Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody, recording from my home bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: it is my birthday today that you are listening to
Speaker 1: this show, November tenth, and I am going to be
Speaker 1: taking a few days off. But before I go, of course,
Speaker 1: I have to leave you with a good fuck it Friday.
Speaker 1: So first off, folks, it's going to be a mix
Speaker 1: of feel it and fuck it, because that's how I
Speaker 1: am feeling this week. So first I want to share
Speaker 1: with you that as I was getting ready to celebrate
Speaker 1: my birthday, and for those of you who've been listening
Speaker 1: to me for a while, you know that my birthday
Speaker 1: is always a big deal. I believe that people should
Speaker 1: take off if you are privileged and have the ability
Speaker 1: to do so. It's like your own personal holiday, right.
Speaker 1: You work all year and if your birthday happens to
Speaker 1: fall you know, during the week, and you can, you
Speaker 1: should take off. And I know many people that can
Speaker 1: and just don't even if you want to do nothing right, like,
Speaker 1: it's your time, it's your day. We have three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five days, you get one. But what I
Speaker 1: will say is that I was having difficulty, not in
Speaker 1: terms of wanting to take time, which I am taking,
Speaker 1: but in terms of finding it in myself to want
Speaker 1: to celebrate, because I haven't been feeling very celebratory. We've
Speaker 1: been discussing this for weeks now as we enter into
Speaker 1: the full month of the war in Israel and Palestine
Speaker 1: and the devastation that has happened, the lives ten thousand
Speaker 1: plus lives, most of them children, being taken. It is
Speaker 1: heartbreaking and devastating to think that our tax dollars, not
Speaker 1: just in this country, but in other countries, go to
Speaker 1: fund other people's misery, other people's death. And I think
Speaker 1: right now, for me, as I am centering my feelings
Speaker 1: about what is happening, I just want us to dig
Speaker 1: into our humanity and to understand that it isn't just
Speaker 1: about your child, right, It isn't just about our country,
Speaker 1: It isn't just about your life. We are interconnected. We
Speaker 1: are a global community of humans that need each other,
Speaker 1: and that if we turn our backs on marginalized communities
Speaker 1: and say that it is okay and justifiable for us
Speaker 1: to still govern with an eye for an eye, mentality
Speaker 1: that we know makes the whole world blind do you
Speaker 1: think that I justify at all the killing of fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred people. No, I do not. But I believe that
Speaker 1: we've been lied to into believing that war and murder
Speaker 1: and bombing people out of existence is the answer to
Speaker 1: peace and justice. It isn't the only answer that allows
Speaker 1: us to get to a place of peace of justice.
Speaker 1: No one group has a claim to land. And I've
Speaker 1: said this continually on my show on all of them, frankly,
Speaker 1: that if your liberty and freedom comes at the expense
Speaker 1: and the oppression of someone else, you are not free
Speaker 1: because you will always be living and navigating from a
Speaker 1: place of fear. That's not freedom. And so to believe right,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that this whole censuring
Speaker 1: that has happened of Congresswoman Rashida Tuleb is white supremacy
Speaker 1: and anti democratic values at play. And the fact that
Speaker 1: twenty two members of her own fucking party voted to
Speaker 1: close her mouth as the only Palestinian American in Congress
Speaker 1: right now with experience of the community that is being bombarded,
Speaker 1: is insane to me. And so when I see the
Speaker 1: people that are marching, that are speaking out all around
Speaker 1: this world, in this country, that are blocking shipping containers
Speaker 1: right that are carrying weapons of death, that are saying
Speaker 1: not in my name, Jewish voices for peace, Rabbis for peace,
Speaker 1: Muslims for peace, all of these people into religion and cultures,
Speaker 1: races and ethnicities that are saying no, we don't want
Speaker 1: to live in a world that thinks that it is
Speaker 1: okay and justifiable to kill babies. There is recordkeeping that
Speaker 1: is being done to the best of their ability, recordkeeping
Speaker 1: that is used right to provide humanitarian aid and has
Speaker 1: been right for decades. This is the same record keeping
Speaker 1: that the United States has used. But all of a sudden, now, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't believe the Palestinian numbers. Why because they're not favorable. One, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: six plus pages where there are names listed and next
Speaker 1: to those names is a zero. The zero represents the
Speaker 1: age six plus pages of babies that will not see
Speaker 1: their first birthday. They're terrorists. So another report recently that
Speaker 1: said that largely the children that have survived are surviving
Speaker 1: through the grace of God right now suffering depression, suicidal ideation,
Speaker 1: mental health issues that we could not even comprehend because
Speaker 1: the amount of death and destruction that these little eyes
Speaker 1: and little hearts are taking in should not be the
Speaker 1: case for anyone's child. Do understand that? So it was
Speaker 1: hard for me today to muster the joy right that
Speaker 1: is needed to celebrate a birthday. That I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: and this is something that I really want folks to
Speaker 1: take in, is that what we need right now is
Speaker 1: more light. What we need right now is more healing.
