Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, y'all,
Speaker 1: it is a brand new day out here in these
Speaker 1: political streets, and I, for one, could not be happier.
Speaker 1: I will say that the mustard seed of hope that
Speaker 1: I carry around in my pocket may have doubled. It
Speaker 1: may have doubled, It may not just be one and
Speaker 1: maybe two right now because I am seeing the energy
Speaker 1: that has been missing from the Biden campaign. I am
Speaker 1: seeing the energy that we have been desperately needed to
Speaker 1: get people engaged in this existential election. And you know,
Speaker 1: you all know that I was a supporter of Joe
Speaker 1: Biden not stepping aside because of the deep fear that
Speaker 1: I had that Democrats were going to do what it
Speaker 1: is that they've always been good at, which is eating
Speaker 1: their own and turning what should have been an easy
Speaker 1: move into something that devolved into chaos. But Lord Jesus,
Speaker 1: am I fucking happy that as of the time of
Speaker 1: this recording, countless countless Democrats institutions, you know, organizations, have
Speaker 1: come out following Joe Biden's full throated endorsement of Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris to back her. It is extraordinary. First of all,
Speaker 1: the amount of money that is said to have been raised,
Speaker 1: according to Act Blue that I think maybe in triple
Speaker 1: figures in terms of the millions of grassroots donations that
Speaker 1: poured in following the announcement that there were forty four
Speaker 1: thousand black women that gathered on a Zoom call. The
Speaker 1: Zoom call was so big that the organizer, Joe Taika
Speaker 1: Edie of Win with Black Women, had to get on
Speaker 1: the phone with the president of Zoom and say we
Speaker 1: need more capacity and in that time raised a million
Speaker 1: and a half dollars and other commitments. I mean, the
Speaker 1: forces folks are coming together, and folks are gathering, and
Speaker 1: I feel like we can once ag again set our
Speaker 1: sights on what seems so distant before, which is actually
Speaker 1: fucking winning. I also want to say that we cannot
Speaker 1: understate the courage, the patriotism that it took Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Whether or not he was pushed. I didn't like the
Speaker 1: airing of dirty laundry and the things that were being
Speaker 1: said about him in public. I don't think that he
Speaker 1: deserved it. However, the fact is that Joe Biden did
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump would never ever ever do, which has
Speaker 1: put his country above his ego and his belief that
Speaker 1: only he alone could get the job done. In beating
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. The best thing that Joe Biden did, I believe,
Speaker 1: for his legacy was to step aside and say she
Speaker 1: got next. And you know, I will tell you I
Speaker 1: will recall this memory to you all because it came
Speaker 1: back to me when the announcement came out on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That on Sunday, I did MSNBC for a hot minute,
Speaker 1: you know, giving my take on the announcement and where
Speaker 1: things stood. And I realized that five years prior, when
Speaker 1: then candidate Kamala Harris announced her bid for the presidency,
Speaker 1: I was on the set of MSNBC, and the sense
Speaker 1: of pride and excitement that I had in that moment
Speaker 1: was overwhelming. Right because I grew up reading about the
Speaker 1: great Shirley you know who's campaign in the seventies set
Speaker 1: the stage for that moment that another black woman, so
Speaker 1: many decades later would come out and say I can
Speaker 1: do this job. And so to think right now, and
Speaker 1: I may get a little bit choked up to think
Speaker 1: right now that in three and a half months we
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to have not only our first woman president,
Speaker 1: but our first Black woman, our first Asian woman president
Speaker 1: is extraordinary. I mean to think, friends, like, let's just
Speaker 1: dream for a moment, write something that I have not
Speaker 1: been able to do because I've been riddled with so
Speaker 1: many nightmares, so many sleepless nights, as I know that
Speaker 1: so many of you have. But let's just dream for
Speaker 1: a moment what the poetic justice would look and feel
Speaker 1: like that white supremacy, fascism, patriarchy would be beat back
Speaker 1: and down by a black woman, and the wave of
Speaker 1: support for democracy and for her that would usher us
Speaker 1: over the finish line, that we could beat that motherfucker
Speaker 1: down for once and for all, right, because one would
Speaker 1: have to understand that this is Donald Trump, not white supremacy.
