1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. We know this. We talk about 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: this every single week and every single day, Monday through 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: Friday on woke a F. But there is another crisis 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: that I don't think is going to receive the kind 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: of attention that climate change has received, the kind of 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: attention that voting rights has received, or even right the 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: fairweather issue of you know, our democracy. In January sixth 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: I was watching the news and my heart sank because 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: I realized that the Republicans plans to destroy our democracy, 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: to destroy this country, to tether people into low paying 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: terror jobs that offer them no benefits. No nothing is 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: our education system. And the other day MSNBC put up 15 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: a new crisis and a new report that says that 16 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: we have a teacher shortage in this country, a real 17 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: teacher shortage, right, not in the way that they try 18 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: to hype up the fact that we were going to 19 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: have a shortage of tampons so that people with uteruses 20 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: would run out and go and stock up and help 21 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: out the fucking tampon industry. No teachers for the last 22 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: several school years have been fleeing the classroom. I've talked 23 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: about this before on wike AF, but now I really 24 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: want to dive into it because what some states are 25 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: doing to deal with the lack of teachers just goes 26 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: to show you how fucking little Republicans think about education system. 27 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: So let me tell you this because I had to 28 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: write it down because I was like, wait, what So 29 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: Alabama and Arkansas, which let's just understand that on nobody's scale, 30 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: on nobody's metric, do they have a valid, intellectually aggressive 31 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: education system. Okay, you're talking about these states that already 32 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: rank in some of the rankings that we use, like 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: life expectancy, health outcomes, income, all of these things the 34 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: fucking bottom. So Alabama and Arkansas have decided that in 35 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: order to deal with the teacher shortage in their states 36 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: that they are going to relax and I use air quotes, 37 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: relax teacher certifications, so you don't need to have gotten 38 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: any certifications when you go ahead and apply to become 39 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: a teacher in these two states. And you know, I 40 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: will say this that Randy Weingarten, who has been the 41 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 1: president of AFT American Federation of Teachers for a considerable 42 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: amount of time said this. In response, she goes just 43 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: to show you how little teachers are respected and thought about. 44 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: You don't need. Let's not even talk about their salaries, 45 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: she said. But the fact that you would relax certifications 46 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: for teaching because you don't think that it's that important. 47 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: If there were a shortage of nurses, would you relax 48 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: the certification to become an RN or an LPN. Would 49 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: you relax the certifications for the medical board to become 50 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: a doctor? Would you relax this certification and the qualification 51 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: it takes to become a lawyer. No, you would not, 52 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: because in your mind you would think to yourself, my god, 53 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: do I want somebody that is operating on me? Do 54 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: I want somebody innovating me? Do I want somebody even 55 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: taking my fucking blood right who didn't meet the minimum 56 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: requirements of said state right, which is getting your certifications? No, 57 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: you wouldn't. Would you want, if you're looking for a home, 58 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: the person selling you a home or visiting a rental 59 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: property never to have gone through any certification process to 60 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: become a real estate broker? No you wouldn't. Would you 61 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: want the person that is handling your fucking taxes right 62 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: not to have right their license as a CPA. No again, 63 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: you would not, so the audacity right, Just think again, 64 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: We are talking, folks, about global citizenship. We are talking 65 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: about the next generation of innovators and leaders in this country, 66 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: the next generations of politicians, the next generation of artists 67 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: and tech giants, and all of these things. That's what 68 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: we you are talking about. At the foundation of a 69 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: functioning democracy is a strong public education system. I had 70 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: to pause because I'm like, where the fuck are we? 71 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: But this is what I've said since the beginning of time, 72 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: which is that there is no better tool for white 73 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: supremacy and for fascism then our public education system. It 74 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: is why you were seeing trumpets run at local levels, 75 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: run for school board, changing curriculum, gutting curriculum altogether. You 76 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: see governors like run death santists, terrorizing teachers, threatening them 77 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: with the lawsuits and jail time for having the audacity 78 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: to talk to your kids about the LGBTQ community, to 79 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: talk to your kids about history outside of the lens 80 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: of white system. Headero men, So explain to me why 81 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: we would even think then that people and folks, I 82 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to the real kicker, right, and you 83 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: know what's coming. Why would we expect, then, for people 84 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: to want to go into education, to go get their 85 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: master's degree like I did many many moons ago, because 86 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: I knew why did I want to become a teacher. 