1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: you know, I have to say that there are some 4 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: days when you're watching the news and you're like, Wow, 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: this seems normal, And then there are days in America 6 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: where you're watching the news and you're like, so this 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: is on par with the insane that I'm used to. Yesterday, 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: on Monday, the Dow Jones by mid afternoon was down 9 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: over a thousand points, Okay, And on top of that, 10 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: you were watching reports on the Biden administration warning Americans 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: in the Ukraine and the embassy basically to get the 12 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: hell out of Dodge, that there is an imminent threat 13 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: being posed once again by Republicans favorite President Vladimir Putin 14 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: to invade the Ukraine. And you know, I know that 15 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: often I don't necessarily delve into foreign affairs, and I 16 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: want to say that I don't generally do that because 17 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: it's not something that I went to school four But 18 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that I don't have an educated opinion 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: or thoughts or deep analysis on where things are and 20 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: why they are there. But as I'm watching the Tao 21 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: tank and you know, your four O one case, maybe 22 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: your children's future, your fucking stock interests, you know, whatever 23 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: go off of a cliff because you know, most of 24 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: us aren't millionaires or billionaires, and so these things cause 25 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: us a lot of problems. And as I'm watching the 26 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: new poll numbers come out by NBC News talking about 27 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: forty seven percent of Democrats are enthusiastic about the midterm elections, 28 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: whereas sixty one percent of Republicans are excited, and then 29 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: balancing that information against the last midterms of twenty eighteen 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: when we had the quote unquote blue tsunami, and then 31 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: looking at the latest poll numbers with regard to Bidens 32 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: his numbers right in the administration's numbers, with fifty four 33 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: percent of Americans now believing that we are on the 34 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: wrong track right, which if you go into any grocery 35 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: store or go to the gas station, that's not a 36 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: hard thing to see when you know products that you're 37 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: used to getting in America, you know, without even thinking 38 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: about it, are no longer available, which is causing us 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: to have to do what millions tens and tens, if 40 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: not hundreds of millions and billions of people around the 41 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: world always have to do, which is plu what they're 42 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: going to get and when, and knowing that prices change 43 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: on a daily And it's so funny because I think 44 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: that Americans are really out a step right with the 45 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: rest of the world. And that's you know, that's an 46 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: obvious thing to say. But unless you actually travel or 47 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: have traveled to different countries and different regions of the 48 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: world and spend any time there and I mean like 49 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: outside of a resort, actually talking to people and connecting 50 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: with them just casually, you realize that people around the world, 51 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: in lower wealth nations have had to deal with the 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: issues that we are facing now and we want to 53 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: throw our hands up. And you listen to people on 54 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: the right say this is communism because gas is so expensive. No, 55 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: it's actually not communism. This is capitalism. This is what 56 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: happens when you have a problem with production. This is 57 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: what happens when inflation goes through the roof, This is 58 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: what happens when you've had an economic downturn because of 59 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: a global health pandemic. And then recognizing that, you know, 60 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: the United States government has always been about controlling certain 61 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: things that they can, but recognizing that the world has 62 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: changed right in really significant ways, and the ability for 63 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: the United States to control oil prices and to control 64 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: how other nations are producing a third of our products, 65 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: like China, which we had mentioned last year, not last year. God, 66 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: it feels like last year was only last week when 67 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: we mentioned China, and the fact that severe lockdown measures 68 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: in various provinces around China are affecting production flow here. 69 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: And what happens when you become completely dependent right on 70 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: other nations to make your goods right and produce your services. 71 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: What then happens when those areas are not safe right, 72 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,119 Speaker 1: and then instead of it being sold to Americans that 73 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: you know, we're the greatest nation and we don't need anybody, 74 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: and we're just on an island onto ourselves. Well, maybe 75 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: now you understand why you're not getting your car or 76 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: your furniture, or while your grapes and meat and produce 77 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: and other things are through the fucking roof right now, 78 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: maybe you would understand connectivity and production and supply chains 79 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: and all of those things if actually we were teaching 80 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: those in very real ways instead of just filling our 81 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: public education system with a lot of gung ho American propaganda. 