Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: It's fuck it Friday, right, and much in the same
Speaker 1: way that I am kind of switching up how I
Speaker 1: think and consider woke Wednesdays about planting and grounding. Midweek
Speaker 1: fuck it Fridays has been a mix right of feel
Speaker 1: it Fridays and anger. And if you've been listening to
Speaker 1: my show for you know, quite some time now, you
Speaker 1: can hear and maybe you have begun to understand that
Speaker 1: I am personally in the midst of transition. And why
Speaker 1: is that? Because for years now I have harbored such anger, rage,
Speaker 1: and negative toxic emotion around this country, our flailing, backsliding democracy,
Speaker 1: the greed and disgust that I have begun to feel
Speaker 1: around excessive wealth and exploitation of workers. The fact that
Speaker 1: everywhere we look we experience a climate disaster and crisis
Speaker 1: that has been labeled as historic. Folks, as you close
Speaker 1: out this year, just think, like, go back in some
Speaker 1: of your social media postings and see how many climate
Speaker 1: crises there have been in the last several months. And
Speaker 1: there was a time when my rage and anger was
Speaker 1: useful as things have begun to deteriorate at the rate
Speaker 1: that they are, my rage and my anger has become
Speaker 1: for me a toxic anger that has been holding me
Speaker 1: down and back right in so many ways where I
Speaker 1: found myself back in old patterns of consuming so much negativity.
Speaker 1: And by negativity I mean the news, and for me,
Speaker 1: I read a lot. But what makes things really bad
Speaker 1: for me emotionally is when I just have the tea
Speaker 1: in the background on cable news running for hours, when
Speaker 1: I find myself just bursting into tears because I can't
Speaker 1: peel away from the tragedy porn that is playing NonStop.
Speaker 1: And what I want to offer for all of you
Speaker 1: listening as I move through what makes sense for me
Speaker 1: in terms of doing this work while also really truly
Speaker 1: not just for shit's sake, and not just to say, oh,
Speaker 1: we need balance and we need these things. We actually
Speaker 1: don't need balance. What we need is more love. What
Speaker 1: we need is more peace, What we need is more joy.
Speaker 1: What we need is more people to do internal work
Speaker 1: so that they don't take their shit out on everyone
Speaker 1: else around them. That's actually what we need. We don't
Speaker 1: need a balance of negativity and positivity. As things become
Speaker 1: increasingly bad, which is what we are experiencing, we need
Speaker 1: to think about ways to add more beauty, more light,
Speaker 1: more health, more wellness into our lives because the struggle
Speaker 1: is real. And I don't just say it as to
Speaker 1: be like fufu you know, uh spirituality, this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing. There is a reason why I am
Speaker 1: saying it. There is a reason why I am practicing
Speaker 1: and embodying it, because, folks, what we are collectively experiencing.
Speaker 1: Over two thousand children have been murdered. By the time
Speaker 1: of this recording, that number will probably be three thousand
Speaker 1: and plus and counting. I read Ahman mohedeen yes post
Speaker 1: on Instagram of his friend, a fellow journalist in Gaza, who,
Speaker 1: in the middle of reporting in his full combat gear,
Speaker 1: found out that his wife and kids were killed by
Speaker 1: an Israeli airstrike. When I say that we are experiencing
Speaker 1: and dealing with some incredibly heartbreaking, tragic, desperate grief, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about. But marinating in it right
Speaker 1: and having such rage inside of us isn't going to
Speaker 1: solve it, because trust me, if it was going to,
Speaker 1: it would have already I am now, just now, after
Speaker 1: so many years of study and reading and being in
Speaker 1: politics and policy and all of these things, finally actually
Speaker 1: getting what leaders like Martin Luther King were talking about
Speaker 1: when they were talking about creating beloved community. When he
Speaker 1: was saying that darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light
Speaker 1: can do that. Like it's finally clicking. It was just quotes, right,
Speaker 1: It was just words for me. Oh, that must be nice.
