1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: It's been a time, right Like the last week or 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: so has seen a lot, and every time that I 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: start a show out on Monday, I'm always like, well, 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: what will the week bring? You know, by the time 7 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: that I kind of sit down to record, sometimes I 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: feel like everything has been usurped by the time that 9 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: I get ready to record. But I want to start 10 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: off today with kind of where I left off, where 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: WAJ and I left off on Democracy Ish on Friday 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: and just a reminder of Democracy Ish is live on 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: Friday's twelve pm Eastern on my YouTube channel and then 14 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: the podcast is available after. But today marks the one 15 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: year of the war in Israel and Palestine. It is 16 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: one year since the horrific attack that killed over one 17 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: thousand Israelis and had hundreds kidnapped. It is over a 18 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: year since I think over forty thousand, forty thousand Palestinians, men, women, children, doctors, journalists, nurses, 19 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: academics have been murdered. Now Netanyahu has stretched that war 20 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: outside of the borders of Israel and Palestine and is 21 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: now waging war in Lebanon, where over two thousand Lebanese 22 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: have been murdered. And there will be people who tell 23 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: you often that this conflict is complicated, that it goes back, 24 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: you know, decades upon decades, and that lay people like 25 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: ourselves will never understand, and to a certain extent, they're right. 26 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: I will never understand. I will never understand justifying an 27 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: apartheid system. I don't care if that apartheid system is 28 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: based on race. I don't care if it's based on ethnicity. 29 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: I don't care if it's based on religion. If you 30 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: have an apartheid system, I don't care if it's based 31 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: on gender or orientation. If there is a system in 32 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: which a country exists where everyone that lives inside of 33 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: that country is bound by different laws and is held 34 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: to different standards, it is wrong. This is why I 35 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: look at America with a tilted head and squinted eyes, 36 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: because America does not apply democracy and equity and justice 37 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: equally amongst those that are American citizens. We know that 38 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: black people in this country are treated woefully different than 39 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: white people in America. We can know that based on 40 00:03:51,080 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: the breakdown of economic, health, education, disparities. They exist because 41 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: of racism. They exist because of who had the power 42 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: to deem who was human and who wasn't. Now we 43 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: are certainly in a place in this country where we 44 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: are relitigating the past, because there has never really truly 45 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: been an honest reckoning not only of America's founding, but 46 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: also of the disparities that continue to exist because of 47 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: the Transatlantic slave trade, because of Jim Crow, and decades 48 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: nearly a century of segregation, because of the targeted attacks 49 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: and sentioned domestic terrorism against black people in this country, 50 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: all the way to now where you have a former 51 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: president of the United States making immigrants, black immigrants, Haitian 52 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: immigrants a target simply because of what they look like 53 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: and where they're from. So when I am looking at 54 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: the state of Israel, I am looking at it through 55 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: the lens of a black queer woman living in America. 56 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: And when I look at and saw with my own 57 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: eyes when I traveled there in twenty fifteen, the blatant 58 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: and obvious apartheid system that was in place that they 59 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 1: copycatted from the United States, I have a great deal 60 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: to say, as do many Americans who do not want 61 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: our tax dollars to go to uphold a segregationist system 62 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: where Israelis and Palestinians drive on two separate roads, have 63 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: two different types of access to water, have two different 64 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: legal systems. We live in a world right now where 65 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: black lives and Muslim lives do not matter, because one 66 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: year later there seems to be no sign of slowing 67 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: of the genocide that is taking place. And there is 68 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: nothing other than to call it in my eyes, when 69 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: one group is being murdered relentlessly every single day and 70 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: the world remains silent. So I don't care if it 71 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: is based on race, gender, orientation, religion, ethnicity. If you 72 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: are creating a multi tiered system that is not expressed 73 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: equally for everyone, we have a fucking problem. And so 74 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: it is with an extremely heavy heart that the reality here, folks, 75 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: is that we have two candidates for president, one who 76 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: is a felon, one who is an adjudicated rapist, one 77 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: who is a racist, misogynist, and a liar, and the 78 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: other one that is a former Attorney general, current Vice 79 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: President of the United States, former Senator. Do I believe 80 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: that the policies that have been upheld through Republican and 81 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: democratic administrations are going to change as it relates to 82 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine. I pray that it does. But I 83 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: will tell you that the difference right now between Donald 84 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: Trump and Kamala Harris is that when Donald Trump looks 85 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: at Gaza, he sees beachfront property, as did his son 86 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: Jared Kushner, who was drawing up plans is in the 87 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: midst of drawing up plans soon, as we know, exterminate 88 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: an entire population of people. Then you have Vice President 89 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, who does not hold the same tired sentiments 90 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: that I think that Joe Biden and past Democrats have 91 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: because they're from different generations, and believes in the self 92 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,079 Speaker 1: determination of the Palestinian people. But what does that look 93 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: like in practice? Only electing her will we see. But 94 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: I know that Donald Trump has already begun to lay 95 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: the groundwork that he told a group of Jewish Americans 96 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: that if he lost the election, it was going to 97 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: be their fault. So when we start tossing