82 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: Now We don't like to talk about our education system 83 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 1: as being a propagandist machine, but that is in fact 84 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: what it is, right. And so when you have no 85 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: real hold on how the things that you're putting in 86 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: your shopping arts actually get there, and I mean virtual 87 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: or physical parts actually make it to your fucking house, right, 88 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: then you have a real major disconnection problem, which is 89 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: what right the Republican Party really wants you to have. 90 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: Because if we started to connect the dots between the 91 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: different things that they have that politics has its hands 92 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: in and the evil right people have their hands in, well, 93 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: then you're going to start raising flags every single way. Right. So, 94 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: so long as we have an undereducated public that doesn't 95 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: ask too many questions, isn't really thinking critically, it is 96 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: just a system of regurgitation, right, recycling and regurgitation, then 97 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: all will be well. That's the assumption that Republicans are 98 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: playing right now as they continue their campaign against critical 99 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: race theory, which just again for the record, is not 100 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: actually being taught in K three twelve, It's not even 101 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: being taught at the college one oh one level. It's 102 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: actually only being taught in post secondary right, and in 103 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: law schools. Right across the country. Nonetheless, Rnda Santis in 104 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: Florida death Santis, as I like to call him on 105 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: this show, has once again dipped his whole fucking body 106 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: in the culture war. And what I want I want 107 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: to make a connection between what I just said in 108 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: the opening and now about propaganda in our public school 109 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: system and why we need to be paying keen attention 110 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: to what is happening in the twenty eight read Republican 111 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: controlled states, and why it is really important for Democrats 112 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: to wake the fuck up. So here's the scenario that 113 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: I woke up to on Monday morning. So I'm sitting 114 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: at my kitchen table slash my studio, slash my office, 115 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: and I'm watching the news, and all of a sudden, 116 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: one of the headers that comes across is on a 117 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: new piece of legislation that is being championed by Rondas 118 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: Santis that just passed the Florida House, which is being 119 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: referred to in the press as the Don't Say Gay Bill. Now, 120 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 1: what is inside of this bill. I'll give you a summation. 121 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: It is basically under the guise of parental control, which 122 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: is the new buzz word, right buzz phrase for Republicans, 123 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: and I want and I say that because you're going 124 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: to hear a lot of things, and for those of 125 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: you out there that are parents or caregivers of children, 126 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: you're an usually going to think to yourself, Yeah, well, 127 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: parents should have a right to control and know what 128 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: their child is learning. And then I'm going to tell 129 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: you why that's a terrible fucking idea. So Rhonda Santis 130 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: has passed this piece of legislation that would allow parents 131 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: the ability to sue. Once again, we're a very litigious 132 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: society to sue schools and teachers for teaching their kids 133 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: or mentioning anything that has to do with gender identity 134 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: or sexual orientation. This means even the teaching about let's 135 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:46,359 Speaker 1: say a Harvey Milk, Let's say other gay heroes, heroines 136 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: people right in our society. Let's say that you are 137 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: a child who has same sex parents. Well, you would 138 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: not be able to mention that or talk about that. 139 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: Say that you yourself or in Kate twelve and you 140 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: are queer, right, Or say that your school at one 141 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: time had a GSA, a gay on straight a student alliance, right, 142 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: which probably they've changed the names of these things now 143 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: so that it is more inclusive. Say that you go 144 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: to your teacher, you want to talk about an issue 145 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: I hate crime that has happened that is making news. Well, 146 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: you are no longer going to be allowed to teach 147 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: that for fear that you can be sued because Governor 148 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: de Santis, again under the guise of parental control, wants 149 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: to say what is age appropriate and what is not. Now, 150 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: this is the same ship that they did around critical 151 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 