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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKA app Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Long

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Speaker 1: Island bunker. Y'all check your calendars. I know that we

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Speaker 1: have changed the days of the week from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Sunday to yesterday, today, and tomorrow it is May. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's May. You know. Generally, when the calendar turns and

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Speaker 1: we start to get closer to summer, I get so excited.

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Speaker 1: I am someone. My therapist doesn't think that I have

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Speaker 1: seasonal depression, but I believe that I do because the

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Speaker 1: winter months, the longer months, the gray, the cold, the

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Speaker 1: dark for so long fucks with me on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: And as we spring forward and we march into summer,

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Speaker 1: I start to get an energy and a bounce in

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Speaker 1: my step. But twenty twenty yeah not what we all

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Speaker 1: anticipated twenty twenty to be. And so the fact that

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Speaker 1: today is May first, it is in fact fuck it Friday.

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Speaker 1: So we will get to what I'm saying fuck it

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Speaker 1: to on this Friday. But goddamn, I mean, but two

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Speaker 1: months ago, May was supposed to be lit as fuck.

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Speaker 1: It was going to be when the rooftops in New

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Speaker 1: York City and the patios were getting swept off, and

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Speaker 1: the tables were being wiped down, and we were all

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Speaker 1: going to be running to enjoy the outside weather and

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Speaker 1: collectively rubbing shoulders and laughing in rose and it's all

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Speaker 1: the things. And now life is so very different, and

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Speaker 1: what makes it all so unsettling is that we don't

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Speaker 1: know when or if it's going to change. Now. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: I spoke to you all about the new drug, the

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Speaker 1: clinical trial that doctor Fauci was talking about with rememdevir. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that I'm butchering the name of this drug

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Speaker 1: that essentially what it was showing is that it was

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Speaker 1: lessening the recovery period for the coronavirus by four days,

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Speaker 1: which is exceptional. And doctor Fauci is optimistic about this,

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Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic as one should be, because again, we are

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Speaker 1: in the midst of a global pandemic, dealing with a

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Speaker 1: virus that we know nothing about, and it feels like

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Speaker 1: every day like yesterday, a bunch of new symptoms that

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Speaker 1: are listed that we need to be paying at tension to.

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Speaker 1: One of them is sneezing and sore throats and body aches,

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Speaker 1: and I'm saying to myself, Fuck, that is essentially what

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Speaker 1: sounds like allergy season, which will be at its heights

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Speaker 1: in but a couple of weeks, depending on what area

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Speaker 1: Pollen is about to be everywhere. Who doesn't have sore

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Speaker 1: throat and sneezing and coughing and watery eyes and all

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Speaker 1: of these things. And so I'm concerned about going into

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Speaker 1: allergy season, as I'm sure everyone is who is affected

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Speaker 1: by allergies. I would caution you all to kind of,

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Speaker 1: some uji breath if you are a yogi, which is

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Speaker 1: like the deep you know, the deep cleansing breaths that

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Speaker 1: just to kind of make sure that your lungs are

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Speaker 1: operating at the capacity that they should be. But I

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Speaker 1: know that we are We're heading into a weird time

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Speaker 1: and I'm concerned about that. It's been a week It's

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Speaker 1: been a week and we have been through a lot.

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Speaker 1: So what am I saying fuck it to this Friday?

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Speaker 1: I mean the list, y'all. Goddamn, the list is long.

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Speaker 1: But as with per usual, I'm saying fuck it to

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. But let me be more specific. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: my opening was very difficult. It was hard because we've

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Speaker 1: hit a milestone, a milestone that we should have never

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Speaker 1: the fact that this global pandemic was going to reach

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Speaker 1: our shores, that we should have never met. Over sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand deaths, and I'm sure when you all will be

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Speaker 1: listening to this, the numbers will have increased, as they

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Speaker 1: day to day basis. But I don't think that three

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Speaker 1: day is anything that we should be celebrating. Somehow, though

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner thinks that that is a point of congratulations.

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Speaker 1: In recent interviews, he has declared that the administration's response

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Speaker 1: to the coronavirus has been exceptional, has been better than expected,

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Speaker 1: and they've done really well. If you remember, Trump was

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Speaker 1: giving himself a ten ten, sixty thousand American deaths are

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Speaker 1: on his hands, sixty thousand. I don't know where you

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Speaker 1: be exceptional. Right? Is it opposite day? Are we at

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Speaker 1: a place in our society and in our world where

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Speaker 1: that is an acceptable number and that's something that should

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Speaker 1: be applauded and congratulated. Are you fucking kidding me? So?

