Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sin. Welcome to bokay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to bring to you a jam packed
Speaker 1: conversation our monthly conversation that we have with our friend
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain, and we get
Speaker 1: into mid terms, the monarchy and America's obsession. We talk
Speaker 1: about genocide and the fact that the monarchy not onlike
Speaker 1: the oath keepers, the three percenters and the Proud Boys
Speaker 1: are about fundamentally upholding white supremacy and what does it
Speaker 1: look like for having had a you know, seventy year
Speaker 1: reign of a monarch that was dressed up as femininity
Speaker 1: and fragility, right, and now that she has passed that
Speaker 1: there are countless nations who have been a part of
Speaker 1: the commonwealth that are saying, we want the monarch removed
Speaker 1: from our money, we want to be sovereign, we want
Speaker 1: to be removed from this commonwealth. And I think that
Speaker 1: this is a refrain that we are going to see
Speaker 1: as the ripple effects continue to happen with the passing
Speaker 1: of the Queen and frankly, you know more in depth
Speaker 1: conversation about what they actually ruled over and where all
Speaker 1: of their fucking wealth came from. So I get into
Speaker 1: this and much much more with our friend the Reverend
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson coming up next. Folks. You know that whenever
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to chat with our friend the
Speaker 1: Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain, I am
Speaker 1: always thrilled because we get to get in real deep
Speaker 1: about what it is that we think that the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is going to do. We're making the March fifty
Speaker 1: some odd days two midterms. Mark. First, sir, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? How have you been? I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: How about you? You know I've been hanging in there.
Speaker 1: I've been hanging in there. You know. I had my
Speaker 1: first bout of COVID after two years, two years of
Speaker 1: dodging it, two years of doing the my damnedest and
Speaker 1: the best that I could do. But thank God, my
Speaker 1: symptoms were mild. I got over it and now I
Speaker 1: feel partially invincible. I guess for the next for the
Speaker 1: next sixty days. UM, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Glad it wasn't so severe. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: all I kept thinking to myself and all I kept saying,
Speaker 1: was thank God for doctors, thank God for the vaccine.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of crazy to think that you
Speaker 1: have something inside of you that is killed over a
Speaker 1: million people, right, Um, And so that was kind of like,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a weird it's a weird feeling. It
Speaker 1: was a it was a jarring feeling. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for science and the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: it felt like to me a bad allergy attack or
Speaker 1: you know, or a cold. But I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about what we have seen. I guess your
Speaker 1: reflections first on the Biden administration summer, on the several
Speaker 1: wins that this administration has had. You and I have
Speaker 1: talked about this before that this administration was not until
Speaker 1: recently moving with the sense of urgency, having the conversations
Speaker 1: that they needed to have, And so what are your
Speaker 1: reflections on this past summer and also, more importantly President
Speaker 1: Biden's speech with regard to the soul of the Nation. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought the speech was actually pretty progressive for him.
Speaker 1: I even wondered whether or not you had helped to
Speaker 1: write the speech, you know, because it was something that
Speaker 1: was necessary. He was he was strong, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think that he was preaching to the choir. Although
Speaker 1: Hillary lost by about one hundred thousand votes spread across
Speaker 1: the three states, that's not a lot of people. So
Speaker 1: if his Soul of the Nation's speech, if the January
Speaker 1: sixth investigation, if the current DJ investigation about classified documents,
Speaker 1: if those can touch that handful of just those one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people, that can make a difference in election.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been talking to guests and one of
Speaker 1: the arguments has been, all, you know, people aren't going
Speaker 1: to change. People's minds are made up, and it may
Speaker 1: be true, but there I think there's obviously always going
Speaker 1: to be a small percentage of people whose minds are
Speaker 1: going to change and who going to be impacted. And
Speaker 1: we're seeing it already. Biden's approval numbers are going up.
Speaker 1: So that is having an effect, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that's just from the Soul of the Soul Nation speech
Speaker 1: was cool, but that went everything. I mean, we've been
Speaker 1: seeing the other things that have been taking place in
Speaker 1: the past few weeks. You know, inflation is still there,
Speaker 1: but it's it's coming down. Gas prices are coming down.
