1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back in our podstream studios 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: in Times Square. Folks, let's just cut the bullshit right 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: cable news right now, and all of the political hot 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: take pundits want to tell us that the reason why 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: Virginia went back read after a fucking decade is because 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: guess what their favorite scapegoat, the black voter. That could 8 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: not be further from the goddamn truth. We all know, 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: apparently all of us who have brains in our head 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: and understand strategy and understand what it is that Republicans 11 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: have been doing for the past fifty years. No, but 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: apparently democrats in power seem befuddled. They find themselves looking 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: up at the sky saying why me. Here's why you. 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: You have two people in the fucking sent who have 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,839 Speaker 1: decided to obstruct the president's agenda for the last eleven months. Yeah, 16 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm looking at you, Senator Joe Mansion and Senator Kirsten Cinema, 17 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: who have decided that, no, we're going to keep that 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: good old racist filibuster in play so that we can't 19 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: pass voting rights that we don't want to do anything 20 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: about climate change, and that Joe Mansion is uncomfortable giving 21 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: paid family leave. So you know, we have the infrastructure 22 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: bill that has hang up because he also is uncomfortable 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: with how it's going to add to our debt. However, 24 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: I guess he's not uncomfortable with Republicans running roughshot over 25 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: the country and essentially sending in their younger, sleeker, better 26 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: looking fucking Trump light in order to whip up their 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: voters and win back a state that we've been holding 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: for Yes, that's right, a fucking decade. So here's the 29 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: thing I woke up in the morning after the election, 30 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: and because here's what I have decided to do for 31 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: my own mental health, and I will offer this to 32 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: all of you, is that I no longer follow elections 33 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: until the wee hours of the morning. I lost precious 34 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: years of my life in twenty twenty. That guess what 35 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: I'll never fucking get back again waiting on results. It 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: did the same thing in the midterm elections in twenty eighteen, 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: and guess what I won't get those years back either. 38 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: What we know to be true is that elections are 39 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: very rarely unless they are blowouts, going to be decided 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: on guess what election day, So save yourself the trouble, 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: Go to bed, poor cocktail light a joint, do whatever 42 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: it is that you need to get relaxed so that 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: you can then prepare yourself for what the morning will bring. 44 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,119 Speaker 1: But at least you will be well rested. So when 45 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: I walk up in the morning and recognize that Virginia 46 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: had in fact gone read, my first immediate reaction was 47 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: fuck you Joe Mansion and fuck you Kirsten Cinema. But however, 48 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: that was not the mainstream media's reaction. No, they again 49 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: wanted to take the bait from Republicans who get to 50 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: decide and set an agenda, and say that it was 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: critical race theory, their rights, biggest boogeyman to date. Right now, 52 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: it's critical race theory and the fact that Glenn Yunkin 53 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: wants to burn your books and make sure that your 54 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: kids don't know who Tony Morrison is, you know, the 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: Nobel Prize winner for literature. But I digress. You see, 56 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: the fact is is that when Republicans can, they will 57 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: find their next best hook to provide their racist base 58 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: with red meat. And that is exactly what they did 59 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: with critical race theory, which side note, isn't even taught 60 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: in public schools. It's actually taught in higher education. It's 61 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: taught at the collegiate level. So they got white people 62 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: in Virginia whipped up into a frenzy over something that 63 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: doesn't actually exist. But here's what does exist, the lies 64 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: that they spread around giving parents their choice, which again 65 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: is another dog whistle. It was the same thing that 66 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: Republicans said during the Jim Crow era. Oh, parents should 67 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: have a choice about whether or not they want to 68 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: send those kids to school with those negroes. Right, that 69 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: was the choice that they wanted to give parents in 70 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: order to make. And so tell me why it was 71 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: so fucking difficult for people to figure out that Terry 72 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: mcculloff should have a been running on his previous fucking 73 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: record as governor and b turn Glenn Yuncan into the 74 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: Jim Crow candidate. Why the fuck did that not happen? 