Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Pre Recorded from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome back to wok F
Speaker 1: Daily after a very long time away my friend the
Speaker 1: Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain. You know,
Speaker 1: whenever Mark and I have the opportunity to get into conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, I never know where it is going to
Speaker 1: take us because there is always so much to cover,
Speaker 1: and it is always so rich and informating. But also
Speaker 1: I said informing, I'm that informative, but you can tell
Speaker 1: I'm tired. But the conversations are always so good and
Speaker 1: and I talk about a range of things, but it
Speaker 1: always centers around justice. It always centers around what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do? Mark makes a joke on this episode
Speaker 1: that I always look to him to tell us about
Speaker 1: the Civil rights era as if he was, like, you know,
Speaker 1: a grown man at that time. He was not, but
Speaker 1: he's older than me, so I always looked at him.
Speaker 1: And because he is, you know, and has been steeped
Speaker 1: in the Black church and in the you know, movement
Speaker 1: for Black liberation, and you know, has been shoulder to
Speaker 1: shoulder literally with some of the great leaders of our time.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I hope that you enjoy today's conversation.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy having Mark on the show, and I
Speaker 1: hope that you take something good from it. My conversation
Speaker 1: with our friend Mark Thompson is coming up next, folks.
Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome back to WOKF Daily
Speaker 1: after kind of a long time my friend, the Reverend
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, who is the host of Make It Plain. Mark,
Speaker 1: we have been I don't know how many times people
Speaker 1: say the word historic, how many times people a week
Speaker 1: say the word extraordinary. But we are living in some
Speaker 1: wild ass times, very unpredictable, increasingly dangerous, and I want
Speaker 1: to start with the fact that this Republican Party, who
Speaker 1: used to be about quote unquote law and order, used
Speaker 1: to hail the cops, used to uphold institutions and agencies
Speaker 1: around law, now openly threaten the FBI, openly threaten the CIA,
Speaker 1: openly threatened a now former general, the former Joint chiefs
Speaker 1: of Staff Mark General Mark Millie, now are just openly violent,
Speaker 1: hiding behind the First Amendment. And I just want to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this moment that many people are
Speaker 1: living on pins and needles.
Speaker 2: With Well, it's always good to be with you. Thank
Speaker 2: you for having me. This is a pretty incredible moment.
Speaker 2: I can't even take credit for him about to say,
Speaker 2: our friend and dear colleague, Joyanne Reid said this not
Speaker 2: too long ago, Danielle, and that is we are at
Speaker 2: the end of politics. So politics is supposed to be
Speaker 2: about how who gets what, winning wi and sometimes why.
Speaker 3: That's it. This is a two party system in this country.
Speaker 2: It's not a multi party democracy like even South Africas
Speaker 2: or other countries for that matter. And so when you
Speaker 2: have a two party democracy and one party is engaging
Speaker 2: in intimidation and suppression and violence and literally not governing, yes,
Speaker 2: that leads.
Speaker 3: It to the other party.
Speaker 2: Where in the way it's set up, it's not as
Speaker 2: if the other party has an absolute majority or able
Speaker 2: to govern. In fact, the party doesn't want to govern,
Speaker 2: is building super majorities around the country. So I want
Speaker 2: people to remember six years ago to the march on Washington,
Speaker 2: Doctor King said in a position in nullification, I hope
Speaker 2: everybody those are big words. Then what a mean what
Speaker 2: doctor King say in like fucking black church preacher, like
Speaker 2: doctor King say something heavy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what he said, but it shows sound
Speaker 2: good and now I hope people understand what he meant
Speaker 2: by that. This is the interposition and nullification of not
Speaker 2: just the functioning of the government, but the functionality of
Speaker 2: delivering services to American citizens, whom are taxpayers and whom
Speaker 2: are not even taxpayers. We're gonna shut it down, We're
Speaker 2: gonna make it it's not gonna functions. It's a more
Speaker 2: sophisticated form of anarchy, but the violence and the threats
Speaker 2: of violence also bring about a more physical form of
Speaker 2: anarchy as well. So we are dealing with with with anarchists.