Speaker 1: All of these things are having an impact, and so
Speaker 1: I think the speech was good. I think some other
Speaker 1: things that have been happening are good, but I think
Speaker 1: the best, the thing that has been helping us more
Speaker 1: than any thing else has been the Republican response. The
Speaker 1: Dobb's decision has hurt them. You see republic look at
Speaker 1: in candidates scrubbing their support for the Job's decision, which
Speaker 1: reverse row scrubbing their support off of their websites. And
Speaker 1: then Lindsey Graham, I was wondering if you called him
Speaker 1: that was a gift, you're gonna in at this hour
Speaker 1: suggest a federal ban on abortion. So so this is
Speaker 1: this is happening, and I think that that's having an
Speaker 1: impact on that critical demographic. Unfortunately, black voters, black women
Speaker 1: voters aren't always alone the deciding factor in elections. In
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, it was suburban, college educated away women, and
Speaker 1: I think that some of them are getting it, and
Speaker 1: if they don't, there really is no hope we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out what this country have made of. You've lost,
Speaker 1: women have lost privacy, women have lost bodily autonomy, and
Speaker 1: there's more to come. And the only way to combat
Speaker 1: that is through with and through women voting in their
Speaker 1: best interests all women's best interests, not in the interests
Speaker 1: of anybody else, not in the interest of privileged white men,
Speaker 1: but in terms of restoring women's bodily autonomy. And I
Speaker 1: think that that happens. I think we're in good shape.
Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing that concerns me with regard
Speaker 1: to Lindsey Graham, right and the Senate Republicans, which is
Speaker 1: that it is clear to me. I mean, everyone you
Speaker 1: know has said, well, read the room. Clearly Republicans are
Speaker 1: not reading the room right now. You had the pushback
Speaker 1: in Kansas, you had the pushback in South Carolina, you
Speaker 1: had pushback, you know, in a number of states that
Speaker 1: we thought would be slam dunks, that they thought would
Speaker 1: be slam dunks for their anti abortion legislation. But my thing,
Speaker 1: mark is that they're not concerned because they're not trying
Speaker 1: to win anybody's votes, right Like, they are so underhanded
Speaker 1: in their maneuvering that they know that they don't have
Speaker 1: to win these people's votes. They're about stealing elections or
Speaker 1: calling fraud. And so my concern with Lindsay Graham is
Speaker 1: not so much that he is in reading the room,
Speaker 1: but that there's another strategy and plan that is in place, right,
Speaker 1: which is like, we are going to introduce this so
Speaker 1: that it's on the record and on the books, and
Speaker 1: then when the Senate flips over to Republican which may
Speaker 1: not be in this mid term because their candidates are trash,
Speaker 1: but it will be at some point that here it is,
Speaker 1: you know, on a silver platter, ready to go their
Speaker 1: national abortion band. So I want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the fact that Republicans for the last several decades
Speaker 1: haven't been trying to win anybody's votes. They haven't been
Speaker 1: trying to broaden their tent and so how do you
Speaker 1: battle against folks who are not interested? Didn't you in
Speaker 1: any which way? I mean, we saw what they did
Speaker 1: in Georgia, which is basically saying that, you know, the
Speaker 1: state legislature can overturn the will of the people because
Speaker 1: they want to. Yeah. No, that's a good point, and
Speaker 1: I wonder that too. What does Lindsey Graham know that
Speaker 1: we don't know? But you know, it's interesting even Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell didn't embrace what Lindsay Graham did. But you're right,
Speaker 1: there's a level of suppression. I've spoken with the Legal
Speaker 1: Defense Fund. There are a lot of fights and battles
Speaker 1: underway to prevent suppression, but the biggest defeat of suppression
Speaker 1: is turnout. I think Lindsay and others are probably still
Speaker 1: banking on us not turning out, on our constituencies having
Speaker 1: a low turnout, which is typical for the mid terms.
