July 24, 2024 • 20 mins
A change has come, and none too soon but thankfully also not too late. Today Danielle talks about the importance of hope in so many aspects of life right now.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Y'all,
let me tell you something. Last week, your girl was
not doing well. Okay, if you were listening to WOKF
watching the videos, you know that I spent pretty much
(00:32):
half of last week on my couch in tears about
the state of our country, the state of the world,
the state of this election. And I was in a
place of dark despair and hopelessness and just believing that
we're done. And we're done as a country, We're done
(00:54):
as a democracy, my work as a independent voice or
social justice equity, it's done. And then Sunday and folks,
it is only Wednesday, and just a handful of days
(01:15):
since Joe Biden announced that he was stepping aside. Fully
endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in one day, one full
day of her campaign. On Monday, she sealed the deal,
got all of the delegates that she needed, raised over
(01:36):
two hundred million dollars sixty percent from small dollar donors
first time donors. In the twenty twenty four cycle, she
has gotten endorsements from everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Governor Whitmer,
(01:56):
to Newsom, to Shapiro, to the Congressional Black Caucus, the
Progressive Caucus HRC, GLAD. The list goes on and on.
Joe take Edie, the founder of We Win with Black Women,
started a movement with forty four thousand black women joining
(02:22):
a zoom call to raise over a million dollars in
but a handful of hours from the announcement. The following day,
Roland Martin, Bacari, Sellers, Michael Blake, and others follow suit
with a Black Men For Kamala Harris call with over
(02:43):
fifty thousand men and raising over a million dollars. Now
you have organizers like Shannon Watts of Mom's Demand and
every Town organizing white women on a call. You have
AAPI folks organizing a call. You have queer folks organizing
(03:05):
a call. Why Because black women lead the way, which
is what I have been saying since the beginning, Folks,
A change has come. I cannot express to you how
important hope is. And it's one of those things that
you know, but until you find yourself truly in the
(03:31):
depths of despair, hanging on for dear life, and then
all of a sudden the wind shifts and you go
from fighting against the tide to having the wind at
your back. Folks, it is a new day. It is
a new day. It is a new day, and I,
(03:53):
for the first time in a long time, believe we
can win because I see on social media. I am
hearing from organizers from organizations, and folks are rolling up
their sleeves. Fifty thousand people, over fifty thousand people have
(04:18):
signed up on the Vice President's website to volunteer to
start knocking on doors. Folks. The energy is palpable. And
when people are saying, including myself, that this is not
even reminiscent of two thousand and eight, because, mind you,
(04:42):
Barack Obama, it was like a slow tide. Do you
know what I'm saying. It was like a slow rolling tide,
like it was growing momentum with each month, with each day.
It was moving. It was moving, it was moving. This
what we are experiencing right now is like a fucking tsunami.
(05:03):
It is happening so fast, it is happening so vigorous.
Like people have been desperate for hope, and now I
see that it isn't enough to just have a candidate
who has had extraordinary accomplishments. The Biden administration has done
(05:27):
a lot. They were handed a pile of shit from
the prior, god forsaken administration, and they made the absolute
most of it. With a hostile House of Representatives, a
weaponized Supreme Court. They've plowed forward, resurrected a spiraling economy,
(05:53):
tried to provide debt relief to hard strapped students, lower
drug costs, add more jobs as we were hemorrhaging them
during COVID, an infrastructure bill that was bipartisan. That's just
a few things off the top of my head that
(06:16):
the administration has done. But the hopefulness was missing from
Joe Biden's campaign. The energy was missing because Joe Biden
himself was not exuding that and the media was wholeheartedly
against him. So for him to step aside and to
(06:40):
pass the baton to his fifty nine year old vice
president and say go get them. And if you listened yesterday,
Joe Biden was on a call that Kamala was doing
and she thought that he had left the call, and
he said, no, I'm watching you, kid, and I love you.
(07:03):
The stark contrast between the dystopia that Republicans want to
offer Americans to the light and the freedom that Kamala
Harris wants to offer could not be more apparent. She
(07:27):
walked out in Milwaukee yesterday to Freedom by Beyonce. Freedom, Freedom,
I can't lose. It is the energy, the spirit, the
hopefulness that we needed and to have been over my God,
(07:50):
these last few years being on air to try and
convince people how can consequential this election? Is why it
is important to support Joe Biden. How hard it has
been to want to support him given everything that is
happening in Gaza, a genocide. Right, I was losing faith.
(08:16):
I had lost faith and I can't do my work
without it. I've been telling you all for years now
that I carry around what my mustard seed of hope,
and I said yesterday it has blossomed because I see
hope on the horizon. I believe that Americans are waking up.