Speaker 1: What we need right now is more joy in a
Speaker 1: world that is becoming hardened by the day. Softness is
Speaker 1: resistance in a world that is becoming more hateful and
Speaker 1: toxic by the day. Joy and self care is resistance
Speaker 1: because what a pressors want is for us to believe
Speaker 1: that there are no avenues out. They want us to
Speaker 1: exist in a place of hopelessness, grief, and devastation because
Speaker 1: you know what that creates, as Belle Hooks has said, paralysis,
Speaker 1: and that paralysis that inability to think outside of ourselves,
Speaker 1: the inability to imagine and to dream for bigger and
Speaker 1: better worlds, not just to be anti something, to resist
Speaker 1: what is happening, but to dream about something that is better.
Speaker 1: That requires us to be in a space of hopefulness.
Speaker 1: How do you get there? When you find yourself in
Speaker 1: tears on a regular basis. You get there by healing
Speaker 1: your own wounds. You get there by tending to what
Speaker 1: is broken inside of you. You see what we are
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm going to continue to save this
Speaker 1: on this show is a bunch of wounded souls walking
Speaker 1: around harming each other because we haven't found a way
Speaker 1: to excavate and heal what hurts us. Right, we live
Speaker 1: inside of this system of greed and dominance and oppression
Speaker 1: and domination right like it is. Oh, I can't possibly
Speaker 1: provide these people with self determination and liberation. They said
Speaker 1: that about enslaved Africans, because then they will turn around
Speaker 1: and do to me what I've done to them. Except
Speaker 1: all of us don't operate that way from a place
Speaker 1: of deprivacy, which is exactly where the roots of slavery were.
Speaker 1: When you get to break apart people's humanity and justify
Speaker 1: right by calling them animals, by saying that they need
Speaker 1: to be broken, that their bodies are only good for work,
Speaker 1: and when that work is done, when they can no
Speaker 1: longer do that, than they are disposable. You see the
Speaker 1: language that I'm using. That is a language that was
Speaker 1: used to continue to enforce the abomination that we know
Speaker 1: as slavery for centuries. It's a similar language that we
Speaker 1: are hearing from our own representatives in this country and
Speaker 1: NETANYAHUO in Israel when he is referring to the Palestinian people,
Speaker 1: they're terrorists. We got a level gaza. There are no
Speaker 1: civilians there, They're all hamas. What. Let me make it
Speaker 1: very clear that if all Americans are not Maga, if
Speaker 1: all white Americans are not aligned with Donald Trump and Maga, racist, misogynist,
Speaker 1: stick antih Islam, anti black, anti trans, if all white
Speaker 1: people cannot be lumped into that bucket, then tell me
Speaker 1: how you lump in all Palestinians into one bucket. We
Speaker 1: have to be better, and we have to ask ourselves
Speaker 1: who benefits from our miseducation, Who benefits from our ignorance,
Speaker 1: our complacency, our powerlessness, Who benefits from stoking the flames
Speaker 1: of hatred? Because you see, folks, there are always people
Speaker 1: groups that benefit from that. We have got to ask
Speaker 1: the questions and we have to tend to ourselves because
Speaker 1: the pain that we are experiencing. Whether or not you
Speaker 1: are a person of Jewish faith, whether or not you
Speaker 1: are a person of Muslim faith, whether or not you
Speaker 1: are trans, whether or not you are black, whether or
Speaker 1: not you are disabled. The grief and trauma that we
Speaker 1: are experiencing is real, and it has been for years now,
Speaker 1: and so I know from firsthand experience how hard it
Speaker 1: is to muster joy. But it requires intentionality, it requires focus.
