WEBVTT - Control the Narrative 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.320 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.840 You know, folks, if you are paying attention to the news, 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.720 then you are very aware of the fact that we 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.320 are on the brink of war, that COVID numbers are 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.440 doing well in the areas that were first hardest hit, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.879 but that everyone is sitting around scratching their head wondering 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:41.360 what the fuck the Biden administration is actually doing. And 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:46.400 we've had votes by the Republican Party that prove once 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.199 again that they are the party of insurrectionists, that they 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.599 are the party of white supremacy, and that they are 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.960 a cult right. They have censured the people two people 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:02.400 that actually make any fucking sense, and they are continuing 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.280 to double down on Trumpism, continuing to double down on racism. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.319 Joe Rogan is you know, the latest celebrity that they 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.679 are embracing, which tells us everything that we need to know. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.000 And I have said this so many times that if 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.360 you find yourself talking to somebody who is, well, I'm 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.319 a Republican, but I don't stand for these things, you 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:32.199 can no longer continue to call yourself a Republican and say, 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.399 but here's the laundry list of all of the things 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.000 that you no longer associate with, Because then if in 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.760 a sensical world, well what the Republican Party now represents, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.120 you no longer are a party too right, And so 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.400 you would think that there would be more people publicly 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.840 disavowing the Republican Party, publicly leaving right, that people would 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.800 be leaving in large numbers, except they're not. And so 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.080 what does that tell us about the state of affairs 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.440 in America and the state of white supremacy? You know, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.080 I am I'm working right now on a piece, and 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.360 I was harkened back to the twenty sixteen election and 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.960 thinking to myself and saying out loud on Canadian broadcast 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:26.120 television that this was going to be white supremacy's last stand. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.240 Now when I said that, it wasn't as if, oh, 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:30.960 it was going to be four years and then it 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.360 was going to be back to quote unquote normal, Because 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.200 what we know right now is that there is really 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.200 no sense of normal. What we had allowed, right, what 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.160 we had told ourselves was normal behavior, was anything but right. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:51.359 The disparities in health and wealth in this country between 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:59.880 races between genders has always been excruciatingly problematic. Right when 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:05.400 we talk about marginalized groups and where they fall right 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.200 on the political totem pole, we know that they are 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.200 always folks that are at the bottom. We also know 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.440 that there has been no policy, no measure, and frankly, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.960 no fucking Republican president but has ever offered the American 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.240 people how we are dealing with some of the most complex, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.960 right and layered issues and problems that we have. Their 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.440 decision is that you just ignore it, right, or you 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.000 erase it, or you gaslight people into believing that it 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:39.720 doesn't exist. And so when you have then the alternate 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:49.520 party of Democrats who essentially are not exercising their I 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.280 don't even know what the fuck you would call it 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.320 at this point, not exercising their power, not exercising their voice, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.320 you know, pretending that everything is ho hummed okay I 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.360 and that you know, we're living in a time of 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:09.760 just like political adversaries, and there there isn't the state 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.600 of our country and our democracy hanging in the balance 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.160 with just a handful of months to do something right 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.839 about those people who the Republicans say, you know, are 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.320 just participating in regular political discourse. I don't know what 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.360 political discourse involves shitting in the halls of the Capitol building, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.760 But you know, what do I know? I'm a traditionalist. Apparently. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.760 The reality here, though, folks, is that people are tapped out. Right. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.880 I've talked to you, and you all have talked to 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.400 me about your level of exhaustion and your frustration and 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.039 just you know, being burnt out, being burnt out by 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.120 the discourse, being burnt out by the demeanor, and just 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.440 one bad headline after the other. But the thing that 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:59.440 I consistently come back to is our future, which is 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.520 young people, people and wondering what they are thinking. Right. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:10.719 I can remember going into politics, right, going to college, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.400 and that was on the heels of the Clinton administration. Right, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.080 that was on the heels I remember being in high 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.120 school and sitting around with friends, other friends that were 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.600 in you know, government and politics into it and watching 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.800 President Clinton tell the American people that he didn't have 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:37.880 sexual relationship with that woman. Right. It was politics was 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.360 you know, not just tabloid page six fodder. But it 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.360 was exciting. It was exciting to believe that you could 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:51.760 participate in how this country shifts and expands, Right, and 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.200 that there was an excitement that was there. I wonder 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:02.000 right about young people who are coming going into college 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.480 right at an age in our political discourse where it 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.039 is so horrific, where there is no conversation, there is 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.839 no debate like how do you teach this right now? 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.840 And what are young people, those eighteen and nineteen year 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.599 olds who you know should be filled with possibility. What 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.400 do they think about the world that they are inheriting 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:33.200 and growing into as adults. And so I'm excited for 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.800 you all to take a listen to my conversation with 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.080 returning guest, our friend, doctor Christina Greer, who is associate 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.000 professor of political science at Fordham University here in New York, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.760 and we will talk about the lay of the land 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.280 and where we think that democrats go. But as a 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.680 professor who has made it, even though she is a 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.560 tenured professor and an esteemed professor who doesn't have to 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.760 no longer has to take up these you know, freshman 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.720 politics one on one, classes realizes the importance of doing 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.080 just that, that ensuring that the people, right the professors 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:15.000 who are laying the foundation for the future leaders understanding 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.400 of politics are doing so in a very real and 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.000 textured way. And so I'm excited for you to take 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.920 a listen to my conversation coming up next with doctor 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:32.920 Christina Greer. Folks, I am so excited to welcome back 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:38.320 to woke f Daily our friend associate professor at Fordham University, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.400 doctor Christina Greer. She is also a political editor at 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:50.800 The Grio. Doctor Greer, Christina, girl, I don't know about you, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.679 but a month into this new year of twenty twenty two, 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.520 I am feeling really underwhelmed with where Democrats seem to 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:05.840 be headed. I am underwhelmed with this administration and their 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:11.200 stalled agenda. I am underwhelmed with Senator Kersen Cinema and 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.080 Joe Mansion. I'm tired of saying their names. I'm tired 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.040 of the gaggles following them around the Capitol like they 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.480 are so the second coming of the Beatles or Beyonce. