Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKP Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Over the last several years, we have witnessed a disturbing trend.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure in your mind you're saying which one, Danielle,
Speaker 1: because there have been so many. But the trend that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about is one that Jammel Bowie recently wrote
Speaker 1: about in an opinion piece for The New York Times
Speaker 1: entitled the Republican embrace of vigilanteism is no accident. In
Speaker 1: his piece, Jammel Bowe goes on to air out several
Speaker 1: high profile incidents that we have learned about since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: when there were mass protests because of the killing of
Speaker 1: George Floyd in broad daylight on video as Derek Chauvin
Speaker 1: placed in ne on his neck and the other three
Speaker 1: officers held him down until he took his last breath,
Speaker 1: screaming for his mother. We all remember this because it
Speaker 1: was probably one of the most depraved acts that we
Speaker 1: collectively witnessed at the same time, in the same place,
Speaker 1: because the majority of the world was on lockdown at
Speaker 1: that time, and our attention was focused on our screens. Well,
Speaker 1: following that inhumane, depraved act by Derek Chauvin, there have
Speaker 1: been several incidents, some in twenty twenty and some more recently,
Speaker 1: of acts of vigilanteism, oftentimes at the hands of white men,
Speaker 1: white cis heteroman against those that they believe to be
Speaker 1: less than to be undeserving of life. And you think
Speaker 1: to yourself, how did we get to this place where
Speaker 1: political violence, politically charge violence has become more and more
Speaker 1: commonplace in this failing, backsliding democracy. Well, it began with
Speaker 1: language that the far right in mainstream media, namely Fox
Speaker 1: and Newsmax and others. Fox is considered mainstream, even though
Speaker 1: Newsmax and Oaan are considered more far right. When they
Speaker 1: started referring to their political opposition not as their quote
Speaker 1: unquote friends from across the aisle, but instead they started
Speaker 1: to refer to those people as the enemy. You can
Speaker 1: go back to Sarah Palin, right back to those days
Speaker 1: where Sarah Palin had placed her political foes on her
Speaker 1: website in crosshairs. Crosshairs of what one can only assume
Speaker 1: would be an AR fifteen or some type of sniper
Speaker 1: weapon that uses a scope. After the shooting I believe
Speaker 1: of a Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona. She took that down.
Speaker 1: But folks, the reality is is that the right has
Speaker 1: consistently used the language steeped in and around war when
Speaker 1: it comes to their political opponents. They have become, under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the enemy of the state. They have been
Speaker 1: called thugs and terrorists, all types of names, including most
Speaker 1: recently groomers and pediphile, robbing people with progressive values, democrats,
Speaker 1: and those that believe in equity and justice of their
Speaker 1: humanity so that acts of violence and depravity against them
Speaker 1: seem justified. Let me say that again, the right has
Speaker 1: been using war like language to rob Democrats, progressives, liberals,
Speaker 1: people who have a different ideological theory of change than
Speaker 1: they do, and are using this language to rob these people.
Speaker 1: Myself included you, included of our humanity as a way
Speaker 1: to justify violence and depraved acts against us. This is
Speaker 1: common in warfare right because it makes peaceeople easier to kill,
Speaker 1: easier to harm. If I don't think about you as
Speaker 1: having a family that loves you, or having parents, or
Speaker 1: having children, or colleagues or friends, if I don't think
Speaker 1: about you in the way that I think about myself
Speaker 1: and I put distance between my humanity and yours. Then
Speaker 1: I create the conditions where if I harm you, it's
Speaker 1: justified and it doesn't really matter because you're not a
Speaker 1: human being. You're this thing, this idea, this enemy that
Speaker 1: I need to put down, and I am justified in
Speaker 1: doing so. And we have watched this political rhetoric that
Speaker 1: has been used by Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gates,
Speaker 1: Paul Goser, Lauren bow Robert, a whole host of active
Speaker 1: members of Congress in the House and in the Senate,
Speaker 1: in the Republican Party that have called for violent acts
Speaker 1: against their colleagues. I want folks to understand that this
Speaker 1: is not normal, and it has been couched as being
Speaker 1: just par for the political course these days, right because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump upended all of our political norms, including civility,
Speaker 1: so much so that Paul Goser, right, shared a clip
Speaker 1: an anime clip back in twenty twenty one. He's a
Speaker 1: Republican from Aera Zona in an anime video killing a
Speaker 1: giant monster with the face of Representative Alexandrio Cassio Cortez.