Speaker 2: So we're not talking about politics anymore. We're not talking
Speaker 2: about delivery of services. We're not talking about a two
Speaker 2: party system where there's a balance and one other political
Speaker 2: entity is seeking votes and support based upon policy that
Speaker 2: they want to happen.
Speaker 3: They just want to stop everything.
Speaker 2: Stop women, yep from functioning, stop voting, stop us from voting,
Speaker 2: just stop stop stop stop stop black people from walking.
Speaker 3: Down the store. You know, anything you can stop.
Speaker 2: And as Joyce said the other day, you know, the
Speaker 2: media also bears some responsibility in this because at some
Speaker 2: point people need to be made to understand that not
Speaker 2: only is this into politics, but there are there's no equivalency.
Speaker 3: This is false equivalency. Yeap, what there is no.
Speaker 2: Equivalent between Hunter Biden and Donald Trump. No, that's not
Speaker 2: about that. That does not nullify. That's not mutual nullification.
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden is obviously being held accountable for whatever crimes
Speaker 2: he's accused of Donald Trump. It is well, but Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden didn't run for president, and in living White House,
Speaker 2: he's not the president.
Speaker 1: And it's never been an elected official, right, has never
Speaker 1: run for office. So what wrongdoing he does in his
Speaker 1: own life has the implications for his own life. The
Speaker 1: wrongdoings that Donald Trump and his criminalized family have done
Speaker 1: have implications for the nation.
Speaker 3: Right, and Trump is the conclusion.
Speaker 2: He is the He is the cumulative result of this effort,
Speaker 2: going back to Reagan, the stop government. Let's stop government.
Speaker 2: Let's stop government now, not only again, we stop it.
Speaker 2: We can be anarchists, we can be insurrectionists, we can
Speaker 2: overthrow it, we can literally stop elections. And he is
Speaker 2: the cumulative manifestation of this coming together at this hour.
Speaker 2: So this truly is a different place, and the sooner
Speaker 2: that people realize that and accept it and begin articulating it.
Speaker 2: That's the only way of going to But we keep
Speaker 2: going around sinking, Oh, well, you know it's just high politics.
Speaker 3: No, what is the policy?
Speaker 2: What are we doing for people? You're paying taxes, you're
Speaker 2: not getting anything. Middle class is struggling, all right. I
Speaker 2: mean not saying the economy hadn't gotten better, but still
Speaker 2: that's relative. Yeah, economy is good, but people still aren't
Speaker 2: making the wages they should be making.
Speaker 1: No, because inflation is still high, and the fact is
Speaker 1: that your dollar does not go as far as it
Speaker 1: used to. Right, And I think that, you know, here
Speaker 1: we find ourselves in this place that I don't think
Speaker 1: that we've ever been because you know, correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Mark. But during the Civil Rights era, which
Speaker 1: was a dangerous time right in America, there was not
Speaker 1: this or maybe I'm wrong. Let me ask you, what's
Speaker 1: there this allegiance to lawlessness by the Republican Party, by
Speaker 1: the white supremacy and the concernvatives that were working to
Speaker 1: not allow integration in schools that were bombing churches that
Speaker 1: were was there an overt allegiance by a political party
Speaker 1: to just okay it.
Speaker 2: Well, to some extent, there was, especially when it came
Speaker 2: to some of the state governments and the southern governors.
Speaker 3: Yes, George Wallace.
Speaker 2: Sent the Alabama State troopers onto the Edmond Pettit's Bridge.
Speaker 2: Bull Connor sent the Birmingham Police Force to sick dogs
Speaker 2: on people and spray water from fire hoses.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but this is the first time you've seen
Speaker 3: a national politician.
Speaker 1: Not individual acts by people.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, national politician encouraging it in this way, other
Speaker 2: than the Civil War of course, and what the Confederacy did.
Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is that now with
Speaker 2: a national figure like Donald Trump, you have a president
Speaker 2: of the United States.
