WEBVTT - The Urgency of Now 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka F Daily with 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.439 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:25.160 I'm recording this message to you after a weekend where 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:32.240 we all absorb the fact that white supremacist violence has 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:37.159 now become the norm in America, where ten people can 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.400 be gunned down, ten black people can be gunned down 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.960 on a Saturday at morning, going about their lives and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.320 their business and be gunned down by a white man 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.840 that has decided to drive hours out of his way, 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.400 produce a hundred and six page manifesto and take their lives. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.480 Where we can spend the weekend pontificating on whether or 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.240 not these things are racially motivated, or whether or not 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.800 Republicans and their violent rhetoric has anything to do with 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.800 the outcome of where we are today. I am in 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:19.400 conversation with my friend and friend of the show, doctor 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:25.080 Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Politics at Fordham University, and 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.640 our conversation that you will listen to today came prior 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:36.280 to the shooting over the weekend. Folks, I can't express 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.959 to you that where we are as a country and 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.959 where we are going, and the path that we are 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:48.720 on is not good. It is dangerous, It is heartbreaking, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.760 it is tragic, it is trauma inducing, it is triggering. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.680 So I hope that you will glean from this conversation 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:07.360 with Christina some sense of honesty about the moment that 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.160 we are in, some ideas about how we move forward, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.600 how we deal with our own emotions and the emotions 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:21.440 of this moment, how we stay sane and also recognize, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.600 without putting our heads in the sand, the urgency of now. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.680 So coming up next, my very in depth conversation with 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:35.400 our friend, doctor Christina Greer. Please do tell me in 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.799 the comment section below how you took the news this 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.960 past weekend. I was on TV but before the shooting 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.040 took place. If you're following me on TikTok, then you 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.799 know my immediate reactions. But I want to hear from 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:55.800 all of you, folks. I am so happy to welcome 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.000 back to woke f Daily. It's been a long time 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:06.200 since we've had doctor Christina Greer, Professor of Political Science, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.959 Associate Professor at Fordham University, and you see her very 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.560 often on MSNBC and other outlets talking about, you know, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.320 the demise of our democracy and the constitutional crisis that 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:24.720 we're in Christina. I want to start off today just 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:30.520 asking you. We've had the Scotus leak that tells us 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.000 that abortion is going to be gone from this country 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.960 for the first time in fifty years. We have more 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.680 mounting evidence against this twice impeached former president of the 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.760 United States. If I see one more breaking news headline 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:53.280 about more evidence of criminal wrongdoing of hiding documents at 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:58.720 Mara Lago of just I mean, lying, inciting violence, and 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.560 still nothing is happening with the Department of Justice. How 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:09.800 are you feeling about this moment that we are living in. Well, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.840 it's always great to be back to talk to you. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:16.200 As you know. You know, my grandma, who's from the 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.520 Deep South in town, a little town called yu LEI 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.880 was had some of ninth she finished some of ninth grade. Right, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.240 I have a PhD. My sister is an indeed. But 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.760 when I tell you she was the smartest woman I've 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.400 ever met. And I'm starting off this conversation saying that 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.560 she told me a long time ago when we were 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.000 talking about kind of raise and white people. You know, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.200 she grew up through a lot. She said, Chrissy, the 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.000 only time you should be surprised is when you're surprised. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.800 And I've stuck to that for a really, really long time. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:53.760 I'm not surprised. Abortion isn't going to be like, let 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:59.240 me rephrase, it looks like abortion will be outlawed legally, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:04.080 what abortions will not stop? Right, So safe abortions will 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.320 be outlawed for most, but a lot of women will 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.040 still be able with meetings. We'll still be able to 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.000 find an abortion. Obviously, it's for women who are for 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.160 marginalized communities. They will still get abortions. It's just we're 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:16.880 going to go back to the sixties and seventies and 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.120 a back room abortions, and we'll see some horrible effects. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.400 But because I study American politics so deeply, I've always 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.520 seen this country ebb and flow with progress and regress, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.520 and so when we're in a moment of regression, I'm 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:39.240 not a surprised. And even though it's very scary, I 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.160 will not lie the moment wherein it's very frightening on 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.000 a host of levels. We haven't even touched the environment, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:50.400 and that's kind of like some irreversible stuff, right, But 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.080 I know that there are enough people who are working 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.000 in their various fields to sort of protect us. Still. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.920 I mean, this country has been since its inception. Yeah, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.000 we've had some really great strides because a lot of 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.760 people have worked really hard to move this country forward, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.600 and then we have folks who work really hard to 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:13.600 pull it back. And so at some point, good meaning 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.720 white people will understand the capacity of white people. They 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.280 don't just yet. We do. Our mothers and grandmothers told 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.440 us what people are capable of in this nation. But 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.320 I think a lot of white people just fundamentally don't 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.039 understand what some of their own relatives will do to 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.960 sort of take away from others, which will ultimately affect 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.920 them too. It'll come around. And so part of me 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.719 just feels like I'm an ostrich where I'm like, you know, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.400 I'm rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while we're 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.360 looking at the glacier. But we kind of we've hit 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.960 the glacier before and we found rafts, and sadly we do. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.839 We lose time, we lose people. But I think that 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:00.200 I can't stay in a perpetual state of rage or 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.120 panic because then I can't a do the work. I 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.200 can't stay focused on what the work is I can't 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.400 have clarity for young people where I need to be 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.960 a leader and help them devise new strategies. And also 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.240 it's like life is for the living. They're gonna do 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.200 what they're gonna do, right, So we have to figure 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.520 out the tools to a keep ourselves healthy and sane 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.240 so that we can work in our various pockets to 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.920 move this country forward the way people have always done. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.240 So that's kind of where I am. You know, you're 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.360 so salient in what you're saying, and I'm listening to you, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:43.480 and I'm realizing that this country has been through a lot, right, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:51.880 fortunate fortunate for us that we have lived through a 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.160 lot of progress, right. And I think that what I 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.320 find scary in this moment is that this is going 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.920 to be the first time in my adult life where 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.320 progress isn't even on the table, right, that we're in 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:15.400 a full on regression to times that I've only ever 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:23.360 read about. And so the fear for me is is 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:30.320 there enough strategy and tools to protect us at a 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:41.120 time when these radicalized white evangelical Christian fascists are not 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:46.600 only about turning back the clock on civil liberties, but 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.400 they're also about inflicting pain. That's the thing that I 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.040 feel like people are not getting. This isn't just about 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.480 what they are taking away, which is serious. It is 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.239 about the kind of pain that they want to inflict 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.840 so people know that they are in charge. Yeah, but 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.199 they've always done that. That's the history of this country. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.920 And so you know when I would give talks a 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.960 few years ago and I would talk about the Civil 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.240 Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Immigration Act, and I would 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.720 say that they're triumphant of acts, and we cannot detangle 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.839 the three. And if you sort of start to erode one, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.000 you erode all. We've seen this, right, we saw the 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.400 gutting of the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.480 and now we're seeing our civil rights and civil liberties 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.400 being yanked away. We've seen what's happening with immigration, which 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.320 is just abhorrent. But this country has never been welcome 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.720 to immigrants. You've got like eight different Chinese exclusion acts 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.319 on the books. You understand nothing about chattels to say 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.960 nothing about the genocide of Native Americans, say nothing about 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.560 what we did to you know, sort of Mexicans and 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.320 Spaniards coming from the South. I mean, like this country 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.440 is long and deep, you know. And I didn't even 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.040 touch upon internment camps. And that's from FDR the good President, right, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.320 that was like from one of the good guys. And 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.360 he put the internment camps in place. That also kept 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.800 you know, Italians and Germans in there too. So this 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:09.840 country has such a long history of inflicting pain, yep. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.160 And I think what was really key about what you 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.079 said is like we're adults now, right, Yeah, Like it's 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.679 time to put the big girl painties on, Like we 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.920 don't have the luxury anymore of being girls. We are 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.760 grown ass women, and we're now in charge of protecting 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.559 the democracy. Right when we see all these stories about 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.920 black women, Fanny lou Hammer, Barbara Jordan, I mean, that's 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.520 the book that I'm working on right now. So those 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.320 two obviously refresh in my mind. But you know, countless, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.439 countless black women how to be wells, aren't married church 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.000 terrelle who literally put their lives in their bodies on 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.839 the line to protect the people in this country, not 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.120 just black people, people in this country. And it's like, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.400 oh shit, Mike, it's my time, Like I'm supposed to 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.440 I'm supposed to use the tools that I have and 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.920 the thing maybe the reason why I feel so it's 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.000 not agnostic, and it's not immune, and it's not numb. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.240 I feel a sense of calm in the sense that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.800 I do feel prepared. I feel prepared intellectually. I feel 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.000 prepared with the community, the community that I've built in 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.959 the connections of especially black women, but you know others. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.200 But like, let's just keep it black women right now. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.160 The partnerships and the friendships and the sisterhoods that I 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:32.120 have people like present Company included. I am not fearful 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.960 because I'm like, I have tools, you have tools. You 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.360 know people who have tools. I know other people have tools. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.760 And it's like and we'll come together because we recognize 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.679 and like we can't count on the Democratic Party to 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.480 save us. I mean, they're just treading water. And you know, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.079 as my grandfather, my dad's dad, you say, they're a 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.800 lost ball in high weeds. But they're just you know, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.560 Jamie Harrison, what are you doing? Where's your strategy? I 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.240 mean it all, but like but that's real talk talk, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:06.400 christ real talk. It's like, what what are they doing? Well? Right, Like, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:11.280 why do they seem so suckless? Love that word? Well, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.920 I mean, here's here's the thing I said from day 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:18.840 one when Chuck Schumer became Senate Majority Leader, and I'm 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.960 from New York, you know, I live in New York. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.960 He is Senator. I was like, he ain't built for 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.800 this moment. He's not because he also doesn't understand his colleagues. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.480 He and Joe Biden, you know, they were from the 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.880 Senate of a different time. Yeah, where the agenda was different, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.920 but the pain, the level of pain that Republicans wanted 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.960 to inflict on people was ever so slightly different, it was, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.840 and so they don't understand fully the moment they're in. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.200 I mean, they're removed, and it's it's interesting, you know, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.440 the older we get and we we go on vacations 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.160 or you know, we do certain things and you realize, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.280 I just went on vacation with my family and we 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.640 sort of like rented a house. We sort of did 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.000 something that really kind of celebrated, you know, my niece 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.120 is about to go to college. And I was like, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.439 when you have a little pocket change, you actually don't 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.400 have to interact with people. It's true, you don't. You 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.959 can like we stayed we didn't stay hotel in my house, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.000 right like it. So we didn't do like a tour. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.439 We just like rented a boat, you know, like we 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.079 didn't and it's in it's COVID. So we did it deliberately, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.000 you know, we're like but we also we didn't hang 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.760 out with people. We hung out with our saves, nine 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.440 of us. We hung out with our family. But we 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.679 spent money to do that. And I just feel like 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.480 a lot of these elected officials, they're not in gen 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.480 pop yep. Yeah, you know, they come and give speeches, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.079 but they went in, they got their their talks and like, yes, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.280 they are seeing the people that they represent, but are 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.040 you really with people? So when Katie Porter makes you know, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.240 a speech and says, let me walk you through the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.040 fact that like women can't buy groceries because you're know, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.800 women buying large are the ones who buy groceries for 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.560 their family. Let me explain