Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WOK a f daily
Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: So happy Woke Wednesday. I hope that you enjoyed, first
Speaker 1: of all, the content that we rolled out last week
Speaker 1: and a lot of the interviews that we had each
Speaker 1: and every day, you know, some legal folks and conversations
Speaker 1: politicos and some of our faves while it was out
Speaker 1: on vacation. But I gotta tell you, I just have
Speaker 1: like some reflections of where the news cycle is right
Speaker 1: now and just where my mind is right now on
Speaker 1: this Woke Wednesday one. I honestly just I don't get
Speaker 1: it in terms of mainstream media and their desire to
Speaker 1: try and humanize Ron DeSantis. I don't get NBC News
Speaker 1: and Nightline deciding to do this long form interview with
Speaker 1: DeSantis and his wife, right his wife that has been
Speaker 1: rolled out because the man doesn't know how to laugh,
Speaker 1: eat pizza, talk to children, talk to people, talk to reporters,
Speaker 1: talk to anyone. And so his wife is his secret weapon.
Speaker 1: And I just want us to think about the role
Speaker 1: that conservative, Republican, racist white women have played throughout history
Speaker 1: in this country. We oftentimes talk about the slaveholder, right,
Speaker 1: the master, the man. We don't often talk about the woman,
Speaker 1: the mistress of the house, the one that perpetuated the
Speaker 1: violence that she saw right, The way in which white
Speaker 1: women have weaponized their femininity and their whiteness to the
Speaker 1: extent that would have black men lynched, beaten, tortured, set
Speaker 1: a fire right like hung It is just so you
Speaker 1: look at this, and what I realized as we watch
Speaker 1: this DeSantis reboot for the thirty fifth time since he's
Speaker 1: announced his presidency, is that white women are consistently used
Speaker 1: to soften white supremacy. You look at the Moms for Liberty, right,
Speaker 1: which are the modern day daughters of the Confederacy that
Speaker 1: rewrote the story of the Civil War. Oh, it wasn't
Speaker 1: about slavery and the ability to own people and have
Speaker 1: forced labor for free in order to you know, in
Speaker 1: order to elevate the wealth of white slave holder ripe
Speaker 1: and in order to continue to have agriculture be the
Speaker 1: major output. That it was because of forced slave labor. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was a rebellion. It was
Speaker 1: a story about states rights. It was whatever it was
Speaker 1: that they decided to reimagine their reality. So it's not
Speaker 1: new what white Republican racist women are doing now versus
Speaker 1: what they did in the twentieth century, the nineteenth century,
Speaker 1: the eighteenth century, and so on and so forth. It's
Speaker 1: the same shit. Right, So when you look at DeSantis's wife,
Speaker 1: and I honestly, Casey DeSantis makes me sick in so
Speaker 1: many fucking ways, right, like, so many ways. And when
Speaker 1: I look at her and how even the reporters in
Speaker 1: that interview, you know, what does it mean? And all
Speaker 1: of these things, and she's emoting and you know, has
Speaker 1: forcible tears and all of this bullshit. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you're a performer. You're a craven, power hungry person, right,
Speaker 1: who knows how to work inside of this white supremacist,
Speaker 1: patriarchal fucking web that is the Republican Party, because you
Speaker 1: would probably do better running on your own ticket, right,
Speaker 1: which would probably be a disaster for Democrats, because there
Speaker 1: is nothing that this country eats up more than the
Speaker 1: softening the feminization of white supremacy. Right. Then you have
Speaker 1: names like a Mom's for liberty, right, you have things
Speaker 1: that are you know, uh, telling women other women, telling women, oh,
Speaker 1: don't go into professions, just have babies, marry the right man. Look,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be called one of those feminists, right,
Speaker 1: You don't want to be thinking for yourself. You don't
Speaker 1: need bodily autonomy. So they roll out these soft faces,
Speaker 1: you know, literally putting lipstick on a pig and sending
Speaker 1: them out. Who do I blame for the latest incarnation
Speaker 1: of white Republican racist women, John McCain. Had he never
Speaker 1: introduced the fucking world to Sarah Palin and her six
Speaker 1: pack Joe and her like around the way type of folksism,
Speaker 1: a lot of this shit we wouldn't be seeing. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't have become a part of just everyday lexicon and
Speaker 1: Republican culture, and so well, you know again, this story
Speaker 1: has kind of been sticking with me as Rohn DeSantis
Speaker 1: has just fired his campaign manager. The man announced like
Speaker 1: two and a half three months ago. We've been speculating
Speaker 1: on his run for the presidency for a while, But
Speaker 1: when you think about how many fucking reboots this bullshit
Speaker 1: campaign has been through, it's like, give up the ghost.
