1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, reporting live from my Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks, 3 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: you let me tell you that this week, I am 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: so thankful for it to be over. Um, as I've 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: been saying all week long. You know, there are some 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: days where as a black queer woman, I am just exhausted. 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by the injustice. I'm exhausted by the double standards. 8 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by having to explain my feelings and myself 9 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: over and over again. And this is one of those 10 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: weeks where even after posting two specifically posting on Twitter 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: four black people and saying two black people, you know what, 12 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: you don't need to follow these trials. You don't need 13 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: to follow the McDaniels trial of the three men that 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: murdered Ahmad Aubrey. You don't need to follow the Rittenhouse 15 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: trial knowing that Judge Schrober has clearly showed his hand 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: from the very beginning and that this motherfucker is going 17 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: to get off right. And you have Representative Matt Gates 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: who is being investigated for pedophilia for his relationships with 19 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: underage girls and possibly with sex traffickers saying announcing and 20 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: the Washington Post covering that he would offer Kyle Rittenhouse 21 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: a very coveted internship on Capitol Hill. How is it 22 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: that the Republican Party, in just four short years has 23 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: turned into a party that praises insurrectionists, applaud sexual predators, 24 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 1: honors white supremacists, and welcomes all of these horrendous people 25 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: into their party. This week, you saw Speaker Pelosi, with 26 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: no support from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, censor vote to 27 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: censure Paul Gosser, Right, And why was Paul Gosser censored 28 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: and lost his power on his committee seats? Why did 29 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: that happen because him and his staff thought that it 30 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: was a great idea to create a video that showed 31 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: the murder of one of his Democratic colleagues. That this 32 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: is the climate that we are living in now, folks, 33 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: where it is totally acceptable or Republicans believe that it 34 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: is acceptable for them to glorify cruelty and murder of 35 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: people who ideologically opposed them. And let's be clear, I 36 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: actually have no idea what the fuck outside of white supremacy, 37 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: the ideology is of the Republican Party because, frankly, as 38 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: I've stated time and time again, they offer nothing, right, 39 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: They offer no policies. Right, they wanted to allow Democrats 40 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: to go back and forth over the price tag of 41 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: the infrastructure bill, but it's not as if they were 42 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: countering the infrastructure bill with a bill of their own. 43 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the entire time that I 44 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: can think about the Trump administration, right in all of 45 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: the things that McConnell was allowing to happen, I think 46 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: to myself, what policies do you actually remember from the 47 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: Trump administration other than you know, the bands on certain 48 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: Muslim nations from coming into the country, other than the 49 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: child separation policy where they couldn't even bother to create 50 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: a fucking Excel spreadsheet so that we knew how to 51 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: put these families back together again. Right, when you think 52 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: about four years under Donald Trump and the four years 53 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: under Republican leadership, what do you remember that they did 54 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: for the American people? Nothing? And so as I'm watching 55 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: this week, just this week is just a such a 56 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: snapshot into who America has devolved into. And I say 57 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: devolved because folks, it wasn't too long ago, right, It 58 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: feels like a distant, fading dream the Obama administration. It 59 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: wasn't so long ago, right, And I think about it now, 60 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: and I think about the lightness that I felt the 61 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: joy of listening to Barack Obama eloquently speak about unity, 62 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: eloquently speak about who we wanted to be as a 63 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,239 Speaker 1: nation and who we believed ourselves to be because overcoming 64 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: centuries of ingrained white supremacy and racism, we turned around 65 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: and voted for a brilliant black man, not once, but twice, 66 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: voted to have a black first family in the White House, 67 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: a house that was built by slaves, in a city 68 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: that was built by enslaved Africans. And so we thought 69 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: to ourselves, now, these many moons ago, that we had 70 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,799 Speaker 1: arrived at what Rachel Maddow would famously call our post 71 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: racial moment. You remember Chris Matthews talking about the tingle 72 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: coming up his leg, because we all wanted right, and 73 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: particularly white Americans wanted to be able to pat themselves 74 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: on the back for how far they have come from 75 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: the judgery of Jim Crow and pre reconstruction, that they 76 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: could pat themselves on the back and say, see, we're 77 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: not racist. Because Obama