's where the
Speaker 1: fuck we find ourselves now, in this unbearable place. So
Speaker 1: I am with you. It is not even a hard
Speaker 1: pill to swallow. It's like swallowing a thousand knives, right
Speaker 1: now to vote for Joe Biden, but we all know
Speaker 1: what the alternative is. But I am with you in
Speaker 1: the stress and in the strain of where we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in this moment. You are not alone. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af AS always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power.
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fun