Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Me your Girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. I find this a week. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to do anymore. It's so overwhelming. But it
Speaker 1: is woke Wednesday, and there are just so many things
Speaker 1: that I want to draw attention to. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with the fact that the country is literally
Speaker 1: under a heat dome that isn't dissipating but instead expanding.
Speaker 1: There are places across this country that are and have
Speaker 1: been experiencing triple digit temperatures four weeks. And you know,
Speaker 1: I did an interview that you all will here on
Speaker 1: here next week with Danielle Kampomore who helped connect the
Speaker 1: dots to how reproductive health is going to be impacted
Speaker 1: by climate change. Because I think that too often when
Speaker 1: we're having these conversations about climate change, or when they
Speaker 1: find their way into the press, it is again a
Speaker 1: string of quote unquote isolated and historic incidents. Right, We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the heat wave, and then there'll
Speaker 1: be a story about somebody or a few people dying
Speaker 1: because of said heat wave, or we'll talk about wildfires,
Speaker 1: which is what is creating the heat dome that we
Speaker 1: are experiencing across the country, where there are places in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis and Detroit that have are on the top ten
Speaker 1: list in the world of cities right now with the
Speaker 1: worst air quality. Like, these are not things to shrug off,
Speaker 1: you know. I was in a conversation with my mother
Speaker 1: earlier this week that it's just like this summer's weather
Speaker 1: is so crazy. She's like, it's so weird, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's not really weird. It's our new normal. And these
Speaker 1: are things that people need to understand, like these things
Speaker 1: are not going away. They're actually going to get worse
Speaker 1: with each and every passing summer and each and every
Speaker 1: passing year because those that are in power are choosing
Speaker 1: to absolutely ignore this problem that is screaming in our face.
Speaker 1: Right there is no way to look at the temperatures
Speaker 1: that are happening in places that are normally areas that
Speaker 1: can go without air condition right, that have gone without
Speaker 1: air conditioning for oh, I don't know, centuries until now,
Speaker 1: and people are just like, oh, well, folks need to
Speaker 1: you know, run air conditioner. I told you guys this
Speaker 1: the other day on the show I got to notice
Speaker 1: from con ed here in New York. That's that I
Speaker 1: think it was two weeks ago that I was running
Speaker 1: my air conditioner, running the electricity thirty three percent higher
Speaker 1: that I had in the prior weeks. So what does
Speaker 1: that amount into? More electricity? More fucking money? Right, the
Speaker 1: higher cost it is going to be in order to
Speaker 1: live in changing temperatures. So again, folks are just like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: people just need to get air conditioners, or oh we
Speaker 1: just need to stay indoors. All of that is going
Speaker 1: to cost money that no one else is going to
Speaker 1: be paying for other than you. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: this fucking ignorance that the Republican Party perpetuates is expensive, right,
Speaker 1: Ignorance is not cheap actually, And so you have in
Speaker 1: these places where we are going to again we're talking
Speaker 1: about the human toll with people, you know, passing out,
Speaker 1: with people dying right from heat strokes. You talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that when temperatures exceed right ninety something degrees,
Speaker 1: pregnant people go into labor sooner, which means that they're
Speaker 1: going to be giving birth earlier, which means that there
Speaker 1: are going to be more children that wind up in
Speaker 1: the NICKU that need more attention and care as their
Speaker 1: lives right develop, which is going to put pressure on
Speaker 1: what are already broken down healthcare system. Like, folks, it
Speaker 1: just behooves us to connect the goddamn dots here and
Speaker 1: see that our elected officials choosing to be ostriches is
Speaker 1: not only going to cost us our lives because I
Speaker 1: don't know whose body temperature can exist. As we start
Speaker 1: to see temperatures around the world, Like I reported on
Speaker 1: this the other week, and I fucking tweeted it out.
Speaker 1: I think it was in Iran in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: somewhere where the temperature was one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: fucking degrees. Our bodies cannot sustain. Human bodies cannot sustain
Speaker 1: in that temperature. So you're looking at areas in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: You're looking at parts of Texas. You're looking at you know,
Speaker 1: areas like Denver, Colorado is in triple digits right now, folks, Buffalo,
Speaker 1: New York is in triple digits right now. All of
Speaker 1: this is going to put a weight and a burden
Speaker 1: on our healthcare system, on our agricultural system, on our
Speaker 1: work system. Because you know what ends up also happening
Speaker 1: in extreme temperatures which we saw last summer, and I
Speaker 1: reported on on WOKF the fucking tarmac at Heathrow was
Speaker 1: melting because the temperature was so high in London. So
Speaker 1: you talk about air travel which will become increasingly dangerous.
