WEBVTT - Out of Step With the World 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.400 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.439 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.120 you know, I have to say that there are some 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.880 days when you're watching the news and you're like, Wow, 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.880 this seems normal, And then there are days in America 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.920 where you're watching the news and you're like, so this 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.040 is on par with the insane that I'm used to. Yesterday, 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:43.480 on Monday, the Dow Jones by mid afternoon was down 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.840 over a thousand points, Okay, And on top of that, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:58.520 you were watching reports on the Biden administration warning Americans 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.720 in the Ukraine and the embassy basically to get the 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.759 hell out of Dodge, that there is an imminent threat 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:13.080 being posed once again by Republicans favorite President Vladimir Putin 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.600 to invade the Ukraine. And you know, I know that 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:24.720 often I don't necessarily delve into foreign affairs, and I 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.400 want to say that I don't generally do that because 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.480 it's not something that I went to school four But 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.000 it doesn't mean that I don't have an educated opinion 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.760 or thoughts or deep analysis on where things are and 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.000 why they are there. But as I'm watching the Tao 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.840 tank and you know, your four O one case, maybe 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.960 your children's future, your fucking stock interests, you know, whatever 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.400 go off of a cliff because you know, most of 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.800 us aren't millionaires or billionaires, and so these things cause 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.960 us a lot of problems. And as I'm watching the 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.080 new poll numbers come out by NBC News talking about 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:11.040 forty seven percent of Democrats are enthusiastic about the midterm elections, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:16.079 whereas sixty one percent of Republicans are excited, and then 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.960 balancing that information against the last midterms of twenty eighteen 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.600 when we had the quote unquote blue tsunami, and then 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.720 looking at the latest poll numbers with regard to Bidens 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.919 his numbers right in the administration's numbers, with fifty four 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.880 percent of Americans now believing that we are on the 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.359 wrong track right, which if you go into any grocery 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.720 store or go to the gas station, that's not a 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.280 hard thing to see when you know products that you're 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.400 used to getting in America, you know, without even thinking 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.960 about it, are no longer available, which is causing us 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.280 to have to do what millions tens and tens, if 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.160 not hundreds of millions and billions of people around the 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.720 world always have to do, which is plu what they're 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.080 going to get and when, and knowing that prices change 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.480 on a daily And it's so funny because I think 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:13.320 that Americans are really out a step right with the 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.359 rest of the world. And that's you know, that's an 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:21.480 obvious thing to say. But unless you actually travel or 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.880 have traveled to different countries and different regions of the 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.240 world and spend any time there and I mean like 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:32.160 outside of a resort, actually talking to people and connecting 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.640 with them just casually, you realize that people around the world, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.680 in lower wealth nations have had to deal with the 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.520 issues that we are facing now and we want to 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.960 throw our hands up. And you listen to people on 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:53.200 the right say this is communism because gas is so expensive. No, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.680 it's actually not communism. This is capitalism. This is what 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.280 happens when you have a problem with production. This is 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.920 what happens when inflation goes through the roof, This is 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.480 what happens when you've had an economic downturn because of 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.840 a global health pandemic. And then recognizing that, you know, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.680 the United States government has always been about controlling certain 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.640 things that they can, but recognizing that the world has 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.880 changed right in really significant ways, and the ability for 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.440 the United States to control oil prices and to control 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.200 how other nations are producing a third of our products, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.120 like China, which we had mentioned last year, not last year. God, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.920 it feels like last year was only last week when 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.560 we mentioned China, and the fact that severe lockdown measures 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:51.200 in various provinces around China are affecting production flow here. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:56.280 And what happens when you become completely dependent right on 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:01.760 other nations to make your goods right and produce your services. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.920 What then happens when those areas are not safe right, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:12.119 and then instead of it being sold to Americans that 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.040 you know, we're the greatest nation and we don't need anybody, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.719 and we're just on an island onto ourselves. Well, maybe 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.440 now you understand why you're not getting your car or 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:26.080 your furniture, or while your grapes and meat and produce 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.719 and other things are through the fucking roof right now, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:35.520 maybe you would understand connectivity and production and supply chains 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.919 and all of those things if actually we were teaching 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.080 those in very real ways instead of just filling our 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.880 public education system with a lot of gung ho American propaganda. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.880 Now We don't like to talk about our education system 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.239 as being a propagandist machine, but that is in fact 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.320 what it is, right. And so when you have no 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.200 real hold on how the things that you're putting in 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.400 your shopping arts actually get there, and I mean virtual 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.160 or physical parts actually make it to your fucking house, right, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.520 then you have a real major disconnection problem, which is 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.200 what right the Republican Party really wants you to have. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.839 Because if we started to connect the dots between the 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.840 different things that they have that politics has its hands 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.200 in and the evil right people have their hands in, well, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.800 then you're going to start raising flags every single way. Right. So, 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.279 so long as we have an undereducated public that doesn't 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.680 ask too many questions, isn't really thinking critically, it is 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:49.680 just a system of regurgitation, right, recycling and regurgitation, then 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.560 all will be well. That's the assumption that Republicans are 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:58.440 playing right now as they continue their campaign against critical 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.279 race theory, which just again for the record, is not 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.880 actually being taught in K three twelve, It's not even 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.839 being taught at the college one oh one level. It's 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.320 actually only being taught in post secondary right, and in 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:18.880 law schools. Right across the country. Nonetheless, Rnda Santis in 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.520 Florida death Santis, as I like to call him on 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.760 this show, has once again dipped his whole fucking body 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.000 in the culture war. And what I want I want 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.080 to make a connection between what I just said in 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.280 the opening and now about propaganda in our public school 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.440 system and why we need to be paying keen attention 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.840 to what is happening in the twenty eight read Republican 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:55.440 controlled states, and why it is really important for Democrats 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.800 to wake the fuck up. So here's the scenario that 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.280 I woke up to on Monday morning. So I'm sitting 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:10.480 at my kitchen table slash my studio, slash my office, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.720 and I'm watching the news, and all of a sudden, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.040 one of the headers that comes across is on a 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.480 new piece of legislation that is being championed by Rondas 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.640 Santis that just passed the Florida House, which is being 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:35.000 referred to in the press as the Don't Say Gay Bill. Now, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:40.559 what is inside of this bill. I'll give you a summation. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.520 It is basically under the guise of parental control, which 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.559 is the new buzz word, right buzz phrase for Republicans, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.880 and I want and I say that because you're going 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.160 to hear a lot of things, and for those of 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.960 you out there that are parents or caregivers of children, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.200 you're an usually going to think to yourself, Yeah, well, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:06.160 parents should have a right to control and know what 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.360 their child is learning. And then I'm going to tell 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.760 you why that's a terrible fucking idea. So Rhonda Santis 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.240 has passed this piece of legislation that would allow parents 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.640 the ability to sue. Once again, we're a very litigious 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:27.960 society to sue schools and teachers for teaching their kids 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.040 or mentioning anything that has to do with gender identity 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:37.400 or sexual orientation. This means even the teaching about let's 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:46.359 say a Harvey Milk, Let's say other gay heroes, heroines 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.559 people right in our society. Let's say that you are 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.800 a child who has same sex parents. Well, you would 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.720 not be able to mention that or talk about that. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.160 Say that you yourself or in Kate twelve and you 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.120 are queer, right, Or say that your school at one 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:10.760 time had a GSA, a gay on straight a student alliance, right, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.520 which probably they've changed the names of these things now 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:21.199 so that it is more inclusive. Say that you go 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.800 to your teacher, you want to talk about an issue 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.240 I hate crime that has happened that is making news. Well, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.439 you are no longer going to be allowed to teach 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:37.840 that for fear that you can be sued because Governor 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.640 de Santis, again under the guise of parental control, wants 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.160 to say what is age appropriate and what is not. Now, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.480 this is the same ship that they did around critical 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.719 race theory again, which is not actually taught. But they 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.319 decided also in Florida to past legislation that would make 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.920 it illegal to mention race or racism, right, to talk 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.440 about discrimination, to make sure that white people right, and 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.200 now we're moving into heterosexual people, to make sure that 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.440 white heterosexuals remain comfortable, right, and that their kids can 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:19.320 remain completely and totally fucking ignorant to the world around them, right, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.640 because we want to ensure that our children are safe. Now, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.280 these people the descantenses of the world. These are the 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:39.599 people that reproduce