Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pot
Speaker 1: Stream studios in Times Square. Folks, this has been one
Speaker 1: of the darkest weeks that I think that we have
Speaker 1: seen in America since the election of Donald Trump. I
Speaker 1: said that on Woke Wednesday yesterday, and I need to
Speaker 1: repeat it again today. If you are feeling a sense
Speaker 1: of anxiety, depression, anger, rage, loss, exhaustion, you are not alone,
Speaker 1: because I'm waking up and going to bed each night
Speaker 1: with a sense of impending doom. I thought that this
Speaker 1: was going to be erased when we elected Joe Biden
Speaker 1: in the most historic election that frankly, you would think
Speaker 1: as a democratic nation that we would have sell librated
Speaker 1: the immense and historic turnout that we had in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: But no, what we have seen since then is a
Speaker 1: punishing of voters. How dare you show up to the polls?
Speaker 1: How dare you black, brown, young BIPOC folks think that
Speaker 1: you have a voice in this democracy. You do not.
Speaker 1: Your voice is not valued. You are not wanted here, right.
Speaker 1: That is what the over three hundred pieces of legislation
Speaker 1: that have been rolled out across this country. Are telling
Speaker 1: each and every American that is not white, that is
Speaker 1: not straight, that is not male, that is not ciss
Speaker 1: right in this country. This week we have seen Texas
Speaker 1: become the breeding ground for the Handmaid's Tale. Texas now
Speaker 1: is in a time vortex. What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: They have effectively rolled back the clock, rolled back time
Speaker 1: to the nineteen fifties. Why do I use the nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties as a marker because it was one of the
Speaker 1: many egregious markers of violence and threats of violence, of
Speaker 1: domestic terrorism that we had ever seen. What happened leading
Speaker 1: up to the nineteen fifties begat the Civil Rights movement?
Speaker 1: And what did the Civil rights movement create the Voting
Speaker 1: Rights Act? And why was the Voting Rights Act necessary?
Speaker 1: Because people were being Black people. Let me say that again.
Speaker 1: Black people were being brutalized at the polls. Their homes
Speaker 1: were being torched, they were being lynched, they were being
Speaker 1: jailed just for the offense of wanting to have a
Speaker 1: voice in our democracy. Effective this week, Texas has done
Speaker 1: two of the most outrageous, despicable anti American things that
Speaker 1: we have seen in decades and folks, you know the
Speaker 1: kind of shit that we have been living in. And
Speaker 1: so when I say that this is the most despicable
Speaker 1: and disgusting shit that we have seen in decades, I
Speaker 1: mean it. What has Texas done? Will let me tell
Speaker 1: you effectively? The Supreme Court's in action on Wednesday Tuesday
Speaker 1: night actually to intervene in Texas' desire to have a
Speaker 1: six week abortion ban, meaning that once a fetal heartbeat
Speaker 1: is detected, a woman can no longer have an abortion
Speaker 1: or a person with a uterus can no longer have
Speaker 1: an abortion. Six weeks, folks, is when most people don't
Speaker 1: even know that they are pregnant. Six weeks you may
Speaker 1: not have missed a period, depending on your cycle. Also,
Speaker 1: in this law, and this is what I want folks
Speaker 1: to wrap your minds around, they have literally set up
Speaker 1: vigilante justice in Texas. What does that look like? It
Speaker 1: looks like your ability to sue your neighbor in civil
Speaker 1: court for up to ten thousand dollars if you think
Speaker 1: that they've had an abortion. You do not have to
Speaker 1: be a member of that person's family. You do not
Speaker 1: have to be the person that got them pregnant. You
Speaker 1: do not even get this, have to even fucking know
Speaker 1: the person, But you, as a Texan have the right
Speaker 1: to sue them for having an abortion. Do you know
Speaker 1: who else you get to sue in Texas now that
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has not intervened. You'll get to sue
Speaker 1: the uber driver that potentially took said pregnant person to
Speaker 1: go and get an abortion. You can sue their potential
Speaker 1: family members for having assisted them, either monetarily or with
Speaker 1: rides or with support. Do you know what the woman
Speaker 1: or person with a uterus can't do? They can't defy
Speaker 1: this law by saying that they are pregnant due to rape.