Speaker 1: So many people back in twenty twenty one, reacted to
Speaker 1: this ninety two second video as saying it was despicable,
Speaker 1: it was disgusting, it was violent, It should be condemned.
Speaker 1: And ghosts are and his team and the Republicans told everyone,
Speaker 1: we made an anime video. Everyone needs to relax. The
Speaker 1: left doesn't get meme culture. They have no joy. They
Speaker 1: are not the future. It's a cartoon. This is what
Speaker 1: was responded to the outrage by a spokesman for Ghoser's
Speaker 1: campaign an office. You create a video that depicts the
Speaker 1: murder of your colleague and everyone is supposed to laugh
Speaker 1: that off. What planet are you living on? But we
Speaker 1: can look at how Republicans have been treating real acts
Speaker 1: of vigilanteism over the last few years, and it isn't
Speaker 1: just a video that everyone should shrug off. It isn't
Speaker 1: just a meme. It's Kyle Rittenhouse in twenty twenty in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: where he decided to drive across state lines, leave his
Speaker 1: home at seventeen years old, and go and kill two
Speaker 1: protesters and injure a third case. It was looked upon
Speaker 1: as what self defense. A seventeen year old white boy
Speaker 1: was seen walking down the street armed with an ar fifteen,
Speaker 1: walking past police officers who handed him fucking water and
Speaker 1: asked him if he was okay, because he went to
Speaker 1: go live out Paul Goser's real life fantasy and take
Speaker 1: the lives of people who had the right by our
Speaker 1: fucking constitution to assemble and protest their government, their law enforcement,
Speaker 1: the killing of unarmed black people, and the neglect that
Speaker 1: our law enforcement agencies and our government agencies had that
Speaker 1: stopping this. What did the far right do with Kyle Rittenhouse, Well,
Speaker 1: they turned him into a hero. He was hailed everywhere.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this is what Jamel Bowie
Speaker 1: writes in his piece about Writtenhouse Quote. It's been nearly
Speaker 1: three years since the riots and subsequent shooting and Kenosha, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: where a gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen year old from
Speaker 1: nearby Anatok, Illinois, killed two protesters in what a court
Speaker 1: eventually determined with self defense. Among the most troubling aspects
Speaker 1: of the shooting was the almost jubilant reaction of conservative
Speaker 1: media to the news that someone had taken the law
Speaker 1: into his own hands and meted out lethal force. Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson praised written House as someone who decided to quote
Speaker 1: maintain order when no one else would and call sir,
Speaker 1: said she wanted Rittenhouse quote as my president, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Speaker 1: Then a candidate called him end quote innocent child, and
Speaker 1: Representative Thomas Macy of Conduck, Kentucky praised Rittenhouse for his
Speaker 1: incredible restraint. Incredible restraint. You left your home state, you
Speaker 1: armed yourself with a weapon of war to cross state
Speaker 1: lines to kill two people, and a member of Congress says,
Speaker 1: what incredible restraint? Oh and four bit Kyle Rittenhouse became
Speaker 1: a celebrity of sorts right, getting a plumb speaking engagement
Speaker 1: with the RNC s being seen at sea pack because
Speaker 1: that's what the right does with murderers. They turned them
Speaker 1: into heroes. Then there was the case of Mark and
Speaker 1: Patricia McCluskey. You may remember them. They brandish weapons on
Speaker 1: their front lawn as again peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters
Speaker 1: were marching in their neighborhood on the way to the
Speaker 1: governor's mansion. Mark McCluskey would end up running for office
Speaker 1: and the two of them would get again plumb speaking
Speaker 1: spots at the RNC in twenty twenty. This brings me
Speaker 1: to Daniel Penny, the twenty four year old assailant thug
Speaker 1: who was bothered by the presence of a black, unhousedman
Speaker 1: who was also twenty four years old named Jordan Neely,
Speaker 1: who he decided to choke to death for fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: while two other men on the train held him down.