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Speaker 1: Fuck it to Jared Kushner, you piece of fucking shit

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Speaker 1: who you shouldn't be. You shouldn't have a job anywhere, literally,

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Speaker 1: you should have a job nowhere. Your dad is a

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Speaker 1: fucking criminal, Your father in law is a fucking criminal.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing to me how these people, rich white

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Speaker 1: people are able to continually fail up without any resume

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Speaker 1: at all other than the fact that you have the

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Speaker 1: right last name and you were born into the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote right family. Why is Jared Kushner telling American people that, oh,

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Speaker 1: we should be excited and happy about where we are

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Speaker 1: as a nation. Are you dumb? Seriously like I asked

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Speaker 1: that question, and I genuinely mean it. Are you fucking

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Speaker 1: stupid right to think that at any point in time

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Speaker 1: when sixty that when more Americans have died in the

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Speaker 1: last two months than did in the Vietnam War, When

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Speaker 1: more Americans have died in the last two months than

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Speaker 1: did in the most devastating terrorist attack that we have

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Speaker 1: seen since Pearl Harbor in nine to eleven. In two months,

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Speaker 1: that is not anything to applaud. You should not be

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Speaker 1: excited about this at all. You should be ashamed. You

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Speaker 1: should be embarrassed. You should be speaking in tones that

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Speaker 1: are low and deliberate, filled with sorrow and empathy. But

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I would expect that from this

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Speaker 1: evil empire. I have no idea, So fuck it to him.

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Speaker 1: Who else am I saying fuck it too? Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you yesterday I was on Twitter, as I always

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Speaker 1: am because I want to know the latest what's going on,

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Speaker 1: and I come across a pitcher a video. Rob Gil

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Speaker 1: It was a video of quote. This is his tweet.

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Speaker 1: Multiple armed gunmen storm Michigan's state House. State police are

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Speaker 1: protecting at Governor Whitmer and blocking the gunmen from gaining

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Speaker 1: access to the floor. This is America in the age

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Speaker 1: of Trump. If you have not seen the video, I

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Speaker 1: urge you to go to Twitter to my Twitter handle

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Speaker 1: deep thoughts. Armed white gunmen stormed the Capitol building with

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Speaker 1: over a hundred protesters inside in the midst of a

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Speaker 1: global pandemic. And you know what, not one of them

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Speaker 1: was shot. As far as I know at this particular time,

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Speaker 1: unarmed in America without getting shot. But these privileged motherfuckers

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Speaker 1: I went on because the level of disgust that I

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Speaker 1: You know what white privilege looks like, arming yourself and

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Speaker 1: storming a government building without any fear of being shot,

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Speaker 1: because after all, it's your right. Meanwhile, black people are

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Speaker 1: afraid of wearing ppe and being killed with us again

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Speaker 1: for the National Security Action Group ned Price ned interesting

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Speaker 1: stories now floating around with the New York Times at

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration instead once again of keeping us all safe.

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Speaker 1: As we have now moved into over a million people

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Speaker 1: infected with the coronavirus in the United States, over sixty

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Speaker 1: Trump officials are said to press spies to link virus

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Speaker 1: and Wuhan labs. I mean, your former CIA. What the

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Speaker 1: hell is this about? Well, Danielle, I think the easier

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Speaker 1: to me, this is precisely what that is. If you

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Speaker 1: apparently leaning on our intelligence community to do, essentially to

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Speaker 1: current predicaments. It certainly wouldn't have changed the nature of

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Speaker 1: if the virus had in fact escaped accidentally from a

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Speaker 1: We're doing tracing in order to keep people safe and

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Speaker 1: understand how the virus is spreading. But it doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: finding someone to blame. If, in fact, let's say it

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Speaker 1: The only thing that would change the equation in this

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Speaker 1: the case, and in fact, even today the intelligence community

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Speaker 1: They're looking into two possibilities, one that it accidentally escaped

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Speaker 1: a wet market. But at its heart, you're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: I see this is someone who who left the intelligence

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Speaker 1: community at the start of the Trump administration. I would

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Speaker 1: love an opportunity to be able to go back into serve,

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Speaker 1: including in an intelligence capacity. I know there are many

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Speaker 1: of my former colleagues who would love the chance to

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Speaker 1: do the same, and so that's something we need to

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Speaker 1: look at. How we can accommodate those who left in

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Speaker 1: good standing and who would like to serve, who would

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Speaker 1: like to serve again. But beyond that, I think, and

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Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about this last week, the

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Speaker 1: post Watergate era I think was instructive for the kinds

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Speaker 1: of stats to that we as a country need to

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Speaker 1: take in the aftermath of the Trump era. In that case,

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Speaker 1: it was a Congress that on a bipart is in

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Speaker 1: basis pass any number of pieces of legislation, from the

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Speaker 1: Inspector General's Act to reform of our surveillance authorities to

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Speaker 1: instituting over committees for our intelligence community. What I hear

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Speaker 1: is that we will not have any any desire on

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Speaker 1: the part of Republicans in Congress to take acts that

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Speaker 1: could look like a repudiation of the Trump era. And

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Speaker 1: I think his era clearly has highlighted some things that

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Speaker 1: need to change. The declassification of information for political purposes

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Speaker 1: is one, meddling and ongoing law enforcement investigations and intelligence

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Speaker 1: matters is another. And the only way to really close

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Speaker 1: this loopholes in most cases is going to be with legislation.