Speaker 1: There is no footnote for that. They can't defy this
Speaker 1: law in saying that this child, this fetus is a
Speaker 1: product of incest. Nope, there is no footnote for that either.
Speaker 1: There is only a footnote for quote unquote medical emergencies.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering who gets to decide what a medical
Speaker 1: emergency is. Is it going to be the doctor or
Speaker 1: is it going to be the judge or the politician
Speaker 1: who gets to decide whether or not your body is
Speaker 1: in distress and that this fetus needs to be aborted.
Speaker 1: Texas is now the first state to officially overturn Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade to essentially set up back alleys where women and
Speaker 1: people with uteruses are going to have to go in
Speaker 1: order to effectively take charge of their own bodies. Because
Speaker 1: in the state of Texas, right your liberty extends to
Speaker 1: your ability not to wear a mask, but not to
Speaker 1: have control over what grows inside of you. You cannot
Speaker 1: wear a mask, which, in doing so, will affect an
Speaker 1: entire community of people and potentially kill them. Right, but
Speaker 1: that person has more rights than a woman or a
Speaker 1: person with a uterus deciding they do not want to
Speaker 1: start a family. This is what we are living in
Speaker 1: right now in America. And I want to say this.
Speaker 1: Do not shrug this off and think to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: I don't live in Texas, so I don't give a fuck,
Speaker 1: or those people in Texas should just move. That is
Speaker 1: a very privileged and ignorant thing to say. And I
Speaker 1: will call myself out. I have often lambasted the people
Speaker 1: of Texas. I've often lambasted the people of Florida. Mostly
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the right white wing of white evangelicals.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about those folks. I'm not talking about every
Speaker 1: single Texan but I'm talking about the Bible thumpers. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the people that have never read the content
Speaker 1: of the Bible but want to beat you over the
Speaker 1: head with it. But here's the thing. You cannot blame
Speaker 1: all of the people of Texas. You know why, because effectively,
Speaker 1: over the years, they have been eroding the right to vote.
Speaker 1: And so in a twofer that the state of Texas
Speaker 1: has done as the Republican's new Petrie Dish, not only
Speaker 1: have they overturned Row, but they have effectively made it
Speaker 1: damn near impossible for people to vote in the state
Speaker 1: of Texas. Texas already had some of the most ridiculous
Speaker 1: and unnecessary voting restrictions in the country. Well, now everything
Speaker 1: that was instituted in twenty twenty in order for people
Speaker 1: to vote in a pandemic such as twenty four hour voting,
Speaker 1: such as drive through polls, such as more drop boxes
Speaker 1: for it to be convenient for you to be able
Speaker 1: to drop off your ballot. You will no longer be
Speaker 1: able to send out absentee ballots without there being a
Speaker 1: specific request. You will also be able to criminally and
Speaker 1: civilly sue posters. Let me say that again. You will
Speaker 1: be able to criminally and civilly sue polsters. People who
Speaker 1: are volunteering and doing a public service to make sure
Speaker 1: that we have free and fair elections are now going
Speaker 1: to be under a microscope and potentially sued for the
Speaker 1: way that they are counting the ballots or the way
Speaker 1: that people perceive them to be counting the ballots or not.
Speaker 1: Texas is the beginning, not the end. Texas is going
Speaker 1: to be the norm, not the outlier. And so when
Speaker 1: we shrug things off and we say, well, this doesn't
Speaker 1: affect me, we are not fully paying attention. It's the
Speaker 1: same way that back in twenty twenty when we saw
Speaker 1: the beginnings of things happening in China and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: well that sucks because stars never came here. So we
Speaker 1: were like, oh, we're good. That's not the world that
Speaker 1: we live in. More, what is effectively happening in Wuhan
Speaker 1: is effectively going to happen in the United States. What
Speaker 1: is happening in Texas will happen everywhere. What is transpiring
Speaker 1: in India will get to your front door, whether we
Speaker 1: like it or not. We are interconnected as a globe,
Speaker 1: and we are so disconnected as a country. Republicans have
Speaker 1: been waging a war on America for decades, but Democrats
Speaker 1: have been paying attention to all of the wrong things.