Speaker 3: Think about it too.
Speaker 2: Even in the South, Eisenhower was he got caught to
Speaker 2: middle Eisenhower had to respond to what was going on
Speaker 2: in Little Rock, even if he didn't want to, because
Speaker 2: at that time the presidency actually mattered.
Speaker 3: Kennedy had to.
Speaker 2: Get in things that he didn't when he was elected
Speaker 2: president of nineteen sixty he didn't plan to get in.
Speaker 2: Some of the things he got into that came on
Speaker 2: its own, and the movement made Kennedy an ally and
Speaker 2: for a moment, Eisenhower was too. When he sent in troops.
Speaker 2: But think about it, that's when the presidency.
Speaker 3: Mattered.
Speaker 2: The presidency no longer matters because we are at the
Speaker 2: end of politics, that this anarchistic, insurrectionist state. I've probably
Speaker 2: said this on your show before. We'll say it again
Speaker 2: for those who may have missed it. But if some
Speaker 2: of you've heard it, I apologize if it's ad nauseam.
Speaker 2: Remember you're you're coming from the civil rights era context
Speaker 2: and folks, Daniel's asking these questions. But I don't want
Speaker 2: you all to take her asking me these questions as
Speaker 2: a suggestion that I was alive and fully grown. Do
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's what they're trying to do, but
Speaker 2: I was a little bit came a few years later. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: but check this out. But I read I'm a student
Speaker 2: of history. Now when I say this, you all remember
Speaker 2: this too. When black people before integration, before desegregation, I'd
Speaker 2: like to say desegrogation, because we never were really integrated
Speaker 2: before desegregation. If we've scotten the white folks pool, they
Speaker 2: had drained the pool. If we stayed in a hotel,
Speaker 2: there wasn't decerrogreated.
Speaker 3: They had to burn the sheets. If you all remember
Speaker 3: in Django.
Speaker 2: When Samuel Jackson played Stephen and he should have got
Speaker 2: an oscar for the iconic uncle Tom.
Speaker 3: And when Dango shows up, he says, where's gonna sleep?
Speaker 3: Who's gonna burn the sheets? Right?
Speaker 2: Lena Horne often tell the story when she was invited
Speaker 2: to play in big places, they try to put in
Speaker 2: the big hotels. Then they burn the sheets after she left.
Speaker 2: That was the mentality civil rights movement. So think about this,
Speaker 2: an intelligent, good looking black family of four occupied sixteen
Speaker 2: hundred Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to burn the sheets. Yes, in fact, you have
Speaker 3: to burn the build yep, burn the country down. I
Speaker 3: don't think that's heavy. I don't think you need no PhD.
Speaker 2: We don't need no whole lot of scholarship or fellowships
Speaker 2: to figure out I think what I just I think
Speaker 2: I just said something.
Speaker 3: This really ain't that complicated.
Speaker 2: And we've always had to have have had to be
Speaker 2: the ones to articulate, hello, the truth about what they
Speaker 2: did to us. See, the oppressor of the predator never
Speaker 2: does that.
Speaker 3: M HM.
Speaker 2: Hitler would say, they framed what they were doing, They
Speaker 2: put their spin on what they were doing.
Speaker 3: The Holocaust victims sayid, no, no, this is what's really
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 2: Nobody heard them, nobody believed them even here in this country.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Yo, they ain't nobody really doing that. They'll
Speaker 3: tripping same thing here.
