Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, reporting live from my Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks,
Speaker 1: you let me tell you that this week, I am
Speaker 1: so thankful for it to be over. Um, as I've
Speaker 1: been saying all week long. You know, there are some
Speaker 1: days where as a black queer woman, I am just exhausted.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by the injustice. I'm exhausted by the double standards.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by having to explain my feelings and myself
Speaker 1: over and over again. And this is one of those
Speaker 1: weeks where even after posting two specifically posting on Twitter
Speaker 1: four black people and saying two black people, you know what,
Speaker 1: you don't need to follow these trials. You don't need
Speaker 1: to follow the McDaniels trial of the three men that
Speaker 1: murdered Ahmad Aubrey. You don't need to follow the Rittenhouse
Speaker 1: trial knowing that Judge Schrober has clearly showed his hand
Speaker 1: from the very beginning and that this motherfucker is going
Speaker 1: to get off right. And you have Representative Matt Gates
Speaker 1: who is being investigated for pedophilia for his relationships with
Speaker 1: underage girls and possibly with sex traffickers saying announcing and
Speaker 1: the Washington Post covering that he would offer Kyle Rittenhouse
Speaker 1: a very coveted internship on Capitol Hill. How is it
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party, in just four short years has
Speaker 1: turned into a party that praises insurrectionists, applaud sexual predators,
Speaker 1: honors white supremacists, and welcomes all of these horrendous people
Speaker 1: into their party. This week, you saw Speaker Pelosi, with
Speaker 1: no support from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, censor vote to
Speaker 1: censure Paul Gosser, Right, And why was Paul Gosser censored
Speaker 1: and lost his power on his committee seats? Why did
Speaker 1: that happen because him and his staff thought that it
Speaker 1: was a great idea to create a video that showed
Speaker 1: the murder of one of his Democratic colleagues. That this
Speaker 1: is the climate that we are living in now, folks,
Speaker 1: where it is totally acceptable or Republicans believe that it
Speaker 1: is acceptable for them to glorify cruelty and murder of
Speaker 1: people who ideologically opposed them. And let's be clear, I
Speaker 1: actually have no idea what the fuck outside of white supremacy,
Speaker 1: the ideology is of the Republican Party because, frankly, as
Speaker 1: I've stated time and time again, they offer nothing, right,
Speaker 1: They offer no policies. Right, they wanted to allow Democrats
Speaker 1: to go back and forth over the price tag of
Speaker 1: the infrastructure bill, but it's not as if they were
Speaker 1: countering the infrastructure bill with a bill of their own.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the entire time that I
Speaker 1: can think about the Trump administration, right in all of
Speaker 1: the things that McConnell was allowing to happen, I think
Speaker 1: to myself, what policies do you actually remember from the
Speaker 1: Trump administration other than you know, the bands on certain
Speaker 1: Muslim nations from coming into the country, other than the
Speaker 1: child separation policy where they couldn't even bother to create
Speaker 1: a fucking Excel spreadsheet so that we knew how to
Speaker 1: put these families back together again. Right, when you think
Speaker 1: about four years under Donald Trump and the four years
Speaker 1: under Republican leadership, what do you remember that they did
Speaker 1: for the American people? Nothing? And so as I'm watching
Speaker 1: this week, just this week is just a such a
Speaker 1: snapshot into who America has devolved into. And I say
Speaker 1: devolved because folks, it wasn't too long ago, right, It
Speaker 1: feels like a distant, fading dream the Obama administration. It
Speaker 1: wasn't so long ago, right, And I think about it now,
Speaker 1: and I think about the lightness that I felt the
Speaker 1: joy of listening to Barack Obama eloquently speak about unity,
Speaker 1: eloquently speak about who we wanted to be as a
Speaker 1: nation and who we believed ourselves to be because overcoming
Speaker 1: centuries of ingrained white supremacy and racism, we turned around
Speaker 1: and voted for a brilliant black man, not once, but twice,
Speaker 1: voted to have a black first family in the White House,
Speaker 1: a house that was built by slaves, in a city
Speaker 1: that was built by enslaved Africans. And so we thought