bullies and racists and homophobes and transphobes 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.600 that will in fact bully your kids, beat up your kids, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.640 bring newstaces to school, show up as clansmen on Halloween 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.440 and do all of these things right, But then your 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.959 teacher and your administration is not actually allowed to tackle 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.280 those issues or to create an open space for there 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.680 to be critical dialogue about what America has looked like, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.760 what it looks like right now, and what it could 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.559 potentially look like in the future. All of the work 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:15.840 then that the Obama administration did with regard to creating 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:22.199 more inclusive school environments by making it a law right 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.520 to end discrimination in schools against LGBTQ youth, that that 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.680 shit can pretty much be dismissed in Florida. And this 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.760 is just the first in what will be a series 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.480 right of new laws that are going to be put 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.160 in place to put a muzzle on public education in 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:49.120 the twenty eight states that are led by Republicans, which 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.839 will mean what exactly. Ah, I'm so glad you can ask, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.000 because if you think that the current divisions that we 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.400 are seeing in our political climate are going anywhere, well, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.000 we are now moving into an area where we're not 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.400 only going to have a division with regard to our politics, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.680 we're going to have a division in terms of our 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:13.440 education and curriculum. Now that has already been happening right 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.720 there have been pushes in education for decades. For as 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.000 long as I have been in education and an education policy, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.400 either in the classroom or working on Capitol Hill or 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.439 anytime thereafter as a lobbyist, I can tell you that 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.920 there has always been a push to create some type 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.400 of core curriculum so that if you are a child, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.920 right and let's say that you're you're a military kid 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.480 and your parents move around, or you're a diplomats kids 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:47.040 or whatever, or your parents are you know, farmers and 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.520 they need to move around during the seasons, that your 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.400 education would not be disrupted based on where you're moving to. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.240 Right that if you were in New York and then 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.959 you went to Florida and then you went to Texas 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:08.520 and to California, that there would be a core curriculum. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.800 But instead, you know, we like to in this country 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.120 provide punishments instead of rewards to our teachers and our administration. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.280 We want to burden them with things that they really 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.320 shouldn't be focused on. And now for these people who 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:31.000 across the country really aren't paid very well, aren't protected 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.960 in any type of way. Now we're all having opening 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.400 season on all of these educators. There's already a problem 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.520 with their being diverse representation in our schools. I think 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.880 that right now, largely in K through twelve education, white 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.240 women are overrepresented by eighty two percent. Right, eighty two 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:56.120 percent of K through twelve educators are white women. So 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:01.040 let's just, you know, wrap our minds around that. And 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.520 if you are a parent of a child of color, 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.200 of a queer child, right, a child that has any 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:15.560 types of identity that is not white, that is not straight, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:21.200 that is not male, chances are your child is ostracized 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.480 by the curriculum that is happening at your schools. And 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.680 if you are not wealthy and can't afford to pull 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.400 your child down and put them into a private school 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.320 or move them around to a different charter school or 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:41.080 homeschool them, then basically we are just continuing to create 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:46.080 a citizenury of a whole bunch of fucking sheep, right 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:51.360 who don't really know anything and don't have any critical thought. Now, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:56.520 I don't know how you think that in the long run, 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.480 even in the short run, how that's going to work 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.320 for or our economy, for our country that is trying 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:08.920 to be globally competitive and falling dramatically behind every other 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:15.760 developed fucking nation, right, America. I mean you want to 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.560 talk about a backsliding democracy, Our education system has been 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.760 backsliding for decades, right, And so now we are at 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.960 a place where we were once recognizing that we wanted 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.520 our children to be globally competitive, that we wanted to 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.520 create safe zones for them to be educated, because there 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:43.040 are a lot of barriers to learning your ABC's. If 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.080 you're coming to school hungry, if you're coming to school tired, right, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.960 if you're coming to school in fear of whether or 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.200 not while you're at school your parents are going to 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.280 be picked up by ice. There are so many fucking 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:04.520 factors that teachers, our vastly underpaid teachers have to deal 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.560 with on a regular basis. And now, on top of 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.880 dealing with COVID, on top of dealing with guns, now 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.560 they have to think about also being sued for trying 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.880 to educate your kids about the fucking world around them. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.680 It is insane when I tell you how fucking livid 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:31.480 I was when that story came across my screen yesterday. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:36.399 There are so many good educators that are leaving the 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.440 field of education teachers, and that's something that I actually 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.520 really do want to cover on woke a f it's 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.520 to see in this ce right of the quote unquote 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:54.480 great resignation, how many teachers have been fleeing the field 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.240 because of COVID, because of the increase in school shootings, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.560 and now because of the that they can be called 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.119 out right that if they're asking children in schools to 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.720 lift up your mask, that they're on fucking text to 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.960 their parents who want to come up to the school, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.600 like the Virginia parents said, with a bunch of fucking 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.960 loaded weapons, Like who are we? What the fuck is 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:25.639 happening here? This shit is not normal, nor should it 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.040 be normalized on a regular basis by the media talking 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.760 about Oh, both sides, Because when I heard about that 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.840 parent in Virginia who threatened to bring in every single 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.280 one of her guns loaded because of a mask mandate, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:47.240 she threatened to shoot up her child's school because wearing 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.840 a cloth mask to protect that student's life and those 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.520 around them is too fucking much. So, mommy dearest wanted 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.480 to be locked and loaded at the next school fucking 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.600 drop off. And then you want to showcase that on 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.080 the news by saying, quote unquote tensions were high at 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.879 school board meeting. Are you fucking dumb. Are we serious 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:19.680 with this? These people are radicalized, They are dangerous. This 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:25.439 isn't just hot talk right on the playground. This is 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:30.719 some threatening ass domestic threat that I'm glad that that 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.199 woman was charged for, but the charges need to be 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:41.760 a lot higher. Right until we're waiting for what that 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.560 parent who doesn't just provide a verbal warning but then 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.400 just comes up to the school and starts spraying bullets. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:20:00.320 This country is on the wrong track. And you do 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.720 not need to see the latest poll numbers to get 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.280 a sense of that. All you need to do is 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.080 open up your eyes and ears and take in what 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.119 is going on. Take in what we have normalized and 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:23.280 continue to normalize the vicious, violent, threatening behavior of Republicans, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.520 and then we want to put them under the category 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.640 of conservative. You tell me what is considered conservative about 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:39.840 threatening violence? Oh, my kids have rights? You want to 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.560 tell me you know about this parental control, which folks 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:52.199 I tweeted yesterday that this isn't about parental control, but 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.920 it's the same language that segregationist used in the nineteen 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:02.320 fifties to try and keep white and black kids separate 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:06.040 from one another. Right to try and keep public school 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:11.160 segregation alive, and well, well, your good white children shouldn't 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.359 have to go to school with those black kids, and 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:18.360 that's not the language that they use. We know that, right, 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.800 They shouldn't have to sit side by side like they 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.280 are equal or some shit. So run de Santis, the 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.080 new George Wallace is sitting around saying, well, what is 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.120 it that I can what I can do to protect 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.640 and insulate white people in the state of Florida. And 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.520 then Abbott will say what can I do to protect them? 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:48.000 And isolate right, the white parents in Texas and so 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.640 on and so forth, and so on and so forth, 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.720 until the next piece of legislation that you will certainly 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.720 see before the Supreme Court will be another run brown 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.000 voice versus the Board of Education, right, just under a 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.960 different name. And if you remember in Amy Covid Barrett's 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:10.720 fucking confirmation hearing, when asked if she thought that brown 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:15.040 versus the Board of Education was you know, settled law, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:22.119 she hummed and hot about that. So when you're looking 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:27.520 at the news and you're seeing, oh, well crt, well 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.399 that's not a thing. So Democrats don't actually need to 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.399 come up with a cohesive response to what that is 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.520 because you know the American people are smart, No, they 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:41.000 fucking are not. You saw what happened in Virginia with 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.080 the governor's race. We lost and what did young can 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:49.480 run on parental control? And now those parents are all 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.600 up in a fucking tizzy because now he started out 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.639 with CRT and Tony Morrison and is now on the Oh, 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:02.479 we're repealing your mask mandates. So now your kids are 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.200 going to school in harm's way. But you didn't fucking 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.359 think about that, because once again you're only thinking about yourself. 