87 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: Why did I want to work in education policy? Because 88 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: I believe that at the core of any successful fucking 89 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: democracy is an educated citizenry. We could solve more than 90 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: half of this country's issues if we actually taught kids 91 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: what it is that we want them to learn. Because 92 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: the thing is, folks, fucking k through twelve. Education is 93 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: not you're around the clock babysitting service, which is exactly 94 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: how Alabama and Arkansas and other states are looking at 95 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: our public education system. Oh, we'll just get a retired vet, 96 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: they said, to go and stand up in front of 97 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: a class. Okay, that's great. I'm all about you know, 98 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: supporting veterans. But what are your qualifications to teach a 99 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: classroom of twenty five to thirty children? Right? Look, what 100 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: are you what is your level of expertise? But we 101 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: think so fucking little about the people that are literally 102 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: spending more time with your kids than you do. We 103 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: think so little about what expectations we have for these 104 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: children moving forward. Because the thing is is that the 105 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: people that are relaxing these laws, the people that have 106 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: been attacking teachers from the jump, are the Republican Party, 107 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: and their kids don't go to public fucking school right. 108 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: Their kids are being set to the best private schools 109 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: and the kind that money can buy. So once again 110 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: we are creating, they are creating, by design, a permanent 111 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: economic underclass where it is going to be up to 112 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: the oppressor to educate your child just enough so that 113 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: they're good enough to be able to work for them 114 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: and toil at the factory and do this widget thing, 115 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: but not enough to actually run a factory, to run 116 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: a company, right, not enough to be informed enough to 117 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: go ahead and vote and vote for people and hold 118 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: them accountable and responsible. Right, not enough to be able 119 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: to understand how government actually fucking works. The dumbing down 120 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 1: of America is purposeful so that those that are in 121 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: the top one percent of this country remain there. And 122 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: you can only remain at the top if, in fact 123 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: you have solidified the bottom, if you've cemented it for 124 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: generations to come. And how do you do that? You 125 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: do that by not outwardly cutting access to public education. No, 126 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: you don't do that. You just destroy it from the 127 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: inside by consistently defunding it. Right. They want more police 128 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: on the streets. They want high inflation so that everyone 129 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: has to stay at the jobs that they are at, 130 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: but that you have no recourse to be able to, 131 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: let's say, collectively bargain because they attack unions. So even 132 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: if you are in a factory style, blue collar job, 133 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: you have no recourse in order to protect yourself on 134 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: that job because they have villainized unions since the beginning 135 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: of time. It's why I believe that they hate teachers 136 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: so fucking much, because one of the last big unions 137 00:09:53,960 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: is the teachers Union. So folks, you know, this all 138 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: goes to say with the fact that one, we don't 139 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: pay teachers shit, right, So there were some places that 140 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: instead of relaxing their certifications, are actually thinking about doing 141 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: something crazy, which is actually paying teachers their worth. So 142 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: they are starting out with starting salaries in some places 143 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: of sixty thousand dollars a year, right. You know. I 144 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: remember when I was teaching, and this was in the 145 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: early two thousands, and I had started teaching and I 146 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: had gotten my master's degree, and I was working at 147 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: a bilingual charter school in Washington, DC. And you know 148 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: what was beautiful about that time period in my life 149 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: was that I actually lived in the community that I 150 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: worked in. So I would see my first and second 151 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: graders at the supermarket with their parents. I would see 152 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: them walking down the street coming back from the park, 153 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: and they would be so excited because for little kids, 154 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: right to see their teacher outside of the classroom, they 155 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: like think that you're a known and you live underneath 156 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: the desk, and they're like, oh my god, you're a 157 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: whole person. But it was so heartwarming because I was 158 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: a part of educating the community that I lived in. Well, 159 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: what has happened, folks, with gentrification, what has happened with 160 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: ballooning housing costs and rents, is that a majority of 161 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: people aren't able to actually live in the place that 162 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: they teach because they can't afford it, right, so they 163 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: move farther and farther and farther out so that they're 164 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: coming in. So you don't even if we actually again 165 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: cared about community, cared about school, cared about our future, 166 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: we would be investing in teachers, right teachers, first responders, 167 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: they would get right loans for housing, right, they would 168 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: get you know, that would be a part of your package, 169 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: is that we want you living and working in the 170 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: community that you serve. Not only that you would actually 171 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: pay them what they're fucking worth. So this all goes 172 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: to say, folks, at the big thing that I believe 173 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: is having us in this teacher shortage, which I think 174 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: is going to get worse, which is what Randy Weingarten, 175 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: the AFT president said, and others have said. We don't 176 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: we're not even talking about mass shootings. Because let me 177 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: tell you something, I sure as hell would never teach 178 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: in these United States. I am not for the low 179 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: bargain rate of sixty thousand dollars a year as a 180 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: starting salary in some places, right, going to put my 181 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: life on the line in a place like Texas and Florida, 182 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: right and even New York now where you're able to 183 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: just carry a gun where if you want, because that's 184 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: what our Supreme Court is dictated. So you have schools 185 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: every single year, how many schools, how many high schools, 186 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: how many elementary schools do we see in the headlines 187 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: for getting shot up? We are asking teachers to not 188 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: only oh, be low balled in terms of their salary 189 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: to teach our young people, but then on top of that, 190 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: we're telling them to risk their lives and again not 191 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: affording them an income that would even make that make 192 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: fucking sense. So think about, just by looking at our 193 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: education system and where we are right now, what Republicans 194 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: are doing to our democracy, Because what's going to end 195 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 1: up happening, right, more and more teachers are going to 196 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: leave the profession. You're going to get more and more 197 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: low skilled right or non licensed, non certified people coming 198 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: in to then teach your kids. And where are they 199 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: going to go first? So they're going to go to 200 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: the densely population black and brown areas. They're going to 201 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: go into the cities. This was always the pushback if 202 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: you remember, and you may not, of Teach for America. 203 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: Teach for America was all about bringing in young people 204 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: to teach, right, except that they were going into these 205 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: schools with no scaffolding, no coaching, right, no training, and 206 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: they were going into the most high need populations and 207 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: then turning over every fucking two years because you only 208 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: needed to put two years in. So again you have 209 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: a class of children and a race of children as 210 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: well that are being cycled through with the most green 211 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: behind the ears teachers that you could ever imagine, who 212 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: do not have the skill set to be able to 213 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: deal with the compounded traumas that come with living in 214 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: low income right survival in vironments. You know, my sister 215 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: and I were having a conversation the other day. We 216 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: were talking with a couple of people, and my sister 217 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: and I, some folks may know, and those of you 218 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: who don't, let me relay. My sister and I both 219 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: went through the same Masters of Education program, both for 220 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: early childhood education with a specialization for special needs students. 221 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: And when my sister, who is still in education in 222 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: an administrative ESL capacity and is moving into teaching teachers 223 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: how to create curriculum that is expansive for students at 224 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: independent schools. Nonetheless, Nicole and I went into education for 225 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: the same reason. We both believed, you know, that education 226 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: really shaped our lives. And one of the things that 227 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: we were saying recently is that even though we had 228 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: master's degrees in special education, the student population that we 229 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: were dealing with we were actually not trained to deal with. 230 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: We didn't have that skill set we had the skill 231 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: set to deal with special education as it pertains to 232 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: learning difficulties, right, whether you have a range of different 233 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: global learning delays or what have you. That's what we 234 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: were trained in. We were not trained in how poverty, right, 235 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: violence causes special needs. Right. So it is not special 236 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: needs in terms of, oh, there is something intellectually delayed 237 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: that needs to be stimulated in a different way. No, 238 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: the children that we were dealing with were wondering where 239 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: their next meal was going to be coming from. We're 240 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: living in homes with consistent domestic violence, and they were 241 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: also experiencing violence in the home, dealing with alcoholism, dealing 242 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: with drug use, dealing with you know, all of the 243 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: strains that come with systemic poverty. Right on top of 244 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: which the population that we were dealing with as well 245 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: also an immigrant population of Spanish speakers who also were 246 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: working two and three jobs to be able to provide 247 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: what it is that they could for their kids. Right. So, 248 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: when you're calling for a parent teacher conference, well, if 249 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: I'm a waged worker, how am I coming in for 250 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: that parent teacher conference? And so having to really tailor 251 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:45,959 Speaker 1: and understand the needs and what was at play in 252 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: the classrooms that we were teaching, and none of which 253 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: our program actually prepared us for. So when we think 254 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: about you know, public education systems from you know, back 255 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: in the fifties and in the sixties where all you 256 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: really were required to get was a high school diploma. 