Speaker 1: But if somebody's beaten me over the head with a
Speaker 1: fucking billy club, you know my action is not going
Speaker 1: to be nonviolent. But I have come now, folks, over
Speaker 1: the last eight years of yelling and screaming and fighting
Speaker 1: and resisting and being a warrior princess of the resistance,
Speaker 1: and realizing that I am doing some serious emotional, mental,
Speaker 1: and physical harm to myself. You know, I look and
Speaker 1: am looking for and reading texts of different spiritual practitioners, leaders, thinkers,
Speaker 1: scholars and understanding now in a real, in a real
Speaker 1: and true way. Why just resisting and just being anti racist,
Speaker 1: being you know, anti this and anti that, and fighting
Speaker 1: against homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, anti Semitism and all these things
Speaker 1: is not really moving the needle, because you need to
Speaker 1: create spaces of ease and rest to actually be able
Speaker 1: to imagine and dream of new worlds. Just the consistent
Speaker 1: fighting against is just doing this. It's just rubbing thiss together,
Speaker 1: creating more friction. I'm not saying at all that I
Speaker 1: have any of the answers, but what I do know
Speaker 1: for myself is that even when I find myself screaming
Speaker 1: and yelling in rage, I have a different sense and
Speaker 1: ability to be able to then let it go and
Speaker 1: detach from it. Not because I don't care, it's simply
Speaker 1: because I care too much. I am a deep EmPATH,
Speaker 1: which means that I take on the emotions and the
Speaker 1: experiences of people around me, and that shows up in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. Physically for me, I've had to
Speaker 1: manage my own anxiety and depression and grief. But how
Speaker 1: can I be of service if I'm saddled with all
Speaker 1: of that. I can't, and so that's why I find
Speaker 1: myself wanting to explore love and healing and dreaming spaces
Speaker 1: because this shit, this ain't it. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: Joe Biden came out so aggressively over the killing of
Speaker 1: the six year old Palestinian boy and talking about hate
Speaker 1: doesn't live here, and you know, and all of these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, our tax dollars just went to
Speaker 1: kill over two thousand children because the hate that Netanyahu's
Speaker 1: is that he wants to exterminate and destroy has killed
Speaker 1: five thousand people, five thousand civilians. Because matching Hamas's brutality
Speaker 1: with your own brutality, who the fuck is that serving?
Speaker 1: Who is that serving? Who is that helping? They want
Speaker 1: to say that there are two hundred hostages that are
Speaker 1: still being held by Hamas, So you think that your
Speaker 1: response then should be to demolish two million people and
Speaker 1: think that those hostages are somehow gonna miraculously return to
Speaker 1: their families. There's just not logic that is being utilized
Speaker 1: right now. It is just ego violence and hatred that
Speaker 1: is creating this chaos and devastation that is being experienced
Speaker 1: by everyone, but particularly those people right that are trapped
Speaker 1: and have no place to escape to. You think that
Speaker 1: if that reporter who lost his entire fucking family while
Speaker 1: he was reporting on the devastation that was taking place,
Speaker 1: that if he could have sent them away, he would have.
Speaker 1: They're not allowed to leave They're just being moved around
Speaker 1: like fucking pinballs while bombs are dropping from the sky.
Speaker 1: An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.
Speaker 1: I actually finally fucking get it. You cannot meet violence
Speaker 1: with violence. There is too many lives that are lost
Speaker 1: when that is the attitude led by greed, hatred and
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity. We don't need to put out more hate
Speaker 1: into the world, more rage, It doesn't change anything. Compassion, love, expansion,
Speaker 1: those are the things, Those are the tools. Why do
Speaker 1: we think right now that books are being banned because
Speaker 1: a thoughtful mind, a critical thinking mind, to those that
Speaker 1: want us to be sheep and narrowed, is a dangerous mind.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that mainstream media is so hell
Speaker 1: bent on showing just one side pain and grief because
Speaker 1: if we were to see everything, then we would demand better.
Speaker 1: Because there is no one with an actual beating heart
Speaker 1: that can look and see the devastation that is happening
Speaker 1: and say to themselves, only one side deserves our empathy
Speaker 1: and compassion. Because so long as we're able to continue
Speaker 1: to dehumanize, to narrow our thinking and our care and
Speaker 1: only put it towards one group of people and I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking about the absolute horror that it's taking
Speaker 1: place in Israel and Gaza. I'm talking about in the
Speaker 1: United States. I went to bed last night, as many
Speaker 1: of you did, and there was a mass shooting in
Speaker 1: Maine that took the lives of over two dozen fucking people.