Speaker 1: It took over a week of protests by New Yorkers
Speaker 1: shutting down the subway system, calling on the mayor and
Speaker 1: the governor who issued statements that were so thoughtless that
Speaker 1: lacked empathy. Instead of pointing to the fact that we
Speaker 1: don't believe in vigilante is here in New York City,
Speaker 1: they turned Jordan Nearly into the problem. Talked about mental
Speaker 1: illness and the unhoused. Yeah, those are issues that we
Speaker 1: should discuss. But being unhoused or mentally ill does not
Speaker 1: make you worthless, does not make you unworthy of life.
Speaker 1: If you can't take some people acting out on the train,
Speaker 1: or you know, asking for a little kindness, for some change,
Speaker 1: for a little bit of food, if that's too much
Speaker 1: of a nuisance for you, get the fuck out of
Speaker 1: any urban center. Jordan Nearly wasn't posing a threat. He
Speaker 1: didn't get on the train wielding a weapon, talking about
Speaker 1: taking anybody out. He was asking for food. He was mad,
Speaker 1: angry at the fact that he's asked for help and
Speaker 1: he's received none. You don't like that. You get off
Speaker 1: that car and you move to another one. You don't
Speaker 1: take it upon yourself to take somebody's life. But that's
Speaker 1: what Daniel Penny did, and without the collective outrage that
Speaker 1: would finally get a statement from the White House, this
Speaker 1: man turned himself in because you know, on that day
Speaker 1: that he killed a man on the subway, he was
Speaker 1: just allowed to go to the fuck home. Because that's
Speaker 1: what white murderers get to do. Would somebody go home,
Speaker 1: make a sandwich, watch a show, strangle somebody to death,
Speaker 1: kneel on somebody, encircle them with your cars because they're
Speaker 1: dragging down the street. You get to kill them and
Speaker 1: then go about your day. He's now being charged with manslaughter,
Speaker 1: and you would think, right, you would think that we
Speaker 1: would then allow the law, the justice system to run
Speaker 1: its course. But no, no, no, no, not on the
Speaker 1: far right or just the right as I call it,
Speaker 1: because since since spokes since he has been charged with manslaughter,
Speaker 1: far right politicians like Ron DeSantis have come out applauding
Speaker 1: Daniel Penny, as Jamel Bowie writes, valorizing him in the
Speaker 1: same way the valorized writtenhouse. He had Marjorie Taylor Green say,
Speaker 1: quote the marine who stepped in to protect others as
Speaker 1: a hero. Fox News Greg Guttfeld said that the decision
Speaker 1: to charge Penny was pro criminal and anti hero. What
Speaker 1: made Jordan Neely a criminal being unhoused and asking for food?
Speaker 1: But since then, folks, an online fundraiser, has raised more
Speaker 1: than two million dollars for his legal defense. Ron DeSantis
Speaker 1: has said, quote, we must defeat the sorrow's funded das,
Speaker 1: stop the left's pro criminal agenda, and take back the
Speaker 1: streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with the good
Speaker 1: samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let's show this marine in America's
Speaker 1: God is back. So he's now Ron DeSantis ron death
Speaker 1: to democracy. DeSantis is now stumping for a murderer. So
Speaker 1: when I say to folks that the Republican Party is
Speaker 1: not a party, when I say that it is a
Speaker 1: death cult, when I say that it is a white
Speaker 1: supremacist institution holding up white Christo fascist values, this is
Speaker 1: what the fuck I am talking about. This, This is
Speaker 1: who the right wants. White sis hetero men to be
Speaker 1: walking around on streets with the ability to shoot, choke,
Speaker 1: snuff out any black or brown person, any queer person,
Speaker 1: and do so in the name of patriotism, and say
Speaker 1: that they are protecting the community. We're the ones that
Speaker 1: need protecting from them, because funny enough, we're not the
Speaker 1: ones that are creating violence. Yet we're called thugs because
Speaker 1: they think that there is more of a threat in
Speaker 1: the justins in Tennessee using a bullhorn to begging for
Speaker 1: their colleagues to take action so that we don't have
Speaker 1: to bury more children from school shootings. They referred to
Speaker 1: that as an insurrection. But the actual fucking twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one insurrection that was a tourist group that just got
Speaker 1: lost in the capitol. Are you fucking crazy? And the
Speaker 1: answer is yes, yes they are. Texas Governor Gregory Abbott,
Speaker 1: at the behest of the now fired Tuckocarlson, swore on
Speaker 1: Twitter that he would pardon another Daniel. Daniel Perry, a
Speaker 1: thirty five year old Army sergeant who, according to Jamel
Speaker 1: Bowie's Peace, was convicted of murder in the shooting of
Speaker 1: Garrett Foster twenty eight at a Black Lives matter protests
Speaker 1: in July of twenty twenty. Listen to what Perry did.