and the Obama family was our 78 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: black best friend, right, But we knew, as people of color, 79 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: people from marginalized communities, people with awareness about the patterns 80 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: in this country, that for every bit of progress that 81 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: we have ever made, there has always been a consistent 82 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: and a dominant white lash that follows reconstruction. Following the 83 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: Civil War, where this country was torn apart right because 84 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: of a desire to end a cruel and inhumane practice, right, 85 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: the practice the economic builder of slavery, and because of that, 86 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: the South rose up with God with guns, armed to 87 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: the nine's, armed to the ten's, armed to the skies 88 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: to take their country. Sound familiar to you that as 89 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: soon as enslaved Africans were given their freedom, that then 90 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: we would end reconstruction. After twelve years, we would assuage 91 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: the South with giving them the ability to create Jim 92 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: Crow laws that then would turn around, would turn around right, 93 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: and last for another hundred years. So you came off 94 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: of hundreds of years of slavery to then have this 95 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: moment of reconstruction where more black people were elected to 96 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: government than ever before, to have this brief period only 97 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: to follow another hundred years of white supremacy and domestic terrorism. 98 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: So if you look just at that moment in America's history, 99 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: and then look and every other steps that we've taken 100 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: thereof following, every bit of progress in this country follows 101 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,119 Speaker 1: white rage. And this is why I said this week 102 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: on my other show, Democracy Ish, that we need to 103 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: interrogate the patterns of white rage in this country. And 104 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: I don't mean in a way to create empathy. Oh, 105 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: I understand why you're so violent and why you're so cruel, 106 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: and why you are a domestic terrorist. No, no, but 107 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: to understand and dissect it as a way to stop 108 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: it from happening. You see, white Americans in this country 109 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: have been able to get behind this theory that it 110 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: is black and brown people that are to be feared, 111 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: That it is black and brown people that are the 112 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: violent ones, right that need to be caged and need 113 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: to be put down, as the McDaniels did with Ahmad Aubrey, 114 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: as George Zimmerman did with Trayvon Martin, as those cops 115 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: did with tam Or Rice, as Derek Chauvin did with 116 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: George Floyd, right, and the list goes on and on 117 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: and on. Because we have been the story around black 118 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: and brown people in this country has been a story 119 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: of aggression, right of animalistic behavior, of thuggery, right of criminality, 120 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: and so of course the thoughts then about who black 121 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: people are and who this community is would then design 122 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: the policies that have created the racial wealth gap, that 123 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: have created the climate gap, that have created the educational 124 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: gap right and the moral gap that this country is 125 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: facing on a regular basis. There's a reason why many 126 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: of us who pay attention know where these cases go. 127 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: Of armed white men who feel their power and their 128 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: ability to either have a citizens arrest right or whatever 129 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: bullshit it was that they are using as their defense 130 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: right now in the McDaniel's case, or whether it is 131 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: to sling on in a R fifteen and decide to 132 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: drive outside of your state, cross state lines right with 133 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: a loaded weapon and insert yourself into what is our 134 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: first amendment right to peacefully protests and assemble. Every time 135 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: that these protests, which rightfully so, become filled with anger, 136 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: it's oh, let's call the National Guard, because God knows 137 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: what black people will do. Meanwhile, these motherfuckers burned down, 138 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: burn down areas of this country where flourishing black businesses 139 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: were right, burned down homes, put burning crosses, bomb churches. 140 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: But we're the ones that are the criminals. We're the 141 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: ones that are violent. If you even understand a smidgeon 142 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: of America's dark history, you know that it is a 143 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: history that is built on violence, on white violence. Because 144 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: I don't know what groups of black people are, Latins 145 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: people are, Asian Pacific islanders. I don't know what groups 146 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: what communities were bombing white churches. I don't know what 147 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: communities were burning down white towns. But yet the press, 148 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: right from Tulsa, Oklahoma till now, we'll create these headlines 149 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: that talk about a race war, that talk about these 150 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: moths right when in fact, you have these armed insurrectionists 151 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: against people who just want to be able to, you know, 152 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: go to the fucking store at any time of day, 153 