257 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: And then you know, if you were white and you 258 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: were male, you know, the world was carved out for 259 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: you in terms of what it was that you could do. 260 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: Or you got enough of an education, but you were 261 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: going to go work into work in the factory that 262 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 1: your dad and his dad worked in before you, or 263 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: on the police force. Right, so there were careers that 264 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: were set up for that limited amount of education. Right. 265 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: This was also at a time again where public education 266 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: was not readily available. So what this new set of 267 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: Republicans are setting up is for the privatization of education 268 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: in such a way that again your pressor is educating you, 269 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: or you know, you have the Microsoft school or the 270 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: Google school, or did this school or to that school, 271 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: which is all built around private interests. We want to 272 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: educate you just enough so that you remain at the 273 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: lowest level of our company. Right, but we're going to 274 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: paint a rosy picture around it. This is what Republicans want. 275 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: A devastated and decimated public education system, a privatized right 276 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: private schools and religious schools that then don't have to 277 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: follow any of the same rules and mandates that public 278 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: education does. They are able to turn away people, right, 279 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: so you're able to once again create this all white, 280 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: all wealthy system and everyone else be damned or be fucked. 281 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: And what is this going to perpetuate? A permanent underclass, 282 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: which is what you need in order to remain the 283 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: upper class, because what they need more of are workers 284 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: and under educated, desperate workers that they can treat any 285 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 1: type of way that are completely and totally disposable and 286 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: that have no recourse in order to have any type 287 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: of better life, whether that be healthcare, whether that be 288 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: any of the incentives that you would want to have 289 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: at a company or factory or a job. That is 290 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 1: what Republicans want. That is what they are after. And 291 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 1: who is it going to harm? The most first black 292 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: and brown kids, because those that are white, right, those 293 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: people that are middle class at there it is still 294 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: even a thing or upper middle class will pull their 295 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 1: kids right, and they will put them in schools that 296 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: they will then need to work an additional job, or 297 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: additional hours or what have you, in order to be 298 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: able to put them through. So once again, you're still 299 00:20:55,119 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: locking people into a position where they have their very 300 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: little power because the demands around them are going to 301 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: be so steep. You see how this works. 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In the Bullpen, it 321 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: is an indisputable fact that you will love this show. 322 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: Listen to Indisputable with Doctor rashad Ricci on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 323 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what 324 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: you hear, be sure to subscribe so you never miss 325 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: a new episode. My problem here, folks, is that the 326 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: Democratic Party is not painting this picture. They are not 327 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: telling Americans the full story of what the Republican dream is. 328 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: It is a country that is filled with guns and 329 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: under educated people. Oh that camp possibly go wrong at all, 330 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: where you think that your only recourse in life is 331 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: to build up your own fucking arsenal and don't require 332 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: anybody to have a license or to go through any 333 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: type of training or anything like that, and then hype 334 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: them up on racism, anti semitism, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and 335 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: then send them on their way. It's like taking a 336 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: bunch of soda cans shaking them, then putting them in 337 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: the fucking sun and opening them. What do we think 338 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: is going to happen here? It's a recipe for fascism 339 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: because then when everything inevitably spirals out of control, because 340 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: you've created the conditions for it to spiral out of control, 341 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: and then all everybody around you is running around desperate, 342 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: just wanting some sense of their old life back. Then 343 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: you have an authoritarian that comes in and says, ah, 344 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: I alone can fix this. Give me all of your 345 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: liberties and all of your freedoms. Follow what it is 346 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: that I say, and I'll make things safe again. I'll 347 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: make the world better for you again. Be damn everybody else. Well, 348 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: then you have Hitler's Germany Orbon's hungry Putin's Russia. Right, 349 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: this is what the big setup is. It's the big setup, 350 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: and it is the big payoff for Republicans who remain 351 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: close to power sycophants so that all of their needs 352 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: are met. They're the ones that are the minority group 353 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: that is in control of everyone and everything else. This 354 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: is the world they want, and it's the world that 355 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: is unfolding before