Speaker 1: Frank Frankly, that's the history of the mid terms. So
Speaker 1: then the question becomes what will what will happen? But
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be turned it. I think young
Speaker 1: women are registering in record numbers. People are going to
Speaker 1: turn out because they are seeing. You know, we were
Speaker 1: chicken little. We kept saying the sky is falling in
Speaker 1: terms of row and nobody believed it. Now they believed
Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton was the biggest chicken little of all
Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to hear that, and they turned her
Speaker 1: out and she was right. And all of us who
Speaker 1: were saying this was going to happen, we're right. We
Speaker 1: people just could not believe that this would happen, and
Speaker 1: it in fact has happened. So you're right. I think
Speaker 1: they do have some tricks up their sleeve. We know
Speaker 1: we have a Supreme Court case upcoming that will potentially
Speaker 1: empower the state legislatures to do even more to undermine
Speaker 1: federal elections and put that in the power of these
Speaker 1: gerrymandered state legislatures. We've got to fight against that. That's why,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of us voted for Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: That was the only thing we need to vote for.
Speaker 1: But we got to get back in the habit if
Speaker 1: we if we ever were in the habit, we've got
Speaker 1: to get back in the habit of electing rather voting
Speaker 1: at the state level, because look at look at rowe.
Speaker 1: Even McConnell said, in reaction to Lindsey Graham stip the states,
Speaker 1: and even he said that, so folks voting in these
Speaker 1: state elections is very very important. Um. And this is
Speaker 1: this is where rubber Hits wrote, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to talk for a minute to um speaking of these Republicans.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, it didn't make mainstream news,
Speaker 1: but a couple of weeks ago, thirty thousand names of
Speaker 1: the members of the oath Keepers were lead. The Anti
Speaker 1: Defamation League had them, has them up on their website.
Speaker 1: It was filled with if I am remembering correctly, Mark
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy active law enforcement including sheriffs, one
Speaker 1: hundred active military personnel, eighty either current or running for
Speaker 1: public office officials that were on this lift. This to
Speaker 1: me was a big deal, right because the Oathkeepers, the
Speaker 1: leaders of the Oath Keepers, are being held on sedition
Speaker 1: by the Department of Justice for their involvement and their
Speaker 1: strategy and planning on January sixth. How is it that
Speaker 1: the media doesn't pick up on this as if we
Speaker 1: didn't just rip off the hoods of the KKK. This
Speaker 1: is the reason why, and that they would march down
Speaker 1: the streets, that they would wear this garb so that
Speaker 1: people wouldn't know that they were active police officers and
Speaker 1: judges and teachers and doctors, right right, right, well, because
Speaker 1: the queen, I mean, that's that's the priority right now.
Speaker 1: And I get it. This is the transition of probably
Speaker 1: one of the most powerful images and icons in white
Speaker 1: supremacy for seven decades. Thank you, thank you, um. But
Speaker 1: I want to I want to qualify that the most
Speaker 1: seductive and distracting image when it comes to white supremacy,
Speaker 1: all right, because she's she's she's a woman, and she's
Speaker 1: a low lady that wants to tackle a low lady.
Speaker 1: I get it um and they know this might be
Speaker 1: a rap because even in Britain, folks ain't feeling King Charles,
Speaker 1: and definitely on feeling Queen Camilla. So if there ever
Speaker 1: were an opportunity all these things related, I'll tide us
Speaker 1: up in a minute, folks, If there were ever an
Speaker 1: opportunity to abolish the monarchy, it is right now. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it would have been in Elizabeths
Speaker 1: and everyone's historical interests if she had declared that the
Speaker 1: monarchy would be abolished upon her passing, upon her death.
Speaker 1: But what purposes served? What it's not. It doesn't really
Speaker 1: have any real power. It is symbolic. It is an
Speaker 1: upholding of a fairy tale white privilege, which is frankly
Speaker 1: damaging to us all because y'all by now, if y'all
Speaker 1: haven't figured it out, you know, there's no there are
Speaker 1: no prince Charmings. There is no Cinderella, no sleeping beauty.
Speaker 1: You know, most heads of households or women y'all still
Speaker 1: run around looking for Prince Charman. That's that's gone. Prince
Speaker 1: Prince Charming is the major bread winner. The major bread
Speaker 1: winner most households is a woman these days and women
Speaker 1: are under tech. The Handmaid's Tale is the fiction that
Speaker 1: has come to life, not Cinderella, not Union, it Bees,
Speaker 1: not ripunzeled. But we still caught up in castles and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Not only are those old keepers faces not revealed to
Speaker 1: the extent that they should be, but what also is
Speaker 1: not being revealed for the sake of white supremacy is
Speaker 1: how many countries are wanting to remove now that she's gone.