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: and know that their lives aren't going to be threatened, 154 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: and if they are, they know that justice and the 155 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: law is going to be on their side. We are 156 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: asking for the bare minimum. And I remember the young 157 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 1: activists who said white folks are lucky that we're looking 158 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: for equality and not fucking revenge. And I think about 159 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: that statement every single goddamn day, particularly this week, as 160 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: we are watching the culminations of these trials. And as 161 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: I said, on democracy is it is not these white 162 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: people that are on trial. It is America that is 163 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: on trial. We always want to say to ourselves, this 164 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: is not who we are, but it is exactly who 165 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: we are and who this country has always been one 166 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: that looks to marginalize and oppress people that they don't like. 167 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: Just this week, let me, let me, let me just 168 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: bring up this, just say we can understand where these 169 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: radical right wing racists are. Senator John Kennedy at the 170 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: hearing for Saul Amaroba, who is Biden's choice for Controller, 171 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: I just in the car in her hearing, in the 172 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: confirmation hearing, this old white racist son of a bitch 173 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: looked at this Asian American woman and said to her, 174 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: with cameras rolling, I don't know whether to call you 175 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: professor or comrade, essentially signaling the fact that because she 176 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: was born in a communist country, right as if she 177 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: had control over her birth, which she would then say, 178 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: because her response to him has since gone viral, I 179 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: cannot control where I was born, Senator, she said, but 180 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: I can tell you that my family suffered under the 181 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: Stalin regime. I can tell you that my family has 182 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: suffered and the scars of which we still work through today. 183 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: But the fact that Kennedy felt like he was well 184 00:14:52,800 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: within his right to usher in this new Vaux McCarthyism 185 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: right where we created an entire committee in the late 186 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: nineteen forties and nineteen fifties in the US House of 187 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: Representatives to investigate those that you believe did not have 188 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: full allegiance to the United States. And I've said this 189 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: before that this whole crt, this whole cancel culture is new, 190 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: the right's new red scare. And what Kennedy offered in 191 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: that flippant and just outright fucking racist statement that he 192 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: made is that we've made no progress that as a 193 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: matter of fact, this party, this political party, is in 194 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: full fucking regression, and they're unapologetic about it. You have 195 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: Paul Gosser, as I mentioned earlier, is now censured, not 196 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: because Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the fact that you shouldn't 197 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: be able to threaten murder against your fucking colleague because 198 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: you don't like what they say. Right, two Republicans voted 199 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: to censure Gossar. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine 200 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: how fucking vile these people have become that they literally 201 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: refuse to see right or wrong. That honestly, if they 202 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: had their way, the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Lauren Boberts 203 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: of the world would come in and just mow them 204 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: all down with their aar fifteens and their nine millimeters, 205 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: because that's what they think about their democratic colleagues, That 206 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: they don't deserve to live, that they don't deserve to exist. 207 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: That Kennedy would look at a woman who is just 208 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: as fucking American as he is, but isn't white, isn't mail, 209 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: and I have the audacity to say to her, should 210 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: I call you professor or comrade? Well, should I call 211 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: you the fucking grand Wizard? Or should I call you senator? 212 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: Would have been my fucking response. This is why I'm 213 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: not in it anybody's administration or working on anybody's Capitol 214 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: Hill anymore, because you see what pisces me off the 215 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: most is that I used to really believe in government. 216 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: I can tell you stories right of working on Capitol 217 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: Hill until the middle of the night, working on legislation 218 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: because I believe that I was working for the American people, 219 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: and I was filled with such passion and inspired by 220 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: walking through the halls of history that I wanted to 221 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: dedicate my life to it. These people, this insurrectionist party, 222 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: the election of an outward racist, misogynist pig has reshaped 223 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: my image of who and what America is now. I 224 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: was never under the illusion that America was anybody's greatest nation, 225 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: that it was anybody's perfect place. But like I said 226 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: earlier this week, what separated at one time, at one 227 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: time separated America from other places was that we actively 228 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: tried to perfect our union, that with each generation that 229 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: we try and be better. And there are not a 230 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: lot of countries that you can look at and say 231 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: that about. But nowadays it everything that we once thought 232 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: about this country about it being filled with possibility, Like 233 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: why do people risk their lives to come here. Why 234 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: do people like my family leave their homeland of Jamaica 235 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: travel to a country that they do not know to 236 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: plant seeds, to become citizens, to build a better life. 237 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: It's because of the possibility that America offers. That's what 238 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 1: made especial, because there are countries where there is no 239 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 1: real possibility. But what we what I'm understanding about this 240 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: country is our unformal cast system. Right, we don't have 241 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: a normal cast system like say in India does, or 242 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: say parts of China does. No. We love the story 243 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: of the down trodden, you know, rural Southerner who makes 244 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: something out of nothing, pulls themselves up from their bootstrap 245 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: and becomes you know, a gazillionaire. We love that story 246 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: in America, even though we refuse to discuss the policies 247 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: right that disallow so many from being able to really 248 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: fully access the American dream. There'll be a conversation that 249 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: I'll have a little later in the show for just 250 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: a few minutes with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 251 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: who's rejoining US Secretary Marsha Fudge, who talks about why 252 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: this infrastructure bill is so historic, who talks about marginalized 253 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: families and communities like ours who have been drinking water 254 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: from lead pipes, lead pipes that she will talk about 255 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: and say that you cannot reverse the damage that is 256 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: done to children who will develop developmental issues right, who 257 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: will never be able to have potentially really crippling disabilities 258 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: and never be able to overcome them, not because they 259 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: were born that way, but because of the fact that 260 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: we have allowed them to. We allow people to live 261 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: in a country live in America and not be able 262 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: to turn on the fucking faucet and get clean water. 263 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: That we allow communities of color and poor people to 264 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: live near super fun sites where they develop cancer, asthma, 265 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: and other debilitating health ailments, all because what they're poor 266 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: or they're people of color. That's the reality of this country. 267 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: But we love to create this myth of individualism where 268 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: in reality, no one gets anywhere on their own. That 269 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 1: the person that you're talking about, that you you know, 270 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: look at Donald Trump and look what he has done, 271 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: and he's a savvy businessman. The bitch got a million 272 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: dollars from his daddy, and every single business that fucking failed, 273 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: daddy bailed him out. Everybody doesn't have that doesn't have 274 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: a father that's sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars 275 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: to pour into your bullshit ideas. But those are the 276 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: people that are creating policies for the rest of us. 277 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: Those that were born with silver spoons, those that were 278 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: able to walk into banks and because of the color 279 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: of their skin or where their houses were located, we're 280 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: able to get loans, no questions asked, while the rest 281 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: of us have to model perfection and hope and pray 282 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 1: that we get those same benefits, knowing good God damn 283 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: well that we won't. There are stories every single day 284 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: about homes that are evaluated at hundreds of thousands of 285 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: dollars less because a person that owns the home is 286 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: black or Latino. So you know, when you are inundated 287 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: with these stories on a regular basis, when you have 288 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 1: these trials that you are following, it is really easy 289 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: to become so overwhelmed with grief. And that's how I 290 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: have felt this week. It has taken me a lot 291 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: to turn on the news, even just for a few minutes, 292 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: because I'm like, I just don't I don't want to 293 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: hear the clips. I didn't want to hear Kennedy saying 294 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: should I call you professor or comrade? I didn't want 295 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: to hear Kevin mc hearthy lying about the fact that 296 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: the only member of the Republican Party that was ever 297 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: censured was Liz Cheney, and that was because she refused 298 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: to go along with the lie that Donald Trump won 299 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: the election, and that in his response that he wants 300 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: to bring up things that Maxine Waters has said, what 301 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: calling you all a bunch of fucking liars? Because you are. 302 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: I don't remember Maxine Waters ever threatening to murder a Republican. 