to you what inflation is 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.080 doing to a family. Because if I in my PhD 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.920 tenured full salaried self goes to the grocery store and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.520 I'm like, fifty dollars barely gets me one bag of groceries, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.120 and I call myself, Yeah, I don't understand what people 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.240 are doing with yeah, real families, and they got to 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.320 make this check last if they have a check, right, Like, yeah, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.080 if they have a job. So I think that a 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.480 lot of our representatives because it costs so much money 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.240 to get into office. And you know, we've talked about 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.960 this for years, and you've come to my classes and 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.720 you talk about because the type of people who can 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.200 even think about running for office are already a certain 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.720 level of elite. We don't have very rarely. Every now 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.520 and again you have pockets, and you know someone can 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.520 get through. But by and large, our representatives are not 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.360 representative of the populaces. We don't have someone who's like, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.680 I'm a single mother, owned food stamps and I am 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.120 your new congresswoman. We have people who went to university 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.400 have graduate degrees by and large, you know, when we 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.600 look at sort of our senators and members of the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:10.040 House disproportionately, you know what Richie Torres from the Bronx, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.240 I believe is like one of the few, if not only, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.560 members of Congress who doesn't have a college degree. Most 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.360 Americans don't, right, most college age Americans do not have 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.920 a college degree. Why is he either the solo or 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.600 one of a handful, Right, right, And so when we 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.560 think about who is actually representing us, it makes no sense. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.720 We got a whole bunch of lawyers and even some PhDs, sure, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.520 but like the vast majority of people are like, and 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.640 let's be real, you and I also don't know what 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.320 real poverty looks like. We don't We genuinely don't know. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.880 And so oftentimes when I'm in these meetings and at 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.080 these tables, and my question is always where are the 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.760 people who we're talking about? Why are they not at 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.960 the stable? Why are we sitting here scratching our hands 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.000 trying to come up with solutions, and the people who 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.080 could tell us what the problem is and most likely 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.880 tell us what the solution is aren't even at the table. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.520 So this is where we have our representatives, especially Democrats, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.080 who in their hearts might want to do something great, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.760 but it's like, you don't even know what the real 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:19.640 problem is. So this is why Alexandrea Castio Cortez, you know, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.040 resonated and still resonates with so many people because it 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.400 feels like and Cory Bush, right, Corey Bush being one 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:33.280 of the Bush Yeah she's and what you said, yeah, yeah, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.840 you know, you're You're so right, because they are not representative, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.160 like they don't know real people, right and like and 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.680 so if I'm pretty sure that if you were to 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.200 ask those in Democratic leadership right now how much how 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.240 much a gallon of milk costs, they wouldn't be able 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.080 to tell you, so right like that, I mean, that's 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.080 that's the reality. And you know, and everyone's like, oh, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.680 gallon milk. It's like I care, right, A woman who 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.199 has to be four children, she cares. I mean, but 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.000 for an example, Danielle, you know, if you remember the 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.600 mayor's race, the New York City mayor's race last year, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:16.000 when they asked the various candidates what was the average 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.919 price of a home in Brooklyn? These kids eighty thousand dollars. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.160 Eighty thousand dollars, But my grandparents in Florida, Like, who 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.680 is buying anything in Brooklyn for eighty thousand dollars? I mean, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.719 then I don't think you can get a parking space 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.560 for eighty thousand exactly, or your Honda civic, right because 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.080 you know that they charge more for like SUVs. So 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:44.200 I mean the numbers that these candidates gave Sean Donovan, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:49.280 who you know Obama's yeah, yeah, he was he was 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.440 find he was the HUD secretary, that's right, And I 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.399 mean I was just like, sir, sit on down, he 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.440 said something. I mean literally, he was like one hundred 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.840 thousand dollars. I mean, you were the Hunt secretary. So 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.560 you want to be mayor of New York and you 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.040 have no idea, not even the fact that people are 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.960 priced out and can't buy anything. But that means you 