Speaker 2: They are burning the sheets and by this they burn
Speaker 2: the sheets in the sixties and during Django's time. I'm
Speaker 2: saying now in this era, they're burning down the country.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, that is a word right there, got
Speaker 1: to preach one because, you know, because the reality is
Speaker 1: that we all know, right intellectually speaking, that this is
Speaker 1: a white lash from the Obama presidency. But to say,
Speaker 1: to put it in the context of burning the sheets
Speaker 1: and the fact that this black family, this black man
Speaker 1: becomes president of the United States, not for four years
Speaker 1: but for eight right is still held up as and
Speaker 1: will be, you know, potentially remembered as one of the
Speaker 1: great presidents of a really interesting time in America because
Speaker 1: we don't know what this timeline is going to be
Speaker 1: of destruction and anarchy that we're in. But to equate
Speaker 1: it to the fact that, I mean, this goes beyond
Speaker 1: Jonathan Metzil's book Dying of Whiteness. This is like, we
Speaker 1: are going to burn everything to the ground because this group,
Speaker 1: these people who we believe should still exist in shackles,
Speaker 1: should still exist solely in service to us. Dare to
Speaker 1: enter into that white house. We're voted in by Republicans,
Speaker 1: by white folks right twice.
Speaker 3: And white women right in sixteen.
Speaker 1: So I'm like so to turn around and say, but
Speaker 1: that was the whole point though with Donald Trump, because
Speaker 1: it goes to Johnson's You know, if you can teach
Speaker 1: the poorest white man that he's better than the best
Speaker 1: black man, you can pick his pockets. Right, So you
Speaker 1: give us your worst Donald Trump is the fucking worst, right.
Speaker 1: Let you give us the most ignorant, the most egotistical,
Speaker 1: the most dangerous, the most selfish right white man that
Speaker 1: you could possibly put up to be president of the
Speaker 1: United States, the antithesis of what Obama is, and what
Speaker 1: Obama is stood for as a smush in the face
Speaker 1: to those of us that believed that we were on
Speaker 1: the beginning of America's progressive transition and not this place
Speaker 1: of deep regression. So my question is if they if
Speaker 1: burning the sheets was the response, and burning down the
Speaker 1: country now is their response to black people being in
Speaker 1: a place of authority and power. Well, this doesn't ever end, Mark,
Speaker 1: does it? Until they are sufficiently have burnt shit down.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's let's add to it. Let's let's add
Speaker 2: the ins to the injury for white folks. They what
Speaker 2: did y'all and Heston say when he was head of
Speaker 2: the NRA, If you want my gun, you have.
Speaker 1: To come and take it from my cold dead hair, right.
Speaker 2: Cry it from my prior. That was a metaphor for America,
Speaker 2: because is changing. America is becoming a majority minority country,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: So that's this is the last grasp. James Baldwin put
Speaker 3: it this way.
Speaker 2: He said, we have come to the end of one
Speaker 2: language and are about forming a new one. America is
Speaker 2: the last white country the world will ever see. There's
Speaker 2: no more Western civilization, can't go no more west anymore.
Speaker 2: That can't explore no more. That's it's over. That's why
Speaker 2: you got to go out of space. Now, that's right there.
Speaker 2: That's that's another word. Because we can't do anymore here.
Speaker 2: So watch this, doctor King nineteen sixty five March from
Speaker 2: some of the Montgomery at the Montgomery State Capital. How
Speaker 2: after the Civil War, America had to had to, as
Speaker 2: he said, engineer a segregated society. And this is what
Speaker 2: he said, through their control of mass media, they revised
Speaker 2: a doction of white supremacy. They saturated the thinking of
Speaker 2: poor white masses with it, thus clouding their minds. All right,
Speaker 2: then they directed all of this. They put new laws
Speaker 2: on the books to Jim Crow, laws all of that.
Speaker 2: And then doctor King says this, It may be said
Speaker 2: of the slavery are that the white man took the
Speaker 2: world and gave the negro Jesus. And then it may
Speaker 2: be said that the constructor reconstruction area era that the
Speaker 2: southern aristocracy Danielle took the world and gave the world
Speaker 2: and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. And when
Speaker 2: white man had this Jim Crow, when his wrinkled stomach
Speaker 2: cried out for the food that his empty pockets could
Speaker 2: not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that
Speaker 2: told him to no matter how bad off he was,
Speaker 2: at least he was a white man better off than
Speaker 2: the black man.
Speaker 3: Jim Crow was at birt.
Speaker 2: So what is Trump is the current manifestations playing the
Speaker 2: race card. He's causing division because you don't want It's
Speaker 2: what's where Red and Barbara doing.