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Speaker 1: The challenge is that we are not going to have

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Speaker 1: a Congress, and to be specific, we are not going

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Speaker 1: to have Republicans in Congress, at least in the in

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Speaker 1: the next cycle who will be willing to do this.

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Speaker 1: And so if there's any hope for that, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it will take place in twenty twenty one. I

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Speaker 1: don't think take place in twenty twenty two. But you know,

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Speaker 1: my hope is that down the road, as Congress endures

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Speaker 1: more changes and as voters and Americans realize the damage

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Speaker 1: that this administration have done has done. We will, over

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Speaker 1: the course of years, have a Congress that is more

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Speaker 1: amenable to this and that puts the best interests of

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Speaker 1: the American people in the heart of these legislative efforts

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Speaker 1: and is no longer afraid to rebuke what has been

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Speaker 1: an administration that is deserved, that deserves nothing less than

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Speaker 1: a stark rebuke. Well ned as always, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for keeping an eye on what this administration is

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Speaker 1: doing as it pertains to the intelligence community, because I

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Speaker 1: think that it's incredibly important for people to be aware

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Speaker 1: of how they continue to undercut the community and also

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Speaker 1: the shifting of blame, which is not going to bring

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Speaker 1: back sixty thousand Americans that have lost their lives, and

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Speaker 1: I wish that we would be paying attention to that

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Speaker 1: rather than the blame game that this administration is now

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Speaker 1: known for. Thank you so much as I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you soon. Talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome to woke af Daily

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Speaker 1: Stacy Long Simmons, who is the director of the Advocacy

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Speaker 1: and Action Department at the LGBTQ Task Force, And you

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Speaker 1: know folks. When we have been having conversations about the

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Speaker 1: coronavirus and about vulnerable populations, one of the populations that

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Speaker 1: we never really dig into is the LGBTQ community. And

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Speaker 1: so Stacy, thank you so much for taking the time

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Speaker 1: to join us. I know that now is probably an

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Speaker 1: incredibly busy time, but help paint the picture as to

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Speaker 1: what you have been hearing and seeing and understand about

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Speaker 1: how this global pandemic affecting our community viciously right now. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and first let me just thank you for having me

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Speaker 1: on the show. I very very much appreciate having an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to be in such an affirming space talking about

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Speaker 1: issues that are current and so critical for our community. Basically,

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Speaker 1: things were already, as you know, not an easy time

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Speaker 1: for the LGBTQ community. I mean, we have been under

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Speaker 1: an administration that has taken every turn, every opportunity to

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Speaker 1: roll back all of the progress we made under under

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Speaker 1: the Obomb administration, and they just continue to add insult

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Speaker 1: to injury. And so even as I sit here, we

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Speaker 1: are waiting for a horrible rollback of Section fifteen fifty

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Speaker 1: seven in whatever the proposed rule is that's going to

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Speaker 1: come out of the Health and Human Services Agency, And

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Speaker 1: basically what that means is the basic protections that were

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Speaker 1: put into Obamacare for people who are LGBTQ, for people

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Speaker 1: anyone who experiences discrimination right on those different basies, like

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Speaker 1: they're basically gutting that law and taking that out, and

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Speaker 1: so on the one hand, we have this pandemic and

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, we don't have our usual set

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Speaker 1: of tools to be able to address such a severe

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Speaker 1: public health and economic crises. You know, it was like

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Speaker 1: three and a half years ago when the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: came into power, we were one of the first communities

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Speaker 1: that had a target on their back. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was as if they entered Trump entered into power and

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Speaker 1: was just like, what are all the things that I

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Speaker 1: can roll back that the Obama administration did? And it

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Speaker 1: was just like the acceptance and the acknowledgement that our

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Speaker 1: community was in fact a part of America seemed to

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Speaker 1: be on top of that hit list. And so this

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Speaker 1: is not a shock, right that on top of what

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Speaker 1: we're already dealing with that this is now another set

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Speaker 1: of rollbacks that are that are coming forward. Because we've

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Speaker 1: had to deal with a lot over the past three

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Speaker 1: and a half years. That's right, that's right, and I

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Speaker 1: mean I would also be remiss if I did not

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Speaker 1: also mentioned we are on the precipice of a major

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court decision coming down that has to do with

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Speaker 1: employment protections for people and people like us. And so

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Speaker 1: what's really important is, no matter what the Court decides,

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Speaker 1: that we continue to pressure Congress to pass explicit federal

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Speaker 1: nondiscrimination protections because we need it in like as well

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Speaker 1: as we go on and talk about COVID nineteen. We

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Speaker 1: need it in housing, we need it in employment, we

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Speaker 1: need it in healthcare, we need it in every possible way.

