WEBVTT - A Decade of Division

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet

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<v Speaker 1>your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,

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<v Speaker 1>What can be said? I'm recording this knowing that the

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<v Speaker 1>timeline for the final day to vote is twenty days away.

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<v Speaker 1>By the time that you listen to this, we will

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<v Speaker 1>have hit the teens and it will be nineteen days away.

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<v Speaker 1>And I want to reflect on the fact that since

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<v Speaker 1>Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of this election,

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<v Speaker 1>she has run one of the most stellar campaigns I

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<v Speaker 1>have ever seen. And the fact is that I've said

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<v Speaker 1>this before, if we were living in normal political times,

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<v Speaker 1>if Donald Trump had never become President of the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>or say this was his first you know, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think that it would be a hands down,

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<v Speaker 1>without a doubt, given that she would win. She has

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<v Speaker 1>the plans, the smarts, the charisma, all of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that are necessary in order to become president of the

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<v Speaker 1>United States. She differs greatly from Hillary Clinton in the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that she hasn't been a part of the American

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<v Speaker 1>psyche for three decades. While she has built an incredibly

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<v Speaker 1>stellar career as a prosecutor, as a senator, she wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>a fit sure, And I think to that point, particularly

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<v Speaker 1>at a time when Americans are exhausted, I think in

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways, by legacy, Kamala Harris brings common

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<v Speaker 1>sense and care and empathy and joy back center stage

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<v Speaker 1>in America when for nearly a decade we've been trapped

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<v Speaker 1>in the funhouse of horrors of Donald Trump and Maga,

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<v Speaker 1>we cannot really begin to understand, truly, I think, without

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<v Speaker 1>like great distance from this time, how much Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and Maga destroyed our country, destroyed our faith and institutions,

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<v Speaker 1>destroyed our faith in each other a decade near a

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<v Speaker 1>decade of division. For the first time in our lives,

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<v Speaker 1>in our modern lives, we at a president that did

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<v Speaker 1>not even pretend to try and bring people together. On

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<v Speaker 1>his inauguration day, Donald Trump talked about American carnage. Inauguration

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<v Speaker 1>Day is usually the day that people talk about their

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<v Speaker 1>vision and hope. The picture that Donald Trump painted in

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<v Speaker 1>January twenty seventeen was one of darkness, misery, and despair.

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<v Speaker 1>I honestly don't know how Republicans listen to Donald Trump, like,

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<v Speaker 1>actually listen to him, not do their fucking sane washing

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<v Speaker 1>and interpretation of what it is that they think that

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<v Speaker 1>he is saying. But when they actually listen, when they

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<v Speaker 1>actually read a transcript and think to themselves, Yes, this

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<v Speaker 1>is the country that I want to live in, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is the America that I want for my children

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<v Speaker 1>and my children's children. That's how you know that this

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<v Speaker 1>is a cult. Because there's no way that you watched

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<v Speaker 1>what I talked about yesterday with Donald Trump being on

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<v Speaker 1>that stage in Pennsylvania and just looking out of his

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<v Speaker 1>fucking mind swaying and just not making any sense, not

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<v Speaker 1>answering any questions. And he didn't do any better when

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<v Speaker 1>he went to the Chicago Economic Club when faced with

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<v Speaker 1>a journalist that had real questions and real follow up

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<v Speaker 1>and wasn't allowing himself to be put off track by

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump's normal, well you're not that smart and nobody

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<v Speaker 1>knows anything but me attitude and say, okay, well, the

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<v Speaker 1>question that I asked was about X, not about whatever

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<v Speaker 1>fucking tangent you want to go on. That's what journalists

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<v Speaker 1>are supposed to do. Get to the heart of the heart,

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<v Speaker 1>get to the truth, and the truth is is that

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<v Speaker 1>this country has been in a downward spiral for nearly

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<v Speaker 1>a decade, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walls over the

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<v Speaker 1>last three months have brought in a sense of possibility,

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<v Speaker 1>hope and light. I don't know, folks, how this all

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<v Speaker 1>turns out. I have no idea, none of us do.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want us to just hope and pray for

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<v Speaker 1>the best. I want us to activate. I want us

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<v Speaker 1>to run through the tape. If you are feeling fearful, volunteer.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are feeling hopeless, phone bank, knock on doors, donate,

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<v Speaker 1>talk to your neighbors and your friends, have the brave conversations. Engage.

