WEBVTT - Glorifying Cruelty 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.800 me your girl, Danielle Moody, reporting live from my Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.840 you let me tell you that this week, I am 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.040 so thankful for it to be over. Um, as I've 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.560 been saying all week long. You know, there are some 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:37.400 days where as a black queer woman, I am just exhausted. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.760 I'm exhausted by the injustice. I'm exhausted by the double standards. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.960 I'm exhausted by having to explain my feelings and myself 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.040 over and over again. And this is one of those 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:55.880 weeks where even after posting two specifically posting on Twitter 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.520 four black people and saying two black people, you know what, 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.640 you don't need to follow these trials. You don't need 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.160 to follow the McDaniels trial of the three men that 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.520 murdered Ahmad Aubrey. You don't need to follow the Rittenhouse 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.600 trial knowing that Judge Schrober has clearly showed his hand 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.240 from the very beginning and that this motherfucker is going 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.280 to get off right. And you have Representative Matt Gates 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:28.360 who is being investigated for pedophilia for his relationships with 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.280 underage girls and possibly with sex traffickers saying announcing and 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.160 the Washington Post covering that he would offer Kyle Rittenhouse 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:43.840 a very coveted internship on Capitol Hill. How is it 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:49.920 that the Republican Party, in just four short years has 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:56.559 turned into a party that praises insurrectionists, applaud sexual predators, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:03.559 honors white supremacists, and welcomes all of these horrendous people 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:11.400 into their party. This week, you saw Speaker Pelosi, with 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:17.480 no support from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, censor vote to 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:22.600 censure Paul Gosser, Right, And why was Paul Gosser censored 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.120 and lost his power on his committee seats? Why did 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.799 that happen because him and his staff thought that it 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.680 was a great idea to create a video that showed 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:41.359 the murder of one of his Democratic colleagues. That this 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.320 is the climate that we are living in now, folks, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.000 where it is totally acceptable or Republicans believe that it 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:53.400 is acceptable for them to glorify cruelty and murder of 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.720 people who ideologically opposed them. And let's be clear, I 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.840 actually have no idea what the fuck outside of white supremacy, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.760 the ideology is of the Republican Party because, frankly, as 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.080 I've stated time and time again, they offer nothing, right, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:15.600 They offer no policies. Right, they wanted to allow Democrats 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.440 to go back and forth over the price tag of 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.960 the infrastructure bill, but it's not as if they were 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.600 countering the infrastructure bill with a bill of their own. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.480 As a matter of fact, the entire time that I 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.120 can think about the Trump administration, right in all of 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.760 the things that McConnell was allowing to happen, I think 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.880 to myself, what policies do you actually remember from the 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:44.080 Trump administration other than you know, the bands on certain 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.240 Muslim nations from coming into the country, other than the 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.320 child separation policy where they couldn't even bother to create 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.320 a fucking Excel spreadsheet so that we knew how to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.520 put these families back together again. Right, when you think 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.720 about four years under Donald Trump and the four years 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.000 under Republican leadership, what do you remember that they did 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:12.280 for the American people? Nothing? And so as I'm watching 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.599 this week, just this week is just a such a 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.680 snapshot into who America has devolved into. And I say 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.840 devolved because folks, it wasn't too long ago, right, It 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:33.440 feels like a distant, fading dream the Obama administration. It 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.200 wasn't so long ago, right, And I think about it now, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.080 and I think about the lightness that I felt the 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:49.560 joy of listening to Barack Obama eloquently speak about unity, 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.080 eloquently speak about who we wanted to be as a 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.239 nation and who we believed ourselves to be because overcoming 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:04.400 centuries of ingrained white supremacy and racism, we turned around 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.080 and voted for a brilliant black man, not once, but twice, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:14.720 voted to have a black first family in the White House, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.800 a house that was built by slaves, in a city 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:24.400 that was built by enslaved Africans. And so we thought 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.320 to ourselves, now, these many moons ago, that we had 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.799 arrived at what Rachel Maddow would famously call our post 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.719 racial moment. You remember Chris Matthews talking about the tingle 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.120 coming up his leg, because we all wanted right, and 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.560 particularly white Americans wanted to be able to pat themselves 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.320 on the back for how far they have come from 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:55.560 the judgery of Jim Crow and pre reconstruction, that they 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.160 could pat themselves on the back and say, see, we're 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.080 not racist. Because Obama and the Obama family was our 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:08.320 black best friend, right, But we knew, as people of color, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:14.080 people from marginalized communities, people with awareness about the patterns 