Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to look app Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl. Daniel Moody back recording from the Home Bunker, folks.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to all of you.
Speaker 1: I hope that you were able to get some much
Speaker 1: needed rest, restoration, relaxation, joy over the holiday break. I
Speaker 1: hope that you were able to take a break over
Speaker 1: the holiday as I am so grateful that I was
Speaker 1: able to do so. And I hope that you enjoyed
Speaker 1: the shows that we had pre recorded and left for you.
Speaker 1: That I am happy to be back, well, let me
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm happy to be back in conversation with
Speaker 1: you all. I'm not happy to be back in the
Speaker 1: news cycle. Let me start off by just sharing some
Speaker 1: personal news which has really colored my perspective as of late.
Speaker 1: A really good friend of mine, a very dear friend
Speaker 1: who if you have been listening to my show throughout
Speaker 1: the years, Rissy kat Iabo Okaday, passed away from cancer.
Speaker 1: And she was young and an amazing and beautiful friend
Speaker 1: that I was very fortunate to have in my life
Speaker 1: for over a decade and I am still very much
Speaker 1: reeling from the grief of that loss. Why do I
Speaker 1: bring that up for all of you, because what I
Speaker 1: have experienced personally and what we are seeing just on
Speaker 1: such a hat eclysmic stage, is that life is really
Speaker 1: fucking fleeting, right, whether it is lost through disease, through accident,
Speaker 1: through war, We're not promised time. And I think that
Speaker 1: what reorients us during death, whether it is individual or
Speaker 1: in mass like we are experiencing in Gaza, is a
Speaker 1: sense of real instability, real shake up, but also like
Speaker 1: a reorienting around what is exactly what exactly is important? Right?
Speaker 1: And what I can tell you all is that I
Speaker 1: am in a place of struggle, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: very honest about that. I am in a place of
Speaker 1: struggle in terms of reconciling the absolute fucking bullshit that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing with you know, Republicans, let me impeach this
Speaker 1: person and force this person to resign. And you know
Speaker 1: how very wealthy white conservatives are so fucking aggrieved that
Speaker 1: they can't have open conversation or people of color in
Speaker 1: any positions of power. So they will force them out right.
Speaker 1: They will do away with diversity, equity and inclusion. They
Speaker 1: will come out as the Lulaman founder did and say,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want certain people in our stores,
Speaker 1: and just this depravity, right, this fucking greed, this gross
Speaker 1: sense of entitlement, and the purposeful miseducation under education of people,
Speaker 1: and the celebration of ignorance, of violence and of lives.
Speaker 1: And when I lost my friend who spent her life
Speaker 1: in so many different facets as an African American studies professor,
Speaker 1: as an English professor, as a cultural architect, managing many
Speaker 1: different artists and DJs and just musicians and brilliant Black
Speaker 1: creatives that she was, and just putting out beauty and
Speaker 1: creating community, right, particularly for black people, because we know
Speaker 1: that anytime that Black people have found themselves throughout history
Speaker 1: trying to create community, advocate, build, you know, white supremacy
Speaker 1: destroys it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And so when I'm looking at these people now who
Speaker 1: find themselves in a space of being so fucking aggrieved,
Speaker 1: why because you didn't build the skills necessary in order
Speaker 1: to compete, and everyone else who didn't have a clear
Speaker 1: pathway have more skills than you do, that you look
Speaker 1: for any little bit of flaw, as they did with
Speaker 1: Claudine Gay, to say, oh, well, there's plagiarism in a
Speaker 1: fucking thesis that wasn't like a bound book to go
Speaker 1: out for publishing. So we're fucking serious here. It's like
Speaker 1: every time that people from marginalized communities learn the game,
Speaker 1: win at the game, they fucking changed the rules. And
Speaker 1: what I have found is that I'm just exhausted, right
Speaker 1: Like I'm exhausted by it all. I'm just emotionally spent,
Speaker 1: right like I am tired of trying to find ways
Speaker 1: to wake up people's consciousness, to wake people up to
Speaker 1: their power, right to want to find ways in your
Speaker 1: lives to resist against oppressive forces. I'm tired, right And
Speaker 1: when I look around and I see that my friend
Speaker 1: is now gone at the age of fifty one, I
Speaker 1: think to myself, how do I want to spend my
Speaker 1: time and my days. It's sure as fuck is not
Speaker 1: banging my head against the wall, stuck inside of a
Speaker 1: system that I've entered into twenty some odd years ago
Speaker 1: because I wanted to be a change maker, because I
Speaker 1: wanted to help government, this antiquated system of government that
Speaker 1: was never built for people like me, like many of
Speaker 1: you listening. I wanted to help expand opportunities, expand the table,
Speaker 1: create room in this multiracial democracy, and I got to
Speaker 1: tell you that, you know, I was naive because I
Speaker 1: believe that everything was just about moving forward, that we
Speaker 1: would never in a million years find ourselves just hanging
Speaker 1: on for dear life.