1: race theory again, which is not actually taught. But they 152 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: decided also in Florida to past legislation that would make 153 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: it illegal to mention race or racism, right, to talk 154 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: about discrimination, to make sure that white people right, and 155 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: now we're moving into heterosexual people, to make sure that 156 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: white heterosexuals remain comfortable, right, and that their kids can 157 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: remain completely and totally fucking ignorant to the world around them, right, 158 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: because we want to ensure that our children are safe. Now, 159 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: these people the descantenses of the world. These are the 160 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:39,599 Speaker 1: people that reproduce bullies and racists and homophobes and transphobes 161 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: that will in fact bully your kids, beat up your kids, 162 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: bring newstaces to school, show up as clansmen on Halloween 163 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: and do all of these things right, But then your 164 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: teacher and your administration is not actually allowed to tackle 165 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: those issues or to create an open space for there 166 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: to be critical dialogue about what America has looked like, 167 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: what it looks like right now, and what it could 168 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: potentially look like in the future. All of the work 169 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: then that the Obama administration did with regard to creating 170 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: more inclusive school environments by making it a law right 171 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: to end discrimination in schools against LGBTQ youth, that that 172 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: shit can pretty much be dismissed in Florida. And this 173 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: is just the first in what will be a series 174 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: right of new laws that are going to be put 175 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: in place to put a muzzle on public education in 176 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: the twenty eight states that are led by Republicans, which 177 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: will mean what exactly. Ah, I'm so glad you can ask, 178 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: because if you think that the current divisions that we 179 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: are seeing in our political climate are going anywhere, well, 180 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: we are now moving into an area where we're not 181 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: only going to have a division with regard to our politics, 182 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 1: we're going to have a division in terms of our 183 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: education and curriculum. Now that has already been happening right 184 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: there have been pushes in education for decades. For as 185 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: long as I have been in education and an education policy, 186 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: either in the classroom or working on Capitol Hill or 187 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: anytime thereafter as a lobbyist, I can tell you that 188 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: there has always been a push to create some type 189 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: of core curriculum so that if you are a child, 190 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: right and let's say that you're you're a military kid 191 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: and your parents move around, or you're a diplomats kids 192 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: or whatever, or your parents are you know, farmers and 193 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: they need to move around during the seasons, that your 194 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: education would not be disrupted based on where you're moving to. 195 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: Right that if you were in New York and then 196 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: you went to Florida and then you went to Texas 197 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: and to California, that there would be a core curriculum. 198 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: But instead, you know, we like to in this country 199 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: provide punishments instead of rewards to our teachers and our administration. 200 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: We want to burden them with things that they really 201 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: shouldn't be focused on. And now for these people who 202 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: across the country really aren't paid very well, aren't protected 203 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: in any type of way. Now we're all having opening 204 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: season on all of these educators. There's already a problem 205 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: with their being diverse representation in our schools. I think 206 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: that right now, largely in K through twelve education, white 207 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: women are overrepresented by eighty two percent. Right, eighty two 208 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: percent of K through twelve educators are white women. So 209 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: let's just, you know, wrap our minds around that. And 210 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: if you are a parent of a child of color, 211 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: of a queer child, right, a child that has any 212 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: types of identity that is not white, that is not straight, 213 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: that is not male, chances are your child is ostracized 214 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: by the curriculum that is happening at your schools. And 215 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: if you are not wealthy and can't afford to pull 216 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: your child down and put them into a private school 217 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: or move them around to a different charter school or 218 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: homeschool them, then basically we are just continuing to create 219 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: a citizenury of a whole bunch of fucking sheep, right 220 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: who don't really know anything and don't have any critical thought. Now, 221 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how you think that in the long run, 222 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: even in the short run, how that's going to work 223 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: for or our economy, for our country that is trying 224 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: to be globally competitive and falling