Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: It's been a time, right Like the last week or
Speaker 1: so has seen a lot, and every time that I
Speaker 1: start a show out on Monday, I'm always like, well,
Speaker 1: what will the week bring? You know, by the time
Speaker 1: that I kind of sit down to record, sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like everything has been usurped by the time that
Speaker 1: I get ready to record. But I want to start
Speaker 1: off today with kind of where I left off, where
Speaker 1: WAJ and I left off on Democracy Ish on Friday
Speaker 1: and just a reminder of Democracy Ish is live on
Speaker 1: Friday's twelve pm Eastern on my YouTube channel and then
Speaker 1: the podcast is available after. But today marks the one
Speaker 1: year of the war in Israel and Palestine. It is
Speaker 1: one year since the horrific attack that killed over one
Speaker 1: thousand Israelis and had hundreds kidnapped. It is over a
Speaker 1: year since I think over forty thousand, forty thousand Palestinians, men, women, children, doctors, journalists, nurses,
Speaker 1: academics have been murdered. Now Netanyahu has stretched that war
Speaker 1: outside of the borders of Israel and Palestine and is
Speaker 1: now waging war in Lebanon, where over two thousand Lebanese
Speaker 1: have been murdered. And there will be people who tell
Speaker 1: you often that this conflict is complicated, that it goes back,
Speaker 1: you know, decades upon decades, and that lay people like
Speaker 1: ourselves will never understand, and to a certain extent, they're right.
Speaker 1: I will never understand. I will never understand justifying an
Speaker 1: apartheid system. I don't care if that apartheid system is
Speaker 1: based on race. I don't care if it's based on ethnicity.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's based on religion. If you
Speaker 1: have an apartheid system, I don't care if it's based
Speaker 1: on gender or orientation. If there is a system in
Speaker 1: which a country exists where everyone that lives inside of
Speaker 1: that country is bound by different laws and is held
Speaker 1: to different standards, it is wrong. This is why I
Speaker 1: look at America with a tilted head and squinted eyes,
Speaker 1: because America does not apply democracy and equity and justice
Speaker 1: equally amongst those that are American citizens. We know that
Speaker 1: black people in this country are treated woefully different than
Speaker 1: white people in America. We can know that based on
Speaker 1: the breakdown of economic, health, education, disparities. They exist because
Speaker 1: of racism. They exist because of who had the power
Speaker 1: to deem who was human and who wasn't. Now we
Speaker 1: are certainly in a place in this country where we
Speaker 1: are relitigating the past, because there has never really truly
Speaker 1: been an honest reckoning not only of America's founding, but
Speaker 1: also of the disparities that continue to exist because of
Speaker 1: the Transatlantic slave trade, because of Jim Crow, and decades
Speaker 1: nearly a century of segregation, because of the targeted attacks
Speaker 1: and sentioned domestic terrorism against black people in this country,
Speaker 1: all the way to now where you have a former
Speaker 1: president of the United States making immigrants, black immigrants, Haitian
Speaker 1: immigrants a target simply because of what they look like
Speaker 1: and where they're from. So when I am looking at
Speaker 1: the state of Israel, I am looking at it through
Speaker 1: the lens of a black queer woman living in America.
Speaker 1: And when I look at and saw with my own
Speaker 1: eyes when I traveled there in twenty fifteen, the blatant
Speaker 1: and obvious apartheid system that was in place that they
Speaker 1: copycatted from the United States, I have a great deal
Speaker 1: to say, as do many Americans who do not want
Speaker 1: our tax dollars to go to uphold a segregationist system
Speaker 1: where Israelis and Palestinians drive on two separate roads, have
Speaker 1: two different types of access to water, have two different
Speaker 1: legal systems. We live in a world right now where
Speaker 1: black lives and Muslim lives do not matter, because one
Speaker 1: year later there seems to be no sign of slowing
Speaker 1: of the genocide that is taking place. And there is
Speaker 1: nothing other than to call it in my eyes, when
Speaker 1: one group is being murdered relentlessly every single day and
Speaker 1: the world remains silent. So I don't care if it
Speaker 1: is based on race, gender, orientation, religion, ethnicity. If you
Speaker 1: are creating a multi tiered system that is not expressed
Speaker 1: equally for everyone, we have a fucking problem. And so
Speaker 1: it is with an extremely heavy heart that the reality here, folks,
Speaker 1: is that we have two candidates for president, one who
Speaker 1: is a felon, one who is an adjudicated rapist, one
Speaker 1: who is a racist, misogynist, and a liar, and the
Speaker 1: other one that is a former Attorney general, current Vice
Speaker 1: President of the United States, former Senator. Do I believe
Speaker 1: that the policies that have been upheld through Republican and
Speaker 1: democratic administrations are going to change as it relates to
Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine. I pray that it does. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you that the difference right now between Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Kamala Harris is that when Donald Trump looks
Speaker 1: at Gaza, he sees beachfront property, as did his son
Speaker 1: Jared Kushner, who was drawing up plans is in the
Speaker 1: midst of drawing up plans soon, as we know, exterminate
Speaker 1: an entire population of people. Then you have Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, who does not hold the same tired sentiments
Speaker 1: that I think that Joe Biden and past Democrats have
Speaker 1: because they're from different generations, and believes in the self
Speaker 1: determination of the Palestinian people. But what does that look
Speaker 1: like in practice? Only electing her will we see. But
Speaker 1: I know that Donald Trump has already begun to lay
Speaker 1: the groundwork that he told a group of Jewish Americans
Speaker 1: that if he lost the election, it was going to
Speaker 1: be their fault. So when we start tossing around terms
Speaker 1: like anti Semitic for those that actually have a critique
Speaker 1: as opposed to those who have shown consistent anti Jewish sentiment,
Speaker 1: we lose the plot. The question that we should be
Speaker 1: asking ourselves as we close in on the end of
Speaker 1: this presidential election cycle, is what kind of country and
Speaker 1: what kind of world do we want to live in?
