1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, piece and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: On this bucket Friday, it is going to be a 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: combination truly of feel it Friday and fucke it Friday. 5 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: This has been, as I've stayed it all week long, 6 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: a really trying and difficult week in the world in 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: the US, in Israel and Palestine. For certain, absorbing and 8 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: taking in the type of dehumanization, grief, brutality and violence 9 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: that we are witnessing as we watch war unfold in 10 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: Israel cannot be taken lightly. And I know that it 11 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: is often we find ourselves in a place that says, well, 12 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't have any stakenness. You know, I don't have 13 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: any people there, or I am not Jewish, or I 14 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: am not Muslim, so this doesn't personally impact me. But 15 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: then find yourself struggling emotionally mentally, with the inability to focus, 16 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: bursting into tears, and you don't know why this feeling 17 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: of sadness and of grief has taken hold. And it 18 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: is because and I will continue to say this, because 19 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: I've said it multiple times this week, that is your humanness, 20 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: that is your humanness wanting to connect to other people's humanness. 21 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,919 Speaker 1: And we can't help as humans that when we see 22 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: such destruction and devastation play out on our screens, that 23 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: we put ourselves in those people's shoes or in shallah. 24 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: I hope so right, because when speaking with my friends 25 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: who come from different religions and backgrounds, spaces and places, 26 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: they can't help. As I was in conversation with one 27 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: of my close friends who is also Jewish, broke down 28 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: in tears as she's saying, I can't imagine being a 29 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: mother of two as I am right now in Gaza 30 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: without electricity, water and bombs going off everywhere and the 31 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: inability to flee. I think that our exposure from the 32 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: years of watching the war in Ukraine at the hands 33 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: of Russia play out, hearing stories and seeing bodies, hearing 34 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: stories of rape and brutality and violation of international law, 35 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: it is very easy. As we watch these things play 36 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,239 Speaker 1: out on our screens, and we are so far literally 37 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: geographically removed from the areas that are under siege, we 38 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: have the ability to turn it off and look the 39 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: other way. And there is guilt associated with that, and 40 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: that guilt weighs on us. And what I want to 41 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: offer is that be intentional about your turning away and 42 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: deciding on when you're going to engage in when you 43 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: are not because of our collective humanity, of our compassion 44 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: and empathy is purposeful through numbing, right, And so there 45 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: is a sense of feeling numb that we have because 46 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: we have been exposed to so much pain over the 47 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: last few years. And I would argue, while there has 48 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: always been pain and destruction and dehumanization that has happened, 49 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: the proliferation of social media and the ability to have 50 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: cameras and drones in these places in real time is 51 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: something that is new and modern. So you have to 52 00:04:53,960 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: be intentional about what you are digesting, how much and when, 53 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: because it is eating at your soul, it is doing 54 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: great harm. I am not telling you to turn away, 55 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: but what I am saying is to be really intentional 56 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: and conscious about when you are choosing to take in 57 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: the grief and when you are choosing not to, and 58 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: what are you doing in its place also matters. Because 59 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: I'm not an advocate of just tuning out. I'm an 60 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: advocate of tuning in to ourselves because when we feel 61 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: paralyzed and don't feel like we have the ability to 62 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: shift outside forces. What we do have to focus on 63 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: is how we shift within ours. You know, I believe 64 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: in the quote of be the change that you want 65 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: to see in the world, and so I want to 66 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: offer something to you all and share something that I 67 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: If you've been listening to me for a long time, 68 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: you may have started to recognize the subtle ships and 69 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: changes that I am making. I have been known for 70 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: and applauded for, and have grounded my work in rage. 71 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: The formation of WOKF Daily came from a place of 72 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: absolute anger and disgust at this country for having the audacity, 73 00:06:53,680 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: following the successful eight years of Barack Obama, to put 74 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: in place a white supremist, misogynist, criminal. WOKF was born 75 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: out of anger and the fact that I was just 76 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: gobsmacked that this country who I had dedicated my career, 77 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: whether it was as a classroom teacher, whether it was 78 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: as a lobbyist, whether it was as a national spokesperson, 79 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: into creating a more just and equitable society. So when 80 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is elected, I feel absolutely and utterly betrayed 81 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: that the work that I have been doing has been 82 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: an absolute fucking waste, Because how could this country, given 83 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: everything that we know, decide to elect that man and 84 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: proudly so, How after so much work had been done 85 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: to create an environment that was politically correct, to celebrate 86 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: inclusion and diversity, that the whitelash would ensue and bring 87 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: us to the hell skate that we are currently existing in. 88 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: And so yes, I was angry and wanted a place 89 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: to get out that anger. As the years, though friends 90 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: have progressed, I have found myself in a place of 91 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: consistently having to dig and climb myself out of utter 92 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: despair where my boy started to take on and hold energetically. 