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.920 I don't know which, but I am over it. And 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.080 just in general, as I keep talking to folks and 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.520 we are what eight months or so away from midterm elections, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.160 people just feel over it, Like over the entirety of it. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.440 There is no energy when you look at NBC poll 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:46.200 numbers for enthusiasm about midterm elections, Democrats are lagging right where, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.480 of course the GOP is now surging because you don't 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.360 need to have an agenda, you don't need to have 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.040 any of these things. You don't need to tell the truth, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.840 you don't need to believe in science. You can just 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:00.360 spread lies and surge. How are you feeling about this 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.199 moment in our politics right now as we head into 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:09.439 the most consequential and probably the last midterm election that 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.880 is free and fair and open. How are you feeling? Yeah? 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.440 Maybe live in boring times again. I beg I try 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.960 not to get too personal with it, only because this 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.160 is my chosen profession, so if I think about it 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.960 on an emotional level too much, I will just stay 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.520 in bed, under the covers and go anywhere. I also 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.040 can't have a brave and exciting face when I go 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.680 into the classroom multiple times a week and try and 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.280 inspire a whole new generation of kids to actually want 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.880 to be a part of politics, either running for office 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.280 themselves or voting or just being interested in reading the paper. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.800 So there are a few things that I'm trying to 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.880 contextualize for them and kind of remind myself at the 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:57.640 same time. The party in power oftentimes loses the midterm elections. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.559 That's just it happens to Republicans, it happens to Democrats. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.600 What is worrisome, yes, is that there seems to be 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.080 a malaise and a frustration and a real disdain from 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.719 Democrats because of what they feel as you know, sort 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.320 of unproductive administration under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. What 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.600 frustrates me most about this administration is they're actually doing 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.680 a lot of good stuff. They just don't per usual, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.200 Democrats don't know how to articulate they're wins. So Republicans 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.760 are running with this message of they're doing nothing, and 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.880 it's like, well, first of all, they are doing quite 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.200 a bit under the constraints, but the reason why they 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.520 don't have big wins is because of the Republicans. The 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.000 Republicans are just saying, even when Joe Biden compromises with 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.480 us and gives us what we want, we still say no. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.000 Or we'll say yes and take it, but then we'll 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.640 tell our people we said no, right, And so they 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.240 control the narrative in a lot of ways, and Democrats 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.560 are constantly playing defense to what Republicans, and they lead 0:10:54.600 --> 0:11:00.240 these two bedraggled senators who are just lavishing their team 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.920 minutes of fame. And so you know I said this before, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.760 and we live your citizens of the state of New York, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.600 Chuck Shumer, I need you to get it together, right, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.280 I need you to sort of get your LBJ on 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.720 and like we never we should know who Cinema and 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.280 Mansion are to be quite honest, right, Chuck Shumer, you 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.640 should have gotten them together a long time ago. You 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.200 should have given them what they needed. It's called law rolling, right, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.679 But what they want is attention, and what they want 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:32.240 is to sort of hijack the narrative because it's this 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.920 false narrative of bipartisanship and this false equivalency of like, well, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.360 both parties are being obstinate, like no, no, no no, no 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.960 one party. The Republican Party is trying to take away. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.520 As you said, this might be our last free and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.480 fair election, because it's always an asterisk with free and 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.200 fair elections. Do you remember two thousand with Florida. So 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.280 the fact that Cinema and Mansion are aiding and embedding 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.400 that type of behavior across the country, not just in 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.680 their home states, lets us know that the message isn't 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.720 getting out like Joe Biden should be letting Americans know 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.920 every single day, this is what I'm doing. And use 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.240 your surrogates, right, Use your mayors. Most mayors in major 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.480 cities they're Democrats. Use your mayors. Use your governors. A 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.600 few that we have left that we're lost under Obama 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.360 and the state houses lost under the Obama administration. Use 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.439 them to go out and be the surrogates to tell 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.160 everyone what you're doing. And what you're doing is a lot. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.600 The fact that we still have people in their homes, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.439 that's the Biden administration. The fact that people got paid 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.040 real cash money to not be out in the world 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.120 during the height of the pandemic, you know, these past 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.800 few months, that's Joe Biden, right. And so they're they're 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.120 finding money in various ways because you know, we got 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:41.880 the money. Like, let's be clear, we're one of the 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.880 registrations of the world. We got the money, we just 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.280 don't want to use it on certain people. So I 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.120 think my frustration is that the Democrats never articulate all 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.440 the stuff that they're doing for people, and they're not 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.320 using people who want to be used. Right, tell me 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.680 what I need to be saying, well, how can I 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.679 be the champion so that we can get people inspired 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.319 to turn out in mid terms, because we know when 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.280 Republicans win in midterm elections, it's not because they have 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.840 more voters. It's because they use two things. One the 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.079 institutional mechanisms to prevent Democrats from voting, and then two, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.079 Democrats just tend not to turn out in the same 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.320 rates as Republicans during midterm elections. And so that's how 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.240 we're going to see, most likely this pendulum swing. But 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.160 Joe Biden and his administration have eight months to ring 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.320 the alarm to say just how dangerous this is. But 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.560 I think that there's a simple but there's a type 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.200 of apathy that people have where it's like, well, we've 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.560 been on high alert forever, right, And then you add politically, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.520 we've been on high alert since Donald Trump came down 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.440 that gold escalator and called Mexicans rapists. And then we've 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.040 got a pandemic, and then we've got unemployment, and then 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.760 we've got mass debts. Almost a million Americans have died 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.079 from COVID. Say nothing about people who are languishing in 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.440 hospitals and long term COVID people who were once healthy 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.959 and did all the right things, but somehow got COVID 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.280 and they're just never going to be the same. And 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.120 then you have you know, parents who are just like 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.840 I'm homeschooling, Like what I have a day in Algebraison's 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.199 ninth grade? Like what am I supposed to be doing? 