Speaker 3: He's trying to do the poor people's campaign.
Speaker 2: The Poor People's Campaign, which Doctor King starter was to
Speaker 2: correct what I just described.
Speaker 3: Hey, guess what y'all poor people? You know? Let me
Speaker 3: tell you some commitment y'all doing mad as us?
Speaker 2: Oh, white women in twenty sixteen, y'all know, robody now
Speaker 2: mock you and Danielle Tripping were.
Speaker 3: Telling white women y'all about to lose role. They didn't
Speaker 3: believe it. Yep, we get it.
Speaker 2: We're voting for the white woman that you don't vote
Speaker 2: for because y'all got crabs in the barrel. Remember we
Speaker 2: weren't serious exam when the white woman called my show
Speaker 2: and said my white women got crabs in the barrel.
Speaker 3: Right. We tried to tell y'all nobody believe it. Oh,
Speaker 3: y'all just cu y'all been saying that for fifty years. No,
Speaker 3: they've been fighting it for fifty years.
Speaker 2: If we fought for one thing for fifty years, rather
Speaker 2: than think we're gonna get it tomorrow on Instagram, think
Speaker 2: how far we would be. So doctor King's trying to
Speaker 2: correct that, they kill him right when Barbie tries to.
Speaker 3: Correct it, and I going, I'm into West Virginia. How
Speaker 3: many these places people? I'm doing bad?
Speaker 2: You got to distract them into Donald Trump and the
Speaker 2: foolishness and the hating us and trying to see.
Speaker 3: We got to stop women. Man, yw you're gonna pay
Speaker 3: your rent now, I gotta stop women. But you ain't
Speaker 3: got no money. Let's stop stop right there. Let's talk
Speaker 3: about how to.
Speaker 2: Get you some money, get you a real job, get
Speaker 2: you some real income. Nobody's a bigger reparations activist than
Speaker 2: me advocate. We are when white folks got fah loans,
Speaker 2: homestead act all the things that are set up the
Speaker 2: middle class. Middle class didn't come out from no cabbage patch.
Speaker 2: All right, All that's obsolete. Now we need reparations. And
Speaker 2: I would even dare say white folks need a middle
Speaker 2: class upgrade.
Speaker 3: We do twice, they do once. So when you speak
Speaker 3: in those terms and.
Speaker 2: People can't really get mad at you, they just ignore
Speaker 2: it because it's easier to be racist.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's easier to hate ya.
Speaker 3: It's easier, and it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's no different. We all are guilty of it. We
Speaker 2: just had a strike, was striking over for the actors. Folks,
Speaker 2: Black actors got to stick together. We're still on strike.
Speaker 2: We all are anesthetized by media. Netflix. We don't Netflix
Speaker 2: and chill. We Netflix and get intoxicated and zoned out
Speaker 2: from reality.
Speaker 1: Yep. And now because it's a pacifier, it is a pacifier.
Speaker 2: But see for them Fox is there Netflix? That just
Speaker 2: ain't ours, ain't no different from us. They checking out
Speaker 2: on Fox. We check it out on something Helse or
Speaker 2: Love and Hip Hop or The Real Housewives. All right,
Speaker 2: because that is the anestetization, and that's an easy fix.
Speaker 2: That's the band aid for your everyday reality of working
Speaker 2: too many long hours for too little money. So where
Speaker 2: is the vision in America to change that? Where you
Speaker 2: killed it in nineteen sixty five? You killed it in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight, twice.
Speaker 3: In April and in June.
Speaker 2: Killed it November sixty years this November, all.
Speaker 3: Right, you killed it, you know, you know.
Speaker 2: Then Johnson comes in and he's able to do some things,
Speaker 2: but then that's the end of that. Then you bring
Speaker 2: in Nixon, and I'm antaed this lit nice little bow.
Speaker 3: Stop Nixon.