75 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: Because here's a thing. When you are on television debating 76 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: critical race theory again, this thing that does not exist 77 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: in our public school systems, you are losing. And that 78 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: is what Republicans know because you see for them, they 79 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: don't allow the truth to get in the way of 80 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: a good story. They don't allow facts to get in 81 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: the way of a good campaign slogan. No, they don't. 82 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: But here's the thing that we know. Democrats, thanks to 83 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: the two senators that I mentioned, don't have anything to 84 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: fucking run on. It is not enough for Democrats in 85 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one to run on the fact that they 86 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: are not Donald Trump, because for me, I'm like Janet 87 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: Jackson from the fucking eighties, and I'm like, what have 88 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: you done for me lately? Eleven months? Right, And that 89 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: to some people may not seem like a long a 90 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: period of time. But here's the thing. In politics, you 91 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: are always running against the clock because the next election 92 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: is right around the fucking corner. And if there is 93 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: anything that Joe Biden should have known for his eight 94 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: years as Vice president of these United States under this 95 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: contentious new political climate, is that if the Obama administration 96 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: had gotten hip to the fact that guess what Mitch 97 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: McConnell was serious when he said that he wanted to 98 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: make Obama a one term president and that he was 99 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: going to do everything in his power to be not 100 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: only the thorn in obama side, but the thorn in 101 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: America's side. And for some reason, Joe Biden believed, I 102 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: guess because he used to sit around and have scotch 103 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: with these motherfuckers that when he became president, oh, that 104 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: they would want to work with him because he's one 105 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: of the good old white boys. Well, guess what. We 106 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: all saw the writing on the wall over the last 107 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: four years. And guess what, even after the insurrection occurred, 108 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: you had multiple members of the Republican Party decide to 109 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: decertify your election. So why did you believe that you 110 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: have time and to waste to negotiate with domestic terrorists. 111 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: I'm just so confused. And so people want to say 112 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: to me, well, Danielle, it's only been eleven months, and 113 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: I would have told you, well, there are only twenty 114 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: four months until the next fucking election, which will be 115 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: the final nail in the coffin of the Biden Harris administration. 116 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: And why is that? Oh, for a couple of reasons. 117 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: Because Mitch McConnell is going to get the gavel right 118 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: back in his hand, and do you know what he's 119 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: going to do with it. He is going to hammer 120 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: Joe Biden into the fucking ground. He is not going 121 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: to allow a judge to be sat. He is not 122 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: going to allow him to finish filling out his administration. 123 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: He is not going to allow him to pass a 124 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: fucking thing. And so when we say you gotta move, 125 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: you know like that ninety song, when I move, you move, 126 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: just like that, That's what the fuck we needed Kursten 127 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: Cinema and Joe Mansion to do ahead of this fucking election, 128 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: to send a signal over the bow to Republicans and 129 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: to the American people that Democrats were come to fucking 130 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: play and that they were doing so big. But no, 131 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: that's not what we did. Instead of being able to 132 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: run on voting rights, to run on infrastructure, to run 133 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: on climate change, to run on anything that the American 134 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: people stood out in line to vote for in the 135 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: midst of the COVID nineteen pandemic, you gave us nothing. 136 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: You said, run on the fact that oh fifty seven 137 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: fifty eight percent of the population is vaccinated, when we 138 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: actually as America fall way behind all of our other 139 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: industrialized countries, right we are at the bottom in terms 140 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: of vaccinations. So they couldn't even fucking run on that. 141 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: So what did yuncan decide? He decided to do this. 142 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: We are going to turn this culture war into a 143 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: war on schools, and we are going to turn it 144 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: into whether or not parents have choice or can dictate 145 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: what it is that their kids learned. That he was 146 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 1: going to run on the fact that what democrats want 147 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: to do is make white kids feel bad about themselves. 148 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: And here's the thing, this is what pisses me off. 149 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: Fucking Cable News took the bait and ran with it. 150 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: How many white mothers did you see on CNN, on MSNBC, 151 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: on Fox News talking about the fact that they don't 152 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: want their kids learning about critical race theory? And yes, 153 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: I am using that slur. I'm using that drawl because 154 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: those are the people that they love to parade around 155 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: on cable news, right, all of them. They don't even know. 156 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: I saw one white man, I swear to God, this 157 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: white man sitting on the TV talking about whatever happened 158 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: to reading, writing, and arithmetic. And I'm like, sir, this 159 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: is the twenty first fucking century. Okay, we have expanded 160 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: so far beyond that. And if you think that that 161 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: rudimentary type of bullshit is what is going to allow 162 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: your child to be globally competitive, you are sorely, sorely mistaken. 