Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the home bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to start out on this woke Wednesday by
Speaker 1: expressing my deep, deep sorrow and grief about the story
Speaker 1: that I'm going to bring to you, which if you
Speaker 1: follow me on social media then you have already heard
Speaker 1: ijk Owens. Aj Owens, a black woman, mother of four children,
Speaker 1: was shot and killed by her white, racist neighbor in Florida.
Speaker 1: The issue at hand is that this racist white woman
Speaker 1: was harassing AJ's children, calling them racial slurs, scaring them
Speaker 1: and Aj like any mother, any hairgiver. After the children
Speaker 1: ran and left their iPad in a field, the woman
Speaker 1: stole their iPad and then threw it back at them,
Speaker 1: breaking it. This is a grown white woman attacking black children. Okay.
Speaker 1: Aj then went with I believe one or two of
Speaker 1: her children to that neighbor's house to have a conversation
Speaker 1: with them, was met with gunfire through the door. She
Speaker 1: is now deceased. The woman, the white woman who shot her,
Speaker 1: is chilling at home, not arrested, not being charged with
Speaker 1: murder nothing. My assumption is that it is going to
Speaker 1: take once again collective outrage and action, and this story
Speaker 1: being brought to national headlines in order for there to
Speaker 1: be any semblance of justice. What makes me sick to
Speaker 1: death about this story? Which are so many things right?
Speaker 1: That black children can't be children without white adults harassing
Speaker 1: them and threatening harm, That a black mother, a black
Speaker 1: neighbor cannot try to talk civilly to their white neighbor
Speaker 1: without threats of violence or being met with violence and
Speaker 1: an untimely death, and that even in that death there
Speaker 1: will be no justice. The death will be in vain
Speaker 1: because of the fascist state that they live in. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to remind folks of a case that you
Speaker 1: all remember, if you've been listening to this show for
Speaker 1: several years, of Marissa Alexander, a black woman living in
Speaker 1: Florida with her children, who was working to get out
Speaker 1: of an abusive relationship. Her abuser came into the home
Speaker 1: where she was with her children. She fired a warning
Speaker 1: shot with her gun in this ceiling, not directed at
Speaker 1: said abuser. She was immediately arrested, her children were taken away,
Speaker 1: and in her trial, she was thrown in jail. It
Speaker 1: took campaigns, coordinated campaigns and action. To get Marissa Alexander
Speaker 1: out of prison, because in Florida, the only people that
Speaker 1: have the ability to quote unquote stand there ground are
Speaker 1: white people. So whenever people want to turn these stories
Speaker 1: around and say, well, what would happen if that person
Speaker 1: were black, well, if their body weren't in a chalk outline,
Speaker 1: then they will most likely be in prison automatically, no
Speaker 1: questions asked. This is not a civil society, not one
Speaker 1: where neighbor can shoot neighbor and just go on about
Speaker 1: their day, robbing children of their mother, of their fathers,
Speaker 1: of their families because you are a bigot, and your
Speaker 1: bigotry is being fed and fueled by the governor of
Speaker 1: that state, by the Republican Party, by Fox outlet, by Newsmax,
Speaker 1: by QAnon. You see, Ron DeSantis and his little bullshit
Speaker 1: war on wokeness is not just a thing to be
Speaker 1: laughed off. Oh look, he's going to fight Mini Mouse
Speaker 1: and Mickey Mouse, or oh look, he can't get out
Speaker 1: a sentence without saying the word woke, which he cannot
Speaker 1: define fifty thousand times in less than a minute. What
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is waging war on are people of color
Speaker 1: and queer people. That result in violence against those people,
Speaker 1: and it is an abdication of duty and the responsibility
Speaker 1: of journalism that is allowing it to continue and preparing
Speaker 1: audiences with both sides, to racism, to transphobia, to homophobia,
Speaker 1: and to bigotry, as if there are two fucking sides. Rondasantis'
Speaker 1: fascist policies have real life consequences for the people that
Speaker 1: are trapped in that state. And for those that say, well,
Speaker 1: then those people should just move, well, I want you
Speaker 1: to think about what kind of finances it requires for
Speaker 1: people to pick up and move at the drop of
Speaker 1: a hat out of state and just go ahead and
Speaker 1: set up someplace new. I want you to think about
Speaker 1: the thousands of people that were left behind during Hurricane
Speaker 1: Katrina because they couldn't afford to get out of town,
Speaker 1: and then we're left to many of them die in
Speaker 1: of their homes, or die waving down helicopters for help,
Speaker 1: or be shot and killed by police for quote unquote looting.
