Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to OKF Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 2: Folks, let me tell you something, you know, there are.
Speaker 1: Times when I get so angry and beside myself at
Speaker 1: the state of our country where I just want to
Speaker 1: let out a primal scream from the tips of my
Speaker 1: toes and just out of the top of my head,
Speaker 1: as if I were some type of Looney Tunes cartoon.
Speaker 1: That the anger and the rage is at times so
Speaker 1: great that I feel myself suffocating, right, which is how
Speaker 1: I know that I have to move from this place,
Speaker 1: right that. This is why I talk very often with
Speaker 1: all of you about finding different avenues and moving in
Speaker 1: different ways that are not placing rage, anger and hate
Speaker 1: in the center of ourselves, right, because that is just
Speaker 1: not the way.
Speaker 2: And I tell you, if you.
Speaker 1: Have not read All About Love by Bell Hooks, which
Speaker 1: you know I read this summer, and you know, read
Speaker 1: Lighter by Young Pueblo and read Falling Upward by Richard Rohrer,
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what are better ways to
Speaker 1: process the rage, because it's real and I can't pretend
Speaker 1: that it doesn't exist. I can't pretend that when I
Speaker 1: see videos like Lauren Bobert, who stood up on the
Speaker 1: house floor to talk about the LGBTQ community as groomers,
Speaker 1: and to take to social media to talk about the
Speaker 1: insidious nature of drag shows, and then to see her
Speaker 1: in a video at a family theater performance being groped
Speaker 1: and groping and vaping and carrying on like some fucking
Speaker 1: low rent delinquent and then having the audacity to want
Speaker 1: to talk about other people's family values. It isn't just hypocrisy.
Speaker 2: It is just a.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is psychologically wrong with these people,
Speaker 1: but I do believe that there is something that is
Speaker 1: deeply impairing them, right, And I'm not using that as
Speaker 1: an excuse like, oh, it's mental illness in a way
Speaker 1: that we want to talk about. You know the fact
Speaker 1: that we refuse to do anything about mass shootings and
Speaker 1: we continue to say that it's because of mental illness
Speaker 1: when we don't have you know the what, We're the
Speaker 1: only country that has people that suffer from emotional instability
Speaker 1: and mental illness. No, we're just the only one that
Speaker 1: provides access readily available access to guns. But going back
Speaker 1: to the hypocrisy of Bobert and others. Their party is
Speaker 1: filled with pedophiles. I have seen so many like reports
Speaker 1: of local officials being arrested, registered Republicans who were leading
Speaker 1: camps and you know, clergy being arrested for sex trafficking
Speaker 1: and propositioning miners and all of these things that I'm
Speaker 1: just it's like, not one of them are a direct queen,
Speaker 1: not one of them are liberal in their affiliation right
Speaker 1: or a Democrat, and so you recognize that everything that
Speaker 1: they do and are about is projection. But it doesn't stop.
Speaker 1: It doesn't stifle the rage and the anger that I
Speaker 1: have at feeling like I'm being forced as a black
Speaker 1: queer woman in this country to perform my humanity because
Speaker 1: it isn't readily accepted because I'm being judged by gutter trash,
Speaker 1: and that is angering you know. The other day there
Speaker 1: was a report that Ari Melber did on his show.
Speaker 1: There is a docuseries on Tupac and a Phoenie chakor
Speaker 1: a Phoenix Shi.
Speaker 2: Core is a.
Speaker 1: Very well known black panther that fought for black liberation
Speaker 1: and then was like exiled. Then Tupac, who she gives
Speaker 1: birth to, is only in this world, on this planet
Speaker 1: for twenty seven years before he is murdered. But the
Speaker 1: impact in his music and his poetry is literally being
Speaker 1: taught at universities. But I started to watch the documentary
Speaker 1: Dear Mama, which I really want to sinis, and I
Speaker 1: think about the ways that one of the executive producers,
Speaker 1: Alan Hughes, was talking about what he never learned about
Speaker 1: the Black Panthers, and what he did learn was that
Speaker 1: they were just the black version of the KKK. And
Speaker 1: you know, all of that was done purposefully right by
Speaker 1: white corporate media, by our government to equate the assertive
Speaker 1: desire and campaign for black liberation as the black version
Speaker 1: of white supremacy, which is impossible one because black people
Speaker 1: don't have power in this country. They don't own, operate,
Speaker 1: and run systems right that everyone else has to buy
Speaker 1: in and be a part of, so they do not
Speaker 1: have the power to wield their and weaponize prejudice. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: that was never the truth about the Black Panther Party.
