Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bige F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording once again from the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bunker. Today is January sixth, twenty twenty two. Three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days have passed since there was
Speaker 1: a coup attempt, an attempt to violently overthrow our government occurred.
Speaker 1: We all sat before whether our computers, televisions, phones, tablets, whatever,
Speaker 1: and watched as thousands of Trump supporters, thousands of white Americans,
Speaker 1: ransacked our Capitol Building, tormenting our representatives as they were
Speaker 1: doing their duty to certify the twenty twenty election and
Speaker 1: the win, legitimate win of Joe Biden. There have been
Speaker 1: countless videos, stories, tweets, tiktoks that have been shared to
Speaker 1: convey the seriousness of that day. It exemplified just how
Speaker 1: broken our democracy had become. Where a president could lie
Speaker 1: to his millions of followers, that he could be uplifted
Speaker 1: by cable news networks, that he could be celebrated and
Speaker 1: seen as a legitimate and normal president as he gathered
Speaker 1: his followers, his legions of fans as he calls them,
Speaker 1: in front of the Capitol Building on January six, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, hyping them up on toxic masculinity, on xenophobia,
Speaker 1: on hatred, on partisanship, on white supremacy, and then pointed
Speaker 1: them in the direction of the Capitol Building and told
Speaker 1: them no, commanded them as I would write in My
Speaker 1: Peace America, It's time to take the red pill. Commanded
Speaker 1: them to go and take their country back. As I
Speaker 1: said earlier this week, there is a piece in the
Speaker 1: New York Times, and it is a startling, horrific piece
Speaker 1: of journalism that outlines just how devastating the one six
Speaker 1: events were for those officers that were on the front lines.
Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't tell you what
Speaker 1: stood out for me as I listened to January six,
Speaker 1: the Scars, right from the New York Times. It's called
Speaker 1: it's entitled the Capitol Police January six Scars, and what
Speaker 1: stood out for me are the accounts of Capitol Police
Speaker 1: officers talking about why they decided to join their police
Speaker 1: ranks and how proud they were right how proud they
Speaker 1: have been to serve to uphold democracy. There are more
Speaker 1: members that talked about the fact that they decide to
Speaker 1: join the Capitol Police force after nine to eleven, that
Speaker 1: they felt so driven to protect democracy, to protect their country,
Speaker 1: But after the events of January sixth, they said, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't sign up for this. Have I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: what should I infer from that you signed up on
Speaker 1: nine to eleven? Because what the terrorists that you thought
Speaker 1: that you would be battling had a different color melanine
Speaker 1: than you did, had a depth of pigmentation, spoke a
Speaker 1: different language, came from that part of the world that
Speaker 1: George Bush told you was an access of evil. That
Speaker 1: there were not people who were citizens and mothers and
Speaker 1: fathers and uncles and who also had a desire to
Speaker 1: live out healthy, normal lives. That you thought, what that
Speaker 1: after nine to eleven you would be like John Wayne
Speaker 1: and what go get the bad guys? But when the
Speaker 1: bad guys, the terrorists, actually look like your neighbor or yourself,
Speaker 1: it's something that you didn't sign up for. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Did I read that and hear that correctly? The problem
Speaker 1: that this country is facing is grave, and you guys
Speaker 1: know that because you've been listening to me for years.
Speaker 1: At this point, I wrote one of my most honest
Speaker 1: pieces this week, my reflections on one six that I
Speaker 1: want to share with all of you. I normally don't
Speaker 1: read an entire piece. I just go through and highlight,
Speaker 1: but what has hit me in this moment, this day
Speaker 1: that is going to be filled with images and video
Speaker 1: and analysts and hosts except for on Fox, talking about
Speaker 1: the events of these of this day, and members of
Speaker 1: Congress talking about their fears in that moment. And they'll
Speaker 1: be asked questions like do you feel safe now? And
Speaker 1: do you feel like you know justice is going to prevail?
