WEBVTT - We're Not Going Back to Sleep 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.799 me your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.840 Happy woke Wednesday. We have made it to the middle 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.520 of the week. And what I want to talk about today, 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.560 it's not several headline stories. It's one story. It's one 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:40.519 story that is being manipulated and a narrative that is 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:48.000 being generated that is largely alive. I want to talk 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.800 about the uprisings that are happening on college campuses across 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.200 this country right now. I want to talk about the 0:00:55.320 --> 0:01:03.840 encampments that are being built to force the administration of 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:09.680 these universities Columbia and why you and others to divest 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:16.720 from Israel. Now, first off, what I will say is 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.640 that I don't condone violence, any violence of any sort. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.080 And I think that the reports that there have been 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.400 violence are largely not from the students that have been 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.000 setting up hence and taking over you know, halls and 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.800 you know, community centers and what have you on campus. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:42.679 So let us start there. What I will say for 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.360 those that are like, oh, these young people don't know anything. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.560 This has been this conflict is seventy five years old, 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:55.240 and like what have you. You know what's funny is 0:01:55.280 --> 0:02:00.960 that every generation is moved by young people. It's not 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.640 the fucking old people who have all these things to 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.800 lose their power, their privilege, write their purpose. It is 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.320 always the young people. The young people that are sitting 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.680 in at lunch counters, the young people that are standing 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.640 in front of tanks, the young people that are doing 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.959 sit ins and marches and pushing the generation that is 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.560 supposed to be leading them. Write the elder generations to 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.959 do better by them because they're getting ready to inherit. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.520 Write a hot, steaming pile of fucking trash. And so 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:44.760 every generation has had young people who have born witness 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.839 to those that are in power abuse that power for 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.800 their own good right or for the good of their cronies, 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.639 and build up their oligarchs right and build up their coffers, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.960 all at the expense of the collective. We now, what 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:08.120 young people are recognizing now on these college campuses is 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.480 exactly what the fuck their parents sent them to college for. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.440 To think critically, to ask questions about the world around 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.400 them and about the society that they are now going 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.560 to be full adults in and participate in. And these 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.040 young people are looking around and saying, you know what, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:33.320 capitalism seems like a fucking Ponzi scheme? Right? This all 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.360 rise and grind and work till we're dead, and then 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.040 we pay taxes. But our taxes go to things that 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:46.720 we don't agree with or want or need. But we're 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.560 told that this is how it's always been, so this 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.960 is how it will always be. And how dare you 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.920 decide to raise your voice to push against the grain. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.840 This is why they want to take books out of 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.200 the classroom. This is why they want to shut down libraries. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.400 This is why they want to take away TikTok because 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.760 you see what happens when people get woke. What happens 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.360 when people gain a level of consciousness is that they 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.560 are not easily put back to sleep. Now, how generations 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.440 before have been put back to sleep, have been pacified 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:29.200 if you will, Right, has been the allure, the mirage 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.560 right of the American dream? Why do I call it 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.520 a mirage? Well, dear friends, because the closer you get 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.120 to it, the farther away it seems right that you 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.120 realize that in order to have this dream, well, you 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.000 have to succumb to a certain amount of debt in 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.240 order to keep up with your neighbors, or in order 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.359 to get a home in that cul de sac, or 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.279 to get a home all together. But how do you 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:57.440 do that when now, right the very college that you're 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:03.359 attending is somewhere in the six fuck figures. So whether 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.600 your parents or your family have quote unquote good jobs, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.800 y'all are going into debt regardless, because who the fuck 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.839 in this day and age has one hundred grand to 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:23.000 come off of comfortably? Nobody but the rich, right, So 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:29.320 talk to me again about what we don't know. Well, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.679 what I know is that under Donald Trump, he added 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.320 seven trillion dollars to the deficit so that he could 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.479 give his friends greater tax breaks so that they could 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.000 pay zero taxes in the same way that he does, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:49.120 because they're too smart, right, Because we have always equated 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.640 somehow wealth with genius. No, we should equate super wealth 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.520 with fucking greed and depravity, because that's what the fuck 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.480 it is. Because when you have motherfuckers sitting on hundreds 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.480 of billions of dollars or billions of dollars and there 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.960 are other people that can't afford to eat, there is 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.919 something that is wrong with society, not something wrong with 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:15.719 those that are circling the drain of poverty. So these 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.839 young people that are sitting around and they're saying, wait 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.000 a minute, So you're telling me that my family, I 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.800 am going into debt that I will never be able 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.800 to work myself out of because I got to take 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.800 the first good job that has healthcare attached to it, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.680 even though they're gonna underpay me and overwork me, because 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.560 that's just how you climb up the corporate ladder. So 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.880 they're supposed to want just sit there and watch as 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:47.560 their universities. No, they don't invest right in them. No, 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:53.880 they send that money away just like our taxes. They're 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.040 not investing in us. We got bridges that are crumbling. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.200 We got subway stations that are like a canal when 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.320 it rains. Here in New York City. We have schools 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:11.200 that have books and equipment from whether I was in 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.000 middle school and high school. So tell me again about 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.000 how this country is investing in me. And you know 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.120 what we want to talk about these folks, and let 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.120 me let me let me say something that is going 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:28.520 to be controversial, right. There have been several people that 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:35.040 have burned themselves alive, self immolated right over the course 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:42.720 of the last year, and we want to say that 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.600 these people are crazy, right, We want to say, who 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.520 would do such a thing? You know, who would do 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:56.240 such a thing? Desperate people, Desperate people that see a 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.680 world around them that has gone absolutely fucking met And 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.840 so in order to pause that world, to pause that 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:12.920 crazy for a moment, they do an incredible, extraordinarily violent 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:19.600 act to have us take pause and ask ourselves what 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:25.880 the fuck is going on? Right? They want to say 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:33.200 that the man Max who just lit himself up in 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:40.920 New York City outside of Donald Trump's trial, he threw 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.480 up anti government pamphlets into the air that he had 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:51.280 gotten increasingly erratic and spouting off things like the government 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.000 is a Ponzi scheme? What did I just say at 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.160 the top of this show? Show me where the fucking 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:02.840 lie is. You pay into a system that doesn't pay 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.880 you back. You pay into a system that tells you 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.520 that you have to spend forty fifty years grinding yourself 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.880 for what ten years of a minuscule check, right that 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.160 they don't even want to give you. That every generation 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.079 that is getting set to retire is retiring by crossing 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.080 their fingers and their toes. Do you know how many 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.880 fucking advertisements come up on television about health care and 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.240 life insurance and all of these things. Do you know 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.160 what they don't do in other developed countries that do 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.240 you know why? Because they've invested in a social safety net, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.000 because they care about their people, because they know that 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.400 the people are not just working for themselves, but they're 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.200 working for the country. Right, so the country then owes 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:54.960 them something. Not in America. No, we tell you that 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.640 if you want what you put back, right, if you 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.800 want what you put in back, we tell you right 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.040 that you're lazy, that you're just looking for a handout. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.400 But you see those fucking millionaires and billionaires that are 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.400 lined up around right, the IRS and the Department of Treasury, 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.600 What the fuck do you think that they're getting? The 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.000 only one making out right are the millionaires and billionaires 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.880 because they right have lawyers that weave them in and 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.120 out of the fucking loopholes. The rest of us that 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:34.439 loopholes a fucking noose. So miss me with the bullshit 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:39.960 about oh, it's conspiracy, is it right? Is it a 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.120 conspiracy to start putting the dots together, start connecting them 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.800 and seeing the greater picture that no one is looking 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.720 out for the betterment, for the expansion of a middle class. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.840 That the right, right, and they're war on DEI and 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.160 critical race theory is taking away scholarships left and right 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.200 for black students, knowing that in many ways that's the 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:16.520 way that black and brown people get a higher education. Right, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.920 you want to cut financial aid, you want to cut 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.720 away so what are you creating a permanent fucking working class, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.520 So that you remind right, these honorary black folks and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.320 brown folks what their position is in America, which is 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:41.040 on the bottom. You remind women what their position is, right, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.120 which is at home with their legs open and their 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.240 mouths fucking shut. So you want to tell me again 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.280 that these young people that are waking up to the 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.719 realities that are going on around them, You want to 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.000 tell me then I'll know what they're talking about. You 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.200 want to tell me that they should shut up and 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:09.360 just go back to school and learn how great America is. Nah, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:18.280 I don't think so. We've seen this routine before, right 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.160 where the government gets to decide who the enemy is, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.160 the oppressor gets to decide who the enemy is. Do 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.840 you know what the enemy really is? Consciousness? That's why 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.840 the right went to war on woke. Everything is woke, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:42.680 This is wo blah blah blah, because they want fucking sheep, right, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.640 they want you to be part of the herd. And 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.960 so any time that there are breaks, right, that there 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:57.520 is a divergence from the parade of work and sleep 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.160 and work and sleep and taxes and death. Anytime that 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.520 there is a break that people want to make in 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.240 that cycle, Oh, they're gonna come in and drop the 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:13.360 hammer down. Police are gonna line up. They got more 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:19.560 police presence, right to push back again, some fucking eighteen, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.880 nineteen and twenty year olds. Where the fuck were the 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:27.439 police on January sixth? Right, where was that militarized presence 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.640 on January sixth when the real danger and the real 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.840 fucking threat came. So you want to tell people that 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.240 they're stupid. You want to tell us don't connect the docs, right, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.880 because the picture that we're seeing is too fucking scary 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.440 that when we start to ask questions, you tell us 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.000 that we're conspiracy theorists. You tell us that we're hysterical, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:56.400 that we're being hyperbolic. Oh, it won't be that bad, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:04.600 Give me a fucking break. The only people that are 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.959 making sense right now are the students on these college campuses. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:18.160 Because I'm telling you that sitting down every single day, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:24.520 putting on this microphone right trying to make sense of 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:29.640 the absolute maddening crazy that we are living in right now, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.960 and then going about my day and pretending all is okay. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:41.920 That's what's fucking nuts. Not deciding to sit down and 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:47.960 fucking stop and say, you know what, Almost thirty five 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.640 thousand people have been murdered. Babies have been blown up, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.480 Hospitals have been blown up, people are being starved to death, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.120 are being cut out of their mother's wounds without any 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:10.400 fucking medication. But we're supposed to go on like, all 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.360 is okay. Do you know what got me last week? 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.720 Y'o and I talked about this, but I'm gonna talk 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.640 about it again. It was the act of self immolation 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:28.160 that the reporters witnessed. You're looking at these people, You're 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:37.160 seeing the horror on their faces. Near feet away from them, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:43.840 a man downses himself in an accelerant and lights himself 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:49.600 on fire. They report on it and then go right 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:58.520 back to talking about Donald Trump. Lord, have mercy the humanity. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.040 I don't blame them. Those reporters right, because they're doing 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.920 what they've been trained to do. What about the rest 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.640 of us? Do we take pause? Do we take a 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:21.600 minute and recognize what the fuck is going on? So 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:27.040 these young people who are being arrested in mass who 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.600 are being thrown out of school, who are risking their futures, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.600 they're the ones that are gonna lead us to the 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:43.360 other side. They're the ones with courage. They're the ones 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:51.040 with the grit, with the readiness understanding that we are 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.600 at a situation. We are at a moment, dear friends, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.800 when we don't have anything left to lose. Do you 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:03.880 know what I'm saying? Accept more right? People keep telling me, well, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.880 you know, how, how are you telling people to vote 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.359 for Biden? And how when when all of this is 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.560 going on in this administrator. Let me tell you something 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:17.040 about this administration. It ain't my fucking favorite. Anybody who 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.200 listens to me knows that the decisions that they are 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.760 making are going to cost us our democracy. But like 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.320 I have been saying since the fucking beginning, I'm not 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.040 voting for Joe Biden. I'm voting for myself. Right, I'm 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.040 voting for another four years to hang the fuck on 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.040 to give us more time to figure out how to 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:45.760 stomp out fucking white supremacy extremism in this country. I 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.520 am voting to bide time. I'm not voting for by Den. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.679 Do you understand there is a huge difference between those things. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.320 Multiple things can be true at the same fucking time. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.960 We are at a breaking point in this country and 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:15.120 in this world. The old systems are not holding. There 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.119 is so much questioning going on that they want to 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.679 take away our ability to communicate and share information with 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.400 one another. They want to do so under the guise 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.760 of oh the Chinese spy. Talk to me about the 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.359 Patriot Act. Talk to me about Meta, talk to me 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.159 about Google. Talk to me about the fucking phone that 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:44.560 I'm recording this video on spy on us. The United 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:49.359 States has been spying on us since forever. Talk to 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.640 the Black Panthers. Talk to Martin Luther King Junior. Talk 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:59.359 to Malcolm X. The CIA and the FBI have been 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:09.919 ben infiltrating any liberation movements. They don't infiltrate white supremacists 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.560 because they are the white supremaists, so they're surely as 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.960 hell not going to take down their own. But any 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.520 time that there is a movement that is growing and 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.959 gaining steam in this country that is about interlocking arms 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:38.199 and issues and focus. Oh, they snuff it out. So 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:43.119 right now, they're gonna tell you that all these kids 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:48.080 on these college campuses that are setting up these encampments, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:52.800 that they're terrorists, that they're anti Semitic. You know why 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.440 they're doing that so that you stop listening to them, 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.199 so that when you see them brutalize, you say, oh, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.760 it serves them good. They've done it to black people 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:09.400 all our fucking lives. Call us animals, call us savages, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.919 call us thugs, call us dangerous, so that when we 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:19.800 are taken down right, Oh, it is about safety. Don't 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:26.480 fall for the ropodope, folks, because this country, this corporatized 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:31.440 mainstream media, they are on some bullshit, and that bullshit 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:43.159 is about misinformation, diverting your attention and giving you that 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.480 tranquilizer of Oh, if you're good, you too can claim 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:52.800 the American dream. If you're good, maybe we'll cancel your 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:58.359 student loan debt. If you're good, maybe you'll get that 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:04.199 good job. Right, And then you have the folks that 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.120 are sitting in their cul desects, sitting in their homes, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:12.600 and they're saying, oh, these kids these days, you know, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.720 they're lazy, they're this, they're that. When I was their age, 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.480 when you were their age, what a home costs five dollars. 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.360 Your bosses used to give you raises because you got 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:35.119 your wives pregnant. We're not the same folks. All I 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:40.800 have to say is that they are working over time, 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:47.399 double time, and triple time to put you back to sleep. 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:57.320 Stay woke. That is it for me today. Dear friends 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.479 on Woke af AS, always power to the people and 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:06.520 to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:07.000 as fuck.