Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to look f daily with me,
Speaker 1: your girl Danielle Moody recording from the home bunker. I
Speaker 1: come to you today, friends, on this fuck it Friday,
Speaker 1: just outdone, outdone by our politicians that refuse to take
Speaker 1: any responsibility, accountability, or action on behalf of the nation's children.
Speaker 1: You all know by now about the most recent shooting
Speaker 1: at Appalachi High School in northern Georgia at the hands
Speaker 1: of a fourteen year old white male student named Colton Gray. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you that, on top of the
Speaker 1: four people that were murdered, two fourteen year old students
Speaker 1: and two teachers, thirty children wounded. The swiftness with which
Speaker 1: the law enforcement said that this fourteen year old was
Speaker 1: going to be charged as an adult, as if that
Speaker 1: charge was somehow going to absolve the fear, the frustration,
Speaker 1: and the decades of trauma that have been forced upon
Speaker 1: American families at the hands of Republican legislators. I have
Speaker 1: never experienced, and I say this really seriously here the
Speaker 1: adultification of a white child the way that folks are
Speaker 1: doing right now in Georgia. And what do I mean
Speaker 1: by that? Let me unpack that we know, and studies
Speaker 1: have shown. Data has shown that when white law enforcement,
Speaker 1: for instance, or white people honestly in general, see black children,
Speaker 1: they assume them to be sometimes nearly a decade older
Speaker 1: than they are. One of the most common fears of
Speaker 1: the parents of black children is how long will it
Speaker 1: be for their black child, whether they be nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, what have you to be seen and treated
Speaker 1: as an adult? Case in point to me or Rice
Speaker 1: in you know the early twenty tens, was shot dead
Speaker 1: on a playground for playing with a toy gun. And
Speaker 1: when the officers, who didn't even bother to get out
Speaker 1: of their car before shooting, spoke or wrote in their
Speaker 1: police report, they added like ten or eleven years to
Speaker 1: Timmy or Rice's age. He was twelve, and they wrote
Speaker 1: about him in the police report saying that black adult
Speaker 1: male in their twenties. What are you talking about? But
Speaker 1: it has always been the adultification of black children, to
Speaker 1: strip them of their childlike innocence and their humanity, and
Speaker 1: to treat them in a way that you wouldn't write
Speaker 1: a perceived white child of the same age. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before on the show. When you talk about
Speaker 1: the murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two protests
Speaker 1: and was hailed by the right as some type of hero.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, when he's crying in court, he's
Speaker 1: a young boy, not a seventeen year old murderer. When
Speaker 1: you're talking about Donald Trump as a nearly Octanegerian, Oh,
Speaker 1: he'll grow into the job. He'll mature into the space,
Speaker 1: as if adolescence for white men in particular lasts well
Speaker 1: into their eighties. So there is something really strategic about
Speaker 1: the media and law enforcement's treatment of this fourteen year
Speaker 1: old boy. And I think that this is going to
Speaker 1: be the new strategy to absolve themselves from any responsibility
Speaker 1: as to the adults who put that gun in that
Speaker 1: boy's hands. I want you to take a listen to this.
Speaker 1: This was tweeted and I retweeted. It came out of
Speaker 1: k through twelve school shooting database. A reporter asked this
Speaker 1: question to Governor Brian Kemp, Governor of Georgia. Reporter, what
Speaker 1: can be done to make Georgia's schools safer? Governor, this
Speaker 1: is not the day to talk about safety or policy.
Speaker 1: We need thoughts and prayers for the victims. Law enforcement
Speaker 1: and educators. I'm sorry, what what day are we waiting for?
Speaker 1: If it's not the day that children are going back
Speaker 1: to school after summer break and being murdered in their classroom.
Speaker 1: If that's not the day, then when is the day?
Speaker 1: Because this fourteen year old was able to bring a
Speaker 1: gun into school because there's no minimum age requirement. I
Speaker 1: want to read to you from what was said by
Speaker 1: Shannon Watts, who is emeritus at Mom's Demand and every Town,
Speaker 1: and she posts this, and then I'll read you an
Speaker 1: article that she posted as well. She said last year,
Speaker 1: as a symbol of their commitment to gun extremism, some
Speaker 1: Republican members of Congress proudly wore their repelpons shaped like
Speaker 1: an AR fifteen, the same weapon a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: just used to kill student, two students, and two teachers
Speaker 1: in Georgia. She also had said that this consistent negligence
Speaker 1: on the part of Republican lawmakers is why we are here.
Speaker 1: And there is no doubt that gunning down members of
Speaker 1: your community, your fellow students, teachers, is a heinous act.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you that the real evil act is
Speaker 1: having the power to stop this and choosing not to.
Speaker 1: Right having the power, the legislative power, to stop this
Speaker 1: from happening, and not doing so. Last year, Shannon Watts
Speaker 1: tweets this, the student responsible for the shooting threatened to
Speaker 1: kill people at the school. Because there wasn't probable cause,
Speaker 1: the FBI made no arrests. Georgia doesn't have any red
Speaker 1: flag law, so police also didn't remove the gun from
Speaker 1: the thirteen year old's home. These acts don't come out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, right, they come from someplace. There were warnings,
Speaker 1: There were signs that were readily ignored because in an
Speaker 1: effort to showcase their pure and total allegiance to the NRA,
Speaker 1: these Republican lawmakers have stripped any gun safety, any policies
Speaker 1: that would have alerted them and law enforcement to this issue.
