Speaker 1: Good morning, piece and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
Speaker 1: On this bucket Friday, it is going to be a
Speaker 1: combination truly of feel it Friday and fucke it Friday.
Speaker 1: This has been, as I've stayed it all week long,
Speaker 1: a really trying and difficult week in the world in
Speaker 1: the US, in Israel and Palestine. For certain, absorbing and
Speaker 1: taking in the type of dehumanization, grief, brutality and violence
Speaker 1: that we are witnessing as we watch war unfold in
Speaker 1: Israel cannot be taken lightly. And I know that it
Speaker 1: is often we find ourselves in a place that says, well,
Speaker 1: I don't have any stakenness. You know, I don't have
Speaker 1: any people there, or I am not Jewish, or I
Speaker 1: am not Muslim, so this doesn't personally impact me. But
Speaker 1: then find yourself struggling emotionally mentally, with the inability to focus,
Speaker 1: bursting into tears, and you don't know why this feeling
Speaker 1: of sadness and of grief has taken hold. And it
Speaker 1: is because and I will continue to say this, because
Speaker 1: I've said it multiple times this week, that is your humanness,
Speaker 1: that is your humanness wanting to connect to other people's humanness.
Speaker 1: And we can't help as humans that when we see
Speaker 1: such destruction and devastation play out on our screens, that
Speaker 1: we put ourselves in those people's shoes or in shallah.
Speaker 1: I hope so right, because when speaking with my friends
Speaker 1: who come from different religions and backgrounds, spaces and places,
Speaker 1: they can't help. As I was in conversation with one
Speaker 1: of my close friends who is also Jewish, broke down
Speaker 1: in tears as she's saying, I can't imagine being a
Speaker 1: mother of two as I am right now in Gaza
Speaker 1: without electricity, water and bombs going off everywhere and the
Speaker 1: inability to flee. I think that our exposure from the
Speaker 1: years of watching the war in Ukraine at the hands
Speaker 1: of Russia play out, hearing stories and seeing bodies, hearing
Speaker 1: stories of rape and brutality and violation of international law,
Speaker 1: it is very easy. As we watch these things play
Speaker 1: out on our screens, and we are so far literally
Speaker 1: geographically removed from the areas that are under siege, we
Speaker 1: have the ability to turn it off and look the
Speaker 1: other way. And there is guilt associated with that, and
Speaker 1: that guilt weighs on us. And what I want to
Speaker 1: offer is that be intentional about your turning away and
Speaker 1: deciding on when you're going to engage in when you
Speaker 1: are not because of our collective humanity, of our compassion
Speaker 1: and empathy is purposeful through numbing, right, And so there
Speaker 1: is a sense of feeling numb that we have because
Speaker 1: we have been exposed to so much pain over the
Speaker 1: last few years. And I would argue, while there has
Speaker 1: always been pain and destruction and dehumanization that has happened,
Speaker 1: the proliferation of social media and the ability to have
Speaker 1: cameras and drones in these places in real time is
Speaker 1: something that is new and modern. So you have to
Speaker 1: be intentional about what you are digesting, how much and when,
Speaker 1: because it is eating at your soul, it is doing
Speaker 1: great harm. I am not telling you to turn away,
Speaker 1: but what I am saying is to be really intentional
Speaker 1: and conscious about when you are choosing to take in
Speaker 1: the grief and when you are choosing not to, and
Speaker 1: what are you doing in its place also matters. Because
Speaker 1: I'm not an advocate of just tuning out. I'm an
Speaker 1: advocate of tuning in to ourselves because when we feel
Speaker 1: paralyzed and don't feel like we have the ability to
Speaker 1: shift outside forces. What we do have to focus on
Speaker 1: is how we shift within ours. You know, I believe
Speaker 1: in the quote of be the change that you want
Speaker 1: to see in the world, and so I want to
Speaker 1: offer something to you all and share something that I
Speaker 1: If you've been listening to me for a long time,
Speaker 1: you may have started to recognize the subtle ships and
Speaker 1: changes that I am making. I have been known for
Speaker 1: and applauded for, and have grounded my work in rage.