dramatically behind every other 225 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: developed fucking nation, right, America. I mean you want to 226 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: talk about a backsliding democracy, Our education system has been 227 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: backsliding for decades, right, And so now we are at 228 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: a place where we were once recognizing that we wanted 229 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: our children to be globally competitive, that we wanted to 230 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: create safe zones for them to be educated, because there 231 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: are a lot of barriers to learning your ABC's. If 232 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: you're coming to school hungry, if you're coming to school tired, right, 233 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: if you're coming to school in fear of whether or 234 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: not while you're at school your parents are going to 235 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: be picked up by ice. There are so many fucking 236 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: factors that teachers, our vastly underpaid teachers have to deal 237 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: with on a regular basis. And now, on top of 238 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: dealing with COVID, on top of dealing with guns, now 239 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: they have to think about also being sued for trying 240 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 1: to educate your kids about the fucking world around them. 241 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 1: It is insane when I tell you how fucking livid 242 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: I was when that story came across my screen yesterday. 243 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: There are so many good educators that are leaving the 244 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: field of education teachers, and that's something that I actually 245 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: really do want to cover on woke a f it's 246 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: to see in this ce right of the quote unquote 247 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: great resignation, how many teachers have been fleeing the field 248 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: because of COVID, because of the increase in school shootings, 249 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: and now because of the that they can be called 250 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: out right that if they're asking children in schools to 251 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: lift up your mask, that they're on fucking text to 252 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: their parents who want to come up to the school, 253 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: like the Virginia parents said, with a bunch of fucking 254 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: loaded weapons, Like who are we? What the fuck is 255 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: happening here? This shit is not normal, nor should it 256 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: be normalized on a regular basis by the media talking 257 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: about Oh, both sides, Because when I heard about that 258 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: parent in Virginia who threatened to bring in every single 259 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: one of her guns loaded because of a mask mandate, 260 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: she threatened to shoot up her child's school because wearing 261 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: a cloth mask to protect that student's life and those 262 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: around them is too fucking much. So, mommy dearest wanted 263 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: to be locked and loaded at the next school fucking 264 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: drop off. And then you want to showcase that on 265 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: the news by saying, quote unquote tensions were high at 266 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: school board meeting. Are you fucking dumb. Are we serious 267 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: with this? These people are radicalized, They are dangerous. This 268 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: isn't just hot talk right on the playground. This is 269 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:30,719 Speaker 1: some threatening ass domestic threat that I'm glad that that 270 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 1: woman was charged for, but the charges need to be 271 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: a lot higher. Right until we're waiting for what that 272 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: parent who doesn't just provide a verbal warning but then 273 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: just comes up to the school and starts spraying bullets. 274 00:19:54,480 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: This country is on the wrong track. And you do 275 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: not need to see the latest poll numbers to get 276 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: a sense of that. All you need to do is 277 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: open up your eyes and ears and take in what 278 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: is going on. Take in what we have normalized and 279 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: continue to normalize the vicious, violent, threatening behavior of Republicans, 280 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: and then we want to put them under the category 281 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: of conservative. You tell me what is considered conservative about 282 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: threatening violence? Oh, my kids have rights? You want to 283 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: tell me you know about this parental control, which folks 284 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: I tweeted yesterday that this isn't about parental control, but 285 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: it's the same language that segregationist used in the nineteen 286 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: fifties to try and keep white and black kids separate 287 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: from one another. Right to try and keep public school 288 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: segregation alive, and well, well, your good white children shouldn't 289 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: have to go to school with those black kids, and 290 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: that's not the language that they use. We know that, right, 291 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: They shouldn't have to sit side by side like they 292 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: are equal or some shit. So run de Santis, the 293 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: new George Wallace is sitting around saying, well, what is 294 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 1: it that I can what I can do to protect 295 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: and insulate white people in the state of Florida. And 296 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: then Abbott will say what can I do to protect them? 297 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: And isolate right, the white parents in Texas and so 298 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: on and so forth, and so on and so forth, 299 