163 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: And here's the other thing too, why is it that 164 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: cable news and other news outlets didn't interview any black 165 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: parents about how they feel about this boogeyman critical race theory? 166 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: About why is it that we don't want to set 167 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: up a system that white kids feel bad about themselves, 168 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: but we are totally okay with black and brown kids 169 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: being invisibilized in their own fucking classrooms. Right, Critical race 170 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: theory is nothing other than American history talk through the 171 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: lens of non white people. That's all that it is. 172 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: And you see the way that they've been able to 173 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: whip up their base into a frenzy around something that 174 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: isn't even happening in our public school system. What mccauliffe 175 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: should have done is run on his fucking record from 176 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. What he should have done is ran on 177 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: Northam's record. What he also should have done is shut 178 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: down Yuncan as none other than Trump Light. But this 179 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: is the problem, dear friends, This is the problem that 180 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: I have, And what I'm really concerned about moving forward 181 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: is that Yungan is now provided a roadmap for Republicans. Right, 182 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: don't embrace Trump openly right. He did not have Donald 183 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: Trump go in campaign with him in Virginia because he 184 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: knew that Donald Trump is a flashpoint and that he 185 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: would give mcculloff the opportunity to say, see, see him 186 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: right there with Donald Trump, the man that locked babies 187 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: and cages, the man that lied to you, the man 188 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: that is an out white criminal. But again, guess what, 189 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: we have nothing to run on in terms of charging 190 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump with any crimes because Merritt Garland is too 191 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: busy twinland his thumbs and sitting on his ass in 192 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: the DJ not doing a fucking thing to provide this 193 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: administration with any type of red meat to our goddamn base, 194 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of which, let me pause for a second. 195 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: When was the last time the Democrats offered their base anything? 196 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: And by their base, I'm talking about the fact that 197 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: the base of the Republican the base of the Democratic 198 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: Party is black and brown people. Essentially, we are the 199 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: BIPOC party, right because the BIPOC community has no other 200 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: fucking where to go. It's not as if Democrats are 201 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: trying to embrace us, because they're not. What did I 202 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: say the other day on woke AF, I said this 203 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: I'm tired of Joe Biden making announcements about going over 204 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the good people in Scranton, as 205 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: if that isn't his dog whistle to the working white class. Right, 206 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: what about the actual working class in this country, which 207 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: is largely underpaid, black, brown people, and largely women in 208 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: service industries. That's what we learned during COVID. But you 209 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: don't see him going to communities of color, Are going 210 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: to rural communities, or going to rural black communities, or 211 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: going to suburban black and brown communities, are going to 212 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: any city, No, it's always his dog whistle of going 213 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: to Scranton, Are going to someplace in Delaware or in 214 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: Ohio where he can do his wink and nod to 215 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: white people. The reality is, and this is what the 216 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: polls will show you. White people don't want to fuck 217 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: with you anymore, Democrats. And if you aren't aware of that, 218 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: look at the fucking exit poll numbers. Fifty six percent 219 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: of non of white, non college educated white women voted 220 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: for a Young Ken. That same fifty six percent also 221 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: voted for Donald Trump in twenty twenty. That number was 222 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: up from fifty three percent of white women that voted 223 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. So again, tell me 224 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: why the Democratic Party spends so much time and energy 225 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: chasing after white women who don't want to fuck with you. 226 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: White women in this country understand their power in association 227 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: to patriarchy, to white male patriarchy and misogyny and dominance. 228 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: That is where they have always gotten their power from. 229 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: That is where they will always have their allegiance. So 230 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: if we know that to be true, and we know 231 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: that overwhelmingly, regardless of college education or not, that white 232 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: men overwhelmingly vote Republican, why is it that you think 233 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: that you can peel off their wives and girlfriends. I 234 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: am so confused by this and do so at the 235 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: expense of everyone else. Because that's the other thing, too, 236 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: is that they are doing so at the expense of 237 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: everyone else. Oh remember that, back in the glory days 238 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: of the Obama era, Obama never came out and said 239 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: that he was going to be a president for Black America. 240 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: He has to dictate and say very sternly and clearly 241 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to be the president for Black America, 242 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: that he was going to be the president for all America. 