Speaker 1: As I said back in twenty sixteen, this is Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's last stand. Because understand that if Donald Trump were
Speaker 1: to become President of the United States again, that if
Speaker 1: he would ever leave office, which I don't believe that
Speaker 1: he fucking would, he would be older than Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is now. So we know for certain that if we
Speaker 1: gather and organize with the vigor and the persistence and
Speaker 1: the commitment to resist their bloodthirst for authoritarianism. If we
Speaker 1: are able to do that, we never have to hear
Speaker 1: the name Donald J. Trump again as it is associated
Speaker 1: with running for president, because that motherfucker will be too
Speaker 1: fucking old. And we already know that he is showing
Speaker 1: the signs that people felt so necessary to put into
Speaker 1: the spotlight for Joe Biden, but seemingly ignore Donald Trump
Speaker 1: falling asleep at his own convention, Donald Trump falling asleep
Speaker 1: at his own court hearings, right, Donald Trump messing up
Speaker 1: names and stuttering and not walking as great as he
Speaker 1: used to. That we ignore all of those things as
Speaker 1: it pertains to him, but we also know, good goddamn well,
Speaker 1: then in a few more years, he's going to look
Speaker 1: and sound his age. So if we are able to
Speaker 1: knock down their messiah, right, the victory that we will
Speaker 1: feel for having beat him twice and knowing that the
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is that Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: as I've said so many times, is just going to
Speaker 1: turn into Project twenty twenty eight. The billionaire backers of
Speaker 1: this white supremacist patriarchal blueprint are not going to go away.
Speaker 1: They'll just find new person but what I also know
Speaker 1: to be true is that that person won't have the
Speaker 1: same charisma or cult like captivating effect on the masses
Speaker 1: in the way that Donald Trump has. And why do
Speaker 1: I say that, because not one of the people that
Speaker 1: ran against him this time around even came fucking close.
Speaker 1: So it is much more likely that you will find
Speaker 1: that whoever comes in his steed will embody the same values,
Speaker 1: but they'll just switch up their tone, which may not
Speaker 1: garner as much cult like fixation as Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been able to amass over the last eight years. So
Speaker 1: what we have in front of us, friends right now
Speaker 1: is a profound opportunity to do away with Donald J.
Speaker 1: Fucking Trump, and let it be done by a black
Speaker 1: woman that is going to prosecute the case against this man.
Speaker 1: As Vice President Kamala Harris has put out, I've prosecuted
Speaker 1: sex offenders, Donald Trump is one. I've prosecuted frauds and
Speaker 1: fraudulent universities. Donald Trump ran one the people that she
Speaker 1: spent as a DA and later as an Attorney general
Speaker 1: fighting against Donald Trump embodies, So she ain't new to this.
Speaker 1: She is true to this and.
Speaker 2: The way that other district attorneys and ags led by
Speaker 2: Tis James have said, Oh, we're rallying our support around her,
Speaker 2: the way that black women across this country, the Aka's,
Speaker 2: the divine nine of the country are going to rally
Speaker 2: behind her.
Speaker 1: I mean, just think of this, folks, Kamala Harris as
Speaker 1: a nominee inter sex with so many different communities women,
Speaker 1: black people, Jamaicans, Caribbean folks, AAPI folks, write lawyers, HBCU graduates.
Speaker 1: There are so many communities that see themselves in her
Speaker 1: and in what it means right to be an American.