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: until the next piece of legislation that you will certainly 300 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: see before the Supreme Court will be another run brown 301 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: voice versus the Board of Education, right, just under a 302 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: different name. And if you remember in Amy Covid Barrett's 303 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: fucking confirmation hearing, when asked if she thought that brown 304 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: versus the Board of Education was you know, settled law, 305 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: she hummed and hot about that. So when you're looking 306 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: at the news and you're seeing, oh, well crt, well 307 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: that's not a thing. So Democrats don't actually need to 308 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: come up with a cohesive response to what that is 309 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: because you know the American people are smart, No, they 310 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: fucking are not. You saw what happened in Virginia with 311 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: the governor's race. We lost and what did young can 312 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: run on parental control? And now those parents are all 313 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: up in a fucking tizzy because now he started out 314 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: with CRT and Tony Morrison and is now on the Oh, 315 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,479 Speaker 1: we're repealing your mask mandates. So now your kids are 316 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: going to school in harm's way. But you didn't fucking 317 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: think about that, because once again you're only thinking about yourself. 318 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: So word to the wise. They start with black people, right, 319 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: the community of people that white Americans don't give a 320 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: fuck about and can come up with every excuse as 321 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: to why they should be treated bad, as to why 322 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: public schools are bad and high black and brown areas, 323 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: and to why they're deserving to be beaten and tazed 324 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: and murdered. They start with the group that no one 325 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: gives a fuck about, and then they move on to you. Right, 326 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: that's how it works. But you vote them in because 327 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: you're a low key fucking racist, and then all of 328 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: a sudden you end up like, oh, fuck, now my 329 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: kid is unsafe. Well, maybe if you had empathy and 330 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: gave a shit about anybody else's fucking kids or anybody 331 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: else's community, we wouldn't end up here. But oh, history 332 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: just loves to repeat itself because we whitewash it or 333 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: don't teach it at all. You know, to me, everything 334 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: is connected, It truly is, and not in the conspiracy theory, 335 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, aluminum hat type of way, but in the 336 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: honest type of way. And I started out by talking 337 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: about the Ukraine, so let me circle back to that 338 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: for a moment. I want to be very clear as 339 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: to why our foreign affairs, our foreign relationships in the 340 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: US are part of our education problem. And what do 341 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: I mean by that. I mean that when you have 342 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: been fed propaganda sin birth since since whether you were 343 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: born in the United States or become a citizen or 344 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: show up here or whatever it is, That's what I'm 345 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 1: talking about, from birth. If you are here in America 346 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: and you're in school, even if you're not in school, frankly, 347 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: you are fed. The America's great. We are the beacon, 348 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: we are number one, We are the best. Right, we 349 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: pledge allegiance because we are the home of the brave. 350 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: We open our arms to everyone. Oh, we're a mixing 351 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: pot whatever it is that you want to state. And 352 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are so many other phrases in euphemisms 353 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: that we can use and that are used and peddled 354 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: all around the world. So we always love to believe 355 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: because of the line of bullshit that you have been 356 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: fed from K through twelve. Right, it's not until college, 357 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: in all honesty, and it depends on what kind of 358 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: university that you go to, or if you go to 359 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 1: university when critical thinking actually starts, right, because before then 360 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: it is just remember, recite, regurgitate, that's it. So you're 361 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: taught that everyone everywhere that the United States goes to intervene, 362 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: it's because we want to carry democracy with us, that 363 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: these people from our paternalistic colonizer viewpoint, right, need our 364 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: help because they can't do for themselves. And if the 365 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: United States doesn't intervene, then what will happen. The thing 366 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: that we are never told because it's not a talking 367 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: point that people want to give up, is that most 368 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: times when the United States goes to intervene anywhere, it 369 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: is based on whether or not that particular area, that 370 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: particular country is valuable to the United States. Right. It 371 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with securing or spreading democracy. It 372 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: has everything to do with political power and capitalism. Those 373 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: are the two things that matter. Because when you ask 374 