Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lokate f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: So it is the final day of Pride, and I
Speaker 1: want to shout out my fabulous producer Andrew for putting
Speaker 1: together such an amazing slate of guests and conversations that
Speaker 1: I was able to have this month. As our theme
Speaker 1: was you can't ban Queer Joy. And you know, as
Speaker 1: I reflect on the last month and I will get
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court's decision momentarily, it's been a really
Speaker 1: long haul, folks. It has been a really difficult and
Speaker 1: tough several years. But I have to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: I long for the days, like I said yesterday in
Speaker 1: my conversation with Andrew, I long for the days when
Speaker 1: we were lamenting about the corporatization of Pride, when we
Speaker 1: were you know, having conversations about how companies can engage
Speaker 1: in a more authentic way. That Pride doesn't end at
Speaker 1: the end of June, that it is something that you
Speaker 1: should be investing in all year long, that LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: organizations people you know, need that investment, and that it
Speaker 1: isn't just like check the box that we can do more, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we can all do more and be better. And that's
Speaker 1: not where we are right now. We're not even in
Speaker 1: the we can be better and be more. It's like,
Speaker 1: can we hold on to the bare fucking minimum? And
Speaker 1: so for me, this Pride season has been a mixed
Speaker 1: bag in a lot of real ways. I have felt
Speaker 1: really sad and really distraught at what I am seeing
Speaker 1: in the news every day, the attacks on trans youth,
Speaker 1: the attacks on non gender conforming people. And I know
Speaker 1: that I've said this before, but it bears repeating that
Speaker 1: these attacks right are coming at a time when America
Speaker 1: was becoming more inclusive, more accepting, and more understanding, where
Speaker 1: people had critical thought around you know, why have we
Speaker 1: been fed this binary right? Like? How did we all
Speaker 1: get roped into this? I mean I started having issues
Speaker 1: when my you know, younger cousins were being born and
Speaker 1: I was going into stores to just buy basic fucking
Speaker 1: toys like let me go get a teddy Bear? Why
Speaker 1: does a teddy Bear need to be pink or blue?
Speaker 1: Let me go get you know, a set of Legos?
Speaker 1: Why does the legos that are for boys, why are
Speaker 1: they primary colors but for girls. They're pastelle and I'm
Speaker 1: only building princess castles like you are. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about indoctrinization, We are indoctrinated from birth about what
Speaker 1: your role is in our society. From birth. You come
Speaker 1: out of you to row and they slap a pink
Speaker 1: or blue hat on you. Now they have the you know,
Speaker 1: the white with the pink and blue stripes, but it's
Speaker 1: still the same thing. This is to designate a boy,
Speaker 1: and this is to designated girl. Leaving no room for
Speaker 1: self actualization number one and two, just leaving no room
Speaker 1: for what that actually means. Again, you go to stores
Speaker 1: like Target and Walmart, and you're going and you're buying
Speaker 1: you know, baby shower gifts or what have you, and
Speaker 1: you're seeing onesies that say lady killer. You're seeing onesies
Speaker 1: that say, you know, I love to shop right, And
Speaker 1: who are the you like? I don't need to tell
Speaker 1: you who they are geared towards. So from a very
Speaker 1: young age, you're taught as a girl, what do you like?
Speaker 1: You like pink, you like fluffy things, you like strollers,
Speaker 1: you like baking, you like jewelry. And if you don't
Speaker 1: measure up to what it is that society tells you
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to like and how you're supposed to look, well,
Speaker 1: then you're the problem, not society's dictation. And similarly, for boys,
Speaker 1: what are you told? Boys don't cry, you need to
Speaker 1: be tough, We don't hug, we don't you know, do
Speaker 1: girly things. That the feminization of anything is to be
Speaker 1: taken as an insult or an affront to your masculinity.
Speaker 1: So to make sure that people don't think that that
Speaker 1: I'm a girl, or don't think that I am gay, right,
Speaker 1: and I use air quotes and don't think anything negatively
Speaker 1: about my masculinity, I must soup myself up right. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you think about the way the messages
Speaker 1: that we have taken in it's only in the last
Speaker 1: twenty sumid years that we're really starting to do a
Speaker 1: deep reflection on the why. And I think that why
Speaker 1: trans and non binary people are such an affront to
Speaker 1: white evangelical Christians is because they don't want you to
Speaker 1: have critical thought, because then you start to question them.
Speaker 1: You start to question the Bible, you start to question
Speaker 1: their interpretation of right from wrong, You start to question
Speaker 1: where their thoughts originated from right and how conflicting they
Speaker 1: are to with Jesus that is supposed to be right,
Speaker 1: loving and caring and accepting and doing all of this
Speaker 1: missionary work right. But your Bible tells you that you
Speaker 1: should discard people, you should hate people, you should shame people.