Speaker 1: Because what I have seen over the past ten plus
Speaker 1: years is vast inequities that grow by the day. You're
Speaker 1: looking at Elon musk on the version of becoming the
Speaker 1: world's first trillionaire. Meanwhile, a majority of people in this
Speaker 1: country couldn't pay a four hundred bill if it came due.
Speaker 1: You have a system that has been rigged for the
Speaker 1: rich to get even richer while the rest of us
Speaker 1: struggle each and every day to make ends meet. And
Speaker 1: it isn't because oh, they work harder. Fuck that, that's
Speaker 1: a lie. It's that we are working harder. Middle working
Speaker 1: and low income and poor people are working harder each
Speaker 1: and every day to get less because of the hoarding
Speaker 1: that is happening at the top. We look at the
Speaker 1: inequities when we're looking at the effects of climate change,
Speaker 1: what countries, what areas of being the hardest hit or
Speaker 1: not those that have done the worst amount of pollution.
Speaker 1: We're seeing how this is affecting areas that are not
Speaker 1: on the coasts. Look no further than to see what
Speaker 1: has happened in Asheville, North Carolina. That is a mountain
Speaker 1: city that has been wiped out by a hurricane. Folks.
Speaker 1: So there is so much work to do, not just
Speaker 1: in this country but around the world. And I don't
Speaker 1: want us to turn our eyes away because it becomes
Speaker 1: so overwhelming the despair and inequities that we see, because
Speaker 1: we have to look inside. We have to look at
Speaker 1: our own communities and figure out what can I do
Speaker 1: here that will have impact? What can I give, what
Speaker 1: can I create? What kind of communities can I build?
Speaker 1: Because for those of you that have children, whether you
Speaker 1: are a teacher, a parent, a caregiver, what kind of
Speaker 1: world are we creating for them? War to me has
Speaker 1: just never made sense. And I think now back to
Speaker 1: the times when I learned about, you know, the world
Speaker 1: wars and how we learned, you know, from this heroic
Speaker 1: lens of Americans coming in to save the day in
Speaker 1: World War II and bump up, up, up up. But
Speaker 1: we allowed six million Jewish people to be murdered before
Speaker 1: anybody took any action. Hundreds of thousands murdered in Vietnam, Cambodia,
Speaker 1: all around the world for what for power? So today
Speaker 1: is not just a day to remember. It's a day
Speaker 1: of action because every day, every hour, thousands of Palestinians
Speaker 1: are being murdered. Every day, every hour Jewish people in
Speaker 1: this country and around the world become less safe. Every
Speaker 1: day a black person is losing their life for no
Speaker 1: other reason than being black and in the wrong place
Speaker 1: at the wrong time. We don't have to live like this,
Speaker 1: But it's when we throw up our hands and believe
Speaker 1: that there is no other way to be, that how
Speaker 1: things have been done is just the way that they
Speaker 1: need to be, that we rob ourselves of agency and
Speaker 1: of our imagination to possibly reimagine a world that isn't
Speaker 1: feeding off chaos and violence and misery. I do think
Speaker 1: that we have an opportunity in this upcoming election to
Speaker 1: rewrite America, to begin to rewrite America. But it's going
Speaker 1: to take each and every one of us looking at
Speaker 1: our own lives and seeing where we can be better,
Speaker 1: Where we can be more offline and more connected to
Speaker 1: one another in real life, when we can stop making
Speaker 1: assumptions about the neighbor down the street and just knock
Speaker 1: on their door. I encourage us all to get out
Speaker 1: of our own shells more and connect with folks so
Speaker 1: that we can begin to build what we want to
Speaker 1: see in our own community and then watch that action grow.
Speaker 1: And I think I believe that if we elect Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris and Tim Walls, that we have the ability to
Speaker 1: begin that rebuild. But this election, like I said, is
Speaker 1: not going to be a one and done election because
Speaker 1: MAGA is never going away. They just reinvent themselves, different names,
Speaker 1: different suits, slicker language, but it's all the same white supremist,
Speaker 1: Christian nationalist agenda that has been being pushed in this
Speaker 1: country since its formation. Donald Trump just gave them permission
Speaker 1: to always be who they have always been. People that
Speaker 1: want to erase history, that want absolute power to control
Speaker 1: and make people conform to their way of thinking. There
Speaker 1: will always be those people, but i' believe that there
Speaker 1: are more people that want to live and let live,
Speaker 1: that want everyone to have the same opportunities and the
Speaker 1: same access, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, orientation, gender, ability, etc.
Speaker 1: We can't leave it up to the people that we
Speaker 1: elect to wave a magic wand and make things better.
Speaker 1: The country is better and becomes better because of us.
Speaker 1: Things will change in Israel and Palestine because we the
Speaker 1: people will demand better and elect people who believe in
Speaker 1: everyone's humanity and dignity and ability to have self determination.
Speaker 1: That's how change happens, person by person, brick by brick.
Speaker 1: We have the power and that is something that we
Speaker 1: need to remember every single day, folks. Just stay quick
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Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on Woke af as always,
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.