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.600 don't understand what renters are going through. You don't understand 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.080 people can't even get a place with one hundred thousand 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:18.480 dollars down payment, let alone you think that's the price 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.080 of a home in Brooklyn, Like, sir, come on. So 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:29.400 I think that I'm I'm eerily zen because I think 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:34.280 that I understand just how long the road ahead of 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.240 us is going to be. And when I played sports, 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.280 I never liked doing that long distance run. I was 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.480 always like, coach, can I please just do sprints while 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.040 everyone's doing the mile, you know, around the field. Can 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.200 I just do sprints until they're done? And the coach 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.840 was like, no, you have to learn how to have endurance, Christy, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.120 And I was like, yeah, yeah, but I'm really good 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.280 at sprinting and I can just do that, like, I 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.760 can just do the burst, do the birth, and then 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.439 I'll rest at the end of the game. And I 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.000 never understood I hated long distance running. I am not 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.920 a runner. Every time I see runners in my neighborhood, 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.520 I'm like, what are you doing? But I recognize that 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:14.160 there is something to be said about resting so that 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.600 I can be ready, you know, like the best way 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.800 to be ready to stay ready. Sure, But at the 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.919 same time, I believe in rest because, especially in academia, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.160 black women aren't lasting long. And we've got a good 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.280 job relatively speaking. You know, we're not cleaning floors at 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.040 three am in an office building and we're sitting here 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.080 thinking and writing on our laptops. Yet we're dying at 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:40.560 these disproportionate rates. So I am not going to let 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.159 this country take me out. 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She's like, I get that people are 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.440 focused on gas and inflation because those things matter, but 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:16.560 like at the end of the day, we're about to 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.480 lose everything, and y'all ain't paying attention, right, And so 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.879 it's it's the it's the anxiety. I have to stay 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:28.560 on screaming into the microphone, you know, every single day. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.640 But then I'm just like, well, shit, they gonna do 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.520 what they're gonna do, like and I can't I can't 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.560 be taken out by this. I can't be I can't 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:43.080 carry the emotional weight of this moment on my back. 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.360 And you know what, Danielle, some people will only learn 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:51.679 when they have nothing. Girl. They don't see it, you know, 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:55.000 some people don't see how the immigration crisis is linked 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.840 to them in their daily lives. They don't care. It's 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:01.360 brown children, it's Longitian children at the border. They are unbothered. 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:05.000 But they don't see how it's connected to a woman's 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.280 right to choose. You don't see how it's connected to 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.080 the environment. They don't see how it's connected to their 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.360 job right. So it's like, okay, so now we gotta 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.679 it sucks, but we gotta wait until you catch up, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.960 which is what we are used to doing. So while 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.400 you're sitting there knitting a pink hat, we gotta wait 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.600 for you to catch up, girl, and understand the severity 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.440 of the issue. But here we are. And then when 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:28.600 you come to the party, you're late. You're lad as hell, 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:31.119 but you came, and then we're gonna get you up 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:36.480 to speed and then we'll have progress and regrets. What 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:41.120 are your students? You they You know, I gotta tell you. 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:46.480 When I was sitting in my poly side class, you know, 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:49.520 all that I was dealing with was you know, a 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.640 precedent that got to blow job and lied about it, right, right, 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.760 like saying that seems like a marital issue to me, 0:23:56.680 --> 0:24:00.320 that did not seem like I needed ken stars investedation 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:03.440 and like an impeachment trial. It seemed like you probably 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:07.480 should get a divorce, right, um, And I'm not and 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:12.000 again I am. You know, there were major things that 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.159 were happening, but I'm talking about as a young person, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.080 that was the biggest thing, literally, And so these these 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:23.600 young people that you're educating day in and day out, 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.600 what like, what are they thinking about the world that 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.800 they are being handed right now? The politics that they 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:37.399 are coming to understand. They're disgusted. They're disgusted that a 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:40.119 lot of the people who are their age don't vote 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:42.040 because they're just starting to vote in you know, now 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.679