1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: I'm struggling and when I have moments of struggle. In 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: times of struggle, I try and offer up that truth 5 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: to all of you. And I'm going to say some 6 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: things on this Woke Wednesday that I find troubling about 7 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: the current moment that we are in. And the purpose 8 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: of woke a App is not for people to you know, 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: agree with every single thing that I say and feel 10 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: the same exact way that I do. The purpose is 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: to spark conversation. The purpose is to have us tilt 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: our heads and open our eyes and say, huh, I 13 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: never thought about it that way on a variety of issues, right, 14 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: because it's that kind of thinking of understanding that there 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: is always more to learn, more to know, and to 16 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: allow ourselves to continue to be students of the world 17 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: that we're living in, to ask questions, to be critical thinkers. 18 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: And so I'm struggling right now with how the protests 19 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: at the universities and colleges are being characterized. I'm struggling 20 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: with this current administration and their response to it and 21 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: their you know, unwavering support for Israel. I'm struggling right 22 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: now with accusations of anti Semitism, all for the benefit 23 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: of shutting down conversation that is necessary in order for 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: us to get to a place of real significant change. 25 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm struggling with the way in which the oppressors right 26 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: and those that uphold systems of injustice want to tell 27 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: other people the right way right to protest systems of injustice. 28 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: So what I'm going to offer today are a couple 29 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: of my thoughts, not on different news stories, but on 30 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: this particular story, because I think, friends, that this story 31 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: that it's happening on college campuses is the most important 32 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,839 Speaker 1: story in America right now, and I'm going to tell 33 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: you why. From my perspective, Colleges and universities have always 34 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: been a petri dish, if you will, a place of 35 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: great experiment and thought, a microcosm of what society is 36 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: and who it wants to be, a place where you 37 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: can go to sharpen your skills right and understanding of 38 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: various industries, various philosophies, to learn how to socialize with 39 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: so many different groups of people, people from around the 40 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: United States, from around the world, from different ethnic groups, 41 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: from different cultural backgrounds, different sexual orientations and identities. Right, 42 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: the importance of colleges and universities to me is not 43 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: just about the lie of what it was of getting 44 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: a good job, because that's what my generation was told, 45 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: is that you go to college because you can't get 46 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: a quote unquote good job without going there. And now, college, 47 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,839 Speaker 1: as I continue to say, is a Ponzi scheme, right, 48 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: it is a setup, particularly for those in middle and 49 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: low income communities that are roped into ratcheting up six 50 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: figure plus worth of debt that they're told that they 51 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: can't exist in the professional workspace without, but are not 52 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: given the certainty that said debt is going to shove 53 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: somehow provide them with a better life and a better future. Right, 54 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: Because what we are seeing now with the younger generations 55 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: is that that's not the fucking case, because income has 56 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: not kept pace with inflation, with corporate greed, right, with 57 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: the rise in rent and mortgages and interest rates in 58 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: all of these things. And so when people want to 59 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: dictate to young people about how to best spend their money, 60 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: it's not the same fucking pot of money. Yoh, Like, 61 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: it's just not. But aside from the economics that are 62 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: at play, the point of colleges and universities is really 63 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: to help diversify thought, to help put different perspectives on 64 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: critical issues and see if we can't look at them 65 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: from a different lens, from a different vantage point and 66 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: come up with solutions right like to our most pressing 67 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: issues and problems. It is also the place where young 68 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: people begin to formalize their perspectives and their opinions on 69 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: a myriad of issues, in justice being one of them. Right, 70 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: you're taught from such a young age right from wrong, 71 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: or at least you used to be, and we all 72 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: had some universal idea of what was right and what 73 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: was wrong. It was wrong to cause unnecessary harm to people. 