Speaker 1: Britain is the head of state. I heard the Jamaicans
Speaker 1: on my show, like, what kind of image are you
Speaker 1: giving young black girls in Jamaica when they exchange currency
Speaker 1: in money and it's got a white woman on the right.
Speaker 1: We are at the dawn of a new age. They
Speaker 1: are fighting the little Mermaid. They don't want the sister.
Speaker 1: She's under a tech. We can't even have a black
Speaker 1: little mermaid. This is this is what we're what we're
Speaker 1: up against, and unfortunately they are. Those are the mainstream
Speaker 1: media who again want to air on the side of
Speaker 1: not appearing too liberal or two they are. They have
Speaker 1: rabbit ears for their charge. Liberal media. There's no, it's
Speaker 1: not liberal. Nobody's not. We see, we see what's happening
Speaker 1: with CNN right, you see, you see, you see what
Speaker 1: who what? What? What's happening with Politico? You see these
Speaker 1: extreme right wing billionaires that are trading on the education
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Speaker 1: that you brought up the Monarch because I will tell
Speaker 1: you that I did multiple videos that I have done
Speaker 1: as of late because I am just outdone. I'm out
Speaker 1: done with the coverage in the United States as if
Speaker 1: every cable network is BBC. I understand the consistent coverage
Speaker 1: in the areas that are part of the quote unquote
Speaker 1: Commonwealth by all means go off. But if my memory
Speaker 1: serves me correct, then Pilgrims came here because they were
Speaker 1: fleeing the monarch. Right they bastardize indigenous populations and the
Speaker 1: Native Americans here because they were fleeing and decided that
Speaker 1: they did not want to pay those taxes. They I
Speaker 1: believe that there was an entire war right with regard
Speaker 1: to the separation from the United Kingdom. So I'm confused
Speaker 1: at the consistent pageantry, celebrity, and white supremacy that's celebrated
Speaker 1: here that isn't even placed into context because I said
Speaker 1: that even in her death, there was an opportunity and
Speaker 1: there is an opportunity to talk about genocide, to talk
Speaker 1: about what sovereignty actually looks like, right, to talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that their wealth, their billions and billions of dollars,
Speaker 1: is stolen, it is theft, and there is an opportunity
Speaker 1: even these people that say, oh, they don't have any power.
Speaker 1: A microphone is power. Calling people to sit to have
Speaker 1: conversation is power. None of what she had done except
Speaker 1: to sit with except to sit with crown jewels on
Speaker 1: her head that are stolen from India, from African nations
Speaker 1: right over centuries. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Um. The coverage though,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, the mainstream media is as insensitive and
Speaker 1: racist and non liberal as it is frugal. Okay, putting
Speaker 1: that focus on Britain during this period of morning don't
Speaker 1: cost you much money, you know, because because not really,
Speaker 1: because that's not plane tickets you're buying for reporters ago
Speaker 1: other parts of the country. That's not other money you're
Speaker 1: spending to do stand up cameras and locations. You just
Speaker 1: plug into that DBC or that Sky News feed or
Speaker 1: the Royal Family Channel feed and you're good. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the gift that keeps on giving. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, lawn ordint on TV all the time, y'all,
Speaker 1: because it's expensive, it's cheap. That's a cheap thing to produce.
Speaker 1: And so that's what networks do. So yeah, we ain't
Speaker 1: got to spend a whole lot of money. We just
Speaker 1: plug into this feed. Let this run for ten days.
Speaker 1: I want everybody to be clear about that. So they're
Speaker 1: getting they're getting the imagery and they're you know, saving
Speaker 1: a few dollars. And they know people are caught up
Speaker 1: in the pageantry. No, the bricks got it. They they
Speaker 1: know how to lay somebody out. Now, all the pomp
Speaker 1: and circumstances. It's fascinating to watch. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a jaguar hurst, all right, And so
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa mother got a jaguar hurt? So, y'all.
Speaker 1: Daniel was my time. Y'all get me a jaguar hurt too.
