Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream
Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square. Folks, I want to provide
Speaker 1: an update for you on the situation unfolding at the
Speaker 1: border with regard to the Haitian migrants that are there
Speaker 1: and the rapid expulsion that the Biden administration is doing
Speaker 1: while continuing to follow a Trump error policy that allows
Speaker 1: expeditious expulsions without folks having the ability to claim asylum
Speaker 1: or at least fill out any type of fucking paperwork
Speaker 1: right or have their cases be heard. And what we're
Speaker 1: seeing in this chaotic expulsion is that when these planes
Speaker 1: flights are arriving into Porta, prints are arriving back in Haiti,
Speaker 1: folks are just being dumped on the tarmac with their
Speaker 1: whatever belongings that they had scattered by ice. Right, Haitian
Speaker 1: government is in shambles because since the assassination of the
Speaker 1: president and rebels, gangs are running the streets and essentially
Speaker 1: terrorizing the entire country. So this is what a democratic
Speaker 1: administration is sending migrants back to that are seeking asylum
Speaker 1: in the United States, while at the same time, folks,
Speaker 1: while at the same time providing what hospitality and refuge
Speaker 1: to ninety five thousand Afghans. Now, look, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to put us in a crabs in a barrel situation
Speaker 1: because I believe that given what the United States did
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and their chaotic withdrawal and the Afghans that
Speaker 1: they have left behind, that that is the least that
Speaker 1: they can fucking do. But how is it that you
Speaker 1: have room for ninety five thousand Afghans to come to
Speaker 1: the United States and can't create space for fifteen thousand Haitians. Right,
Speaker 1: it is a matter of desire. It is not a
Speaker 1: matter of space. It is not a matter of resources.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of values and morals. And apparently, like
Speaker 1: I continue to say, new boss, same as the fucking
Speaker 1: old boss, that when it comes to black people, we
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck in America. So in the update
Speaker 1: I want to provide is that yesterday the Special Envoy
Speaker 1: for Haiti, Ambassador at Daniel Foote, a career member of
Speaker 1: the Foreign Service, resigned and I want to read you
Speaker 1: his resignation letter if you haven't heard it already, because
Speaker 1: it is scathing and rightfully fucking so you know it
Speaker 1: pains me, and I know that all of you who
Speaker 1: watched Woke Wednesday and hopefully have read and I'm going
Speaker 1: to read a portion of my ed that I wrote
Speaker 1: for Zora magazine about how America owes Haiti and Haitians
Speaker 1: more than what they are doing right now. But let
Speaker 1: me read you the resignation letter. It starts like this,
Speaker 1: Dear Secretary, blinkin with deep disappointment and apologies to those
Speaker 1: seeking crucial changes. I resign from my position as Special
Speaker 1: Envoy for Haiti, effective immediately. I will not be associated
Speaker 1: with the United states inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands
Speaker 1: of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country
Speaker 1: where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of
Speaker 1: the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life.
Speaker 1: Our policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my
Speaker 1: recommendations have been ignored and dismissed when not edited to
Speaker 1: project a narrative different from my own. He continues, The
Speaker 1: people of Haiti mired in poverty, hostage to terror, kidnappings, robberies,
Speaker 1: and massacres of armed gangs, and suffering under a corrupt
Speaker 1: government with gang alliances simply cannot support the forced infusion
Speaker 1: of thousands of return migrants lacking food, shelter, and money
Speaker 1: without additional avoidable human tragedy. The collapse state is unable
Speaker 1: to provide security or basic services, and more refugees will
Speaker 1: fuel further desperation and crime. Surging migration to our borders
Speaker 1: will only grow as we add to Haiti's unacceptable misery.
Speaker 1: Hatians need immediate assistance to restore the government's ability to
Speaker 1: neutralize the gangs and restore order through the national police.
Speaker 1: They need a true agreement across society and political actors
Speaker 1: with international support to chart a timely path to democratic
Speaker 1: selection of their next president and parliament. They need humanitarian assistance,
Speaker 1: money to deliver COVID vaccines, and so many other things.
Speaker 1: But what our Haitian friends really want and need is
Speaker 1: the opportunity to chart their own course without international puppeteering
Speaker 1: and favored candidates, but with genuine support for that course.