Speaker 1: to ourselves, now, these many moons ago, that we had
Speaker 1: arrived at what Rachel Maddow would famously call our post
Speaker 1: racial moment. You remember Chris Matthews talking about the tingle
Speaker 1: coming up his leg, because we all wanted right, and
Speaker 1: particularly white Americans wanted to be able to pat themselves
Speaker 1: on the back for how far they have come from
Speaker 1: the judgery of Jim Crow and pre reconstruction, that they
Speaker 1: could pat themselves on the back and say, see, we're
Speaker 1: not racist. Because Obama and the Obama family was our
Speaker 1: black best friend, right, But we knew, as people of color,
Speaker 1: people from marginalized communities, people with awareness about the patterns
Speaker 1: in this country, that for every bit of progress that
Speaker 1: we have ever made, there has always been a consistent
Speaker 1: and a dominant white lash that follows reconstruction. Following the
Speaker 1: Civil War, where this country was torn apart right because
Speaker 1: of a desire to end a cruel and inhumane practice, right,
Speaker 1: the practice the economic builder of slavery, and because of that,
Speaker 1: the South rose up with God with guns, armed to
Speaker 1: the nine's, armed to the ten's, armed to the skies
Speaker 1: to take their country. Sound familiar to you that as
Speaker 1: soon as enslaved Africans were given their freedom, that then
Speaker 1: we would end reconstruction. After twelve years, we would assuage
Speaker 1: the South with giving them the ability to create Jim
Speaker 1: Crow laws that then would turn around, would turn around right,
Speaker 1: and last for another hundred years. So you came off
Speaker 1: of hundreds of years of slavery to then have this
Speaker 1: moment of reconstruction where more black people were elected to
Speaker 1: government than ever before, to have this brief period only
Speaker 1: to follow another hundred years of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1: So if you look just at that moment in America's history,
Speaker 1: and then look and every other steps that we've taken
Speaker 1: thereof following, every bit of progress in this country follows
Speaker 1: white rage. And this is why I said this week
Speaker 1: on my other show, Democracy Ish, that we need to
Speaker 1: interrogate the patterns of white rage in this country. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean in a way to create empathy. Oh,
Speaker 1: I understand why you're so violent and why you're so cruel,
Speaker 1: and why you are a domestic terrorist. No, no, but
Speaker 1: to understand and dissect it as a way to stop
Speaker 1: it from happening. You see, white Americans in this country
Speaker 1: have been able to get behind this theory that it
Speaker 1: is black and brown people that are to be feared,
Speaker 1: That it is black and brown people that are the
Speaker 1: violent ones, right that need to be caged and need
Speaker 1: to be put down, as the McDaniels did with Ahmad Aubrey,
Speaker 1: as George Zimmerman did with Trayvon Martin, as those cops
Speaker 1: did with tam Or Rice, as Derek Chauvin did with
Speaker 1: George Floyd, right, and the list goes on and on
Speaker 1: and on. Because we have been the story around black
Speaker 1: and brown people in this country has been a story
Speaker 1: of aggression, right of animalistic behavior, of thuggery, right of criminality,
Speaker 1: and so of course the thoughts then about who black
Speaker 1: people are and who this community is would then design
Speaker 1: the policies that have created the racial wealth gap, that
Speaker 1: have created the climate gap, that have created the educational
Speaker 1: gap right and the moral gap that this country is
Speaker 1: facing on a regular basis. There's a reason why many
Speaker 1: of us who pay attention know where these cases go.
Speaker 1: Of armed white men who feel their power and their
Speaker 1: ability to either have a citizens arrest right or whatever
Speaker 1: bullshit it was that they are using as their defense
Speaker 1: right now in the McDaniel's case, or whether it is
Speaker 1: to sling on in a R fifteen and decide to
Speaker 1: drive outside of your state, cross state lines right with
Speaker 1: a loaded weapon and insert yourself into what is our
Speaker 1: first amendment right to peacefully protests and assemble. Every time
Speaker 1: that these protests, which rightfully so, become filled with anger,
Speaker 1: it's oh, let's call the National Guard, because God knows
Speaker 1: what black people will do. Meanwhile, these motherfuckers burned down,
Speaker 1: burn down areas of this country where flourishing black businesses
Speaker 1: were right, burned down homes, put burning crosses, bomb churches.