Speaker 1: You have to be asked point blank whether or not
Speaker 1: Donald Trump won the election.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course he did holda la la right, Like, okay,
Speaker 2: you have to be asked to explain your thoughts on
Speaker 2: slavery again, which you clearly bumble.
Speaker 1: Actually you don't bumble, because what you said is how
Speaker 1: you feel. Enslaved people who were raped and tortured and
Speaker 1: hung and abused and maimed right and murdered. Oh, but
Speaker 1: they learned skills. It was really a jobs program. It
Speaker 1: was an internship, if you will. What you fail to
Speaker 1: know because you don't believe in learning history, you fucking
Speaker 1: puppet of a man, Ron de Santis, is that those
Speaker 1: black people, those enslaved African people, came with skills right
Speaker 1: because they were already part of community. They weren't just
Speaker 1: a bunch of empty headed like I don't know animals
Speaker 1: roaming around West Africa and South Abuna. They were people, brothers, sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins, friends, weavers, farmers,
Speaker 1: right blacks men like they had roles and jobs, and
Speaker 1: you stole them from their communities. So they didn't learn
Speaker 1: skills during slavery. They actually brought those skills with them
Speaker 1: and were forced to utilize those skills for free. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't expect white reporters to follow up with questions
Speaker 1: that like would actually have this motherfucker look as stupid
Speaker 1: as he fucking sounds. So that's like it with my
Speaker 1: thoughts on DeSantis right now. I would really just like
Speaker 1: this motherfucker to go away.
Speaker 3: I really would you have Greg Abbott in Texas who
Speaker 3: is just as bad as Ron DeSantis, but like just
Speaker 3: can't seem to I guess Garner the amount of the
Speaker 3: tension and headlines.
Speaker 1: So it's just like he tries to one up him
Speaker 1: with his cruelty. So apparently come to find out, which
Speaker 1: I did not know, but I want to share with
Speaker 1: all of you, and maybe you did know. Do you
Speaker 1: know that people in prison have to pay for water,
Speaker 1: so the water that they get like let's say a
Speaker 1: cup of tap water. We know that we don't have
Speaker 1: basic apartment buildings and communities right like in Jackson or
Speaker 1: Flint with good running water, right, so we think that
Speaker 1: prisons have them, so they have to pay for bottled water. Now,
Speaker 1: we know that there have been prisoners that have been dying,
Speaker 1: just as there have been people who are not prisoned
Speaker 1: in Texas that have been dying because a fucking state
Speaker 1: in some areas has reached like over one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty degrees climate change, but you know, we don't talk
Speaker 1: about that in Texas. So now grab that Gabbott. Not
Speaker 1: only did he this summer pass legislation that would make
Speaker 1: it okay to deny workers, construction workers, field workers, whatever,
Speaker 1: water breaks in one hundred and plus degree weather, but
Speaker 1: now in prison people, he's gonna raise the price of
Speaker 1: bottled water on them. It's like, you can't make this
Speaker 1: shit up, right, Like if you were to think about
Speaker 1: I don't know, like a Bond movie in creating the
Speaker 1: next villain, It's like, you could not create this right,
Speaker 1: Like it's just absurd. The lack of humanity, empathy, compassion
Speaker 1: towards anybody is just wild to me. Like these people,
Speaker 1: these people that are in charge, they are really the
Speaker 1: true animals. They are the app I mean, they are
Speaker 1: devoid of compassion, empathy, heart, spirit, right morals values. So
Speaker 1: this is the kind of legislation that he's passing. As
Speaker 1: well as Texas is being taken to task this week
Speaker 1: on their abortion band being unconstitutional and two fucking extreme.