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.880 in this country, that for every bit of progress that 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.240 we have ever made, there has always been a consistent 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:27.640 and a dominant white lash that follows reconstruction. Following the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.680 Civil War, where this country was torn apart right because 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:41.039 of a desire to end a cruel and inhumane practice, right, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:48.080 the practice the economic builder of slavery, and because of that, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:53.560 the South rose up with God with guns, armed to 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.120 the nine's, armed to the ten's, armed to the skies 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:03.360 to take their country. Sound familiar to you that as 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:11.320 soon as enslaved Africans were given their freedom, that then 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:16.880 we would end reconstruction. After twelve years, we would assuage 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.160 the South with giving them the ability to create Jim 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.960 Crow laws that then would turn around, would turn around right, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.320 and last for another hundred years. So you came off 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:35.440 of hundreds of years of slavery to then have this 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:42.080 moment of reconstruction where more black people were elected to 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.880 government than ever before, to have this brief period only 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.840 to follow another hundred years of white supremacy and domestic terrorism. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:58.080 So if you look just at that moment in America's history, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.840 and then look and every other steps that we've taken 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.840 thereof following, every bit of progress in this country follows 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.119 white rage. And this is why I said this week 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:16.000 on my other show, Democracy Ish, that we need to 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:21.040 interrogate the patterns of white rage in this country. And 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.240 I don't mean in a way to create empathy. Oh, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.160 I understand why you're so violent and why you're so cruel, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:34.240 and why you are a domestic terrorist. No, no, but 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.200 to understand and dissect it as a way to stop 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.640 it from happening. You see, white Americans in this country 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.520 have been able to get behind this theory that it 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.160 is black and brown people that are to be feared, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.400 That it is black and brown people that are the 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.240 violent ones, right that need to be caged and need 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.360 to be put down, as the McDaniels did with Ahmad Aubrey, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.560 as George Zimmerman did with Trayvon Martin, as those cops 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.679 did with tam Or Rice, as Derek Chauvin did with 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.640 George Floyd, right, and the list goes on and on 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:15.640 and on. Because we have been the story around black 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.120 and brown people in this country has been a story 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:26.800 of aggression, right of animalistic behavior, of thuggery, right of criminality, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:35.079 and so of course the thoughts then about who black 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.679 people are and who this community is would then design 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.840 the policies that have created the racial wealth gap, that 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:49.720 have created the climate gap, that have created the educational 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.880 gap right and the moral gap that this country is 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.439 facing on a regular basis. There's a reason why many 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:04.040 of us who pay attention know where these cases go. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:10.440 Of armed white men who feel their power and their 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.400 ability to either have a citizens arrest right or whatever 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.800 bullshit it was that they are using as their defense 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.320 right now in the McDaniel's case, or whether it is 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.760 to sling on in a R fifteen and decide to 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.120 drive outside of your state, cross state lines right with 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:35.080 a loaded weapon and insert yourself into what is our 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:41.600 first amendment right to peacefully protests and assemble. Every time 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:48.920 that these protests, which rightfully so, become filled with anger, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.800 it's oh, let's call the National Guard, because God knows 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.640 what black people will do. Meanwhile, these motherfuckers burned down, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:06.679 burn down areas of this country where flourishing black businesses 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:13.240 were right, burned down homes, put burning crosses, bomb churches. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.320 But we're the ones that are the criminals. We're the 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:22.840 ones that are violent. If you even understand a smidgeon 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.400 of America's dark history, you know that it is a 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:35.640 history that is built on violence, on white violence. Because 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.079 I don't know what groups of black people are, Latins 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.520 people are, Asian Pacific islanders. I don't know what groups 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.959 what communities were bombing white churches. I don't know what 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:53.480 communities were burning down white towns. But yet the press, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:59.800 right from Tulsa, Oklahoma till now, we'll create these headlines 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.800 that talk about a race war, that talk about these 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:10.320 moths right when in fact, you have these armed insurrectionists 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.880 against people who just want to be able to, you know, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.200 go to the fucking store at any time of day, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.800 and know that their lives aren't going to be threatened, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.560 and if they are, they know that justice and the 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:26.120 law is going to be on their side. We are 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.320 asking for the bare minimum. And I remember the young 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.199 activists who said white folks are lucky that we're looking 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.199 for equality and not fucking revenge. And I think about 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:44.560 that statement every single goddamn day, particularly this week, as 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.199 we are watching the culminations of these trials. And as 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.280 I said, on democracy is it is not these white 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.840 people that are on trial. It is America that is 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.120 on trial. We always want to say to ourselves, this 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.280 is not who we are, but it is exactly who 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.800 we are and who this country has always been one 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:13.800 that looks to marginalize and oppress people that they don't like. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.120 Just this week, let me, let me, let me just 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:21.080 bring up this, just say we can understand where these 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:31.240 radical right wing racists are. Senator John Kennedy at the 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:37.920 hearing for Saul Amaroba, who is Biden's choice for Controller, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.120 I just in the car in her hearing, in the 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:51.920 confirmation hearing, this old white racist son of a bitch 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:59.480 looked at this Asian American woman and said to her, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.679 with cameras rolling, I don't know whether to call you 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:10.400 professor or comrade, essentially signaling the fact that because she 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:17.280 was born in a communist country, right as if she 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.080 had control over her birth, which she would then say, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.400 because her response to him has since gone viral, I 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:31.040 cannot control where I was born, Senator, she said, but 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:35.840 I can tell you that my family suffered under the 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.280 Stalin regime. I can tell you that my family has 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:46.480 suffered and the scars of which we still work through today. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:52.760 But the fact that Kennedy felt like he was well 0:14:52.800 --> 0:15:00.720 within his right to usher in this new Vaux McCarthyism 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:08.120 right where we created an entire committee in the late 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.960 nineteen forties and nineteen fifties in the US House of 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.880 Representatives to investigate those that you believe did not have 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:21.080 full allegiance to the United States. And I've said this 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:27.600 before that this whole crt, this whole cancel culture is new, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.880 the right's new red scare. And what Kennedy offered in 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:39.080 that flippant and just outright fucking racist statement that he 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.760 made is that we've made no progress that as a 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:47.560 matter of fact, this party, this political party, is in 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:54.880 full fucking regression, and they're unapologetic about it. You have 0:15:55.000 --> 0:16:00.320 Paul Gosser, as I mentioned earlier, is now censured, not 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:06.800 because Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the fact that you shouldn't 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:12.120 be able to threaten murder against your fucking colleague because 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:19.800 you don't like what they say. Right, two Republicans voted 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.240 to censure Gossar. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:29.160 how fucking vile these people have become that they literally 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:34.880 refuse to see right or wrong. That honestly, if they 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.680 had their way, the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Lauren Boberts 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.600 of the world would come in and just mow them 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.280 all down with their aar fifteens and their nine millimeters, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:53.720 because that's what they think about their democratic colleagues, That 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.880 they don't deserve to live, that they don't deserve to exist. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.320 That Kennedy would look at a woman who is just 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.920 as fucking American as he is, but isn't white, isn't mail, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.320 and I have the audacity to say to her, should 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.400 I call you professor or comrade? Well, should I call 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.720 you the fucking grand Wizard? Or should I call you senator? 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.480 Would have been my fucking response. This is why I'm 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:27.439 not in it anybody's administration or working on anybody's Capitol 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:32.360 Hill anymore, because you see what pisces me off the 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:37.880 most is that I used to really believe in government. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:45.040 I can tell you stories right of working on Capitol 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.440 Hill until the middle of the night, working on legislation 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.520 because I believe that I was working for the American people, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:57.160 and I was filled with such passion and inspired by 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.320 walking through the halls of history that I wanted to 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:10.000 dedicate my life to it. These people, this insurrectionist party, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:19.440 the election of an outward racist, misogynist pig has reshaped 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:26.920 my image of who and what America is now. I 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:32.359 was never under the illusion that America was anybody's greatest nation, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.680 that it was anybody's perfect place. But like I said 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:42.120 earlier this week, what separated at one time, at one 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:47.920 time separated America from other places was that we actively 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:55.119 tried to perfect our union, that with each generation that 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.480 we try and be better. And there are not a 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.520 lot of countries that you can look at and say 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:10.600 that about. But nowadays it everything that we once thought 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.199 about this country about it being filled with possibility, Like 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.040 why do people risk their lives to come here. Why 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:26.960 do people like my family leave their homeland of Jamaica 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.560 travel to a country that they do not know to 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.600 plant seeds, to become citizens, to build a better life. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:39.359 It's because of the possibility that America offers. That's what 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:44.640 made especial, because there are countries where there is no 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.199 real possibility. But what we what I'm understanding about this 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:59.520 country is our unformal cast system. Right, we don't have 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.120 a normal cast system like say in India does, or 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:09.080 say parts of China does. No. We love the story 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:15.119 of the down trodden, you know, rural Southerner who makes 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.280 something out of nothing, pulls themselves up from their bootstrap 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.840 and becomes you know, a gazillionaire. We love that story 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:28.160 in America, even though we refuse to discuss the policies 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:34.000 right that disallow so many from being able to really 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:38.320 fully access the American dream. There'll be a conversation that 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.040 I'll have a little later in the show for just 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.000 a few minutes with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:51.480 who's rejoining US Secretary Marsha Fudge, who talks about why 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:56.840 this infrastructure bill is so historic, who talks about marginalized 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:02.960 families and communities like ours who have been drinking water 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.680 from lead pipes, lead pipes that she will talk about 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.840 and say that you cannot reverse the damage that is 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:19.760 done to children who will develop developmental issues right, who 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:28.320 will never be able to have potentially really crippling disabilities 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.160 and never be able to overcome them, not because they 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:36.199 were born that way, but because of the fact that 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.640 we have allowed them to. We allow people to live 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.800 in a country live in America and not be able 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:44.880 to turn on the fucking faucet and get clean water. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.600 That we allow communities of color and poor people to 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:56.560 live near super fun sites where they develop cancer, asthma, 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:02.160 and other debilitating health ailments, all because what they're poor 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:08.000 or they're people of color. That's the reality of this country. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:13.199 But we love to create this myth of individualism where 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:19.520 in reality, no one gets anywhere on their own. That 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.199 the person that you're talking about, that you you know, 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.840 look at Donald Trump and look what he has done, 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.800 and he's a savvy businessman. The bitch got a million 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:32.320 dollars from his daddy, and every single business that fucking failed, 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:37.560 daddy bailed him out. Everybody doesn't have that doesn't have 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.760 a father that's sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:45.199 to pour into your bullshit ideas. But those are the 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.720 people that are creating policies for the rest of us. 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:51.680 Those that were born with silver spoons, those that were 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.280 able to walk into banks and because of the color 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:57.240 of their skin or where their houses were located, we're 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:01.000 able to get loans, no questions asked, while the rest 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:04.159 of us have to model perfection and hope and pray 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.360 that we get those same benefits, knowing good God damn 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.760 well that we won't. There are stories every single day 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:16.520 about homes that are evaluated at hundreds of thousands of 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.399 dollars less because a person that owns the home is 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:29.760 black or Latino. So you know, when you are inundated 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.560 with these stories on a regular basis, when you have 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.399 these trials that you are following, it is really easy 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:43.080 to become so overwhelmed with grief. And that's how I 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.840 have felt this week. It has taken me a lot 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.960 to turn on the news, even just for a few minutes, 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.399 because I'm like, I just don't I don't want to 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:56.120 hear the clips. I didn't want to hear Kennedy saying 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:59.040 should I call you professor or comrade? I didn't want 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.760 to hear Kevin mc hearthy lying about the fact that 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.680 the only member of the Republican Party that was ever 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:09.680 censured was Liz Cheney, and that was because she refused 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:12.720 to go along with the lie that Donald Trump won 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:16.240 the election, and that in his response that he wants 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.080 to bring up things that Maxine Waters has said, what 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.440 calling you all a bunch of fucking liars? Because you are. 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:26.760 I don't remember Maxine Waters ever threatening to murder a Republican. 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:31.159 I don't remember her ever using a Republican's face on 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:36.640 her website with the crosshairs on it, like too many 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.320 fucking members of Congress on the Republican side do, and 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:44.560 with no goddamn consequence. So what's no wonder why we're 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.000 in this place with the McDaniels and the written houses 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:53.200 of the world and the mcclusky's, one of which is 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:57.240 running for fucking Congress after a Senate excuse me, after 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:05.199 brandishing a weapon against peaceful protesters. Then they got a 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:11.120 prime plum spot at the RNC to spread their lies 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.240 about how black people are invading the suburbs and crime 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.560 is coming. I'm still waiting on the fucking caravan that 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:20.280 they told us was coming like five years ago. Has 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:31.440 it reached yet. It's all so disheartening and overwhelming. It's 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:35.560 hard to continue to believe in a country that just 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:42.400 shows its ass every single fucking day. We can't even 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:48.280 agree right on some of the most atrocious acts in 