Speaker 1: But we're the ones that are the criminals. We're the
Speaker 1: ones that are violent. If you even understand a smidgeon
Speaker 1: of America's dark history, you know that it is a
Speaker 1: history that is built on violence, on white violence. Because
Speaker 1: I don't know what groups of black people are, Latins
Speaker 1: people are, Asian Pacific islanders. I don't know what groups
Speaker 1: what communities were bombing white churches. I don't know what
Speaker 1: communities were burning down white towns. But yet the press,
Speaker 1: right from Tulsa, Oklahoma till now, we'll create these headlines
Speaker 1: that talk about a race war, that talk about these
Speaker 1: moths right when in fact, you have these armed insurrectionists
Speaker 1: against people who just want to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: go to the fucking store at any time of day,
Speaker 1: and know that their lives aren't going to be threatened,
Speaker 1: and if they are, they know that justice and the
Speaker 1: law is going to be on their side. We are
Speaker 1: asking for the bare minimum. And I remember the young
Speaker 1: activists who said white folks are lucky that we're looking
Speaker 1: for equality and not fucking revenge. And I think about
Speaker 1: that statement every single goddamn day, particularly this week, as
Speaker 1: we are watching the culminations of these trials. And as
Speaker 1: I said, on democracy is it is not these white
Speaker 1: people that are on trial. It is America that is
Speaker 1: on trial. We always want to say to ourselves, this
Speaker 1: is not who we are, but it is exactly who
Speaker 1: we are and who this country has always been one
Speaker 1: that looks to marginalize and oppress people that they don't like.
Speaker 1: Just this week, let me, let me, let me just
Speaker 1: bring up this, just say we can understand where these
Speaker 1: radical right wing racists are. Senator John Kennedy at the
Speaker 1: hearing for Saul Amaroba, who is Biden's choice for Controller,
Speaker 1: I just in the car in her hearing, in the
Speaker 1: confirmation hearing, this old white racist son of a bitch
Speaker 1: looked at this Asian American woman and said to her,
Speaker 1: with cameras rolling, I don't know whether to call you
Speaker 1: professor or comrade, essentially signaling the fact that because she
Speaker 1: was born in a communist country, right as if she
Speaker 1: had control over her birth, which she would then say,
Speaker 1: because her response to him has since gone viral, I
Speaker 1: cannot control where I was born, Senator, she said, but
Speaker 1: I can tell you that my family suffered under the
Speaker 1: Stalin regime. I can tell you that my family has
Speaker 1: suffered and the scars of which we still work through today.
Speaker 1: But the fact that Kennedy felt like he was well
Speaker 1: within his right to usher in this new Vaux McCarthyism
Speaker 1: right where we created an entire committee in the late
Speaker 1: nineteen forties and nineteen fifties in the US House of
Speaker 1: Representatives to investigate those that you believe did not have
Speaker 1: full allegiance to the United States. And I've said this
Speaker 1: before that this whole crt, this whole cancel culture is new,
Speaker 1: the right's new red scare. And what Kennedy offered in
Speaker 1: that flippant and just outright fucking racist statement that he
Speaker 1: made is that we've made no progress that as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, this party, this political party, is in
Speaker 1: full fucking regression, and they're unapologetic about it. You have
Speaker 1: Paul Gosser, as I mentioned earlier, is now censured, not
Speaker 1: because Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the fact that you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to threaten murder against your fucking colleague because
Speaker 1: you don't like what they say. Right, two Republicans voted
Speaker 1: to censure Gossar. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine
Speaker 1: how fucking vile these people have become that they literally
Speaker 1: refuse to see right or wrong. That honestly, if they
Speaker 1: had their way, the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Lauren Boberts
Speaker 1: of the world would come in and just mow them
Speaker 1: all down with their aar fifteens and their nine millimeters,
Speaker 1: because that's what they think about their democratic colleagues, That
Speaker 1: they don't deserve to live, that they don't deserve to exist.
Speaker 1: That Kennedy would look at a woman who is just
Speaker 1: as fucking American as he is, but isn't white, isn't mail,
Speaker 1: and I have the audacity to say to her, should
Speaker 1: I call you professor or comrade? Well, should I call
Speaker 1: you the fucking grand Wizard? Or should I call you senator?
Speaker 1: Would have been my fucking response. This is why I'm
Speaker 1: not in it anybody's administration or working on anybody's Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill anymore, because you see what pisces me off the
Speaker 1: most is that I used to really believe in government.