Speaker 1: And they'll give their platitudes and they will offer up
Speaker 1: a range of thoughts, right that will both try and
Speaker 1: present the sense of urgency that we still face in
Speaker 1: this country while also trying to assuage our fears. And
Speaker 1: I realize, folks, that's not my job. My job is
Speaker 1: not to make people feel safe. It's to make you
Speaker 1: feel hard. It's to make you feel seen, and it's
Speaker 1: certainly in this particular climate, meant to make you feel
Speaker 1: as if you're not being gas lit, as if you're
Speaker 1: not going crazy. Right, because we all see what's happening,
Speaker 1: we all see what's coming, We see the direction that
Speaker 1: this country has taken. But those that are in power,
Speaker 1: whether they are in front of the camera behind the camera,
Speaker 1: whether they are wearing a little congressional pin or not,
Speaker 1: are trying to downplay. Some will say that they're trying
Speaker 1: to downplay the events because we have bigger fish to fry,
Speaker 1: or it's time to turn the page, or it was
Speaker 1: just a bunch of tourists anyway. But they're all serving
Speaker 1: the same master. They're all serving the same beast, which
Speaker 1: is what James Baldwin referred to as moral apathy. See
Speaker 1: this always a rush to go back to normal, a
Speaker 1: rush to just put the bad times behind us and
Speaker 1: tell people that, oh, the good times are here to stay.
Speaker 1: Except for some Americans, those good times never arrived. They're
Speaker 1: still waiting for the elusive American dream. There's a reason
Speaker 1: in this country while some people wave American flags and
Speaker 1: other people kneel at them, and it's one that we
Speaker 1: choose to ignore so that we can just get along
Speaker 1: for the get along. We have these moments and these
Speaker 1: flares where we see this country for what it is,
Speaker 1: but then it all becomes just too much. The problem
Speaker 1: seems too big, And then we go about our days
Speaker 1: putting away our posters, resting our voices from our marches
Speaker 1: and protests and thinking that it's somebody else's problem to solve,
Speaker 1: except the destruction of our democracy isn't somebody else's problem.
Speaker 1: If you live here, citizen or not, it is your problem.
Speaker 1: I talked earlier this week about the Canadian professor who's
Speaker 1: ringing the alarm about the crisis in the South. As
Speaker 1: he refers to it, what are we going to do
Speaker 1: if America falls? That's a real question. It's a question
Speaker 1: that the world is asking, But somehow our American leaders
Speaker 1: are not. You have the Senator mansions and the Senator
Speaker 1: cinemas of the world that are pretending that this is
Speaker 1: the twentieth century and all is well. All wasn't fucking
Speaker 1: well in the twentieth century either, But at least we
Speaker 1: weren't battling climate change, a global health pandemic, and a
Speaker 1: rise of white supremacy all happening at the same fucking time.
Speaker 1: We could, at least at that time, take one problem
Speaker 1: right after the other. So I want to share with
Speaker 1: you my thoughts, my reflections on one six and what
Speaker 1: I wrote, and then I'll talk about it some more.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, folks, dear friends, I
Speaker 1: am feeling so sad and deflated and it's just six
Speaker 1: days into twenty twenty two. I'll talk later in the
Speaker 1: show about Merritt Garland's press conference non conference because nothing
Speaker 1: was truly announced and where I think that we are
Speaker 1: going from here. But I'm not going to lie to
Speaker 1: you because I refuse to bullshit you. It ain't great.
Speaker 1: So as per usual, as many of you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a columnist with Zora Magazine, which is the property of Medium,
Speaker 1: and I was asked right before the holiday break if
Speaker 1: I would write a reflection on one six and I
Speaker 1: was going to do you know, the normal, this is terrible,
Speaker 1: this is bad, and this is you know what I say,
Speaker 1: But I wanted to cut through the bullshit and just
Speaker 1: state why we are in this place and why I
Speaker 1: actually don't see a path forward. You know, I remember
Speaker 1: when I was on Serious and I started woke af
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump got elected. And after the election, I
Speaker 1: read Psychology Today's the Eleven Signs of Gaslighting, and I
Speaker 1: would read it like I felt like I was reading
Speaker 1: it every month, right, just to remind people this is
Speaker 1: what it looks like, because you're not going crazy, but
Speaker 1: you're going to start to feel crazy. And years later,
Speaker 1: I feel like the entire every apparatus is participating in
Speaker 1: the gaslight. Right, you had Joe Biden deciding that he
Speaker 1: wanted to move on infrastructure because he wanted to show
Speaker 1: the country that Democrats and Republicans can work together on
Speaker 1: rebuilding America. And I'm like, where the fuck have you been, dude.
