Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: What can be said? I'm recording this knowing that the
Speaker 1: timeline for the final day to vote is twenty days away.
Speaker 1: By the time that you listen to this, we will
Speaker 1: have hit the teens and it will be nineteen days away.
Speaker 1: And I want to reflect on the fact that since
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of this election,
Speaker 1: she has run one of the most stellar campaigns I
Speaker 1: have ever seen. And the fact is that I've said
Speaker 1: this before, if we were living in normal political times,
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump had never become President of the United States,
Speaker 1: or say this was his first you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I think that it would be a hands down,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, given that she would win. She has
Speaker 1: the plans, the smarts, the charisma, all of the things
Speaker 1: that are necessary in order to become president of the
Speaker 1: United States. She differs greatly from Hillary Clinton in the
Speaker 1: fact that she hasn't been a part of the American
Speaker 1: psyche for three decades. While she has built an incredibly
Speaker 1: stellar career as a prosecutor, as a senator, she wasn't
Speaker 1: a fit sure, And I think to that point, particularly
Speaker 1: at a time when Americans are exhausted, I think in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, by legacy, Kamala Harris brings common
Speaker 1: sense and care and empathy and joy back center stage
Speaker 1: in America when for nearly a decade we've been trapped
Speaker 1: in the funhouse of horrors of Donald Trump and Maga,
Speaker 1: we cannot really begin to understand, truly, I think, without
Speaker 1: like great distance from this time, how much Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and Maga destroyed our country, destroyed our faith and institutions,
Speaker 1: destroyed our faith in each other a decade near a
Speaker 1: decade of division. For the first time in our lives,
Speaker 1: in our modern lives, we at a president that did
Speaker 1: not even pretend to try and bring people together. On
Speaker 1: his inauguration day, Donald Trump talked about American carnage. Inauguration
Speaker 1: Day is usually the day that people talk about their
Speaker 1: vision and hope. The picture that Donald Trump painted in
Speaker 1: January twenty seventeen was one of darkness, misery, and despair.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how Republicans listen to Donald Trump, like,
Speaker 1: actually listen to him, not do their fucking sane washing
Speaker 1: and interpretation of what it is that they think that
Speaker 1: he is saying. But when they actually listen, when they
Speaker 1: actually read a transcript and think to themselves, Yes, this
Speaker 1: is the country that I want to live in, and
Speaker 1: this is the America that I want for my children
Speaker 1: and my children's children. That's how you know that this
Speaker 1: is a cult. Because there's no way that you watched
Speaker 1: what I talked about yesterday with Donald Trump being on
Speaker 1: that stage in Pennsylvania and just looking out of his
Speaker 1: fucking mind swaying and just not making any sense, not
Speaker 1: answering any questions. And he didn't do any better when
Speaker 1: he went to the Chicago Economic Club when faced with
Speaker 1: a journalist that had real questions and real follow up
Speaker 1: and wasn't allowing himself to be put off track by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's normal, well you're not that smart and nobody
Speaker 1: knows anything but me attitude and say, okay, well, the
Speaker 1: question that I asked was about X, not about whatever
Speaker 1: fucking tangent you want to go on. That's what journalists
Speaker 1: are supposed to do. Get to the heart of the heart,
Speaker 1: get to the truth, and the truth is is that
Speaker 1: this country has been in a downward spiral for nearly
Speaker 1: a decade, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walls over the
Speaker 1: last three months have brought in a sense of possibility,
Speaker 1: hope and light. I don't know, folks, how this all
Speaker 1: turns out. I have no idea, none of us do.
Speaker 1: I don't want us to just hope and pray for
Speaker 1: the best. I want us to activate. I want us
Speaker 1: to run through the tape. If you are feeling fearful, volunteer.
Speaker 1: If you are feeling hopeless, phone bank, knock on doors, donate,
Speaker 1: talk to your neighbors and your friends, have the brave conversations. Engage.