around terms 98 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: like anti Semitic for those that actually have a critique 99 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: as opposed to those who have shown consistent anti Jewish sentiment, 100 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: we lose the plot. The question that we should be 101 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: asking ourselves as we close in on the end of 102 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: this presidential election cycle, is what kind of country and 103 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: what kind of world do we want to live in? 104 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: Because what I have seen over the past ten plus 105 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: years is vast inequities that grow by the day. You're 106 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: looking at Elon musk on the version of becoming the 107 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: world's first trillionaire. Meanwhile, a majority of people in this 108 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: country couldn't pay a four hundred bill if it came due. 109 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: You have a system that has been rigged for the 110 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: rich to get even richer while the rest of us 111 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: struggle each and every day to make ends meet. And 112 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: it isn't because oh, they work harder. Fuck that, that's 113 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: a lie. It's that we are working harder. Middle working 114 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: and low income and poor people are working harder each 115 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: and every day to get less because of the hoarding 116 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: that is happening at the top. We look at the 117 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: inequities when we're looking at the effects of climate change, 118 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: what countries, what areas of being the hardest hit or 119 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: not those that have done the worst amount of pollution. 120 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: We're seeing how this is affecting areas that are not 121 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: on the coasts. Look no further than to see what 122 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: has happened in Asheville, North Carolina. That is a mountain 123 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: city that has been wiped out by a hurricane. Folks. 124 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: So there is so much work to do, not just 125 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: in this country but around the world. And I don't 126 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: want us to turn our eyes away because it becomes 127 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: so overwhelming the despair and inequities that we see, because 128 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: we have to look inside. We have to look at 129 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: our own communities and figure out what can I do 130 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: here that will have impact? What can I give, what 131 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: can I create? What kind of communities can I build? 132 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: Because for those of you that have children, whether you 133 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: are a teacher, a parent, a caregiver, what kind of 134 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: world are we creating for them? War to me has 135 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: just never made sense. And I think now back to 136 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: the times when I learned about, you know, the world 137 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: wars and how we learned, you know, from this heroic 138 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: lens of Americans coming in to save the day in 139 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: World War II and bump up, up, up up. But 140 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: we allowed six million Jewish people to be murdered before 141 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: anybody took any action. Hundreds of thousands murdered in Vietnam, Cambodia, 142 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: all around the world for what for power? So today 143 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: is not just a day to remember. It's a day 144 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,479 Speaker 1: of action because every day, every hour, thousands of Palestinians 145 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: are being murdered. Every day, every hour Jewish people in 146 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: this country and around the world become less safe. Every 147 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: day a black person is losing their life for no 148 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: other reason than being black and in the wrong place 149 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 1: at the wrong time. We don't have to live like this, 150 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: But it's when we throw up our hands and believe 151 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: that there is no other way to be, that how 152 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: things have been done is just the way that they 153 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: need to be, that we rob ourselves of agency and 154 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: of our imagination to possibly reimagine a world that isn't 155 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: feeding off chaos and violence and misery. I do think 156 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: that we have an opportunity in this upcoming election to 157 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: rewrite America, to begin to rewrite America. But it's going 158 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 1: to take each and every one of us looking at 159 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: our own lives and seeing where we can be better, 160 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: Where we can be more offline and more connected to 161 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: one another in real life, when we can stop making 162 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: assumptions about the neighbor down the street and just knock 163 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: on their door. I encourage us all to get out 164 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: of our own shells more and connect with folks so 165 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: that we can begin to build what we want to 166 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: see in our own community and then watch that action grow. 167 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: And I think I believe that if we elect Kamala 168 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: Harris and Tim Walls, that we have the ability to 169 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: begin that rebuild. But this election, like I said, is 170 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: not going to be a one and done election because 171 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: MAGA is never going away. They just reinvent themselves, different names, 172 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:34,359 Speaker 1: different suits, slicker language, but it's all the same white supremist, 173 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: Christian nationalist agenda that has been being pushed in this 174 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: country since its formation. Donald Trump just gave them permission 175 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: to always be who they have always been. People that 176 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: want to erase history, that want absolute power to control 177 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: and make people conform to their way of thinking. There 178 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: will always be those people, but i' believe that there 179 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: are more people that want to live and let live, 180 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: that want everyone to have the same opportunities and the 181 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: same access, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, orientation, gender, ability, etc. 182 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: We can't leave it up to the people that we 183 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: elect to wave a magic wand and make things better. 184 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: The country is better and becomes better because of us. 185 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: Things will change in Israel and Palestine because we the 186 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: people will demand better and elect people who believe in 187 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: everyone's humanity and dignity and ability to have self determination. 188 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: That's how change happens, person by person, brick by brick. 189 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: We have the power and that is something that we 190 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: need to remember every single day, folks. 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That is it 200 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on Woke af as always, 201 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 202 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.