Speaker 1: They're trying to destroy this country through voting rights, through
Speaker 1: voter suppression. How was that not the first thing that
Speaker 1: you're doing. You came into office at the height of
Speaker 1: the racial uprisings, when we all watched a black man
Speaker 1: get suffocated to death in broad fucking daylight. Eight months later, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't get policing done, so you want to turn
Speaker 1: to something that you think will be easy. They don't
Speaker 1: want America to succeed, period. And until we actually grasp
Speaker 1: that and name it and tell the fucking truth, how
Speaker 1: were we going to do anything to change it. So
Speaker 1: here is my piece, America. It's time to take the
Speaker 1: red pill. Our biggest problem moral apathy. On the anniversary
Speaker 1: of the one six insurrection, it's been three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five days since the twice impeached former President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump stood before his legions of fans in Washington d
Speaker 1: C and urged them, no, commanded them to stop the
Speaker 1: steel and go take their country back. It was a
Speaker 1: site that no one could have imagined, and yet the FBI,
Speaker 1: Capitol Police, and DC Metropolitan Police should have been prepared for,
Speaker 1: but weren't. Since then, we have been nationally stunned by
Speaker 1: Republicans who completely and totally gaslight us every day, a
Speaker 1: day we all witness take place. We have allowed the
Speaker 1: reality of the breakdown of that day to fall by
Speaker 1: the wayside. The main question that should have been asked
Speaker 1: about the one six insurrection is not how did it happen?
Speaker 1: But instead why did all policing mechanisms fail? This is
Speaker 1: the real question, and the answer doesn't require a House
Speaker 1: commission to uncover. Why did all police systems fail on
Speaker 1: one six? Simple because they were never intended to protect
Speaker 1: white people from themselves. In the New York Times article
Speaker 1: The Capitol Police and the Scars of January six, the
Speaker 1: reader receives a horrific and graphic account of the day
Speaker 1: that a hundred and fifty police officers were injured, beaten,
Speaker 1: and tazed by rabid Trump supporters who were hyped up
Speaker 1: and then unleashed by their lion tamer Aside from the
Speaker 1: brutality that they faced, the article also highlights the many
Speaker 1: emails that went out referring to folks as bolos or
Speaker 1: be on the lookout for. Many red flags were overlooked.
Speaker 1: The FBI also received tips and can see that white
Speaker 1: nationalist groups were organizing in plain sight. Ultimately, the agency
Speaker 1: decided that it was much to do about nothing. Why
Speaker 1: because historically, when some white people scream about liberty, they
Speaker 1: are applauded for it, not seen as a threat. If
Speaker 1: any white man in the world says give me liberty
Speaker 1: or give me death, the entire white world applause, said
Speaker 1: James Baldwin once while in conversation with Decavit in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine. Yet, he continued, when a black man says
Speaker 1: exactly the same word, same thing, word for word, he
Speaker 1: is judged a criminal and treated like one, and everything
Speaker 1: possible is done to make an example of this bad
Speaker 1: nigger so that there won't be more like him. This
Speaker 1: is the reality we refuse to face as a nation.
Speaker 1: White America and often Brown America too, will literally map
Speaker 1: out every possible scenario, offer every excuse about regular joes,
Speaker 1: even dal being radicalized, but won't look at their historic
Speaker 1: patterns of violence that have been led to their own
Speaker 1: very real psychosis, the belief that whiteness is perfectly infallible
Speaker 1: and anointed by their white Christian God. It is so
Speaker 1: embedded in the system, and this is in fact what
Speaker 1: Trump and his acolytes were able to stir up for
Speaker 1: four years. Why do you think that Republicans next campaign
Speaker 1: has been to take down critical race theory, which isn't
Speaker 1: even taught in K through twelve schools. The very idea
Speaker 1: of having their fictitious understanding of America questioned is one
Speaker 1: that they cannot bear. And so instead of doing the
Speaker 1: work to interrogate whiteness and the privileges that it affords,
Speaker 1: it is much easier to be quote swept up by
Speaker 1: the benevolent desires of a used car salesman who tells
Speaker 1: you that not only will he get your country back
Speaker 1: from the grips of these liberal snowflakes, but he will
Speaker 1: punish them for believing they had the authority to lead.
Speaker 1: Why is it that three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 1: after an attempt to overthrow the government, the ringleaders of
Speaker 1: this attempt are still roaming free. The answer is simple,
Speaker 1: moral apathy and the unwillingness of whiteness to be accountable
Speaker 1: to the monster it created. I'm terrified at the moral apathy,
Speaker 1: the death of the heart which is happening in my country.