Speaker 1: Why because of turbulence? Why because of the rising heat
Speaker 1: index right creating air conditions that are not normal, creating
Speaker 1: more storms that are a lot more aggressive than your
Speaker 1: average Just you know summer storm that is passing. You're
Speaker 1: talking about extreme flooding, extreme wind, Everything including the human
Speaker 1: cost and actual currency cost will be more extreme. I
Speaker 1: just I don't. I don't get it. I don't. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't get how we don't haul a massive summit
Speaker 1: and meeting of world leaders right now. Right before I
Speaker 1: came on to record, MSMBE was reporting that there are
Speaker 1: major evacuations that are happening in Greece because of what
Speaker 1: wildfires that have spun out of control. Temperatures have exceeded
Speaker 1: into the triple digits, The air quality is quite shit
Speaker 1: and people are being forced to leave everything behind and
Speaker 1: evacuate because the air has shifted. The wind has shifted,
Speaker 1: endangering people's homes and property like folks. It I mean,
Speaker 1: I tell you that if it doesn't feel like the
Speaker 1: fucking end of days. Let all I'm doing is sitting
Speaker 1: around waiting on the locusts, do you know? And we
Speaker 1: have these fucking moths here that are not indigenous to
Speaker 1: New York that are apparently eating everything and also endangering
Speaker 1: agriculture here. I'm seeing signs up everywhere. And so you're
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that we have created this person
Speaker 1: made crisis on this planet, the only one that we have,
Speaker 1: and we have done so much damage that scientists don't
Speaker 1: think that it is reversible. So I'm just wondering, like
Speaker 1: how long even the uber wealthy think that they're going
Speaker 1: to be able to live under these conditions, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's like incredibly wild because I find myself these
Speaker 1: days doing something that I hadn't done before the sky
Speaker 1: turned yellow here in June because of the wildfires in Canada,
Speaker 1: which is checking the air indexes. Is it safe for
Speaker 1: me to go out walking today? Right? Is it safe
Speaker 1: for me to just to take public transit today? Again?
Speaker 1: Additional cost because if I'm trying to keep myself safe,
Speaker 1: either I'm staying indoors the entire time or I'm taking
Speaker 1: an uber so that I don't have to walk to
Speaker 1: said place right or wearing a mask. But it's triple digits,
Speaker 1: so it's fucking hot. Yeah. I got to tell you
Speaker 1: that the conditions with regard to climate change in our environment,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just see things getting worse and worse
Speaker 1: and worse. The one thing that I can say is that,
Speaker 1: at least in New York, and I know that this
Speaker 1: is not true for other places, that we have actually
Speaker 1: had more rain. But there has been a lot more
Speaker 1: flooding that has also taken place. But at least I
Speaker 1: don't know of every week or so, there's like a
Speaker 1: torrential downpour here because the humidity has been so fucking wild,
Speaker 1: like you could chew the air. But at least the plants,
Speaker 1: I guess, can get some type of relief, and the trees.
Speaker 1: But I mean the fact that we are seeing what
Speaker 1: scientists and climatologists told us would happen, and it's happening,
Speaker 1: and we're living in it, and the conditions don't look
Speaker 1: like we can actually change them. But the thing is
Speaker 1: what we learned during COVID right by virtue of everyone
Speaker 1: except for those that were quote unquote essential that we
Speaker 1: were only cared about. During that time, everyone was indoors.
Speaker 1: There were less cars on the road, there were less
Speaker 1: boats in the water, and guess what, the planets started
Speaker 1: to heal itself. So we know that if we took
Speaker 1: really radical measures to actually make significant changes today, we
Speaker 1: know that the planet could have the opportunity to heal
Speaker 1: itself from the damage that we've caused. But because of
Speaker 1: greed and an extractive mentality that says, let us just
Speaker 1: take take, take, take, take, destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy, and
Speaker 1: just pass on the responsibility to the next generation, because well,
Speaker 1: my life is halfway done, so fuck it, I don't
Speaker 1: want to change. It is the selfishness, the greed, and
Speaker 1: the drive for capitalistic wealth that has us in this space,
Speaker 1: and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Again, we
Speaker 1: can't even get world leaders to meet as their fucking
Speaker 1: countries are on fire with no sign of stop it. Y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that is on top of mind, as you know,
Speaker 1: by the end of the week here in New York
Speaker 1: it is going to reach triple digits. And you know,
Speaker 1: we're just acting like this shit is normal. Then it's
Speaker 1: totally not. I want to talk about the recognition, the
Speaker 1: honor that was given to Emmett Till and Mammy Till,
Speaker 1: his mother. I want folks to think about something real quick,
Speaker 1: which is that if Emmett Till hadn't have been tortured, brutalized,
Speaker 1: and killed, he would be eighty two years old right now,
Speaker 1: just three years older than Joe Biden, and the President
Speaker 1: of the United States is at this current moment. When
Speaker 1: black and white pictures are shown of Emmett Hill, the
Speaker 1: infamous picture that goes around on media and social media
Speaker 1: and traditional media, it gives you the air to believe
Speaker 1: that this was so long ago. America has learned so
Speaker 1: much since then. This was generations upon generations ago, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the olden days. It wasn't It was within
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and many Americans' lifetimes that Emmett Hill was murdered.