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.679 So there's this exhaustion that Joe Biden is competing against, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.679 this like global exhaustion. But for Americans, you know, our 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.480 middle class, I'm just gonna say blanket mid class. I'm 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.079 not gonna talk about the bla middle class just yet, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.280 but the blanket middle class is holding on by a thread. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.520 But we know to be black middle class is literally 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.320 to be one paycheck away from poverty. Because most black 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.880 middle class people we're in mixed class households, mixed class families. Right, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.400 so we know we've got you know, good jobs, and 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.680 we may work for ourselves or whatever, but like we're 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.360 in a tenuous position. We don't have savings. You know, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.680 when our grandparents die, we don't automatically become millionaires. We 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.240 tend to be from families where we have to like 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.960 come together as a family to bury grandma. Not oh 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.440 grandma's house you know is in the white part of town. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.200 And so it's now we're two million. We don't have 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.760 that luxury. So this exhaustion that I think black people 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.160 have where it's like, oh, you'll save the democracy again, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.960 it's like, I'm tired to save in this country. Look, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.680 we understand why. I mean, I've got this candle of 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.960 Stacey Abrams behind me, right, and I haven't just because 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.560 I have the most respect for Stacey Abrams, but it's 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.160 also this reminder, like a tongue in cheek reminder for myself, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.280 where it's like, I'm tired of us being saint black women, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.440 Saint Danielle tell us all the news we need to know, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.360 Sat Professor Chrissy, you know educators. It's like, you know 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:26.800 what you good liberals, pick up the slack, do the work. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.840 And I think I said this, you know, on the 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.400 podcast when I was with you and Terray, which just 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.440 you know, when I was younger, we have this big 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.480 house and you know, companies coming over at three, and 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.520 I'd ask my mom like, so what do I need 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.080 to do? And she would just look at me and 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.880 she's like look around, like I don't need to give you, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.960 Like you know that we're about to have a hundred 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.960 people up in this house in approximately four hours. Do 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.640 not keep asking me what I need to do, Like, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.440 you know, these trash canting to be empty. You know, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.120 these bathrooms need to be clean. You know, get the 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.520 vacuum out, get the room, get the mop the dust, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.880 mop the wax of lords. I mean, we were full 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.920 Cinderella up in that house. But I just think that 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.640 so many white Americans who mean well are looking to 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.560 black women like, so what should I be doing? And 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.600 it's like, are you serious? Like serience, right now, you 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.800 were asking me to help you figure out what needs 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.440 to be look around. Convince your dad and your uncle 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.520 and you and your mom that voting Republican for these 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.760 white nationalists, it's going to hurt the country in the 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.680 long time. Stop telling me that your dad's awesome, but 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.400 he's he's voting against my voting rights on a daily basis, right. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.440 I mean, like I talk to people all the time, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.600 and it's like they think it's enough for them to 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.360 pat themselves on the back because they're on like the 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.120 good side of history. I was like, yeah, but your 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.520 entire family isn't, So why don't you do the heavy lifting? 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.960 Because they're gonna listen to this a little black girl 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:49.000 with a PhD. You spend that time, but you know, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.840 you say so many things that makes so much sense. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.920 I mean one like I could do an entire month 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.000 on the level of exhaustion, on the level of language, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.280 on the level of you know what. Today, I'm actually 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 in the mood where I'm like, here's the match, y'all 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.399 want this shit to burn down. You don't want America 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.440 to function in the way that it was. Woke up 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.640 this morning to hearing that the killers of Ahmad Aubrey 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.479 got a backdoor deal with the federal government, you know, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.760 to make their time in prison easier. I'm like, you 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.199 lynched a man in broad fucking daylight, right, But like, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.439 but once again, let let black people wake up to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.040 the fact that not only is this country not equal, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.840 not only is our politics and our democracy hanging on 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.679 by a thread. But like, you ain't shit right, It 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.480 doesn't matter what it is that you do, whether you're 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.480 going out for a jog, you're going for an Arizona 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.600 iced tea, you're going around the block, or you're sitting 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.399 in your goddamn car, right or like me, I'm a burner, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.920 can't I just enjoy nature like everybody. Can you No, no, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.040 you can't. And can you sleep in your bed? No, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.840 you can't do that either. And I think that when 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.880 you tick all of these things off, and we do 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.360 it as a personal reminder, but it's also like with 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.639 every single one of those instances, I want to go 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.600 and lay down. Do you know what I'm saying? And 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.040 I'm tired of hearing about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.119 having all of these wins in the first year, but 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.679 they don't know, they don't know how to message you. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.560 We just finished four years under Donald Trump, right, a 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.040 man that and an administration and a Republican Party that 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.680 has become so disgustingly cruel, so vicious, so violent, so 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.040 rage filled, and they have single handedly figured out what 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.080 makes their base tick. It doesn't matter that their base 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.840 is white supremacist, it doesn't matter if their folks are 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.480 oathkeepers or their proud boys, because they figured out what 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.720 makes them tick, and they give them all of the 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.800 red meat and all of the things that they need 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.320 in order to keep functioning. So the question that I 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.800 have for you, Christina, is that you know it isn't 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.920 enough for us to continue to say obial democrats don't 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.920 know how to message is, particularly when we're talking about 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.680 messaging being the difference between life and death. We're talking 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.720 about a million Americans have died of COVID it because 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.600 of messaging, right, Like, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.960 but white people don't. They're not at the life and 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.280 death point yet They're getting little glimpses, right. Texas Democrats 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.800 are like what abortion Right, It's like, what are you doing? 