Speaker 1: This shit just doesn't line up. But it only lines
Speaker 1: up if you go along with it, if you get
Speaker 1: along for the gut along. And so trans people and
Speaker 1: non binary people, by their very existence are questioning the
Speaker 1: systems that we've all been bought into because them saying,
Speaker 1: you know what I do not. My feelings do not
Speaker 1: coincide with the gender that I have been assigned at birth,
Speaker 1: these expectations, these physical presence of myself, like, I am
Speaker 1: not aligned, And we should all have the power and
Speaker 1: the ability to say I do not feel aligned with myself.
Speaker 1: And if I do not feel aligned with myself, then
Speaker 1: I can't give myself to anything. And if I am
Speaker 1: asking you to respect me, to respect my body, why
Speaker 1: should the response be anything other than Okay, whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you need, I can do because it's not
Speaker 1: that big of a lift. But that's beyond where we are.
Speaker 1: There is a attorney general in Kansas who has taken
Speaker 1: it upon himself to decide that trans people who had
Speaker 1: their birth identification and their licenses changed to match their
Speaker 1: gender identity will go back, will be reversed. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how much it's going to cost the state for these
Speaker 1: fiscal loving Republicans. It's cruelty, is the point. And people,
Speaker 1: and he said had the fucking audacity to say, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to change anything. Fuck you, it's
Speaker 1: not changing anything for you. You're just looking for a
Speaker 1: fucking win. You're looking to have your name in the headlines.
Speaker 1: So for me, as I reflect on this month, it
Speaker 1: has been a lot of ups and downs. You know,
Speaker 1: we just celebrated on June twenty sixth. What was it?
Speaker 1: Let me think, let me do the math in my head,
Speaker 1: the seven year anniversary of marriage equality, which is so incredible, Right,
Speaker 1: it's been seventy years. But what do we know about
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court with the decisions that they've been making
Speaker 1: and the one that they just made this week, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean shit. Precedent doesn't matter to this court. So
Speaker 1: this court is going to be known for the Roberts Court,
Speaker 1: all of the rights that they've taken away from Americans
Speaker 1: in this country, all of the rights of bodily, autonomy,
Speaker 1: of affirmative action that allowed for decades for campuses in
Speaker 1: this country, for education, for workplaces to become more diverse. Right,
Speaker 1: And what every single report has said is that diversity
Speaker 1: is good for the bottom line. It's also good for
Speaker 1: the country. But now the Supreme Court, just in the
Speaker 1: same way that they overturned a woman's right to choose,
Speaker 1: they have now overturned college emissions ability to use race
Speaker 1: as one of the reasons that they would admit people
Speaker 1: into school. And it was beautiful. I will say this
Speaker 1: that the descent that was offered up by Justice Katansi
Speaker 1: Brown Jackson just encompasses the way that I feel, and
Speaker 1: I want to read it for all of you. She
Speaker 1: wrote this in the twenty nine page descent with let
Speaker 1: Them Eat Cake obliviousness. Today the majority pulls the ripcord
Speaker 1: and announces colorblindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming
Speaker 1: race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.
Speaker 1: And having so detached itself from this country's actual past
Speaker 1: and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into
Speaker 1: interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions
Speaker 1: of higher learning are doing to solve America's real world problems.
Speaker 1: No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race linked legal
Speaker 1: barriers are gone on, race still matters to the lived
Speaker 1: experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today's ruling
Speaker 1: makes things worse, not better. The best that can be
Speaker 1: said of the majorities perspective is that it precedes ostrich
Speaker 1: like from the hope that preventing consideration of race will
Speaker 1: end racism. No, it won't. To saying bullshit that Justice
Speaker 1: Roberts said when he gutted the Voting Rights Act, Oh,
Speaker 1: we have moved past race in America. And then right
Speaker 1: after that ruling, what did all of the racist ass
Speaker 1: states do right who were under preclearance that in order
Speaker 1: to change their voting rules they needed to go and
Speaker 1: go through illegal proceeding in order to get the okay
Speaker 1: to make sure that it wasn't racist. What happened after
Speaker 1: that is the same fucking thing that happened when they
Speaker 1: reverse Roe v. Wade, everything just reverts back. The clock
Speaker 1: went back to the nineteen fifties. Here in America was
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, right nineteen seventy three that Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade was passed. Right, Affirmative action has been around for
Speaker 1: four decades. Similarly, so, every bit of progress that had
Speaker 1: been made in my fucking lifetime is now erased by
Speaker 1: a weaponized grif thing asked criminalized Supreme Court that the
Speaker 1: Democrats don't have the fucking backbone or the fucking ovaries
Speaker 1: to do dick about. When asked by a reporter after
Speaker 1: his speech, Right, what did Joe Biden say? Is this
Speaker 1: a rogue Supreme Court? He said, it's not a normal
Speaker 1: Supreme Court? Well, you're the president of the United States.