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Speaker 1: And so, um, yeah, the landscape is pretty dicey right now.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is the majority of people in

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Speaker 1: this country are with us. They're with us whether or

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Speaker 1: not they're people of faith, they're with us whether or

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Speaker 1: not they're ordinary people who, um, you know, just go

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Speaker 1: to work every day like my parents growing up. They're

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Speaker 1: across racial, across partisan lines. It's just really a wonderful

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Speaker 1: time to be LGBTQ plus because we really have done

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Speaker 1: a fantastic job of getting the support and educating people

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Speaker 1: about who it is we really are. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: interesting because while I always feel like it's a good

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Speaker 1: time to be to be part of the LGBTQ community,

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Speaker 1: I do recall that the acceptance from us, you know

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Speaker 1: that glad UH does their Accelerating Acceptance Reports that they

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Speaker 1: put out every year, What how how do people feel

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Speaker 1: about us? And you know, in a certain block, in

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Speaker 1: certain age blocks, specifically the eighteen you know to twenty

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Speaker 1: five year range, acceptance for the LGBTQ community is on

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Speaker 1: the decline because it seems as if Trump has been

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Speaker 1: able to accelerate hate in so many different ways, and

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Speaker 1: so particularly as we're as we're moving into an election year,

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Speaker 1: that that is incredibly important. We're in the midst of

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Speaker 1: a global pandemic that is ravishing, you know, ravaging excuse me,

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Speaker 1: the black community, the Latin X community. What are we

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Speaker 1: seeing in terms of queer people of color? And are

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Speaker 1: we talking about this population enough? Is the media giving

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Speaker 1: enough attention to what is happening inside this community? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well the answer to that, Crispally, is no. We could

567
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: certainly use having much more of a light, bright light

568
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: shined on what's happening with respect to queer people of color.

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Speaker 1: That has been true, it continues to be true today,

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Speaker 1: and I do want to just point out something. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: I think that there can be there's data that may

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Speaker 1: suggest that there's some reversal in terms of the support,

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Speaker 1: but that also preceded COVID nineteen, and that has been

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Speaker 1: a game changer of just monumental levels. Right, So, we

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Speaker 1: are all interfacing with one another via whether it's a

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Speaker 1: zoom call or some other video conference. We are stuck

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Speaker 1: in our home, and in some respects it has forced

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Speaker 1: us to have to relate with one another in ways

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Speaker 1: that we necessarily didn't have to before. Right, And so

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Speaker 1: I do think that the community of people of color

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Speaker 1: have a long list of things including health disparity and

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Speaker 1: discrimination and you know, having higher rates of chronic illness

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Speaker 1: and just having historical baggage related to the healthcare system

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Speaker 1: in general. Right, And so I think that like, we

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Speaker 1: can't actually afford to only be m concerned about whether

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Speaker 1: or not people are with us or not, because our

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00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: fight is sort of ongoing and the work is connected

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00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: and tied to multiple movements and multiple efforts, and that's

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Speaker 1: that's really that's really encouraging to me. I want at

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Speaker 1: least no God, Well, what I was going to say,

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Speaker 1: is um. The Williams Institute just released some data just

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Speaker 1: on food insecurity and found that one in four LGBTQ

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Speaker 1: people have experienced food insecurity at one time in their lives.

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Speaker 1: As someone who used to work for a food pantry,

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Speaker 1: I you know that I take back to heart and

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Speaker 1: the number like that rate is shocking. I wish I

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Speaker 1: could say though that it was shocking also to see

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Speaker 1: that something like thirty seven percent black LGBTQ people versus

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Speaker 1: the I think twenty one percent of white LGBTQ people

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Speaker 1: experience food insecurity. So like that race piece is something

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Speaker 1: that cuts across it actually cuts across income. We know this, right,

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Speaker 1: data supports that, and we know that when people are

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Speaker 1: being cared for by medical providers that if you are black,

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Speaker 1: you just have worse outcomes, whether it's maternal mortality or

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Speaker 1: something else. And we actually just we're partnering with the

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Speaker 1: lgbt Cancer Network to collect stories about what our experiences

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Speaker 1: are LGBTQ people during this pandemic. And so one of

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Speaker 1: the things that came across recently is there's a black

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Speaker 1: transwoman who was experiencing symptoms actually out of the New

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Speaker 1: York area and of course, you know, Governor Cromo has

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Speaker 1: been like signing a light on all the different ways

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Speaker 1: in which you know, we need to be taking this seriously, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's a positive government. But she called the paramedics

