1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to look app Daily with 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl. Daniel Moody back recording from the Home Bunker, folks. 3 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: Happy New Year to all of you. 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: I hope that you were able to get some much 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: needed rest, restoration, relaxation, joy over the holiday break. I 6 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: hope that you were able to take a break over 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: the holiday as I am so grateful that I was 8 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: able to do so. And I hope that you enjoyed 9 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: the shows that we had pre recorded and left for you. 10 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: That I am happy to be back, well, let me 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: be honest, I'm happy to be back in conversation with 12 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: you all. I'm not happy to be back in the 13 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: news cycle. Let me start off by just sharing some 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: personal news which has really colored my perspective as of late. 15 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: A really good friend of mine, a very dear friend 16 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: who if you have been listening to my show throughout 17 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: the years, Rissy kat Iabo Okaday, passed away from cancer. 18 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: And she was young and an amazing and beautiful friend 19 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: that I was very fortunate to have in my life 20 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: for over a decade and I am still very much 21 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: reeling from the grief of that loss. Why do I 22 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: bring that up for all of you, because what I 23 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: have experienced personally and what we are seeing just on 24 00:01:53,240 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: such a hat eclysmic stage, is that life is really 25 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: fucking fleeting, right, whether it is lost through disease, through accident, 26 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: through war, We're not promised time. And I think that 27 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: what reorients us during death, whether it is individual or 28 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: in mass like we are experiencing in Gaza, is a 29 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: sense of real instability, real shake up, but also like 30 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: a reorienting around what is exactly what exactly is important? Right? 31 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: And what I can tell you all is that I 32 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: am in a place of struggle, and I'm gonna be 33 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: very honest about that. I am in a place of 34 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: struggle in terms of reconciling the absolute fucking bullshit that 35 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: I'm seeing with you know, Republicans, let me impeach this 36 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: person and force this person to resign. And you know 37 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: how very wealthy white conservatives are so fucking aggrieved that 38 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: they can't have open conversation or people of color in 39 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: any positions of power. So they will force them out right. 40 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: They will do away with diversity, equity and inclusion. They 41 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: will come out as the Lulaman founder did and say, 42 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: you know, we don't want certain people in our stores, 43 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: and just this depravity, right, this fucking greed, this gross 44 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: sense of entitlement, and the purposeful miseducation under education of people, 45 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: and the celebration of ignorance, of violence and of lives. 46 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: And when I lost my friend who spent her life 47 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: in so many different facets as an African American studies professor, 48 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: as an English professor, as a cultural architect, managing many 49 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: different artists and DJs and just musicians and brilliant Black 50 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: creatives that she was, and just putting out beauty and 51 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: creating community, right, particularly for black people, because we know 52 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: that anytime that Black people have found themselves throughout history 53 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: trying to create community, advocate, build, you know, white supremacy 54 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: destroys it. 55 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: Right. 56 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: And so when I'm looking at these people now who 57 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: find themselves in a space of being so fucking aggrieved, 58 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: why because you didn't build the skills necessary in order 59 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,119 Speaker 1: to compete, and everyone else who didn't have a clear 60 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: pathway have more skills than you do, that you look 61 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: for any little bit of flaw, as they did with 62 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: Claudine Gay, to say, oh, well, there's plagiarism in a 63 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: fucking thesis that wasn't like a bound book to go 64 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: out for publishing. So we're fucking serious here. It's like 65 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: every time that people from marginalized communities learn the game, 66 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: win at the game, they fucking changed the rules. And 67 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: what I have found is that I'm just exhausted, right 68 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: Like I'm exhausted by it all. I'm just emotionally spent, 69 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: right like I am tired of trying to find ways 70 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: to wake up people's consciousness, to wake people up to 71 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: their power, right to want to find ways in your 72 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: lives to resist against oppressive forces. I'm tired, right And 73 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,679 Speaker 1: when I look around and I see that my friend 74 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: is now gone at the age of fifty one, I 75 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: think to myself, how do I want to spend my 76 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: time and my days. It's sure as fuck is not 77 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: banging my head against the wall, stuck inside of a 78 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: system that I've entered into twenty some odd years ago 79 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: because I wanted to be a change maker, because I 80 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: wanted to help government, this antiquated system of government that 81 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: was never built for people like me, like many of 82 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: you listening. I wanted to help expand opportunities, expand the table, 83 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: create room in this multiracial democracy, and I got to 84 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: tell you that, you know, I was naive because I 85 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: believe that everything was just about moving forward, that we 86 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: would never in a million years find ourselves just hanging 87 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: on for dear life. 88 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 2: You see, I. 89 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: Come back and in one no cycle shooting, high school shooting, 90 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: Supreme Court allowing for there to be one of the 91 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: most egregious abortion band laws to take effect, disallowing right 92 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: for doctors to perform abortions in the case of an emergency. 93 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: This was never about life because you're willing to kill 94 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: women because the Republican Party only sees people with uteruses 95 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: as fucking incubators right for their future maca supremacy clan. 96 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: That's what they give a fuck about. They don't care 97 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: about women. They don't even care about their own white women. Right. 