Speaker 1: It was in the mid nineteen fifties. To think that
Speaker 1: this young boy, this child was brutalized and robbed of
Speaker 1: his life, of a life that his mother had to
Speaker 1: put aside her own grieving to show the world what
Speaker 1: white domestic terrorism and racism did to her son and
Speaker 1: as done in American culture at a time when we
Speaker 1: are just casually allowing states like Florida and Texas to
Speaker 1: rewrite history to not include the important stories like that
Speaker 1: of Emme Attil. You see, the fact is is that
Speaker 1: you cannot celebrate America write and celebrate you know only
Speaker 1: parts of your history when you don't know the whole
Speaker 1: fucking truth. Part of President Biden's speech about this memorial
Speaker 1: that is going to be built in multiple places for
Speaker 1: Emmitt Till and his mother was about shining a light
Speaker 1: on all aspects of our country and our history, and
Speaker 1: that we don't turn away. A great nations should not
Speaker 1: and do not turn away from their darkest parts. They
Speaker 1: shine a light on it, one so that we do
Speaker 1: not repeat it right and two so that we can
Speaker 1: honor those whose lives were stolen as we try and
Speaker 1: perfect our union. But that is not the desire of
Speaker 1: this Republican Party or frankly any Republican party. And I
Speaker 1: talked about this before, but the Daughters of the Confederacy
Speaker 1: were created to feminize the faith of the Confederate ideology
Speaker 1: that after the war was lost, after they lost the
Speaker 1: Civil War, which was fought in order to be able
Speaker 1: to keep black people as their property, so that they
Speaker 1: could continue to increase their wealth at the expense of
Speaker 1: other people's humanity. That the daughters of the Confederacy came
Speaker 1: in to rewrite that history and to create statues of
Speaker 1: the Confederacy, to turn what we know was an issue
Speaker 1: and a war fought over slavery into one that was
Speaker 1: about states' rights and honoring states rights. And these were
Speaker 1: the rebels, the heroes that fought again governmental oppression. So
Speaker 1: they are fine with weaponizing and erasing history so that
Speaker 1: you don't actually know the truth. These motherfuckers or rated
Speaker 1: on the benefits of slavery, and now you have right
Speaker 1: now their fucking descendants talking about how slavery was good
Speaker 1: for black people, how it benefited them, gave them skills.
Speaker 1: Are you fucking dumb? Do you think that these white
Speaker 1: slave masters had any fucking skills. They went specifically to
Speaker 1: parts of the continent of Africa where there were metal workers,
Speaker 1: farmers to build up their fucking country that they stole
Speaker 1: from an indigenous pop that knew the lay of the land,
Speaker 1: and so they could not enslave them because they had
Speaker 1: a common fucking language right the understanding of the land.
Speaker 1: Even though there were all of these different tribes they tried,
Speaker 1: so they have to go and get another batch of
Speaker 1: black people to bring in to torture, to rape, to
Speaker 1: destroy their families. And then they want to turn around
Speaker 1: and tell us teach kids in Florida that it was
Speaker 1: all for a benefit, because if not for the domestication
Speaker 1: by the white slaveholders, that what black people would have
Speaker 1: been Like wild horses, are you fucking kidding me? Folks?
Speaker 1: This is what I say when I tell you that
Speaker 1: it's like I reach these points of the week, of
Speaker 1: the month, of the fucking year, of the decade where
Speaker 1: I just get to the point of exhaustion where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's time to turn this shit off for beat because
Speaker 1: I just do not have it. And this is where
Speaker 1: you know, white folks ask me all the time, like
Speaker 1: what can I do? You can learn? You can make
Speaker 1: education and the education about the truth of this country
Speaker 1: by reading text, by listening to podcasts, by organizing write
Speaker 1: your own book clubs, by organizing your own activation in
Speaker 1: these fucking states, building your community. Maybe it only starts
Speaker 1: with one, maybe it starts with two, but then it
Speaker 1: builds from there on. Because I'm telling you that the
Speaker 1: exhaustion that I feel is fucking generational, and it is
Speaker 1: bone fucking deep to continue to do the work to
Speaker 1: educate white people who are purposefully walking through life as
Speaker 1: ostriches want to run into Old Navy to go get
Speaker 1: a flag shirt, but don't know fucking dick about nobody's flag.
