WEBVTT - Do the Work 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay F Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.840 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, Recording from the Bunker the folks. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.040 I want to start off by saying that when at 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.840 the time of this recording, the January sixth primetime hearing 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.280 has not happened yet. But m folks, I want to 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:36.040 alert you to a couple of stories that are not 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.479 making the kind of press that I think that they should, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.680 particularly as the January sixth committee will rap, And honestly, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.160 we really don't know if this is actually this eighth 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.360 hearing is a rap or it is a rap four 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.840 right now, because what we have seen is that over 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.760 the course of the last eight hearings, more information comes out, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.600 more people come forward, more testimony is given, and then boom, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.560 another public hearing. We do know that the that the 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.440 committee is up against the clock, given that if midterm 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.800 elections go in the direction of Republicans, we know that 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.240 this committee's work will be done and this committee will 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.600 be disbanded and Republicans will proceed with a whole bunch 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:28.919 of bullshit that probably looks like Benghazi on crack. So 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.840 I want to bring to your attention a story that 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:38.080 I found to be really troubling at science dot org. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.240 And it is this The title of the Science Insider 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:49.600 story is half of Americans anticipate a US civil war soon, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.280 half of those that were surveyed. And I want to 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.400 bring you I'm going to read the first couple of 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.160 paragraphs because I think that one, this is really fucking alarming. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.920 But it's also what we have been talking about on 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.560 this show for quite some time, and particularly if you 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.880 were listening back to me. You know, four years ago, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.160 four five years ago, when Donald Trump first became president 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.360 of the United States, I said that everything in the 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.320 United States was going to get bloodier before it got better. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.840 Lo and behold. I had no idea at the time 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.360 that I was saying this that we would see it 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.880 an insurrection, that we would see a rise in violence 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.080 across this country, that we would have a pandemic and 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.680 there would be a rise in gun sales, that racial 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.480 resentment and racism would go through the roof, that all 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.160 of these things would happen. I thought, you know, that 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.800 things would get really bad, but all of these things, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.760 that just the number of things that have happened over 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.320 the last five years, in any one year would be historic. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.320 We've experienced more quote unquote history in this short time 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.320 period than I think any other generation has in this country, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.000 and so we shouldn't when we see articles like the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.440 one I'm about to delve into, just shrug and say, oh, well, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.480 that's hyperbolic. No it's not. And we've all experienced what 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.840 happens when we ignore things the first fucking time around. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:29.440 So here it is. Violence can be seen to be 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.040 everywhere in the United States, and political violence is in 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.480 the spotlight with January six, twenty twenty one, it's insurrection 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.000 as exhibit A. Now, a large study confirms one in 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.920 five Americans. One in five Americans believes violence motivated by 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:53.360 political reason is at least sometimes justified. Nearly half expect 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.400 a civil war, and many say they would trade democracy 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:04.400 for a strong leader. A pre print posted found this 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.120 is not a study that's meant to shock, says Rachel Kleinfeld, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.960 a political violence expert at the Carnegie Endowment for Interracial 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.760 Peace who was not involved in the research, But it 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.640 should be shocking. Firearm deaths in the United States grew 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.720 by nearly forty three percent between twenty ten and twenty twenty, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.599 and gun sales surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Garren written Mute, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.840 an emergency medicine physician and longtime gun violence researcher at 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.120 the University of California, Davis, wondered what those trends pretend 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.880 to civil unrest quote, sometimes being an er doc is 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.960 like being in the bowman on the Titanic going look 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.000 at that iceberg. He and his colleague surveyed more than 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.240 eighty six hundred adults in English and Spanish about their 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.120 views on democracy in the United States, racial attitudes in 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.760 the US society, and their own attitudes towards political violence. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.440 The respondents or part of the IPSOS Knowledge Panel, an 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.880 online research panel that has been used widely, including by 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:13.640 whitten Mute for research on violence and firearm ownership. Although 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:19.080 almost all respondents thought it's important right, it's important for 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:24.159 the United States to remain a democracy, forty percent said 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.120 having a strong leader is more important. Half expect a 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.760 civil war in the United States in the next few years. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.000 The fact that this is quote, the fact that basically 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.320 half the country is expecting a civil war is just chilling, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.720 whitten Mute says, and many expect to take part if 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.839 found in a situation where they think violence is justified 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.600 to advance an important political objective. About one in five 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.880 respondents think they will likely be armed with a gun. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.880 About seven percent of participants, which would correspond to about 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.159 eighteen million US adults, said they would be willing to 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:05.640 kill a person in such situation. Folks, what in the 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:12.000 entire fuck? Okay, it is one thing to read the 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.400 writing on the wall. It's one thing to rewatch throughout 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.240 all of these hearings, how violent the insurrectionists were, how 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:25.080 they were armed with knives and brass knuckles and guns 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.000 and zip ties and just preparing right, as was stated 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.640 by a Jason Hottentov from a former Proud Boy at 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:41.360 the seventh hearing, that they were preparing for this insurrection 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.719 to be the spark of a revolutionary war, to be 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.679 the spark of a civil war, and they were prepared 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:53.320 as such. And so it should be alarming that this 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.760 study that is done finds that forty percent of the 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:02.679 country scent of those surveyed, not forty percent of the country. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.640 Let me say this again. Forty percent of those surveyed 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:12.000 said that having quote a strong leader is more important 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.880 than democracy. Now Here in the United states. We don't 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.640 know anything other than the flawed democratic system that we have. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.280 If you have visited other countries that are under communism, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:30.600 that are under a monarch, that are under varied forms 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.520 of government, and you actually talk to those people, they 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.440 would tell you how vastly different it is to live 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.440 in a country where you no longer have a voice 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.080 an opinion, where you no longer are protected in the 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.640 actions that you take against your government. And I'm not 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.600 talking about an armed fucking insurrection. I'm talking about peaceful protests, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:56.800 the right to assemble. To think of people saying that 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.360 they would rather have a quote strong leader, then democracy 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:07.480 is chilling, But pretty much coincides with what we have 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.360 seen over the past five years with the destruction of 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.600 our democracy by the Republican Party, the rise of Trump 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.440 and Trumpism, and the belief that he alone can fix it. Right. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.280 But what these people, I believe don't really get, because 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.200 of course we don't teach civics in any real understanding. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.280 I don't think that they really understand fundamentally what it 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.080 means to take away democracy and put in place one 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.640 person that gets to make a decision, right, and what 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:41.920 happens to the country what happens to agencies, what happens 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.680 to those social safety nets, what happens to your ability. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.120 Let's just say you lose your job, as many did 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:54.439 during the pandemic, to get unemployment again. These are products 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.920 of what it means to function inside of a democracy 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.120 where the government is set up to help the people, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.280 not help themselves. And what we know to be true 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.320 by virtue of the patterns of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.160 and fascism around the globe is that it never actually 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.880 ends well, right, but that these people rise into power 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.240 at a time when there is such chaos on the 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.080 ground that people are just looking for anything that will 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.280 relieve their pain. Well, let's look at the plans that 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:32.920 Republicans have had in place right in order to sew unease, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.920 in order to sew upheaval of our political norms, so 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.160 that they can create the conditions and the climate that 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:46.600 would have a Donald Trump, a Ron Desantists type come in, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.200 as said quote unquote President. But what we know to 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.360 be true is that these people are organizing in plain sight. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.800 They have been continuing along with their coup after their 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.640 foot soldiers have been picked up by the Department of Justice, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.640 but that they have no qualms about going back to 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.160 right the roots of violence in order to get their 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.400 job done. So what should be alarming is that when 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:18.440 you look at Republican obstructionism, when you look at what 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.559 the Supreme Court has done with regard to a state's 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.680 ability to create its own gun laws, when you look 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.960 about the erosion of reproductive rights and the ability to 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.800 have an abortion, when you look at stories which I 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.560 will cover one another one which is a Walgreens worker 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.280 in Wisconsin said that he would not sell a customer 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.679 condoms because it was against his religious practice. I do 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:50.640 not understand how people understand that a democracy, when we 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.880 talk about freedom of religion, is not the freedom to 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.559 weaponize your religion against other people who do not subscribe 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.880 to the religion that you have. It means that you 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.800 who can, in fact, do worship however you see fit 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.280 and however you would like your family to see fit. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.959 But that does not mean right that you get to 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:15.079 turn around and weaponize that religion against other people. Similarly, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:19.480 so with the understanding of white supremacy and patriarchy in 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.480 this country and how it has been weaponized against people 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.079 of color, against black people in particular, against non Christians, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:32.080 in particular, as a way to safeguard white people from 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:37.200 any course correction, from any responsibility and accountability. So long 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.880 as you continue to villainize, criminalize, and oppress those that 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.000 don't look like you, pray like you, love like you, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.480 so on and so forth. So as the country in 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:53.360 so many ways is dealing with a rising cases of violence, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.000 I think that one of the things that was also 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:01.080 said here is this quote. The findings are scary, but 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.079 not surprising. Kurt Braddock, who studies the psychology of extremist 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.880 communication at American University, wrote to an email in Science. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.000 In recent years, he says the United States has seen 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.600 an increase in individual willingness to engage in violence. Homicides 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.600 in cities increased forty four percent forty four percent between 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.880 twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, for instance, an attitude, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.680 he says, is likely to spill into the political sphere. Well, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.880 why has violence increased? It isn't because people have become 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.000 more violent. It is because our resources have become more limited. Right, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.320 You're talking about inner cities where every single day we're 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.240 hearing about inflation, every single day we're hearing about the 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.240 housing crisis and the renters crisis right where people are 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.760 literally being put out of their homes and onto the 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.000 street because they can no longer afford to live because 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.319 their paychecks, if they still in fact have a job, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.640 are not going as far as they used to. But 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.360 the increases in mortgages and rents continue to in and 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.160 yet you have the same needs that you did, but 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.040 the resources that you have no longer stretched that far. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.400 And if we are continuing to in this country provide 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.920 let's say what the Biden administration did this week with 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.880 their quote unquote Law and Safety Plan, which is once 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.600 again award thirty seven billion dollars to law enforcement to 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.839 add one hundred thousand new cops on the street. Well, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.400 as far as I know, cops don't help put food 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:33.000 on the fucking table. That money which Joe Biden is 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.760 always hell bent on fund the police, fund the police. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.760 The police don't prevent crime, and they don't help support 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.960 any of the ways in which people in this country 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.000 are suffering from mental health and emotional instability because of 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.960 the compounded crises that we are in. So if you're 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.960 not going to get to the heart of the problem, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.480 but then you're going to continue to throw money after 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.560 the bad people who cause more problems than they actually solve. Like, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.480 how do you think that we are going to get 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.440 anywhere other than the place that we are headed, which 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:08.800 is no good right, which is rising anxiety, depression, stress, 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:16.200 joblessness or inflation right, increased prices, homelessness, drug use, all 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.200 of these things are on the rise. But we find 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.480 that the most important thing to do is throw more money, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:27.520 throw good money after bad as it pertains to law enforcement. Right. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.960 So you know, in this report, basically what it's saying 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.400 is that there's a reason for our nervousness. There's a 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:41.040 reason that we are so at that we're so uneasy, right, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.640 and it's the fact that things continue to get worse. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.600 No one seems to be making a plan for how 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.960 they get better, and they continue to fund the same 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.640 shit that actually causes more pain that it takes away. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.480 So how do we envision that we're not headed to 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.000 some type of really horrific war, which the way I 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:06.560 think will most likely coincide with the next presidential election. Right, So, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.880 if Republicans take back the House and the Senate take 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.120 back Congress launch their bullshit, which they will do, then 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:20.160 we head into an unprotected presidential election that we know 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.600 will be rigged. We know what the states are already 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.600 planning and who have organized. How do we not think 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.400 that violence is going to ensue? And if in that 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.960 entire time we have a Department of Justice that continues 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.920 to look away from white supremist extremist violence, that continues 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.640 to not do anything in terms of holding the people, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.320 the architects, including Donald Trump, responsible right for the insurrection, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.680 then we continue to get more of the same and 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.120 more of the same. Of this kind of same is 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.160 not going to be able to be stomached by the 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:58.280 people of this country, so we should all be concerned. Lastly, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.040 I want to bring your attention to this story and 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.920 this comes. I will read a few lines from our 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.520 friend Danielle Campamore, who we have on this show to 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:13.280 talk about abortion. This is what Danielle wrote at today 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.760 dot com and the article is a drugstore worker refused 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.520 to sell his partner condoms. Now now he's scheduled a vasectomy. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.280 Here it is after a clerk at a national chain 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.760 refused to sell a couple condoms because of religious conviction. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.040 The man scheduled a vasectomy. Nate Pence, who lives in Minnesota, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.120 was shopping at a Walgreens in Hayward, Wisconsin with his 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.040 partner Jess. As Jess was checking out, Pence says the 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.720 cashier refused to sell her condoms. We went to Hayward 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.160 to get some growth series at a stop at Walgreens 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.800 because we had just left Jess's birth control at home. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.560 As Jess was checking out, cashier John told her he 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.720 couldn't sell her condoms because it goes against my faith. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.560 In another tweet, Pence said that his partner told the 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.120 clerk for her desire to purchase condoms was none of 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.560 his business. I can get a manager here. Do you 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.080 want me to finish checking these things? Not from you? So. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.480 Pence also shared a screenshot of a complaint his partner 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.480 made to the store after they were prompted to describe 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.080 their recent experience. In a statement to NBC News, a 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.560 Walgreen spokesperson said that the company's policies are designed to 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.800 ensure we meet the needs of our patients and customers 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.880 while respecting the religious and moral beliefs of our team members. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.840 The instances are rare, however, when a team member has 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.400 a moral or religious conviction about completing a transaction, they 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.920 are required to refer the customer to another employee or 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.600 manager on duty who will complete the transaction, which is 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.600 what occurred in this statement. This is absolute bullshit and 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.360 mayhem right, and this is all coming on the heels 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.480 of the reversal of Rob Wade in the Dab's decision 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.320 that came down from the Supreme Court, the desire that 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.320 for Republicans who voted against the codification of birth control 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.520 into law, right to make sure that you don't have 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.639 shit like this happened, because this isn't again about abortion, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.560 it is about control. Because not selling condoms goes against 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:15.800 your religious beliefs, then you shouldn't be working out a 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.080 fucking place that sells them. How about that, right, because 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.359 the place also sells a whole host of things like 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.639 beer and this, that and the other thing. You don't 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.359 get as an employee to cherry pick what it is 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.840 that you do. If you have that kind of religious conviction, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.000 then go work out a fucking church. Right, Like, this 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.399 is the shit that really begins to grade on my 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.560 nerves and all of our nerves when we're like, you again, 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.280 have the right to practice whatever religion it is that 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.399 you want, but you do not have the right to 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.000 force the rest of us to abide by your religious principles. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.960 That is not what it means to have religious freedom. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.840 But this country, along with many other rights are just 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.679 flying out the window. So who knows will will be 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.320 a couple of months from now. 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Hey, I'm David Plots of Slice Political Gabfest. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.960 As another election season accelerates, it can be tricky to 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.960 sort through all the noise and the news. Each week 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.040 on The Gapfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bathlon and I decipher 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.560 the headlines, break down the races, and tell you what 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.120 issues really matter. We do not always agree, We definitely 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.680 do not always agree, but we always deliver thoughtful debate 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.520 and we always have a good time. So subscribe to 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:10.879 Slates Political Gapfest New episodes every Thursday, Folks. I am 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.159 very excited to welcome to Willkate f Daily for the 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.840 very first time. W Camal Bell, who you all know 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.399 as a comedian as a straight Shooter on CNN Emmy 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:25.639 Award winning show and the new author of Do the Work, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:32.160 An Anti racist activity book along with Kate Chats come out. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.560 I want to understand from your vantage point, why you 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.680 think that now, Other than the fact that the world 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.719 is collapsing, our democracy is dying, and white supremacies at 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:44.920 an all time high and black people get murdered in 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.520 the street on a regular basis, why is now the 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:52.080 right time for this book. Well, I'm gonna quote somebody 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:54.720 I heard who say democracy is dying and white supremacies 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.480 at an all time high. I'm a quote a wary, 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.080 wise person named Danielle who who said that. So you 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.760 know this book was written too. We started writing this 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.879 book two years ago in the middle of of after 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.359 George Floyd was murdered and there was all and Brianna 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.560 Taylor by the police and and there was racial reckonings 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.760 in the streets and protests, and the publisher was like, 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.040 I wish we could release it now, and it was like, 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.320 don't worry, racism will still be here when we're ready 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.280 to release it. And we didn't know January sixth was coming. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:25.800 We didn't know that Donald Trump was going to say 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.879 the election was stolen was coming. We didn't know that 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.760 we would still be dealing with COVID misinformation and news misinformation. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.000 So it's it's always the time to come back racism 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.480 in America, you know. I, well, I love the book 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.760 because one I am a person of a certain generation 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:47.040 who loved Highlights, as I mentioned in another interview that 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:51.880 you did, and you say it's it's said it expressly 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.879 in the book that you know, this is for white people. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:57.720 And so I want to ask you, you know, as somebody. 0:22:57.920 --> 0:22:59.920 And by the way, I'll tell you that when you're 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:04.080 show first aired on CNN, I was actually quite concerned 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:08.119 for you traveling around the country, so you and my 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.800 wife both Yeah, right, I was concerned about you traveling 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.080 around the country and wondering, Oh my god, I hope 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.240 that he's safe. I hope they have security. I hope 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.119 he'll be Well when you say that this book is 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.160 you know, is for white people and obviously anybody else 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.840 that wants to read it, how do you anticipate getting 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.800 white people who continue to say what can I do 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:32.960 and what should I do to actually, you know, use 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.640 this as as a guide. Well, here's the thing. It's 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.560 like I always compare this to like working out or exercising. 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.560 If you walk into the gym and you get a 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.919 smoothie and you go sit in the hot tub, and 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:47.840 you go into the workout room and you look around 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.760 and see all the machines are taken and you go home. Yes, 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.280 you went to the gym, but you did not indeed workout. 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:56.120 And so we all know when we're bull when we're 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:58.680 bsing ourselves about doing the work. And so a lot 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.840 of white folks when they say what can I do, 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.639 We're gonna hand you a book that tells you exactly 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.199 what you can do, and we're gonna lead you through it. 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.159 And the book was co written by Kate Shots and so, 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:12.359 a white woman who speaks white people very fluently. And 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.480 so we're gonna lead you through this step by step, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.240 and we're gonna and we're gonna make it fun, which 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:19.480 it shouldn't necessarily have to be fun, but we're gonna 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:23.680 make it fun. We've hired over fifteen different black, Indigenous, 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:28.000 Latin x Asian American artists of color to make these things, 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.480 and we're gonna have all sorts of different fun ways 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.240 to do this so that it will be more irresistible, 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.280 as we say the revolution should be to do this. 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.200 And we're also gonna list things you can do in 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.000 your neighborhood, in your community to get the work done. 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:43.680 If at that point you don't want to do it, 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:46.760 then you're really saying I don't want to do the work. 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:48.760 I want to live in a white supremacy society. And 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.280 also also, we're not the only book that has ever 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:53.240 tried to get people to do this work. There's many 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:56.280 different amazing anti racist books. We just felt like there's 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:58.080 a way in which this is not being handled and 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.520 we want to help contribute to this discussion, you know, 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.479 through work on this book over the last two years 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:09.239 and then work on your show on CNN. What are 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.560 some of the most surprising things that have come up 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:17.240 for you with regard to dealing with varied opinions of 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:22.399