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.520 You know, like they're little glimpses. But I've said this 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:22.119 before and I it sounds blunt, but I'm it's just 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.800 how I feel. White people don't understand the capacity of 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.119 white people. They don't understand what white people are capable of. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:31.880 I think there are a lot there are a lot 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.000 of white people in this country, good white people, like 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.879 white people who were either on the on the team 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.239 and like will fight for the cause or just kind 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.760 of like the ones Martin Luther King warn is about, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.680 like the moderates where it's like, listen, I'm not gonna 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.760 stand in your way or progress, but I'm also not 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.680 gonna put my skin in the game, like settle down. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.200 But those two groups of people do not understand January six. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.320 They see them as like, well, I mean it's an overreach, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.720 but like I can sort of see because like those 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.439 guys are with my uncles, and like there is just 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.560 a I can see how they have a lot of frustrations, 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.560 like no, no no, no, you don't understand that, like when 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.399 you really read history books, because I mean, this is 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.000 the part of whitewashing our history right, always done. I 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.399 mean CRT is just another iteration of it. It's like 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.040 you don't understand the number of white people who were 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.800 killed in the Civil rights movement, either the ones who 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.280 had the skin in the game or the ones who 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.040 were just on the sidelines and weren't virulent racist, right. 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.960 And so it's like I don't think that the vast 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.199 majority of white people in this country understand the extent 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.600 to which certain white people will go to burn this 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.200 country to the ground with them in it. They don't 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.840 care as long as colored people and immigrants and all 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.320 the folks that they've been told are stealing from them. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.679 Forget that it's their own party. I mean, this is 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.760 I use this quote all the time because it's so real. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.879 This is why LBJ is my favorite president. It's like 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.160 LBJ said, because you know, don't forget he was poor, 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:56.920 he was from Texas. He used to be a good 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:58.760 old boy and then he evolved with the times because 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.119 he was smart and he felt like he needed to 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.159 whether he was genuine about the civil rights moving the 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:04.760 vone and right Zack in the immigration neck, I don't know, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:06.560 I don't care, and I don't care. I don't care. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.320 The bab brain he gave the pen to mart Luther King, 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.960 so here we are. But he was just like he said, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.360 if you can convince the poorest white man that he's 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.480 better than the negro, then you can pick his pockets long. 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:20.480 And I think that's what the Republican Party is looking 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.560 at Donald Trump, like, wow, you unlock the secret code, 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.520 like you and your you know, thousand air status. But 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.720 it's like that frumpled suit, that cotton candy hair. All 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.600 that is an aesthetic to make people feel like he's 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.479 regular and he's with them. That sort of broken English. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.280 I mean, he uses fewer words than mister t right, 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:46.520 Like he is this person where he can go to 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.840 the dregs of society and make them feel good, and 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.120 even the wealthy folks, they can excuse it and say, well, 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.960 I don't like the packaging, but I'm still gonna vote 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.320 for it. Right. And this is why someone like Junkan 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.520 is so dangerous because he's actually quasi educated and he 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.479 comes with the LLL being you know, fleece fast, and 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.280 he says, if you're listening closely enough, he says the 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:13.320 same things as Donald Trump. He just says it in 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.760 a much more professional and educated way, which gets people 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:19.240 to vote for it. Because at the end of the day, 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.840 so many Americans, white Americans in particular, who are still 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.919 holding on to this Republican Party. It's like, just be honest, 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.800 you care about money more than people. That's fine, just 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:31.879 say it. But I'm like, just here's to say it. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.160 But and this is where this is actually where I'm 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.119 going to say something that I don't normally say, because 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.000 I don't normally do Devil's Advocate and I don't normally 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.280 do both sides. But let me tell you something. What 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.119 I have realized and why it becomes why there are 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.920 days where I am just wanting to throw my hands 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.280 up is because Christina, both of them only give a 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.240 damn about money, right, And this is what I said, 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:58.800 I'm like, you know, do you go with the party 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:02.280 that says fut your face or the one that smiles 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:05.000 in your face and then says f you behind your back? 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.879 Because to me, that is right now the distinction between 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.720 Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are ready to lynch every single 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.240 one of us that does not look love and pray 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.240 like them. Okay, that is not white, that is not sith, 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.800 that is not Christian, that is not like an avowed 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.919 quote unquote real American. They're ready to get rid of 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:27.080 every single one of us and put them back on 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.600 the plantation, the boat, the wherever, right out of sight, 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.440 out of mind. But Democrats with an opportunity to actually 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:38.399 do more. Right, you have Joe Manchin driving around in 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.359 a maserati, and you have Kersen Cinema going to Europe 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.720 to go fundraise right in the height of a pandemic. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:52.119 So you have these people, even the policy the bill 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.480 right now that is going around going around the hill, 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.600 that is about, Hey, how about you don't have the 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.560 ability as a sitting member of Congress to be able 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:06.440 to do insider trading. How about you shouldn't be able 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.159 to do that to get a lega and guess what. 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.920 It ain't a bipartisan bill because it's not going to 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:17.120 go anywhere because both Democrats and Republicans get to make 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:20.760 money off of their inside intel and so no one 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.639 wants to do away with that. And so when we 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:26.440 get to this place where we recognize that we are 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:36.160 dealing with one unabashed evil and one that is fairly negligent, right, 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.640 then what do you do with the population of people, 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:43.160 and particularly with your students who are trying to enter 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:47.040 into this field when all you do is step back 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.119 and you're just like, this is just all about money, 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:53.280 and whoever gets the most wins, right. But I think 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:56.200 the difference is this, and this is at least what 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.440 I tell myself, what I trick myself when I tell 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:05.640 my students. Whatever it may be, there's still enough Democrats 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:09.359 throughout the country, on all different levels of government who 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:13.520 are actually working towards certain things. I think sometimes when 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:17.760 we talk about and money is permeated in all facets, 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:19.840 like in all levels, right, even when you're running from 