Speaker 1: He'd been driving through downtown Austin when he encountered a
Speaker 1: group of demonstrators in the street. Foster, who was in
Speaker 1: legal possession of a semi automatic rifle, was in the group.
Speaker 1: When the demonstrators approached Perry's vehicle, he opened fire, killing Foster.
Speaker 1: Perry claimed self defense, telling police that Foster pointed his
Speaker 1: rifle at him, but prosecutors said that Perry could have
Speaker 1: driven away from the situation, and witnesses testified that Foster
Speaker 1: never raised his rifle at Perry. I want you to
Speaker 1: get a better picture of who Gregory Abbott wanted to
Speaker 1: pardon wants to pardon in unsealed court records that show
Speaker 1: Perry's extreme anger and fantasies of violence towards protesters. This
Speaker 1: is a quote from Perry. I might have to kill
Speaker 1: a few people on my way to work they are
Speaker 1: rioting outside my apartment complex. Might go to Dallas to
Speaker 1: shoot looters. None of this, however, mattered, much like none
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's transgressions, sexual abuse, defamation, lies, tax evasion, fraud,
Speaker 1: inciting an insurrection, stealing documents, None of that shit matters either,
Speaker 1: because what they want. What Jamel Bowie says is that
Speaker 1: there is an insatiable bloodlust that is growing inside of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, this desire to beat, to harm, to kill,
Speaker 1: and then to celebrate the ones that live out the
Speaker 1: fantasies that the Paul Gosers of the world have. It
Speaker 1: is a really terrifying place that we are in. What
Speaker 1: is killing me, two folks is that ron DeSantis and
Speaker 1: others have referred to Daniel Penny, who has now received
Speaker 1: twenty five years in prison for the killing of Foster
Speaker 1: in Texas. Rondescantis called him a good Samaritan. And this
Speaker 1: is what Jamel Bowie reminds us. A good samaritan is
Speaker 1: supposed to be. In his piece, the Republican embrace of
Speaker 1: vigilanteism is no accident, he writes this. In American English,
Speaker 1: the term good samaritan has come to mean any person
Speaker 1: who helps someone else in distress, but the actual parable
Speaker 1: of the good samaritan is a little more complicated. In
Speaker 1: the story, a traveler is assaulted by thieves who rob
Speaker 1: beat him and leave him for dead. Three people pass him.
Speaker 1: The first, a priest, ignores him, the second, a levite,
Speaker 1: also ignores him, but the third a Samaritan, binds his
Speaker 1: wounds and helps him recover, asking for nothing in return.
Speaker 1: This parable, he writes, found in the Gospel of Luke,
Speaker 1: begins with a question who is my neighbor? Jesus answers
Speaker 1: with the story and asks which these three do you
Speaker 1: think was a neighbor to the man who fell into
Speaker 1: the hands of robbers, to which the questioner says, the
Speaker 1: one who showed him mercy, giving full meaning to the story.
Speaker 1: Jamel Bowie writes, do we think a modern day good
Speaker 1: Samaritan would use lethal force or act as a vigilante
Speaker 1: in defense of order? Probably not, But the idea that
Speaker 1: he would, and that this is what it means to
Speaker 1: act either ethically or responsibly, is evidence enough of a
Speaker 1: sickness that festers into many American hearts. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends, on woke a f as
Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fop