1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: More news is coming out about the shooting that took 4 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: place at the Abundant Life School in Wisconsin, and I 5 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: think that one of the most heartbreaking parts of this 6 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: story is that it was a second grader that called 7 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,919 Speaker 1: authorities to the school to say that there was a shooting. 8 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: What I realized more and more, and I know that 9 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: I've said this ad nauseum, is that America really doesn't 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: give a shit about children, Like no part of America 11 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: that gives a damn about children, Because you cannot say 12 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: to me, what about the children? We love the children, 13 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: protect the children, and you place seven and eight year 14 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: olds in the position that not only do they have 15 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: to witness horrific acts of violence, but then they must 16 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: have their wits about them enough to be able to 17 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: in the moment that a shooter is lurking, to be 18 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: able to call authorities, because this is something that these 19 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: children are forced to practice and are drilled into them 20 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: as young apparently as elementary school. I don't know why 21 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: American citizens live like this. I look at these other countries. 22 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: I look at the way that the French protest, I 23 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: look at the bravery of the women in Iran and 24 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: their protests. I look at the South Koreans and their 25 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: protests against their presidents and taking action in a way 26 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: that reminds these politicians who exactly is in fucking charge? 27 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, Americans are just I don't know 28 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: what it is. Is it our apathy? Is it the 29 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: air of hopelessness and just that nothing can ever change. 30 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: Is it the fact that there's too much on streaming 31 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: so folks would rather just netflix and chill rather than 32 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: take action in the streets. I don't know what it is. 33 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: I really don't, but to live inside of this country 34 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: with so many preventable fucking ills that are plaguing our society, 35 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: not because they are somebody's act of God, but because 36 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: they're acts of lobbyists and greedy, cruel hearted politicians who 37 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: allow children to die and offer nothing but thoughts and 38 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: prayers as if they are fucking clergy and that's the 39 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: only thing that they can do. I don't need your 40 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: thoughts in prayers, and frankly, at this point, you know, 41 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: and I said this, you know a decade ago when 42 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook happened. That I wish that the parents of 43 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook had done what Mama Till Emmett Till's mother 44 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: did when she made the most courageous decision that would 45 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: put a even greater spark on the civil rights movement 46 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: by showing her son's brutalized body to show the world 47 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: this is what white domestic violence does to a child's body. 48 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: And I think about what would have happened post Sandy 49 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: Hook if the parents of those children had said, show 50 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: the pictures, because I want the world to see what 51 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: an ar fifteen does to a child's body. We are 52 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: so desensitized to violence because of Hollywood and because of 53 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: the last thirty fucking years of school shootings. But to 54 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: see a small body riddled to pieces in Alpasso and 55 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: in other places, they had to use in Uvaldi, they 56 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: had to use the children's dental records and the shoes 57 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: that they had on to be able to identify those 58 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: children's bodies. But we continue to move on. But then, folks, 59 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: you know, I think about the absolute fucking carnage and 60 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: devastation in Gaza, and the fact that those children that 61 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: live there know that they most likely will not survive 62 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: that Meta started suppressing those pictures in those videos because 63 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: it's much easier to continue with this genocide when people 64 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: don't have to see it, they don't have to interact 65 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: with it, they don't have to engage. That can be 66 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: violence that's happening over there. But there is violence that 67 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: happens here that American children face on a regular basis, 68 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: and we still do nothing. You know, and I believe 69 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: that this may be the first time that the shooter 70 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: is a fifteen year old white girl, and you know, 71 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: there's a lot of mixed reporting that is coming out 72 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: because of course I believe that there is some bullshit 73 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: conspiracy that was happening around her gender identity, as if 74 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: it matters. But you know, that's a narrative that would 75 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: fit on the right. Oh, it's one of these transgender 76 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: kids hopped up on hormones and that's why they committed 77 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: the killing. Not because we have a proliferation of guns 78 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: in this country where there are more guns than there 79 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: are actual fucking people. Not to mention that the statistics 80 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: would show you that most of the shootings, mass shootings, 81 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: and school shootings that have taken place have been at 82 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: the hands of young white boys. But we don't want 83 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: to have the conversation about what has happened to white 84 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: boys in this country, what has happened to white people 85 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 1: in this country. We don't want to have a converse 86 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: station about white violence, right, anger and rage. Whether it 87 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: be Daniel Penny choking a man, a black man, to 88 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: death for six minutes on a subway, but now being 89 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: a celebrated hero of the right, whether it be Kyle Rittenhouse, 90 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: whether it be the McCluskey's on their front lawn waving 91 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: guns in Michigan, whether it be the white mobs right 92 