Speaker 1: I can tell you stories right of working on Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill until the middle of the night, working on legislation
Speaker 1: because I believe that I was working for the American people,
Speaker 1: and I was filled with such passion and inspired by
Speaker 1: walking through the halls of history that I wanted to
Speaker 1: dedicate my life to it. These people, this insurrectionist party,
Speaker 1: the election of an outward racist, misogynist pig has reshaped
Speaker 1: my image of who and what America is now. I
Speaker 1: was never under the illusion that America was anybody's greatest nation,
Speaker 1: that it was anybody's perfect place. But like I said
Speaker 1: earlier this week, what separated at one time, at one
Speaker 1: time separated America from other places was that we actively
Speaker 1: tried to perfect our union, that with each generation that
Speaker 1: we try and be better. And there are not a
Speaker 1: lot of countries that you can look at and say
Speaker 1: that about. But nowadays it everything that we once thought
Speaker 1: about this country about it being filled with possibility, Like
Speaker 1: why do people risk their lives to come here. Why
Speaker 1: do people like my family leave their homeland of Jamaica
Speaker 1: travel to a country that they do not know to
Speaker 1: plant seeds, to become citizens, to build a better life.
Speaker 1: It's because of the possibility that America offers. That's what
Speaker 1: made especial, because there are countries where there is no
Speaker 1: real possibility. But what we what I'm understanding about this
Speaker 1: country is our unformal cast system. Right, we don't have
Speaker 1: a normal cast system like say in India does, or
Speaker 1: say parts of China does. No. We love the story
Speaker 1: of the down trodden, you know, rural Southerner who makes
Speaker 1: something out of nothing, pulls themselves up from their bootstrap
Speaker 1: and becomes you know, a gazillionaire. We love that story
Speaker 1: in America, even though we refuse to discuss the policies
Speaker 1: right that disallow so many from being able to really
Speaker 1: fully access the American dream. There'll be a conversation that
Speaker 1: I'll have a little later in the show for just
Speaker 1: a few minutes with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
Speaker 1: who's rejoining US Secretary Marsha Fudge, who talks about why
Speaker 1: this infrastructure bill is so historic, who talks about marginalized
Speaker 1: families and communities like ours who have been drinking water
Speaker 1: from lead pipes, lead pipes that she will talk about
Speaker 1: and say that you cannot reverse the damage that is
Speaker 1: done to children who will develop developmental issues right, who
Speaker 1: will never be able to have potentially really crippling disabilities
Speaker 1: and never be able to overcome them, not because they
Speaker 1: were born that way, but because of the fact that
Speaker 1: we have allowed them to. We allow people to live
Speaker 1: in a country live in America and not be able
Speaker 1: to turn on the fucking faucet and get clean water.
Speaker 1: That we allow communities of color and poor people to
Speaker 1: live near super fun sites where they develop cancer, asthma,
Speaker 1: and other debilitating health ailments, all because what they're poor
Speaker 1: or they're people of color. That's the reality of this country.
Speaker 1: But we love to create this myth of individualism where
Speaker 1: in reality, no one gets anywhere on their own. That
Speaker 1: the person that you're talking about, that you you know,
Speaker 1: look at Donald Trump and look what he has done,
Speaker 1: and he's a savvy businessman. The bitch got a million
Speaker 1: dollars from his daddy, and every single business that fucking failed,
Speaker 1: daddy bailed him out. Everybody doesn't have that doesn't have
Speaker 1: a father that's sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: to pour into your bullshit ideas. But those are the
Speaker 1: people that are creating policies for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: Those that were born with silver spoons, those that were
Speaker 1: able to walk into banks and because of the color
Speaker 1: of their skin or where their houses were located, we're
Speaker 1: able to get loans, no questions asked, while the rest
Speaker 1: of us have to model perfection and hope and pray
Speaker 1: that we get those same benefits, knowing good God damn
Speaker 1: well that we won't. There are stories every single day
Speaker 1: about homes that are evaluated at hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars less because a person that owns the home is
Speaker 1: black or Latino. So you know, when you are inundated
Speaker 1: with these stories on a regular basis, when you have
Speaker 1: these trials that you are following, it is really easy
Speaker 1: to become so overwhelmed with grief. And that's how I
Speaker 1: have felt this week. It has taken me a lot
Speaker 1: to turn on the news, even just for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I just don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear the clips. I didn't want to hear Kennedy saying
Speaker 1: should I call you professor or comrade? I didn't want
Speaker 1: to hear Kevin mc hearthy lying about the fact that
Speaker 1: the only member of the Republican Party that was ever
Speaker 1: censured was Liz Cheney, and that was because she refused
Speaker 1: to go along with the lie that Donald Trump won
Speaker 1: the election, and that in his response that he wants
Speaker 1: to bring up things that Maxine Waters has said, what
Speaker 1: calling you all a bunch of fucking liars? Because you are.