Speaker 2: Junkies who don't get help and don't go to any meetings, right,
Speaker 2: never admit the drug controls them. You always had a
Speaker 2: feeling you can beat the drug now that I'm saying
Speaker 2: junkies that can go for alcoholics, I got this.
Speaker 3: I'm in control. No, you're not.
Speaker 2: The junkies for this anarchy. Many of the same people
Speaker 2: that were around in the seventies with Nixon what a Knicks,
Speaker 2: always say this was a botched up job, botched up Burkeley,
Speaker 2: never an admission that you violated the constitution. You a
Speaker 2: dog on criminal, I'm not a crook. The people Roger
Speaker 2: Stone on Trump's man.
Speaker 3: All the people, yep, yep, I like junkies.
Speaker 2: They're still trying to prove that they got control over
Speaker 2: their behavior that the criminality doesn't have control over. So
Speaker 2: we can we can we we Nixon was botched up, man,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna we can do this for you.
Speaker 3: We're gonna fix this.
Speaker 2: At least Nixon had the sense they put he they
Speaker 2: put a mirror in front of him, and they put
Speaker 2: a crystal ball, and they said, you're gonna end up
Speaker 2: like a guy in the future named Trump. You're gonna
Speaker 2: lose all your business licenses, your businesses, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: lose all your property, you might go to prison. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have ninety one charges against you. And Nixon still
Speaker 2: had the sense, and he was now calling himself he
Speaker 2: still had the sense. You know what, I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that. I think I'll just resigned. That's
Speaker 2: the deal we're gonna cut. You resign and all that
Speaker 2: goes away. Trump doesn't get it because he's gonna go
Speaker 2: down with the white supremacist slave ship.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mark, I really hope that that is
Speaker 1: the case. I really do, because you know, when Joyce
Speaker 1: said this is the end of politics, I had said
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, this is white supremacy's last stand that day,
Speaker 1: Election Day. That is what I said. Here we are
Speaker 1: now eight plus years later, seven eight years later, and
Speaker 1: we're watching this play out, the ninety one charges, two
Speaker 1: impeachment trials, you know, losing the businesses on the hook
Speaker 1: potentially for two hundred and fifty million or more here
Speaker 1: in New York, right, We're watching all of this play out,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, but will it be the death? Now?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying. If this is the
Speaker 1: end of politics, this is the last question for you.
Speaker 1: If this is the end of politics, then what comes depth?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hey, well, first of all, you said some Danielle that
Speaker 2: I really.
Speaker 3: Just heard clearly, and I hope other people heard it
Speaker 3: as well. Years. If folks, time is not on ours,
Speaker 3: a time is flying.
Speaker 2: Yep, y'all, we're almost a decade older than when now.
Speaker 3: Trump came in power. Look at y'all. Do y'all look
Speaker 3: the same?
Speaker 2: Does anybody listen to us look the same in the
Speaker 2: mirriad morning? They did ten years ago?
Speaker 3: So that's ten years of foolishness and stress.
Speaker 2: If any one of us was in a relationship, I'd
Speaker 2: like to think with somebody that's crazy in our house.
Speaker 1: For ten years they got to we would have said it.
Speaker 3: So the answer ultimately.
Speaker 2: Is going back to the unfinished business of the civil
Speaker 2: rights movement, of the black power movement, of the revolution. Okay,
Speaker 2: and that is fundamentally changing this country. Well what does
Speaker 2: that mean? So, folks, it's two kinds of revolution. Is
Speaker 2: a revolution and a counter revolution. A revolution is for
Speaker 2: positive change. Counter revolution is to stop it. Counterintelligence is
Speaker 2: to stop that's cointeil pro.
Speaker 3: So the revolution that.
Speaker 2: Doctor King talked about, the Malcolm X talked about was
Speaker 2: transformative in the sense that America would live up to
Speaker 2: the true meaning of its creed, that America would ultimately
Speaker 2: endorse the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in America would
Speaker 2: ultimately bring about reparations, and to break it down even more,
Speaker 2: that role would be restored, that the Supreme Court would
Speaker 2: be expanded, that there would be universal, same day, on
Speaker 2: site automatic voter registration. Now, think about those last few
Speaker 2: things I said in comparison to the other more lofty ideas,
Speaker 2: though smaller things that don't sound like that doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like it's heavy of a lift, does it?