Speaker 1: These people have deluded themselves for so long that they
Speaker 1: really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct,
Speaker 1: not on what they say, and this means that they
Speaker 1: have become in themselves, moral monsters. Notes from James Baldwin.
Speaker 1: Moral apathy will be the death of us unless we
Speaker 1: make the decision to unplug from centering whiteness and give
Speaker 1: up the white Christian American Disneyland version of ourselves and
Speaker 1: begin to take responsibility for our past so we can
Speaker 1: chart a better future. America. It's time to wake up
Speaker 1: and take the red pill. You know it is not
Speaker 1: lost on me the mental gymnastics that are performed on
Speaker 1: a daily to excuse, to pardon the violent behavior of
Speaker 1: white people. It is always not all white people. It
Speaker 1: is always don't categorize them, But it's okay to categorize
Speaker 1: every other group. It's okay to look at every black
Speaker 1: person and say you are ANTIFA and a Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter a protester, and you hate all white people. It's
Speaker 1: okay to look at the Muslim community and say that, oh,
Speaker 1: because she wears a hijab, then she must be a terrorist.
Speaker 1: Oh haha, let's make jokes about backpacks and elevators like
Speaker 1: Laura Bobert did about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. It's okay to
Speaker 1: categorize all LGBTQ plus folks. It's okay to talk about
Speaker 1: every other group as a group, as a collective and
Speaker 1: path and the pathology around that, but never white people.
Speaker 1: It's a reason, there's there's a reason, folks, why the
Speaker 1: Capitol police were so fucking stunned, right, the DC Metropolitan Police,
Speaker 1: the FBI so stunned by what happened because they can't
Speaker 1: see themselves as criminal. There's always a justification. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: racial anxiety. Oh, it's economic anxiety. Oh teachers, they shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to tell our kids what they should do. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's parents choice. You know, parents had choices too in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties when segregation was passed, when we desegregated
Speaker 1: schools after the Brown versus the Board of Education in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, parents had a choice. Then they were
Speaker 1: told that they had a choice, So they pulled their
Speaker 1: kids out of the public school system, They put them
Speaker 1: into Catholic schools, they put them into private schools, they
Speaker 1: put them anywhere, so long as they weren't going to
Speaker 1: be sitting side by side with black children. And so
Speaker 1: then what did the federal government do? Then they started
Speaker 1: to pull resources out of public education. The only reason
Speaker 1: why we had public education in the first fucking place
Speaker 1: was because of black people, because of the push that
Speaker 1: government had a responsibility to educate its citizenjury. You know,
Speaker 1: I always think about the adage all the time, Oh,
Speaker 1: if you don't understand history, you'll be doomed to repeat it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the point of this whole, fake, fictitious battle around
Speaker 1: critical race theory, is so that your children will never
Speaker 1: learn anything. They'll never learn anything except about white heroes
Speaker 1: and white inventors and innovators. Right, those are the people
Speaker 1: that make this country great, because, according to Rick Santorum
Speaker 1: and others, there was nothing here before their ancestors rolled
Speaker 1: up on the Mayflower. There were just a bunch of
Speaker 1: savages running around with no industry, no currency. We are sick,
Speaker 1: and you can't cure a disease that you refuse to identify.
Speaker 1: You can't just look at all of these systems that
Speaker 1: have been designed to oppress everyone who is not white,
Speaker 1: everyone who is not mail, everyone who is not cists.
Speaker 1: You cannot look at these systems as silos and then
Speaker 1: pretend played dumb that you don't understand where this is
Speaker 1: all coming And why was there a breakdown. There was
Speaker 1: no breakdown in Oregon with the police. There was no
Speaker 1: breakdown in Lafayette Square when Donald Trump had it cleared
Speaker 1: with the Italian right. There was no breakdown in upstate
Speaker 1: New York where officers that were in the latest g
Speaker 1: I Joe gear trampled a white man with blood coming
Speaker 1: out of his head and knocked him down and walked
Speaker 1: right over him. But there's always a breakdown when it
Speaker 1: comes to dealing with angry white mobs. They turn they
Speaker 1: turned their terrorists into heroes. If that is not something
Speaker 1: that should wake people the fuck up, then I don't
Speaker 1: know what is Kyle Rittenhouse is a terrorist. He grabbed
Speaker 1: an R fifteen, He traveled across state lines looking for
Speaker 1: people to kill, and this justice system said that he
Speaker 1: was well in his right. That these judges who we
Speaker 1: think are beyond reproach and are so neutral said that
Speaker 1: we can't use the term victim because we don't know
Speaker 1: what those people were up to. Well, we know exactly
Speaker 1: what the fuck Kyle Writtenhouse was up to. But do
Speaker 1: you see the applause that that motherfucker got. We cannot
Speaker 1: continue to lie to ourselves and say that we are
Speaker 1: in a political fight when we are not. There used
Speaker 1: to be a time when we had a shared sense
Speaker 1: of what was acceptable, We had a social contract, what
Speaker 1: was moral, what was immoral, what was right, what was wrong?