Speaker 2: You see, I.
Speaker 1: Come back and in one no cycle shooting, high school shooting,
Speaker 1: Supreme Court allowing for there to be one of the
Speaker 1: most egregious abortion band laws to take effect, disallowing right
Speaker 1: for doctors to perform abortions in the case of an emergency.
Speaker 1: This was never about life because you're willing to kill
Speaker 1: women because the Republican Party only sees people with uteruses
Speaker 1: as fucking incubators right for their future maca supremacy clan.
Speaker 1: That's what they give a fuck about. They don't care
Speaker 1: about women. They don't even care about their own white women. Right.
Speaker 1: This is what I tell white women all the time
Speaker 1: who are linked up with their white conservative husbands and
Speaker 1: boyfriends and fathers, right, is what the fuck up? Your
Speaker 1: proximity to their perceived power is not going to save you.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they are put you on
Speaker 1: the butcher block. They're having you weight out in parking lots.
Speaker 1: They see you as nothing more right than being an
Speaker 1: incubator for their MAGA movement because you see it when white, straight,
Speaker 1: cisc Christian fascist men here that demographics are shifting, what
Speaker 1: comes up for them is that we need.
Speaker 2: To have more of us. How do you have more
Speaker 2: of us?
Speaker 1: Well, especially when you have created an economic climate that
Speaker 1: doesn't actually you know, worried people wanting to have more kids,
Speaker 1: or people being able to afford houses or do any
Speaker 1: of these types of things. And why is that. It's
Speaker 1: not because of Joe Biden's policies. It's because of the
Speaker 1: ways that Republicans, particularly the last president, provided more tax
Speaker 1: cuts to the fucking wealthy so that they can hoard
Speaker 1: power and wealth at the top. So, when you've created
Speaker 1: the economic conditions for a scarcity mindset, and then you
Speaker 1: think that what people, women in particular, are gonna just
Speaker 1: have a bunch of babies. No, you have to find
Speaker 1: a way to force them to do so. So you
Speaker 1: overturn Roe v.
Speaker 2: Wade.
Speaker 1: This has been about doing a killing two birds with
Speaker 1: one stone. Right, you can criminalize abortion and put a
Speaker 1: bunch of black and brown women away. The wealthy white
Speaker 1: ones for the time being will be able to fly
Speaker 1: to New York or to other abortions sanctuary places until right,
Speaker 1: the Republicans take control of the executive branch in this
Speaker 1: next election and win back the White House and the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate, and then there will be no
Speaker 1: safe space for women or people with uteruses in this country.
Speaker 1: But on one hand, they get to criminalize black and
Speaker 1: brown women and throw them in jail, which they just
Speaker 1: did in Ohio, right, and then on the other hand
Speaker 1: they get to kill a bunch of women and then
Speaker 1: the other ones they force into motherhood. Folks, when you
Speaker 1: look at everything as I have to on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I'm like, fuck it. You know,
Speaker 1: it isn't about taking a vacation to be honest, right,
Speaker 1: because there is no amount of vacation that is going
Speaker 1: to provide me with the energy and the clarity that
Speaker 1: is necessary to move forward over the next ten months. Like,
Speaker 1: we are in a bad place and I can't lie
Speaker 1: to you and say like, oh, things will get better.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is vote. Yeah, voting is important.