93 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: The rage, The anger and the sadness, the sleepless nights, 94 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: the poor eating, the over consumption of alcohol all started 95 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: to become my reaction to holding so much grief and 96 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: so much rage while I was trying to create space 97 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: for other people to be able to air out their 98 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: rage and their grief. But what I've come to really 99 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: understand about myself through therapy, through the personal work that 100 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: I have been doing, is that I I am deeply 101 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: an EmPATH, which means that I take on the emotions 102 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: of people and things around me and when it is 103 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: only negativity that I am ingesting, that my body holds 104 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: onto that and starts to become a center and a 105 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: place of disease where I'm no longer emotionally, mentally, and 106 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: physically capable of providing analysis with clarity. Because I myself 107 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: am moving through the cloud of rage. I will offer 108 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: to all of you that I am not Buddha on 109 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: a mountaintop. I'm not that fortunate. But what I do 110 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: know over the last few years is that if rage 111 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: and anger were the tool that we needed to have change, 112 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: then we would have changed for the better already. And 113 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: the fact is that for me, while you will still 114 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: hear me express my anger, what I am working on 115 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: is disconnecting that anger, that frustration from my body, so 116 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: being able to be in a place where I can 117 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: air it out and then detach from it and not 118 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: consume it. There is a practice in Buddhism and other 119 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: Eastern cultures that is about letting go detachment not just 120 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: from material things, right, but from emotions that do not 121 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: serve us. All emotions are valid and necessary, but holding 122 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: them is not where I am in my own personal journey, 123 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: which will be coming through and has begun to come 124 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: through in this show is that I am interested in 125 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: moving towards a place of our shared humanity right and 126 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: not defining myself by what I am against and instead 127 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: defining myself by what I am for. I am for 128 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: an abundant mentality that says and states that there is 129 00:12:53,800 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 1: more than enough for us on this planet for everyone. 130 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: It is greed, bigotry, discrimination built into and baked into 131 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: our capitalists economic philosophy that has people move from a 132 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: place of scarcity rather than from a place of abundance, 133 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: that has them believe that they have the authority to 134 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: subjugate and oppress those that do not subscribe to their 135 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:42,359 Speaker 1: deficit thinking. We have a deficiency right now of empathy 136 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: in this country. We are deficient. We are sick because 137 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: just like I have shared the posts that have gone 138 00:13:53,160 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: around and spoke about it yesterday with Jonathan, that when 139 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: you see the devastation and degradation and utter brutality and 140 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: violence that we are witnessing, and yet you find yourself 141 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: only holding empathy, compassion and grief for one side and 142 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: not the other, that is not your humanity. That is propaganda. 143 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: That is a government's propaganda and political propaganda that has 144 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: you believe that we don't all come from the same source, 145 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: that we are all not deserving of lives that are safe, 146 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: free from violence, right and deserving of our basic necessities 147 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: like clean water, housing, food. And so when I see 148 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: these things that are playing out, and I'm looking at 149 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: people posting, and I'm truly disgusted by some of the 150 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: things that I'm seeing, like folks that were who I 151 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: thought were reasonable human beings promoting genocide because they have 152 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: succumb to the brainwashing that tells them that everyone is 153 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: in deserving of life of freedom. So, folks, what I 154 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: want to offer and create an invitation too, is a 155 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: more abundant mindset that does not have us focus on 156 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: those that are lacking and that want the rest of 157 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: us to live in lack, and that want the rest 158 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: of us to live in fear, that want the rest 159 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: of us to live in struggle. We live a life 160 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: of du ally. There will always be darkness where there 161 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: is light. There will always be places of lack. But 162 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: what we can control is how we are contributing to 163 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: those systems, and be really mindful of the language that 164 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: we are using, of the energy that we are exuding. 165 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: And of what we are allowing ourselves to ingest. Because 166 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: I will tell you that I was that person that 167 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: had this television on behind me eight hours, nine hours 168 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: a day, just feeding me negativity. If that was the 169 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: way through, y'all, we would have gotten, we would have 170 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: broken through already. It's not. My job is to analyze 171 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: what is happened so that we can find solutions. It 172 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: isn't just to point to this bad thing and that 173 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: bad thing, and the next bad thing and that bad thing, 174 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: because who is that survey? I want when people finish 175 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: listening to my podcast to feel full, to feel like 176 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: you have gained more insight and more information, and feel 177 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: like you have more access to your own personal power 178 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: than you did before. And I have found myself struggling 179 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: because what I feel like I have been putting out 180 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: is a lot of negativity. And why is that? Because 181 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot of negativity. But I am going to 182 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: move in a direction where it isn't just about highlighting 183 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 1: what is wrong, but also providing pathways to what is right. Friends, 184 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: there has always been war, there has always been aggression. 