Speaker 1: You see, Hollywood folks has lied to us, been making
Speaker 1: us believe that happiness right is just something that floats
Speaker 1: apparently on a bubble boop. We get bopped and then
Speaker 1: we're just happy. No, the world is fucking hard, and
Speaker 1: social media and the ability to see war and how
Speaker 1: it ravages bodies, communities in real time has made it
Speaker 1: even harder. So the need to double down, triple down
Speaker 1: on what makes helps us find our joy on a
Speaker 1: daily basis is important not just for us individually, but
Speaker 1: you see, when you move from the individual and we
Speaker 1: start to grow that light out, we see how much
Speaker 1: more in common we have than what separates us. We're
Speaker 1: able to move and think in a different way and
Speaker 1: move from a place of possibility. It is so necessary,
Speaker 1: so very necessary for us to get a hold of
Speaker 1: our own minds, bodies, spirits right now because the opposition
Speaker 1: is hoping and praying that we will just sit down
Speaker 1: and not have the strength, the passion or the conviction
Speaker 1: to get back up. We cannot let that be the case.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, with a few minutes that I have left,
Speaker 1: I want to applaud the voters that showed out across
Speaker 1: this country, particularly in places like Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, that
Speaker 1: had their voices heard. Let me tell you that Democrats
Speaker 1: for far too long have counted out red states. Just
Speaker 1: let that be Republican will won't invest anything. And what
Speaker 1: Kentucky showed us with the reelection of Governor Basher, a
Speaker 1: Democrat that won one county by fifty three percentage points
Speaker 1: that went to Trump by more than sixty and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty is that when you tell people the fucking truth, right,
Speaker 1: when you align yourself with what they want, which is
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, liberty, right, the ability to afford a quality
Speaker 1: of life, they vote, They come out for you. Since
Speaker 1: the DOABS decision, we've seen that when abortion is put
Speaker 1: on the ballot, Republicans lose. They overstepped their bounds, they
Speaker 1: overplayed their fucking hand. So for all the years the
Speaker 1: Democrats wouldn't talk about abortion, wouldn't bring it up. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they'll put it, you know, in their bios. They'll say
Speaker 1: that they're pro choice, then won't utter the word. It's
Speaker 1: a winning fucking issue. You know why, because people with
Speaker 1: uteruses want the ability to decide when, how, and if
Speaker 1: they have a family. And when you say brazen lye
Speaker 1: out loud as Republicans have that you want to strip
Speaker 1: away that right, guess what it gets, folks activated. Look
Speaker 1: at Virginia. Glenn Youngkin was not only gonna get ready
Speaker 1: to institute a fifteen week abortion band in Virginia. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that's where motherfucker was going to and
Speaker 1: now it's his run for the presidency. And so not
Speaker 1: only did Virginia voters come out and say oh hell no,
Speaker 1: not only did they hold on to the Senate, they
Speaker 1: flipped the House. So now that that's wherein Maga lovin
Speaker 1: piece of shit doesn't have the power and the ability
Speaker 1: to introduce said ban. So it is important for folks
Speaker 1: to remember that so long as we continue to elect
Speaker 1: people that actually believe in the Constitution and the rule
Speaker 1: of law, our rights will be protected and expanded upon. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to make something very clear as I come
Speaker 1: to a close today on my good, good birthday, which
Speaker 1: is this. I love this country, and as Baldwin said,
Speaker 1: I love this country so much I have the right
Speaker 1: to criticize it. I love democracy because it gives us
Speaker 1: the ability to speak out on the things that matter
Speaker 1: to us. I do not agree with this president's current
Speaker 1: position in Israel and Palestine. I don't agree with sending
Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars to fund war, but as
Speaker 1: Tupac said, can't feed the poor. I do not believe
Speaker 1: and support this president's decision to go to Israel and
Speaker 1: hug Net and Yahoo a man who does not believe
Speaker 1: in democracy. You can say all the fuck you want
Speaker 1: that you're the only democracy in the Middle East. But
Speaker 1: I don't know a democracy that has two sets of
Speaker 1: license plates for its citizens and that denies some access
Speaker 1: to Rhodes and others are free to move. That's not democracy.
Speaker 1: That's Jim Crow. And that's why people are marching, because
Speaker 1: they're starting to wake up and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not a foreign affairs expert, but I sure as
Speaker 1: fuck know right from wrong. And this seems eerily familiar,
Speaker 1: particularly if you are an American particularly if you are
Speaker 1: a black American, because they will always come for you next.
Speaker 1: But what that doesn't state is this, Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: our nominee for president for twenty twenty four And if
Speaker 1: you think for one fucking second that I am going
Speaker 1: to sit out this election or that I will not
Speaker 1: vote for that man because he is at the top
Speaker 1: of our ticket, you are tripping'. And if you think
Speaker 1: for a second that you are not going to vote
Speaker 1: for him and you're gonna sit this out or vote
Speaker 1: for an independent right, let me remind you of what
Speaker 1: the fuck happened in twenty sixteen. Thank you Jill Stein
Speaker 1: and those with their protest vote. The consequences are too great.
Speaker 1: Situations are too dire for us to gamble with our
Speaker 1: future and the future of democracy. So don't do it.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke
Speaker 1: af AS always, power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.