1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Wika f Daily with 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure how to begin today's recording. I 4 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:33,279 Speaker 1: want to offer up a few thoughts on where we are, 5 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: this state of the world, this state of our grief, 6 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: this state of despair and anxiety, and the collective unsuredness 7 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: that we are all sharing at this moment. Last week, 8 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: I took the end of the week off and I 9 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: decided to give myself with the opportunity to go to 10 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: a Black women led spiritual retreat. It was put on 11 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: by a group called Bukuo Hoodoo. There's a bookstore that 12 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: is owned by Chantra lewis the creative divine mind behind 13 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: Bukuo Hoodoo, and it is about African traditional religion and 14 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: getting to understand the source in a different way. And 15 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: if you know anything about me, you know that I 16 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: do not prescribe to or subscribe to any particular organized religion. 17 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: But I am someone who has throughout the course of 18 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: my life from my work career personal have always been hungry, 19 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: thirsty for education to understand how how people connect, to 20 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: understand why we are here, to know the universe, more, 21 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: to know people, more, to understand why humans move and 22 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: act the way that they do. And I think that 23 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: as our present, our present time becomes so devastating, I 24 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,119 Speaker 1: find myself wanting to go to the past. And I'm 25 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: talking deep past. I'm talking the spark past. I'm talking like, 26 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, the creation of the universe. Past. I'm talking about, 27 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: you know, being purposefully disconnected from the elements so that 28 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: we can abuse the earth. Pat I'm talking about the 29 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: missionaries that created a religion that was based on extraction, 30 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: and not just extraction from the ground, but extraction of 31 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 1: people's souls, extraction of people's spirit, extraction of people's freedoms. Right. 32 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: And it is my exposure and experience around organized religion 33 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: things that wars right today and yester year were fought 34 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: over because what I know about how my interpretation of 35 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: how we have come to existence in this world is 36 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: that religion is a creation by man. Right, because you 37 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: don't need to go to a place, you don't need 38 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: to tie money, you don't need to have a medium 39 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: to connect you to whatever you believe to be or 40 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: not believe as a source as spirit, as God, as this, 41 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: as that, as you know all that is that goes 42 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: by so many different names. And why do I and 43 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: have I looked for that type of understanding because I 44 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: think that in order to truly understand what moves people, 45 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: you have to understand what moves inside of people right 46 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: when they hear certain scripture, certain words that drive them 47 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: to commit all types of acts, acts of kindness and compassion, 48 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: acts of depravity right all in the name of this 49 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: said being. And where I find myself right now is 50 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: where many of you find yourselves, which is just at 51 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: a deep place of grief. Right If you watch Brene 52 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: Brown's Actlas of the Heart, and I forget what stream 53 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: place its on, and it was her book. It talks 54 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: about the eighty sum odd emotions that we have an 55 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: experience as humans, but we can only really name five 56 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: of them. And grief is something that is different than sadness. 57 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: Grief to me is something that shows up physically and 58 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: spiritually and mentally. That is like putting a thousand weighted 59 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: satchels around your body and then being told to sprint 60 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: in the heat without water across coals that are heated. 61 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: And for years now we have been challenged with the 62 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: products of greed of hatred, of discrimination, of lawlessness, of lies, 63 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: of sickness, of death that has besieged us in the 64 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: United States, but around the globe and folks, we can 65 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: go beyond the last three years of COVID to other 66 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: points and pain points and wounds, ancient wounds of our history. 67 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 1: And when I say our history, I mean of human 68 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: beings on this earth history. To understand that we live 69 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: inside of a dual experience where there is always going 70 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: to be light and darkness. We're going to always contend 71 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: withholding both of these things. But the question that I 72 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: think is one of the many that is being asked 73 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: of us right now, is is the light that we're 74 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: trying to hold and be and shine out real, right? 75 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: Or is it someone else's fluorescent lighting that is making 76 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: us think that it's natural light? But it's so false. Right. 77 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: It is light that has you see what others want 78 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: you to see and not what you truly see. There's 79 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: a scene in The Devilwar's Prada. Meryl Streep is talking 80 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: to Anne Hathaway in the room of folks that work 81 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: at the or whatever the fake magazine was in The 82 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Devilwares Prada, and she's telling her about the fact that 83 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: she did not choose the sweater that she is wearing, 84 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: that it was actually chosen by her, by the people 85 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: that are in this room, right, that the ones that 86 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: set trends and set style, right that everyone else follows 87 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: from the high end of you know, fashion, all the 88 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: way down to, as she says, the bargain basement bin, 89 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: which is where you received that sweater from, no doubt. 