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: from the vantage point of countries that we have bombed, 375 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: where we have killed thousands of civilians, where we have 376 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: destroyed homes and businesses and communities, and then we want 377 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: to turn around and offer some charitable aid for the 378 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: ship that we blew up, and then we run the 379 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: pr on that. When you were to actually ask the 380 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: people that are on the ground about the United States interventions, 381 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: and I use air quotes, they have a whole different 382 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: understanding about the United States, and it's not a fucking 383 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: pleasant one. Right, We do arms deals and trading, and 384 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: we move around other countries political leaders, prime ministers and 385 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: presidents like fucking pieces on a chessboard, always protecting our 386 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: queen right, which is our country. But we will move 387 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: every other piece around. We will sacrifice other people's stability 388 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: and wellness based on what it does to our positioning. 389 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: So when we look at what is happening in the 390 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: Ukraine right now, why don't you ask yourself about how 391 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: and why the Ukraine isn't allowed to make decisions about 392 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: its own protection, About why these high, wealthy, high incominations 393 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: are the ones that get to decide whether or not 394 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: the Ukraine gets a seat at the table about why 395 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 1: we continue to negotiate right with the putents of the world, 396 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: or how Putin got into power in the first place, 397 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: or why Afghanistan ended up the fucking way that it did. 398 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: The United States, my god, our hands are not just dirty, 399 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: they are fucking filthy when you look at what we 400 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: have done. America in a lot of ways creates a 401 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: lot of fucking problems. But because Americans have very little 402 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: care about what is happening outside of their front door, 403 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: let alone what is happening outside their country, you never 404 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: hear about those things. It's always those poor schleps over there, 405 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: and you don't recognize that things are being done in 406 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: your name without you knowing, just like we continue to 407 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: uphold Israel and fucking fund that place, and we fund apartheid. 408 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: But don't have that conversation because you may be looked 409 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: at as a person that is, you know, not on 410 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: par not saying the right things is anti Semitic, But 411 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: that's not the truth. We spend billions of dollars in 412 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: countries around the world, and they use that money to 413 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: oppress their own people, to kill them, to destroy economic 414 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: freedom and liberty, all of the things that we say 415 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: that we care about, but we actually don't. We get 416 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: a third, folks, of all of our manufactured goods from China. 417 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: China has the worst fucking record on human rights, pretty 418 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: much on par with the United States. Now, you see, 419 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: we don't like to count things like centuries of slavery, right. 420 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: We don't like to count right internment camps. We don't 421 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: like to count the trail of tears. We don't like 422 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: to count our fucking anti Islam watch lists that we've 423 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: had since nine to eleven. We don't like to count 424 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: any of those things, or putting children in cages the 425 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: first time. Right that Anesty International is like Yo America's 426 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: on our watch list. The things that we do in 427 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: this country to our own people and then abroad, and 428 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: we don't connect the dots because we're not educated on 429 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: these things. And why would you be, I said last week, 430 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: there's a reason why the Chinese have no idea about 431 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: Tianamen Square in Vietnam. They don't refer to the Vietnam 432 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: War as the Awar. They call it the American War 433 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: of aggression. So when we are watching things play out 434 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: around the world and we're saying like, oh, the United 435 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: States is going to add troops or this, that and 436 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: the other thing, understand that they always have a fucking 437 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: plan for entry and aggression. They never have a plan 438 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: to get out ever, which is why we were in 439 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: Afghanistan for twenty fucking years and how we watched their 440 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: shell of a shamble of a democracy, this hybrid type 441 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: of model that they had crumble in a matter of 442 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: fucking weeks. And then we say, oh, so sorry, I 443 00:32:54,840 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: hope you guys can piece that back together. I just 444 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: you know what it is. I think that I have 445 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: reached my level of bullshit, right, I have reached a 446 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: certain level where I'm like, I'm so cynical in my 447 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: feelings every time that I see things about troops being deployed, 448 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: and I'm like, and these are the same people who 449 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: some of them were on the steps of the Capitol 450 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: Building on one six, Like, we always want to care 451 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: about troops and things like that when we're placing them 452 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: in harm's way, But then we don't really want to 453 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 1: have a conversation about how they're being radicalized, right because 454 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: of what they see and what they know, because we 455 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: love right people in uniform until they come back home 456 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: and actually want to tell us the truth about what 457 00:33:53,200 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: is going on. This country isn't just on the wrong track. 