(08:39):
I believe that people are gathering, that they are breathing,
that they are rolling up their sleeves, that they are
digging in and in whatever community that they find themselves
a part of. Are organizing. Over a million people in
(09:00):
a day donated to Kamala Harris for President in a day.
Republicans right now are losing their fucking minds, coming up
with whatever childish bullshit to say, Oh, they don't care
(09:21):
about democracy because this isn't a democratic process. Miss me
with your fucking insurrection. January sixth, bullshit. Okay, ain't nobody
over here storming anybody's capital, right We're getting on zoom
calls and raising money. You know what civilized people do
inside of a democracy. They're coming out with their oh
(09:41):
DEI candidate, and you know, cat lady, and you're listening
to jd Vance talk to Tucker Carlson, and all I
can look at is how pathetic and angry and miserable
these men are. Because there is nothing that is more
terrifying to white supremacy and patriarchy than a strong, powerful
(10:08):
black woman and woman of color. Let me tell you something.
The poetic justice that I am looking for, that it
be black women Georgia New York and now Vice President
Harris to take this motherfucker down to the studs. Folks.
(10:34):
Days ago, friends had asked me, are you going to
go to convention? Are you going to go to convention?
And I was like, for what why? I'm not excited
to go to convention. Now I'm trying to find my
way there, trying to, like everybody else, wanting to be
a part of witnessing history, wanting to be in the
room where it's going to happen. There is his story unfolding,
(11:02):
there is righteousness that is on its way. And I
have found myself getting choked up, not from the place
of fear and despair where I was but a handful
of days ago, but in the hopefulness and in the
faith that I have in the American people, in this
(11:26):
imperfect democratic project to get this done. I keep thinking, oh, my,
Donald Trump could lose and bad. Do you know what
I'm saying? Because I don't want Donald Trump to just lose.
I don't want this race to be close. I want
(11:48):
her to win in a fucking landslide. I want it
to be unequivocal. I want us to know on election night,
which hasn't happened, and I don't know how long I
want us to go to bed on November fifth, drunk
on joy, knowing that we did every goddamn thing that
(12:11):
we could to save this democracy and it worked. And
then the future is about making sure that Project twenty
twenty five doesn't turn into Project twenty twenty eight, doesn't
turn into Project twenty thirty two, doesn't turn into anything
but ash. I want these people beaten so bad they
(12:35):
don't show their face in public. I want them beaten
so bad. And I want all of these insurrectionist members
that are still walking the halls and are still passing policy,
I want them to lose. I want America to send
a message that you're hateful, misogynistic, anti woman, anti trans,
(13:01):
anti black, anti people of color, anti immigrant, anti migrant,
anti anti anti anti, ain't welcome here and we are
not going to tolerate it. I want us to be victorious,
like the people of France and the people of the
UK that woke up and they said not today, not today.
(13:26):
I don't want these people to be able ever again
to gather the type of steam and momentum that they
have been able to do over the last eight years.
I want to cut them off at the fucking knees.
I want to pull it up from the root. Their
days are numbered because people across this country do not
(13:52):
want the America that they are trying to sell. We
don't want the lie, we don't want the bullshit, we
don't want your fucking Felon. You can go ahead and
go worship him him in a federal prison, because that
is where I want Donald Trump to find himself after
he's been beaten. I want the cases renewed. I want
(14:14):
fresh eyes and fresh judges. We are not going to
make the same mistake that Merrit Garland made in this administration.
There won't be a Merit Garland in this Harris administration.
I want fighters. I want people that know about repair,
because repair doesn't come from ignoring things. Repair doesn't come
(14:39):
from sweeping shit under the rug. Repair comes with accountability.
And for these motherfuckers, accountability should look like prison should
look like you're inability to hold office. Let me tell
you something. I am overwhelmed and overcome with energy. Like
(15:03):
I'm saying, people can lead from a place of fear,
but it doesn't have the same vibe, energy spirit as
leading people from a place of hope. There's a post
I put on my page yesterday where my sister actually
(15:23):
had sent me a image, and it's the Obama Yes
we Can image, except it shows the four pictures. Under
Obama's picture, it says hope under Trump's picture, it says
hate under Biden's picture, it says heal, and under Harris's picture,
it says grow, and that couldn't be more perfect. Obama
(15:50):
made us hope, He made us believe that, yes we can.