98 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: This is what I tell white women all the time 99 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: who are linked up with their white conservative husbands and 100 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: boyfriends and fathers, right, is what the fuck up? Your 101 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: proximity to their perceived power is not going to save you. 102 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they are put you on 103 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: the butcher block. They're having you weight out in parking lots. 104 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: They see you as nothing more right than being an 105 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: incubator for their MAGA movement because you see it when white, straight, 106 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: cisc Christian fascist men here that demographics are shifting, what 107 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: comes up for them is that we need. 108 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 2: To have more of us. How do you have more 109 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: of us? 110 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: Well, especially when you have created an economic climate that 111 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: doesn't actually you know, worried people wanting to have more kids, 112 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: or people being able to afford houses or do any 113 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: of these types of things. And why is that. It's 114 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: not because of Joe Biden's policies. It's because of the 115 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 1: ways that Republicans, particularly the last president, provided more tax 116 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: cuts to the fucking wealthy so that they can hoard 117 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: power and wealth at the top. So, when you've created 118 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: the economic conditions for a scarcity mindset, and then you 119 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: think that what people, women in particular, are gonna just 120 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: have a bunch of babies. No, you have to find 121 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: a way to force them to do so. So you 122 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: overturn Roe v. 123 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: Wade. 124 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: This has been about doing a killing two birds with 125 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: one stone. Right, you can criminalize abortion and put a 126 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: bunch of black and brown women away. The wealthy white 127 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: ones for the time being will be able to fly 128 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: to New York or to other abortions sanctuary places until right, 129 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: the Republicans take control of the executive branch in this 130 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: next election and win back the White House and the 131 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: House and the Senate, and then there will be no 132 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: safe space for women or people with uteruses in this country. 133 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: But on one hand, they get to criminalize black and 134 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: brown women and throw them in jail, which they just 135 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: did in Ohio, right, and then on the other hand 136 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: they get to kill a bunch of women and then 137 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: the other ones they force into motherhood. Folks, when you 138 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: look at everything as I have to on a daily basis, 139 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I'm like, fuck it. You know, 140 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: it isn't about taking a vacation to be honest, right, 141 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: because there is no amount of vacation that is going 142 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: to provide me with the energy and the clarity that 143 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: is necessary to move forward over the next ten months. Like, 144 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: we are in a bad place and I can't lie 145 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: to you and say like, oh, things will get better. 146 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: All you have to do is vote. Yeah, voting is important. 147 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: But also I understand that there are people that don't 148 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: want to vote for Joe Biden. Why because he's aiding 149 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: in a bedding Right, the murder, the mass murder of 150 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people in Gaza, tens of thousands 151 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: of Palestinians. How do you justify that? How do you 152 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: come out and say that you're fighting for American democracy 153 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: while you are funding murder? I don't fucking know, folks, 154 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: the mental gymnastics that I am being forced to do 155 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: on a regular basis, I can't justify this shit. So 156 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: that's not what I'm going to do. Right, I'm not 157 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: going to justify what I know in my heart and 158 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: all of you that listen to me know is absolutely 159 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: and fundamentally wrong. The only thing that I can say 160 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,719 Speaker 1: in this moment in time is that as bad as 161 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: things are, I want you to understand that they can 162 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: always get fucking worse. Right, we're looking at the overturning 163 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: not only of affirmative action check Roe v. Wade, Check right? 164 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: What about Brown versus the Board of Education? Because they 165 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: completely want to defund education anyway. So what will be 166 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: left behind will be the wealthy whites that can afford 167 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: to put their kids in private school and get private tutors, 168 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about their education. You 169 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: just have to worry about the ninety percent that they 170 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: want to force. Right, into an economic cast system that 171 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: they'll never be able to move out of because education 172 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: has always been the way that people do that. So 173 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: if we go a head, right and we say that, well, 174 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 1: Brown versus the Board of Education was really going against parents' rights, 175 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: you think that this sixty three court isn't going to 176 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: overturn it. 177 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: Think about consumer. 178 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 1: Protection laws that have happened, right, you think that they 179 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: won't overturn those? What about Obamacare? What about the ability 180 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: folks to absolutely and totally decide not to hire people 181 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: because you don't like them, because you don't like the 182 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: way they look, because you're uncomfortable. Right, again, these are 183 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: all things that prior to a number of court cases 184 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: over the last sixty years, have fundamentally changed our society 185 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: and created more access and more opportunity to black people, 186 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: to people of color, to women, to queer people, right 187 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 1: to people of different religious affiliations. We're looking at sixty 188 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: years right where rapid progress took place, and in oh, 189 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, in eight they have rolled back a 190 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: number of them that will completely and totally change the 191 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: direction of this country. So I can't tell you, folks 192 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: that Biden is your guy or to be enthusiastic and 193 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: jump up and down. What I can say is that 194 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: as bad as things are, they can absolutely get worse, 195 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: with absolutely no hope whatsoever of being able to turn 196 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: it around. Not in your lifetime and not in your 197 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: child's lifetime. That's what I can say. And for those 198 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: people that will tell me to stop fearmongering, and why 199 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: don't I go do this? And why do I go 200 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: do that? Go with God. I don't give a fuck. 201 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: If your mind is already made up, I'm not trying 202 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: to convince you. But if you, like me, are lacking 203 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: the energy and the enthusiasm it takes right now to 204 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: want to fight for this country that you are seeing 205 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: go down the tubes, just know you are not alone. 