Speaker 1: Those lines have been completely blurred. It is now facts
Speaker 1: and alternative facts. It is now right and right ish.
Speaker 1: I feel like America is in a free fall. And
Speaker 1: when I talked to you about the European Organization for
Speaker 1: the first time, for the first time in America's history,
Speaker 1: for the first time in the fifty years of this
Speaker 1: organization's reporting, that they referred to America as a backsliding democracy.
Speaker 1: They talked about signs and alarms going off in twenty nineteen. Well,
Speaker 1: those alarms were sounded in fifteen, but everybody thought it
Speaker 1: was a joke. Now you have an entire cable network
Speaker 1: that is forced feeding lies to the public, from COVID
Speaker 1: to a stolen election to the point that seventy percent
Speaker 1: of Republicans believe that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.
Speaker 1: Cancer unchecked spreads. White supremacy is a cancer on this country.
Speaker 1: We want to believe that everything isn't about race, except
Speaker 1: white people make everything about race. Why is Kyle Rittenhouse
Speaker 1: their hero a murderer but a victim of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: Trey von Martin was thug. Why do they lift up
Speaker 1: the woman who was shot at the Capitol Building as
Speaker 1: a martyr, but Heather Meyer, who was mowed down by
Speaker 1: white supremacists in Charlottesville was an agitator. Why do we
Speaker 1: have members of Congress who don't believe that the Newtown
Speaker 1: massacre happened, who believe that there are Jewish people with
Speaker 1: space lasers shooting down onto earth that woman is sitting
Speaker 1: in Congress. You know, many people believe that the movie
Speaker 1: Don't Look Up was too much on the nose. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, this current political climate pretty much has put
Speaker 1: the Onion out of business because they can't come up
Speaker 1: with anything more absurd, more ridiculous, more devastating than what
Speaker 1: we are living in right now. Over eight hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand Americans are dead, and you have governors going
Speaker 1: on television, surgeon state surgeon generals telling us that the
Speaker 1: vaccine doesn't work when them themselves are vaccinated and boasted.
Speaker 1: They've weaponized a virus, and yet we still are referring
Speaker 1: to them like a legitimized, normal political party. Make it
Speaker 1: make sense, Make it make sense. In Merrick Garland's press
Speaker 1: conference yesterday ahead of today's anniversary, I'd made a joke
Speaker 1: on Twitter and I said, so are we doing a
Speaker 1: drinking game along with this? Every time that he offers
Speaker 1: some type of justice will prevail platitude that we just
Speaker 1: take a shot. I'm a big fan of day drinking.
Speaker 1: And then I watched it and watching him use strong
Speaker 1: language but really offered nothing, telling us that it takes time. Right,
Speaker 1: justice takes time seems like a move swiftly when the
Speaker 1: defendants have a different shade. Right. On today's episode of
Speaker 1: Democracy Ish, which is prerecorded, I offered my thoughts about
Speaker 1: this slow pace of this entire justice department, and I
Speaker 1: bring this up all the time. I said, do you
Speaker 1: know how many black men, women and children have lost
Speaker 1: their lives under the suspicion that they've done something wrong,
Speaker 1: never to actually have concrete evidence, but the suspicion, right,
Speaker 1: you're up to something. Trayvon Martin walking home in the
Speaker 1: rain with a hood up. He seems suspicious, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to murder him and then I'm going to get
Speaker 1: off to me. Or Rice playing on the playground with
Speaker 1: a toy gun, as most twelve year olds do. Police
Speaker 1: officers rolling by that seems suspicious. You know, a child
Speaker 1: on a playground, but they're black, so I must kill them.