Speaker 1: And I said this in the live that I did
Speaker 1: on Sunday and a follow up TikTok video that I did,
Speaker 1: both of which have gone viral, which is that we
Speaker 1: have seeded patriotism to these motherfuckers. We have ceded the
Speaker 1: flag to them. And I said, they don't know what
Speaker 1: it's like to bleed for this country because their ancestors
Speaker 1: bled others for this country. They don't know what it
Speaker 1: means to fight and to persist when discriminatory policies are
Speaker 1: put in your way like boulders, year after year, generation
Speaker 1: after generation. We do. They want this country to go
Speaker 1: back to the nineteenth century where only white cis hetero
Speaker 1: property owning men had voice and power in this democracy.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris, her candidacy right now is a commitment
Speaker 1: to the fact that we will not go back because
Speaker 1: she is representative of the future of what this country
Speaker 1: is going to look like. You see, we have been
Speaker 1: talking about for so long that the demographics of this
Speaker 1: country are shifting that by the time that we get
Speaker 1: to and probably sooner than twenty fifty, the majority of
Speaker 1: this country will be people of color, will be people
Speaker 1: that look like Vice President Kamala Harris. It is one
Speaker 1: of the things that has spurred the resurgence of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: And these folks talking about they will not replace us,
Speaker 1: and these folks talking about tainting the blood of this
Speaker 1: nation because they are trying to revitalize white supremacy in
Speaker 1: the way that it was so prevalent in the nineteenth
Speaker 1: and in the twentieth century. They're marching down streets in
Speaker 1: Tennessee and other places, trying to conjure fear but also
Speaker 1: conjuring how they plan to govern through a place of weaponization,
Speaker 1: fear mongering, and oppression. While the RNC circus wanted us
Speaker 1: to believe that, oh, Donald Trump is just a doting
Speaker 1: grandpa who loves to grab women by the pussy. So,
Speaker 1: miss me with the bullshit, I don't care how many
Speaker 1: fucking grandkids you wanted to tout up on that stage
Speaker 1: to tell some fucking you know sob story of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's some heartening. I just know him as grandpa, bitch.
Speaker 1: You don't know him at all. He don't even know
Speaker 1: his own kids, right, like, miss me with it. But
Speaker 1: folks are falling for it because it was compelling. But
Speaker 1: now you really do have somebody who is high the
Speaker 1: ability to articulate the truth of what we are seeing
Speaker 1: and what we know. Donald Trump hates women, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: hates people of color, Donald Trump hates black people. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump hates poor people. And if you're a billionaire, anyone
Speaker 1: who isn't is poor. Donald Trump sat a bunch of
Speaker 1: gas and oil CEOs down at mar A Lago and said,
Speaker 1: give me a billion dollars and I'll overturn whatever regulations
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has put in place. It would be the
Speaker 1: greatest grifting presidency that we've ever seen. Do me a favor, though,
Speaker 1: on steroids. The American people know what to expect this
Speaker 1: time around, but it will be worse because we've lived
Speaker 1: through it. And so while they wanted to hide pieces
Speaker 1: of their agenda because they know that it's not popular,
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris has the ability to bring that
Speaker 1: to the forefront. One of my favorite things that are
Speaker 1: being circulated right now, and if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: I've retweeted it recently, is Hillary Clinton just posted the
Speaker 1: clip of then Senator Kamala Harris questioning Brett kavanag during
Speaker 1: his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. You know, the one where
Speaker 1: she basically made him freak out, cry and start screaming
Speaker 1: when she asked a simple question to open up with
Speaker 1: was do you know of any laws in this country
Speaker 1: that dictate male reproduction that control men's bodies? And after stumbling,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean. If you want to
Speaker 1: ask me a direct question, she go let me restate it,
Speaker 1: because you clearly can't hear me questioning. Then let us
Speaker 1: know exactly what we were dealing with, foreshadowing to what
Speaker 1: we would lose. But a handful of years later, abortion access.
Speaker 1: She knows men like Donald Trump, She's put them in jail.
Speaker 1: And my hope is that she and the surrogates of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party now rally around her, build a fortress
Speaker 1: around her, because we know the misogyn noir that is
Speaker 1: headed her way is going to be like a tsunami
Speaker 1: of vitriol. But they're ready because I've said this before.
Speaker 1: I said it on my other podcast, The New Abnormal.
Speaker 1: I said, the thing about folks lamenting about what's coming
Speaker 1: is that black women are always prepared. Every time we
Speaker 1: leave our house, there is a layer of armor that
Speaker 1: is put on because of the mass aggressions than the
Speaker 1: microaggressions that we receive on a daily basis, whether it's
Speaker 1: on social media, in the workplace, from television, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. It comes at us from all angles. We
Speaker 1: are not new to this and what America thinks about
Speaker 1: Black women. But I'll tell you what, don't ever fucking
Speaker 1: bet against us, because we don't lose, particularly when we
Speaker 1: organize and link arms like we are known to do,
Speaker 1: and like what was done within hours of that announcement.