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Speaker 1: to respond because she was having difficulty breathing, and they

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Speaker 1: basically treated her in such a way that is it's

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Speaker 1: not shocking because I know the data, but it's disheartening

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Speaker 1: to keep hearing it. Like literally they grilled her, are

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Speaker 1: you sure you're not pregnant? Are you sure you're not

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Speaker 1: on drugs? I mean, are you sure? Like this this

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Speaker 1: series of questions to a person who's having trouble breathing

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Speaker 1: has called for an emergency response and ultimately didn't get

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Speaker 1: taken to the hospital. Right. And so you know, like

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Speaker 1: these types of stories keep rolling in about black folks

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Speaker 1: who are not receiving the level of seriousness with respect

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00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: to our symptoms or with respect to our need for care.

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Speaker 1: And whether it's the person in I think the Detroit

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Speaker 1: area who had sought multiple times to get attention to

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Speaker 1: the symptoms that literally are like textbook COVID nineteen symptoms

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Speaker 1: and people who like fall directly within that high, high

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Speaker 1: high risk factor because they have chronic illness or because

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Speaker 1: of their age, etc. And they're just turned away. I

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00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: mean it's just outrageous, right Like, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many more stories we need to hear, how many more

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Speaker 1: people need to die in order for or because this

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Speaker 1: This what COVID has done, I believe is just exasperated

636
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: all of these fault lines that were in our healthcare

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Speaker 1: system and just in society in general, as it pertains

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Speaker 1: to vulnerable populations. I keep telling people that in this

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00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: rush to go back to quote unquote normal, we should

640
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: start to ask ourselves why we considered certain things normal

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Speaker 1: to begin with, Right Like, why is it normal and

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Speaker 1: acceptable that when black people, when queer people, go in

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Speaker 1: for medical care, that they are dismissed. Why is it

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00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: assumed that our symptoms and issues are not ones that

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00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: need to be tended to immediately? How many more stories

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Speaker 1: are we going to hear about women that have lost

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Speaker 1: their lives after giving black women that have lost their

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Speaker 1: lives after giving birth, black people being turned away from care.

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Speaker 1: There was a story you know this week about a

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Speaker 1: young thirty year old black teacher who went in for

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Speaker 1: medical treatment in New York and was denied the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen tests and then died, right, And so you know

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Speaker 1: it's it's like, what do you think it is going

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Speaker 1: to take and what do you see as the opportunity

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Speaker 1: in this moment where we are seeing all of these

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Speaker 1: fault lines to be able to rebuild. We've got to

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Speaker 1: seize this moment to speak truth to power. We really do.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the things that's been said that

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Speaker 1: I completely agree with is that we can't allow this

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Speaker 1: to become a conversation about all the ways in which

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Speaker 1: because we don't eat right, because we smoke, because we

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we had the unfortunate circumstance of being poor,

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Speaker 1: that this is why we have these disparities. Like the

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Speaker 1: disparities that I was talking about earlier, they're not necessarily

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Speaker 1: just about lifestyle, right. There is systemic racism, systemic issues

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Speaker 1: that need to be addressed, and we've got to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of moments like the senses to register our as present,

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Speaker 1: right like I am here and ready to be counted.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things that we've been doing at

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Speaker 1: the Task Force is we have a Queer the Census campaign,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you can just like type queer the

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Speaker 1: census and go to our website and see take a

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Speaker 1: pledge to participate in the census. Because what I've been

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Speaker 1: telling my friends and family members is you want to

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Speaker 1: do that form when it comes, you know, to your door,

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Speaker 1: however it comes to you, because that translates into the

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Speaker 1: representation you will have in Congress. Your state lawmakers will

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Speaker 1: be designing some district lines. And that's about power and

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00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: access and for the next ten years. Right, and you

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Speaker 1: also are tapping into like tax dollars, our tax base,

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Speaker 1: our community funded money that the government is allocating to

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Speaker 1: different communities. It's all determined by the census. And then

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Speaker 1: one last thing, the LGBTQ community in particular, because they

684
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: keep saying that either we don't exist or they want

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Speaker 1: us to prove it, like proved that this is a problem,

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00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: proved that this is truly an issue. And when I

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00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: say they, I mean decision makers, policymakers, lawmakers, etc. And

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00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: so what the senses can do. The more and more

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Speaker 1: it continues to add questions that allow us to be visible.

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Speaker 1: It makes the case about what it is we're saying

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Speaker 1: when we say that we are represented across incomes in

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Speaker 1: various communities, across the nation, we have households with children.