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:57.280 this country, slavery and how the slave trade, the brutalization, 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:02.280 the humanization of enslaved Africans, built this entire country and 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:07.159 built Europe. Right, we can't even agree on that with 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:12.080 the advent of the sixteen nineteen project. They want to 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:15.639 disparage that, they want to ban it. They're looking to 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:19.560 ban books all over this country again, because you know, 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:24.600 what the reality is is that education is power, and 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:30.679 the more educated people become about the truth, the ways 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:33.600 in which we develop our critical thinking skills and start 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:38.240 asking the right questions and recognizing, like what is at 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:45.159 the core of all of this greed and power? We 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:52.160 are supposedly functioning in a democracy, right and yet one 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:55.520 of the parties, one of the two parties, is trying 0:26:55.560 --> 0:27:00.280 to overthrow the government. Steve benn and let's just talk 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:04.240 about our injustice system right now. Steve Bennon didn't even 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:07.400 have to show up for court for his second court day. 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:11.040 He phoned it in. What black person did you know 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:16.920 that is indicted? Right, that is arrested? He's fucking being like, yeah, 0:27:17.000 --> 0:27:19.040 so I'm not going to show up today, as if 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:25.959 they have a choice. You know, somebody had tweeted talking 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.679 about Kyle Rittenhouse seventeen years old, being hailed as some 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:33.080 type of fucking hero by the radical right murder for 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:40.840 murder right, and these same people turned an unarmed black 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:46.560 boy who was in fact murdered into the assailant, into 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.840 the criminal, into the thug in tray Von Martin, this 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:55.320 is who the fuck America is. And so when you 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.760 take all of these things, when you weigh them in 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:00.919 your hands, you're like, you just want to throw it 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:06.160 all out. I honestly don't know if there is any 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:10.680 real repair to be made here. How do you repair 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:17.440 something that's irrevocably broken. How do you repair something when 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:20.600 you're being gas lit every day and being told that 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:24.120 you're the one that's the problem for raising the issue 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:28.679 of their being a problem that we should all just 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:32.600 walk around with our heads down right and our mouth 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:36.199 shut and pretend that this is the greatest nation in 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:41.600 the world. It is not. And you see, the reality 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.800 is is that once you understand that to be true, 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.800 then you can actually do the hard work of figuring 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:51.800 out what would make it good, what would make it 0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:57.360 better for those that are at their breaking point, at 0:28:57.360 --> 0:29:00.280 their wits end. I tell you this all the time. 0:29:00.360 --> 0:29:03.760 Some days, I don't know how people of color do it. 0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:08.080 I don't know how we don't run out of our 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:13.800 homes just fucking screaming every single day that we don't 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:16.680 just pop off on every fucking personally. See, but you see, 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.600 that kind of anger is a luxury and a privilege 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:28.120 that we don't have. We can't even express our sadness 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:32.840 and our grief, right, we can't even express our rage. 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:37.120 But these motherfuckers are allowed to essentially try and burn 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:40.640 down the Capitol building and then they're seen as patriots. 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:46.040 But us in the streets marching so that black people 0:29:46.080 --> 0:29:49.880 aren't killed like fucking dogs. But where the problem? You 0:29:49.960 --> 0:29:53.080 want to protect property. This is what Kyle Writtenhouse said. 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:55.640 I was going to do what other people weren't. Bitch 0:29:55.680 --> 0:30:03.960 you away in a policeman. You hadn't have a fucking badge. 0:30:05.960 --> 0:30:13.280 We're in such a dark place, and you know, I 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:17.760 can remember at the beginning of the Trump administration just 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:21.480 knowing and feeling in the gut of my stomach and 0:30:21.520 --> 0:30:27.600 the pit of my stomach that everything was just starting 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:32.240 or rather ending, right, Donald Trump was not the beginning 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:38.640 of the resurgence of white supremacy. It was a solidification 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:45.480 of that. It began a long time ago. Because as 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:50.400 soon as word got out that America was in the 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:55.959 midst of a demographic shift that white people were no 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:59.280 longer going to be the majority. That is when this 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:06.840 ship began, right, Because while we were on the left saying, 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:11.920 oh thank God, they were on the right saying, oh 0:31:11.920 --> 0:31:18.120 dear God. But see, I was always so confused with 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:20.840 why white people were getting up in arms about a 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:25.240 demographic shift. If they believe that white privilege and racism 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:30.560 doesn't exist, what were they so afraid of happening? Right? 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:35.240 If they've never done anything wrong, right, if they've never 0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:40.440 violated anyone's humanity, then why are they so concerned with 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:46.960 no longer being in the majority. If there's no such 0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:50.360 thing as white privilege and the currency of whiteness, then 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:54.440 why are you so concerned with what this shift would 0:31:54.440 --> 0:32:00.280 mean for you? But once again, you know, as as 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:09.080 is said that to those that are the oppressor, that 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:16.520 equity looks and feels like right loss. I'm just so 0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:21.120 tired these days of explaining reality to people that refuse 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:26.040 to see it. And frankly, if Paul Gosser and Donald 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:30.800