Speaker 1: I don't remember Maxine Waters ever threatening to murder a Republican.
Speaker 1: I don't remember her ever using a Republican's face on
Speaker 1: her website with the crosshairs on it, like too many
Speaker 1: fucking members of Congress on the Republican side do, and
Speaker 1: with no goddamn consequence. So what's no wonder why we're
Speaker 1: in this place with the McDaniels and the written houses
Speaker 1: of the world and the mcclusky's, one of which is
Speaker 1: running for fucking Congress after a Senate excuse me, after
Speaker 1: brandishing a weapon against peaceful protesters. Then they got a
Speaker 1: prime plum spot at the RNC to spread their lies
Speaker 1: about how black people are invading the suburbs and crime
Speaker 1: is coming. I'm still waiting on the fucking caravan that
Speaker 1: they told us was coming like five years ago. Has
Speaker 1: it reached yet. It's all so disheartening and overwhelming. It's
Speaker 1: hard to continue to believe in a country that just
Speaker 1: shows its ass every single fucking day. We can't even
Speaker 1: agree right on some of the most atrocious acts in
Speaker 1: this country, slavery and how the slave trade, the brutalization,
Speaker 1: the humanization of enslaved Africans, built this entire country and
Speaker 1: built Europe. Right, we can't even agree on that with
Speaker 1: the advent of the sixteen nineteen project. They want to
Speaker 1: disparage that, they want to ban it. They're looking to
Speaker 1: ban books all over this country again, because you know,
Speaker 1: what the reality is is that education is power, and
Speaker 1: the more educated people become about the truth, the ways
Speaker 1: in which we develop our critical thinking skills and start
Speaker 1: asking the right questions and recognizing, like what is at
Speaker 1: the core of all of this greed and power? We
Speaker 1: are supposedly functioning in a democracy, right and yet one
Speaker 1: of the parties, one of the two parties, is trying
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government. Steve benn and let's just talk
Speaker 1: about our injustice system right now. Steve Bennon didn't even
Speaker 1: have to show up for court for his second court day.
Speaker 1: He phoned it in. What black person did you know
Speaker 1: that is indicted? Right, that is arrested? He's fucking being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to show up today, as if
Speaker 1: they have a choice. You know, somebody had tweeted talking
Speaker 1: about Kyle Rittenhouse seventeen years old, being hailed as some
Speaker 1: type of fucking hero by the radical right murder for
Speaker 1: murder right, and these same people turned an unarmed black
Speaker 1: boy who was in fact murdered into the assailant, into
Speaker 1: the criminal, into the thug in tray Von Martin, this
Speaker 1: is who the fuck America is. And so when you
Speaker 1: take all of these things, when you weigh them in
Speaker 1: your hands, you're like, you just want to throw it
Speaker 1: all out. I honestly don't know if there is any
Speaker 1: real repair to be made here. How do you repair
Speaker 1: something that's irrevocably broken. How do you repair something when
Speaker 1: you're being gas lit every day and being told that
Speaker 1: you're the one that's the problem for raising the issue
Speaker 1: of their being a problem that we should all just
Speaker 1: walk around with our heads down right and our mouth
Speaker 1: shut and pretend that this is the greatest nation in
Speaker 1: the world. It is not. And you see, the reality
Speaker 1: is is that once you understand that to be true,
Speaker 1: then you can actually do the hard work of figuring
Speaker 1: out what would make it good, what would make it
Speaker 1: better for those that are at their breaking point, at
Speaker 1: their wits end. I tell you this all the time.
Speaker 1: Some days, I don't know how people of color do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we don't run out of our
Speaker 1: homes just fucking screaming every single day that we don't
Speaker 1: just pop off on every fucking personally. See, but you see,
Speaker 1: that kind of anger is a luxury and a privilege
Speaker 1: that we don't have. We can't even express our sadness
Speaker 1: and our grief, right, we can't even express our rage.
Speaker 1: But these motherfuckers are allowed to essentially try and burn
Speaker 1: down the Capitol building and then they're seen as patriots.