Speaker 1: I do not believe that Haiti can enjoy stability until
Speaker 1: her citizens have the dignity of truly choosing their own
Speaker 1: leaders fairly and acceptably. Last week, the US and other
Speaker 1: embassies and Porter prints issued another public statement of support
Speaker 1: for the unelected de facto Prime Minister, Doctor Ariel Henry
Speaker 1: as interim leader of Haiti, and have continued to tout
Speaker 1: his quote political agreement over another broader, earlier accord, Shepherd
Speaker 1: by civil society. The hubris that makes us believe we
Speaker 1: should pick the winner again is impressive. This cycle of
Speaker 1: international political interventions in Haiti has consistently produced catastrophic results.
Speaker 1: More negative impacts to Haiti will have calamitous consequences not
Speaker 1: only in Haiti, but in the US and our neighbors
Speaker 1: in the hemisphere. Sincerely, Daniel Foote, that is one of
Speaker 1: the most scathing resignation letters I think that we have seen.
Speaker 1: And the fact that this is coming again under a
Speaker 1: democratic administration, an administration that said that it was going
Speaker 1: to be transparent, that it was going to be kind,
Speaker 1: that it was going to be empathetic, the complete and
Speaker 1: total opposite of what we had experienced over the last
Speaker 1: four years under Donald Trump. And right now this administration
Speaker 1: has expelled more people then Donald Trump's administration did. So
Speaker 1: how do you then say to yourself, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: what I voted for, this is the ship that is
Speaker 1: being done in our name. This is a ship that
Speaker 1: is done by Democrats so that they seem what tough
Speaker 1: at the border, but only tough at the border for
Speaker 1: a select group of people that always always happen to
Speaker 1: be black. I gotta tell you that I am sick
Speaker 1: to death. And the images that continue to come out
Speaker 1: from the border, and the images that come out from
Speaker 1: the airport and port to Prince are things that we
Speaker 1: should not see. It should be unmanageable. And when asked
Speaker 1: right when Jen Psaki was asked yesterday by Yamish Alisendor
Speaker 1: about why Biden wasn't using his platform to talk about
Speaker 1: the outrage about what is happening at the border, Jen
Speaker 1: Psaki responses, well, he's very troubled by it, and he'll
Speaker 1: say something at some point. Wait what let me say
Speaker 1: to you exactly what she said. We continue to enforce
Speaker 1: Title forty two. This is the Trump policy. Families and
Speaker 1: single adults are removed. According to that, some families with
Speaker 1: kids of certain age are not removed. Here's the other thing,
Speaker 1: Jimmy says, why isn't President Biden using his bully pulpit
Speaker 1: and speaking out himself about the treatment of Haitian migrants, Jensaki.
Speaker 1: He's speaking out through his actions and through other officials,
Speaker 1: including herself. President Biden also certainly may speak to it.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, we saw Texas Border Patrol agents on horseback
Speaker 1: using whips, and I let me tell you something. I
Speaker 1: sometimes am very happy that people don't ask me to
Speaker 1: come on television and the way that I used to
Speaker 1: because I watched on CNN a white anchor say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: just to be clear, the Texas Border Patrol agents weren't
Speaker 1: whipping the Haitian migrants. No, No, they were just using
Speaker 1: the lassos as a way to round them up. Bitch,
Speaker 1: are they cattle? Because I'm confused about why why white
Speaker 1: people need to look for excuses for what is obvious
Speaker 1: malice and cruelty against black people, against black bodies. Why
Speaker 1: is it always white people's way to look for the
Speaker 1: fucking excuses for their cruelty instead of just acknowledging what
Speaker 1: the fucking pictures show us. I could not believe it,
Speaker 1: and then had the audacity to ask a member of Congress,
Speaker 1: do you think that it's okay for them to use
Speaker 1: these lassos as a way, you know, because there's just
Speaker 1: so many of them. It is this type of dehumanization
Speaker 1: that we see the media join in on and exploit
Speaker 1: all the goddamn time to provide an excuse and an
Speaker 1: outlet for cruelty against black people. Oh, there's just too
Speaker 1: many black Patian migrants, so we must be on horseback
Speaker 1: rounding them up like they are fucking cattle. The last
Speaker 1: time I checked, chattel slavery was out right. The last
Speaker 1: time I checked, you were able to be free in
Speaker 1: this fucking country, or as I like to say, free ish.
Speaker 1: There is no excuse, no excuse forever ever utilizing that
Speaker 1: method for anything other than an animal. And I guarantee
Speaker 1: you that the same white folks that are looking for
Speaker 1: excuses for why this was you that if you saw
Speaker 1: some fucking cattle being whipped, you would have more fucking outrage.