Speaker 1: The Black Panthers were about Black people looking out for
Speaker 1: and helping black people and recognizing the fullness of our citizenship,
Speaker 1: which also included bearing arms and fighting against those laws, rules,
Speaker 1: and officials who were masquerading their democracy and their belief
Speaker 1: in democracy, but at night going into black communities, burning
Speaker 1: them down, brutalizing their people, right, and then turning around
Speaker 1: and creating laws that benefited them through privilege and subjugated
Speaker 1: black people. And the Black panthers were hip to that shit,
Speaker 1: and they were like, we're going to create our own
Speaker 1: food programs, we're going to create our own literacy programs,
Speaker 1: We're going to build up our own community. And once
Speaker 1: a black people were just like, no, we don't want
Speaker 1: to sit in and have and be beaten and hosed
Speaker 1: down and work through a place of nonviolence, like we're
Speaker 1: actually just going to be black for black people, right,
Speaker 1: not for white acceptance. And it was through that, you
Speaker 1: know that this whole idea of both sides right are wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, really comes to the forefront in my mind,
Speaker 1: because the both sides ism has been from the beginning right,
Speaker 1: and that what that example that I just provided is
Speaker 1: not even the beginning, it's like somewhere in the middle right.
Speaker 1: And so when you see things that are so wrong, right,
Speaker 1: so obviously fucking wrong, how do you work through.
Speaker 2: The rage?
Speaker 1: How do you not want to just take these people
Speaker 1: and literally shake the shit out of them, like, hold
Speaker 1: up the fucking video. If I was a trolling ass reporter,
Speaker 1: I would be playing the video. If I were a
Speaker 1: member of Congress, I would have entered that shit.
Speaker 2: Into the record, right.
Speaker 1: I would have held a floor speech played that video
Speaker 1: so that it is entered into the record as I
Speaker 1: talk about and against the anti LGBTQ policies that they're
Speaker 1: trying to pass. Do you know what I'm saying? Like,
Speaker 1: you see obvious fucking wrongdoing, but somehow it's wrong of us, right,
Speaker 1: Like I heard somebody say like, well, I don't sex shame,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, So there's a time and place
Speaker 1: for everything. You want to fuck your boyfriend, you want
Speaker 1: to grope them, you want to do whatever, Sure, go off,
Speaker 1: but not in front of fucking families at a screening
Speaker 1: of Beetlejuice. This not some triplex fucking theater, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? There's also no vaping inside, just
Speaker 1: like this is not the nineteen fifties where you can
Speaker 1: just light up a fucking cigarette wherever you want, And
Speaker 1: so how do you not then use the same tactics
Speaker 1: but justly to show the hypocrisy and how disgusting this
Speaker 1: party is. How do you not use this opportunity? And
Speaker 1: this is where I struggle, friends, because I use these
Speaker 1: two examples of Bobert and how the media created this
Speaker 1: entire image of the Black Panther Party that was never true,
Speaker 1: that was a fucking lie, the same way that they
Speaker 1: created this image, this one image of Malcolm X. He's
Speaker 1: angry and he's dangerous, right, or how long can you
Speaker 1: literally watch everyone around you die be killed by the
Speaker 1: States and then still want to extend your fucking hand
Speaker 1: and know that that wasn't the fullness of his life,
Speaker 1: because before he was assassinated, had a whole different Aha
Speaker 1: coming to Allah moment in his life. Because we are
Speaker 1: afforded the ability as humans to grow, that's what this
Speaker 1: life is about. But when you have a group of
Speaker 1: people that are readily stunted in their thinking, in their beliefs,
Speaker 1: and then have the power to want to stunt other
Speaker 1: people people from learning and exploring and having their own
Speaker 1: AHA moment, that's where I have a fucking problem. That's
Speaker 1: where my rage comes in. You want to swim inside
Speaker 1: of your ignorance by all means, go for it. But
Speaker 1: when you choose to use that power to drown other people.
Speaker 1: That's the fucking problem. And when we don't articulate what
Speaker 1: is being done and showcase that hypocrisy for what it is,
Speaker 1: we miss opportunities. Not only that, but the weight, friends,
Speaker 1: and the what. I am reading another book right now
Speaker 1: called The Four Points by Sean Getright, and I tell
Speaker 1: you that there's a term.
Speaker 2: He did not create it.