Speaker 1: They continually want to call this a mental health crisis
Speaker 1: as opposed to a gun problem, as if other countries
Speaker 1: in the world don't have teenagers, they do, and the
Speaker 1: difference is those teenagers in other countries don't have access
Speaker 1: to ar fifteens. I will read you this. The fourteen
Speaker 1: year old suspected of a mass shooting at George's Appalachi
Speaker 1: High School had been begging four months for mental health help.
Speaker 1: Before his deadly attack on Wednesday, According to an aunt
Speaker 1: of the suspect, he was quote begging for help from
Speaker 1: everybody around him. The aunt told The Washington Post the
Speaker 1: adults around him failed him. The odd who lives in
Speaker 1: central Florida, declined to elaborate on the teen's mental health challenges,
Speaker 1: but said she tried from afar to get him help.
Speaker 1: She said his struggles were exacerbated by a difficult home life.
Speaker 1: He and his family had previous contacts with local child
Speaker 1: service departments. So as this story continues to unfold, this
Speaker 1: is something that could possibly end up with the parents
Speaker 1: being charged. We don't know. But what we do know
Speaker 1: is that guns are the problem. Access, easy access to
Speaker 1: guns are the problem. We are not the only country
Speaker 1: that has teenagers. We are not the only country that
Speaker 1: has people that have mental health issues. We are the
Speaker 1: only country, though, that has more guns then it does people.
Speaker 1: And then we continue when these acts of violence happen,
Speaker 1: to just resign ourselves to it is what it is, or,
Speaker 1: as Donald Trump said, we just need to quote get
Speaker 1: over it. There is a message that is going around
Speaker 1: right now that shows one of the last exchanges between
Speaker 1: a mother and their child. Child at the school sends
Speaker 1: a text to their mother saying, I love you. There
Speaker 1: is a shooting. Someone is dead. I'm sorry. It wasn't
Speaker 1: always the best daughter. How is this okay? How is
Speaker 1: it even a choice in the next sixty days between people?
Speaker 1: A party that on their Christmas cards showed their children
Speaker 1: holding guns that are taller than them. A party that
Speaker 1: is telling American families to get over it. The pro
Speaker 1: life quote unquote party doesn't give a fuck if your
Speaker 1: kids are gunned down in school. These are the issues
Speaker 1: that are on the ballot. There is another meme that
Speaker 1: I saw that was like the right to carry, showing
Speaker 1: an outlined mail with an AR fifteen and you know,
Speaker 1: a trucker hat, and then forced to carry the outline
Speaker 1: of a pregnant woman on her knees. This is America.
Speaker 1: That's America in a snapshot. It honestly amazes me that
Speaker 1: people want to come here, because I would be scared
Speaker 1: to death if I lived in another country and my
Speaker 1: family was just like, oh, let's go vacation in the
Speaker 1: United States. I'd be like, huh, they're unhinged over there.
Speaker 1: You could get shot anywhere, a movie theater, a school,
Speaker 1: a place of worship the mall, a concert. The list
Speaker 1: goes on, and what is even more disturbing is that,
Speaker 1: as I record this, folks, it's September fifth. School's been
Speaker 1: back in many places for less than a week, so
Speaker 1: we know, based on patterns alone, this will be the
Speaker 1: first of many. This will be the first of many
Speaker 1: rounds of thoughts and prayers, the first of many handwringing, Oh,
Speaker 1: we don't know why this is happening, Like are we stupid?
Speaker 1: We don't know why? We don't care? And worse yet,
Speaker 1: we keep voting people back in office that tell us
Speaker 1: on a regular basis that they don't care. On top
Speaker 1: of that, you know, Donald Trump and his band of
Speaker 1: merry fucking idiots, you know, once again showing connections to
Speaker 1: Russia and content creators being completely and totally bought out,
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred thousand dollars a post to spread
Speaker 1: lies and misinformation. The stakes couldn't be higher, The stakes
Speaker 1: could not be higher. And you know right now, like
Speaker 1: I always say, I don't really care about what the
Speaker 1: polls are saying. I don't care about them when they're bad.
Speaker 1: I don't care about them when they're good, because the
Speaker 1: only thing that matters is the decision that people decide
Speaker 1: to make on November fifth, and I will continue to
Speaker 1: say that's between now and then activate and organize, you know,
Speaker 1: join you know, texts groups and you know, knocking on
Speaker 1: doors and donate and register people to vote, and you know,
Speaker 1: connect with organizations that are working on get out the
Speaker 1: vote and go and volunteer, do everything that you possibly
Speaker 1: can with the time, you know, the precious time that
Speaker 1: you have, but the precious time this country has left.
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine, and I say this often, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine what it is like to be a parent
Speaker 1: and a caregiver in America. You know, I have friends
Speaker 1: that just have a newborn baby boy, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: what kind of world are we leaving for these children?
Speaker 1: Generations upon generations of children absolutely morphing into traumatized adults
Speaker 1: who have just looked to their left and their right
Speaker 1: and ask like, why didn't you you protect me? Why
Speaker 1: didn't you help us? From a cooked planet to cooked
Speaker 1: in the brain. Politicians that see no value in public safety,
Speaker 1: They only see the checks the NRA gives them. So
Speaker 1: that community just like Parkland and Newtown and Aurora and
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Pennsylvania, and you name a city and there's
Speaker 1: been a mass shooting, one that has made the headlines,
Speaker 1: and I tell you that, you know, I knew after
Speaker 1: Newtown this country was willing to shrug their shoulders at
Speaker 1: a classroom of white kindergarteners riddled with bullets. I knew
Speaker 1: that there was absolutely no hope that we would do
Speaker 1: anything if you're willing to let white children in this
Speaker 1: most racist nation perish in that way. And how many
Speaker 1: mass shootings have their been sense too many at account?
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