Speaker 1: Peter would be up in arms, Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: animal cruelty. We care more in this country about animal
Speaker 1: protection than we do about the protection of black people,
Speaker 1: specifically those that are seeking asylum, that are coming here
Speaker 1: risking their lives because what is behind them is so
Speaker 1: catastrophic that they are willing to put their children on
Speaker 1: their backs and wade through water up to their necks
Speaker 1: in order to make it to the United States. Do
Speaker 1: you understand how what is behind you in your homeland
Speaker 1: must be so horrific to risk your life and the
Speaker 1: life of your child. But we will never know that
Speaker 1: in the United States, right, and so it's okay to
Speaker 1: pass judgment on these people. Why don't they go through
Speaker 1: legal means? You have no idea? Think to yourself, what
Speaker 1: would have you leave your home with just a knapsack,
Speaker 1: right and your child into to walk for three fucking months.
Speaker 1: Imagine what kind of horror you would have to leave
Speaker 1: right to pick up and go and say, we gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. That is what is happening to
Speaker 1: folks that are coming in black and brown trying to
Speaker 1: make it into this quote unquote promised land. And this
Speaker 1: is what Haitian migrants are met with. This is why
Speaker 1: Republicans don't want critical race theory to be taught. This
Speaker 1: is why they want this country children and adults alike
Speaker 1: to continue to be gas lit, to continue to be
Speaker 1: ostriches and keep their heads stuck in the sand instead
Speaker 1: of believing the truth about America and how America bigfoots
Speaker 1: itself and intervenes into countries that it has no business
Speaker 1: being in for their own economic interests, not the bullshit
Speaker 1: that they tell us, which is to secure democracy around
Speaker 1: the world. That's not what this has ever been about.
Speaker 1: It has been about securing capitalism and their fucking investments
Speaker 1: around the world and using various countries, underdeveloped and underresourced
Speaker 1: ones as their fucking pawns in their own desire for
Speaker 1: manifest destiny. Right. So, whether or not we are continuing
Speaker 1: to colonize, no, we don't do that. But there are
Speaker 1: many of territories of the United States that shouldn't be
Speaker 1: and Haiti was one of the ones that they wanted.
Speaker 1: And because they couldn't get Haiti, because they couldn't take
Speaker 1: it over in the way that they wanted to, they
Speaker 1: punished Haiti. So let me tell you and provide you
Speaker 1: with a little bit of history as to how we
Speaker 1: got here, because you see, that's the thing that America
Speaker 1: doesn't want us to do, which is to connect the dots. Right.
Speaker 1: We just love to look at the present moment and say, again,
Speaker 1: these people are undeserving. What are they doing here? Why
Speaker 1: don't they build up their own countries? Well, let me
Speaker 1: tell you what the United States and France by the
Speaker 1: way have done for centuries to this very small nation.
Speaker 1: When Haiti had their revolt, which happened in eighteen oh four,
Speaker 1: much in the same way that after the Civil War
Speaker 1: in the United States, that instead of the United States
Speaker 1: government paying reparations by the way of forty acres in
Speaker 1: a mule to the formerly enslave that we're now free
Speaker 1: and had nothing right, had been stolen generations prior from
Speaker 1: their home, were robbed of their language, were robbed of
Speaker 1: their culture, were robbed of their income right due to
Speaker 1: building this name him, instead of providing those enslaved Africans
Speaker 1: formerly enslaved Africans now free black people with the means
Speaker 1: to be able to thrive in the United States following
Speaker 1: four hundred years of slavery, instead the United States government
Speaker 1: decided to pay reparations to who the slave masters for
Speaker 1: their loss of fucking income after the Civil War, That's
Speaker 1: what the United States did, and so in following right
Speaker 1: following the US's moves all the time, France, after the
Speaker 1: revolt in Haiti, decided that Haiti was indebted to France
Speaker 1: and needed to pay them for their loss of income
Speaker 1: from having colonized Haiti. And when Haiti could not afford
Speaker 1: to pay that debt. Rants remained in power and economic
Speaker 1: control of the country. The United States would later at
Speaker 1: the turn of the twentieth century do the same fucking
Speaker 1: thing to Haiti. And so for those people who love
Speaker 1: to pop up in my comments section and tell me
Speaker 1: that people need to go back to where they are
Speaker 1: from and if they don't like this treatment, then they
Speaker 1: shouldn't have come in the first place. Fuck you, and
Speaker 1: try and pick up a book one of these days,
Speaker 1: try and do a little Google search and ask the
Speaker 1: question why, and don't just take the spoon fed sacharine
Speaker 1: that the United States decides to cover it's very dark
Speaker 1: and sinful history in That is it for today's Woke
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