458 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: It is so much deeper than that. It's so much 459 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: deeper than any one administration. And that's really the problem, right, 460 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: is that we don't have people in power who have 461 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: really strategic planning and thoughts past four years. Right. You know, 462 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 1: we're not as a country ever playing the long game. 463 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: It's always reactive or how we pop off now like again, 464 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 1: using education, we knew well before COVID that a majority 465 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: of children in the United States didn't have access to broadband, 466 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: didn't have the tools that were needed for them to 467 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: be able to get a quote unquote good quality education, 468 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: whatever the fuck that means when you are literally putting 469 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: white out over America's history, right, But they didn't have 470 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: the tools. We knew that, right. We also knew that 471 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 1: by shutting schools down, that millions of kids in America 472 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:31,320 Speaker 1: during the pandemic when we were remote learning fully weren't 473 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: going to receive two meals or one meal that day. 474 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,800 Speaker 1: Because we have turned schools also into community centers, knowing 475 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: that children in the wealthiest nation are fucking starving outside 476 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: of maybe a school breakfast or lunch. You know there 477 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,320 Speaker 1: is right now and you may have seen this a 478 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: mom who I believe is a nurse that went viral 479 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: on TikTok for sharing her story about the fact that 480 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: her daughter was born really fucking early. I want to 481 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,320 Speaker 1: say that the baby was born maybe at like twenty 482 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 1: five twenty six weeks or something and was like two 483 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: pounds when she was born. And because the mother only 484 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 1: received six weeks of medical leave but the baby was 485 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 1: in the hospital, she needed to go back to work 486 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 1: twelve days after giving birth because of the paid family 487 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 1: leave policy, and she wanted to make sure that by 488 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: the time that her child was actually going to be 489 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: coming home after spending seventy two days in a niku, 490 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: that she would be able to spend time with her. 491 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 1: So didn't want to eat into her fucking limited paid 492 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:04,320 Speaker 1: family leave to be by her child's bedside incubator side, 493 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,719 Speaker 1: because she had to go back to work because we 494 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:13,799 Speaker 1: don't have paid family leave in this country. That it 495 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: depends on your fucking employer and six weeks six to 496 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:23,840 Speaker 1: eight if you're lucky, when You're looking at high wealth 497 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: nations around the world that have a fucking year off 498 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: or six months, but they will come up with every 499 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 1: excuse as to why that can't happen here. But I 500 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 1: thought everything could happen in America. I thought anything was 501 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,839 Speaker 1: possible here. That's the bullshit you've been feeding me since kindergarten. 502 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, I start asking for 503 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,800 Speaker 1: the things that we don't have of note, like universal healthcare, 504 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: paid leave policies, support for you know, like in any 505 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: which way, and you tell me to shut up. I 506 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: should be grateful for the crumbs that I have, but 507 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,359 Speaker 1: you tell me you're the best, but I don't get 508 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: the best. We don't have the best policies. We don't 509 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 1: care about workers, we don't care about parents, we don't 510 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: care about youth. So tell me again about these lies 511 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: that you've been feeding to me since kindergarten. Tell me 512 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 1: again what we are number one in because I'm searching 513 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: high and low folks and looking for it, and I 514 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 1: don't see because you keep telling me that this country 515 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: is about the it's the land of opportunity and you 516 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 1: can be anything and do anything. But I'm just listening 517 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: out bouncing back and forth between domestic policy and foreign 518 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,399 Speaker 1: affairs and nowhere and my seeing where we are doing 519 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: the best things. We are now a country that won't 520 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:16,919 Speaker 1: have abortion, but we're number one, number one in what grief, pain, frustration, resignations, dropouts, 