1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: It's fuck it Friday, right, and much in the same 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: way that I am kind of switching up how I 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: think and consider woke Wednesdays about planting and grounding. Midweek 6 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: fuck it Fridays has been a mix right of feel 7 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: it Fridays and anger. And if you've been listening to 8 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: my show for you know, quite some time now, you 9 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: can hear and maybe you have begun to understand that 10 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: I am personally in the midst of transition. And why 11 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: is that? Because for years now I have harbored such anger, rage, 12 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: and negative toxic emotion around this country, our flailing, backsliding democracy, 13 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: the greed and disgust that I have begun to feel 14 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: around excessive wealth and exploitation of workers. The fact that 15 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: everywhere we look we experience a climate disaster and crisis 16 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: that has been labeled as historic. Folks, as you close 17 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: out this year, just think, like, go back in some 18 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: of your social media postings and see how many climate 19 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: crises there have been in the last several months. And 20 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: there was a time when my rage and anger was 21 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: useful as things have begun to deteriorate at the rate 22 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: that they are, my rage and my anger has become 23 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: for me a toxic anger that has been holding me 24 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: down and back right in so many ways where I 25 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: found myself back in old patterns of consuming so much negativity. 26 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: And by negativity I mean the news, and for me, 27 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: I read a lot. But what makes things really bad 28 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: for me emotionally is when I just have the tea 29 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: in the background on cable news running for hours, when 30 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: I find myself just bursting into tears because I can't 31 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: peel away from the tragedy porn that is playing NonStop. 32 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: And what I want to offer for all of you 33 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: listening as I move through what makes sense for me 34 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: in terms of doing this work while also really truly 35 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: not just for shit's sake, and not just to say, oh, 36 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: we need balance and we need these things. We actually 37 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: don't need balance. What we need is more love. What 38 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: we need is more peace, What we need is more joy. 39 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: What we need is more people to do internal work 40 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: so that they don't take their shit out on everyone 41 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: else around them. That's actually what we need. We don't 42 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: need a balance of negativity and positivity. As things become 43 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: increasingly bad, which is what we are experiencing, we need 44 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: to think about ways to add more beauty, more light, 45 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: more health, more wellness into our lives because the struggle 46 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: is real. And I don't just say it as to 47 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: be like fufu you know, uh spirituality, this, that and 48 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: the other thing. There is a reason why I am 49 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: saying it. There is a reason why I am practicing 50 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: and embodying it, because, folks, what we are collectively experiencing. 51 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: Over two thousand children have been murdered. By the time 52 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: of this recording, that number will probably be three thousand 53 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: and plus and counting. I read Ahman mohedeen yes post 54 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: on Instagram of his friend, a fellow journalist in Gaza, who, 55 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: in the middle of reporting in his full combat gear, 56 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: found out that his wife and kids were killed by 57 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: an Israeli airstrike. When I say that we are experiencing 58 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: and dealing with some incredibly heartbreaking, tragic, desperate grief, this 59 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about. But marinating in it right 60 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: and having such rage inside of us isn't going to 61 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: solve it, because trust me, if it was going to, 62 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: it would have already I am now, just now, after 63 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: so many years of study and reading and being in 64 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: politics and policy and all of these things, finally actually 65 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: getting what leaders like Martin Luther King were talking about 66 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: when they were talking about creating beloved community. When he 67 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: was saying that darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light 68 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: can do that. Like it's finally clicking. It was just quotes, right, 69 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: It was just words for me. Oh, that must be nice. 70 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: But if somebody's beaten me over the head with a 71 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:43,239 Speaker 1: fucking billy club, you know my action is not going 72 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: to be nonviolent. But I have come now, folks, over 73 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: the last eight years of yelling and screaming and fighting 74 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: and resisting and being a warrior princess of the resistance, 75 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: and realizing that I am doing some serious emotional, mental, 76 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: and physical harm to myself. You know, I look and 77 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: am looking for and reading texts of different spiritual practitioners, leaders, thinkers, 78 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: scholars and understanding now in a real, in a real 79 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: and true way. Why just resisting and just being anti racist, 80 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: being you know, anti this and anti that, and fighting 81 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: against homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, anti Semitism and all these things 82 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: is not really moving the needle, because you need to 83 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: create spaces of ease and rest to actually be able 84 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: to imagine and dream of new worlds. Just the consistent 85 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: fighting against is just doing this. It's just rubbing thiss together, 86 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: creating more friction. I'm not saying at all that I 87 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: have any of the answers, but what I do know 88 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: for myself is that even when I find myself screaming 89 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: and yelling in rage, I have a different sense and 90 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: ability to be able to then let it go and 91 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: detach from it. Not because I don't care, it's simply 92 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: because I care too much. I am a deep EmPATH, 93 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: which means that I take on the emotions and the 94 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: experiences of people around me, and that shows up in 95 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: a lot of ways. Physically for me, I've had to 96 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: manage my own anxiety and depression and grief. But how 97 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: can I be of service if I'm saddled with all 98 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: of that. I can't, and so that's why I find 99 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: myself wanting to explore love and healing and dreaming spaces 100 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: because this shit, this ain't it. I don't understand how 101 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden came out so aggressively over the killing of 102 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: the six year old Palestinian boy and talking about hate 103 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: doesn't live here, and you know, and all of these things, 104 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: and I'm just like, our tax dollars just went to 105 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: kill over two thousand children because the hate that Netanyahu's 106 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: is that he wants to exterminate and destroy has killed 107 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: five thousand people, five thousand civilians. Because matching Hamas's brutality 108 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: with your own brutality, who the fuck is that serving? 