Speaker 1: The formation of WOKF Daily came from a place of
Speaker 1: absolute anger and disgust at this country for having the audacity,
Speaker 1: following the successful eight years of Barack Obama, to put
Speaker 1: in place a white supremist, misogynist, criminal. WOKF was born
Speaker 1: out of anger and the fact that I was just
Speaker 1: gobsmacked that this country who I had dedicated my career,
Speaker 1: whether it was as a classroom teacher, whether it was
Speaker 1: as a lobbyist, whether it was as a national spokesperson,
Speaker 1: into creating a more just and equitable society. So when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is elected, I feel absolutely and utterly betrayed
Speaker 1: that the work that I have been doing has been
Speaker 1: an absolute fucking waste, Because how could this country, given
Speaker 1: everything that we know, decide to elect that man and
Speaker 1: proudly so, How after so much work had been done
Speaker 1: to create an environment that was politically correct, to celebrate
Speaker 1: inclusion and diversity, that the whitelash would ensue and bring
Speaker 1: us to the hell skate that we are currently existing in.
Speaker 1: And so yes, I was angry and wanted a place
Speaker 1: to get out that anger. As the years, though friends
Speaker 1: have progressed, I have found myself in a place of
Speaker 1: consistently having to dig and climb myself out of utter
Speaker 1: despair where my boy started to take on and hold energetically.
Speaker 1: The rage, The anger and the sadness, the sleepless nights,
Speaker 1: the poor eating, the over consumption of alcohol all started
Speaker 1: to become my reaction to holding so much grief and
Speaker 1: so much rage while I was trying to create space
Speaker 1: for other people to be able to air out their
Speaker 1: rage and their grief. But what I've come to really
Speaker 1: understand about myself through therapy, through the personal work that
Speaker 1: I have been doing, is that I I am deeply
Speaker 1: an EmPATH, which means that I take on the emotions
Speaker 1: of people and things around me and when it is
Speaker 1: only negativity that I am ingesting, that my body holds
Speaker 1: onto that and starts to become a center and a
Speaker 1: place of disease where I'm no longer emotionally, mentally, and
Speaker 1: physically capable of providing analysis with clarity. Because I myself
Speaker 1: am moving through the cloud of rage. I will offer
Speaker 1: to all of you that I am not Buddha on
Speaker 1: a mountaintop. I'm not that fortunate. But what I do
Speaker 1: know over the last few years is that if rage
Speaker 1: and anger were the tool that we needed to have change,
Speaker 1: then we would have changed for the better already. And
Speaker 1: the fact is that for me, while you will still
Speaker 1: hear me express my anger, what I am working on
Speaker 1: is disconnecting that anger, that frustration from my body, so
Speaker 1: being able to be in a place where I can
Speaker 1: air it out and then detach from it and not
Speaker 1: consume it. There is a practice in Buddhism and other
Speaker 1: Eastern cultures that is about letting go detachment not just
Speaker 1: from material things, right, but from emotions that do not
Speaker 1: serve us. All emotions are valid and necessary, but holding
Speaker 1: them is not where I am in my own personal journey,
Speaker 1: which will be coming through and has begun to come
Speaker 1: through in this show is that I am interested in
Speaker 1: moving towards a place of our shared humanity right and
Speaker 1: not defining myself by what I am against and instead
Speaker 1: defining myself by what I am for. I am for
Speaker 1: an abundant mentality that says and states that there is
Speaker 1: more than enough for us on this planet for everyone.