303 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: I don't remember her ever using a Republican's face on 304 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: her website with the crosshairs on it, like too many 305 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: fucking members of Congress on the Republican side do, and 306 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: with no goddamn consequence. So what's no wonder why we're 307 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: in this place with the McDaniels and the written houses 308 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: of the world and the mcclusky's, one of which is 309 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: running for fucking Congress after a Senate excuse me, after 310 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: brandishing a weapon against peaceful protesters. Then they got a 311 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: prime plum spot at the RNC to spread their lies 312 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: about how black people are invading the suburbs and crime 313 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: is coming. I'm still waiting on the fucking caravan that 314 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: they told us was coming like five years ago. Has 315 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: it reached yet. It's all so disheartening and overwhelming. It's 316 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: hard to continue to believe in a country that just 317 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: shows its ass every single fucking day. We can't even 318 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: agree right on some of the most atrocious acts in 319 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: this country, slavery and how the slave trade, the brutalization, 320 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: the humanization of enslaved Africans, built this entire country and 321 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: built Europe. Right, we can't even agree on that with 322 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: the advent of the sixteen nineteen project. They want to 323 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: disparage that, they want to ban it. They're looking to 324 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: ban books all over this country again, because you know, 325 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: what the reality is is that education is power, and 326 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: the more educated people become about the truth, the ways 327 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: in which we develop our critical thinking skills and start 328 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: asking the right questions and recognizing, like what is at 329 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: the core of all of this greed and power? We 330 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: are supposedly functioning in a democracy, right and yet one 331 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: of the parties, one of the two parties, is trying 332 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government. Steve benn and let's just talk 333 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: about our injustice system right now. Steve Bennon didn't even 334 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: have to show up for court for his second court day. 335 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: He phoned it in. What black person did you know 336 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: that is indicted? Right, that is arrested? He's fucking being like, yeah, 337 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: so I'm not going to show up today, as if 338 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: they have a choice. You know, somebody had tweeted talking 339 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: about Kyle Rittenhouse seventeen years old, being hailed as some 340 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: type of fucking hero by the radical right murder for 341 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: murder right, and these same people turned an unarmed black 342 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: boy who was in fact murdered into the assailant, into 343 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: the criminal, into the thug in tray Von Martin, this 344 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: is who the fuck America is. And so when you 345 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: take all of these things, when you weigh them in 346 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: your hands, you're like, you just want to throw it 347 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: all out. I honestly don't know if there is any 348 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: real repair to be made here. How do you repair 349 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: something that's irrevocably broken. How do you repair something when 350 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: you're being gas lit every day and being told that 351 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 1: you're the one that's the problem for raising the issue 352 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 1: of their being a problem that we should all just 353 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: walk around with our heads down right and our mouth 354 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: shut and pretend that this is the greatest nation in 355 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: the world. It is not. And you see, the reality 356 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: is is that once you understand that to be true, 357 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: then you can actually do the hard work of figuring 358 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: out what would make it good, what would make it 359 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: better for those that are at their breaking point, at 360 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: their wits end. I tell you this all the time. 361 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: Some days, I don't know how people of color do it. 362 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: I don't know how we don't run out of our 363 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: homes just fucking screaming every single day that we don't 364 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: just pop off on every fucking personally. See, but you see, 365 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: that kind of anger is a luxury and a privilege 366 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: that we don't have. We can't even express our sadness 367 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: and our grief, right, we can't even express our rage. 368 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: But these motherfuckers are allowed to essentially try and burn 369 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: down the Capitol building and then they're seen as patriots. 370 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: But us in the streets marching so that black people 371 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: aren't killed like fucking dogs. But where the problem? You 372 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: want to protect property. This is what Kyle Writtenhouse said. 373 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: I was going to do what other people weren't. Bitch 374 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: you away in a policeman. You hadn't have a fucking badge. 