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Speaker 1: We you know, all the different parts of what the

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Speaker 1: senses and other federal surveys are asking about. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think that it's so important we can't we you know,

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Speaker 1: there have been a lot I'm in New York and

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Speaker 1: so there have been a lot of commercials um uh

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Speaker 1: that are urging people, specifically black and Latin X communities,

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Speaker 1: um to fill up the census. Uh. You know when

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Speaker 1: you when you talk about the importance of it, you

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Speaker 1: can't forget that this current administration has put a war

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Speaker 1: on the census. Right. They started out with saying that

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Speaker 1: they wanted to have the immigration question on there. Um.

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Speaker 1: They they have tried to weaponize it in in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways. And this is again about silencing certain

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Speaker 1: populations who you deem expendable, that you don't want involved

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Speaker 1: in government, that you don't want involved in in our

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Speaker 1: democracy right and to have and to have a voice.

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Speaker 1: And so how do you guys stress this? You know,

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Speaker 1: what what do you what are how are you doing

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Speaker 1: these these pushes into the LGBTQ community, UM to get

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Speaker 1: to encourage people that like, this is for their betterment,

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Speaker 1: this is not to be used against them, But this

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Speaker 1: is for them, right, I'm so glad that you use

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Speaker 1: that bigger frame. Like what I was going to say

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Speaker 1: is the census is part of a bigger democracy reform

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Speaker 1: efforts and that we're really fortunate to have the elections,

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Speaker 1: the forthcoming elections, and you'll hear lots of conversations about

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Speaker 1: ensuring that voters like that votes are not suppressed and

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Speaker 1: that all of us, people of color, older adults, people

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Speaker 1: who live you know, blue states, red states, it should

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Speaker 1: not matter. You should be able to exercise your constitutional

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Speaker 1: right to vote without having to expose yourself to COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen as what happened in Wisconsin Milwaukee, right. And so

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00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: that's that's a piece. And what we're doing at the

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Speaker 1: task Force is of course continuing to um emphasize the

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Speaker 1: importance of the census. We're also asking people to make

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Speaker 1: a commitment to being educated about what your elected officials

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00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: are doing. You should be able to reach out to them.

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Speaker 1: They're all home with the Senate, we'll be going back

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Speaker 1: to Washington next week, but they have district offices. You

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00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: should reach out to them. You should tell them what

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Speaker 1: is important to you and your family members, because that's

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Speaker 1: what they're there for, and they should be held accountable

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Speaker 1: for either acting in Europe against your interests or not

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Speaker 1: acting right for your interests. And it's not limited to

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Speaker 1: the US Congress. You've got local state officials as well

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Speaker 1: who need to be held accountable. So that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that we ask people to do. We actually

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Speaker 1: put out a letter that in partnership with a coalition

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Speaker 1: of groups, where we ask for explicit non discrimination protections

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Speaker 1: in any of the COVID funding that comes out right.

743
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Speaker 1: That's really important because if you remember it when we

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Speaker 1: first started this conversation talking about ways in which the

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Speaker 1: administration is trying to use religion to like basically allowing

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Speaker 1: religious based places to discriminate, whether it's a shelter or

747
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Speaker 1: food pantry, senior center, childcare, whatever the place may be.

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Speaker 1: They're taking government funding with one hand and turning away

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Speaker 1: members of our community with the other, and so we

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Speaker 1: really want to make it clear that that like that

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Speaker 1: should be outlawed. I think that, you know, the other

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Speaker 1: thing that we're asking our folks to do is to

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Speaker 1: continue to share their stories, and I think I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that earlier, that we've got a way for people to

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Speaker 1: connect with us through the lgbt Cancer Network to share

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Speaker 1: stories about how COVID is impacting them. With a few

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00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: minutes that we have left, how can folks get involved?

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Speaker 1: I love some of the things that you're saying about

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Speaker 1: the sharing of their stories so many people, and I

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Speaker 1: would assume that definitely within the LGBTQ population, just having

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Speaker 1: had a target on our back since the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this administration, feeling very disconnected and in a lot of

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Speaker 1: ways hopeless right about the current state of our politics,

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Speaker 1: in the current state of our world as we all

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Speaker 1: fight through this pandemic. What are some opportunities that people

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Speaker 1: can have to get involved and specifically, if you know,

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00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: if they are feeling hopeless, like, how can they turn

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Speaker 1: that around by engaging with the task Force? Well, the

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Speaker 1: task Force actually if you go to our website, which

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00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: is the task Force dot org, you can stay in

771
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: touch with a myriad activities, many many ways to get

772
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: involved in our advocacy efforts, our cultural movement building work.

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00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: We just hosted a coffee hour on Saturday that was

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Speaker 1: very well attended. People just really appreciated the opportunity to

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00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: share about how they're feeling, like if they live in

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00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: a particularly isolated part of the country, just to be

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00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: able to be in a space with other LGBTQ people

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Speaker 1: and just as if you were in a cafe, just

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00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 1: let your hair down, relaction, just talk to one another.

