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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with me

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

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Speaker 1: It is our holiday week at WOKF and as we

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Speaker 1: wind down seven incredible years of bringing you interviews and

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Speaker 1: information and content, I've wanted to revisit some of the

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Speaker 1: most important conversation I think that we've had on WOKF

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Speaker 1: and so I'm excited to revisit this conversation with my

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Speaker 1: co host of Democracy Ish, which is live on my

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel Fridays at twelve pm Eastern, with my friend

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Speaker 1: jahahat Ali. In this episode from last year, we talk

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Speaker 1: about the self destructiveness of white supremacy and if you remember,

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Speaker 1: at this time back in twenty twenty three, the NAACP

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Speaker 1: had issued a travel advisory on the state of Florida

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Speaker 1: NAACP and what would follow are some LGBTQ organizations that

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Speaker 1: you may want to be advised. And in this conversation,

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Speaker 1: Jase and I unpack white supremacy and you know how

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Speaker 1: we are going to navigate through this very self destructive,

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Speaker 1: self eating, self defeating ideology. And you know this comes

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Speaker 1: right now with a couple of weeks until Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: And we know that Donald Trump could care less about

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Speaker 1: our constitution. And frankly, right now it doesn't even seem

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Speaker 1: like he's actually the president elect. It more so seems

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Speaker 1: like Elon Muskiz. Has anybody heard from JD Vance? Probably not?

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Speaker 1: So Buckle up as we revisit this conversation, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: going backwards helps us figure out our path forward. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I am always very excited when I get to bring

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Speaker 1: on my co host, my weekly co host of a

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Speaker 1: Democracy Ishaha hot al Lee, who is an author, a

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Speaker 1: columnist and all around badass on Twitter. If you have

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Speaker 1: not read his book go back to where you come

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Speaker 1: from and other helpful tips you should And if you're

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Speaker 1: loving wokf daily on iHeart, you should absolutely check out

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Speaker 1: Democracy Ish, which drops new episodes each and every Thursday

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Speaker 1: with Waja Hot and I and some really amazing, amazing

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Speaker 1: guests that we get into conversation with SOA was you know,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I just America. You know, I'll just

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Speaker 1: start there America and then slap my head and we

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Speaker 1: can just go from there. But over the weekend, the

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Speaker 1: that Florida is essentially a hate state, that it is

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Speaker 1: a dangerous state for black people, for LGBTQ people, for women.

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Speaker 1: It was lengthy, it was necessary, and it harkens back

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Speaker 1: to essentially a time in this country during Jim Crow

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Speaker 1: segregation where Black Americans had to if they were traveling,

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Speaker 1: they got something called a green book Juaja hot Ali.

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Speaker 1: They got a green book at different gas stations in

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Speaker 1: that the Green Book was necessary created by Victor Green,

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Speaker 2: I thought The Green Book was a movie where Vigo

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Speaker 2: Mortensen was taught by Mahershala Ali how to write letters

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Speaker 2: think the NAACP should be joined by the National Organization

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Speaker 2: I would say, Danielle, if you go anti woke, you'll

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Speaker 2: the NAACP. And we were talking about this earlier. A

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Speaker 2: as a historian, I have receipts. Actually, Doctor King back

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Speaker 2: in the day called for a boycott of this state

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So Kevin Cruz and folks, it is Kevin

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Speaker 1: that Professor Kevin Cruz tweets this. In nineteen sixty five,

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Speaker 2: And you know, Daniel, I'm going to google this because

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Speaker 2: And if it wasn't for the video that was released,

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Speaker 2: Would these people, these modern Republicans, be on the side

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Speaker 2: finally flexing and the way you go after these folks.

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Speaker 2: And this is why I've always said that white supremacy

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Speaker 2: is ultimately self destructive because Ron DeSantis, in order to

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Speaker 2: its ground. That Florida is, I'm sorry to say, getting

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Speaker 2: some karma. Disney flex last week, right, they're actually just

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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago Disney said, all right, that

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Speaker 2: Peace out. NAACP said, oh, Disney's gonna peace out. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna peace out. Educators are gonna peace out. I think

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Speaker 2: what about college athletes, black athletes. Will they go to

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Speaker 2: say no. So this is one of those situations where

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Speaker 2: you need this multicultural coalition. And when I see the NAACP,

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Speaker 1: Well, Wajah hot Ali, my good good friend. I thank

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