375 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: We're in such a dark place, and you know, I 376 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: can remember at the beginning of the Trump administration just 377 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: knowing and feeling in the gut of my stomach and 378 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: the pit of my stomach that everything was just starting 379 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: or rather ending, right, Donald Trump was not the beginning 380 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: of the resurgence of white supremacy. It was a solidification 381 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: of that. It began a long time ago. Because as 382 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: soon as word got out that America was in the 383 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,959 Speaker 1: midst of a demographic shift that white people were no 384 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: longer going to be the majority. That is when this 385 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: ship began, right, Because while we were on the left saying, 386 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: oh thank God, they were on the right saying, oh 387 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: dear God. But see, I was always so confused with 388 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: why white people were getting up in arms about a 389 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: demographic shift. If they believe that white privilege and racism 390 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: doesn't exist, what were they so afraid of happening? Right? 391 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: If they've never done anything wrong, right, if they've never 392 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: violated anyone's humanity, then why are they so concerned with 393 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: no longer being in the majority. If there's no such 394 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: thing as white privilege and the currency of whiteness, then 395 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: why are you so concerned with what this shift would 396 00:31:54,440 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: mean for you? But once again, you know, as as 397 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: is said that to those that are the oppressor, that 398 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: equity looks and feels like right loss. I'm just so 399 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: tired these days of explaining reality to people that refuse 400 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: to see it. And frankly, if Paul Gosser and Donald 401 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: Trump and Matt Gates are what leaders look like in America, 402 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: then we're just fucked like as a nation. And this 403 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: is why I continue to say it's just like where 404 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: do we go from here? And my feeling is that 405 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: we need to root ourselves right because this storm, we 406 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: think that it's here, and I'm telling you this is 407 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: just like the build up. So if we're not rooting 408 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: ourselves enjoy, if we're not understanding what we need to 409 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: do to care for our emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing 410 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: in this moment, if we're not looking for positive and 411 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: healthy outlets for what this country is placing on our 412 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: shoulders day in and day out, then I don't know 413 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: what we're doing. And I say this, you know, as 414 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: somebody that is made a living off of rage, is 415 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: that rage alone is not sustainable because they are looking 416 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: for the burnout. They are looking for us to be 417 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: complacent and feel like there is nothing that we can do. 418 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: But you see, there is always something to be done. 419 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: You may not like it, and they sure as fuck 420 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,959 Speaker 1: may not like the outcome, but there's only so much 421 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: pressure that you can place on people. There's only so 422 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: far that you can beat them down before folks turn 423 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: around and start fighting that they want a war. But 424 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: I've been saying that we've been living in a cold 425 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: civil war. You think that the Gosser video isn't going 426 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: to escalate to an actual real life scare. Like, let 427 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: me tell you something, I worry every day about the squad. 428 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: The members of the squad, the most visual, you know, 429 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: visual members right of the squad, who are women of color. 430 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: I worry about them, and I wonder do they have 431 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,879 Speaker 1: security because they sure it's fuck needed. Because you see, 432 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: what Gosser was doing is signaling much in the same 433 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: way that Donald Trump did on that stage where he 434 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by 435 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: when he told them that January sixth was going to 436 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:52,919 Speaker 1: be wild. This motherfucker was doing the same. He says, Oh, 437 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: it's just a video. It's just you know, it's not 438 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: a big deal. It's not like I did anything. But 439 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: it's with the hopes that one of your followers will 440 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: And then what are you going to do? Then we 441 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: will once again hear about the lone wolf and how 442 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: this is not we can't politicize this issue. But how 443 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: many what are we waiting for? You think are we 444 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: waiting for another Gabby Gifford's except a member of Congress 445 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: that doesn't survive, that is gunned down, that is kidnapped, 446 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: that is beaten like, remember what they tried to do 447 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: to the governor in Michigan. They wanted to kidnap her, 448 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: they wanted to kill her. They were going to hold 449 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,359 Speaker 1: a trial in the woods. What else do you think 450 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 1: that they were going to do. This is where we 451 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: are headed, and it's only a matter of time before 452 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,280 Speaker 1: someone is successful. And because there have been no consequences 453 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 1: to this point, and because white murderers get off every 454 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: single fucking day, they'll just feel like they're doing their 455 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: patriotic duty and they'll leave with this slap on the wrist, 456 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: if anything at all. I watch now as they refer 457 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: to Rittenhouse in the press as a teenager, right, I 458 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 1: don't remember them referring to Trayvon Martin as a teenager. 