Speaker 1: Three and a half months, folks is going to feel
Speaker 1: probably like three and a half centuries, we are going
Speaker 1: to go through it. So I urge all of us
Speaker 1: to take the hopefulness, the strength that we are gaining,
Speaker 1: regaining in this moment. Plant it, water it, grow it,
Speaker 1: because we are going to need it. Every single fucking
Speaker 1: one of us has a stake in this election. We
Speaker 1: need to act like we do. We need to donate.
Speaker 1: If you have the ability to donate, if you have
Speaker 1: the time to volunteer, volunteer. It's time to knock on doors.
Speaker 1: It's time to make phone calls. It's time to text,
Speaker 1: it's time to donate, it's time to organize voter registrations.
Speaker 1: It's time to hold right. If you are a white
Speaker 1: woman and you are listening to this right now, I
Speaker 1: want you to be gathering, doing salons at your homes,
Speaker 1: hosting events right. I want white women to put in
Speaker 1: the fucking work that they did not put in in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. More white women voted for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty than they did in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: So I need those right that are listening to me
Speaker 1: now to do the work and it it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: just donating. And I want to pull up someone who
Speaker 1: I respect so much, who is Shannon Watts. And Shannon
Speaker 1: is the founder of Mom's Demand and the co founder
Speaker 1: of every Town, and she has been on this show before.
Speaker 1: I've interviewed her a couple of times, and she said this.
Speaker 1: Following the announcement of VP Harris as the top of
Speaker 1: the ticket, she tweeted this, fellow white women, I've spent
Speaker 1: the last decade organizing you, and I know firsthand the
Speaker 1: impact you can have when you use your economic and
Speaker 1: political power for good. This must be the election when
Speaker 1: a majority of us help elect the first woman, a
Speaker 1: black woman president. That means, as Brittany Pacnett Cunningham, another
Speaker 1: guest of this show, has said, your whiteness will not
Speaker 1: sit you from what the patriarchy has in store for you.
Speaker 1: Electing the vice president will help save you and heal
Speaker 1: the nation. Since the nineteen fifties, a majority of white
Speaker 1: women have voted for the GOP candidate in all but
Speaker 1: two presidential elections. It's not enough to be a part
Speaker 1: of the forty seven percent of white women who vote
Speaker 1: for VP Harris. You play a key role in persuading
Speaker 1: the other fifty three percent. And she goes on. She
Speaker 1: goes on to tell folks that like you need to
Speaker 1: do the work right. She said, it's not enough to
Speaker 1: just send a donation, host a fundraiser. It's not enough
Speaker 1: to just vote. Join door knocking and phone banking events
Speaker 1: every week. It's not enough to support the VP. Silently
Speaker 1: push back on every person who tells you a black
Speaker 1: woman can't get elected. Have the conversations. You are the
Speaker 1: best messenger to convince other white women who to vote
Speaker 1: for and n why your relationships with your white family
Speaker 1: members and friends are fertile ground for transformation and conversion.
Speaker 1: Start persuading, use your privilege for good. Tap into the
Speaker 1: resources you can access and unleash to help the VP.
Speaker 1: Can you get a rally permit? Can you rent a venue?
Speaker 1: Can you become an influencer online or in your community?
Speaker 1: Think about all the ways you can use your access
Speaker 1: to help elect the VP. Be in it for the
Speaker 1: long haul. That that is what allyship looks like. That
Speaker 1: is what commitment to justice looks like. She gave concrete
Speaker 1: ways for white women to do the work that black
Speaker 1: women always do. And so if you are listening to me,
Speaker 1: I beg you to listen to Shannon Watts. Figure out
Speaker 1: what you can do, organize, do it every week. We
Speaker 1: got three and a half months, and for the first
Speaker 1: time in a long time, my dear friends, I believe
Speaker 1: that We have a fighting fucking chance if we all
Speaker 1: get to work. That is it for me today. Dear
Speaker 1: friends on wok af As always, power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.