Speaker 3: But it's up to us to do it because they're
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 2: We can't complain about the hatred and the vitriol and
Speaker 2: violence because the same people who look like you and
Speaker 2: me and doing it, they're out here doing it. We
Speaker 2: sitting home, Doh, what we're gonna do? Huh, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: And and I love Danielle, but but Danielle can't curse
Speaker 2: everybody out to freedom.
Speaker 3: No, we got, we got. I wish you could, you know.
Speaker 2: But but we've got to organize, get ourselves together, take
Speaker 2: ourselves seriously, and make movement a part of our daily
Speaker 2: lives and our daily habits and not just succumb I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say this, and this may may be u controversial
Speaker 2: Gavin News some fills the seat in the Senate black
Speaker 2: woman pledges a black woman. We can leave no stone
Speaker 2: unturned when it comes to justice. No, no, no. If
Speaker 2: white politicians and the Democratic Party has seniority and are
Speaker 2: treated with seniority, black politicians should too.
Speaker 3: Okay. So rather than people say, oh, you know and
Speaker 3: I know sister find this.
Speaker 1: Oh that's all good, you think Barbe, But why not Barbaralye?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she has.
Speaker 2: This, why not Barbe? Oh it's her age, none of
Speaker 2: no that it's not because her age. She voted four
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty four to one. She was the one
Speaker 2: vote against against the war. We now know it was
Speaker 2: a mistake. That was the Iraq War. So once you
Speaker 2: look at all our progressive friends who pretend to be
Speaker 2: our allies, allies to the black community, allies to the
Speaker 2: Latino community, allies to the LGBTQI community, allies to the
Speaker 2: to the women community, to the feminis community, the women's
Speaker 2: community in California, we're gonna stop barb bely because we're
Speaker 2: still on Iraq War time. This must be a total
Speaker 2: total overhaul of the way we think, of the way
Speaker 2: we support people and accountability. We put on people and
Speaker 2: ultimately get to the place where we're not just voting
Speaker 2: for somebody to stop Donald Trump. Yep, that's all we're
Speaker 2: doing now. And yeah, to be fair, that didn't just
Speaker 2: start there.
Speaker 3: For years.
Speaker 2: We've been voting to stop people from somebody worse. If
Speaker 2: we do what we need to do, we'll be in
Speaker 2: the majority organically, not even by manipulation, not even through redistricting.
Speaker 2: All the Poles support the things we believe in in
Speaker 2: the majority.
Speaker 3: That's what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: My friend. If there is anyone that can make it plain,
Speaker 1: it is you. If there is anyone that can bring
Speaker 1: together the burning of the sheets and the burning of
Speaker 1: the country, it is you. Mark Thompson, always a pleasure
Speaker 1: when you come to wok Afi daily, and please come back.
Speaker 2: And if there's anybody, if it's anybody. Story Steve Harvey
Speaker 2: Toad in Kings of Comedy. He didn't like to go
Speaker 2: to church until he went to church one Sunday and
Speaker 2: they folks, somebody jumped in line for the food after
Speaker 2: the church, and lit la in the church said if
Speaker 2: this MF And when Steve Harvey heard cussing in church,
Speaker 2: he wanted to go to church every Sunday after that.
Speaker 3: So that's a little bit us too. We'd like to
Speaker 3: hear when you cuss folk out. So yeah, we love you.
Speaker 3: That ain't nobody cuss. It's funny. We love it, you know,
Speaker 3: love to have this. Just let you do one of
Speaker 3: these Republican debates.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish they would. I wish they would.
Speaker 1: It'd be the highest viewed. I'll tell you that. Appreciate you,
Speaker 1: my friends.
Speaker 3: We all love you.
Speaker 1: WOKF That is it for me today, dear friends on
Speaker 1: woke a f as always power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.