459 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: I remember them referring to him as a man. And 460 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 1: yet he wasn't able to take the stand right because 461 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 1: he was dead a child. I'm so tired of having 462 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 1: to bring up the parallels right to the Jim Crow 463 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: South and where we are right now. But I realized that, 464 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: you know, if we had an education system that actually 465 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: educated people, then maybe folks would understand this pattern of 466 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 1: white rage and violence, and maybe it would be preventable. 467 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 1: But who am I kidding? Folks, As we head into 468 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,760 Speaker 1: the weekend, as we await the verdicts and these trials, 469 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,359 Speaker 1: take good care of yourselves, take good care of each other. 470 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: Know that it doesn't mean that you don't care. If 471 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: you're not following every single second, every single tweet, It 472 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: means that you care about your mental health. It means 473 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 1: that you've had enough and that there's only so much 474 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: that you can take in. So don't allow guilt to 475 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: force you to see more and do more than you should. 476 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: Do your part, Take deep breaths, and then let it go, 477 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: because the mess will be here when you get back. 478 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: Coming up next is my conversation with Secretary Harry Marsha 479 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: Fudge about Biden's Historic Infrastructure Bill and what it means 480 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 1: to Americans. I am very happy to welcome back to 481 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: woke FFI Daily Secretary Marsha Fudge of the Housing and 482 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:22,719 Speaker 1: Urban Development Agency. Secretary, I wanted to ask you, now 483 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 1: that we have this historic infrastructure bill that has finally 484 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: been passed, what is it that people can expect and 485 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: how is it going to affect HUD Well, thank you 486 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,680 Speaker 1: for having me. It's going to affect HUD in a 487 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: number of plays. When we talk about infrastructure, I think 488 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: it is important for us to understand that infrastructure includes 489 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,719 Speaker 1: many things. One of the biggest issues, at least for me, 490 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,919 Speaker 1: is the part where we deal with climate. I think 491 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: people do not understand that black and brown people are 492 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: affected more by climate change than almost anyone else. If 493 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 1: you look at Storm Ida, let's just take that as 494 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: an example, most of the people who were hurts significantly 495 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: or lost their homes for black and brown people. If 496 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 1: you look at the numbers of people children in our 497 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: schools that has asthma, it's because we live near industrial 498 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,439 Speaker 1: sites and dump sites, and so it is really significant 499 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: that we address it. Children who are affected by lead, 500 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: especially when they have high blood elevations that show lead. 501 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 1: These children are something will probably never ever be normal. 502 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: So we have to address these issues. And this is 503 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 1: giving us the opportunity, especially in our communities, to address 504 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 1: things that people don't even think about that affect us 505 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: to the degree they do, you know, for too long. 506 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,839 Speaker 1: During this kind of back and forth over the last 507 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: several months, it seems as if the media had been 508 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,840 Speaker 1: concentrating on the price tag as opposed to the content 509 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: of the legislation and So when we are thinking about 510 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: regular Americans right who are not following this day to day, 511 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,359 Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you want them 512 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,880 Speaker 1: to know specifically about this piece of legislation and why frankly, 513 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: it's historic and we we should be applauding the fact 514 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: that this historic measure got passed in this very contentious 515 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 1: political climate. It's historic for a number of reasons. First, 516 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 1: I would say that for as you suggest, for this 517 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: conus to come together and pass something that is so historic, 518 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: and let me tell you why it is. For generations, 519 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: we have neglected to do things like upgrade our electric grid. 520 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,960 Speaker 1: We have not provided the kind of resources that young 521 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: people need to actually do well in school. They don't 522 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:41,840 Speaker 1: have Broadbent or Internet, they don't have the devices even sometimes. 523 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: And so over this last year or so, Danielle, our 524 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 1: children have been set back almost a year millions of 525 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: because of a lack of an infrastructure. This kind of 526 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,160 Speaker 1: an infrastructure clean water. We live in the greatest nation 527 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: in the world. There is no reason that people cannot 528 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 1: termine their tap and drink the water. So it is 529 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,880 Speaker 1: not only something that we all need, but it is 530 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,239 Speaker 1: historic its size that we can do so much now 531 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen overnight, because things like infrastructure 532 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,600 Speaker 1: do take time. But it is a beginning, and it 533 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: is a bigger beginning than any of us ever thought 534 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,680 Speaker 1: we would see from a government that cares about the people. 