us. Because the teacher crisis, folks, was 356 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: followed by the other shortage, the shortage of nurses, because 357 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: guess what, after working twenty four hours a day to 358 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: save the lives of people who wouldn't wear a mask. 359 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: And this is after the fact, when we were applauding 360 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: our health workers to then degrading them and protesting outside, 361 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: they're looking at themselves and talking about the fuck am 362 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: I risking my life and the life of my family 363 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: to be out here with Now we have vaccines, and 364 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm still risking everything to save you people who don't 365 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: even believe in science. It's so hard sometimes to look 366 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: around and see the writing on the wall everywhere and 367 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: to still feel like we can fix this. The way 368 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: that we stave this off, dear, dear friend, is to 369 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: get everybody that you fucking know, everybody who they know, 370 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: to vote for Democrats. They are imperfect. I rail against 371 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: them all the time. But let me tell you something 372 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: that the alternative, the alternative is a vicious cult. The 373 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: alternative is us all going into camps. And I don't 374 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: mean that glibly. You know, a story that we talked 375 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: about on democracy is on a pre tape that we 376 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: just did, is about the story that isn't making the news, 377 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: about what the Trump administration did to the undocumented that 378 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 1: came into the country over the four years that he 379 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: was in power. We know that people were separated from 380 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: their children at the border. We know that they were 381 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: thrown into overcrowded cages. We know that the Trump administration 382 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: went so far as to go to court to say 383 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: that we don't need to provide these people with any 384 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: sanitary conditions. They also did something else. Forced sterilization sound familiar, 385 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: Well it would if you ever learned about what was 386 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: happening not only in Hitler's Germany, but where Hitler got 387 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 1: that idea good old American USA, and what they were 388 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: doing to black women in this country and black men 389 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: and the indigenous native populations to this country. Sterilization has 390 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: a great, evil, evil, fucking history in America that White 391 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: America loves to avoid, loves to say, not on my watch, never, 392 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: not my country. Well, you don't really know your country 393 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: because you ain't taught about it. And that is purposeful. 394 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: So if you think that what we have read about 395 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: and what we know has already happened in these United 396 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: States wouldn't happened at a nationalized platform, you bring in 397 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: Trump again, or you bring in death Santis. You bring 398 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: in any of those people with the same vile ideology, 399 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: and they will make sure that not only is Rob 400 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: Wade not a thing, not even in blue states right, 401 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: that there will be no such thing as blue states, 402 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: There will be no such thing as states rights. Once 403 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: they are finally in control of the nash of the 404 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:42,959 Speaker 1: federal government, they will gut every last thing right and 405 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: it will be every person for themselves. They'll be four sterilizations, 406 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: they'll be armies and tanks rolling down the streets. And again, folks, 407 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: this is not hyperbolic talk. This is the pattern of 408 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: what happens. They are starting, and it's not even slow. 409 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: Since the Big Lie. You have now gubernatorial candidates that 410 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: are running on the big lie. You have senators that 411 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: are running on the big lie, that are running on 412 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: upending our democracy and the rights of citizens in this 413 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: country because they don't believe that people of color, anybody 414 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: from any marginalized community should have a say in this country. 415 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: And what they are selling right now is lies and 416 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: paranoia and fear. Now shake that up, put that up 417 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: in a bottle with your aar fifteens, and my god, 418 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: it's no wonder why these folks are itching for civil 419 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: war so they can get to real life do what 420 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: they've been cosplaying doing. We are in a serious CRISI 421 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: it's a compounded crisis. And oh, by the way, we're 422 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: also in a health emergency public crisis when you have 423 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: polio making a return to fucking New York. So yeah, 424 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: if you find yourself being exacerbated because you know, the earth, 425 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: according to scientists, is now spinning faster, the days are 426 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: getting shorter, the air is getting more polluted, You're losing 427 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: your rights left and right, and you're wondering why you 428 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: feel crazy most days, well, this would be it. But 429 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: the thing that I want to continue pounding into everybody's 430 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: mind is that there is always hope so long as 431 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: we have the will to do something about what we 432 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: are seeing that is wrong, because it really only takes 433 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: a small group of people that are consistent, that have passion, 434 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: that are purposeful in their fucking mission to spread that's 435 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: what we need. Because they are coming and they are 436 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: showing no signs of stopping. That is it for me today, 437 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: Dear friends on woke app as always power to the 438 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. 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