Speaker 1: You know it is wild. And so what do I
Speaker 1: ask of white people that want to be activated allies
Speaker 1: and not just passive allies, is to do the work.
Speaker 1: Is that when it gets hard and you're exhausted, think
Speaker 1: about generations, hundreds and hundreds of years of that kind
Speaker 1: of exhaustion before you decide to tap the fuck out. Everybody,
Speaker 1: particularly white people, should be asking themselves every day, what
Speaker 1: did I do today to disrupt white supremacy in this country.
Speaker 1: It is reading, it is educating, it is activating. It
Speaker 1: is pushing back every single day on your own beliefs
Speaker 1: as well, because having black friends or having black people
Speaker 1: in your family does not make you not racist. It
Speaker 1: is embedded. So it is an consistent unlearning and relearning
Speaker 1: that has to happen. And the forces at play right
Speaker 1: now are making it almost damn near impossible for future
Speaker 1: generations to be better. So stop tricking yourselves into believing
Speaker 1: that all we do is need for the races to
Speaker 1: die out. Because Ammetil should have been eighty fucking two
Speaker 1: years old, he should have been able to die of
Speaker 1: old age. He should have been able to have gotten
Speaker 1: married and had grandchildren and great grandchildren, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: And there are more Emmitt Tills than this country cares
Speaker 1: to even fucking reckon with. We just had a judge
Speaker 1: deny one of the last survivors of the Tulsa massacre reparations,
Speaker 1: living to be one hundred and something years old and
Speaker 1: still being denied what was stolen from you. You think about that,
Speaker 1: Think about the lengths that this country goes through and
Speaker 1: is going through to ensure that white supremacy lives on.
Speaker 1: It's fucking deep. And so the work that is being
Speaker 1: done by woke and conscious white people who actually believe
Speaker 1: in freedom and liberation is also deep and needs to
Speaker 1: be consistent. I'm not telling you to consistently spin yourself
Speaker 1: into misery, but I'm telling you to ask yourself every day,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? How am I advancing the cause?
Speaker 1: And it could be something so small as dedicating and
Speaker 1: creating your own fucking syllabus of people that You need
Speaker 1: to be reading, creating your own book clubs with you,
Speaker 1: your own people, having conversations, advancing those conversations, and then
Speaker 1: going into your schools and saying what's in the library here,
Speaker 1: what is part of the curriculum, whether you have a
Speaker 1: kid in school or not. Because what they know or
Speaker 1: don't know is going to effect all of us. This
Speaker 1: is why I say that education is so important, and
Speaker 1: this is what they know. They know education is so important.
Speaker 1: It's why it's always been the battleground for liberation and
Speaker 1: those that believe in oppression. This shit ain't new, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but we are just getting around to honoring the life
Speaker 1: and the sacrifice of Emma Till, a man, a boy
Speaker 1: who could have grown to be a man of eighty
Speaker 1: two years old. You all have eighty something year old
Speaker 1: people in your family right now that should have been Emmettil.
Speaker 1: We're just getting around to honoring his murder. Being one
Speaker 1: of the many sparks of the civil rights movement that
Speaker 1: they are working to a race from curriculum, not only
Speaker 1: in Florida, but in red states around this country. It's
Speaker 1: a fucking disgrace. And lastly, folks, I want to talk
Speaker 1: very briefly about the strikes that are taking place across industries.
Speaker 1: This is far time that people are paid their fucking worth.
Speaker 1: And the fact that we live in a society that
Speaker 1: celebrates billionaires and makes them into these deities and then
Speaker 1: at the same time looks down at the poor and
Speaker 1: says that they're poor because they've made poor choices is
Speaker 1: the lie of capitalism, is the lie of greed. And
Speaker 1: I think that it's important as we're watching people strike,
Speaker 1: because what they're asking for is the ability to live.
Speaker 1: They're not striking so that they can ride around in
Speaker 1: fucking you know, one hundred thousand dollars cars or live
Speaker 1: in two and three and four different homes. No, they
Speaker 1: just want the ability to be able to live and
Speaker 1: work with dignity and provide for themselves and if they
Speaker 1: want their families. No one chooses to be poor, no
Speaker 1: one chooses to struggle. But there are systems that are
Speaker 1: created to make it so only a few breakout of
Speaker 1: that invisible cast that we have in America. Everybody scrambles
Speaker 1: to go and you know, pay money in to go
Speaker 1: win the lottery, when in fact, all we actually need
Speaker 1: is you know, wealth, registribution, give back, to the communities
Speaker 1: you extracted from. Pay people a living wage for their
Speaker 1: labor so that they don't have to work multiple jobs.
Speaker 1: It's not rocket science, and yet they make us believe
Speaker 1: that it's impossible. It's not. Capitalism is a made up construct.
Speaker 1: We can reimagine it. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on wokef as always, or to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck. M