90 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: And that's what I think about when I think about 91 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: this moment where people feel like it is necessary in 92 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: some way, shape or form to watch this war in 93 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine as if you are watching a video 94 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: game and choosing sides. Humanity is the side that we 95 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: should be choosing. Right. Babies are being killed, whether they 96 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: are being killed from the bombs that Israel is using 97 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: to drop on Gaza, or they're being killed at the 98 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: hands of Hamath. Women are being raped as a form 99 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: of battle, whether that is happening by Israeli soldiers who 100 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: are destroying and have been destroying Palestinian homes and lives 101 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: for seventy five years, or whether it is happening at 102 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:07,319 Speaker 1: the hands of Hammah since the late nineteen eighties. You see, 103 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest, and I'm going to say 104 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: some things that may have me lose listeners and have 105 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: people call me all types of names. But this is 106 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: the truth that I'm going to share. When I went 107 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: to Israel and Palestine in twenty fifteen, I was brought 108 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: there by the Foundation for Middle East Piece that brought 109 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: a cohort of journalists of color and a few white 110 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: journalists as well, to speak with activists, Palestinian activists, Israeli activists, 111 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: to speak with lawmakers inside of the Kannesset to understand 112 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: to get a better understanding and situational understanding of what 113 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: had been transpiring in this part of the world. Now, 114 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: let me preface everything that I'm going to say with 115 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: which is I am not a Middle Eastern scholar. I 116 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: am not a scholar in Israeli politics, in Palestinian politics. Right. 117 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: What I am sharing with you is my experience that 118 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: I had, which I am an expert in. I'm an 119 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: expert in me. I'm an expert in understanding in justice. 120 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: I'm an expert in what it means to live in 121 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: a society that marginalizes those that are not part of 122 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: the mainstream or deemed undesirable. I am an expert in 123 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: that while I was there, I had the great fortune 124 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: of being taken around to Jerusalem, to East Jerusalem, to 125 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 1: the West Bank, to Tel Aviv, to all different parts 126 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: of this very small, fracticious but incredibly important in the 127 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: foundation of every religion, every mainstream religion. When I'm talking 128 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: about Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, so not every religion, excuse me, 129 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: the main streamed Big Three that we often discuss in 130 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: this country, because let me tell you, what is happening 131 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: in India's a story for another day. What happens in 132 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: African nations is a story for another day. So I'm 133 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: talking about the Big Three and this place that is 134 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: not very big, but that's been filled with so much bloodshed, 135 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: so much pain, and so much injustice. What I will 136 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: tell you is that my experience was shocking because when 137 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: you are a black person in America, you understand discrimination 138 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: and hatred through the lens of white supremacy. You understand 139 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: difference in terms of physical difference. Right, the melanated black 140 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: people in this country have been mistreated, abused, terrorized, tortured, raped, beaten, 141 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: expelled for centuries in the United States and still are 142 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: beaten in the streets like dogs, suffer, vacated in the street, 143 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: like dogs, hung from trees, all of it. And we 144 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: understand that again through the lens of white supremacy. If 145 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: you are not white, and you are not Christian, you 146 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: are not treated well in America, nor have you been. 147 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: But when I went to Israel and Palestine, what initially 148 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: shocked me was the fact that to me there was 149 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: no physical difference at all. Everyone looked like members of 150 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: the same family. And I looked and I looked for what, 151 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: what is this thing that has you cage people? Right? 152 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: Because that is what Gaza is, which I wasn't able 153 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: to visit because at the time there was a spark 154 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: in fighting, and so there was a lot of bombing 155 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: that was happening, and the trip was almost called off. 156 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: But for those on the trip who had been to 157 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: Gaza prior explained conditions that no human being should ever 158 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: be forced to live in. You see, we come from 159 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: a space and place where we say, well, if you 160 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: don't like it, then leave. Palestinians don't have that ability 161 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: because they don't have freedom of movement, they don't have 162 00:15:54,640 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, they don't have self determination. So when you 163 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: are seeing and witnessing right now people leaving because it's 164 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: too dangerous. Those are free Israelis that are leaving, that 165 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: have the ability to leave. The people who are being 166 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: bombed off of the face of this earth don't have 167 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: that same freedom. They're not allowed to leave. They are 168 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: forced to live in utter sickness and despair and grief. 