WEBVTT - Performative Inaction 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.840 Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Podstream 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.200 studios here in Times Square. Folks, it seems as if 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:26.239 our bipartisan negotiations around police reform have done exactly what 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.320 we all knew it was going to do, which is 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:33.400 completely and totally combust Why is that, Well, because we 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.680 like to protect killer cops in the United States, and 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.639 it really doesn't matter what party you are a part of. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.839 We like to believe that Democrats want to do the 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.560 quote unquote right thing and have qualified immunity, meaning that 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.360 you know, we don't just believe police officers when they 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.960 say that they feared for their lives, so we don't 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.520 just believe police reports and that you can actually be 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.720 criminally held liable for the death of someone that you 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.560 have killed. But you see in the United States, which 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.560 you know, grew its police force out of the slave catchers, 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.840 it doesn't surprise me that then when we finally have 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.240 a another national killing of an unarmed black person, as 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.760 we did in the summer of twenty twenty right on 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.199 the CUSP, right, we had Ahmad Aubrey, then we had 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.160 George Floyd. Then in the mixed Brionna Taylor and so 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.640 many others that were killed in that summer of uprisings, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.120 we would say, we need to reform the police, we 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.800 need to defund the police. And you know, we've had 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.240 conversations about the Carcerol Cohn with the authors of that 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.640 book last week. Well here's what happened this week. Senator 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:54.040 Corey Booker and Senator Tim Scott, both Black senators, one 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.920 on one side and one on the wrong side. Their 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:02.160 talks fell apart, folks, and Corey Booker released this statement 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:03.760 that I want to read to you. And you know, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.000 here's the thing. I adore Cory Booker. I think that 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.160 he's a great senator. I think that he has a 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:15.079 great vision of who this country could be right if 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.280 in fact we did the right things. If in fact, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.640 every time we had an opportunity to take ten steps forward, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.720 we wouldn't decide to take forty five steps back. But 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.720 that's what we do all the time. But this is 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.080 what he said about the bipartisan right. We love to 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.440 throw this fucking word around as if we are not 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.679 trying to negotiate with a group of domestic terrorists, but 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.840 alas let me read the statement. America has a serious 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.400 problem when it comes to discriminatory policing and excessive and 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:50.600 deadly force used against communities of color. We can't properly 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.720 honor the lives of the victims of this violence if 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.960 we don't take meaningful steps to prevent future violence and 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.680 deaths from occurring and make our communities safer. We made 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.480 it clear from the beginning of our negotiations that a 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:12.360 bill must ensure true accountability, transparency, and the policing standards 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.840 necessary to bring an end to horrific incidents of violence 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.960 Americans are routinely seeing, like the murder of George Floyd. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.720 After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a bipartisan deal, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.000 it remains out of reach right now, even after working 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.680 collaboratively with and securing the support of policing groups like 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.000 the Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:45.640 of Police for our proposals. Unfortunately, even with this law 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:51.320 enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.320 too wide a golf with our negotiating partners, and we 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:00.720 face significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal. The time 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:05.920 has come to explore all other options to achieve meaningful 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.520 and common sense policing reform. I will not stop fighting 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.440 until we achieve change that keeps our communities and police 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.960 officers safe. I got to tell you that reading that 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:25.560 statement by Cory Booker, I wish it wasn't filled with 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.960 so many euphemisms. I wish that Cory Booker would just 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.080 tell the truth right, because I feel like we should 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:39.080 be living in a time of radical honesty and radical transparency, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:45.000 which is this. Republicans love police. However, they don't give 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.520 a fuck about the one hundred and sixty five police 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.080 officers that were harmed on one six in the insurrection. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.599 They don't care about the four police officers that testified 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.800 about their post traumatic disorder. They don't care about the 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.560 police officers that took their own lives right after the 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.520 unrelenting pressure of what happened on one six. You know, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.480 those police officers they could give a fuck about. Who 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.839 they do love, however, are the Derek Chauvin's of the world. Right. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.240 They love those police officers that, you know, according to 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.680 Donald Trump, can rough people up a little bit. You know, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.000 just just do that a little bit. When you put 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.839 him into the back of the car. Don't be too nice. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.599 That's what Donald Trump said in twenty seventeen to a 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.640 group of Suffolk County police officers on Long Island. Do 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.680 you know what was returned after he said that? Laughter? 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:45.159 Laughter from a largely white police force. This is the 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.520 police force of my youth, right because I grew up 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.520 in Suffolk County. So to see them giggle at the 0:05:53.640 --> 0:06:01.880 idea of harming a citizen who pays their salary is wild. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:08.560 But to believe that after headline after headline, hashtag after 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:14.839 hashtag stories of how police officers turned off body cameras, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:21.800 how they have beaten and abused their badges, how Derek 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.400 Chauvin is now standing trial again for another time because 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.000 had he been stopped the first time he put a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.400 knee on the neck of a fourteen year old black boy, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.919 maybe George Floyd would still be alive today. But you 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.880 see what police departments love, and what Republicans love even 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.240 more are cover ups. They love to tell us that 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.920 good cops exist, except I wonder where the fuck they are, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.080 because we never seemed to see any good cops around. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.599 All we do is see more and more press conferences 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.560 about how hard it is to be a cop, and 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.160 now hard it is to distinguish these things, and that 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.159 you know, we us give them more leeway what to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:09.000 have public hangings, public beatings, what to be able to 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:14.320 be on horseback and using whips like border patrol. We 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.840 have no system of accountability in this country. It is 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.960 why police continue to do harm to communities of color 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:28.200 because they know that they can. Because much in the 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.160 earlier conversation about critical race theory and the understanding of 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:37.400 where these systems and policies and policing come from, we 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.320 like to pretend that there is no connection to slavery 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.640 and the slave trade. We like to believe that it 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.280 is just, you know, the norm to see the loss 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.160 of black life because you know they had it coming. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.600 It's always, well, why was he holding a cell phone 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.960 in his own backyard? To his ear, It's always why 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.720 were they sitting in a car, Why were they walking 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.960 home at the hood on? Why were they playing on 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.960 a playground, Why were they asleep in their own fucking 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.120 bad Why were they going to it for a jog 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:16.400 in their own neighborhood. But we never asked the police 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.920 or the white vigilante, why is it that black people 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.520 are not able to roam free in this country where 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:32.520 they were emancipated right centuries ago because the residue and 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.600 I don't even want to call the residue because that 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:39.680 would presume that most of the bad stuff is gone. No, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.840 it is not. It is just morphed and taken different forms. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.640 But we wanted to believe that in light of this 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.840 horrific killing that we saw with George Floyd, that something 0:08:52.920 --> 0:09:00.640 must be done, but nothing ever is Just like earlier 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.400 this week, Madam Vice President said when asked about their 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:10.000 horrific photos of patient migrants being beaten, we'll have to 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.240 investigate that. What the fuck is your investigation going to 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.720 turn up? Currently? Right now, multiple police departments are under 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:24.320 investigation by the Department of Justice because you know, they 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.560 have a series of abuses while they continue to get 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.880 federal funding. And by federal funding, I mean your tax dollars. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.800 They collect our money so that they can build up 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.280 their arsenals so that they can then turn them on 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:42.840 the American public, but particularly the black and brown American public, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.280 because why do we need to be over policed, Well, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.079 because we're riddled with crime. And why do you think that, Oh, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:57.160 because our communities are suppressed and oppressed with poverty. And 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.079 why is that? Oh, because there is no investment that 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.640 is given into those places. And oh well why is that? Well, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.040 you know, when your grandfathers and great grandfathers are able 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.800 to get loans to buy homes and start businesses. You know, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.360 our ancestors were denied that. And so then how does 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.839 that all build on to where the fuck we are today? 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.000 So is it a surprise that the talks broke down? 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.440 Is it a surprise that we can't come to the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.400 table to make sure that klu klux Klan members in 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.680 blue police uniforms and badges can't just run a muck 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.640 and kill every black person that they see, all claiming 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:45.839 that they're fearful. I am exhausted by the performance that 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.520 we have been fed that somehow we can spend months 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:57.880 twirling around while more people are turned into hashtags. There's 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.400 no fear from police officers that they'll lose their jobs. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:06.040 There's no fear from police officers that their whole districts 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.800 will be shut down, and they're funding rerouted to Let's say, oh, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.199 I don't know the public school system, or community investment, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.880 or healthcare or any of those things. No, because as 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.200 long as we can continue to feed the lie that 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.120 defunding the police means that people will be less safe, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.959 while I ask you go into those communities that are 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.199 over policed and under resource and ask them how fucking 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.920 safe they feel. Police don't stop crime, they cause it, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:41.000 and they show up after the fact. That is a pattern. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.600 You can read that in any report and study. It's 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.960 a disgrace that we've wasted so much time on something 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.760 that we knew was never going to happen to begin with. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.760 It's why when we watched as a nation the trial 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.840 of Derek Chauvin, where like, oh my god, withholding bated breath, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.679 finally somebody is going to be held accountable. And then 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.520 that motherfucker had the audacity to try and appeal. We 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.760 saw you. But what they love to feed us in 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.440 the mainstream media is that you know, he is one 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.479 bad apple. He is one bad apple from a spoiled 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.760 orchard that reaches across from sea to shining sea. In 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:29.640 this country. Nothing will be done about the other Derek 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.760 Chauvin's of the world, because you know, there was a 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:40.880 breakdown in our bipartisan performative action. I am so over 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.680 trying to negotiate with Republicans, trying to negotiate with these 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.760 domestic terrorists to do anything. Mitch McConnell came out again 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.160 this week. My one mission is to stop Joe Biden. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:58.120 Know your one mission is to stop America, full stop. Period. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.839 This isn't democrat versus Republican, this isn't any of that. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:13.240 These evil, cruel, white supremist, misogynist, racist people. They believe 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.720 that they can steal their country back from the grips 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:23.760 of anti racism, from the grips of progress, and that 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.320 is what they will do, and that is what we 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.120 continue to allow them to do without any critical, massive, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:37.520 organized pushback. They'll keep going until there is nothing left 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:43.000 unless we take some notes from the young people in 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.600 Central York and decide that we've had enough and that 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.079 their voices are not representative of us. And it is 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.719 not one march and done. It is strategic and unrelenting 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:04.480 pushing forward, challenge the mansions and the cinemas. I don't 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.199 give a fuck if they lose their seats and are 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.080 replaced with the Republicans for the short term. What I 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.640 am interested in is the long term preservation of our democracy, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.040 which is on a crash course right now, a collision 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.480 course with white supremacy, and it seems that there are 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.320 no breaks to be found anywhere. We are the breaks, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.360 dear friends, It is up to us to do something 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.120 about the destructive forces that are at play right now 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.560 and stop pretending that any one of them are on 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:44.320 our side when we know it to be untrue. That 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.240 is it for today's woga F Daily Podcast. To hear 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.280 more from me, including five full hour long shows every 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.640 single week, exclusive guest interviews, and more. 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