I remember the images coming out of his rallies that
just were growing, growing in size. Do you all remember
when he went to Europe. I think he might have
been in Germany and it was like nothing I'd ever
seen before. The amount of people, it was insane. That's
(16:14):
what I want to see. Vice President Harris is getting
ready to hit the road, go face to face, in
toe to toe with everyday Americans to plead her case
as to why we should get behind the prosecutor rather
than the felon. And there are so many people that
want to talk about her record as a prosecutor. Folks,
(16:38):
her job was to put people in jail, and I
want to tell you that she put less people in
jail than is being rumored. She also worked on recidivism
and creating programs that would actually keep people from coming
back into the system. No one is perfect, but we're
(16:59):
not looking for right now because what we are battling
is evil like we have never seen. Well, we have
seen it, but not in modern times. It's so funny
right now to you know, there are jd Vance gave
his first speech. I mean it was giving Jeb Bush
(17:22):
please clap. You have seen other speeches be given. I
think that there was one. Let me see if I
can pull it up by some state representative who then
had to issue an apology because you know, he was
doing a little thing like calling for a civil war
if Donald Trump doesn't win. I don't know if I
(17:45):
can find it, but Hillary Clinton has tweeted. She tweeted
the interview between jd Vance. I think this is from
a while ago jd Vance and Tucker Carlson where he's
talking about you know, unmarried, childless women, and it's just like,
give me a break, right, like, honestly, give me a break.
(18:09):
I'm trying to see if I can find the video
because it was Joe Biden who retweeted it, this terrible
video and said like this is actually not who we are.
Ah here it is. This terrible man in Middletown, Ohio
gets on the stage at a Trump rally and he's
(18:33):
talking about the fact that I think his name is
Lang or something like that, talking about the fact that
we're gonna have a civil war. And if you don't,
and you can go and you can see it at
Joe Biden, not at Potus. You can see it at
Joe Biden. It's so disgusting. And he had to come
(18:53):
out and apologize and say, oh, the words that I said,
they're not aligned with my truth. And after the assassination attempt,
and I'm like, the words that you said are not
aligned with your truth. Motherfucker. You said it. You weren't
force faid it. Nobody told you to go out there
and start raw, raw, rawing about violence. That if Donald
(19:16):
Trump loses, we're going to take the country back by
civil war. Is that right? You all tried that once.
It didn't work. So I want us to sit in
this hopefulness. I want it to grow. The only way
that it stops is if we stop it. So find
(19:36):
yourself in your community, a place to phone bank, a
place to text bank, a place to knock on doors, donate,
hold roundtable discussions. Particularly, like I said yesterday, white women
Shannon Watts. By the time you guys listen to this,
she may have already done her win with white women
(19:57):
right because she is trying to do her part as
a white woman to organize other white women to do
the opposite of what happened in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen.
Everyone has a role, everyone has a responsibility. Find out
what yours is, double and triple down on it. We
are going to win this thing, and we are going
(20:18):
to win it so fucking well, and we're going to
put this country back together again and better than it was.
That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke
af AS, always, power to the people and to all
the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Y'all,
let me tell you something. Last week, your girl was
not doing well. Okay, if you were listening to WOKF
watching the videos, you know that I spent pretty much
(00:32):
half of last week on my couch in tears about
the state of our country, the state of the world,
the state of this election. And I was in a
place of dark despair and hopelessness and just believing that
we're done. And we're done as a country, We're done
(00:54):
as a democracy, my work as a independent voice or
social justice equity, it's done. And then Sunday and folks,
it is only Wednesday, and just a handful of days
(01:15):
since Joe Biden announced that he was stepping aside. Fully
endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in one day, one full
day of her campaign. On Monday, she sealed the deal,
got all of the delegates that she needed, raised over
(01:36):
two hundred million dollars sixty percent from small dollar donors
first time donors. In the twenty twenty four cycle, she
has gotten endorsements from everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Governor Whitmer,
(01:56):
to Newsom, to Shapiro, to the Congressional Black Caucus, the
Progressive Caucus HRC, GLAD. The list goes on and on.
Joe take Edie, the founder of We Win with Black Women,
started a movement with forty four thousand black women joining
(02:22):
a zoom call to raise over a million dollars in
but a handful of hours from the announcement. The following day,
Roland Martin, Bacari, Sellers, Michael Blake, and others follow suit
with a Black Men For Kamala Harris call with over
(02:43):
fifty thousand men and raising over a million dollars. Now
you have organizers like Shannon Watts of Mom's Demand and
every Town organizing white women on a call. You have
AAPI folks organizing a call. You have queer folks organizing
(03:05):
a call. Why Because black women lead the way, which
is what I have been saying since the beginning, Folks,
A change has come. I cannot express to you how
important hope is. And it's one of those things that
you know, but until you find yourself truly in the
(03:31):
depths of despair, hanging on for dear life, and then
all of a sudden the wind shifts and you go
from fighting against the tide to having the wind at
your back. Folks, it is a new day. It is
a new day. It is a new day, and I,
(03:53):
for the first time in a long time, believe we
can win because I see on social media. I am
hearing from organizers from organizations, and folks are rolling up
their sleeves. Fifty thousand people, over fifty thousand people have
(04:18):
signed up on the Vice President's website to volunteer to
start knocking on doors. Folks. The energy is palpable. And
when people are saying, including myself, that this is not
even reminiscent of two thousand and eight, because, mind you,
(04:42):
Barack Obama, it was like a slow tide. Do you
know what I'm saying. It was like a slow rolling tide,
like it was growing momentum with each month, with each day.