521 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: minimum wage. People need to be shaken right to their 522 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,360 Speaker 1: very core. You know, when people say like, I just 523 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: don't understand why so and so gets it. I want 524 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: to shake the shit out of them. I want to 525 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,439 Speaker 1: shake the shit out of this country and wake them 526 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: up out of the fucking slumber that they have been in. 527 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: Walking around on fourth of July waving fucking flags right 528 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: where in you go to any fucking Trump rally, they 529 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,880 Speaker 1: are rocking whatever old navy fucking you know flag T 530 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,760 Speaker 1: shirt and matching pants. Oh we're Americans. We're great, how 531 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 1: because the only thing that you're fucking number one is guns? Right? 532 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 1: We got more guns in this country than anywhere else 533 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,760 Speaker 1: in the world. There are more guns than people in America. 534 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 1: So there's your number one. We're number one in school shootings, right, 535 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: there's another number one. So I don't know where the 536 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:38,960 Speaker 1: right gets there fucking false rose colored patriotism from. But 537 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:44,160 Speaker 1: I got more questions about what America is great at, 538 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: other than making more mess than it's necessary. You know, 539 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: the reality here is that you can't change things, as 540 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 1: Aldwin has said, that you refuse to face. But the 541 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,720 Speaker 1: main thing here is that Republican politicians want to ensure 542 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: that you don't have to face things, because they're gonna 543 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: make it so that you never see it, right, so 544 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: that all you see is America through these foggy, rose 545 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: colored glasses that you never have to question or be uncomfortable. 546 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,680 Speaker 1: And you see, the reality here is that change happens 547 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: where there is friction, and growth comes from being uncomfortable. 548 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: So when you are trying to pacify an entire community 549 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 1: of white people so that they are not uncomfortable, so 550 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: that they're not questioning, and they can continue blindly and 551 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 1: stupidly way that American flag and all look at the fireworks, 552 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 1: but let me, let me not interrogate any of the 553 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 1: things that are happening in between. That's what success looks 554 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 1: like for them. While everything is crumbling around us, you 555 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 1: continue to push the lie that we're better than everybody else, 556 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,719 Speaker 1: because you see, the only way that things shift in 557 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: society is with an educated citizentury, but an educated citizenury 558 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:38,439 Speaker 1: will then hold its elected officials, its representatives accountable. So 559 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: long as they know nothing, then you don't have to 560 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 1: do anything. Do see how that works. This is where 561 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 1: we are. Ignorance is not bliss, It is dangerous. The 562 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:06,320 Speaker 1: entire nation needs to be shook. And maybe that only 563 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: happens when everything crumbles to the ground, because right now 564 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:20,080 Speaker 1: America is creating its own earthquake, and I think that 565 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:26,040 Speaker 1: it is honestly going to take the collapse of everything, 566 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:32,320 Speaker 1: and whoever is left standing when the dust finally settles 567 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 1: will be the ones to rebuild. But in whose image. 568 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,320 Speaker 1: We are at a crossroads right now, at a really 569 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 1: scary crossroads, and I don't know which direction we're going 570 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: to go in, and that is what keeps me up 571 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 1: at night. That is what is worrying me. And I 572 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:16,640 Speaker 1: don't think that the Democrats that are in charge for 573 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,400 Speaker 1: the next couple of months, I don't think that they 574 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,000 Speaker 1: get the level of urgency that we are at. We 575 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: have hit whatever the highest deathcom fucking alarm alert is, 576 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:39,319 Speaker 1: that's where we are. And all I can say is 577 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:44,360 Speaker 1: that y'all better buckle up, because sometimes things don't get 578 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,279 Speaker 1: better after they get worse. They get bad, they get 579 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:53,960 Speaker 1: even worse, they get horrific, and then maybe they start 580 00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:01,040 Speaker 1: to make a turn upwards. But that dark period can 581 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:07,879 Speaker 1: last for decades. That is it for me today. Here, 582 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,440 Speaker 1: Folks on Woke a F Daily, you know, if you 583 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: have thoughts, comments, questions about any episode of the show, 584 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,920 Speaker 1: please do feel free to float me a comment, dm 585 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,319 Speaker 1: me hit me up on social media. What direction do 586 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,600 Speaker 1: you think this country is headed in? And why? Hit 587 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,640 Speaker 1: me up with the hashtag woke f on all social 588 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: media platforms. As always, dear friends, Power to the people 589 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,240 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 590 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:41,359 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.