Speaker 1: But us in the streets marching so that black people
Speaker 1: aren't killed like fucking dogs. But where the problem? You
Speaker 1: want to protect property. This is what Kyle Writtenhouse said.
Speaker 1: I was going to do what other people weren't. Bitch
Speaker 1: you away in a policeman. You hadn't have a fucking badge.
Speaker 1: We're in such a dark place, and you know, I
Speaker 1: can remember at the beginning of the Trump administration just
Speaker 1: knowing and feeling in the gut of my stomach and
Speaker 1: the pit of my stomach that everything was just starting
Speaker 1: or rather ending, right, Donald Trump was not the beginning
Speaker 1: of the resurgence of white supremacy. It was a solidification
Speaker 1: of that. It began a long time ago. Because as
Speaker 1: soon as word got out that America was in the
Speaker 1: midst of a demographic shift that white people were no
Speaker 1: longer going to be the majority. That is when this
Speaker 1: ship began, right, Because while we were on the left saying,
Speaker 1: oh thank God, they were on the right saying, oh
Speaker 1: dear God. But see, I was always so confused with
Speaker 1: why white people were getting up in arms about a
Speaker 1: demographic shift. If they believe that white privilege and racism
Speaker 1: doesn't exist, what were they so afraid of happening? Right?
Speaker 1: If they've never done anything wrong, right, if they've never
Speaker 1: violated anyone's humanity, then why are they so concerned with
Speaker 1: no longer being in the majority. If there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as white privilege and the currency of whiteness, then
Speaker 1: why are you so concerned with what this shift would
Speaker 1: mean for you? But once again, you know, as as
Speaker 1: is said that to those that are the oppressor, that
Speaker 1: equity looks and feels like right loss. I'm just so
Speaker 1: tired these days of explaining reality to people that refuse
Speaker 1: to see it. And frankly, if Paul Gosser and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Matt Gates are what leaders look like in America,
Speaker 1: then we're just fucked like as a nation. And this
Speaker 1: is why I continue to say it's just like where
Speaker 1: do we go from here? And my feeling is that
Speaker 1: we need to root ourselves right because this storm, we
Speaker 1: think that it's here, and I'm telling you this is
Speaker 1: just like the build up. So if we're not rooting
Speaker 1: ourselves enjoy, if we're not understanding what we need to
Speaker 1: do to care for our emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing
Speaker 1: in this moment, if we're not looking for positive and
Speaker 1: healthy outlets for what this country is placing on our
Speaker 1: shoulders day in and day out, then I don't know
Speaker 1: what we're doing. And I say this, you know, as
Speaker 1: somebody that is made a living off of rage, is
Speaker 1: that rage alone is not sustainable because they are looking
Speaker 1: for the burnout. They are looking for us to be
Speaker 1: complacent and feel like there is nothing that we can do.
Speaker 1: But you see, there is always something to be done.
Speaker 1: You may not like it, and they sure as fuck
Speaker 1: may not like the outcome, but there's only so much
Speaker 1: pressure that you can place on people. There's only so
Speaker 1: far that you can beat them down before folks turn
Speaker 1: around and start fighting that they want a war. But
Speaker 1: I've been saying that we've been living in a cold
Speaker 1: civil war. You think that the Gosser video isn't going
Speaker 1: to escalate to an actual real life scare. Like, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something, I worry every day about the squad.
Speaker 1: The members of the squad, the most visual, you know,
Speaker 1: visual members right of the squad, who are women of color.
Speaker 1: I worry about them, and I wonder do they have
Speaker 1: security because they sure it's fuck needed. Because you see,
Speaker 1: what Gosser was doing is signaling much in the same
Speaker 1: way that Donald Trump did on that stage where he
Speaker 1: told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by
Speaker 1: when he told them that January sixth was going to
Speaker 1: be wild. This motherfucker was doing the same. He says, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just a video. It's just you know, it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's not like I did anything. But
Speaker 1: it's with the hopes that one of your followers will
Speaker 1: And then what are you going to do? Then we
Speaker 1: will once again hear about the lone wolf and how
Speaker 1: this is not we can't politicize this issue. But how
Speaker 1: many what are we waiting for? You think are we
Speaker 1: waiting for another Gabby Gifford's except a member of Congress
Speaker 1: that doesn't survive, that is gunned down, that is kidnapped,
Speaker 1: that is beaten like, remember what they tried to do
Speaker 1: to the governor in Michigan. They wanted to kidnap her,
Speaker 1: they wanted to kill her. They were going to hold
Speaker 1: a trial in the woods. What else do you think
Speaker 1: that they were going to do. This is where we
Speaker 1: are headed, and it's only a matter of time before
Speaker 1: someone is successful. And because there have been no consequences
Speaker 1: to this point, and because white murderers get off every
Speaker 1: single fucking day, they'll just feel like they're doing their
Speaker 1: patriotic duty and they'll leave with this slap on the wrist,
Speaker 1: if anything at all. I watch now as they refer
Speaker 1: to Rittenhouse in the press as a teenager, right, I
Speaker 1: don't remember them referring to Trayvon Martin as a teenager.