Speaker 1: You see, for decades, Republicans have looked at the courts
Speaker 1: for what The courts are the last bastion for where
Speaker 1: people get their rights. You see, we may create policies
Speaker 1: that then turn into laws. But if you effectively look
Speaker 1: at all recent and I mean over the past fifty
Speaker 1: plus years of how progress has been made of how
Speaker 1: marginalized communities have been able to ascend to first class citizenship,
Speaker 1: it hasn't been through legislation. It has been through the courts.
Speaker 1: Brown versus the Board of Education, plus e versus Ferguson
Speaker 1: windsor right. You're talking about everything from segregation, abortion to
Speaker 1: same sex marriage. All of those rights came through the courts.
Speaker 1: What is it that Mitch McConnell had his eye on
Speaker 1: since before Barack Obama stepped foot into the White House
Speaker 1: the courts. It is why he obstructed his ability to
Speaker 1: seat a Supreme Court justice. It is why he held
Speaker 1: up and why Barack Obama left office with hundreds, folks,
Speaker 1: hundreds of open federal justice seats. You see, all Republicans
Speaker 1: ever talk about to their constituents are the courts, And
Speaker 1: they have the audacity to tell us that the folks
Speaker 1: that we are trying to seat right are the radical
Speaker 1: justices right. Who was more radical than an Amy Covid Barrett? Yes,
Speaker 1: I call that bitch, Amy Covid Barrett. Who was more
Speaker 1: radical than that? Who was more radical than a Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, mister, I had a beer, Kavanaugh. You
Speaker 1: have predators that are on the bench that want to
Speaker 1: dictate rules to the rest of us. You have evangelical
Speaker 1: Christians on the bench that want to essentially set up
Speaker 1: some type of religiosity in America that we all have
Speaker 1: to abide by, because when they talk about religious freedom,
Speaker 1: they are not talking about their Muslim neighbor down the street.
Speaker 1: They could give a fuck about them. When we talk
Speaker 1: about religious freedom, it is the freedom for evangelical Christians
Speaker 1: to be able to oppress us with their distorted values
Speaker 1: and their misinterpretation of their Bible. Their Bible has been
Speaker 1: used to justify so much hideousness, domestic violence, slavery, discrimination,
Speaker 1: the beating of children because you believe that you can
Speaker 1: beat the gay out of them. All of these things,
Speaker 1: these people have twisted the words in the Bible to
Speaker 1: justify their cruelty and their evil. But you know, I
Speaker 1: say this, this country was founded on religiosity and fundamentalism.
Speaker 1: It was those pilgrims that boarded ships to come here
Speaker 1: to get rid of the indigenous population, right to kill
Speaker 1: them off, whether it be through disease, right torture, murder,
Speaker 1: trying to enslave them. But then that didn't work. Also
Speaker 1: that they could pursue their religiosity. That's why they fled.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about the freedom for the rest of us
Speaker 1: to be able to worship or not worship in the
Speaker 1: way that we want. No, that's not what that means.
Speaker 1: If you think that, oh, we have this separation between
Speaker 1: church and state, then you never pay attention to any
Speaker 1: closing or any beginning of any political speech. When we're
Speaker 1: talking about God blessing the troops. You've never exchanged currency.
Speaker 1: We're on every bill it says in God we trust.
Speaker 1: We have no separation between church and state in this country.
Speaker 1: We never have. It's an illusion, just like our democracy.
Speaker 1: You see. The thing about illusions, though, is that if
Speaker 1: you don't recognize what you were looking at, If you
Speaker 1: don't know, then you continue to be bamboozled and fooled,
Speaker 1: just like we are being bamboozled and fooled into believing
Speaker 1: that we are living in a two party system when
Speaker 1: we are not. I say it every fucking day because
Speaker 1: I want it to be beaten into our minds, because
Speaker 1: if you do not know what you are dealing with,
Speaker 1: then you don't understand how to create the fight against them.
Speaker 1: We are still using twentieth century tools to wage a
Speaker 1: twenty first century war. That's it for today's Woke AF
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