Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling great today. I woke up and was feeling extraordinarily
Speaker 1: low energy, you know, when you're just the spirit was heavy.
Speaker 1: My mood is heavy, and you know, often times when
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like this, you know, I try and do
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of things to kind of pull myself
Speaker 1: out of the mood that I'm in, you know, and
Speaker 1: try and do things to lift up my energy. And
Speaker 1: today I decided not to. I decided just to sit
Speaker 1: in it. And what I realize in the sitting is
Speaker 1: that sometimes the pushing through is just too much. It's
Speaker 1: too heavy to push, it's too heavy to lift. And
Speaker 1: so I decide to sit and meditate and you know,
Speaker 1: light and incense and candle and just be with my
Speaker 1: feelings and be inside of my body which feels really
Speaker 1: heavy and tired. And you know, sometimes I try and
Speaker 1: unpack it, well, what is it? You know what's causing it,
Speaker 1: and you know, blah blah, so then you can avoid
Speaker 1: it and you know, and you can make sense of it, folks.
Speaker 1: What's causing it is everything, Like, that's the reality. There
Speaker 1: isn't one thing that is causing my heaviness. It is everything.
Speaker 1: It is waking up to, you know, reports that continue
Speaker 1: to uphold white supremacy, genocide and condone it right. Reports.
Speaker 1: My wonderful producer Andrew texts me in the morning, you know,
Speaker 1: with breaking news and different things, and he's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve thousand, six hundred children are dead in Gaza,
Speaker 1: twelve thousand, six hundred, and he says, but the ap
Speaker 1: the Associated press use the term minors. He's like, because
Speaker 1: we refuse to call them children. We refuse to say
Speaker 1: that we're okay with murdering, mutilating, blowing bodies apart of children,
Speaker 1: because you know, Netanyahu has the right to blow up babies, right,
Speaker 1: That's what the West has decided, That's what the United
Speaker 1: States has decided, That's what Biden has decided. And on
Speaker 1: those days when you can't look away, right when you can't,
Speaker 1: there's not a place to look, there's not a place
Speaker 1: to scroll, there's not a television to turn on, and
Speaker 1: you're just like I thought we all knew right from wrong.
Speaker 1: I thought we had gotten to a place in our
Speaker 1: civilization and in our understanding of humanity right from wrong,
Speaker 1: and we haven't right because this country, the Western world,
Speaker 1: the great colonizers of the planet, will decide whose children matter,
Speaker 1: whose lives are worth saving, right And outside of that,
Speaker 1: we just ingest and consume mass death and trauma like
Speaker 1: it's fucking normal. And so some days I feel heavier
Speaker 1: than others. Some days my spirit actually doesn't want to
Speaker 1: get out of bed, and I am tired of trying
Speaker 1: to look today for the brighter side. What is the
Speaker 1: brighter side of genocide? What does that look like? Biden
Speaker 1: posts on Instagram. You know, I'm doing everything that I
Speaker 1: can and will do to bring the hostages home and
Speaker 1: to you know, create a two state solution. You know,
Speaker 1: believe me, believe you? Why why should we believe you?
Speaker 1: Nan Yahoo and his genocidal cabinet have said over and
Speaker 1: over again they don't want a two state solution. They
Speaker 1: want to kill every single Palestinian. They want to bomb
Speaker 1: every single safe zone. They want to starve them, beat them,
Speaker 1: mutilate them. They don't want two states, so they want extermination.
Speaker 1: Biden says, Oh, I'm going to give you forty five
Speaker 1: days to write me a report. You know how many
Speaker 1: kids they're going to kill in forty five days. So
Speaker 1: I feel heavy today. You know, we are just being
Speaker 1: exposed to so much death, to so much dehumanization on
Speaker 1: a regular basis that we are looking for any little
Speaker 1: bit of escape. So if it's the super Bowl and
Speaker 1: then they use that as cover to bomb the fuck
Speaker 1: out of Rafa, an area that was supposed to be
Speaker 1: designated as a safe zone. So folks, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, but it just feels harder
Speaker 1: and harder. And you have one side that is just
Speaker 1: filled with dictator, authoritarian, fascist wannabes who want to sink
Speaker 1: their teeth into what is left of our democracy and
Speaker 1: drain it for everything that it has left. And then
Speaker 1: you have another side that says that it's for democracy
Speaker 1: and continues to send billions of dollars of weaponry to
Speaker 1: murder children. So today, I don't fucking know. You know,
Speaker 1: this isn't about Biden's age, This isn't about like I
Speaker 1: just I don't know what kind of world will exist
Speaker 1: a year from now, two years from now, three ten
Speaker 1: years from now. It just feels today like the darkness
Speaker 1: has just taken hold. And I know that there will
Speaker 1: be other days that present light, and other days where
Speaker 1: there are silver linings to find, joy to be made,
Speaker 1: art to consume, music to twirl to. I know that.
Speaker 1: But on the days when the darkness takes hold, it's heavy.