Speaker 1: Because when white people go into stores to get goods,
Speaker 1: it is survival and they are refugees. But when black
Speaker 1: people do it, they are looting. Why do I bring
Speaker 1: up all of these things, because every single one of
Speaker 1: them is connected to white supremacy and the erasure of
Speaker 1: black people in this country and people of color, because
Speaker 1: what Rond de Santis and the Republican Party want is
Speaker 1: total and complete servitude. Black and brown people are only
Speaker 1: as good as what they can provide to aid in
Speaker 1: the comfort of white people and whiteness. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: we have no use right. So if we are not
Speaker 1: aiding in the comfort of white people and whiteness, then
Speaker 1: we are a problem to be erased, to be eradicated.
Speaker 1: I think that it was said there are roughly what
Speaker 1: a million point two I think it was a million
Speaker 1: point two trans people in this country of three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million plus, and yet the Republican Party has
Speaker 1: waged war on a million people who are more likely
Speaker 1: to commit suicide, more likely to live in poverty, more
Speaker 1: likely to experience violence, more likely to be jobless and homeless,
Speaker 1: all because they dare to exist in their truth and
Speaker 1: inside of a body that doesn't make them want to
Speaker 1: kill themselves on a regular basis. No one is grooming
Speaker 1: the children, except for the Republican Party that loves to
Speaker 1: trot out those children with ar fifteens that are bigger
Speaker 1: than them bring them to rallies holding up signs that say,
Speaker 1: don't abort me. That's what in doctrinization and grooming looks
Speaker 1: like you're waging war on a million people who have
Speaker 1: caused no harm, who are only asking for dignity and
Speaker 1: respect that any human deserves for no other reason, not
Speaker 1: because of what you can produce, what it is that
Speaker 1: you do, but because you are. I watched the clips
Speaker 1: of the disgusting mediocre at best, doesn't have a chance
Speaker 1: in hell of becoming president Nicki Haley on CNN with
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and in her ridiculous town hall, where she
Speaker 1: didn't answer any questions and Jake Tapper surely did not
Speaker 1: push back with any journalistic bone inside of his body.
Speaker 1: Nicki Haley spread a disgusting lie about trans girls being
Speaker 1: the cause of young ciss girls committing suicide. You don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about kids, You don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: about the truth. And then mainstream media had the audacity
Speaker 1: to turn around and say that she's a moderate candidate. No,
Speaker 1: she is not. She's wearing a fucking skirt. She's the
Speaker 1: same maniacal, fucking, egotistical liar that is Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: every other sis man inside of that fucking party. Where
Speaker 1: are your notes, CNN? Oh, we believe that it's really
Speaker 1: important to show both sides of someone's humanity. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: if a white person says black people don't deserve to
Speaker 1: live and are not real human beings, I guess we
Speaker 1: need to hold a whole entire panel about that, right.
Speaker 1: I guess we should sit down with the Nazi sympathizers
Speaker 1: and understand why they believe that Jewish people should be
Speaker 1: eradicated from the planet. We should do multiple segments on that.
Speaker 1: It's really important for the American people to get to
Speaker 1: the cause of it. Again, this is what it means
Speaker 1: to be living and working and existing inside of a
Speaker 1: failed country. A failing country. America is failing. America is crumbling.
Speaker 1: Democracy in this country and around the world are crumbling.
Speaker 1: We're never going to stop fighting tooth and nail for
Speaker 1: it because they're never going to give up. We're always
Speaker 1: going to be one election away from pure authoritarianism because
Speaker 1: until we have a justice department that has teeth and
Speaker 1: backbones and is actually wielding its power to eradicate criminality,
Speaker 1: white supremacy, fascism, and authoritarianism, and people attempting to overthrow
Speaker 1: out or government, both inside of government and outside, until
Speaker 1: you're gonna go after them with the same fucking gusto
Speaker 1: you would any brown person that attempted to fly a
Speaker 1: plane into a fucking building, until you're gonna decide to
Speaker 1: go to war with that reality, We're always gonna be
Speaker 1: living on the brink, and think about what that anxiety,
Speaker 1: what that fear builds up in people. We are living
Speaker 1: inside of a country that we can't make an accidental
Speaker 1: U turn without getting shot. You can't go talk to
Speaker 1: your neighbor without getting shot. You can't have a car
Speaker 1: break down and wave help over without getting shot. You
Speaker 1: can't go to the grocery store, you can't go to
Speaker 1: a place of prayer. You're lucky and rolling the dice
Speaker 1: if you send your kids to school and they come
Speaker 1: back not in a body bag. The proliferation of guns,
Speaker 1: the fueling of white supremacy and hatred, is our undoing.
Speaker 1: We don't need to look around and say, oh my god,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll go to war with Iran, maybe we'll go
Speaker 1: to war with North Korea. That's not the fucking war.
Speaker 1: You need to be concerned with the war that is
Speaker 1: unfolding every single day being waged by red state governors,
Speaker 1: attacking our democracy, attacking bodily autonomy, attacking any civil liberties.