Speaker 1: But just sitting around and having cast your ballot and
Speaker 1: then wanting to spin yourself dizzy into a place of
Speaker 1: hopefulness is not going to do anything except feed the
Speaker 1: fear that we've been subsisting on for the last nine
Speaker 1: goddamn years. I posted this the other day that my sister.
Speaker 1: I woke up to a message from my sister. I'll
Speaker 1: read you what I wrote. I said, I woke up
Speaker 1: this morning to a message from my sister, who is
Speaker 1: feeling a lot of fear and despair about the election.
Speaker 1: I told her this. I go through these moments too,
Speaker 1: but it takes just as much energy to hope as
Speaker 1: it does to despair. George's early voting is breaking records.
Speaker 1: Hold on to that, and then I went on to say,
Speaker 1: we cannot lose focus now and allow them to break us.
Speaker 1: The hardest part of any race is finding the energy
Speaker 1: to run through the tape when every part of your
Speaker 1: body wants to quit. We can do this.
Speaker 2: We are doing this.
Speaker 1: Folks. You've been listening to me for a long time,
Speaker 1: many of you, and you know that prior to July,
Speaker 1: I was in a very dark place. Turning on this
Speaker 1: microphone and sitting and recording this show became utterly and
Speaker 1: completely painful. Not because I'm not grateful for the opportunity
Speaker 1: to connect with people every day through this podcast, but
Speaker 1: because I had nothing good that I felt like I
Speaker 1: could offer. Everything felt dark, everything felt hopeless. I ran
Speaker 1: into a colleague the other day who said, Danielle Man,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something about what gives me faith.
Speaker 1: And she's like you, because I've never seen someone do
Speaker 1: the kind of turnaround that you've done over the last
Speaker 1: couple of months.
Speaker 2: If you have a.
Speaker 1: Shred of hope, given where you were, then all of
Speaker 1: us can muster the same energy, And that's the truth.
Speaker 1: I don't lie on this show, right I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: try and put on a happy face when I'm not happy,
Speaker 1: and maybe that makes the numbers go down. But the
Speaker 1: fact is is that sometimes when you are down and out,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get back up. It's hard to recognize
Speaker 1: that there is something other than the grief that you
Speaker 1: are sitting in. But I will tell you that when
Speaker 1: you get the strength to open up the curtains, to
Speaker 1: open up the window, to move your body and get
Speaker 1: back out into life and into the light, you realize
Speaker 1: that you can do anything. Here's the thing, folks, because
Speaker 1: I want people to be really clear, even if the
Speaker 1: vice president wins the election, this country remains extraordinarily divided,
Speaker 1: and there will be so much work to do, because
Speaker 1: what we will have done is given our democracy a
Speaker 1: four yearly s extent. But to believe, as we wanted
Speaker 1: to believe in twenty twenty, that oh, that election will
Speaker 1: just fix it and will be good, Donald Trump will
Speaker 1: go away, Well, look at where we are four years later.
Speaker 1: If there is anything for us to take from this time,
Speaker 1: it is that we cannot obfuscate our responsibility as citizens anymore.
Speaker 1: We don't get to just tap back out, because that
Speaker 1: is what the Maga Republicans will wait for and pounce on.
Speaker 2: I hope that what we.
Speaker 1: Gain if we win is the belief that we can,
Speaker 1: that yes, we can. When Obama told us, and use
Speaker 1: that phrase, what feels like eons ago, he empowered a
Speaker 1: generation of people to reimagine what this country could be,
Speaker 1: who we all could be. He gave us hope and
Speaker 1: inspiration for the fact that we do have the power
Speaker 1: and the ability to change the status quo, that we
Speaker 1: can flip the script. And I want to remind us
Speaker 1: that the reality is is that we're always going to
Speaker 1: go through moments of progression and regression because we are human,
Speaker 1: and there will always be forces at play that do
Speaker 1: not want progress and will throw a wrench and as
Speaker 1: many obstacles in the way as they can to slow
Speaker 1: us down. But progress is like a train without breaks.