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:22.760 mayor city council or whatever it may be. But I 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:26.479 do think that Democrats, because we organize ourselves in parties, right, 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.160 parties aren't mentioned in the Constitution. But we've always had 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.159 parties in some iteration because this is the way that 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:34.919 we get politics done right, Because someone who just has 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:38.399 an interesting idea isn't necessarily going to get elected. You 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:41.520 need a party structure to assist you. I'd much rather 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.200 be with a party that's like, ah, well, at least 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:46.840 we're not going to rip the whole institution away from 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:49.280 you being able to participate. Right, at least I'm not 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:51.040 going to throw you in jail for giving Danielle a 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.520 glass of water while she's standing online. Hey, maybe it's 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.840 actually not an inspirational story that a black woman waits 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:00.520 in line to vote for a Barack Obama for ten hours, right, 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:02.600 And that's that's im media's fault. But you know, like 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:06.439 I think that the Democratic Party is at least there 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:09.000 there are enough individuals in that party that are working 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:11.639 towards like this is. You know, we're people of color. 0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:15.840 I mean, Republicans have chosen and made it very clear 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:17.760 the ninety seven percent of who they want to put 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:20.720 forward are white men. That's it, right, When you look 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:22.600 at the judges that Donald Trump put in a place, 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:24.040 when you look at people who are running and of 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:27.639 course they highlight their like random colored person, you know, 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:32.000 the lieutenant governor of Virginia now who's an immigrant or 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:34.359 Nicky Hailey child of immigrants, you know, like they have 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:38.520 their special Yeah, they have their token. Yeah, let's let's 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:41.439 be whatever, but that they are who are complicit in 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:44.199 white supremacy exactly because hey, guess what, you don't need 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:46.359 to be white to be white sass, right on the 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:48.000 same way, you don't need to be a man to 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:51.240 participate in patriarchy colo white women, right like, And I 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:54.440 learned that from Mark twain Um and camp. But that's 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:56.120 a whole other story. When I was ten years old, 0:26:56.359 --> 0:26:58.840 so someone was like, how do you have this like 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:01.320 full understanding of patriarch and whit supremacy. I was like, 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:03.840 I went to camp let sleepaway camp to be a specific. 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.840 So I say that because when I'm talking to my 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.560 students right now, I always teach intro to politics for 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.320 someone of my stature who is the associate chair of 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:17.640 the department, I'm the chair essentially of the Lincoln Center campus. 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:22.080 I am tenured, right, I've written books and articles. For 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.239 me to teach an introductory course is kind of odd, right, 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:28.520 people of my stature would teach advanced leable courses. I 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:31.800 always teach intro every semester. That's the course that you know, 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:33.920 most of the time adjuncts teach. You know, like people 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:35.520 who are in graduate school who just need a few 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:37.640 extra books, and you know, they come into a department 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:39.000 and I'm like, no, no, no no, no no, because we, 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:42.520 you know, usually teach multiple intro classes each semester. I'm like, one, 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:43.960 I like to see all the smart kids from the 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:47.520 other majors. But two, the intro to politics class is 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:52.200 your foundation of politics. I'm getting you interested in reading 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.720 the newspaper. I'm getting you interested. I mean, my specialty 0:27:54.760 --> 0:27:56.359 is American politics. But you know, I have lots of 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.080 people who are obviously interested in international comparative politics. It's like, well, 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:01.919 then we can talk about what's going on in Brazil 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:06.600 or Ukraine, right and so, and related also back to America, 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:09.560 because if we get into an interaction in Ukraine with Russia, 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:12.119 like we ain't got no money, and Pootin knows that, right, 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:14.040 and so we can talk about those types of things. 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:19.600 I think, what's what is inspiring? I will say in 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.119 this moment, because you know I always ask my students. 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:23.800 I'm like Okay, so I'm talking about Barack Obama. I'm like, 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:25.280 how old are you guys again? And they were like, hey, 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:27.879 I mean so they're getting younger and younger. Right, Like 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.680 when I show the war room about Bill Clinton's ninety 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:34.320 two campaign, they weren't even anywhere near born. They don't 0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:37.840 know Bill Clinton. They only know Hillary Clinton barely because 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:41.239 they were in kindergarten when she and Barack Obama were 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:44.400 duking it out for the Democratic primary. So you see 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:48.040 what I'm saying. So like these important touchstones in our 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:50.960 political understanding of this moment. How we have to understand 0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:54.800 Reagan right, to understand Trump, How we have to understand 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:58.960 the backlash against Barack Obama, to understand how Joe Biden, 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:00.920 how did you not think people werenk going to work 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:02.520 with you, like just because you're old and white? Like 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:05.080 thought that because he thought he was old and white, right, 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:06.920 And it's like you walked into this black man for 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:09.640 eight years and saw them say no at every single turn, 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:12.600 so like you just thought you'd be different. Okay, but 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.760 you know, so the thing is I'm teaching kids who 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:17.240 they weren't around for that, because you know when when 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:18.760 they say like oh, I was six, and I was like, oh, 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:21.000 so you guys were obviously actively reading at the Times 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:23.720 every morning. They're like yeah, right between ball patrol right. 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:28.360 So like, so I'm also trying to contextualize the history 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:31.239 of this moment because I'm like, listen, guys, you all 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:32.840 are too young to sort of be of the soap 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:35.080 opera generation. You remember, like, you know, we were days 0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:37.840 of our lives and you know, like all those stuff. 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:38.960 I was like, so, you guys didn't grow up on 0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:40.920 soap operas, but I was this is nothing but like 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:45.400 sex and intrigue and backstabbing and all types of stuff 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:47.160 if you sort of look at it that way. And 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:48.880 I'm not trying to say it's a game, but I'm like, 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:52.520 you should be wholly invested in it, because if you 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:54.120 don't want them to rip out your ovaries and give 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.320 them to your daddy, if you have student loans, if 0:29:57.360 --> 0:30:00.520 you care about the environment, if you have asthma or 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:02.959 you know a sibling with an asthma, if you went 0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:04.800 to a public school and you're like this place is crappy, 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:07.920 It's like, not all public schools are crappy. Maybe yours was, 0:30:08.000 --> 0:30:10.560 but not everybody else's. If your parents had to take 0:30:10.600 --> 0:30:12.680 out loans to send you to a Catholic school because 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.080 you couldn't go to your public school. That's something if 0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:17.000 you're in the military because you're trying to save money 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:18.520 to go to school, or if your parents are in 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:20.600 the military, right and you're wondering if they're going to 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.320 come home. Even though we're not quote unquote actively involved, 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.680 but like, uh, stuff still pops off. So I'm like politics. 