Speaker 1: And to boot, dear friends, this last session of the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, where we have a fucking criminal ass Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice that is just unchecked. He's going to get
Speaker 1: the decision to rid this country of affirmative action and equity,
Speaker 1: to finally give the last death knull to voting rights
Speaker 1: in this country. America is fundamentally being reshaped at the
Speaker 1: hands of a few racist, greedy, disgusting, immoral, ultra rich
Speaker 1: people and their friends. The only thing that I can
Speaker 1: say is that sometimes, and I said this on Mary
Speaker 1: Trump's show yesterday, sometimes you have to lose everything in
Speaker 1: order to really recognize your own power and your ability
Speaker 1: to rebuild. But everything that we have ever known true
Speaker 1: about America, about democracy, about liberty, about freedom is being
Speaker 1: laid bare. You know. I was thinking to myself the
Speaker 1: other day, I'm like, nam, has America always been like this?
Speaker 1: And I was just looking at it through these rose
Speaker 1: colored glasses, believing that we had made substantial amount of
Speaker 1: progress and that we were in a better place than
Speaker 1: we were some fifty sixty years ago. Like have I
Speaker 1: been kidding myself all the years that I've spent working
Speaker 1: in government, working for government, being in public service, working
Speaker 1: on policy and legislation to open up and expand equity
Speaker 1: and opportunities to everyone that is not white and sis
Speaker 1: and straight and quote unquote Christian. Because from the vantage
Speaker 1: point that I have now, I'm like, if I knew then,
Speaker 1: right when I was making the decision as a young
Speaker 1: person to major in political science, to want to be
Speaker 1: a public servant, to want to do good, if I
Speaker 1: knew then what I know now, trust and believe, I
Speaker 1: would not have gone into politics. I really would not have.
Speaker 1: I would have gone into a field that would have
Speaker 1: been a hell of a lot more lucrative, and then
Speaker 1: turn myself into a philanthropist at some point in time.
Speaker 1: Because cash rules everything, we have, probably the next five
Speaker 1: to ten years, there will absolutely be no middle class.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you would constitute, honestly in
Speaker 1: this country as middle class right now, because when a
Speaker 1: majority of people will struggle to pay a four or
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars bill that comes out of nowhere where
Speaker 1: if any of us were to fall ill, right seriously ill,
Speaker 1: and insurance only decides that it's going to cover a
Speaker 1: portion of that. Most people in this country are bankrupted
Speaker 1: by those types ofies. So what does it truly mean
Speaker 1: to be middle class and comfortable? Now? You have multi billionaires,
Speaker 1: multimillionaires living at a time when people are actually taking
Speaker 1: helicopter ubers that go for like six thousand dollars a pop.
Speaker 1: And there are people a majority ninety nine percent that
Speaker 1: can't pay a surprise bill that comes to and we
Speaker 1: think that this is what a civilized country looks like.
Speaker 1: You have tech overlords that are creating artificial intelligence that
Speaker 1: will readily wipe out low wage jobs first and then
Speaker 1: come for everything else after. Like we are setting up
Speaker 1: and signing away every bit of free them all because
Speaker 1: they have us worshiping at the throne and at the
Speaker 1: feet of the mighty dollar. People voting against consistently their
Speaker 1: own best interests at the thought that maybe one day
Speaker 1: what they'll win the lottery we're not even paying attention to,
Speaker 1: like all of the white men working behind the curtain,
Speaker 1: the puppeteers, the ones that are choosing Supreme Court justices,
Speaker 1: the ones that are moving people's lives around on a
Speaker 1: board that they get to play at, and we're just
Speaker 1: pawns when you think about all of the layers behind
Speaker 1: the layers, like people were obsessed with the show's succession
Speaker 1: because you think that you're getting like this window into
Speaker 1: this crazy world and always in this writing so crazy
Speaker 1: and aren't these people so depraved? That might as well
Speaker 1: have been a documentary. I had stop watching the show
Speaker 1: because I was so disgusted, because I knew that there
Speaker 1: was really no line between reality and fiction. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is look at the way that the
Speaker 1: elon musts of the world move and act and speak,
Speaker 1: because who's the fuck is gonna check them? They can
Speaker 1: literally buy and sell you. And do we have to
Speaker 1: collectively decide what kind of country? What kind of world
Speaker 1: do we want to live in? Do we want democracy
Speaker 1: in name only without any of the rights, any of
Speaker 1: the liberties, any of the freedom so that a one
Speaker 1: percent can remain at the top of the pyramid, or
Speaker 1: do we bring the whole fucking pyramid down? Because let
Speaker 1: me tell you, this shit ain't working. It ain't working.
Speaker 1: And for those that say that it's working, check their
Speaker 1: bank accounts. That is it for me today, Dear friends
Speaker 1: on woke af as always, power to the people, and
Speaker 1: to all the people power get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.