74 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: It was wrong to be mean, it was wrong to steal, 75 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: to murder, to pillage, all of these things. Like, we 76 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: were taught what was right and wrong. But then now, 77 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: as I look back through my own education, you realize that, 78 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: like you may have been told on the playground, don't 79 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: knock down Johnny and take his candy, right, because that's 80 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 1: not yours, it doesn't belong to you. But when we 81 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: see it on a larger political scale and landscape, right, 82 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: then somehow the ends justify the means. And was it 83 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: really Johnny's candy, right or was it mine? And you know, 84 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: and if there are more people in my corner saying 85 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: that that candy is actually belongs to me and Johnny 86 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: really stole it, what then becomes the truth. I do 87 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: not think that the issues that are playing out on 88 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: the college emphasis are that complex. I really don't. I 89 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: don't think that it is complex at all to bear 90 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: witness to horrific atrocities on your phone every single day, 91 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: where you see headlines and videos that show you body parts, 92 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: headlines of yet another mass grave that was uncovered in Israel, 93 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: filled with the bodies and parts of Palestinian people. Don't 94 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: take my word for it, Google it because it was 95 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: broadcast on CNN. How many war crimes does it take 96 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: for folks to recognize that those that say that they 97 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: are the victims right can also victimize That two things 98 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: can be true at the same time. That there can 99 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: indeed be anti Semitism that exists and anti Islamophobia that 100 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: exists as well, anti you know that exists as well, 101 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: That those that were oppressed when given unbridled power, can 102 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: also turn around and become the oppressor. And that is 103 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: what young people are seeing. They're asking themselves, why are 104 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: we funding this? It is one thing to have the 105 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: right to defend yourself, but you do not have the 106 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: right to torment, destroy, abuse and torture all others because 107 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 1: of your sense right of victimhood, because what does that 108 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: then make you? For so long, hundreds of years in fact, 109 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: enslavers did not want to teach the enslaved Africans how 110 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 1: to read because knowledge is power, did not allow enslaved 111 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: Africans to congregate in mass because then community is built. 112 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: Because they dictated the rules of slavery through the lens 113 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: of fear of uprising. Well, the thing is is that 114 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: you don't actually have to fear an uprising. If you're 115 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: not torturing, brutally beating, right and like manipulating, verbally abusing people, 116 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: then you don't have to worry about what happens when 117 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: they become free. And yet, through my own lens, when 118 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: I traveled to Israel and Palestine, I saw oppression that 119 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: I had only ever read in history books. I saw 120 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: apartheid with my own eyes. When you have two types 121 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: of license plates, one for one group of people and 122 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: one for another. And I'm not talking about the difference 123 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: in license plates of those that live in Texas versus 124 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: those that live in Louisiana. I'm talking about a license 125 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: plate that says that you are less than human and 126 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: that you do not belong on this road. Similarly to 127 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: the sunset laws that are still on the books in 128 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: many states inside of these United States, that dictated that 129 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: any black person, regardless of their status, found inside of 130 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: any said town after sunset, could be lynched, could be beaten, 131 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: could be raped, could be maimed, could be tortured because 132 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: that person, that black body, was not welcomed. I understand 133 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: what it is like to feel unsafe. I understand it 134 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: through the lens of being black. I understand it through 135 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: the lens of being a woman, understand it through the 136 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: lens of being queer. I understand it in a way 137 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: that my ancestors didn't have the ability as some groups 138 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: who came to these United States willingly. First of all, 139 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: so there's already we're starting off in a different fucking place, 140 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: but willingly come here and then change their name so 141 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: that they could assimilate and the generations after them could 142 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: assimilate into this country, because when you're black, you don't 143 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: just get to change your skin. It doesn't work that way. 144 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: So much so that they created an entire rule and 145 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: system called the one drop rule, meaning that if you 146 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: had even one drop of African blood in you, you 147 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: were black. Because for white America, it was always about 148 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: a numbers game, and they had to continue to suppress 149 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: the number of black people right so that they could 150 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: continue with their oppression and their power. It is not 151 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: hard now to look back in time and say, oh, 152 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: that was repulsive, But do you know how I grew up, Well, 153 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: that was the times. That's what my teacher said, Oh 154 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: you know, that's what they did then, not that it 155 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: was cruel and inhumane and horrific. And my god, let 156 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: us look at this and how we decide to oppress 157 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: an entire group of people and criminalize them for nothing 158 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: other than existing in the same space as you, and 159 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: you feeling threatened just by virtue of having to share 160 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: space with other people that may not look like you, 161 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: that may not pray like you. If we actually embraced 162 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: real civil behavior in modern civilization, then we wouldn't have 163 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: to worry. But when it's decided that the only way 164 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: that you can stay safe and in power is to 165 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: press your foot on somebody else's neck and tell them 166 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: that they are the problem. What do you think that 167 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: the long term result is going to be? So when 168 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: young people now are looking around understanding how much money 169 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: they are paying into these institutions that are paying into 170 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: systems that they do not want their money to go towards. 