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Speaker 1: That was so affirming. And you know, Danielle, if you

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Speaker 1: think about people with disabilities or other chronic illnesses who

782
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: are right now, disability advocates are finding very hard to

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Speaker 1: make sure that people aren't being rationed, like vinolators aren't

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Speaker 1: being rationed in hospitals or at the state level, like

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Speaker 1: making the decision to value one person's life over another.

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Speaker 1: So there's information that can be exchanged in some of

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Speaker 1: those informal settings that people have set up, like the

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Speaker 1: Zoom coffee hour that I mentioned that we have, or

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Speaker 1: in other spaces and like sharing that information is empowering

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00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: and it's something that I think it's very, very, very important.

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00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: It's something that's incumbent upon each and every one of

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Speaker 1: us to do as often as possible. We can't let

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Speaker 1: we can't let this moment defeat us. There's just a legacy,

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00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: particularly for those of us of African descent, there's a

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00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: legacy that is enduring, and there's just no way that

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00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: I can just not stop fighting. I can just hear

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00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: my ancestors yelling in my ear, get up and do

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Speaker 1: something about this, you know, Yeah, And I can tell

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Speaker 1: you know. It's one of the things that I try

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00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,800
Speaker 1: and remind myself of on a daily basis when I

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00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: feel like we are just moving around in the darkness

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00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: without a glimpse of light in sight, is that it

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00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: is nothing in comparison to what our ancestors endured and

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00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: kept moving each and every single day to get us

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Speaker 1: to this point. And so the work continues and when

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Speaker 1: we have to be the ambassadors of that work. Stacy

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Speaker 1: Long Simmons, thank you so much for joining woke f Daily.

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00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: We really appreciate you. We appreciate the work of the

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00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: LGBTQ Task Force, and we will be checking in with

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00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: you in the coming months to hear more about what

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00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: you all are doing to keep our community safe and informed.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Over the weekend. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be writing another piece for Zora Magazine again. It's

814
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: an affiliate under it's a vertical under Medium Incorporated, and

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Speaker 1: I'm a regular political columnist for them. And I wrote

816
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: a piece earlier in the week that I told you

817
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: guys about which had to do with the PPP program

818
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: and minority small businesses and how they are being left

819
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: out and what that is going to mean for black

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Speaker 1: economic wealth and survival in the future. It's going to

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00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: be devastating. But I'm getting ready to write another piece,

822
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: and this one will come out early next week, which

823
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: is about these stories that keep popping up of black

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00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: patrons being thrown out of stores for wearing protective masks.

825
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: So Black people around the country right now are fearful

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Speaker 1: to wear the protective masks that are necessary so that

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Speaker 1: they do not contract the coronavirus, or if in fact

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Speaker 1: they are infected with the coronavirus, they do not spread it.

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Speaker 1: But as we have learned throughout the course of this

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Speaker 1: pandemic is that many black and latinex people are in

831
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Speaker 1: fact essential workers. They do work on the front lines,

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Speaker 1: and they do the jobs that allow the rest of

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Speaker 1: us to stay fucking sheltered at home. But what's happening

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Speaker 1: is that when they are showing up into stores to

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Speaker 1: get the necessary goods, when they are out on the

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Speaker 1: streets and they are covered, they're being harassed by police,

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Speaker 1: arrested or thrown out of stores for wearing protective covering

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00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: that is supposed to keep them and the people around

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Speaker 1: them safe. But because they are black and doing so,

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Speaker 1: they are being looked at as potential criminals and violent.

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Speaker 1: But these people in Michigan, fucking Tennessee, Wisconsin, all of

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Speaker 1: these other states that are doing these quote unquote actions

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00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: with their fucking AR fifteen slung over their shoulders, their

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00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:42,240
Speaker 1: gas masks, full face covered, nothing showing whatsoever. They're fucking

845
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: American flags hanging off of their backs. And do you

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00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: know what the white policemen are doing with them, Not

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00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: a goddamn thing, because it's their country after all. Right,

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00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: We're just fucking visitors. We're the ones that you know,

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00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: you brought over here to build your buildings, your fucking roads,

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00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: your plantation, do all of your dirty work. But God

851
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: forbid that we decide to exist as full and complete

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00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: people after you labeled us as three fifths. God forbid

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00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,439
Speaker 1: that we show up and just want to exist. We're

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00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: a fucking threat. But you put on a gas mask

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00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: and an AAR fifteen. N you know what, that's your

856
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: Second Amendment? Right? Fuck you, fuck you fuck the Second

857
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: Amendment and the danger that you're causing to everyone around you.