Speaker 1: But also I understand that there are people that don't
Speaker 1: want to vote for Joe Biden. Why because he's aiding
Speaker 1: in a bedding Right, the murder, the mass murder of
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people in Gaza, tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of Palestinians. How do you justify that? How do you
Speaker 1: come out and say that you're fighting for American democracy
Speaker 1: while you are funding murder? I don't fucking know, folks,
Speaker 1: the mental gymnastics that I am being forced to do
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, I can't justify this shit. So
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm going to do. Right, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to justify what I know in my heart and
Speaker 1: all of you that listen to me know is absolutely
Speaker 1: and fundamentally wrong. The only thing that I can say
Speaker 1: in this moment in time is that as bad as
Speaker 1: things are, I want you to understand that they can
Speaker 1: always get fucking worse. Right, we're looking at the overturning
Speaker 1: not only of affirmative action check Roe v. Wade, Check right?
Speaker 1: What about Brown versus the Board of Education? Because they
Speaker 1: completely want to defund education anyway. So what will be
Speaker 1: left behind will be the wealthy whites that can afford
Speaker 1: to put their kids in private school and get private tutors,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about their education. You
Speaker 1: just have to worry about the ninety percent that they
Speaker 1: want to force. Right, into an economic cast system that
Speaker 1: they'll never be able to move out of because education
Speaker 1: has always been the way that people do that. So
Speaker 1: if we go a head, right and we say that, well,
Speaker 1: Brown versus the Board of Education was really going against parents' rights,
Speaker 1: you think that this sixty three court isn't going to
Speaker 1: overturn it.
Speaker 2: Think about consumer.
Speaker 1: Protection laws that have happened, right, you think that they
Speaker 1: won't overturn those? What about Obamacare? What about the ability
Speaker 1: folks to absolutely and totally decide not to hire people
Speaker 1: because you don't like them, because you don't like the
Speaker 1: way they look, because you're uncomfortable. Right, again, these are
Speaker 1: all things that prior to a number of court cases
Speaker 1: over the last sixty years, have fundamentally changed our society
Speaker 1: and created more access and more opportunity to black people,
Speaker 1: to people of color, to women, to queer people, right
Speaker 1: to people of different religious affiliations. We're looking at sixty
Speaker 1: years right where rapid progress took place, and in oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, in eight they have rolled back a
Speaker 1: number of them that will completely and totally change the
Speaker 1: direction of this country. So I can't tell you, folks
Speaker 1: that Biden is your guy or to be enthusiastic and
Speaker 1: jump up and down. What I can say is that
Speaker 1: as bad as things are, they can absolutely get worse,
Speaker 1: with absolutely no hope whatsoever of being able to turn
Speaker 1: it around. Not in your lifetime and not in your
Speaker 1: child's lifetime. That's what I can say. And for those
Speaker 1: people that will tell me to stop fearmongering, and why
Speaker 1: don't I go do this? And why do I go
Speaker 1: do that? Go with God. I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: If your mind is already made up, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to convince you. But if you, like me, are lacking
Speaker 1: the energy and the enthusiasm it takes right now to
Speaker 1: want to fight for this country that you are seeing
Speaker 1: go down the tubes, just know you are not alone.
Speaker 1: I came back from break. I turned on the news
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes on my first day back, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw my remote control through the fucking screen.
Speaker 1: I wanted to pack my bags, circle a fucking country
Speaker 1: on the globe and pack and get the fuck out
Speaker 1: of here, because what's in front of us honestly seems insurmountable.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bullshit you.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna tell you it's gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you that everything is gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: going to be convicted before any of this happens, because
Speaker 1: I don't believe any of that to be true. I
Speaker 1: believe that if, by the grace of fucking God and
Speaker 1: the universe, Biden is able to squeak out a fucking win,
Speaker 1: that will absolutely be adjudicated a thousand fucking times, because
Speaker 1: the only election that those motherfuckers will believe in is
Speaker 1: the one that Donald Trump wins. That if, by the
Speaker 1: grace of fucking God, we are able to hold on
Speaker 1: to democracy, then we can talk about what is next.