Speaker 1: It is greed, bigotry, discrimination built into and baked into
Speaker 1: our capitalists economic philosophy that has people move from a
Speaker 1: place of scarcity rather than from a place of abundance,
Speaker 1: that has them believe that they have the authority to
Speaker 1: subjugate and oppress those that do not subscribe to their
Speaker 1: deficit thinking. We have a deficiency right now of empathy
Speaker 1: in this country. We are deficient. We are sick because
Speaker 1: just like I have shared the posts that have gone
Speaker 1: around and spoke about it yesterday with Jonathan, that when
Speaker 1: you see the devastation and degradation and utter brutality and
Speaker 1: violence that we are witnessing, and yet you find yourself
Speaker 1: only holding empathy, compassion and grief for one side and
Speaker 1: not the other, that is not your humanity. That is propaganda.
Speaker 1: That is a government's propaganda and political propaganda that has
Speaker 1: you believe that we don't all come from the same source,
Speaker 1: that we are all not deserving of lives that are safe,
Speaker 1: free from violence, right and deserving of our basic necessities
Speaker 1: like clean water, housing, food. And so when I see
Speaker 1: these things that are playing out, and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: people posting, and I'm truly disgusted by some of the
Speaker 1: things that I'm seeing, like folks that were who I
Speaker 1: thought were reasonable human beings promoting genocide because they have
Speaker 1: succumb to the brainwashing that tells them that everyone is
Speaker 1: in deserving of life of freedom. So, folks, what I
Speaker 1: want to offer and create an invitation too, is a
Speaker 1: more abundant mindset that does not have us focus on
Speaker 1: those that are lacking and that want the rest of
Speaker 1: us to live in lack, and that want the rest
Speaker 1: of us to live in fear, that want the rest
Speaker 1: of us to live in struggle. We live a life
Speaker 1: of du ally. There will always be darkness where there
Speaker 1: is light. There will always be places of lack. But
Speaker 1: what we can control is how we are contributing to
Speaker 1: those systems, and be really mindful of the language that
Speaker 1: we are using, of the energy that we are exuding.
Speaker 1: And of what we are allowing ourselves to ingest. Because
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I was that person that
Speaker 1: had this television on behind me eight hours, nine hours
Speaker 1: a day, just feeding me negativity. If that was the
Speaker 1: way through, y'all, we would have gotten, we would have
Speaker 1: broken through already. It's not. My job is to analyze
Speaker 1: what is happened so that we can find solutions. It
Speaker 1: isn't just to point to this bad thing and that
Speaker 1: bad thing, and the next bad thing and that bad thing,
Speaker 1: because who is that survey? I want when people finish
Speaker 1: listening to my podcast to feel full, to feel like
Speaker 1: you have gained more insight and more information, and feel
Speaker 1: like you have more access to your own personal power
Speaker 1: than you did before. And I have found myself struggling
Speaker 1: because what I feel like I have been putting out
Speaker 1: is a lot of negativity. And why is that? Because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of negativity. But I am going to
Speaker 1: move in a direction where it isn't just about highlighting
Speaker 1: what is wrong, but also providing pathways to what is right. Friends,
Speaker 1: there has always been war, there has always been aggression.
Speaker 1: There has always been subjugation and oppression. We just have
Speaker 1: more cameras and drones now, But we also have more
Speaker 1: access to information than we ever had before. So what
Speaker 1: are we doing with it? Other than sharing negative articles
Speaker 1: with one another? What else are we accessing? What are
Speaker 1: we trying to build? And we can't do that from
Speaker 1: a place of fear. We can't do that from a
Speaker 1: place of rage. The dreaming and the building only come
Speaker 1: from a place of accessing love and really embracing this
Speaker 1: idea of shared humanity. What does it mean for us
Speaker 1: to live free? Because, like I have said, we cannot
Speaker 1: pray for peace and disconnect that from justice. That's not
Speaker 1: how it works. Peace only comes through justice, and justice
Speaker 1: is not about inflicting pain on the people that have
Speaker 1: inflicted pain on you and saying that your right to
Speaker 1: inflict that pain is righteous because you were pain first.