Speaker 1: We're always convicted and or murdered under suspicion. We have
Speaker 1: concrete fucking evidence. We got text message changed, we got
Speaker 1: PowerPoint presentations, we got people in their own fucking voice.
Speaker 1: Peter Navarro was on Ari Melber's show this week on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: saying every part out loud. There were a hundred Republicans,
Speaker 1: he said, lined up as a part of this strategic
Speaker 1: plan to overthrow the government. Those motherfuckers still sitting in
Speaker 1: Congress dictating policy that affects our day to day lives.
Speaker 1: And they are criminals. Oh but Merritt Garland wants to
Speaker 1: tell us, we will follow the facts where they fucking
Speaker 1: lead us. Bitch, you have enough to indict and I
Speaker 1: don't need to have gone to law school in order
Speaker 1: to know that, because black and brown people in this
Speaker 1: country have been convicted, have been murdered for fucking less,
Speaker 1: much less falsified police reports. Right, Everything lies made up
Speaker 1: in order to lock people up. Throw away the key.
Speaker 1: But you have these white people in their own fucking
Speaker 1: voice telling you what they planned. But we got to
Speaker 1: follow the facts, We got to look for more evidence.
Speaker 1: Don't insult us, and we shouldn't just be taking it.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't just be sitting back and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll figure it out. Three hundred and sixty five days,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Republican Party are terrorists, operators. They
Speaker 1: are not a secret cell. They are not a sleeper cell.
Speaker 1: They are awaken out in the open, telling you exactly
Speaker 1: what it is that they are doing, and what they
Speaker 1: are planning, and who they are modeling. This new regime
Speaker 1: after Victor orbon in Hungary. You know what, they refer
Speaker 1: to Hungry as a hybrid regime because it's no longer
Speaker 1: a democracy. Victor Roban has been in power since twenty ten,
Speaker 1: and during that time he has a race history books.
Speaker 1: He has scared the ship out of journalists so now
Speaker 1: the journalism that you get is just propaganda. He has
Speaker 1: actually said that, you know, the mixing of the races,
Speaker 1: these dark people coming in with their Muslim religion, it's
Speaker 1: not good for Hungary. He said that he's purged the judiciary.
Speaker 1: Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. Do you
Speaker 1: know who recorded from there in twenty twenty, Tucker Carlson?
Speaker 1: Do you know where Cepak is headed Hungry Budapest? Do
Speaker 1: you know that Steve benn has been on an international
Speaker 1: tour of fascists, organizations and regimes so that he can
Speaker 1: scribble down his notes and bring it back to the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, He says, takeover village by village. Democrats still
Speaker 1: fucking around with Congress and the presidency. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if this is what the fuck winning looks like, I'm
Speaker 1: proud to be a loser. Then we own the seat
Speaker 1: of power right now. Does it feel like that to you?
Speaker 1: There's a reason why they're going to the local levels,
Speaker 1: and they're going to the state levels and Democrats are
Speaker 1: still fucking around. Right If I hear one more time
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, tell me about the hundreds of pieces of
Speaker 1: legislation that they've gotten through the House and it's historic.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck because all it does go
Speaker 1: to the Senate to die. But because of the likes
Speaker 1: of Mansion and Cinema, We're not going to change the
Speaker 1: rules in order to get democracy going. We're not going
Speaker 1: to change the rules in order to keep America running.
