1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Good morning, peepsend Welcome to WOKF Daily with Me your 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, I 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: am recording this prior to the debate tonight. Hopefully you 4 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: will tune in to my YouTube channel to get woke 5 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: where I'm going to be giving my thoughts tomorrow about 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: what went down, But today I don't want to preempt 7 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: what I think is going to happen, because who the 8 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: fuck knows to be honest with Donald Trump and his 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: barrage of lies, and the media going to be grading 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris harder than they ever look at Donald Trump. 11 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: She has to do all of the things, but Donald 12 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: Trump just can stand up and they'll say, oh, he 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: was so presidential. Going to get into that. But what 14 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: I do want to talk about today, and I mentioned 15 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: it a little bit yesterday, and it's just my final 16 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: thoughts around the subject of not my final thoughts around 17 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: the subject of racism, but my final thoughts on the 18 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: subject of how racism showed up once again at the 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: Country Music Awards with the snub to Beyonce's Cowboy Carter album. 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: And you know something struck me and I posted it 21 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: on Twitter and I also posted it on my Instagram, 22 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: which is this, and I'll read it to you all 23 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: if you know, if by the time that you're seeing this, 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. But you know, there are times 25 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: when I'm just like completely outdone, and then there are 26 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: other times when I'm just like, you know, racism is 27 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: really wild to me. And there are times when I 28 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: go through my mind and I wonder what I kind 29 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: of go into these like fantasies of like what would 30 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: the world look like if black people had not been 31 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: enslaved and if Jim Crow had never happened, And it's 32 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: so hard to even imagine because it's just so ingrained 33 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: in what America is. Like Racism and bigotry and misogyny 34 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: and just hatred are like baked into the fabric of 35 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: this country because since the beginning, right there was this 36 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: massive displacement of Indigenous people who opened up their land, 37 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: their heart, and their homes to these foreigners, thinking that 38 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: they had the same values that everyone is part of community, 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,839 Speaker 1: that no one is better than others, and because of 40 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: their belief system that was not shared, they were decimated 41 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: by a greedy, hateful bunch of people that would then 42 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: spread across this country. You bring in then the enslaved Africans, 43 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: and we see throughout history, well for some of us 44 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: who are able to actually, you know, read history that 45 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: isn't band or blocked or whitewashed, and then you see 46 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: kind of the brilliance and the ambition and the persistence 47 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: of black people and people of color, like it doesn't 48 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: matter what obstacle is thrown at us, we will always prevail. 49 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: That is what makes I think being black, being a 50 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: person of color in this country so phenomenal. Like there 51 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: are always these little things like if you could And 52 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: there was a book that I just read and I 53 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: did an interview, and I want to say that the 54 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: interview was with yes, it was here, Nicola Yune's book. 55 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: Our kind of people read that book, particularly the last 56 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: sixty pages that are just like wild. But this idea 57 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: of if you could wake up tomorrow, if you're a 58 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: black person, you could wake up tomorrow and be white, 59 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: would you right? And you know, there are these weird 60 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: questions that kind of go around and my answer is 61 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: always absolutely not. Like I love being black, like I 62 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: love it. I love being Jamaican. I love the culture 63 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: and the food and the resilience and the poetry, and 64 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: like the music, the spirit of blackness. I love it 65 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,799 Speaker 1: and I would not trade it for anything in the world. 66 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: Do I wish that the world could love as much 67 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: as they covet and appropriate our culture? Do I wish 68 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: that they also could love black people? Absolutely? But would 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: I ever trade that? In? No? And so coming back 70 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: to the Country Music Awards and their snub, and just 71 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: like this overall sense of be that MAGA has right, 72 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: that they are so superior and so much better. And 73 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: so I wrote this and I've been like thinking about it, 74 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: and it reads my final thoughts on country music. White 75 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: people really think that their racism and hatred will break us. 76 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: They really believe that they have the ability to quote 77 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: put us in our place. And I'll pick up on 78 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: that phrase in a minute. Yet all you ever do 79 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: is continue to reveal your fragility and fear. If people 80 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: like MAGA and the country music folks truly believed they 81 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: were indeed superior, then they would win without restraints or obstacles. 82 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: But they know they can't. Every generation of blackness and 83 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: people of color just gets stronger, So good luck. And 84 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: I wrote that in truly believing that all racism does 85 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: is reveal over and over again the fragility and the 86 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: inferiority of whiteness. That's what it does. And you know, 87 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: Tony Morrison, it said that the purpose of racism is distraction, right, 88 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: because it has you defining over and over again and 89 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: trying to convince people of your humanity. What I think 90 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: is really interesting about the times that we are living 91 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: in is not that anything has changed extraordinarily as it 92 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: pertains to racism in this country. We just saw the 93 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: NFL star get pulled over for doing nothing other than 94 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: being a wealthy black man and driving a flashy car 95 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: and then being put in his place quote unquote by 96 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 1: the Miami Dade police officers because they can't imagine that 97 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: a black man could be driving such a car and 98 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: that be legal, because they couldn't afford it. Because they 99 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: can't do it, so it must be impossible to be done. 100 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: And that's like the narrow lack of imagination that racism has, 101 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: which is this belief that you couldn't have possibly have 102 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: gotten anywhere without cheating or lying or whatever. And I realized, 103 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: because all of that is projection, because they can't manage 104 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: to create, innovate without stealing without lying, without blocking others 105 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: from being able to do it. Like, if you really thought, 106 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: like just think about this, let's think about misogyny and 107 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: patriarchy for a minute. If men really thought that they 108 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: were excellent, right, that they were the quote unquote superior gender. 