169 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: I cannot express to you some of the eyes that 170 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: I saw on my trips to the West Bend to 171 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: East Jerusalem going through security, and as a black woman, 172 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: I can tell you that what it felt like a 173 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: combination of the worst Jim Crow and the worst apartheid 174 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: that I had ever read about, And it was something 175 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: else to experience it up close and personal outside of 176 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: a museum. So when you are being told that there 177 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: are only one side's life that matters, and you see 178 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: people arguing, and you may yourself be choosing to get 179 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: on social media to argue with people, understand that you 180 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: are arguing about humanity. Right. Everyone, everyone, regardless of who 181 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: they worship, whether they worship, what they look like, who 182 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: they love, and what body they are in able or disabled, 183 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: should have self determination, should be able by virtue of 184 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: being born human, be born free, so anywhere where you 185 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: see that, there are powers that be whose job it 186 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: is to dehumanize and decouple people from their humanity so 187 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: that the justification of their mistreatment can be because they 188 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: are not like us. They don't pray like us, they 189 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: don't love like us, they don't look like us. Understand 190 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: that that is propaganda that is centuries old. I understand 191 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: the desire to want to show your solidarity by putting 192 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: up the Israeli flag wearing rite it as if it 193 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: is Ukraine. But I want people to understand that both 194 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: Palestinians and Israelis deserve freedom, self determination, and to live 195 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: free of fear, persecution, and abuse. And to say, right, 196 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: if all white people are not Maga, if all white 197 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: people are not the KKK, then all Palestinians are not Hamas, 198 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 1: then all Palestinians are not terrorists, then all Muslims and 199 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: all that pray differently should not be subjugated, because living 200 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: a life through fear is no life at all. Because 201 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: for me, in my expertise as a black queer woman, 202 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: being a black queer woman in these United States, I 203 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: know what was said and what continues to be said 204 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: about black people to justify excessive force. This century's old 205 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: lies superpower strength of black men. So you need to 206 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: have three, four, five six officers suffocate to death and 207 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: Eric Gardner the presumption of guilt by virtue of your skin. 208 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: So you need to shoot first and ask questions later 209 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: because you fear for your life. I know what it 210 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: is like to be a part of a group that 211 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: is marginalized, that is demonized and dehumanized. Being and having 212 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: been oppressed can sometimes open the door to you turning 213 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: into the oppressor and making the same justification that was 214 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: made for your end, making that for someone else's and 215 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: calling that righteousness and saying that anyone that objects to 216 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: that then objects to your humanity and your right to exist. 217 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: Having been oppressed, having been murdered and tortured, does not 218 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,959 Speaker 1: give you the liberty to do that to other people. 219 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: I don't care what religion you are, I don't care 220 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: what ethnic group you come from. What we are and 221 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: what we are seeing is a bunch of wounded souls 222 00:21:54,560 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: who have never been healed, continue to inflict wound after wound, 223 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: death blow after death blow. This is no way to live. 224 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: Whether it is inside of the United States, whether it 225 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,239 Speaker 1: is in the Middle East, whether it is on the 226 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: continent of Africa, whether it is in Asia. Having been 227 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: subjugated does not give you the license to subjugate. And 228 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: we should ask ourselves as Americans, just like we did 229 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 1: when we all witnessed the murder of George Floyd, your 230 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: tax dollars are going to fund all of the hashtags 231 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: that follow Black Lives Matter that were people with families, 232 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: with lives with future. They are going to fund this 233 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: same oppression in countries around the world, including Israel and Palestine. 234 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: So when I see cities around the world turn blue 235 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: in solidarity, what that says to me is solidarity for who? 236 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: Because what color should we put up for solidarity with humanity? 237 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: What color is that? Because it isn't about calling for 238 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: peace in the Middle East. What you're doing is picking 239 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: a side. And what I'm saying is that there is 240 00:23:53,480 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: no side to humanity. That's what propaganda has you do 241 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: is make a choice where there isn't one. We don't 242 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: need to devalue in order to show our solidarity. Showing 243 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: solidarity is asking and fighting for a just and free world. 244 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: From book bands to marriage, to freedom of movement, to 245 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: freedom to drink clean water, freedom to make a family 246 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: or not, freedom to pray in the way that fills 247 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: your soul or not. That's what we are fighting for. 248 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: We are not fighting against a people or a religion. 249 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: We are not on somebody's access. That is somebody else's 250 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: political agenda. That is not our truth. Our truth is 251 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: about humanity. Our truth is about love. Our truth is 252 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: about creation, not deprivation. So when you find yourself shedding 253 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: tears for one group and not the other, ask yourself why. 254 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: That is the reason. Mamma till Emmettil's mother opened up 255 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,239 Speaker 1: his casket to say that her son's life mattered just 256 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: like everybody else's. The people inside of Gaza matter just 257 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: as much as the people outside of that war. And 258 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: if you feel differently and you think differently, you should 259 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: ask yourself why and whose rules and whose propaganda you 260 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: are buying, because that is what is fueling this war 261 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: and every war. That is it for me today, dear 262 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: friends on wo g F, Power to the people and 263 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke 264 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: as fuck.