1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pot 3 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: Stream studios in Times Square. Folks, this has been one 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: of the darkest weeks that I think that we have 5 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: seen in America since the election of Donald Trump. I 6 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: said that on Woke Wednesday yesterday, and I need to 7 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: repeat it again today. If you are feeling a sense 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: of anxiety, depression, anger, rage, loss, exhaustion, you are not alone, 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: because I'm waking up and going to bed each night 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 1: with a sense of impending doom. I thought that this 11 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: was going to be erased when we elected Joe Biden 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: in the most historic election that frankly, you would think 13 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: as a democratic nation that we would have sell librated 14 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: the immense and historic turnout that we had in twenty twenty. 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: But no, what we have seen since then is a 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 1: punishing of voters. How dare you show up to the polls? 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: How dare you black, brown, young BIPOC folks think that 18 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: you have a voice in this democracy. You do not. 19 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Your voice is not valued. You are not wanted here, right. 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: That is what the over three hundred pieces of legislation 21 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: that have been rolled out across this country. Are telling 22 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: each and every American that is not white, that is 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 1: not straight, that is not male, that is not ciss 24 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: right in this country. This week we have seen Texas 25 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: become the breeding ground for the Handmaid's Tale. Texas now 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: is in a time vortex. What do I mean by that? 27 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: They have effectively rolled back the clock, rolled back time 28 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: to the nineteen fifties. Why do I use the nineteen 29 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: fifties as a marker because it was one of the 30 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: many egregious markers of violence and threats of violence, of 31 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism that we had ever seen. What happened leading 32 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: up to the nineteen fifties begat the Civil Rights movement? 33 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: And what did the Civil rights movement create the Voting 34 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: Rights Act? And why was the Voting Rights Act necessary? 35 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: Because people were being Black people. Let me say that again. 36 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Black people were being brutalized at the polls. Their homes 37 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: were being torched, they were being lynched, they were being 38 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: jailed just for the offense of wanting to have a 39 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: voice in our democracy. Effective this week, Texas has done 40 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: two of the most outrageous, despicable anti American things that 41 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: we have seen in decades and folks, you know the 42 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: kind of shit that we have been living in. And 43 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: so when I say that this is the most despicable 44 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: and disgusting shit that we have seen in decades, I 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: mean it. What has Texas done? Will let me tell 46 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: you effectively? The Supreme Court's in action on Wednesday Tuesday 47 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: night actually to intervene in Texas' desire to have a 48 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: six week abortion ban, meaning that once a fetal heartbeat 49 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: is detected, a woman can no longer have an abortion 50 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: or a person with a uterus can no longer have 51 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: an abortion. Six weeks, folks, is when most people don't 52 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: even know that they are pregnant. Six weeks you may 53 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: not have missed a period, depending on your cycle. Also, 54 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: in this law, and this is what I want folks 55 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: to wrap your minds around, they have literally set up 56 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: vigilante justice in Texas. What does that look like? It 57 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: looks like your ability to sue your neighbor in civil 58 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: court for up to ten thousand dollars if you think 59 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: that they've had an abortion. You do not have to 60 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: be a member of that person's family. You do not 61 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: have to be the person that got them pregnant. You 62 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: do not even get this, have to even fucking know 63 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: the person, But you, as a Texan have the right 64 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: to sue them for having an abortion. Do you know 65 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: who else you get to sue in Texas now that 66 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has not intervened. You'll get to sue 67 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: the uber driver that potentially took said pregnant person to 68 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: go and get an abortion. You can sue their potential 69 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: family members for having assisted them, either monetarily or with 70 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: rides or with support. Do you know what the woman 71 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: or person with a uterus can't do? They can't defy 72 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: this law by saying that they are pregnant due to rape. 73 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: There is no footnote for that. They can't defy this 74 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: law in saying that this child, this fetus is a 75 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 1: product of incest. Nope, there is no footnote for that either. 76 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: There is only a footnote for quote unquote medical emergencies. 77 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: And I'm wondering who gets to decide what a medical 78 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: emergency is. Is it going to be the doctor or 79 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: is it going to be the judge or the politician 80 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: who gets to decide whether or not your body is 81 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: in distress and that this fetus needs to be aborted. 82 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: Texas is now the first state to officially overturn Roe v. 83 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: Wade to essentially set up back alleys where women and 84 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: people with uteruses are going to have to go in 85 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: order to effectively take charge of their own bodies. Because 86 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: in the state of Texas, right your liberty extends to 87 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: your ability not to wear a mask, but not to 88 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: have control over what grows inside of you. You cannot 89 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: wear a mask, which, in doing so, will affect an 90 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: entire community of people and potentially kill them. Right, but 91 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: that person has more rights than a woman or a 92 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: person with a uterus deciding they do not want to 93 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: start a family. This is what we are living in 94 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: right now in America. And I want to say this. 95 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: Do not shrug this off and think to yourself, well, 96 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: I don't live in Texas, so I don't give a fuck, 97 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: or those people in Texas should just move. That is 98 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: a very privileged and ignorant thing to say. And I 99 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: will call myself out. I have often lambasted the people 100 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: of Texas. I've often lambasted the people of Florida. Mostly 101 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the right white wing of white evangelicals. 