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:16.400 So word to the wise. They start with black people, right, 0:23:17.000 --> 0:23:20.359 the community of people that white Americans don't give a 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.360 fuck about and can come up with every excuse as 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.920 to why they should be treated bad, as to why 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:29.840 public schools are bad and high black and brown areas, 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.240 and to why they're deserving to be beaten and tazed 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.879 and murdered. They start with the group that no one 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:42.760 gives a fuck about, and then they move on to you. Right, 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:47.840 that's how it works. But you vote them in because 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:52.119 you're a low key fucking racist, and then all of 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.080 a sudden you end up like, oh, fuck, now my 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.720 kid is unsafe. Well, maybe if you had empathy and 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:02.160 gave a shit about anybody else's fucking kids or anybody 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:06.600 else's community, we wouldn't end up here. But oh, history 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:11.280 just loves to repeat itself because we whitewash it or 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:17.920 don't teach it at all. You know, to me, everything 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:24.080 is connected, It truly is, and not in the conspiracy theory, 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.000 you know, aluminum hat type of way, but in the 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:31.199 honest type of way. And I started out by talking 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.080 about the Ukraine, so let me circle back to that 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:38.960 for a moment. I want to be very clear as 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:47.160 to why our foreign affairs, our foreign relationships in the 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:53.639 US are part of our education problem. And what do 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.520 I mean by that. I mean that when you have 0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:03.360 been fed propaganda sin birth since since whether you were 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.119 born in the United States or become a citizen or 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.360 show up here or whatever it is, That's what I'm 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.880 talking about, from birth. If you are here in America 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:16.520 and you're in school, even if you're not in school, frankly, 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:23.000 you are fed. The America's great. We are the beacon, 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:27.880 we are number one, We are the best. Right, we 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:31.399 pledge allegiance because we are the home of the brave. 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.200 We open our arms to everyone. Oh, we're a mixing 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:38.399 pot whatever it is that you want to state. And 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:42.040 I'm sure there are so many other phrases in euphemisms 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:44.680 that we can use and that are used and peddled 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.440 all around the world. So we always love to believe 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:51.840 because of the line of bullshit that you have been 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:58.320 fed from K through twelve. Right, it's not until college, 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:00.840 in all honesty, and it depends on what kind of 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:03.040 university that you go to, or if you go to 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:10.360 university when critical thinking actually starts, right, because before then 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:20.560 it is just remember, recite, regurgitate, that's it. So you're 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:25.000 taught that everyone everywhere that the United States goes to intervene, 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.480 it's because we want to carry democracy with us, that 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:35.680 these people from our paternalistic colonizer viewpoint, right, need our 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:39.480 help because they can't do for themselves. And if the 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:47.960 United States doesn't intervene, then what will happen. The thing 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:52.840 that we are never told because it's not a talking 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:58.320 point that people want to give up, is that most 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:03.040 times when the United States goes to intervene anywhere, it 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:07.199 is based on whether or not that particular area, that 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:13.800 particular country is valuable to the United States. Right. It 0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:19.000 has nothing to do with securing or spreading democracy. It 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:26.920 has everything to do with political power and capitalism. Those 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:29.879 are the two things that matter. Because when you ask 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.040 from the vantage point of countries that we have bombed, 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:37.960 where we have killed thousands of civilians, where we have 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:44.800 destroyed homes and businesses and communities, and then we want 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:47.600 to turn around and offer some charitable aid for the 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:50.359 ship that we blew up, and then we run the 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:53.800 pr on that. When you were to actually ask the 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:57.960 people that are on the ground about the United States interventions, 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:01.399 and I use air quotes, they have a whole different 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:05.840 understanding about the United States, and it's not a fucking 0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:12.520 pleasant one. Right, We do arms deals and trading, and 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:17.320 we move around other countries political leaders, prime ministers and 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:23.560 presidents like fucking pieces on a chessboard, always protecting our 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:27.480 queen right, which is our country. But we will move 0:28:27.760 --> 0:28:33.720 every other piece around. We will sacrifice other people's stability 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:40.120 and wellness based on what it does to our positioning. 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:42.920 So when we look at what is happening in the 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:47.280 Ukraine right now, why don't you ask yourself about how 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:51.160 and why the Ukraine isn't allowed to make decisions about 0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:57.120 its own protection, About why these high, wealthy, high incominations 0:28:57.360 --> 0:28:59.320 are the ones that get to decide whether or not 0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:04.880 the Ukraine gets a seat at the table about why 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:09.959 we continue to negotiate right with the putents of the world, 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:12.640 or how Putin got into power in the first place, 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:15.600 or why Afghanistan ended up the fucking way that it did. 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:22.520 The United States, my god, our hands are not just dirty, 0:29:22.600 --> 0:29:29.360 they are fucking filthy when you look at what we 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:34.560 have done. America in a lot of ways creates a 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:40.360