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00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: You can go to hell. And I don't understand. I

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00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,919
Speaker 1: honestly don't. I know it's racism. And when I say

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00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: to you all that I don't understand something, you know,

861
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: good God damn well, that I fucking understand it. It

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Speaker 1: just does not limit the amount of rage that I

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Speaker 1: have about what I understand about America. You know every

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Speaker 1: day that I tell you on wok F. I believe

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Speaker 1: in this country. I believe in democracy. I believe in

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Speaker 1: the power that people have. I believe that we can

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Speaker 1: change things if there is enough of us, if there

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Speaker 1: is a collective. But there are some days. There are

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Speaker 1: some days, and yesterday was one of them when I

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Speaker 1: watched this video about ten thousand times and I said,

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Speaker 1: fuck it, you can have the fucking country. I'm out

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Speaker 1: take it. Fucking destroy it, destroy the environment, destroy everything

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Speaker 1: around you. Who cares if your kids eat sugary foods

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Speaker 1: and fat shit? Donald Trump does, and he says that

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Speaker 1: it's great. Who cares if you are educated, right, if

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Speaker 1: you have trees planted, if you have clean air, Fuck it.

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00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: Let the industries do whatever they want. Who cares if

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Speaker 1: your governors are telling you to shelter in place because

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Speaker 1: it's safe for you, and telling you to social distance

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Speaker 1: because they don't want you to die. Oh that's fascism.

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Speaker 1: Fuck it. You can have the fucking country take it,

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Speaker 1: destroy it, burn it up. I don't give a fuck.

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Speaker 1: That's how I feel some days. Why am I doing

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Speaker 1: the work that I do? Why does it matter when

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Speaker 1: people go around and do shit like this? Some days

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Speaker 1: I have to remind myself, and I genuinely have to

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Speaker 1: remind myself that there is more of us than there

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Speaker 1: are of them. We just need the more of us

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Speaker 1: to be tapped in and activated to do the right thing,

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Speaker 1: to show up and be just as loud, and be

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Speaker 1: just as organized, and be just as capable as they are,

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Speaker 1: because they are catnip for the media. It is a

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Speaker 1: good picture, it's a good clip, and all the media

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Speaker 1: gives a shit about his ratings, but not me. I

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Speaker 1: do this work because I believe in the ability to

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Speaker 1: change hearts and minds. I do this work and I

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Speaker 1: don't have the ratings, and I don't have the millions

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Speaker 1: of listen that I wish that I did. But I

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Speaker 1: continue to show up every day because I believe in us.

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Speaker 1: But some days it gets hard. Some days I want

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Speaker 1: to tap out because yesterday, God damn, But I need

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Speaker 1: you all when we get like this, because we will

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Speaker 1: because America is exhausting, right, America is exhausting. And there

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Speaker 1: are days when you're just like, why am I even bothering?

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Speaker 1: Y'all don't want to be saved, y'all will really give

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Speaker 1: a fuck, But there are too many of you that

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Speaker 1: actually do that. Remind me on Twitter and in the

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Speaker 1: wokeaf Nation Facebook group, and on Instagram, and on email

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Speaker 1: and on all different platforms and places. You remind me,

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Speaker 1: and you give me the strength to keep showing up

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Speaker 1: every single day. So I show up for you. It

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Speaker 1: matters because of you. We need each other now more

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Speaker 1: than ever. And that is what I want you all

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Speaker 1: to take into the weekend, even though what is a weekend?

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Speaker 1: What is time? But take it with you into the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Take a break, do something joyful, get some rest, enjoy

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Speaker 1: whoever you are quarantined with, do a Zoom, FaceTime, Google, hangout,

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Speaker 1: happy hour, and recharge. Because America is in fact exhausting.

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Speaker 1: And even though god damn, I want to give up

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Speaker 1: on her and I want to break up with her,

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Speaker 1: it's the only place that I call home and it's

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Speaker 1: worth saving. And on that note, folks, when I say

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Speaker 1: that we need people to show up, we are changing platforms.

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Speaker 1: Woka a Daily is going to Patreon. It is going

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Speaker 1: to be five dollars a month, which is two dollars

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Speaker 1: cheaper than you all were paying at DNR Studios. Think

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Speaker 1: about it, five days a week, fresh content, hour show,

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Speaker 1: five hours a week for five dollars a month. I

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Speaker 1: need your support in order to continue to build this

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Speaker 1: platform and in order to continue to build this community.

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Speaker 1: Please go to Patreon dot com backslash Woke a F

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Speaker 1: and sign up, subscribe. It is worth it, We are

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Speaker 1: worth it, You are worth it. I believe in us,

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Speaker 1: I believe in the collective power of us, and I

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Speaker 1: hope that you believe enough in me to continue supporting

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Speaker 1: me at Patreon dot com backslash Woke a F. That

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Speaker 1: is it from me, folks, on Woke a F Daily.

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Speaker 1: As always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power.

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck, and remain and

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Speaker 1: safe as fun until next week.