Speaker 1: What are we doing, hey, clients on the rise shootings?
Speaker 1: People aren't in so much fucking pain. It does not
Speaker 1: serve us to put more pain out in response to it.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking every time that I am in meditation,
Speaker 1: out on a walk, or just in conversation with folks
Speaker 1: that are in a place of struggle, that what would
Speaker 1: the world look like if instead of pushing outwards we
Speaker 1: cleaned up what was inside. We are a bunch of
Speaker 1: open wounds walking around harming each other because we refuse
Speaker 1: to get to the core and the root of our
Speaker 1: own pain. What is this saying that says that if
Speaker 1: you want to change the world, see change in the world,
Speaker 1: see change in yourself. What we think, what we say,
Speaker 1: what we consume matters. There are folks right now that
Speaker 1: think that they are progressive, but are okay with genocide,
Speaker 1: are okay with war. Because you have all been lied to.
Speaker 1: We have been lied to and told that violence begets violence,
Speaker 1: and that must be the way. It's the same lie
Speaker 1: right that CEOs and shareholders have told workers. My god,
Speaker 1: if you have rest, if you have healthcare, if you
Speaker 1: have a decent wage, then you'll be lazy. America won't
Speaker 1: be preve if someone causes you harm and you don't
Speaker 1: cause them harm equal or greater to the harm that
Speaker 1: they cause, than you are weak. What it is madness, folks,
Speaker 1: It is madness. We are being led by a bunch
Speaker 1: of fucking mad men who many believe that compassion and
Speaker 1: empathy right and pausing and reflecting and making changes to
Speaker 1: your operation a sign of weakness. What Israel is doing
Speaker 1: right now is not making them safer. It isn't so
Speaker 1: I just you know. It's the same fucking rationale right
Speaker 1: of Republicans and the NRA that say more guns make
Speaker 1: us safer. If more guns made us safer, America has
Speaker 1: more guns than people in this country, we would be
Speaker 1: the safest country on the planet. We are not. We
Speaker 1: are actually the least safe country. But every time there
Speaker 1: is a mass shooting, people buy more guns because if
Speaker 1: they have a gun, I gotta have a gun. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: We have got to find a way to break this
Speaker 1: cycle of madness, and it begins with us as individuals.
Speaker 1: What are we consuming, what are we digesting? What are
Speaker 1: we regurgitating? The push right now, folks, is to make
Speaker 1: us as small, thinking and as narrow as possible. So
Speaker 1: resistance then looks like expansion. If the powers that be
Speaker 1: desire for you to share in their hatred so that
Speaker 1: they have justification for their violence, then resistance looks like love.
Speaker 1: We have to understand that we are all being played,
Speaker 1: and have been being played by people in power who
Speaker 1: have been manipulating our emotions to feed their own greed,
Speaker 1: to justify their own harm. We have got to find
Speaker 1: our way out of this. You know, yesterday the Republicans,
Speaker 1: the absolute clown show circus that is the Republican Party. Finally,
Speaker 1: after three weeks elected speaker. And I see all of
Speaker 1: these organizations, all of these people posting, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's terrible, blah blah blah. His name is Representative Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: been in Congress since twenty sixteen. Is an absolute abhorrent person.
Speaker 1: Voted to overturn the election. Opposes same sex marriage, opposes
Speaker 1: gay people in general rooted for the Muslim ban. The
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on. Folks. When I'm
Speaker 1: seeing people post and their outraged, I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck did you all expect? Did you think that there
Speaker 1: was a moderate in the bunch? Do you believe honestly
Speaker 1: that there is a Republican right now who doesn't believe
Speaker 1: all of those sentiments and policies that are about narrowing
Speaker 1: our lives, making enemies of our neighbors, causing as much
Speaker 1: harm and pain as possible, because you see, when people
Speaker 1: are in grief and despair, then they lose the will
Speaker 1: to actually write push for progress because they just succumb
Speaker 1: to what is. Because when you decrease people's ability to
Speaker 1: conjure hope, if it's with a mustard seed or not,
Speaker 1: you own them because they can't seepass what's in front
Speaker 1: of them, they can't dream of something else. You can't
Speaker 1: dream when you're living a nightmare. But I said, why
Speaker 1: are people surprised? Why are we acting surprised? When I
Speaker 1: say this to you, I really want you to understand
Speaker 1: I do not give a fuck who the Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House is. I do not care because what I
Speaker 1: know is that whoever is holding that gavel, so long
Speaker 1: as an R is after their name, they are a
Speaker 1: danger to every single person in this country, including themselves.