243 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: But here's the thing that we always fail to understand 244 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: as Democrats, which is that if you were to position 245 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: your policies to benefit the least among us, it benefits 246 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: all of us. But that's not what we do, and 247 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: it's the same failed mistakes that this party has been 248 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: making for decades. All guests who was cut out of 249 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: the New Deal? Guess who was cut out of the 250 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: GI bill? Guess who was cut out of this and 251 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: cut out of that? Always black people. So how fucking 252 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: dare you then turn around, pundits and get on fucking 253 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: cable news and talk about, oh, well McAuliffe lost not 254 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: because of his own volition, right his own failed campaign, 255 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: or because of again the two obstructionist fucking senators that 256 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: we have in Cinema and Mansion. No, no, no, let's 257 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: nus never place the blame on white people for their 258 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: own fuckery. Let's turn around and talk about black turnout, 259 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: or let's blame it on youth and say that the 260 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: youth aren't engaged instead of understanding. I wonder why the 261 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: eighteen to thirty five set in Virginia didn't come out 262 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: in mass Maybe it's because you decided to fuck them 263 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: over with student debt. You're fucking them over with climate change, 264 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: and you're leaving them an earth, a planet that is 265 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: far worse off than what their parents inherited from their parents. 266 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: So how are you setting up a legacy of trust? Right? 267 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: If I am in the eighteen year old range and 268 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: I just am able to vote, and I'm looking around 269 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: at this country right now, you know what I'm thinking 270 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: to myself, I'm thinking, y'all fucked us over. Not only 271 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 1: are we saddled with debt and can't move out of 272 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: our parents' homes, right if our parents are lucky enough 273 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: to own their own homes, So not only are we 274 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: not able to do that, you all also older people 275 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: won't leave your fucking jobs because you don't have this 276 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: economic stability in order to be able to retire. That's 277 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: the other thing that COVID nineteen showed us, right, those 278 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: of us that could work remote and continue to work 279 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: from home, and the millions upon millions that were laid off, 280 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: which then brings me to the quote unquote labor shortage 281 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: that we have. Folks, don't fall for the media rope 282 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: a dope, There isn't a fucking labor shortage. There is 283 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: a shortage of employers that are willing to pay workers 284 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: what they are fucking due. That's the fucking shortage that 285 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: we're having. There's a shortage of employers and companies that 286 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: are willing to provide health benefits, that are willing to 287 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: provide paid leave, that are willing to invest in their 288 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: workers and pay them a living fucking wage. And what 289 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: people learned during the pandemic is this, I don't need 290 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: this shit right. I'm not going to continue to work 291 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty seventy eighty hours a week and still 292 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: have to make choices between whether or not I'm going 293 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: to my local pharmacy to pick up medication that I 294 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: desperately need, or I'm going to the grocery store to 295 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: put food on my table. Those are choices that too 296 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: many American families have to make, and namely those that 297 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: are low income and black and brown that have continually 298 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: have to juggle with those decisions. But the Democrats over 299 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: here pandering to fucking hockey moms and soccer moms and 300 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: all the Karens of the world, get the fuck out 301 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: of here. So you want to look at what the 302 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: real problem is, the real problem is that Democrats are 303 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: really fucking good at talking that hot shit, but ain't 304 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: delivering on a fucking thing. And young people and people 305 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: of color, those that are the actual base of this 306 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: party are hip to their bullshit. And when they are 307 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: looking around and they're saying, you know what, yeah, I 308 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: know that the Republican Party is filled with authoritarian insurrection. 309 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: Is fascist, right, But at the same time, you tell me, 310 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: when we give you the power, when we vote in 311 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: mass when we have our voices heard, what are you 312 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 1: doing with the power that we're giving you asking for 313 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: more and ain't doing shit with what you got? How 314 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: do I work? How does that work? It doesn't. But 315 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: this is where we are. Virginia is a red alert 316 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: to every single politician in this country. If you are 317 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: a Republican, you're like, I am going to copy and 318 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: paste everything that Yancan did and I'm gonna do it 319 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: from the school board all the way to the fucking 320 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: state house. Right. If you are a Democrat, and a 321 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: Democrat with some semblance of some fucking sense, then you 322 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: were going to take what McCullough did and be like, 323 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: so that shit didn't work. It is not enough to 324 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: just go out and say this is who we are, 325 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: not you have got to offer people who you are, 326 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: and it is very easy. You can point to the 327 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: Republicans and say, what have they given you? They didn't 328 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: want to give you healthcare, then we met with a 329 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: global health pandemic. Right, they don't want to give you 330 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: public education. Instead, they want to defund our public education 331 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: system while they are robustly funding a police force that 332 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: is beating the shit out of you. Right, you know, 333 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 1: the biggest lie, one of the biggest because they are 334 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: just so goddamn many, but one of the biggest lies 335 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: that are told right now is about police. So let 336 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: me talk about what just happened in Minneapolis. For the 337 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: first time ever, Minneapolis had a historic initiative, right that 338 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: was going to replace the police department, you know, the 339 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: police department that killed George Floyd and tried to cover 340 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 1: it up. And if not for the seventeen year old girl, 341 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: Darnella Fraser, who at that time was a teenager, captured 342 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder, if we had just gone along with 343 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: the police report that came out, well, George Floyd would 344 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: have died of natural causes on the way to the 345 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: fucking hospital. That is what was in that fucking report. Right, 346 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: So the city decided that they wanted to do something radical, 347 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: which it and radical not in the idea that it 348 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: is oh my god, so against the grain, but it 349 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: is this. Police don't actually help people. They don't actually 350 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: solve fucking crimes. They don't stop murders, right, what they 351 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: do is provide performative safety. And that is the lie 352 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: that has been sold by the right and gobbled up 353 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: and regurgitated by the left. Oh my god, if we 354 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: defund the police, then crime is going to be on 355 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: the rise. No, no, folks, crime is on the rise 356 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: because people are economically unstable. That's why crime is on 357 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: the rise. Because we don't create jobs in this country 358 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: that provide people with a living fucking wage. That we 359 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: force people to make really heinous decisions. Right, that's why 360 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: crime is on the rise. That if we were to 361 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: actually invest in our social safety nets, if we were 362 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: to actually have robust curriculums in our school if we 363 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: actually looked at our schools as the community centers that 364 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: they are, right, if we were to provide people with 365 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: job opportunities, healthcare, right, crime wouldn't be on the rise. 366 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: But instead they feed you the lie that if you 367 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: remove these police that again don't stop any fucking crime 368 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: and don't solve any after the fact that, oh my god, 369 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: everyone will run them up and see Republicans will come 370 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: out with their heavy messaging that they are for what 371 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: law and order, and then Democrats, because they don't want 372 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: to seem soft on crime, then decide that they're gonna 373 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: double down and the fact that we're supporters of the 374 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: cops and we need the cops right because otherwise we 375 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: are going to be unsafe, instead of recognizing exactly what 376 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: it is that allows people to feel safe in the 377 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: first fucking place, and it is not more cops on 378 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: the streets. Go to some of the safest neighborhoods in 379 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: this country and you go and count for me how 380 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 1: many fucking police that you see. What you see instead 381 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: are sidewalks, tree line streets, a multitude of grocery stores, playgrounds, 382 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: country clubs, golf courses, gated communities, public schools that look 383 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: like the most avant garde buildings. Right, that's what you 384 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: see in some of the safest neighborhoods in this country. 385 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: You do not see an influx of police officers that 386 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: are doing slow drive buys by black kids. Trying to 387 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: play ball in the in some function of a community 388 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: center somewhere. What you see in those communities are garbage 389 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: on the street because guess what, you don't tax them, right, 390 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: you tax them, but you don't give them the same 391 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: resources that you do the folks say here in New York, 392 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 1: if you come to my neighborhood where I happen to 393 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: live in Brooklyn, it is a largely white neighborhood where 394 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: tree lined streets and sidewalks and garbage picked up regularly. 395 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: You go a couple of neighborhoods over it is a 396 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: black neighborhood that doesn't have the same prices for the homes. 