185 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: There has always been subjugation and oppression. We just have 186 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: more cameras and drones now, But we also have more 187 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: access to information than we ever had before. So what 188 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: are we doing with it? Other than sharing negative articles 189 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: with one another? What else are we accessing? What are 190 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: we trying to build? And we can't do that from 191 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: a place of fear. We can't do that from a 192 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: place of rage. The dreaming and the building only come 193 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: from a place of accessing love and really embracing this 194 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: idea of shared humanity. What does it mean for us 195 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: to live free? Because, like I have said, we cannot 196 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: pray for peace and disconnect that from justice. That's not 197 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: how it works. Peace only comes through justice, and justice 198 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: is not about inflicting pain on the people that have 199 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: inflicted pain on you and saying that your right to 200 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: inflict that pain is righteous because you were pain first. 201 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: We are a bunch of wounded souls here walking around. 202 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: So the fact is is that what does it look 203 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: like to clean those wounds out, to air those wounds 204 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: out so that they can actually heal. But it doesn't 205 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: look like, oh, let me pray for peace. We will 206 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: always live in a place of duality and paralyty. That's 207 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: the universe. But how are we working towards justice? And 208 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: when we say justice, what does that actually mean? I 209 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: want to use an example from this week because this 210 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: goes along with both my feeling and my fuck it right, 211 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: which is this. The Republican Party continues to show America 212 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: who it is right, continues to nominate and speak on, 213 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: behalf of and advocate for people who openly embrace white supremacy, 214 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: people who openly have allowed folks to be victims of 215 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: sexual assault and abuse. People who continue to believe that 216 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election was stolen. People who want to 217 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: embody and embrace an ideology of lawlessness because they believe 218 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: that they are the only law that should exist. What 219 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: they think, what they believe, what they want, what they 220 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: value should be everyone else's value. The Republican Party is 221 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: nominated Steve Scalise, of all people, to be the speaker, 222 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: the voice, the gavel of the Republicans in the House. 223 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: This is a man that voted to overturn the election. 224 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: This is a man that sworn oath to the Constitution. 225 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: This is a man that has attended white supremaist rallies 226 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: and referred to himself not the media, defining him for himself. 227 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: He defined himself as David Duke, the former Grand Wizard 228 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: of the KKK without the baggage. It is our responsibility 229 00:21:53,800 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: to air out that truth. On the flip side, what 230 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: are we actually trying to create here by airing that out? 231 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: Because that's the real question. The Republicans are people that 232 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: are value lists at this time, because don't get it twisted, right, 233 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: I truly believe and have believed in bipartisanship, but that 234 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: was when the Republican Party was an actual political party 235 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: who had different ideology as it pertained to fiscal responsibility 236 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: and what have you. They've always been racist, right, like, 237 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: let us understand counterintelligence program that murdered black people, black 238 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: leaders in this country, turning intelligence programs that were built 239 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: to deal with our foreign adversaries them were utilized in 240 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: order to decimate black liberation movements. So don't get it twisted. 241 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm very aware. But there was still an opportunity for collaboration. 242 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: That opportunity that ship has sailed. So what are we 243 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: looking for Because what the media will tell you that 244 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: we're looking for is somehow, somehow, some way a return 245 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: to the Republicans of yesteryear. The fact is, friends, we 246 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: do not have the ability to go backwards. That ship 247 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: has sailed. So the only thing in front of us 248 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: is what we can imagine in our future that we 249 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: may not see, and it's more likely that we won't. 250 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: So what does it mean to dream of and work 251 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 1: towards a future that you won't actually experience? But it 252 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:11,719 Speaker 1: isn't by just consistently falling for the ropodope of getting 253 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: sucked into the lies and the hate and the smallness, 254 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: the narrowness, the scarcity that these people exude. That is 255 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: the place that I want us to start to think 256 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: in and be in. We're never going to experience utopia 257 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: because there is a lot of evil in this world. 258 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: As we are experiencing, it moves to the margins and 259 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: then it moves forward. But who we are and how 260 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: we show up is going to determine what the future 261 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: looks like for the next generations. We can't define ourselves 262 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: by what we're against longer. We have to define ourselves 263 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: by what we are for. And that is where I 264 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: want Woke af to go. That is it for me today, 265 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: dear friends on Woke AF as always power to the 266 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and 267 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.