171 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: Much in the same way that the United States is 172 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: paying billions of dollars a year, three to four billion 173 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: in fact, to provide welfare for Israel, and you put 174 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: no contingency on that money, like to build an actual democracy, 175 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: even one that is as imperfect as the United States. 176 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: But my God, when I was in Israel, I said, 177 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: this is what the United States would have looked like 178 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: had the Civil rights movement not happened, or had it 179 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: been queuched, had the justices that were on the Supreme 180 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: Court be the very justices that are sitting there now, 181 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: I'm sure as fuck wouldn't have a podcast, let alone 182 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: be living in the building that I'm living in and 183 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: the part of town that I'm living in. Having had 184 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: an education that I had, there is no civilized way 185 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: to protest against in civility. Martin Luther King was the 186 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: biggest proponent an example of non violent resistance, and do 187 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: you know what they did to him? They shot him dead, 188 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: widowed his wife, and left his children fatherless. The late 189 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: Congressman John Lewis marched peacefully across Edmund's Bridge and was 190 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: beaten and bloodied by a legal system that told him 191 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: that he did not have the right to exist. Black 192 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: panthers that organized in this country for black liberation, that 193 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: created food programs and literacy programs in after school programs 194 00:16:53,520 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: were bombed, jailed, and assassinated by this government. What were 195 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: they doing? They were bearing arms the way that the 196 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: constitution told them that they could. They didn't see the 197 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: fine print that had said only white men were allowed 198 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: to do that, and that in so exercising the fullness 199 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: of your citizen injury would cost you your life. There 200 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: are still political prisoners in these United States that were 201 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: black liberationists. They only are let out of jail when 202 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: they are on depth's door. That's the modern day political 203 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: way of leaving the body hanging from the news or 204 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: leaving Mike Brown's body rotting in the street after police 205 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: officers killed him. For four hours in the hot sun 206 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: as a reminder to stay in your place. There is 207 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: no right way to react to the obscenity of what 208 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: is considered the rule of law. So when you see 209 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: young people setting up camps, barricading themselves in buildings, and 210 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:22,959 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to have their voice is heard. 211 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: When they try to be civil but are met with incivility, 212 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 1: you tell me what is the right way. If I 213 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 1: can't critique a system of government because of the religion 214 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: of the people who are running that government, how are 215 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 1: we to form conversation and get to a point of 216 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: change and clarity. There are bigger issues at play here 217 00:18:53,320 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: that are about power and control, subjugation and silence. It 218 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: isn't just about what's happening on the college campuses, my friend. 219 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: It is about what is happening all around us. And 220 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 1: the questions that I want to be asked and not 221 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: necessarily answered on this show every single day is what 222 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: are we going to do about it? How are we 223 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: going to create this more perfect union? How are we 224 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: going to talk openly and honestly about injustice and our 225 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: responsibility to bring light to darkness. That is the underlying 226 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: question of what it means to be woke. What kind 227 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: of world do we want to live in and how 228 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: do we want to create it together? Because it's sure 229 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,360 Speaker 1: as fuck is not about lying about what we are 230 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: seeing with our own eyes and pretending it doesn't ega exist, 231 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: or staying silent because we don't want to hurt other 232 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: people's feelings. It is about telling the truth. It is 233 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: about integrity, It is about compassion and empathy. That's how 234 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: we build community. It starts with us. It starts with 235 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: hard conversations about who we are and who we want 236 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: to be. That is it for me today, Dear friends 237 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: on Woke a f as always, Power to the people 238 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 239 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.