Speaker 1: It's from a researcher, and I can't think of this
Speaker 1: research as at the moment, but by all means, please
Speaker 1: use Google called racial weathering. Right. You know how with
Speaker 1: actual weather, buildings get worn down, right like your home
Speaker 1: for instance, if you own a home, or you live
Speaker 1: in an apartment building, and you know, sometimes once a
Speaker 1: year they'll do serious washing of said building and painting
Speaker 1: because of the weathering that is taking place that the
Speaker 1: building is succumbing to the elements. Well, the term racial
Speaker 1: weathering happens inside of the bodies of black people, particularly
Speaker 1: black women.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I understand that it happens to other marginal groups, marginalized groups,
Speaker 1: but I'm specifically talking to black people. The racial weathering
Speaker 1: that happens inside shows itself in the form of hypertension, diabetes, depression,
Speaker 1: right anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, things that actually shorten
Speaker 1: our lives because of the consistent exposure to racism, to
Speaker 1: anti blackness, to hate, and needing to just swallow it,
Speaker 1: deal with it so that you can continue to get
Speaker 1: out of bed, get out of your home, go and work,
Speaker 1: provide for yourself, provide for a family. It's the reason
Speaker 1: why life expectancy is so short. On top of the
Speaker 1: outside forces that are trying to kill you, but the
Speaker 1: stress and the weight of that on your insides is
Speaker 1: also killing you. So when I find myself spertly trying
Speaker 1: to work through and not center anger and rage in
Speaker 1: my life, it's because I literally do not want to
Speaker 1: die young. I don't want to work myself into consistent
Speaker 1: frenzy day in and day out as a way to
Speaker 1: deal with the hypocrisy, the cruelty, and the brutality that
Speaker 1: I see and ingest every day. Why am I sharing
Speaker 1: this with you guys, because.
Speaker 2: This morning.
Speaker 1: I watched a video that was posted on Joyread's page
Speaker 1: her Instagram that has since you know that was going viral,
Speaker 1: which is of a Republican candidate for Missouri Governor, Bill
Speaker 1: Eigel and another Republican state Senator Nick Schroer Schroer, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to fucking pronounce his name, and I
Speaker 1: don't really care using flame throwers to burn books. And
Speaker 1: they did a video that a pile of books and
Speaker 1: they got flame throwers to torch them. And Igel is
Speaker 1: running on a campaign that when he becomes governor, pe'll
Speaker 1: burn all the books, right And I will say, we
Speaker 1: are in such a fraud challenging, terrible place in this country, in.
Speaker 2: This world right now, and.
Speaker 1: It is really hard to not fall victim to the rage,
Speaker 1: to the anger, to the hopelessness. Because when you see
Speaker 1: videos like this, and I tell you you all go
Speaker 1: look at the video. He says, you bring those woke
Speaker 1: pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids,
Speaker 1: and I'll burn those two on the front lawn of
Speaker 1: the governor's mansion. But you bring your pornography inside of
Speaker 1: a theater with families present, and you'll do what exactly,
Speaker 1: congratulate Lauren Bobert, celebrate her family values, the thirty six
Speaker 1: year old grandmother right woke pornography because you don't want
Speaker 1: kids to talk or learn about their bodies, sex desires.
Speaker 1: But you want ten year olds to become mothers and
Speaker 1: carry the babies of their rapists. So if we're not
Speaker 1: calling this out, if we're not bringing attention to the
Speaker 1: hypocrisy and doing so from a place of detachment, literally
Speaker 1: being able to see it, understand it, express it, and
Speaker 1: then let it go, this is what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: practice because when I tell you, when I feel the
Speaker 1: heat inside of my body, I know that it is
Speaker 1: eroding the health and wellness inside of me. That is
Speaker 1: what racial weathering feels like and sooks. We have got
Speaker 1: to find a way to center something else in order
Speaker 1: to deal with what is happening because our insides are
Speaker 1: burning and that can't happen. We can't allow it. So
Speaker 1: on this woke Wednesday, I really you know, I call
Speaker 1: on all of you to ask yourselves what are you
Speaker 1: centering in your life on a regular basis, on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, what are you making.
Speaker 2: The core of you?
Speaker 1: Because if it is anger, if it is grief, if
Speaker 1: it is fear, you have got to find another path.
Speaker 1: We have got to find another path because that one
Speaker 1: isn't sustainable. That is it for me today, dear friends
Speaker 1: on woke af As always, please if you're watching this video,
Speaker 1: leave comments under the video. Let me know how you
Speaker 1: were thinking dealing moving through these times, what you think
Speaker 1: about the term racial weathering, and whether you've had experiences
Speaker 1: where you have seen the you know, mental and emotional
Speaker 1: turn up in a physical manner, negatively creating that disease
Speaker 1: that I speak about.
Speaker 2: And let me know if you are listening to this.
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Speaker 1: dear friends. Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.