Speaker 1: I've seen that jaguar hurt that makes you look at
Speaker 1: it all his own. I just go and look at
Speaker 1: that if you don't do nothing else. So they know
Speaker 1: how to lay it out. And that's the distraction from reality,
Speaker 1: distraction into fantasy. And for the media in this country
Speaker 1: as well as around the world, it's it's it's cheap.
Speaker 1: You know. It gives everybody a little kind of a
Speaker 1: paid vacation. Well, you know, I ain't got to be
Speaker 1: in these streets cover nothing that's going on over here.
Speaker 1: I can take a little break, I can get a
Speaker 1: little breather. Um. But you're so right, though, mark about
Speaker 1: the distraction though, because all of this, this is what
Speaker 1: it is, right, because that's what celebrity is. You steal
Speaker 1: other people's generational wealth, and then you make up worship.
Speaker 1: You make them worship your royalty, you make them worth
Speaker 1: worship your your bloodline. And and it is, you know,
Speaker 1: in a white supremacist system. We all live in other
Speaker 1: contradictions every day. Even those of us who are black
Speaker 1: like folk come on with us and they super black.
Speaker 1: But when they work, they don't do nothing right when
Speaker 1: there's racism happening right in their in their own jobs.
Speaker 1: And it's the same with everyone else. Women, progressive women
Speaker 1: voted for a man that talked about grabbing the pussy.
Speaker 1: That's a contradiction. So now people are worshiping a woman
Speaker 1: who oversaw, and it's really it's it's as sinister is
Speaker 1: with her ancestors and those who colonized Africa, all right,
Speaker 1: her ancestors, she played a role in in softening the
Speaker 1: level of accountability and reparations that the newly independent colonies
Speaker 1: with demand because she was sweet, and she was so pretty,
Speaker 1: and she was a standard. You can't attack no white
Speaker 1: woman like that. You can't. Now if now, if it
Speaker 1: had been you know, her father or her father's father,
Speaker 1: then folks might have wanted to mix it up a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But nobody wanted to be impolite. They
Speaker 1: used her in her image to grow around the world,
Speaker 1: even when these countries were breaking off from the British Empire.
Speaker 1: They used her image of womanhood and frailty all right,
Speaker 1: to give to change the image of Britain during that time.
Speaker 1: And so that's not by accident either. And I think
Speaker 1: we have to know what these what these things mean
Speaker 1: and what they are now. Obviously there has been some
Speaker 1: aoing coverage of January sixth and the other piece, and
Speaker 1: I think that's important. People are getting that. But nobody
Speaker 1: is going to be like us and draw a relationship
Speaker 1: between what the oath keepers were doing white supremacy and
Speaker 1: what the British monarchy has done since the beginning of
Speaker 1: time white supremacy. Britain didn't colonize well other than these states.
Speaker 1: This was the only place here in America. Well, let
Speaker 1: me put it this way. There were white who were
Speaker 1: under the colonies here in America, but that's it. They
Speaker 1: came here to colonize a place that was inhabited by
Speaker 1: people of color. All these Australia. Australia's even talking about
Speaker 1: taking the queen off the money and removing her a
Speaker 1: head of state or now the king m Australia is
Speaker 1: a black nation, all right. The people in Australia who
Speaker 1: were white, of those who immigrated from Europe. It's an
Speaker 1: indigenous nation. Australia, India, most of Africa, the Caribbean jau was.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna showed it. So I don't want to get
Speaker 1: de Bunin's gonna show you ull some real quick, Megan Marko.
Speaker 1: The reason Charles didn't have no problem with his son
Speaker 1: marrying a sister is because the majority of the fifty
Speaker 1: six nations in the common Wealth of not all of them,
Speaker 1: are nations of color. So this is it. If Britain's
Speaker 1: gonna stay relevant, they got to appeal and appeas to
Speaker 1: these countries of colors. So we got to have some
Speaker 1: adversity in the royal family. So what with looking up, y'all,
Speaker 1: what was Megan's dress made out of? You think she
Speaker 1: picked that? The dress had designs of all fifty six
Speaker 1: Commonwealth nations national flowers. Now, Daniel, you're gonna get married,
Speaker 1: Why you won't flowers of all these other nations? I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do with you. But that was the politics
Speaker 1: of it. That's why when Charles went to Barbados, they
Speaker 1: became independent. They don't want to be associated with it.