535 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: That's why this new the next piece of this it's 536 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,400 Speaker 1: so huge, you know, this human infrastructure field is so 537 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: huge because you've put the two together. And what we 538 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: have said is that this administration sees and here's what 539 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 1: is going on in this country, and it's going to 540 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 1: try to address the needs of all people, not some people, 541 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,799 Speaker 1: all people in this country, you know, for the department, 542 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,360 Speaker 1: can you speak to what were some of the issues 543 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 1: that were illuminated over the last you know, and we're 544 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 1: coming up on two years living in a global health pandemic. 545 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,080 Speaker 1: What are some of the issues that were illuminated for 546 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:03,240 Speaker 1: you in you know, in HUD that we should be tackling, 547 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,359 Speaker 1: that we need to be paying attention to, but that 548 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 1: was exacerbated during this time. And so that people can 549 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 1: understand the urgency, I'm glad you use the word illuminated 550 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: because it was there the problem. So you use the 551 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,319 Speaker 1: exact perfect words what we saw and I'll give you 552 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 1: the top things. Homelessness has become such a crisis in 553 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 1: this country that on any given night, five hundred and 554 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,560 Speaker 1: eighty thousand people sleep on the streets. Of those people 555 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,800 Speaker 1: are people of color. The fastest growing groups of people 556 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,359 Speaker 1: who sleep on the street are families with children and 557 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,680 Speaker 1: senior citizens. So it started to shine that light. It 558 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,319 Speaker 1: also gave us the opportunity to look at how people 559 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 1: are living in public house and we know that that's 560 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: been a problem for a long time. But as well, 561 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,279 Speaker 1: it showed us that people of color especially have been 562 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,000 Speaker 1: left out of the housing market in a way that 563 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,080 Speaker 1: nobody thought about. Today. There's a thirty point gap between 564 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,759 Speaker 1: black and white homeownership, thirty points. It is as big 565 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,440 Speaker 1: today as it was in the sixties. Why because we 566 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: have determined that certain neighborhoods are not worthy of us 567 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,360 Speaker 1: investing in, so red mining still exists. We've also determined 568 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,520 Speaker 1: as certain people am not worthy of being invested in, 569 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: so we rig I shouldn't user work. The system is 570 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,799 Speaker 1: designed to not help people in need, so poor and 571 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,200 Speaker 1: modern income people have more difficulty getting access to credit. 572 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: We are the people who carry say, the highest student debt. 573 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: We're the people who live in communities that they don't 574 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,280 Speaker 1: want to invest in, and so the system has really 575 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,120 Speaker 1: made it more and more difficult for us to be 576 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,720 Speaker 1: a part of this American and so we're a dressing 577 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: and I would have to say, I'm so very pleased, 578 00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,759 Speaker 1: but I do work for a president who knows it 579 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,080 Speaker 1: and allows us to do our work to try to 580 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,160 Speaker 1: address it. Last question for you, how confident are you 581 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: that we are going to get the human infrastructure piece 582 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,399 Speaker 1: of this major legislation passed after the building infrastructure part 583 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: was so fraught. I am very confident. I'm very confident 584 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:24,879 Speaker 1: we're going to pass it. And I'm confident because at 585 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,920 Speaker 1: some point all of us have to understand what it 586 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,919 Speaker 1: is we do. I know my job here at hunt 587 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: members of Congress need to know theirs. Having been a 588 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,640 Speaker 1: form of member, I know that every single member over 589 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 1: there at some point understands I represent people who need this, 590 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,319 Speaker 1: and so I'm really really hopeful that it's going to 591 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,120 Speaker 1: be done sooner than later. I don't know, but I 592 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:51,080 Speaker 1: do feel very confident that the lessons have been learned 593 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: and that they're going to move forward. Secretary Fudge, I 594 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: thank you so much for continuing to uplift the marginalized 595 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 1: that have been overlooked, that whose part has not been helped. 596 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,080 Speaker 1: You know who see government as a problem, because I 597 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,200 Speaker 1: know that with you at the helm, that these people, 598 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,920 Speaker 1: our people families will get the help and assistance that 599 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,719 Speaker 1: governments should have been providing them all along. Thank you 600 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:25,759 Speaker 1: so much, thank you, appreciate you. That is it for 601 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,160 Speaker 1: me today. Dear friends on woke app as always, power 602 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,839 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get 603 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,839 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.