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:29.120 I literally take a piece of paper. I'm like, what 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.160 is political about this piece of paper? And they're like, 0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:34.040 it's literally a white piece of paper. I'm like, no, No, 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:38.040 somebody's trees in somebody's country or somebody's state got chopped 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:41.560 down by people who possibly weren't making real money. My 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:44.240 grandfather worked in a paper mill for forty three years 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:48.240 in northern Florida, right, and people missing hands, missing fingers, 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:51.200 all types of wage theft, you name it, because the 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:53.040 black people had to work outside and white people got 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:55.080 to work inside. Right Now, It's like then the truck's 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:59.440 going through people's communities and the pollution going through the bronx. Right. 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:02.400 So by the time this piece of paper gets to you, 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:06.000 all the political mechanisms and the global company that has 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.600 sold this paper company that is on the New York 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:12.600 Stock Exchange, right, so, like everything is political. A plastic 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:14.160 pen is political, and you know, so I'm trying to 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:17.160 get them to understand that everything around them involves them, 0:31:18.080 --> 0:31:21.760 and doing that because I have this sort of this 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.880 privilege to kind of be at the forefront of people 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:28.040 who will be in the future, I'm a little less 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:31.520 freaked out the present is a mess. But I also 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:34.000 keep reminding them and you know, one of my students 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:35.840 was like, you're the only professor who keeps saying this. 0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:39.960 I literally say every single class, we're in the middle 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:46.080 of a global pandemic. Because we are because we are 0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:50.880 because we are being normal, quote unquote. And I'm like, hey, guys, 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:53.120 I'm going to extend you a certain modicum of grace 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:54.960 and grandas still don't take things that are late, because 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:56.959 I'm like, I'm still got to teach you some lessons, right, 0:31:57.000 --> 0:31:58.240 and like, I can't have you out in the world 0:31:58.240 --> 0:32:00.400 thinking that everything's going to be you know, you get 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:01.800 time and a half for everything. You just get to 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.240 hand this stuff whenever you feel like it. I was like, 0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:05.560 so we're still gonna have some rules and some sort 0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:08.000 of standards in this class, but I was like, I 0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.280 want you to extend me a modicum of grace because 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:12.600 I'm in the middle of a global pandemic. I can't 0:32:12.640 --> 0:32:14.240 see my family as much as I want to, I 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:15.800 can't see my friends as much as I want. You. 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:17.600 I haven't seen you, i'ven't given you a hug since 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.960 we're probably an MSNBC before the pandemic, you know what 0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:23.200 I'm saying. So it's like, all these things that make 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:25.760 me whole, I'm not allowed to do either. You guys 0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:28.800 are having a college experience that is not normal. You 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:31.240 might be living in a dorm, but it's still not normal. 0:32:31.600 --> 0:32:36.640 So like just this latent pressure, yeah, that we're all in, 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:39.880 coupled with the fact that this is roughly around the 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:43.360 time the democracies die and we're kind of tiktoking on 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:46.360 that time period for America as young as we are. 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:48.480 But this is kind of when, you know, when democracies 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:53.280 tend to sort of unravel, the number of people who 0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:57.320 were willing to help it unravel is scary, right because 0:32:57.360 --> 0:32:59.360 it's not like, oh, it's just a few bad apples. 0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:02.800 It's like, oh no, got like we're orchards up in here. Yeah, 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:06.560 with people who want to cross country burns. Yeah, across 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:08.760 the country. And you know, again, you don't need to 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:11.360 be white to have one sremacy. So it's not just 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:14.160 you know, looking over your shoulder for some hillbillies. It's 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:16.120 like oh no, no, no, Like they come in all 0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:19.360 shapes and forms and colors and ethnicity and classes and 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:24.400 economic status and listeners. Donald Trumps still got millions upon 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:26.920 millions of votes, and he lost when he ran against 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.600 Joe Biden, but seventy five or seventy five million people 0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:33.760 million people still, so I like what he's selling. I 0:33:33.760 --> 0:33:35.840 don't care that he said Mexicans rapists. I don't care 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.320 that he's tried tried to sign an executive order. I 0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:42.480 don't care twenty women accused him of sexual assault and 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:46.160 or harassment. I don't I don't care that. Like you 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:49.120 have kidnapped children with no plans to reunite them with 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:51.960 their families, and there are still hundreds that will probably 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:55.280 never be reunited. It's like I think that when you 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:58.960 say to your students, we're in the middle of a 0:33:59.000 --> 0:34:04.200 pandemic and like democracy is unraveling. I feel like the 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:07.680 whole sentiment in America right now is just pushed through. 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:11.759 Yeah right, it's just keep this is where, this is 0:34:11.760 --> 0:34:14.120 where a British this is where a British heritage is 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:18.400 not serving us. Well you know that sort of just 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:20.400 have a stiff upper lip, let's not talk about it. 0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:22.960 Let's just power through, you know, like the kind of 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:27.320 the old school British style of like, let's not be hysterical. 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:33.160 And I think for me, when I look at my students, 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:35.440 because I mean they're they're babies to me, right, I 0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:38.279 mean they're eighteen years old, what I have to do? 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:42.279 And you said something key about democracy and raveling. First though, 0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:45.799 I have to explain to them what democracy is. I 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.160 can't explain to them that democracy is unraveling. They don't 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.759 understand what this country is, so like their understanding of 0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:54.320 who America is and has been. Because I got to 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:56.200 talk to you about how she has been, right, I 0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:57.919 was like, you guys have always been told that she's 0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:01.719 basically this Ritz Carlton or this you know, this four 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:03.920 seasons that had to give us some moments of history. 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:05.920 But that was so long ago, and it's like no, 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:09.440 no, no no, no, no, this is a hojo. This country 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:14.479 is a motels. It is exactly right in the middle 0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:18.280 of nowhere. And you know when I tell them, because 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:19.960 I mean, I don't know how old they think I am, 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:21.320 because you know, ay, I'm black, so I could be 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:24.399 anywhere between like eighteen and eighty seven. But I'm like, 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:28.560 when I tell them, my mother only went to segregated 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:33.359 schools her entire life, from k through high school. My 0:35:33.480 --> 0:35:36.359 father integrated his high school. And I'm like, I know 0:35:36.400 --> 0:35:39.040 that you guys don't fully understand what that means. But 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:42.399 I'm like, that means my mother was not allowed to 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:45.640 go to school with white people, like not just oh 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:47.640 she didn't want to and they lived on the other 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:49.880 side of town. It's like, no, no no, it was illegal 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:53.880 in the state of Florida where she was. So and 0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:56.920 you have to say that to them in the context 0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:00.919 of this was not a hundred years ago, no, right, 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:05.000 That's