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Speaker 1: Good morning, peepsend Welcome to wok F Daily with Me

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Speaker 1: your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: on this book Wednesday, I actually want to do a

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Speaker 1: bit of reflection and I am going to use today's

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Speaker 1: episode to really have us do what mainstream media and

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Speaker 1: sadly this administration hasn't done since it came into office,

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Speaker 1: which is offer up a really deep reflection on where

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Speaker 1: we are four years following COVID nineteen. So this week

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Speaker 1: I had I will also have a conversation with our friend,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel about the fact that but four years ago,

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Speaker 1: him and I began a conversation that we've been doing

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Speaker 1: every week for the last four years, that him and

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Speaker 1: I had started our work together at a time when

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Speaker 1: we just didn't know what else to do, so we said,

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Speaker 1: let's at least be in conversation, let's let least touch

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Speaker 1: base once a week, and four years later, here we are.

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Speaker 1: But the reason why I want to use this woke

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Speaker 1: Wednesday because I want to remind folks that wokeness right

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Speaker 1: is about consciousness. It is about being aware of and

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Speaker 1: conscious to the world around us. Right. Yes, as it

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Speaker 1: pertains to systems, you know, interconnected systems of oppression, but

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Speaker 1: in general, folks like, what the fuck is just going on?

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Speaker 1: How we are feeling right? That we are human beings

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Speaker 1: we don't end up in a place of consistent repetition

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Speaker 1: right of doing the same things over and over again

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Speaker 1: and expecting a different result. Right is by sitting with ourselves,

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Speaker 1: with each other, being in conversation and sharing what we

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Speaker 1: have learned from the experiences that we have had. Having

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Speaker 1: time to reflect is an opportunity to think back on

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Speaker 1: and how you will carry now this new knowledge into

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Speaker 1: the future. And what I realize on this week of

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Speaker 1: this four year anniversary of the World Health Organization announcing

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Speaker 1: world shutting down, is America has done with COVID what

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Speaker 1: it's always done with points of trauma in this country

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Speaker 1: And we wonder how we find ourselves in moments as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to racism in this country, why we continue

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Speaker 1: to repeat the same things generation after generation. And it's

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Speaker 1: because following the Civil War there were only twelve years

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Speaker 1: country once again sold out to the white racis in

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Speaker 1: the South, ushered in Jim Crow, and buried any bit

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Speaker 1: of progress that was made. Does that sound familiar because

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much what happened following the first black president

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Speaker 1: it is hazy because of all of the despair and

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Speaker 1: hatred and lies that we have been inundated with since,

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Speaker 1: because the goal of white supremacists was to make sure

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Speaker 1: that like we never thought about possibility in the same

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Speaker 1: way again as it attains to our politics. And so

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Speaker 1: I think now as I am having my own personal

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Speaker 1: reflections on what has changed shifted for for in my

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Speaker 1: reflection of pause that we offer ourselves one on a

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Speaker 1: We got to keep producing, got to keep hustling, got

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Speaker 1: to keep grinding. I'll rest when I'm dead. This obsessiveness

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Speaker 1: And this is what Republicans' magism trump. Where they want

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Speaker 1: busy seeing how they are stealing from you, how they

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Speaker 1: So I want us this week to have conversations with

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Speaker 1: how our thinking is different. Now. Have those conversations with people,

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Speaker 1: because I don't want us to forget four years ago.

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Speaker 1: And this is my personal reflection because so much in

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Speaker 1: my life was upended four years ago. I'm riding the train.

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Speaker 1: It is March fifth or sixth of twenty twenty, and

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Speaker 1: That stuff like a global health pandemic you know happens

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Speaker 1: It matters that we go back and look at photographs

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Speaker 1: Because four years in this country have been so fucking

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Speaker 1: a moment of silence. If Donald Trump and MAGA had

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Speaker 1: responsibility to keep American safe. He had people turn on science,

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Speaker 1: on doctors, People were protesting at hospitals. The very people

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Speaker 1: to the administrator, to the janitors to the lunch workers,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So when you think be your friends that

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Speaker 1: you can't possibly stomach voting for Biden. I want you

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Speaker 1: where we could be right now. Had we not given

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump an inch when he came down that fucking escalator,

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Speaker 1: is exactly where he fucking belongs, how different our lives

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Speaker 1: would be now without the stain, the virus of Trump

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Speaker 1: is that still has this country in its grips, the

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Speaker 1: in conversation with those that you love about what they

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Speaker 1: remember about this time, how COVID changed our lives, Remember

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Speaker 1: the good as well as the bad, and remember to

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Speaker 1: hold space for one another because community is the most

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Speaker 1: important thing that we lost, that we reshaped, that we

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Speaker 1: reimagined and are still trying to regain. That is it

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Speaker 1: for me today, Dear friends, on woke a f as

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Speaker 1: always Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.