Speaker 1: What the fuck you gonna do about it? You're not
Speaker 1: asking the Department of Justice to investigate? Right, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: separate and I don't want to seem But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the perception is, because they are
Speaker 1: always going to perceive you as doing something that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing. So why not just do the right thing?
Speaker 1: Why not speak out so that the people who voted
Speaker 1: for you know that they're on you, You're on their side.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me about separation when they are trying to
Speaker 1: reinstill right that there is no separation of church and state.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting. I'm looking at the countdown clock until
Speaker 1: slavery comes back, and people will say, well, Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 1: will you know, never go along with that. Well, he
Speaker 1: already has his massa. His name is Harlan Crowe, right,
Speaker 1: he just prays that he will continue to be benevolent.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, good, good people, that nothing
Speaker 1: is protected, nothing is safe, There is no precedent. This
Speaker 1: is their America. I was not eager to find out
Speaker 1: what it was going to be like to live inside
Speaker 1: of Jim Crow and segregation. But albeit, we're gonna find
Speaker 1: the fuck out, aren't we, Because that's where we're headed,
Speaker 1: where companies no longer have to hire people of color
Speaker 1: or meet any benchmark, and there will be no legal recourse,
Speaker 1: so black and brown people will be stuck in the
Speaker 1: invisible cast system that is racism and discrimination in America.
Speaker 1: I hope the fifty three percent of white women, when
Speaker 1: there are more white women that have benefited from affirmative
Speaker 1: action than any other group, I hope they feel good today.
Speaker 1: You know, Ugh, we're in a really dark and dangerous place,
Speaker 1: and I would love to tell you that I believe
Speaker 1: that good will win out. But this is not a
Speaker 1: DC comics This is not Marvel, you know, this is
Speaker 1: not a fairy tale where good wins out in the
Speaker 1: end and we just have to, you know, ride the
Speaker 1: bad times. I don't think that good is going to
Speaker 1: weigh out in the end, you know. I after the
Speaker 1: decision came down, frankly, I burst into tiers two and
Speaker 1: three times. And this is not me being hyperbolic, Like
Speaker 1: America is being destroyed right before our eyes by people
Speaker 1: that have been bought and sold by white Cis head billionaires,
Speaker 1: and no one is doing anything about it. Right, they're
Speaker 1: calling these things ethic violations when they're not ethics violations.
Speaker 1: They're bribes, their bribes to do exactly what it is
Speaker 1: that they've done. You were brought in to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: You were brought in to demolish the Voting Rights Actor.
Speaker 1: You were brought in to demolish affirmative action. You were
Speaker 1: brought in to make certain that white cis hetero men
Speaker 1: remain on top, and that there is no legal recourse
Speaker 1: for anybody else to make an inch or headway in anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's where we are. So when folks are talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: all we need to do is vote, well, I did
Speaker 1: not vote for any of those justices. Right, we vote
Speaker 1: for the president of the United States, and because fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of white women didn't want to vote for
Speaker 1: one of their own, Donald Trump, a man that has
Speaker 1: been twice indicted, right is guilty of defamation and libel
Speaker 1: for sexual assault, and you know, is a national security threat.
Speaker 1: Got to pick three Supreme Court justices. The man is
Speaker 1: illegitimate as a human. The least we could do is
Speaker 1: fucking investigate those justices. But no, we don't do that.
Speaker 1: We're not even investigating Clarence Thomas. And all that shit
Speaker 1: is now out in the open. Thank god for journalism
Speaker 1: as it remains right now, because the next decision is
Speaker 1: gonna come down and is gonna gut the ability to
Speaker 1: have free speech in this country and a free press.
Speaker 1: These are not hyperbolic statements. I said this back in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen before the election, that if Donald Trump became
Speaker 1: president of the United States, it was the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end of America. This is where we are, and
Speaker 1: people still scratching their heads like thinking that we're going
Speaker 1: to operate as normal. None of this is fucking normal.
