1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: What can be said? I'm recording this knowing that the 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: timeline for the final day to vote is twenty days away. 5 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: By the time that you listen to this, we will 6 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: have hit the teens and it will be nineteen days away. 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: And I want to reflect on the fact that since 8 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of this election, 9 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: she has run one of the most stellar campaigns I 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: have ever seen. And the fact is that I've said 11 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: this before, if we were living in normal political times, 12 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: if Donald Trump had never become President of the United States, 13 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: or say this was his first you know, I don't know, 14 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: but I think that it would be a hands down, 15 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: without a doubt, given that she would win. She has 16 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: the plans, the smarts, the charisma, all of the things 17 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: that are necessary in order to become president of the 18 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: United States. She differs greatly from Hillary Clinton in the 19 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: fact that she hasn't been a part of the American 20 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: psyche for three decades. While she has built an incredibly 21 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: stellar career as a prosecutor, as a senator, she wasn't 22 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: a fit sure, And I think to that point, particularly 23 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: at a time when Americans are exhausted, I think in 24 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: a lot of ways, by legacy, Kamala Harris brings common 25 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: sense and care and empathy and joy back center stage 26 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,119 Speaker 1: in America when for nearly a decade we've been trapped 27 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: in the funhouse of horrors of Donald Trump and Maga, 28 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: we cannot really begin to understand, truly, I think, without 29 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: like great distance from this time, how much Donald Trump 30 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: and Maga destroyed our country, destroyed our faith and institutions, 31 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: destroyed our faith in each other a decade near a 32 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: decade of division. For the first time in our lives, 33 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: in our modern lives, we at a president that did 34 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: not even pretend to try and bring people together. On 35 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: his inauguration day, Donald Trump talked about American carnage. Inauguration 36 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: Day is usually the day that people talk about their 37 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: vision and hope. The picture that Donald Trump painted in 38 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: January twenty seventeen was one of darkness, misery, and despair. 39 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how Republicans listen to Donald Trump, like, 40 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: actually listen to him, not do their fucking sane washing 41 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: and interpretation of what it is that they think that 42 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: he is saying. But when they actually listen, when they 43 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: actually read a transcript and think to themselves, Yes, this 44 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: is the country that I want to live in, and 45 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: this is the America that I want for my children 46 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: and my children's children. That's how you know that this 47 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: is a cult. Because there's no way that you watched 48 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: what I talked about yesterday with Donald Trump being on 49 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: that stage in Pennsylvania and just looking out of his 50 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: fucking mind swaying and just not making any sense, not 51 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: answering any questions. And he didn't do any better when 52 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: he went to the Chicago Economic Club when faced with 53 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: a journalist that had real questions and real follow up 54 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: and wasn't allowing himself to be put off track by 55 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's normal, well you're not that smart and nobody 56 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: knows anything but me attitude and say, okay, well, the 57 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: question that I asked was about X, not about whatever 58 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: fucking tangent you want to go on. That's what journalists 59 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: are supposed to do. Get to the heart of the heart, 60 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: get to the truth, and the truth is is that 61 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: this country has been in a downward spiral for nearly 62 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: a decade, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walls over the 63 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: last three months have brought in a sense of possibility, 64 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: hope and light. I don't know, folks, how this all 65 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 1: turns out. I have no idea, none of us do. 66 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: I don't want us to just hope and pray for 67 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: the best. I want us to activate. I want us 68 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: to run through the tape. If you are feeling fearful, volunteer. 69 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: If you are feeling hopeless, phone bank, knock on doors, donate, 70 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: talk to your neighbors and your friends, have the brave conversations. Engage. 71 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: But just sitting around and having cast your ballot and 72 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: then wanting to spin yourself dizzy into a place of 73 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: hopefulness is not going to do anything except feed the 74 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: fear that we've been subsisting on for the last nine 75 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: goddamn years. I posted this the other day that my sister. 76 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: I woke up to a message from my sister. I'll 77 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: read you what I wrote. I said, I woke up 78 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: this morning to a message from my sister, who is 79 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: feeling a lot of fear and despair about the election. 80 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: I told her this. I go through these moments too, 81 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: but it takes just as much energy to hope as 82 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: it does to despair. George's early voting is breaking records. 83 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: Hold on to that, and then I went on to say, 84 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: we cannot lose focus now and allow them to break us. 85 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: The hardest part of any race is finding the energy 86 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: to run through the tape when every part of your 87 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: body wants to quit. We can do this. 88 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: We are doing this. 89 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: Folks. You've been listening to me for a long time, 90 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: many of you, and you know that prior to July, 91 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: I was in a very dark place. Turning on this 92 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: microphone and sitting and recording this show became utterly and 93 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: completely painful. Not because I'm not grateful for the opportunity 94 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: to connect with people every day through this podcast, but 95 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: because I had nothing good that I felt like I 96 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: could offer. Everything felt dark, everything felt hopeless. I ran 97 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: into a colleague the other day who said, Danielle Man, 98 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: let me tell you something about what gives me faith. 99 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: And she's like you, because I've never seen someone do 100 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: the kind of turnaround that you've done over the last 101 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: couple of months. 102 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: If you have a. 103 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: Shred of hope, given where you were, then all of 104 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: us can muster the same energy, And that's the truth. 