109 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: Why black women from your schools, right? Why black women 110 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: from positions that, if given the opportunity, wouldn't be able 111 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 1: to do as well as you. Anyway, if you really 112 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: believed that you were in fact better, then throw your 113 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: hands up and just say, hey, go at it, because 114 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: I know that at the end of the day, you 115 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: are not going to be as successful as I would be. 116 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: But that's not what toxic masculinity does. It bars women 117 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: from being able to access certain positions for a long time, 118 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: access to the ballot right, hundreds of year right like 119 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: access to career credit cards, economic viability. Like again, if 120 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: you thought that men were the superior gender, then it 121 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: wouldn't matter if women had the same access and opportunity 122 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: because they wouldn't be as successful. But we see that 123 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: that is actually furthest from the truth. You see when people, 124 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: whether it be men or white folks, when they look 125 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: around and they're at this you know, the top of 126 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: the pyramid, and they're like, oh, you see, it's only 127 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: us here because we're great. It's like, no, because you 128 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: dropped so many boulders and broke and burned so many 129 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: bridges that the rest of us had to take the 130 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: long way while you took, as Michelle Obama said in 131 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: her speech, the escalator up. So what we need in 132 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: terms of kind of shifting our mindset is that I'm 133 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: no longer in a position or have the desire I 134 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: should say, I no longer have the desire to convince 135 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: people of my exceptionalism. That's on you. I'm gonna be 136 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: over here doing me. So I'm not going to convince 137 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: white folks that black people have humanity, going to entertain 138 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: the fuckery that jd. Vance is doing in Ohio by 139 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: trying to create this disgusting and racist divide between the 140 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: Haitian immigrants that are in Springfield, Ohio and the white 141 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: community that is there. Mind you, that community Springfield, Ohio 142 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: was on an economic decline. It was rusting in terms 143 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: of the rust belt and the industry that had left 144 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: that area. Thanks to the immigrant population, they are on 145 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: an economic rebound, but then have to justify and rationalize 146 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: the fact that, like, yeah, you couldn't fucking do it 147 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: on your own. And so now that they're in a 148 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: position of vitality, you have people like JD. Vans that 149 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: are making up such disgusting stories that I refuse to 150 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 1: repeat that go back to trying to equate blackness with barbarous. Meanwhile, 151 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: y'all are the descendants of slaveholders that were cannibals, rapists, brutalists, 152 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: and murderers. Miss me with it. So I'm not going 153 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: to be in a position where my forefathers and four 154 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: mothers were forced into trying to convince Black people through 155 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: our respectable dress and speech and this, that and the 156 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,239 Speaker 1: other thing, that we're just like you. No, we're not, actually, 157 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: because I would argue, in many ways, we're better. And 158 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: why do I say that, Not because I'm going off 159 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: on some racial superiority thing, but because I don't have 160 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: to belittle people in order to feel good. I don't 161 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: have to step on somebody else's back in order to 162 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: feel taller. I don't have to deny people access in 163 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: order to feel better about myself, in order to feel 164 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: like a winner. That's what I mean by better. I 165 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,599 Speaker 1: don't need all of the shit that the racists do. 166 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: I'm good, right, Elon Muskoh, he's so small already, so amazing, 167 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: is he because when faced with things that he doesn't 168 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: agree with or doesn't like, he crumbles like a little bitch? Right? 169 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: So is Elon Musk really that brilliant or has he 170 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: just been able to capitalize off of things that other 171 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: people have already created? Does that sound familiar? I don't 172 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: want us ever to get back into a place where 173 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: we find ourselves trying to convince those that refuse to understand, 174 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: that choose ignorance on a regular basis that somehow, if 175 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: we yell loud enough or assimilate enough, that somehow will 176 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: be accepted. Fuck your acceptance. I actually don't give a fuck. 177 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: What I want to do is just be able to 178 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: live free and safe from violence for who I am. 179 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: But I am no longer trying to convince or be 180 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: an ambassador of my race, my sexual orientation, my gender Like, no, 181 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: I don't care. And so coming back to the CMAS 182 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: and just to the disrespect that they showed Beyonce, I 183 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: think that one of the most beautiful things about Beyonce 184 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: and this, like powerhouse that she has become. And if 185 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: you listen to the stories that she's telling in her albums, 186 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: is that like, I don't need you. I don't need 187 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: your accolades. I don't need to sit down for your interviews. 