Speaker 1: The case is being brought by a number of women
Speaker 1: who were already mothers who needed medical interventions because their
Speaker 1: babies were going to be born with half a skull
Speaker 1: or dead or what have you. And we listen to
Speaker 1: some of those women provide testimony before Congress and they're
Speaker 1: suing the state. So instead of doing things to actually
Speaker 1: help people, whether it is in Florida or it is
Speaker 1: in Texas, these fucking governors are like, what is the
Speaker 1: next cruel thing that we can imagine and then let's
Speaker 1: institute it. It's fucking insane, is what it is. And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, the messaging against Republicans is actually really easy.
Speaker 1: There is no compassionate Remember when George W. Bush had
Speaker 1: come out with like what was it the compassionate conservative
Speaker 1: or whatever it was that he was offering, as he's like,
Speaker 1: tagline that doesn't exist. It's the cruel conservative. Cruelty is
Speaker 1: the point, and that's all you need to message. And
Speaker 1: what I find really interesting as we're as we're you know,
Speaker 1: we're watching an election play out, and by the time
Speaker 1: that you guys listen to this, we may know the
Speaker 1: outcome in Ohio with the Republicans trying to change the
Speaker 1: constitution because there are enough votes to enshrine abortion into
Speaker 1: the constitution, and so now Republicans not listening to the
Speaker 1: will of the people in Ohio are now trying to
Speaker 1: change the Constitution and make any amendment require sixty votes
Speaker 1: as opposed to a simple majority, which is fifty plus one.
Speaker 1: And this is all about abortion. Abortion is not specifically
Speaker 1: on the ballot in Ohio that they are voting on
Speaker 1: as I'm recording this, but that is the goal. And
Speaker 1: what I think is really interesting is that you are
Speaker 1: finding that white folks now who may have felt themselves
Speaker 1: to be neutral. Oh, you know, I'm socially you know, liberal,
Speaker 1: but fiscally conservative, know all that bullshit language that allows you,
Speaker 1: as Martin Luther King used to warn us, to be
Speaker 1: neutral in the face of injustice, right, is that they're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, So it's not just black and brown
Speaker 1: people whose votes you're trying to suppress and whose voices
Speaker 1: you're trying to silence, Like, it's ours too, And so
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, folks are just like whoa whah, whoah,
Speaker 1: whah whah. Maybe all Republicans going a little too fucking
Speaker 1: far now, Mind you, this same group of people has
Speaker 1: been doing this for decades upon decades, centuries upon centuries.
Speaker 1: If you really want to get into the history of it,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to abortion, which also affects said
Speaker 1: white woman. Now all of a sudden, these folks are
Speaker 1: waking up and starting to say, oh, no, I have
Speaker 1: a voice. This is a democracy, and you know, if
Speaker 1: the people at the majority say that they want to
Speaker 1: enshrine abortion access into our constitution, then we should rock
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So they are starting to see very clearly Martin Neamuhler's poem.
Speaker 1: First they come for right. First they come for the
Speaker 1: queer people. But I'm not queer, so I don't say anything.
Speaker 1: Then they come for the black people, but I'm not black,
Speaker 1: so I don't say anything. Then they come for the
Speaker 1: Latino people, the Asian people, the Indigenous people. I don't
Speaker 1: say anything, right, and then they come for me. This
Speaker 1: is the situation that we are beginning to find ourselves in.
Speaker 1: And if I'm doing the messaging for the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. I'm saying, oh, so, first
Speaker 1: they come for queer books, Then they come for books
Speaker 1: written by and for black people and black culture. Then
Speaker 1: it's Asian Americans, and it's this. Then it's curtailing what
Speaker 1: you can talk about, where you can say it, what
Speaker 1: you can read, how you can think that is about
Speaker 1: as anti American and as anti democratic as you can
Speaker 1: possibly be. Who does that serve? Right? So it was
Speaker 1: all finding good when you all are hating the same people,
Speaker 1: but recognize that they will turn on you too, and
Speaker 1: I think that that is what folks are starting to
Speaker 1: get hip to and to recognize. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: things turn out in Ohio and whether or not. As
Speaker 1: you know, mainstream media loves to say whether it's a
Speaker 1: bell weather for what is going to happen in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, Like does American want fascism that we seem
Speaker 1: to be feeding to them, you know, like ice cream
Speaker 1: little by little. And I'm just like, if the media
Speaker 1: actually did their job, maybe they would be raising an
Speaker 1: alarm and not just doing softball interviews with one of
Speaker 1: the main fascists, Ron de Santis and his fascist wife.