Speaker 1: We are a bunch of wounded souls here walking around.
Speaker 1: So the fact is is that what does it look
Speaker 1: like to clean those wounds out, to air those wounds
Speaker 1: out so that they can actually heal. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like, oh, let me pray for peace. We will
Speaker 1: always live in a place of duality and paralyty. That's
Speaker 1: the universe. But how are we working towards justice? And
Speaker 1: when we say justice, what does that actually mean? I
Speaker 1: want to use an example from this week because this
Speaker 1: goes along with both my feeling and my fuck it right,
Speaker 1: which is this. The Republican Party continues to show America
Speaker 1: who it is right, continues to nominate and speak on,
Speaker 1: behalf of and advocate for people who openly embrace white supremacy,
Speaker 1: people who openly have allowed folks to be victims of
Speaker 1: sexual assault and abuse. People who continue to believe that
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election was stolen. People who want to
Speaker 1: embody and embrace an ideology of lawlessness because they believe
Speaker 1: that they are the only law that should exist. What
Speaker 1: they think, what they believe, what they want, what they
Speaker 1: value should be everyone else's value. The Republican Party is
Speaker 1: nominated Steve Scalise, of all people, to be the speaker,
Speaker 1: the voice, the gavel of the Republicans in the House.
Speaker 1: This is a man that voted to overturn the election.
Speaker 1: This is a man that sworn oath to the Constitution.
Speaker 1: This is a man that has attended white supremaist rallies
Speaker 1: and referred to himself not the media, defining him for himself.
Speaker 1: He defined himself as David Duke, the former Grand Wizard
Speaker 1: of the KKK without the baggage. It is our responsibility
Speaker 1: to air out that truth. On the flip side, what
Speaker 1: are we actually trying to create here by airing that out?
Speaker 1: Because that's the real question. The Republicans are people that
Speaker 1: are value lists at this time, because don't get it twisted, right,
Speaker 1: I truly believe and have believed in bipartisanship, but that
Speaker 1: was when the Republican Party was an actual political party
Speaker 1: who had different ideology as it pertained to fiscal responsibility
Speaker 1: and what have you. They've always been racist, right, like,
Speaker 1: let us understand counterintelligence program that murdered black people, black
Speaker 1: leaders in this country, turning intelligence programs that were built
Speaker 1: to deal with our foreign adversaries them were utilized in
Speaker 1: order to decimate black liberation movements. So don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1: I'm very aware. But there was still an opportunity for collaboration.
Speaker 1: That opportunity that ship has sailed. So what are we
Speaker 1: looking for Because what the media will tell you that
Speaker 1: we're looking for is somehow, somehow, some way a return
Speaker 1: to the Republicans of yesteryear. The fact is, friends, we
Speaker 1: do not have the ability to go backwards. That ship
Speaker 1: has sailed. So the only thing in front of us
Speaker 1: is what we can imagine in our future that we
Speaker 1: may not see, and it's more likely that we won't.
Speaker 1: So what does it mean to dream of and work
Speaker 1: towards a future that you won't actually experience? But it
Speaker 1: isn't by just consistently falling for the ropodope of getting
Speaker 1: sucked into the lies and the hate and the smallness,
Speaker 1: the narrowness, the scarcity that these people exude. That is
Speaker 1: the place that I want us to start to think
Speaker 1: in and be in. We're never going to experience utopia
Speaker 1: because there is a lot of evil in this world.
Speaker 1: As we are experiencing, it moves to the margins and
Speaker 1: then it moves forward. But who we are and how
Speaker 1: we show up is going to determine what the future
Speaker 1: looks like for the next generations. We can't define ourselves
Speaker 1: by what we're against longer. We have to define ourselves
Speaker 1: by what we are for. And that is where I
Speaker 1: want Woke af to go. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: dear friends on Woke AF as always power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.