Speaker 1: And so that's where I am. I am reading, I
Speaker 1: am listening to Andre three thousand's new Blue Sun album
Speaker 1: on repeat. I am praying, and I'm just sitting in
Speaker 1: it because today is a particularly hard day. I'm working
Speaker 1: with a nonprofit organization with their executive leadership team, and
Speaker 1: I'm reading. You know, they're amusing the book The Four
Speaker 1: Pivots Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, written by Sean doctor Shawn
Speaker 1: Ginwright Gainwright or gen Wright. I can't ever figure it out,
Speaker 1: but you know, in it, he talks a lot about
Speaker 1: what I've been thinking on, which is how to reimagine
Speaker 1: what resistance looks like because I no longer have have
Speaker 1: the energy for the consistent rage. I no longer have
Speaker 1: the energy for the hate. You know, I want my
Speaker 1: resistance to look like softness. I want my resistance to
Speaker 1: look like creativity, to look like creation, right and not
Speaker 1: deprivation right. And I believe that hopelessness is one of
Speaker 1: the best tools and weapons of the right because if
Speaker 1: you can get a people to believe that there is
Speaker 1: no way out, that this is the best that there
Speaker 1: is going to be, and that every day is going
Speaker 1: to be more and more unstable, unhinged than the day before,
Speaker 1: then you win because at a certain point, people are
Speaker 1: not interested in pushing back because what are they pushing
Speaker 1: back towards. We're at a tipping point in this country
Speaker 1: and you know that, you feel it, I know it,
Speaker 1: I feel it. And this election is going to be
Speaker 1: the deciding factor for America. Does it continue with the
Speaker 1: American democracy project? Or does it fall like every empire
Speaker 1: has to dictators authoritarians. And you know, at some point
Speaker 1: hundreds of years from now, when archaeologists are going through
Speaker 1: the rubbles of you know, America pre twenty first century,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll find the answers that we refuse to see.
Speaker 1: But this is what it feels like to be inside
Speaker 1: of a crumbling empire. It feels unstable, uncertain, dark, and
Speaker 1: Biden and the Biden administration is not doing themselves any
Speaker 1: favors by continuing to justify acts of depravity that are unjustifiable,
Speaker 1: And I'm no longer willing to argue with people over
Speaker 1: what is right and what is wrong. If you have
Speaker 1: the power and the ability to blacklist and blackball people
Speaker 1: for speaking their truth, if you have the ability to
Speaker 1: turn off water and power and stop resources from entering
Speaker 1: into AID camps, right, how are you still saying that
Speaker 1: you are the one when you hold all the power
Speaker 1: in the cards. Do I think that what happened on
Speaker 1: October seventh was justifiable? Absolutely not. Do I think that
Speaker 1: the reactions to that are justifiable, Absolutely fucking not. And
Speaker 1: So to pretend for people to get on social media
Speaker 1: and pretend that somehow they can make excuses for and
Speaker 1: sleep at night for the kind of just abject violence
Speaker 1: that we are seeing and saying that it is justified
Speaker 1: tells me how far humanity has fallen. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't ever know if we've fucking risen, because these
Speaker 1: are the same motherfuckers that sat around for hundreds of
Speaker 1: years and sold human beings like they were fucking cattle
Speaker 1: and didn't bat an eyelash, that raped and pillaged and
Speaker 1: murdered right in order to extract more resources to build
Speaker 1: their greedy, blood soaked, fucking empires, And I'm looking to
Speaker 1: those people to see the humanity of others. Give me
Speaker 1: a break, Give me a fucking break. They're so you know,
Speaker 1: absolutely devoid of reflection that they burn books, they wipe
Speaker 1: them from the shelves because they think that they can
Speaker 1: hide what they have done. Do you know the more
Speaker 1: that I learn about what my ancestors went through in
Speaker 1: this country, in getting to this country, experienced under the
Speaker 1: hands of their fucking, depraved, disgusting, heartless, moral less like
Speaker 1: slave captors, and then I look at the products of
Speaker 1: those that sit now on the benches, that sit now
Speaker 1: in the courts, in the police departments, that have backed
Speaker 1: in written Project twenty twenty five to restore the White
Speaker 1: Way of being. We repeat, we repeat, we recycle, we repeat,
Speaker 1: we repeat, we recycle because we refuse to teach, we
Speaker 1: refuse to learn, we refuse to reflect, use to question.
Speaker 1: So today I'm resting, and I encourage all of you
Speaker 1: who find yourself some days just not being able to
Speaker 1: meet the day, meet the moment with the energy that
Speaker 1: it needs to lay down, to take a nap, to
Speaker 1: tend to your heart, to tend to your spirit, because
Speaker 1: some days that's literally all we can do. I want
Speaker 1: my resistance to look different, to feel different, because I
Speaker 1: feel different, and I don't want to be a part
Speaker 1: of their war. It's not serving me. I don't think
Speaker 1: that it's serving any of us. All we do is
Speaker 1: react and play whack a mole to the injustices that
Speaker 1: these monsters dream up. We just live inside of their nightmare,
Speaker 1: unable to imagine what freedom looks like, what it could
Speaker 1: possibly feel like. Sean Ginwright asked what it could taste
Speaker 1: like and smell like, because we're so busy reacting to
Speaker 1: their hatred and just trying to hold the line. I
Speaker 1: want the time and the space to dream up something better, different, softer,
Speaker 1: centered and joy and beauty. I don't want to fight
Speaker 1: their way anymore because it's draining me of my soul.
Speaker 1: So some days we play flutes, listen to jazz, burn
Speaker 1: sage and breathe deep and let that be more than okay.
Speaker 1: Let that be the nourishment and the healing that your
Speaker 1: spirit is begging for, because that's what the tired, the achiness,
Speaker 1: the heaviness is is your body saying lay down, rest
Speaker 1: Because you know who didn't have the opportunity to lay
Speaker 1: down and rest enslaved Africans. You know who doesn't have
Speaker 1: the ability to lay down and rest Those running for
Speaker 1: their lives right now, so we can send them love, light, energy,
Speaker 1: the highest of vibrations. But us all burning out at
Speaker 1: the same time. Who does that serve? It doesn't serve anyone.
Speaker 1: So if you are like me today this week, give
Speaker 1: yourself grace, allow yourself to rest and recharge. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today. Dear friends, on woke f as
Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people. Power.
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fun