Speaker 1: I remember them referring to him as a man. And
Speaker 1: yet he wasn't able to take the stand right because
Speaker 1: he was dead a child. I'm so tired of having
Speaker 1: to bring up the parallels right to the Jim Crow
Speaker 1: South and where we are right now. But I realized that,
Speaker 1: you know, if we had an education system that actually
Speaker 1: educated people, then maybe folks would understand this pattern of
Speaker 1: white rage and violence, and maybe it would be preventable.
Speaker 1: But who am I kidding? Folks, As we head into
Speaker 1: the weekend, as we await the verdicts and these trials,
Speaker 1: take good care of yourselves, take good care of each other.
Speaker 1: Know that it doesn't mean that you don't care. If
Speaker 1: you're not following every single second, every single tweet, It
Speaker 1: means that you care about your mental health. It means
Speaker 1: that you've had enough and that there's only so much
Speaker 1: that you can take in. So don't allow guilt to
Speaker 1: force you to see more and do more than you should.
Speaker 1: Do your part, Take deep breaths, and then let it go,
Speaker 1: because the mess will be here when you get back.
Speaker 1: Coming up next is my conversation with Secretary Harry Marsha
Speaker 1: Fudge about Biden's Historic Infrastructure Bill and what it means
Speaker 1: to Americans. I am very happy to welcome back to
Speaker 1: woke FFI Daily Secretary Marsha Fudge of the Housing and
Speaker 1: Urban Development Agency. Secretary, I wanted to ask you, now
Speaker 1: that we have this historic infrastructure bill that has finally
Speaker 1: been passed, what is it that people can expect and
Speaker 1: how is it going to affect HUD Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. It's going to affect HUD in a
Speaker 1: number of plays. When we talk about infrastructure, I think
Speaker 1: it is important for us to understand that infrastructure includes
Speaker 1: many things. One of the biggest issues, at least for me,
Speaker 1: is the part where we deal with climate. I think
Speaker 1: people do not understand that black and brown people are
Speaker 1: affected more by climate change than almost anyone else. If
Speaker 1: you look at Storm Ida, let's just take that as
Speaker 1: an example, most of the people who were hurts significantly
Speaker 1: or lost their homes for black and brown people. If
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers of people children in our
Speaker 1: schools that has asthma, it's because we live near industrial
Speaker 1: sites and dump sites, and so it is really significant
Speaker 1: that we address it. Children who are affected by lead,
Speaker 1: especially when they have high blood elevations that show lead.
Speaker 1: These children are something will probably never ever be normal.
Speaker 1: So we have to address these issues. And this is
Speaker 1: giving us the opportunity, especially in our communities, to address
Speaker 1: things that people don't even think about that affect us
Speaker 1: to the degree they do, you know, for too long.
Speaker 1: During this kind of back and forth over the last
Speaker 1: several months, it seems as if the media had been
Speaker 1: concentrating on the price tag as opposed to the content
Speaker 1: of the legislation and So when we are thinking about
Speaker 1: regular Americans right who are not following this day to day,
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you want them
Speaker 1: to know specifically about this piece of legislation and why frankly,
Speaker 1: it's historic and we we should be applauding the fact
Speaker 1: that this historic measure got passed in this very contentious
Speaker 1: political climate. It's historic for a number of reasons. First,
Speaker 1: I would say that for as you suggest, for this
Speaker 1: conus to come together and pass something that is so historic,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you why it is. For generations,
Speaker 1: we have neglected to do things like upgrade our electric grid.
Speaker 1: We have not provided the kind of resources that young
Speaker 1: people need to actually do well in school. They don't
Speaker 1: have Broadbent or Internet, they don't have the devices even sometimes.