397 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: And what do you see everywhere? And police all over 398 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: the place. Police do not equal safety. But that is 399 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: the lie that has continual to be sold. And guess what, 400 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,159 Speaker 1: it was sold here in New York City too, because 401 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: we just elected a fucking the second black mayor. And 402 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: you would think, oh, yay, the second black mayor. No, 403 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: it is a former police officer who, guess what, just 404 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: became a Democrat in the last couple of years. So 405 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: do you think that I feel safe now in New 406 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: York City? No? I don't because I'm pretty sure that 407 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: that motherfucker is going to reinstitute stop and frisk and 408 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: a whole other host of other things that he has 409 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: been selling and peddling out there so that people could 410 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:55,239 Speaker 1: feel safe in New York. Folks, I'm so tired of 411 00:25:55,560 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: all of the performance and the lies. Every single channel 412 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: right now, every single headline is about not genuinely why 413 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: Democrats failed and putting the blame where it belongs, which 414 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: is on cinema and on mansion, because, frankly, without those 415 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: two motherfuckers, say, just think for a minute, Think for 416 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: a minute, if we had a cohesive and thoughtful Democratic 417 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: party in both the House and the Senate, Think for 418 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: a minute the things that could have gotten done. When 419 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: everybody wants to tell me that, oh well we don't 420 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: really have you know, it just hasn't been enough time. 421 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: Biden needs more time. The things that could have had 422 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: could have gotten done if we had gotten rid of 423 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: the Filibuster Voting Rights Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, 424 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: that would have been passed, so McAuliffe and others would 425 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: have been able to tout that as a win, we're 426 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: protecting your democracy. The Infrastructure Bill as a combined bill, right, 427 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: the bipartisan one that could have been passed, and we 428 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: could have been able to tout that right saying that 429 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: we are retrofitting our buildings to face our oncoming climate crisis, 430 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: we are creating new jobs, blah blah blah blah blah. 431 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: That could have been done. Policing reform right, the George 432 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: Floyd you know, Policing Act that could have been passed 433 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: as well. Those are the three pieces, major pieces of 434 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: legislation that would have shown to the American people that 435 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: when you give power to Democrats, Democrats get the job 436 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: fucking done. But that is not what we did. No, 437 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: It was headline after headline and story after story about 438 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: in fighting between progressives and the moderate class instead of 439 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: recognizing that there is no moderation when we're operating in 440 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: a crisis. And that's the other thing too, Am I 441 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: the only one, folks? Are we the only ones that 442 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: recognize that America is in crisis? Because when I am 443 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 1: listening to Joe Biden and frankly, you know what I 444 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: thought about the other night too, And I don't know 445 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: if you've all have thought this, but I did. Who 446 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: the fuck is Kamala Harris where is our vice president? Now? Normally, right, 447 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: we don't often hear from the vice president, although I 448 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: feel like Joe Biden under Obama was pretty front and center. 449 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: But I don't remember the last time that I actually 450 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: heard from Vice President Kamala Harris, So I'm wondering also 451 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: where she is. But I digress. The fact is that 452 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: within every defeat there is actually opportunity if you decide 453 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: to see it. Right. You ever see those you know, 454 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: wonderful means and quotes that I post on my Instagram 455 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: if you come to at D two cents on Instagram, 456 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: I post all the time because frankly, I search, you know, 457 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: with both hands and a flashlight for hope every single day. 458 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: But this is mean that says, you know, behind each 459 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: obstacle is an opportunity. Each closed door there presents a window. 460 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: But friends, that's only the reality if you choose to 461 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: see it and actually learn from the lessons right that 462 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: life puts out there for you. But my fear is 463 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: that Republicans aren't doing anything that is new. So why 464 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: is it that Democrats haven't figured it out? The strategy 465 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: to combat it? You know that every election cycle, what 466 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: are Republicans going to look for. They are going to 467 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: look for their next greatest dog whistle. So in twenty twenty, 468 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: it was Antifa and Black Lives Matter, right, That's what 469 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: everything was. Then. You remember during mid terms it was 470 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: attacking right, the five women of color congresswomen that were elected. 