Speaker 2: It will keep going if we continue our momentum, and friends,
Speaker 2: if we lose, then we are going to be in
Speaker 2: for the fight of our lives.
Speaker 1: For our lives. There will be a privileged set that
Speaker 1: is able to leave. There will be those that will
Speaker 1: have no choice but to stay, even if you do
Speaker 1: have the ability to leave, you gotta continue fighting for
Speaker 1: those that are behind. We could be entering one of
Speaker 1: the darkest periods of this country's history, which would be
Speaker 1: a Jim Crow two point zero. Jim Crow lasted a century,
Speaker 1: a century, generation after generation born into an apartheid system.
Speaker 1: Even if they move to the North, the North, don't
Speaker 1: get it twisted. People were still getting lynched, still not
Speaker 1: being able to work. It was just maybe less on
Speaker 1: a day to day. I believe that we have the
Speaker 1: power to make it to the other side. I do.
Speaker 1: I believe that there are more of us who believe
Speaker 1: in the possibility of America than those that want to
Speaker 1: pull us into the dredges of white supremacy. I said
Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen that the election of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was white supremacy's last stand. I also said I didn't
Speaker 1: know how long that stand would be, but I knew
Speaker 1: that they were losing their grip on this country. I
Speaker 1: stand by that they are not a party of winners.
Speaker 1: They are so shortsighted, so small in their thinking, so
Speaker 1: narrow in their experience. As Willy Wonka said one of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies, and I mean the original, we are
Speaker 1: the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. We
Speaker 1: have to awaken our ancestral fire, that fight, that resistance.
Speaker 1: It is within each and every single one of us.
Speaker 1: There's a saying that has gone around. I don't know
Speaker 1: who said it originally. I see it every once in
Speaker 1: a while on T shirts and on different memes. But
Speaker 1: for those of us who are black and brown, we
Speaker 1: come from a line of people that couldn't be killed.
Speaker 1: That's how we made it here. Our line kept getting
Speaker 1: stronger with each and every generation. It is how we
Speaker 1: have arrived at this moment. So to give up, to
Speaker 1: make it so that one election could wipe out centuries
Speaker 1: of resistance and work would be an insult to our
Speaker 1: ancestors that got us here. So I think it is
Speaker 1: important in these next weeks, the final weeks of this election,
Speaker 1: that we light the candles, we say, the prayers, we do,
Speaker 1: the meditations, we put in the spiritual, mental and physical
Speaker 1: work to win, because I believe that we can. It
Speaker 1: will not be easy, and it may in fact be bloody,
Speaker 1: but I believe, like I've said over and over again,
Speaker 1: there are more of us than there are of them.
Speaker 2: We just need to awaken.
Speaker 1: That's it. Their numbers are small, folks. They are just
Speaker 1: really fucking loud and have created this hostile echo chamber
Speaker 1: that projects out. But when you see these people, when
Speaker 1: you see their small sad rallies, their numbers are not big,
Speaker 1: and we have got to remember that. Sometimes I say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's fifty percent of the population that is maga. I
Speaker 1: don't actually know if that's true. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: know that they are loud, and I definitely know that
Speaker 1: they exist, but I don't know if it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: What matters is what we do.
Speaker 1: What matters is the faith that we have. What matters
Speaker 1: is that we keep pushing, that we run through the tape,
Speaker 1: that we leave everything on the field, that in the
Speaker 1: moments that you start to despair, do something, as Michelle
Speaker 1: Obama said, don't just sit on the fucking couch and wallow.
Speaker 2: Do something.
Speaker 1: Activate because by you doing that, then the people around
Speaker 1: you follow suit. And that is what we want to
Speaker 1: be Contagious is our fight and our hopefulness. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on woke AF As
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Speaker 1: As always, dear friends, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.