Speaker 1: They went to Commonwealth. Charles went to Barbados for the
Speaker 1: handoff like his mother used to do, to make sure
Speaker 1: everything's smooth and want to kind of rain term relationship.
Speaker 1: You're leaving the Commonwealth and basically handed over queen ship
Speaker 1: from his mother. Charles did from Elizabeth to Rihanna practically
Speaker 1: crown Rihanna the queen. But what a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know, Harry is always like the sisters. I like,
Speaker 1: ain't knowing neces to like the sisters. God blessed the sisters,
Speaker 1: you know, Oh God, I mean, I can't follow nobody
Speaker 1: for that. But he at one time was interested in Rihanna.
Speaker 1: They tried to pursue a dating type of situation and
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. But see if that had happened,
Speaker 1: and she's representing a country like Barbados, that would have
Speaker 1: gone even further to show up this commonwealth. They want
Speaker 1: to keep this together and see there's money, there's an
Speaker 1: exchange in resources. Jamaican's told me when they went. And
Speaker 1: so they went down to the cribbin Harry. Now, Harry,
Speaker 1: William and Kate got protested at to cancel a lot
Speaker 1: of events. Right when they go to these countries, those
Speaker 1: nations have to pay for their visits, pay for the security,
Speaker 1: and they're not they don't invite them. They weren't invited
Speaker 1: to come to Jamaica. We're coming to Jamaica, y'all got
Speaker 1: to pay for it. People are sick of that. So
Speaker 1: when you look at that. What the oath keepers do
Speaker 1: and what they continue to do, is perpetuate a modern
Speaker 1: day version of empire and supremacy. That's what the Civil
Speaker 1: War was all about, and they want to bring it back,
Speaker 1: they want to redo it. We've got to stand against it.
Speaker 1: And if it took we've been saying this too, we've
Speaker 1: been blow in the face. But if it took the
Speaker 1: Dob's decision to wake everybody up, if it takes what
Speaker 1: happened on January sixth to wake everybody up, if it
Speaker 1: takes what many believe, even some of Donald Trump's friends
Speaker 1: believe is his indictment around classified documents, then that's what
Speaker 1: it takes. And so be it. It is what Donald
Speaker 1: Trumps say, It is what it is. You know, it's
Speaker 1: so interesting, Mark, because the thing is that you that
Speaker 1: you make, that you make plain with regard to the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom, with regard to Megan Marcole, it was a
Speaker 1: missed opportunity, right because when they have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: stand together as a family to say we are we
Speaker 1: stand and against racism in any in any of its forms.
Speaker 1: This is now a member of our family and our party,
Speaker 1: they didn't do that. Right, they hung her out to dry,
Speaker 1: which is why she had to flee back. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you are fleeing the UK to come back to
Speaker 1: America because America is less racive like that to me
Speaker 1: was just jarring, an eye opening. But the thing that
Speaker 1: the last question that I have for you here though,
Speaker 1: is this is that just as cable news hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to read the room and recognize that people are
Speaker 1: over the monarchy, right, the people, the billion plus people
Speaker 1: that watched Megan and Harry get married, and I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I was one of them. The world and society has
Speaker 1: changed so greatly in just a handful of years. Right.
Speaker 1: We've seen an attempted coup. We have seen you know,
Speaker 1: oath keepers and proud boys and three percenters marching in
Speaker 1: our streets. Again, we have seen a rise in political violence,
Speaker 1: and there are so many more people who are seeing
Speaker 1: on social media from the Commonwealth places and you know,
Speaker 1: from the United States, that are just done. Do you think, though,
Speaker 1: that all the things that we have experienced and continue
Speaker 1: to experience at the hands of white supremacists that are
Speaker 1: now that is now synonymous with the Republican Party is
Speaker 1: enough to hold the line because that's all we're trying
Speaker 1: to do right now. We're just trying to hold the line.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's enough? I think so. I think
Speaker 1: it's happening. I mean, of course we'll know in a
Speaker 1: couple of months or in less than two months, but
Speaker 1: we really have nothing else to fight with. I think
Speaker 1: again that the right is doing a lot of our
Speaker 1: work for us. I hope that we are prepared for
Speaker 1: all the little tricks that are planned for November. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. It's it's significant for Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi to say what she said. She believes, she's announced
Speaker 1: she's expecting pickups in the house. That's a bold statement
Speaker 1: coming from someone like her. Now here's our other problem, though, y'all,
Speaker 1: this is this is family business. This is what we
Speaker 1: got to deal with as voters, as a community of progressives.