109 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: Who is that serving? Who is that helping? They want 110 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: to say that there are two hundred hostages that are 111 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: still being held by Hamas, So you think that your 112 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: response then should be to demolish two million people and 113 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: think that those hostages are somehow gonna miraculously return to 114 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: their families. There's just not logic that is being utilized 115 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: right now. It is just ego violence and hatred that 116 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: is creating this chaos and devastation that is being experienced 117 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: by everyone, but particularly those people right that are trapped 118 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: and have no place to escape to. You think that 119 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: if that reporter who lost his entire fucking family while 120 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: he was reporting on the devastation that was taking place, 121 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: that if he could have sent them away, he would have. 122 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: They're not allowed to leave They're just being moved around 123 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: like fucking pinballs while bombs are dropping from the sky. 124 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. 125 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: I actually finally fucking get it. You cannot meet violence 126 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: with violence. There is too many lives that are lost 127 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: when that is the attitude led by greed, hatred and 128 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: toxic masculinity. We don't need to put out more hate 129 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: into the world, more rage, It doesn't change anything. Compassion, love, expansion, 130 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: those are the things, Those are the tools. Why do 131 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: we think right now that books are being banned because 132 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: a thoughtful mind, a critical thinking mind, to those that 133 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: want us to be sheep and narrowed, is a dangerous mind. 134 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: Why do you think that mainstream media is so hell 135 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: bent on showing just one side pain and grief because 136 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: if we were to see everything, then we would demand better. 137 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: Because there is no one with an actual beating heart 138 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: that can look and see the devastation that is happening 139 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: and say to themselves, only one side deserves our empathy 140 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: and compassion. Because so long as we're able to continue 141 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: to dehumanize, to narrow our thinking and our care and 142 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: only put it towards one group of people and I'm 143 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: not just talking about the absolute horror that it's taking 144 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: place in Israel and Gaza. I'm talking about in the 145 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: United States. I went to bed last night, as many 146 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: of you did, and there was a mass shooting in 147 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: Maine that took the lives of over two dozen fucking people. 148 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: What are we doing, hey, clients on the rise shootings? 149 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: People aren't in so much fucking pain. It does not 150 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: serve us to put more pain out in response to it. 151 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: I keep thinking every time that I am in meditation, 152 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: out on a walk, or just in conversation with folks 153 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: that are in a place of struggle, that what would 154 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: the world look like if instead of pushing outwards we 155 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: cleaned up what was inside. We are a bunch of 156 00:14:52,840 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: open wounds walking around harming each other because we refuse 157 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: to get to the core and the root of our 158 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: own pain. What is this saying that says that if 159 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: you want to change the world, see change in the world, 160 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: see change in yourself. What we think, what we say, 161 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: what we consume matters. There are folks right now that 162 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: think that they are progressive, but are okay with genocide, 163 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: are okay with war. Because you have all been lied to. 164 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: We have been lied to and told that violence begets violence, 165 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: and that must be the way. It's the same lie 166 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: right that CEOs and shareholders have told workers. My god, 167 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: if you have rest, if you have healthcare, if you 168 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: have a decent wage, then you'll be lazy. America won't 169 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: be preve if someone causes you harm and you don't 170 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: cause them harm equal or greater to the harm that 171 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: they cause, than you are weak. What it is madness, folks, 172 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: It is madness. We are being led by a bunch 173 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: of fucking mad men who many believe that compassion and 174 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: empathy right and pausing and reflecting and making changes to 175 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: your operation a sign of weakness. What Israel is doing 176 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: right now is not making them safer. It isn't so 177 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: I just you know. It's the same fucking rationale right 178 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: of Republicans and the NRA that say more guns make 179 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: us safer. If more guns made us safer, America has 180 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: more guns than people in this country, we would be 181 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: the safest country on the planet. We are not. We 182 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: are actually the least safe country. But every time there 183 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: is a mass shooting, people buy more guns because if 184 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: they have a gun, I gotta have a gun. Jesus Christ. 185 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: We have got to find a way to break this 186 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: cycle of madness, and it begins with us as individuals. 187 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: What are we consuming, what are we digesting? What are 188 00:17:52,760 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: we regurgitating? The push right now, folks, is to make 189 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: us as small, thinking and as narrow as possible. So 190 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: resistance then looks like expansion. If the powers that be 191 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: desire for you to share in their hatred so that 192 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: they have justification for their violence, then resistance looks like love. 193 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: We have to understand that we are all being played, 194 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: and have been being played by people in power who 195 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: have been manipulating our emotions to feed their own greed, 196 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: to justify their own harm. We have got to find 197 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: our way out of this. You know, yesterday the Republicans, 198 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: the absolute clown show circus that is the Republican Party. Finally, 199 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: after three weeks elected speaker. And I see all of 200 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: these organizations, all of these people posting, oh my god, 201 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: he's terrible, blah blah blah. His name is Representative Mike Johnson, 202 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: been in Congress since twenty sixteen. Is an absolute abhorrent person. 