Speaker 1: You know, I shed tears on January sixth because I
Speaker 1: was so overcome with rage and grief. I worked on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, I got my degree in political science. I
Speaker 1: believed in the tenants of our Constitution. I left New
Speaker 1: York as a wide eyed teenager wanting to put my
Speaker 1: stamp on the world, wanting to work on behalf of
Speaker 1: the people of this country. The pride that I had
Speaker 1: the day that I got my pass to be able
Speaker 1: to walk these historic halls, to be able to sit
Speaker 1: in committee meetings, taking notes and offering my ideas to
Speaker 1: members of Congress about how to make this country better,
Speaker 1: more fair, more just to see the moke, the broken glass,
Speaker 1: the angry white faces, the use of our flag as
Speaker 1: a weapon literally broke my heart. America is filled with flaws,
Speaker 1: but what made its special was the desire to be
Speaker 1: better and the possibility that you could be better. But
Speaker 1: like I said in my piece, it's like we'd all
Speaker 1: been fed the blue pill, the one that has us memorized,
Speaker 1: the songs and the pledge the heroes that they've wanted
Speaker 1: us to uplift, while the real heroes, the ones that
Speaker 1: put their bodies and their lives on the line for justice,
Speaker 1: are whitewashed or betty are yet painted as some type
Speaker 1: of terrorists. I remember being in eleventh grade, and this
Speaker 1: is back when you used to do you know, book reports,
Speaker 1: and you know, pick topics or groups or themes, and
Speaker 1: you know, deliver twenty pages on it. And I decided
Speaker 1: that I was going to write about the Black Panther
Speaker 1: Party because always, as growing up on Eastern Long Island
Speaker 1: in a ninety five percent white community ninety six ninety eight,
Speaker 1: I google it every once in a while where I
Speaker 1: grew up because I want to see if anything has
Speaker 1: changed in terms of the demographics. It really hasn't. But
Speaker 1: I remember deciding to write about the Black Panther Party
Speaker 1: because in my school, the only way that you got
Speaker 1: to learn about anything that wasn't centered around whiteness is
Speaker 1: if you took matters into your own hands. And as
Speaker 1: a child that grew up as the only black kid
Speaker 1: in every fucking class from K through twelve. I had
Speaker 1: to do my own research, right, I had to do
Speaker 1: my own studies that were very separate from what I
Speaker 1: was given. My eleventh grade teacher was a very big, tall,
Speaker 1: military veteran white man, and do you know what he
Speaker 1: used to call us if you didn't stand for the
Speaker 1: pledge of allegiance in his class, Kamie Pinko's right. And
Speaker 1: when I went to him and I said that I
Speaker 1: want to do my paper on the Black Panthers, he goes,
Speaker 1: why would you want to write about that terrorist organization?
Speaker 1: And they said, because I don't think that they're terrorists,
Speaker 1: But you tell me after you read it. I remember
Speaker 1: calling on the school board, the school board chair, when
Speaker 1: I was a senior in high school, saying that I
Speaker 1: think that they needed to expand our history curriculum to
Speaker 1: include at the time, African American history. And I was
Speaker 1: told that the current curriculum was adequate. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: as one of the very few black students at your school,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. And you know what the response
Speaker 1: to me was, Oh, you're black. Because I was over
Speaker 1: the phone the assumption, because you know so articulate, I
Speaker 1: couldn't possibly be anything other than white at every point
Speaker 1: in my life. I tell you this story because I've
Speaker 1: challenged the systems that I have been raised in and
Speaker 1: a part of, because I believe that I had the
Speaker 1: power to make them better, that that was in my calling.
Speaker 1: So many fucking years later, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: have wasted my time because when I continue to look
Speaker 1: at and replay the events of January six, everything that
Speaker 1: transpired during the Trump administration, and know that none of
Speaker 1: these people are ever going to see the inside of
Speaker 1: a jail. But low level drug dealers, low level thieves
Speaker 1: that are trying to put food on the table or
Speaker 1: are dealing drugs because basically their schools are shit, their
Speaker 1: communities are ship, and they've never been invested in and
Speaker 1: so it's kill or be killed where they are. But
Speaker 1: the real menaces to fucking society, the ones that sit
Speaker 1: in the C suite, the ones that are walking on
Speaker 1: Wall Street, the ones that are walking around the halls
Speaker 1: of power, the ones that actually pose the greatest threat
Speaker 1: to our way of life. They get off scot free.
Speaker 1: They want to call ourselves tough on crime. It only
Speaker 1: looks tough on crime when the criminals that you are
Speaker 1: protecting society from look like me. I'm sick to death
Speaker 1: of America right now. I really am, And every single
Speaker 1: day I ask myself if this country is worth fighting for.
Speaker 1: But then I have friends who have babies and bringing
Speaker 1: new life in and I say, I can't possibly give
Speaker 1: up because I can't give up on their kids. I
Speaker 1: can't give up on your kids. I want better for them,
Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart that what we are giving them,
Speaker 1: what our legacy is going to be, is a steaming
Speaker 1: pile of shit. We have choices to make in the
Speaker 1: upcoming months, because all we have left are a handful
Speaker 1: of months. It's either we fight for this country or
Speaker 1: we lay down and we let them take it. But
Speaker 1: that's the choice that we have. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today. Friends on woke f as always Power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.