471 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: It was about them and immigration and telling folks to 472 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: go back to where they came from and putting bands 473 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: on countries and immigrants were the problem. Every year, it 474 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: is something this election cycle. It's the made up idea 475 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: around critical race theory being taught in our schools, all 476 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: wrapped around the idea that the sixteen nineteen project by 477 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: Nicole Hannah Jones Nobel Prize winning again or Pulitzer Prize winning, 478 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: let me say Pulleitzer. I always mixed those two up. 479 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 1: But regardless that because the sixteen nineteen project built out 480 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: an entire curriculum was going to be offering to schools 481 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: for free. That you have the the Santasis and the 482 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: Abbots and the other right wing governors who were saying 483 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: that they were going to do what they have always 484 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: wanted to do, defund public education. We're not going to 485 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: give you your money if you even mention race, if 486 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: you mention gender, if you mention any difference, if you 487 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: do anything other then celebrate whiteness and white excellence, then 488 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: we're going to defund you. All of this comes back 489 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: to what Republicans always want to do, dear friends, which 490 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: is unravel our social safety nests, which is to defund 491 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: our federal systems. That's what they want. I said months ago, 492 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: maybe even a year ago, that the biggest, the biggest 493 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: proponent of white supremacy is our public school system. I 494 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: can say that as a former teacher, having worked in 495 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: the classroom, having looked at what curriculums look like, and 496 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: think to myself, how were we teaching classrooms of black 497 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: and brown children that the only people that they can 498 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: uphold are Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, or whoever it 499 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: is that white people deemed safe for them to do so, 500 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: and that while they experience racism at a young age, 501 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: let us not upset the white apple cart and have 502 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: white children understand what racism is if your black and 503 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: brown children are young enough to experience it, you know, 504 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: tam Or Rice was twelve years old when he was 505 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: playing on the playground with a toy gun, as many 506 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: kids do. When he was shot to death by police 507 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: that didn't even bother to get out of their car 508 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: to identify him as anything other than a thug that 509 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: they wanted to put down. In the aftermath of that 510 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: twelve year old's death, the police officers were not convicted 511 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: and as a matter of fact, said, well, they thought 512 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: that he was twenty something years old. He was twelve. 513 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: You see, they choose not to see us. They choose 514 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: to decide whether or not we are dangerous. And the 515 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: way to keep us docile or in line is to 516 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: control what it is that we learn, to make sure 517 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: that we are just as devalued as they want to 518 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: devalue us. That is the purpose of public education, right 519 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: to keep folks in line, not to have any type 520 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: of critical thought. And it's funny because while you know 521 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: that in critical race theory, the word that they are 522 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: focusing on is race, the word that I want us 523 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: to focus on is critical because we don't want people 524 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: to have critical thought because see, when you start thinking 525 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: critically about the country that you live in and about 526 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: what they are teaching you, then you start to question 527 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: the system. And if you question the system, then you 528 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 1: start to develop a desire and a passion to want 529 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: to change that system. I want to read you. I 530 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: want to read you this quote that our friend son 531 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 1: of Baldwin, Robert Jones Jr. Who has joined wok F 532 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: before to talk about his book, that he pulled up 533 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: with regard to James Baldwin. And you know that if 534 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: you read any of the writings that I do at 535 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: Zora Magazine, you know that I often quote Baldwin because 536 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: everything that he said in his lifetime is applicable today, 537 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: which is both incredibly poignant, right and then all so 538 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: really sad. But I want to read you what Robert 539 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: Jones Junior wrote on his Instagram page with regard to 540 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: this fight, right, this boogeyman fight, this next culture war 541 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: that Republicans have done. And this is what he said. 542 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: Reading the news headlines about opposition to critical race theory 543 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 1: and seeing the outcomes of various local elections and how 544 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: few people vote them despite the almost instantaneous, tangible impact 545 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: local elections have on their lives. The numbers of people 546 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 1: advocating for fantasy over reality, myth over history, faith over evidence, 547 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,959 Speaker 1: belief over truth, cruelty over compassion, and fear over love 548 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: makes me think about how the destruction of critical thinking 549 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: is necessary for a colonial imperial nation state to function 550 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: and for its populous to be unthinkingly complicit in their 551 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: own annihilation. And for me, Robert Jones Junior writes, these 552 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: James Baldwin quotes immediately come to mind and explains one 553 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: of the many reasons why so many hated him while 554 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,360 Speaker 1: he was alive but love him now that he's dead. 555 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: He saw them, saw them. So here are three quotes 556 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: that Robert Jones Junior, son of Baldwin, on Instagram posted, 557 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: and I want you to think about each and every 558 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: one of them. James Baldwin, nineteen sixty three. The paradox 559 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,480 Speaker 1: of education is precisely this, that as