Speaker 1: And so over this last year or so, Danielle, our
Speaker 1: children have been set back almost a year millions of
Speaker 1: because of a lack of an infrastructure. This kind of
Speaker 1: an infrastructure clean water. We live in the greatest nation
Speaker 1: in the world. There is no reason that people cannot
Speaker 1: termine their tap and drink the water. So it is
Speaker 1: not only something that we all need, but it is
Speaker 1: historic its size that we can do so much now
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen overnight, because things like infrastructure
Speaker 1: do take time. But it is a beginning, and it
Speaker 1: is a bigger beginning than any of us ever thought
Speaker 1: we would see from a government that cares about the people.
Speaker 1: That's why this new the next piece of this it's
Speaker 1: so huge, you know, this human infrastructure field is so
Speaker 1: huge because you've put the two together. And what we
Speaker 1: have said is that this administration sees and here's what
Speaker 1: is going on in this country, and it's going to
Speaker 1: try to address the needs of all people, not some people,
Speaker 1: all people in this country, you know, for the department,
Speaker 1: can you speak to what were some of the issues
Speaker 1: that were illuminated over the last you know, and we're
Speaker 1: coming up on two years living in a global health pandemic.
Speaker 1: What are some of the issues that were illuminated for
Speaker 1: you in you know, in HUD that we should be tackling,
Speaker 1: that we need to be paying attention to, but that
Speaker 1: was exacerbated during this time. And so that people can
Speaker 1: understand the urgency, I'm glad you use the word illuminated
Speaker 1: because it was there the problem. So you use the
Speaker 1: exact perfect words what we saw and I'll give you
Speaker 1: the top things. Homelessness has become such a crisis in
Speaker 1: this country that on any given night, five hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty thousand people sleep on the streets. Of those people
Speaker 1: are people of color. The fastest growing groups of people
Speaker 1: who sleep on the street are families with children and
Speaker 1: senior citizens. So it started to shine that light. It
Speaker 1: also gave us the opportunity to look at how people
Speaker 1: are living in public house and we know that that's
Speaker 1: been a problem for a long time. But as well,
Speaker 1: it showed us that people of color especially have been
Speaker 1: left out of the housing market in a way that
Speaker 1: nobody thought about. Today. There's a thirty point gap between
Speaker 1: black and white homeownership, thirty points. It is as big
Speaker 1: today as it was in the sixties. Why because we
Speaker 1: have determined that certain neighborhoods are not worthy of us
Speaker 1: investing in, so red mining still exists. We've also determined
Speaker 1: as certain people am not worthy of being invested in,
Speaker 1: so we rig I shouldn't user work. The system is
Speaker 1: designed to not help people in need, so poor and
Speaker 1: modern income people have more difficulty getting access to credit.
Speaker 1: We are the people who carry say, the highest student debt.
Speaker 1: We're the people who live in communities that they don't
Speaker 1: want to invest in, and so the system has really
Speaker 1: made it more and more difficult for us to be
Speaker 1: a part of this American and so we're a dressing
Speaker 1: and I would have to say, I'm so very pleased,
Speaker 1: but I do work for a president who knows it
Speaker 1: and allows us to do our work to try to
Speaker 1: address it. Last question for you, how confident are you
Speaker 1: that we are going to get the human infrastructure piece
Speaker 1: of this major legislation passed after the building infrastructure part
Speaker 1: was so fraught. I am very confident. I'm very confident
Speaker 1: we're going to pass it. And I'm confident because at
Speaker 1: some point all of us have to understand what it
Speaker 1: is we do. I know my job here at hunt
Speaker 1: members of Congress need to know theirs. Having been a
Speaker 1: form of member, I know that every single member over
Speaker 1: there at some point understands I represent people who need this,
Speaker 1: and so I'm really really hopeful that it's going to
Speaker 1: be done sooner than later. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: do feel very confident that the lessons have been learned
Speaker 1: and that they're going to move forward. Secretary Fudge, I
Speaker 1: thank you so much for continuing to uplift the marginalized
Speaker 1: that have been overlooked, that whose part has not been helped.
Speaker 1: You know who see government as a problem, because I
Speaker 1: know that with you at the helm, that these people,
Speaker 1: our people families will get the help and assistance that
Speaker 1: governments should have been providing them all along. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, thank you, appreciate you. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today. Dear friends on woke app as always, power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.