what I'm saying. I'm like, this was like we 0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:07.799 love as a nation to say like, oh, this was 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:12.000 like centuries ago. No, there are people who are not 0:36:12.080 --> 0:36:16.279 that old right right now that has very clear and 0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:20.680 vivid memories. Oh how they grew up, what their families 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:24.560 went through that were just let again, power through it. Oh, 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.880 the civil rights move that was so long ago. No, 0:36:27.520 --> 0:36:30.520 it wasn't was not. My dad is only seventy four, 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:32.359 and you know, I went and lived with him for 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:34.680 six weeks during the height of the pandemic in New York, 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:36.120 where I was like, I gotta get out of here, 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:40.960 and so I went to my dad, who lives in Delaware, 0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:43.000 and it was that's when I started birding, and you know, 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:45.200 I just had space and I could be outside and 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:47.719 I could go for walks without you know, sort of 0:36:47.719 --> 0:36:50.040 being so worried about catching COVID. This is you know, 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:52.560 in the twenty twenty June of twenty twenty, so we 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:54.600 didn't have a vaccine. We didn't know how this thing 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:56.759 was jumping from person to person. So it's like, let 0:36:56.760 --> 0:36:58.879 me just go kind of, you know, to a more 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:02.680 suburban environment. And at night we had movie night every night, 0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.560 so we'd watch movies and it was great because I 0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:06.200 haven't lived with my dad since I was in high school. 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.799 And he would tell me stories. Danielle, I'm like, this 0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.399 is stuff that's in history books. This man is having 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:16.359 a cigar and a glass of rum. He is nice 0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:19.600 and spry. He is not old at all. And you 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:23.960 know the N words stuff. You know what I think 0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:28.279 is fascinating. He's an he's a Life Scout. You know, 0:37:28.320 --> 0:37:30.520 there's Eagle Scout is the highest of the boy scouts, right, 0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:32.600 and then I think Life Scout is like the second highest. 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:34.439 And he was just like, oh, well, I wasn't allowed 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:35.960 to be an Eagle Scout, So what do you mean 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:37.640 even un allowed to be an Eagle Scout. He's like, well, 0:37:37.680 --> 0:37:39.719 black people at the time in Miami couldn't be Eagle 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.359 Scouts like across the country, but like, you know, he 0:37:42.360 --> 0:37:43.719 was in the Eagle Scouts of Miami. It was like, 0:37:43.840 --> 0:37:45.719 what do you mean? And he was just like, well, 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:47.719 they would make it such that the last badge was 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:49.680 at the fire department and you would never get it 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:52.560 because obviously the fire department had no black firefighters. I mean, 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:56.160 like all these things. So he could tell me the 0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:59.400 black person in Miami the year, the name of the 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:01.680 year that the black boy became an Eagle Scout because 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:04.120 he was the first black kid to become an Eagle Scout, 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:06.279 something that none of them could have done. And so 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:08.640 they're so proud and exciting all this other stuff Like 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:12.440 this dude, I was like Ruby Bridges is not even seventy, 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.080 right when we think about some of these pioneers, and 0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:18.520 so I think so much of the power of racism 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:21.000 and went supremacy and anti blackness in this country has 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:24.280 been to make us feel like everything's from Harriet Tubman 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:27.239 and Regid Douglas. But first of all, Martin Luther King 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:29.759 would have been younger than Betty White when she died 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:33.279 a few week younger, I mean like and not just 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:36.480 about younger than Sidney Potier, you know what I'm saying. 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.160 So it's like, and guess what, he didn't die of cancer. 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:42.799 He didn't die of a heart attack like he was assassinated. 0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:44.600 And when you look at the public opinion from when 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:49.839 he was assassinated and murdered, nobody liked him. White people wise, right, 0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:53.120 They're just like, oh, he's a terrorist. So this this 0:38:53.239 --> 0:38:56.400 kind of mythology that we're obsessed within this country. That 0:38:56.640 --> 0:38:59.600 this is why I love being an educator because most 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:03.239 of my students we're just like, oh, Martley Ding, I 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:06.720 have a dream. I'm like, let's read these speeches from 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:10.480 talking about Vietnam and emancipating poor white people. Let's talk 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:13.319 about that, because that's how you get yourself assassinated. Now 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:15.279 when you're trying to free black people, when you're trying 0:39:15.280 --> 0:39:18.399 to have a global conversation about white supremacy, that's when 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:20.319 folks are like, yeah, we gotta shut this man from 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:26.120 Alabama real fast. I will say this one. I always 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:30.680 appreciate our conversation so much because you just illuminated so 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:35.840 many things for me, which is that America, like most places, 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:39.040 is based on a set of mythologies, right, like I 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:43.799 can North Korea. Yeah, I continue to say, like, you know, 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:47.200 there are people many, there are generations of people in 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:51.560 China who have no idea about the Tianamen Square. Why 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:55.879 because they don't teach it there, And like, if you 0:39:56.080 --> 0:40:01.480 know about it, it is because of oral history that 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.000 has been passed down because it is nowhere written, it 0:40:04.120 --> 0:40:06.960 is nowhere talked about it. There is no museum, there 0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:09.480 is no nothing. As a matter of fact, they passed 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:12.440 a law in China that the parents of those people 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:16.160 that were killed, those students that were murdered, we're not 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:19.320 allowed to grieve in public, We're not allowed to mention 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:22.919 those children's name. And so we wonder, like, well, how 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:26.160 do people continue to go on right and not know 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:30.600 because it has been extracted you're doing and your life 0:40:30.640 --> 0:40:33.200 has been extracted and set up in such a way. 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:35.960 So when I talk about on this show and others 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:39.000 about the matrix that we are living in, the matrix 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:43.279 that has been created around America, the beautiful America, the 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:46.319 great this is what the fuck I'm talking about. So 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.560 to be able to sit with your dad and get 0:40:49.600 --> 0:40:52.600 a one on one history lesson just based on the 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:56.480 vantage point of his life and how much gaslighting he 0:40:56.640 --> 0:41:00.000 is probably endured to be told that what he's experienced 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:03.359 is something that happened generations ago, something that we don't 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:07.160 need to talk about or understand the economic impressions of 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:09.560 what has happened right and why we are where we 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:13.800 are because of those times, because of those negations, Christina, 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:15.799 this is why I always want to have you back 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:18.120 on the show, because we need to go back to 0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:20.480 one oh one, Because I don't know how we figure 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:25.719 out how to rebuild, restore, reimagine when we don't know 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:28.960 where we orient ourselves from, where we don't have a 0:41:29.000 --> 0:41:35.200 strong foundation and really integral understanding of this country and 0:41:35.280 --> 0:41:37.560 how to fix it. Like you can't fix something that 0:41:37.680 --> 0:41:41.160 you don't understand, you can't build something that you don't 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:44.680 have the tools for, absolutely, And I'll leave it at this. 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:49.759 Whenever my students say the word slave, I stop them. 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:53.120 And this is part of the mythology and the sort 0:41:53.120 --> 0:41:55.920 of erasure of history. And I'm like, listen, flavors and 0:41:56.000 --> 0:42:01.239 now table chair, cup, glass, pen, paper, slate. When we 0:42:01.280 --> 0:42:05.640 talk about us chattel slavery that carried out for centuries, 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:08.480 I was like, I always use the word enslaved person 0:42:08.560 --> 0:42:11.359 or enslaved African. I was like, because that's a human being, 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:13.799 and it's a relationship between two people. One is the 0:42:13.880 --> 0:42:16.120 enslaver and one is the enslaved. And I was like, 0:42:16.160 --> 0:42:19.839 so in our history we're taught, oh, slaves. It's like, oh, well, 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:21.640 the slaves, we're doing this. It's like, no, no, no no, no. 