Speaker 1: So I am not going to waste my energy on
Speaker 1: one person when we need to develop the consciousness of
Speaker 1: those people that think there is no difference in their
Speaker 1: lives between if it's a D or an R that
Speaker 1: is in power. Now, I just started out by saying
Speaker 1: I don't know what Joe Biden is doing as it
Speaker 1: pertains to our foreign affairs right now, because you can't
Speaker 1: get on the microphone and talk about kids, and talk
Speaker 1: about Islamophobia and talk about these things and then give
Speaker 1: carte blanche to genocide you. You can't trust me when
Speaker 1: I say that I understand how complicated this situation is.
Speaker 1: Trust me when I say that I'm not a foreign
Speaker 1: affairs expert. What I am as a humanist, and the
Speaker 1: policies that we are okaying are not centering humanity, they
Speaker 1: are centering power. So when I look at who whatever
Speaker 1: version of clown is given the gavel right now, I
Speaker 1: don't care about that person. I care about everyone else.
Speaker 1: Recognizing that we are in danger, that does not mean
Speaker 1: reacting in fear. It means doubling down on what we
Speaker 1: love and who we love. That means not wasting time
Speaker 1: and enner battling their lives with our truth. It means
Speaker 1: ensuring that the people that are taking care of our kids,
Speaker 1: the people that are taking care of our streets, the
Speaker 1: people that are actually doing the work to try and
Speaker 1: make this country better, have the resources, the support, the
Speaker 1: love and compassion that they need to keep going. Everyone
Speaker 1: is not called to be on the battlefield. So what
Speaker 1: is your role? Because I will tell you that your
Speaker 1: role is not watching twenty four to seven tragedy and
Speaker 1: horror and despair and thinking that then you're going to
Speaker 1: have the energy and the desire to want to do something.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that that is the surest way
Speaker 1: for you to shut down. What is your role? If
Speaker 1: your role is a baker, to give people moments of
Speaker 1: sustenance and joy, then do that. Your role is a
Speaker 1: gardener to make your backyard, your front yard so beautiful
Speaker 1: that when people are passing by, they say, ah, let
Speaker 1: me pause and take in that beauty. Everyone is not
Speaker 1: meant to be a warrior, but every movement has roles
Speaker 1: for us all to take up. But it requires us
Speaker 1: to have the energy and the hopefulness that change can
Speaker 1: and will happen. We may not see it in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: That's not the goal. That is your ego saying that
Speaker 1: that is the goal I want to see. I want
Speaker 1: to feel. No, but it's about being able to lay
Speaker 1: our heads down at night. If you are privileged enough
Speaker 1: to be able to do so on a pillow, in
Speaker 1: a bed, in a home that is warm, that is safe.
Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, folks, too many people are not
Speaker 1: centering gratitude for what it is that you have, not
Speaker 1: feeling guilty, having gratitude and thinking to yourself, what am
Speaker 1: I doing to ensure that we can continue? That I
Speaker 1: can continue and it doesn't look like squeezing every bit
Speaker 1: of hope and every bit of energy out of yourself.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many people who have been on
Speaker 1: the front lines of movements that have taken their own
Speaker 1: lives or have died of heart attacks cancers because of
Speaker 1: the disease that has been filling their bodies. That is
Speaker 1: not how I want any of us to go out,
Speaker 1: And it's not sure as how how I plan on
Speaker 1: going out. I will leave you guys with this, which
Speaker 1: is what I wrote on and shared on Instagram this week.
Speaker 1: As the outside world succumbs to chaos, death and destruction,
Speaker 1: the creation of beauty, art, healing, and peace become acts
Speaker 1: of true resistance. When the powerful are forcing us to
Speaker 1: narrow our minds and close our hearts, expansionism becomes our
Speaker 1: most necessary tool. How are you choosing to expand in
Speaker 1: this time of great restriction? That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke a f as always power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, Yet woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.