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: that burned down black cities in towns during segregation. And 93 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: after you get to a place sometimes, or at least 94 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: I get to a place sometimes when I am just 95 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: outfucking done, you know where I just I don't have 96 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: anything left in me. Michael Harriet wrote a piece that 97 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: is up at the Grio right now that is about 98 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: whiteness being a lethal weapon. It is entitled Whiteness is 99 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: a lethal weapon. Whether it's a CEO assassin, a subway strangler, 100 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: or a mass deportation, Whiteness can justify any form of violence, 101 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: and he writes this quote to them, we are the 102 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: violent ones. He's speaking about black people. Even when white 103 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: people spontaneously combust into violence, they are entitled to the 104 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: presumption of humanity. Conversely, every black body is a vessel 105 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: that carries the potential for violence until a good white 106 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: man can choke the life out of it or a 107 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: brave police officer can fill it with enough holes. Our 108 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: criminality is as implied as their fears. Like the legend 109 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: of legally registered legal fists, Whiteness is a fantastic fable 110 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: and a real life scam. Through the sheer force of 111 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: its obliviousness, whiteness can unstain history and codify lies. It 112 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: is an all powerful god and a legendary myth. It 113 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: can kill without consequences and serve as its own validation. 114 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: It is as violent a thing that has ever existed, 115 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: but it does not need a reason to justify its violence. 116 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: Whiteness is a reason in its self. It is not 117 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: just a legal weapon, It is also a lethal weapon. 118 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: Michael Harriet, with this piece hit the nail right on 119 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:42,239 Speaker 1: the head. We don't reckon with the violent nature of whiteness. 120 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 1: We take every instance and act of violence as individual, 121 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: as siloed. We don't talk about pathology or patterns. When 122 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: it pertains to white violence, we wrap it up in 123 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: folklore and fantasy because to admit that there is a 124 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: problem would be for white people to actually have to 125 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: look at themselves rather than looking at everyone else. I 126 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: often said, you know, segregation probably would have persisted if, 127 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: in fact, things in this country were separate and equal. 128 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: If black people were left to have exist in their 129 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: own environment and society, but it was separate and equal, 130 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: segregation would have persisted well into the future, I think. 131 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: But the fact is the reason why segregation, which was 132 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: created by white people, failed is because white people couldn't 133 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: mind their own fucking business. Let's be frank, if you 134 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: weren't lynching folks and burning down fucking towns and raping women, 135 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: If whiteness is paranoia and a psychosis hadn't been allowed 136 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: to persist to strangle out black liberation, then segregation, this 137 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: system that they created, would have persisted. But they couldn't 138 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: get out of their own fucking way and just leave 139 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: black people alone. So is it shocking to anyone the 140 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: amount of violence that we see in this country at 141 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: the hands of white people, whether it be boys or 142 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: now girls. But we never have a conversation about who 143 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: the fuck is raising them. We never talk about white 144 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: women and what is it that they are instilling or 145 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: not instilling in their children. But boy, will we waste 146 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: ink on publishing a number of headlines really wanting to 147 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: dissect the pathology of black women and the black community, 148 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: but never do white people turn the pen on them. 149 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: So the violence persists and grows with each and every generation. 150 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: Thereafter we continue to say things like, oh, this isn't 151 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: who we are, this isn't what we're about. It's the 152 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: only thing America has ever been about violence. It was 153 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: birthed on violence, and it will perish on violence, White violence, 154 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: to be exact. You know, every time that there is 155 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: another shooting, I'm waiting for that conversation that never comes 156 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: because it takes a lot of self reflection to be 157 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: able to get there. And those that are in power, 158 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: the white CEOs and media and tees and what have you, 159 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: they have no desire to spread the truth, They have 160 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: no desire for critical thinking. Their goal, as always is 161 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: to push a bullshit narrative that paints Black people as 162 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: innate criminals, paints the Latino community as craven do anything 163 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: to cross the border. Everyone else is always the fucking problem, 164 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: And even when their kids turn into fucking killers over 165 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: and over and over again, we still don't have the conversation, 166 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: so it will persist. It will persist because the problem 167 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: is guns. Don't get it twisted, but it is white 168 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: violence as well. We wouldn't have so many guns if 169 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: white men weren't clinging to them because that's the only 170 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: way that they feel important, big, and strong. So many 171 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: of our problems are truly solvable if we choose to 172 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: actually acknowledge where the problems really lie. But we don't 173 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: want to do that, so the cyclical patterns of trauma 174 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: will persist until we decide otherwise. And it seems that 175 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: we are still too busy pointing fingers than looking in 176 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: the mirror. America's failing persists. That is it for me today, 177 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: Dear friends on wokef as always, Power to the people 178 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay 179 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.