102 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking about those folks. I'm not talking about every 103 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: single Texan but I'm talking about the Bible thumpers. I'm 104 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: talking about the people that have never read the content 105 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: of the Bible but want to beat you over the 106 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: head with it. But here's the thing. You cannot blame 107 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: all of the people of Texas. You know why, because effectively, 108 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: over the years, they have been eroding the right to vote. 109 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: And so in a twofer that the state of Texas 110 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: has done as the Republican's new Petrie Dish, not only 111 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: have they overturned Row, but they have effectively made it 112 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: damn near impossible for people to vote in the state 113 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: of Texas. Texas already had some of the most ridiculous 114 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: and unnecessary voting restrictions in the country. Well, now everything 115 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: that was instituted in twenty twenty in order for people 116 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: to vote in a pandemic such as twenty four hour voting, 117 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: such as drive through polls, such as more drop boxes 118 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: for it to be convenient for you to be able 119 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: to drop off your ballot. You will no longer be 120 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: able to send out absentee ballots without there being a 121 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: specific request. You will also be able to criminally and 122 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: civilly sue posters. Let me say that again. You will 123 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: be able to criminally and civilly sue polsters. People who 124 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: are volunteering and doing a public service to make sure 125 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: that we have free and fair elections are now going 126 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: to be under a microscope and potentially sued for the 127 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: way that they are counting the ballots or the way 128 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: that people perceive them to be counting the ballots or not. 129 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: Texas is the beginning, not the end. Texas is going 130 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: to be the norm, not the outlier. And so when 131 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: we shrug things off and we say, well, this doesn't 132 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: affect me, we are not fully paying attention. It's the 133 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: same way that back in twenty twenty when we saw 134 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: the beginnings of things happening in China and we're like, oh, 135 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: well that sucks because stars never came here. So we 136 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: were like, oh, we're good. That's not the world that 137 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: we live in. More, what is effectively happening in Wuhan 138 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: is effectively going to happen in the United States. What 139 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: is happening in Texas will happen everywhere. What is transpiring 140 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: in India will get to your front door, whether we 141 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: like it or not. We are interconnected as a globe, 142 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: and we are so disconnected as a country. Republicans have 143 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: been waging a war on America for decades, but Democrats 144 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: have been paying attention to all of the wrong things. 145 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: You see, for decades, Republicans have looked at the courts 146 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: for what The courts are the last bastion for where 147 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: people get their rights. You see, we may create policies 148 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: that then turn into laws. But if you effectively look 149 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: at all recent and I mean over the past fifty 150 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: plus years of how progress has been made of how 151 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:08,479 Speaker 1: marginalized communities have been able to ascend to first class citizenship, 152 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: it hasn't been through legislation. It has been through the courts. 153 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: Brown versus the Board of Education, plus e versus Ferguson 154 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: windsor right. You're talking about everything from segregation, abortion to 155 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: same sex marriage. All of those rights came through the courts. 156 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: What is it that Mitch McConnell had his eye on 157 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: since before Barack Obama stepped foot into the White House 158 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: the courts. It is why he obstructed his ability to 159 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: seat a Supreme Court justice. It is why he held 160 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: up and why Barack Obama left office with hundreds, folks, 161 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: hundreds of open federal justice seats. You see, all Republicans 162 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: ever talk about to their constituents are the courts, And 163 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 1: they have the audacity to tell us that the folks 164 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: that we are trying to seat right are the radical 165 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: justices right. Who was more radical than an Amy Covid Barrett? Yes, 166 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: I call that bitch, Amy Covid Barrett. Who was more 167 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: radical than that? Who was more radical than a Oh, 168 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, mister, I had a beer, Kavanaugh. You 169 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: have predators that are on the bench that want to 170 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: dictate rules to the rest of us. You have evangelical 171 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: Christians on the bench that want to essentially set up 172 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: some type of religiosity in America that we all have 173 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: to abide by, because when they talk about religious freedom, 174 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: they are not talking about their Muslim neighbor down the street. 175 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 1: They could give a fuck about them. When we talk 176 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: about religious freedom, it is the freedom for evangelical Christians 177 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: to be able to oppress us with their distorted values 178 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: and their misinterpretation of their Bible. Their Bible has been 179 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: used to justify so much hideousness, domestic violence, slavery, discrimination, 180 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: the beating of children because you believe that you can 181 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: beat the gay out of them. All of these things, 182 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: these people have twisted the words in the Bible to 183 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: justify their cruelty and their evil. But you know, I 184 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: say this, this country was founded on religiosity and fundamentalism. 185 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: It was those pilgrims that boarded ships to come here 186 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: to get rid of the indigenous population, right to kill 187 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: them off, whether it be through disease, right torture, murder, 188 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: trying to enslave them. But then that didn't work. Also 189 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: that they could pursue their religiosity. That's why they fled. 190 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: It wasn't about the freedom for the rest of us 191 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: to be able to worship or not worship in the 192 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: way that we want. No, that's not what that means. 193 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: If you think that, oh, we have this separation between 194 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: church and state, then you never pay attention to any 195 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: closing or any beginning of any political speech. When we're 196 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: talking about God blessing the troops. You've never exchanged currency. 197 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: We're on every bill it says in God we trust. 198 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: We have no separation between church and state in this country. 199 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: We never have. It's an illusion, just like our democracy. 200 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: You see. The thing about illusions, though, is that if 201 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: you don't recognize what you were looking at, If you 202 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: don't know, then you continue to be bamboozled and fooled, 203 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: just like we are being bamboozled and fooled into believing 204 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: that we are living in a two party system when 205 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: we are not. I say it every fucking day because 206 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: I want it to be beaten into our minds, because 207 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: if you do not know what you are dealing with, 208 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: then you don't understand how to create the fight against them. 209 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: We are still using twentieth century tools to wage a 210 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: twenty first century war. 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