188 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: I speak when I want to, when I do when 189 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: I want to, because I create who I am. I 190 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: don't need any of you to tell me that I 191 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: am exceptional with your little trinkets and your rewards. I'm 192 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 1: an artist and I got to this place because of 193 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: my blood, sweat and tears, not because of any carpet 194 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: that you rolled out for me. And so I feel 195 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: as if if all of us can find ways in 196 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: ourselves to embody that sentiment that we are not here 197 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: to convince other people of anything. We are here to 198 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: remind ourselves who we are and what lineage we come from. 199 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: And when you start to do that, you let go 200 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: of just the weight, You let go of the weight 201 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: and the unnecessary work. This life is work, folks, right, 202 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: And so where do we want to place our energy? 203 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: Do I want to place my energy into convincing you 204 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: to be better and do better? No? But you know 205 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: what's funny is that is how I started WOKF. I said, 206 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: let me educate people, let me try and convince people 207 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: of their power. So maybe no. No, people always say 208 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: to me, Dannielle, why don't you try and like, you know, 209 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: bring Republicans on or do X, Y and Z. Why 210 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: why would I bring a Republican on this show? What 211 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: good would that do? Because the Republicans nowadays just lie? Right, 212 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: So I'm not going to pull in Ari Melber on 213 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: MSNBC or you know, these folks on CNN, Like. My 214 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: show is not a platform for orchestrated bullshit, right. My 215 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: show is for people who genuinely want to know and 216 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: do better in their own lives, not to create some 217 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: type of food fight environment for entertainment. This world, this 218 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: life is too serious for that shit. So no, but 219 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: I'm often criticized I could do better. Folks say, okay, 220 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: then you go do it. Because what I realize is 221 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: that the work that we are all doing is on ourselves. 222 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: The work that I am doing is no longer the 223 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: work that I was doing twenty years ago, when I 224 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: was you know, young and just starting career and trying 225 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: to figure out who I am and wanting to be 226 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: taken seriously. So let me assimilate in certain types of ways, 227 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: and then you know they will see me. The work 228 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: is in seeing ourselves. The work is in believing in ourselves. 229 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: The work is moving and creating and building paths that 230 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: like you may not see. And when other people think 231 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: that you're nots or thinks that you should quit, the 232 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: work is believing in you. That's what it is. And 233 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: so the lesson the reminder that the CMAS provided was 234 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: if you start to do your work, whether that is 235 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: content creation like me, whether it is music, whether it's art, 236 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: whether it's hr right, if you start to do your 237 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: work so that other people will recognize you and patch 238 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: you on the back rather than you just doing the work, 239 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: you're already losing. You're already losing because you're putting your 240 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: value in other people's hands rather than your own. And 241 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: then your value is based on what they think of 242 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: you rather than what you think of yourself. And so 243 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: fuck the CMAS and all, frankly, all of those award shows. 244 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: By a long time ago, my mom had said something 245 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: to me to the effect of, like, I don't understand 246 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: these award shows. It's like they all like just get 247 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: together to get dressed up to congratulate themselves on how 248 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: great they are. The awards are not about the people 249 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: that watch it, right, and so you can't live your 250 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: life that way. The other day, Angela Bassett, amazing friggin' 251 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: actress that Angela Bassett is just won her first Emmy. 252 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: What do you know the kinds of people that they've 253 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: been given Emmys to? And Angela Bassett just won her 254 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: first one. Someone like a Felicia Rashad never won one. 255 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: So does that mean that she's a terrible actress? No, 256 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: it does not. So I just say, folks, it is 257 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: a good reminder to take steps back to not get 258 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: caught up in the utter bullshit and pageantry that people 259 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: put together. And this is what I will say again, 260 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: not knowing how the debate will turn out, but do 261 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: know that I'm doing post shows which you will be 262 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: able to listen to. The New Abnormal will be up 263 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: tomorrow and for the first time, wajah Hot and I 264 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: are going live with Democracy Ish on Friday. So we'll 265 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: certainly get into a bunch of stuff. But if you're 266 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: following my YouTube channel, then you're going to get the 267 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: most of the moment content because that's what I'm using 268 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: that platform for But it's like the debate. The debates 269 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: are pageantry, political pageantry. No one is making a decision 270 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: about who they're voting for based on how they perform 271 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: in ninety minutes. Unfortunately, Joe Biden was pushed aside. But 272 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: like we know that that's so has worked out for 273 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: the better in terms of re energizing the base and 274 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: recentering this Democratic ticket around joy and around possibility. So 275 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 1: that worked out. I don't like the way that it 276 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: did in terms of the treatment of Joe Biden, but 277 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: so far, so good. But we know that, Like folks, 278 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: are there real independents who don't know what's happening right 279 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: now and who Donald Trump is? I don't think so. 280 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: So you'll watch, I'm certain, with drinks, with cocktails, you know, 281 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: with popcorn, and we will see. We will see. But 282 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: regardless of which, I'm voting for my freedom, I'm voting 283 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: for joy, I'm voting for lightness, I'm voting for possibility. 284 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: So whether you have a good singer in a ninety 285 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: minute set doesn't really fucking matter to me, and it 286 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: really shouldn't matter to anybody else. That is it for 287 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on WOK f as always power 288 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power. Get 289 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.