Speaker 1: But they're lulling us into believing that, like Oh, elections
Speaker 1: are fair and people still have a voice. No, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have as much of a voice as Paul
Speaker 1: Singer or Harland Crowe, the billionaires that bought members of
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. You don't have as much of a
Speaker 1: voice or as much of a sway as Donald Trump, who,
Speaker 1: if anybody else had as much evidence against them, would
Speaker 1: already be in jail and would not be out on
Speaker 1: anybody's bond, and would have gotten mug shots done. So
Speaker 1: don't talk to me about equity and justice in America.
Speaker 1: That is a misconception. It is a fabrication. So here
Speaker 1: we are, you know, at the end of Pride Month,
Speaker 1: right on the cusp of the fourth of July high
Speaker 1: which is to celebrate America's independence from Great Britain. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, America doesn't even know who it is or
Speaker 1: who it wants to be. It's been filled with so
Speaker 1: much fairytale euphemism and lies. I don't know what there
Speaker 1: is to fucking celebrate. In three years, America is supposed
Speaker 1: to turn two hundred and fifty years old, and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if twelve months from now we're going
Speaker 1: to have a democracy. I don't know if twelve months
Speaker 1: from now we won't have slavery back. We're already reinstituting
Speaker 1: child labor laws. Greg gabbittt just passed legislation that denies workers'
Speaker 1: water breaks. It's as hot as the devil's ass in
Speaker 1: Texas right now. There are places that are hitting one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five degrees and this motherfucker saw fit
Speaker 1: to pass legislation to make sure that people don't have
Speaker 1: to have water breaks. Are you crazy? This is where
Speaker 1: we are, and it isn't just Texas, it isn't just Florida,
Speaker 1: it is everywhere. The final nail in the coffin of America,
Speaker 1: as you know, it is a twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: That's when they have finished the job. But frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't know if twelve months from now, from this, even
Speaker 1: this fucking moment, if there's gonna be anything worth saving.
Speaker 1: We're in such hard times and I am not gonna
Speaker 1: pretend to you ahead of you know, a holiday where
Speaker 1: a lot of people travel and take the week off
Speaker 1: and what have you, that like all is hunky dory.
Speaker 1: It's not staying positive, staying in joy, staying balanced is
Speaker 1: like a full time fucking job at this point. You know,
Speaker 1: I am doing the very that's that I can, and
Speaker 1: I still break down because I don't even have kids.
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine looking at your children and thinking
Speaker 1: that they have a future in this country, particularly if
Speaker 1: they're black or brown, particularly if they're queer, Like, how
Speaker 1: are you looking at your kids and telling them that,
Speaker 1: like they can be anything that they want to be
Speaker 1: when you have a Supreme Court and an entire Republican
Speaker 1: Party that is going to ensure that they are nothing
Speaker 1: more than what they want them to be, which is
Speaker 1: of service to them. I don't know, folks, I you know,
Speaker 1: I really I am struggling, as I know that many
Speaker 1: of you are as well. I don't know. All I
Speaker 1: can say is that we need to take some time
Speaker 1: to rest as a holiday approaches, and you know, take
Speaker 1: really good care of ourselves because my own emotional and
Speaker 1: mental health is kind of hanging on by a thread.
Speaker 1: I'm spending trying to spend at least ninety minutes outside
Speaker 1: a day to connect with nature, to just move my body,
Speaker 1: to look out at the water and see something that
Speaker 1: is greater than myself, because right now the world, this
Speaker 1: country feels very small like suffocating for many of us
Speaker 1: who live at the intersection of multiple identities. We are
Speaker 1: being told that we need to go back into the closet,
Speaker 1: that we need to step off the curb. When you know,
Speaker 1: miss white so and so or mister white so and
Speaker 1: so passes, that we don't matter right, that we shouldn't exist,
Speaker 1: And that is a really tough pill to swallow and
Speaker 1: try and slap a smile on your face and keep
Speaker 1: your head up day in and day out. Yeah, take
Speaker 1: good care of each other and yourselves, because we're really
Speaker 1: in for a very, very long long haul. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends. On this wok F
Speaker 1: coming up for the holiday week, I'm really excited about
Speaker 1: wok F cookout, where we're bringing in some of our
Speaker 1: faves to have conversations about liberty, about justice, about equity
Speaker 1: and freedom and what that means to us in these
Speaker 1: perilous times. And so I hope that you all, while
Speaker 1: resting by a pool or at a beach, or taking
Speaker 1: a walk, or gardening or playing with your PEPs or
Speaker 1: your kids, you know, take a listen and shout me
Speaker 1: out on the socials, or if you are a Patreon
Speaker 1: and you're watching this video right now, shout me out
Speaker 1: in the comment sections, but I'm saying fuck it to everything,
Speaker 1: to all things. This whole show was one giant, just
Speaker 1: bucket to where we are right now as always, dear friends,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. Take care.