105 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: I don't lie on this show, right I don't, you know, 106 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: try and put on a happy face when I'm not happy, 107 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: and maybe that makes the numbers go down. But the 108 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: fact is is that sometimes when you are down and out, 109 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: it's hard to get back up. It's hard to recognize 110 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: that there is something other than the grief that you 111 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: are sitting in. But I will tell you that when 112 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: you get the strength to open up the curtains, to 113 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: open up the window, to move your body and get 114 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: back out into life and into the light, you realize 115 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: that you can do anything. Here's the thing, folks, because 116 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: I want people to be really clear, even if the 117 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: vice president wins the election, this country remains extraordinarily divided, 118 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: and there will be so much work to do, because 119 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: what we will have done is given our democracy a 120 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: four yearly s extent. But to believe, as we wanted 121 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: to believe in twenty twenty, that oh, that election will 122 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: just fix it and will be good, Donald Trump will 123 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: go away, Well, look at where we are four years later. 124 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: If there is anything for us to take from this time, 125 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: it is that we cannot obfuscate our responsibility as citizens anymore. 126 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: We don't get to just tap back out, because that 127 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: is what the Maga Republicans will wait for and pounce on. 128 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 2: I hope that what we. 129 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: Gain if we win is the belief that we can, 130 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: that yes, we can. When Obama told us, and use 131 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: that phrase, what feels like eons ago, he empowered a 132 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: generation of people to reimagine what this country could be, 133 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: who we all could be. He gave us hope and 134 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: inspiration for the fact that we do have the power 135 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: and the ability to change the status quo, that we 136 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: can flip the script. And I want to remind us 137 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: that the reality is is that we're always going to 138 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: go through moments of progression and regression because we are human, 139 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: and there will always be forces at play that do 140 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: not want progress and will throw a wrench and as 141 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: many obstacles in the way as they can to slow 142 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: us down. But progress is like a train without breaks. 143 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 2: It will keep going if we continue our momentum, and friends, 144 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: if we lose, then we are going to be in 145 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: for the fight of our lives. 146 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: For our lives. There will be a privileged set that 147 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: is able to leave. There will be those that will 148 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: have no choice but to stay, even if you do 149 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: have the ability to leave, you gotta continue fighting for 150 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: those that are behind. We could be entering one of 151 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: the darkest periods of this country's history, which would be 152 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: a Jim Crow two point zero. Jim Crow lasted a century, 153 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: a century, generation after generation born into an apartheid system. 154 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: Even if they move to the North, the North, don't 155 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: get it twisted. People were still getting lynched, still not 156 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: being able to work. It was just maybe less on 157 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: a day to day. I believe that we have the 158 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: power to make it to the other side. I do. 159 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: I believe that there are more of us who believe 160 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: in the possibility of America than those that want to 161 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: pull us into the dredges of white supremacy. I said 162 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen that the election of Donald Trump 163 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: was white supremacy's last stand. I also said I didn't 164 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: know how long that stand would be, but I knew 165 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: that they were losing their grip on this country. I 166 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: stand by that they are not a party of winners. 167 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: They are so shortsighted, so small in their thinking, so 168 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: narrow in their experience. As Willy Wonka said one of 169 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: my favorite movies, and I mean the original, we are 170 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. We 171 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: have to awaken our ancestral fire, that fight, that resistance. 172 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: It is within each and every single one of us. 173 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: There's a saying that has gone around. I don't know 174 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: who said it originally. I see it every once in 175 00:12:54,679 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: a while on T shirts and on different memes. But 176 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: for those of us who are black and brown, we 177 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: come from a line of people that couldn't be killed. 178 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: That's how we made it here. Our line kept getting 179 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: stronger with each and every generation. It is how we 180 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: have arrived at this moment. So to give up, to 181 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: make it so that one election could wipe out centuries 182 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: of resistance and work would be an insult to our 183 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: ancestors that got us here. So I think it is 184 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: important in these next weeks, the final weeks of this election, 185 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: that we light the candles, we say, the prayers, we do, 186 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: the meditations, we put in the spiritual, mental and physical 187 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: work to win, because I believe that we can. It 188 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: will not be easy, and it may in fact be bloody, 189 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: but I believe, like I've said over and over again, 190 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: there are more of us than there are of them. 191 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 2: We just need to awaken. 192 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: That's it. Their numbers are small, folks. They are just 193 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: really fucking loud and have created this hostile echo chamber 194 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: that projects out. But when you see these people, when 195 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: you see their small sad rallies, their numbers are not big, 196 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: and we have got to remember that. Sometimes I say, oh, 197 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: it's fifty percent of the population that is maga. I 198 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: don't actually know if that's true. I really don't. I 199 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: know that they are loud, and I definitely know that 200 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: they exist, but I don't know if it's fifty to fifty. 201 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 2: What matters is what we do. 202 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: What matters is the faith that we have. What matters 203 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: is that we keep pushing, that we run through the tape, 204 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: that we leave everything on the field, that in the 205 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: moments that you start to despair, do something, as Michelle 206 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: Obama said, don't just sit on the fucking couch and wallow. 207 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 2: Do something. 208 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: Activate because by you doing that, then the people around 209 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: you follow suit. And that is what we want to 210 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: be Contagious is our fight and our hopefulness. That is 211 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on woke AF As 212 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: a reminder, the Danielle Moody Show is live everyday Monday 213 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: through Thursday, five pm. Eastern on my YouTube channel. I'm 214 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: having a great time over there and building an incredible 215 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: community and conversation where folks can engage in real time. 216 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: So do join me over there. Even if you say, ah, 217 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: YouTube is not for me, just give it a try. 218 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, Power to the people and to 219 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.