Speaker 1: But these are the same people, right, same industry that
Speaker 1: interviewed Hitler about the long walks he liked to take
Speaker 1: and put him in the Home and Gardens section at
Speaker 1: the same time that he was putting Jewish people on
Speaker 1: trains to gas chambers. That's what the mainstream media did.
Speaker 1: What is old is new again? Just like the child
Speaker 1: labor laws that Sarah Huckabee Sanders just passed right that
Speaker 1: allows for child labor. Don't need any papers, don't need anything,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing young people die at these factories, get
Speaker 1: caught in machines that they shouldn't be operating. We fought
Speaker 1: against child labor for decades, and now they are smiling
Speaker 1: while they're signing legislation again. Because guess what, it's not
Speaker 1: their fucking kids or their grandkids that are the ones
Speaker 1: that are going to be forced to work, right, It's
Speaker 1: going to be the ones that no one is paying
Speaker 1: attention to, the ones that need to help provide for
Speaker 1: their families, and so nobody's going to be looking out
Speaker 1: for their protection, for their well being. It's just you
Speaker 1: know this, You know. There's also to this obsession with
Speaker 1: the Oppenheimheimer movie Oppenheimer. I didn't see it. I'm not
Speaker 1: really interested at all. I know that it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be good and the acting is supposed to be great,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like, I'm not interested in the story.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I'm not interested in stories because
Speaker 1: the Hollywood version, like most things, is a lie. There
Speaker 1: was no empty land that this testing of nuclear weapons
Speaker 1: was happening. It was indigenous land. People were living, their communities,
Speaker 1: tribes were living there, and they forced them out, gave
Speaker 1: them twenty four hours notice. And the packs physical emotional,
Speaker 1: mental impacts of that explosion had never been paid out
Speaker 1: by the United States. And so Hollywood makes a story
Speaker 1: and says, oh, look, there was nobody here, just the
Speaker 1: same way that what Rick Scott said a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. Oh, when the ships came, there was nobody
Speaker 1: in America. Was just an empty parking lot. Apparently, No,
Speaker 1: there was just no one you cared about that was here.
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, the more you learn, the
Speaker 1: more you just your stomach turns. You know. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know how any president really talks about America being
Speaker 1: the greatest country. And I know that they have to,
Speaker 1: but it's just like, how do you honestly, you can't
Speaker 1: possibly believe that, right, Like, can't possibly believe it when
Speaker 1: you are going to other countries and you're seeing their infrastructure,
Speaker 1: you're seeing universal health care, you're seeing their treatment of workers.
Speaker 1: You're seeing other countries that are industrialized that have a
Speaker 1: month off in the everyone has a month off in
Speaker 1: the summer that people have healthcare people have, you know,
Speaker 1: bullet trains and clean streets and you know, and look
Speaker 1: out for one another. You can't possibly look at that
Speaker 1: as you travel this globe and come back and say,
Speaker 1: but America is the greatest place. How I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's the worst, but it's sure as fuck is not
Speaker 1: the best. Not when you, as a black person, can
Speaker 1: be shot in your car for rolling through a stop sign,
Speaker 1: or if you've stopped at the stop sign and the
Speaker 1: cop just doesn't give a fuck that day, right, Not
Speaker 1: if you can guesstimate the life expectancy of an entire
Speaker 1: community based on their income tax. It just, you know,
Speaker 1: folks like it just doesn't make sense to then turn
Speaker 1: around and say, but where the greatest, the greatest? At
Speaker 1: what exploitation? I just you know, sometimes I look at
Speaker 1: this country and I look at its leaders, and I think,
Speaker 1: imagine having the power, the wealth and the access to
Speaker 1: do good for so many and just choosing not to
Speaker 1: give a fuck that the greed and the power is
Speaker 1: just that's just all consuming, that you've lost all eyes
Speaker 1: on humanity, on the collective. No, when I think about
Speaker 1: America these days, and I tell you all, I'm in
Speaker 1: the midst almost finished with reading Bell Hooks All about Love,
Speaker 1: which is an incredible, an incredible piece of work because
Speaker 1: you realize that like she talks about love in terms
Speaker 1: of so many different forms, but really like in the
Speaker 1: body politic and how you can't possibly have capitalism and
Speaker 1: center love at the same time. There's just no way.