Speaker 1: But also know that by the time that we get
Speaker 1: to November, there may be a million fucking people in
Speaker 1: Gaza that are dead. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about that. It makes
Speaker 1: me sick to my fucking stomach.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am struggling as a human being to rationalize any
Speaker 1: of the fucking madness that is going on, any of it.
Speaker 1: All I keep telling myself is that Donald Trump becomes president,
Speaker 1: I am gone off the air because I am not
Speaker 1: going to continue. I will tell you this right now,
Speaker 1: right like, because I've been wondering, I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: ask myself this question. I've been reflecting, I've been journaling,
Speaker 1: I've been meditating and praying. I will do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to get myself and my family out of this country.
Speaker 1: This country will not be safe, and nor is any
Speaker 1: worse safe. Right people say safety is an illusion, blah
Speaker 1: blahlah blah, But I can tell you that the illusion
Speaker 1: has worked for many of us for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Why because we're still here. Do I know that every
Speaker 1: time that there is a hashtag a person that has
Speaker 1: turned into a hashtag because they had a phone that
Speaker 1: the cop thought was a gun, or they were eleven
Speaker 1: in playing but the cop thought there were twenty one
Speaker 1: and killed them, or you know any of those things.
Speaker 1: Do I know how fucking dangerous this country is for
Speaker 1: black people, for queer people, for anybody that is not white,
Speaker 1: siss straight and Christian fascists? Yes, I do absolutely fucking
Speaker 1: know that, and I also know that it will get
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand times worse. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be willing to stay here on the front lines.
Speaker 2: No, I am not. So we have ten months.
Speaker 1: We have ten months to decide if twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is going to be our last selection.
Speaker 2: You have ten months to decide.
Speaker 1: If you have kids, if you have grandkids, if you
Speaker 1: have you know, cousins, nieces, nephews, right, if you're voting
Speaker 1: for their future, right, their possibility, or you're voting against it,
Speaker 1: or not voting at all, or voting third party, which
Speaker 1: might as well be voting against it. I am not
Speaker 1: telling you to vote for Joe Biden. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: to vote for your safety, for yourself, right.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. So you know, it is.
Speaker 1: Day ten of this new year, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you that I'm absolutely grateful for you all that continue
Speaker 1: to rock with me, you know, shout out to my
Speaker 1: patrons that continue to support me. What I will say
Speaker 1: as a way to put out more joy into the
Speaker 1: world is that I am reworking the tears at Patreon
Speaker 1: to offer you more ways to build community with me
Speaker 1: and with each other. So that information will be coming
Speaker 1: out in the next couple of weeks. I'm also working
Speaker 1: on merchandise. I know it's a long time overdue. T shirts, toats,
Speaker 1: you know, all of that type of stuff. Let me
Speaker 1: know what you guys would like to see. If you're
Speaker 1: on Patreon and watching this video, let me know in
Speaker 1: the comment section. Otherwise, hit me up on threads on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But that will be coming out because folks, you know,
Speaker 1: community matters, taking care of each other matters, and I
Speaker 1: just don't want to be the consistent bearer of bad news.
Speaker 1: I also want to offer you food for thought. I
Speaker 1: also want to offer you moments of joy and reflection.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be the rage machine. It's
Speaker 1: not good for me and it's not good for you.
Speaker 1: So you know we will get through these months together,
Speaker 1: and it will not be easy, right, and so I'm
Speaker 1: going to find ways to also make it joyful. I
Speaker 1: am also finishing a book proposal this month, and you know,
Speaker 1: God willing, this time next year, you will be cracking
Speaker 1: open a book with my name on it. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that. Hold fast to your joy, create moments
Speaker 1: of ease, love each other right because the time that
Speaker 1: you have very short, very very short. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends, on woke a f as
Speaker 1: always Power to the people and to all the people.
Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.