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:24.560 These are people who could not reproduce on their own. 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.439 They couldn't have their own family structure, they couldn't they 0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:29.400 couldn't eat when they felt like eating. I mean, they 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:31.120 couldn't go to the bathroom when they felt like like 0:42:31.320 --> 0:42:34.320 these horrible things. You know. It's like, oh, Sally Hemmings 0:42:34.360 --> 0:42:37.520 dated Thomas Jefferson. I'm like, uh, if I'm enslaved, I'm 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:41.360 not dating anyone. I'm being raped, okay by one of 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:43.480 the leaders of this nation. And so I think just 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:47.919 even the minor ways that we need to change our 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:50.920 language in this country. And this is why I appreciate 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:54.000 Nicolehannah Jones so much, because she'll be in an interview 0:42:54.520 --> 0:43:01.000 I'm thinking of that god awful touch Chodo Chocho, yeah, interview, 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:04.400 and he keeps saying, well, you know, parents and black's 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:07.640 and she's like, so if you want to say white parents, 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:10.600 say say white parents, say your parents. Because the thing is, 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:13.400 it was always, you know, when when Hillary Clinton and 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:16.440 Barack Obama were running, it's like, well, woman versus a 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:19.040 black a black person or a black man. And I'm like, no, 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:22.080 no, no no, it's a white woman, right because women aren't white, 0:43:23.040 --> 0:43:25.319 not all women are white. But like this idea that 0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:28.799 womanhood is white womanhood and blackness is a black malehood, right. 0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:30.680 And this is what's so interesting about Sherley Chisolm, who's 0:43:30.719 --> 0:43:33.160 right behind me, right when it's like, okay, in seventy two, 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:35.360 it's like when we need a woman or a black person, 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.720 so she's like, you know, goes to the black folks. 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:39.799 It's like, okay, well we said a black person. I'm 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:42.120 here and there like, uh, we actually meant a black man. 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:44.440 And then she goes to the women, Laurie Steinham and 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:46.560 friends and it's like, okay, you said a woman, and 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.239 they were like, uh, well, we actually meant a white woman, right, 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:51.479 And so it's like, right, if you want to say 0:43:51.520 --> 0:43:53.680 a woman, say why woman? Then if that's what you're 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:56.160 talking about. And so I think for my students, I'm 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:59.080 really trying to be a lot more deliberate in my 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:01.399 language because I I don't allow them to say like, oh, well, 0:44:01.400 --> 0:44:04.120 I'm a minority. I'm like, listen, I'm a global majority. 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:06.920 I'm a woman and a person of color. So globally, 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:10.040 more people look like me and more people are either 0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:12.080 a woman or a person of color. So like, I'm 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:14.480 not walking around saying that I'm a minority at all. 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:18.799 And I think that in this country, because this mythology 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:21.880 of white supremacy, anti black racism, patriarch and capitalism is 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:26.239 so embedded in our foundation that Bell Hooks talks about this, 0:44:27.320 --> 0:44:31.560 We've got just folks believing the big lie, and the 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:34.400 big lie is from before seventeen seventy six. Come on, 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:42.280 that's right, Oh, doctor Christina Greer. We need we need hugs. 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:46.160 We need hug time, we need cocktail time, walking time, 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:48.760 we need all of those things. Thank you so much 0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:51.840 for making the time to give us at wok F 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:54.560 one on a one on one and a one on 0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:58.520 one with me education as to where we are, how 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:01.600 we got here, and where, if anywhere, we are headed. 0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:04.279 We appreciate you. Thank you so much for having me. 0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:10.000 That is it for me today. Dear friends on woke 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:13.080 a F. You know I'm going to be starting something 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:17.160 new this week, and you tell me what you all 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:19.040 will think about it. But I want to leave you 0:45:19.160 --> 0:45:25.640 kind of with this moment of zen of reprieve of rest. 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:33.920 I did a meditation earlier this morning. I meditate in 0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:36.839 the morning and in the evening before I go to bed, 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:40.000 I kind of try in sandwich my day in that way, 0:45:40.080 --> 0:45:43.400 because you know, so much happens. And in one of 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:48.960 the meditations that I did today and I use insight timer. 0:45:49.120 --> 0:45:52.120 There is calm, there's insight timer. There you know, are 0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:56.120 many free apps that people can use. And what I 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:59.040 like about insight timer is right now is that they 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:03.640 will ask you, you know, to with happy faces, where 0:46:03.719 --> 0:46:08.279 is your mood? Great? Good, okay, bad, you know, and 0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:11.920 then they will provide you with meditations that correspond with 0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:15.400 your mood. So this morning I did one that was 0:46:15.719 --> 0:46:23.400 on healing, because I realize that we don't talk about 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:28.120 healing and pain and trauma enough, and grief and what 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:32.960 it means to not just you know, power through bad 0:46:33.000 --> 0:46:40.320 situations or emotionally draining situations or traumatic experiences and situations, 0:46:40.360 --> 0:46:43.719 but what it means to honestly sit in that, not 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:46.880 sit in it as into marinate, but to sit in 0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:54.880 and actually feel your feelings and recognize that our life 0:46:55.360 --> 0:46:59.200 right isn't about how successful we are, isn't about how 0:46:59.320 --> 0:47:03.160 productive we are, but is about how aligned we can 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:08.000 be in our state of being. We are so busy doing. 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:10.120 There was a meme that I saw that it was 0:47:10.160 --> 0:47:15.120 always that was human doing instead of human being, that 0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:18.399 we never just kind of sit. We're told to fight through, 0:47:18.800 --> 0:47:22.360 muster on, you know, pull yourself up from your bootstraps, 0:47:22.680 --> 0:47:28.520 but nobody ever just says, sit, breathe, and feel and 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:33.440 allow what comes up to come up right, not in 0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:35.960 a way to control it, but in a way to 0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:41.560 observe it. And So moving forward with woke AF, I'm 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:45.600 going to do my best to provide us with an 0:47:45.760 --> 0:47:50.480 ending note that isn't one that is steeped in rage 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:54.400 and frustration and anger, but is one that as a collective, 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:57.520 we can use this show, use woke a f and 0:47:57.560 --> 0:48:01.759 this platform to meditate on our rage, to get it 0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:06.840 out of our bodies and then leave ourselves more leveled 0:48:06.880 --> 0:48:10.200 and more at peace for having gone through this exercise 0:48:10.239 --> 0:48:14.719 of learning, expanding and growing together. Anger and rage are 0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:18.160 important tools. And so I'm not saying we just pretend 0:48:18.200 --> 0:48:20.480 and be happy, go lucky all the time, but I 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:23.480 do believe that there is an alignment and a settle, 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:28.080 a settling that needs to happen. Once we rid ourselves 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:30.960 of that kind of energy, there is a coming back 0:48:31.040 --> 0:48:33.480 into our bodies that I think is going to be 0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:37.640 really important, particularly as we move forward in these very 0:48:37.719 --> 0:48:42.400 uncertain times. And so if you have tips and tactics 0:48:42.400 --> 0:48:45.279 and tricks that you are using to help keep your 0:48:45.560 --> 0:48:49.160 energy in a good place, in a glowing place, in 0:48:49.200 --> 0:48:52.400 a healing place, please you let us know in the 0:48:52.440 --> 0:48:56.640 comments section or DM me and let me know, because 0:48:56.680 --> 0:49:02.759 I'm going to be looking for opportunities for us to 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:07.720 find rest after our rage on a daily basis. Whether 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:11.160 it be for a minute or ten, but just wanting 0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:14.840 to leave you all in a better place than I 0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:17.880 do than I have been when I pop off, and 0:49:17.920 --> 0:49:21.239 then just cut out so beyond the lookout for that 0:49:23.400 --> 0:49:26.400 as always, dear friends. Power to the people and to 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:31.000 all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.