Speaker 1: They're contradictory.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: One is about over consumption, materialism and greed, making sure
Speaker 1: that there is a class that is always going to
Speaker 1: be at the bottom. Right, Like, you can create a
Speaker 1: compassionate society because capitalism, just like democracy, was made the
Speaker 1: fuck up by a group of people in a room,
Speaker 1: So why is it so inconceivable for us to design
Speaker 1: something better? So when people sit around and they're just like, well,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that we can do, Like this is the
Speaker 1: way that it was, It wasn't always the fucking way.
Speaker 1: And it's just like the more you know, you have
Speaker 1: the ability to do things better, except there's an entire party,
Speaker 1: you know, in thirty percent of the population that doesn't
Speaker 1: want better for the whole, So you need to air
Speaker 1: that shit out.
Speaker 2: Ugh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm just like it doesn't have to be this hard,
Speaker 1: It truly doesn't. It doesn't have to be this hard.
Speaker 1: We have more resources, more access to information. But I
Speaker 1: believe that we are living in a time of more
Speaker 1: greed than I think we've ever seen. Tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, get at me on the socials. Is this
Speaker 1: time that we're living in greedier than any other time?
Speaker 1: I feel like it. I feel like the wealth gap
Speaker 1: is so obscene in comparison to where it has been.
Speaker 1: I don't know, y'all, but you know, sometimes I take
Speaker 1: these breaks and I come back and I'm super fired up,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to be happy to be back, and
Speaker 1: I just like look around, and it's just how do
Speaker 1: you get yourself off of the hamster wheel? Right? Because
Speaker 1: it is this, it's this constant desire to have to consume,
Speaker 1: recognizing that we ain't leaving this world with it, right,
Speaker 1: So shouldn't everybody have some? Like imagine if the government
Speaker 1: was actually structured in a way where everyone had a
Speaker 1: basic income level, right, Like, there will always be those
Speaker 1: that do more what have you, but that basic income
Speaker 1: level so that food shelter, healthcare was covered. You're telling
Speaker 1: me we can't, we can't do that, right, Like we
Speaker 1: want to write articles about oh my god, the corporate
Speaker 1: real estate industry is taking a nosedive because people don't
Speaker 1: want to go back to work because people don't want
Speaker 1: to be fucking exploited. And what COVID opened up for
Speaker 1: those that were privileged to stay home is that I
Speaker 1: don't have to go into this cubicle. I don't have
Speaker 1: to go into this office to do this job. I
Speaker 1: can do this job, and I can cook dinner and
Speaker 1: make it for my family, and I can like fold
Speaker 1: laundry while I'm on this fucking call, right, Like, I
Speaker 1: can live a life. I don't have to be chained.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, we can't think about what a basic
Speaker 1: income level would look like so that people have their
Speaker 1: basic needs met, so that we can do away with homelessness,
Speaker 1: child poverty, food insecurity. Like, imagine if the people who
Speaker 1: were put in charge of our government came from a
Speaker 1: place of compassion. Oh, we don't have money for that. Bullshit, bullshit,
Speaker 1: we don't have money for that, and we fall for
Speaker 1: the fucking ropodope And it's a fucking lie. Oh if
Speaker 1: I had to suffer, then that person should suffer. That's
Speaker 1: not coming from a place of community and love. It's
Speaker 1: just like when you know better, fucking do better. These
Speaker 1: are the things that I'm ruminating on. I believe that
Speaker 1: we are at a really reaching, a really incredible tipping
Speaker 1: point APEX moment in our country, in our world, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, like I say, sometimes things
Speaker 1: need to you know, you need to have a breakdown
Speaker 1: in order to have a breakthrough all of these strikes,
Speaker 1: the shift in working. You know, something's got to give,
Speaker 1: but it cannot be our mental health. That is it
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