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<v Speaker 1>But just sitting around and having cast your ballot and

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<v Speaker 1>then wanting to spin yourself dizzy into a place of

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<v Speaker 1>hopefulness is not going to do anything except feed the

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<v Speaker 1>fear that we've been subsisting on for the last nine

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<v Speaker 1>goddamn years. I posted this the other day that my sister.

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<v Speaker 1>I woke up to a message from my sister. I'll

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<v Speaker 1>read you what I wrote. I said, I woke up

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<v Speaker 1>this morning to a message from my sister, who is

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<v Speaker 1>feeling a lot of fear and despair about the election.

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<v Speaker 1>I told her this. I go through these moments too,

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<v Speaker 1>but it takes just as much energy to hope as

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<v Speaker 1>it does to despair. George's early voting is breaking records.

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<v Speaker 1>Hold on to that, and then I went on to say,

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<v Speaker 1>we cannot lose focus now and allow them to break us.

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<v Speaker 1>The hardest part of any race is finding the energy

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<v Speaker 1>to run through the tape when every part of your

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<v Speaker 1>body wants to quit. We can do this.

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<v Speaker 2>We are doing this.

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<v Speaker 1>Folks. You've been listening to me for a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>many of you, and you know that prior to July,

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<v Speaker 1>I was in a very dark place. Turning on this

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<v Speaker 1>microphone and sitting and recording this show became utterly and

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<v Speaker 1>completely painful. Not because I'm not grateful for the opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to connect with people every day through this podcast, but

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<v Speaker 1>because I had nothing good that I felt like I

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<v Speaker 1>could offer. Everything felt dark, everything felt hopeless. I ran

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<v Speaker 1>into a colleague the other day who said, Danielle Man,

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<v Speaker 1>let me tell you something about what gives me faith.

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<v Speaker 1>And she's like you, because I've never seen someone do

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<v Speaker 1>the kind of turnaround that you've done over the last

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<v Speaker 1>couple of months.

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<v Speaker 2>If you have a.

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<v Speaker 1>Shred of hope, given where you were, then all of

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<v Speaker 1>us can muster the same energy, And that's the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't lie on this show, right I don't, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>try and put on a happy face when I'm not happy,

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<v Speaker 1>and maybe that makes the numbers go down. But the

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<v Speaker 1>fact is is that sometimes when you are down and out,

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<v Speaker 1>it's hard to get back up. It's hard to recognize

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<v Speaker 1>that there is something other than the grief that you

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<v Speaker 1>are sitting in. But I will tell you that when

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<v Speaker 1>you get the strength to open up the curtains, to

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<v Speaker 1>open up the window, to move your body and get

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<v Speaker 1>back out into life and into the light, you realize

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<v Speaker 1>that you can do anything. Here's the thing, folks, because

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<v Speaker 1>I want people to be really clear, even if the

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<v Speaker 1>vice president wins the election, this country remains extraordinarily divided,

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<v Speaker 1>and there will be so much work to do, because

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<v Speaker 1>what we will have done is given our democracy a

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<v Speaker 1>four yearly s extent. But to believe, as we wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to believe in twenty twenty, that oh, that election will

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<v Speaker 1>just fix it and will be good, Donald Trump will

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<v Speaker 1>go away, Well, look at where we are four years later.

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<v Speaker 1>If there is anything for us to take from this time,

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<v Speaker 1>it is that we cannot obfuscate our responsibility as citizens anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't get to just tap back out, because that

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<v Speaker 1>is what the Maga Republicans will wait for and pounce on.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope that what we.

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<v Speaker 1>Gain if we win is the belief that we can,

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<v Speaker 1>that yes, we can. When Obama told us, and use

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<v Speaker 1>that phrase, what feels like eons ago, he empowered a

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<v Speaker 1>generation of people to reimagine what this country could be,

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<v Speaker 1>who we all could be. He gave us hope and

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<v Speaker 1>inspiration for the fact that we do have the power

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<v Speaker 1>and the ability to change the status quo, that we

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<v Speaker 1>can flip the script. And I want to remind us

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<v Speaker 1>that the reality is is that we're always going to

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<v Speaker 1>go through moments of progression and regression because we are human,

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<v Speaker 1>and there will always be forces at play that do

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<v Speaker 1>not want progress and will throw a wrench and as

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<v Speaker 1>many obstacles in the way as they can to slow

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<v Speaker 1>us down. But progress is like a train without breaks.

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<v Speaker 2>It will keep going if we continue our momentum, and friends,

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<v Speaker 2>if we lose, then we are going to be in

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<v Speaker 2>for the fight of our lives.