Speaker 1: If we say we're losing, our side tends to get
Speaker 1: discouraged and not vote. We don't step up. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: get discouraged. If we say we're winning, our side says, oh,
Speaker 1: well we're good and I don't need to go vote.
Speaker 1: That's own pathology we got to work on. We really
Speaker 1: need some group therapy for all progressives and Democrats and liberals,
Speaker 1: because you know, we we we do that no matter what.
Speaker 1: We've got to make this second nature. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: big deal too, that married Garland finally has the courage
Speaker 1: to step up and do something he didn't want to.
Speaker 1: No good married Garland. So that says a lot and
Speaker 1: and and again, I hope we don't need a lot
Speaker 1: of people. We just need those few, these those independents,
Speaker 1: those women, those white women in suburban college es, kitty
Speaker 1: white women, especially those you who voted for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: those who have any regard for the rule of law.
Speaker 1: Was Donald Trump or spot? Look if Danielle now in
Speaker 1: the White House, you know, we might have stolen some
Speaker 1: artwork or some channa, some stuff we can sell you.
Speaker 1: What do you do with nucleus secrets? We can't say,
Speaker 1: we don't know nobody we can sell those two. The
Speaker 1: only people who can do something with that and sell
Speaker 1: it are those who are in the business of espionage.
Speaker 1: Right if I had some nuclear secrets, Danielle, Danielle, could
Speaker 1: I call you, Hey, Danielle, I got these nuclear secrets.
Speaker 1: You know who we can get them to. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: know who to call. We would know who to call
Speaker 1: We don't know nobody who would know, nobody who to call.
Speaker 1: But someone who's in that business knows Donald Trumps has
Speaker 1: been a spy. And hopefully that point gets over. So
Speaker 1: you put January six together and they're gonna have more
Speaker 1: hearings leading up to November. That is. Look at the prosecutions,
Speaker 1: Look at the subpoenas for those involved in January six.
Speaker 1: Look at the documents that Donald Trump stole, which you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have. Look at what is happening to women's bodily autonomy. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's about abortion rights, it's about privacy, but it is
Speaker 1: about bally autonomy. Back to the Queen, her ancestors revoked
Speaker 1: the bodily agency and autonomy of women of color, indigenous
Speaker 1: women in this country. That's where it all got started.
Speaker 1: And when they brought us over here as enslaved people,
Speaker 1: they did the same thing, and not just to women
Speaker 1: but also to men. Men were fondled and raped on
Speaker 1: the auction block. So this has this has a history.
Speaker 1: If it had stopped then it wouldn't have gotten as
Speaker 1: far as it's gotten today. But this is the same
Speaker 1: white supremacist mentality that wants to keep that alive. And
Speaker 1: if we don't seize this opportunity. Just like you said,
Speaker 1: they didn't see the opportunity to protect Megan Markle. They
Speaker 1: didn't do a thing. Even if the family didn't attack her,
Speaker 1: they were quiet while she was being attacked by the mean.
Speaker 1: We cannot be quiet in the face of this reverse,
Speaker 1: this going back in time to the subjugation of women
Speaker 1: or any human beings. When it comes to our freedoms,
Speaker 1: our rights, our bodies, our votes, we can't afford to
Speaker 1: go back. We can't allow ourselves to go back. The
Speaker 1: fairy tale is lou Mermaid is black now, y'all fair tales, op.
Speaker 1: Reverend Mark Thompson, As always, we appreciate your candor, your insights,
Speaker 1: your analysis, every time that you make space to join
Speaker 1: us on Woke A f appreciate you, dear friend. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you as well. Thank you, Daniel gad bless you.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear folks on Woke
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