one begins to 560 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which 561 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: he is being educated. This was in a talk to teachers, Baldwin, 562 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. Education is indoctrination if you're white, subjugation 563 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:22,360 Speaker 1: if you're black. And finally, this the brutal truth is 564 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: that the bulk of white people in America never had 565 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,480 Speaker 1: any interest in educating black people, except as this could 566 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: serve white purposes. It is not the black child's language 567 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: that is in question. It is not their language that 568 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: is despised. It is their experience. A child cannot be 569 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:52,760 Speaker 1: taught by anyone who despises them, and a child cannot 570 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by 571 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: anyone whose demands and essentially is that the child repudiate 572 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: their experience and all that gives them sustenance and enter 573 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: a limbo in which they will no longer be black, 574 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: in which they know that they can never become white. 575 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 1: Black people have lost too many Black children that way. 576 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 1: If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is. 577 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: This was written in the New York Times in nineteen 578 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: seventy nine. Folks. We are in crisis across this country 579 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: in so many ways. The writing is on the wall, Folks. 580 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 1: We know what Republicans are doing and where they are 581 00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: going next. So why don't our elected representatives know? Why 582 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:07,479 Speaker 1: is no one acting with a sense of urgency. If 583 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: we want to remain not only globally competitive, but competitive 584 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:17,320 Speaker 1: in this country with each other to aspire to be better, 585 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: then building robust, thoughtful, expansive public education is the only 586 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,400 Speaker 1: way to do it. The problem with the Democrats that 587 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,800 Speaker 1: I realize and there are many is that they only 588 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,919 Speaker 1: ever want to play the short game, the every two 589 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,399 Speaker 1: year or the every four year election game. They are 590 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: not looking ten, twenty, thirty, forty years down the line 591 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:54,359 Speaker 1: as Republicans have been. You see, Republicans have had a 592 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: clear agenda from the beginning, since Brown versus the Board 593 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 1: of Education, Hey, hell, since plusy versus ferguson. Their desire 594 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 1: has always been to return white cis gender Christian men 595 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,879 Speaker 1: back to their nineteen fifties glory where they could do 596 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 1: whatever they want, say whatever they want, grab whomever they want, 597 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: and dictate the rules of the game and change it 598 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:29,719 Speaker 1: whenever they felt the desire to and no one, no 599 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:35,759 Speaker 1: one would dare cross them. That's what they are working on. 600 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,480 Speaker 1: You start in Texas, you start with some half cocked, 601 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,320 Speaker 1: fucking piece of legislation that turns every Texan or every 602 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:52,919 Speaker 1: American for that maunter into an abortion bounty hunter. Then 603 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,960 Speaker 1: you create ripple effects around the country because if people 604 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 1: with uteruses are unable to plan their pregnancies, then guess 605 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 1: what that is going to force them to do? Leave 606 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: the workforce, and guess who that leaves the door open to. 607 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,440 Speaker 1: In their minds, white men who have been robbed of 608 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,440 Speaker 1: their positions of power. So long as women are shackled 609 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,879 Speaker 1: to their home, to the stove, to the kitchen, then 610 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 1: they get to continue to wield the power that they 611 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,480 Speaker 1: once had. So you go there. Then you put a 612 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,760 Speaker 1: target on the back of LGBTQ plus people. What about 613 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 1: the children, they will say, once again, and then you 614 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,240 Speaker 1: force those people back into the closet, you strip away 615 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: their rights. And if you think that that's not coming, 616 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:51,320 Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. Then you arm every single American 617 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 1: and you begin to attack these blue oasises that we 618 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 1: have in cities around the country. And you bring up 619 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,520 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, which is happening this week, a 620 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,439 Speaker 1: case that is going to contest one hundred year old law, 621 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:13,839 Speaker 1: a ban on concealed weapons and assault rifles, and then 622 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: you roll that back. So now you have an undereducated, 623 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:29,640 Speaker 1: armed electorate who you've fueled with their rage because somebody 624 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,439 Speaker 1: has stolen something from them, and then you give them 625 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: the scapegoats to make their targets. That's the plan. And 626 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,239 Speaker 1: the question that I have is, if I can see it, 627 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: and you can see it, why can't our elected officials. 628 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:56,200 Speaker 1: What are they waiting for? Because dear friends, the end, 629 00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 1: our apocalyptic present has arrived. Virginia is the alarm. Are 630 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,719 Speaker 1: we going to continue to hit snooze or wake the 631 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 1: fuck up? That is it for me today, Dear friends 632 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,000 Speaker 1: on Woke app as always, Power to the people and 633 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,239 Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke 634 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:23,760 Speaker 1: as fuck.