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<v Speaker 1>For our lives. There will be a privileged set that

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<v Speaker 1>is able to leave. There will be those that will

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<v Speaker 1>have no choice but to stay, even if you do

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<v Speaker 1>have the ability to leave, you gotta continue fighting for

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<v Speaker 1>those that are behind. We could be entering one of

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<v Speaker 1>the darkest periods of this country's history, which would be

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<v Speaker 1>a Jim Crow two point zero. Jim Crow lasted a century,

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<v Speaker 1>a century, generation after generation born into an apartheid system.

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<v Speaker 1>Even if they move to the North, the North, don't

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<v Speaker 1>get it twisted. People were still getting lynched, still not

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<v Speaker 1>being able to work. It was just maybe less on

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<v Speaker 1>a day to day. I believe that we have the

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<v Speaker 1>power to make it to the other side. I do.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe that there are more of us who believe

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<v Speaker 1>in the possibility of America than those that want to

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<v Speaker 1>pull us into the dredges of white supremacy. I said

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<v Speaker 1>back in twenty sixteen that the election of Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>was white supremacy's last stand. I also said I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know how long that stand would be, but I knew

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<v Speaker 1>that they were losing their grip on this country. I

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<v Speaker 1>stand by that they are not a party of winners.

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<v Speaker 1>They are so shortsighted, so small in their thinking, so

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<v Speaker 1>narrow in their experience. As Willy Wonka said one of

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite movies, and I mean the original, we are

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<v Speaker 1>the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. We

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<v Speaker 1>have to awaken our ancestral fire, that fight, that resistance.

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<v Speaker 1>It is within each and every single one of us.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a saying that has gone around. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>who said it originally. I see it every once in

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<v Speaker 1>a while on T shirts and on different memes. But

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<v Speaker 1>for those of us who are black and brown, we

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<v Speaker 1>come from a line of people that couldn't be killed.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how we made it here. Our line kept getting

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<v Speaker 1>stronger with each and every generation. It is how we

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<v Speaker 1>have arrived at this moment. So to give up, to

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<v Speaker 1>make it so that one election could wipe out centuries

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<v Speaker 1>of resistance and work would be an insult to our

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<v Speaker 1>ancestors that got us here. So I think it is

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<v Speaker 1>important in these next weeks, the final weeks of this election,

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<v Speaker 1>that we light the candles, we say, the prayers, we do,

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<v Speaker 1>the meditations, we put in the spiritual, mental and physical

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<v Speaker 1>work to win, because I believe that we can. It

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<v Speaker 1>will not be easy, and it may in fact be bloody,

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<v Speaker 1>but I believe, like I've said over and over again,

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<v Speaker 1>there are more of us than there are of them.

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<v Speaker 2>We just need to awaken.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Their numbers are small, folks. They are just

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<v Speaker 1>really fucking loud and have created this hostile echo chamber

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<v Speaker 1>that projects out. But when you see these people, when

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<v Speaker 1>you see their small sad rallies, their numbers are not big,

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<v Speaker 1>and we have got to remember that. Sometimes I say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's fifty percent of the population that is maga. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't actually know if that's true. I really don't. I

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<v Speaker 1>know that they are loud, and I definitely know that

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<v Speaker 1>they exist, but I don't know if it's fifty to fifty.

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<v Speaker 2>What matters is what we do.

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<v Speaker 1>What matters is the faith that we have. What matters

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<v Speaker 1>is that we keep pushing, that we run through the tape,

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<v Speaker 1>that we leave everything on the field, that in the

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<v Speaker 1>moments that you start to despair, do something, as Michelle

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<v Speaker 1>Obama said, don't just sit on the fucking couch and wallow.

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<v Speaker 2>Do something.

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<v Speaker 1>Activate because by you doing that, then the people around

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<v Speaker 1>you follow suit. And that is what we want to

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<v Speaker 1>be Contagious is our fight and our hopefulness. That is

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<v Speaker 1>it for me today, dear friends on woke AF As

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<v Speaker 1>a reminder, the Danielle Moody Show is live everyday Monday

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<v Speaker 1>through Thursday, five pm. Eastern on my YouTube channel. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>having a great time over there and building an incredible

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<v Speaker 1>community and conversation where folks can engage in real time.

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<v Speaker 1>So do join me over there. Even if you say, ah,

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<v Speaker 1>YouTube is not for me, just give it a try.

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<v Speaker 1>As always, dear friends, Power to the people and to

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<v Speaker 1>all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.