203 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: Voted to overturn the election. Opposes same sex marriage, opposes 204 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: gay people in general rooted for the Muslim ban. The 205 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on. Folks. When I'm 206 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: seeing people post and their outraged, I'm like, what the 207 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: fuck did you all expect? Did you think that there 208 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: was a moderate in the bunch? Do you believe honestly 209 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: that there is a Republican right now who doesn't believe 210 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: all of those sentiments and policies that are about narrowing 211 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: our lives, making enemies of our neighbors, causing as much 212 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: harm and pain as possible, because you see, when people 213 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 1: are in grief and despair, then they lose the will 214 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: to actually write push for progress because they just succumb 215 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: to what is. Because when you decrease people's ability to 216 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: conjure hope, if it's with a mustard seed or not, 217 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: you own them because they can't seepass what's in front 218 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: of them, they can't dream of something else. You can't 219 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: dream when you're living a nightmare. But I said, why 220 00:20:54,200 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: are people surprised? Why are we acting surprised? When I 221 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: say this to you, I really want you to understand 222 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: I do not give a fuck who the Speaker of 223 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: the House is. I do not care because what I 224 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: know is that whoever is holding that gavel, so long 225 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: as an R is after their name, they are a 226 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: danger to every single person in this country, including themselves. 227 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: So I am not going to waste my energy on 228 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: one person when we need to develop the consciousness of 229 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: those people that think there is no difference in their 230 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: lives between if it's a D or an R that 231 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: is in power. Now, I just started out by saying 232 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: I don't know what Joe Biden is doing as it 233 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: pertains to our foreign affairs right now, because you can't 234 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: get on the microphone and talk about kids, and talk 235 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: about Islamophobia and talk about these things and then give 236 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: carte blanche to genocide you. You can't trust me when 237 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: I say that I understand how complicated this situation is. 238 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: Trust me when I say that I'm not a foreign 239 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: affairs expert. What I am as a humanist, and the 240 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: policies that we are okaying are not centering humanity, they 241 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: are centering power. So when I look at who whatever 242 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: version of clown is given the gavel right now, I 243 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: don't care about that person. I care about everyone else. 244 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: Recognizing that we are in danger, that does not mean 245 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: reacting in fear. It means doubling down on what we 246 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: love and who we love. That means not wasting time 247 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: and enner battling their lives with our truth. It means 248 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: ensuring that the people that are taking care of our kids, 249 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: the people that are taking care of our streets, the 250 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: people that are actually doing the work to try and 251 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: make this country better, have the resources, the support, the 252 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: love and compassion that they need to keep going. Everyone 253 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: is not called to be on the battlefield. So what 254 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: is your role? Because I will tell you that your 255 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: role is not watching twenty four to seven tragedy and 256 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: horror and despair and thinking that then you're going to 257 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: have the energy and the desire to want to do something. 258 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: I will tell you that that is the surest way 259 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: for you to shut down. What is your role? If 260 00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: your role is a baker, to give people moments of 261 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: sustenance and joy, then do that. Your role is a 262 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: gardener to make your backyard, your front yard so beautiful 263 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: that when people are passing by, they say, ah, let 264 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: me pause and take in that beauty. Everyone is not 265 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: meant to be a warrior, but every movement has roles 266 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: for us all to take up. But it requires us 267 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: to have the energy and the hopefulness that change can 268 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: and will happen. We may not see it in our lifetime. 269 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: That's not the goal. That is your ego saying that 270 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: that is the goal I want to see. I want 271 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: to feel. No, but it's about being able to lay 272 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: our heads down at night. If you are privileged enough 273 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: to be able to do so on a pillow, in 274 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: a bed, in a home that is warm, that is safe. 275 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, folks, too many people are not 276 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: centering gratitude for what it is that you have, not 277 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: feeling guilty, having gratitude and thinking to yourself, what am 278 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: I doing to ensure that we can continue? That I 279 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: can continue and it doesn't look like squeezing every bit 280 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: of hope and every bit of energy out of yourself. 281 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: Do you know how many people who have been on 282 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 1: the front lines of movements that have taken their own 283 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: lives or have died of heart attacks cancers because of 284 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: the disease that has been filling their bodies. That is 285 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: not how I want any of us to go out, 286 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: And it's not sure as how how I plan on 287 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: going out. I will leave you guys with this, which 288 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: is what I wrote on and shared on Instagram this week. 289 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: As the outside world succumbs to chaos, death and destruction, 290 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: the creation of beauty, art, healing, and peace become acts 291 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: of true resistance. When the powerful are forcing us to 292 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: narrow our minds and close our hearts, expansionism becomes our 293 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: most necessary tool. How are you choosing to expand in 294 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: this time of great restriction? That is it for me today, 295 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke a f as always power to 296 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, Yet woke 297 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.