206 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: I came back from break. I turned on the news 207 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: for thirty minutes on my first day back, and I 208 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: wanted to throw my remote control through the fucking screen. 209 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: I wanted to pack my bags, circle a fucking country 210 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: on the globe and pack and get the fuck out 211 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: of here, because what's in front of us honestly seems insurmountable. 212 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bullshit you. 213 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna tell you it's gonna be easy. 214 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you that everything is gonna be okay. 215 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you that Donald Trump is 216 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: going to be convicted before any of this happens, because 217 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: I don't believe any of that to be true. I 218 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: believe that if, by the grace of fucking God and 219 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: the universe, Biden is able to squeak out a fucking win, 220 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: that will absolutely be adjudicated a thousand fucking times, because 221 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: the only election that those motherfuckers will believe in is 222 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: the one that Donald Trump wins. That if, by the 223 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: grace of fucking God, we are able to hold on 224 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: to democracy, then we can talk about what is next. 225 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: But also know that by the time that we get 226 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: to November, there may be a million fucking people in 227 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: Gaza that are dead. I don't know what to say. 228 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about that. It makes 229 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: me sick to my fucking stomach. 230 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:23,959 Speaker 2: I don't know. 231 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: I am struggling as a human being to rationalize any 232 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: of the fucking madness that is going on, any of it. 233 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: All I keep telling myself is that Donald Trump becomes president, 234 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 1: I am gone off the air because I am not 235 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: going to continue. I will tell you this right now, 236 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,959 Speaker 1: right like, because I've been wondering, I've been wanting to 237 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: ask myself this question. I've been reflecting, I've been journaling, 238 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: I've been meditating and praying. I will do whatever it 239 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: takes to get myself and my family out of this country. 240 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: This country will not be safe, and nor is any 241 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: worse safe. Right people say safety is an illusion, blah 242 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: blahlah blah, But I can tell you that the illusion 243 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: has worked for many of us for quite some time. 244 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: Why because we're still here. Do I know that every 245 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,239 Speaker 1: time that there is a hashtag a person that has 246 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,959 Speaker 1: turned into a hashtag because they had a phone that 247 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: the cop thought was a gun, or they were eleven 248 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: in playing but the cop thought there were twenty one 249 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: and killed them, or you know any of those things. 250 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: Do I know how fucking dangerous this country is for 251 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: black people, for queer people, for anybody that is not white, 252 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: siss straight and Christian fascists? Yes, I do absolutely fucking 253 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: know that, and I also know that it will get 254 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand times worse. And I'm not 255 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: going to be willing to stay here on the front lines. 256 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 2: No, I am not. So we have ten months. 257 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: We have ten months to decide if twenty twenty four 258 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: is going to be our last selection. 259 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 2: You have ten months to decide. 260 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: If you have kids, if you have grandkids, if you 261 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: have you know, cousins, nieces, nephews, right, if you're voting 262 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: for their future, right, their possibility, or you're voting against it, 263 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: or not voting at all, or voting third party, which 264 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: might as well be voting against it. I am not 265 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: telling you to vote for Joe Biden. I'm telling you 266 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: to vote for your safety, for yourself, right. 267 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. So you know, it is. 268 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: Day ten of this new year, and I will tell 269 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: you that I'm absolutely grateful for you all that continue 270 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: to rock with me, you know, shout out to my 271 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: patrons that continue to support me. What I will say 272 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: as a way to put out more joy into the 273 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: world is that I am reworking the tears at Patreon 274 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: to offer you more ways to build community with me 275 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: and with each other. So that information will be coming 276 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: out in the next couple of weeks. I'm also working 277 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: on merchandise. I know it's a long time overdue. T shirts, toats, 278 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: you know, all of that type of stuff. Let me 279 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: know what you guys would like to see. If you're 280 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: on Patreon and watching this video, let me know in 281 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: the comment section. Otherwise, hit me up on threads on Instagram. 282 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: But that will be coming out because folks, you know, 283 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: community matters, taking care of each other matters, and I 284 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: just don't want to be the consistent bearer of bad news. 285 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 1: I also want to offer you food for thought. I 286 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: also want to offer you moments of joy and reflection. 287 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to just be the rage machine. It's 288 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 1: not good for me and it's not good for you. 289 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: So you know we will get through these months together, 290 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: and it will not be easy, right, and so I'm 291 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: going to find ways to also make it joyful. I 292 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: am also finishing a book proposal this month, and you know, 293 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: God willing, this time next year, you will be cracking 294 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,719 Speaker 1: open a book with my name on it. So I'm 295 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: excited about that. Hold fast to your joy, create moments 296 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: of ease, love each other right because the time that 297 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: you have very short, very very short. That is it 298 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends, on woke a f as 299 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: always Power to the people and to all the people. 300 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.