It was moving. It was moving, it was moving. This
what we are experiencing right now is like a fucking tsunami.
(05:03):
It is happening so fast, it is happening so vigorous.
Like people have been desperate for hope, and now I
see that it isn't enough to just have a candidate
who has had extraordinary accomplishments. The Biden administration has done
(05:27):
a lot. They were handed a pile of shit from
the prior, god forsaken administration, and they made the absolute
most of it. With a hostile House of Representatives, a
weaponized Supreme Court. They've plowed forward, resurrected a spiraling economy,
(05:53):
tried to provide debt relief to hard strapped students, lower
drug costs, add more jobs as we were hemorrhaging them
during COVID, an infrastructure bill that was bipartisan. That's just
a few things off the top of my head that
(06:16):
the administration has done. But the hopefulness was missing from
Joe Biden's campaign. The energy was missing because Joe Biden
himself was not exuding that and the media was wholeheartedly
against him. So for him to step aside and to
(06:40):
pass the baton to his fifty nine year old vice
president and say go get them. And if you listened yesterday,
Joe Biden was on a call that Kamala was doing
and she thought that he had left the call, and
he said, no, I'm watching you, kid, and I love you.
(07:03):
The stark contrast between the dystopia that Republicans want to
offer Americans to the light and the freedom that Kamala
Harris wants to offer could not be more apparent. She
(07:27):
walked out in Milwaukee yesterday to Freedom by Beyonce. Freedom, Freedom,
I can't lose. It is the energy, the spirit, the
hopefulness that we needed and to have been over my God,
(07:50):
these last few years being on air to try and
convince people how can consequential this election? Is why it
is important to support Joe Biden. How hard it has
been to want to support him given everything that is
happening in Gaza, a genocide. Right, I was losing faith.
(08:16):
I had lost faith and I can't do my work
without it. I've been telling you all for years now
that I carry around what my mustard seed of hope,
and I said yesterday it has blossomed because I see
hope on the horizon. I believe that Americans are waking up.
(08:39):
I believe that people are gathering, that they are breathing,
that they are rolling up their sleeves, that they are
digging in and in whatever community that they find themselves
a part of. Are organizing. Over a million people in
(09:00):
a day donated to Kamala Harris for President in a day.
Republicans right now are losing their fucking minds, coming up
with whatever childish bullshit to say, Oh, they don't care
(09:21):
about democracy because this isn't a democratic process. Miss me
with your fucking insurrection. January sixth, bullshit. Okay, ain't nobody
over here storming anybody's capital, right We're getting on zoom
calls and raising money. You know what civilized people do
inside of a democracy. They're coming out with their oh
(09:41):
DEI candidate, and you know, cat lady, and you're listening
to jd Vance talk to Tucker Carlson, and all I
can look at is how pathetic and angry and miserable
these men are. Because there is nothing that is more
terrifying to white supremacy and patriarchy than a strong, powerful
(10:08):
black woman and woman of color. Let me tell you something.
The poetic justice that I am looking for, that it
be black women Georgia New York and now Vice President
Harris to take this motherfucker down to the studs. Folks.
(10:34):
Days ago, friends had asked me, are you going to
go to convention? Are you going to go to convention?
And I was like, for what why? I'm not excited
to go to convention. Now I'm trying to find my
way there, trying to, like everybody else, wanting to be
a part of witnessing history, wanting to be in the
room where it's going to happen. There is his story unfolding,
(11:02):
there is righteousness that is on its way. And I
have found myself getting choked up, not from the place
of fear and despair where I was but a handful
of days ago, but in the hopefulness and in the
faith that I have in the American people, in this
(11:26):
imperfect democratic project to get this done. I keep thinking, oh, my,
Donald Trump could lose and bad. Do you know what
I'm saying? Because I don't want Donald Trump to just lose.
I don't want this race to be close. I want
(11:48):
her to win in a fucking landslide. I want it
to be unequivocal. I want us to know on election night,
which hasn't happened, and I don't know how long I
want us to go to bed on November fifth, drunk
on joy, knowing that we did every goddamn thing that
(12:11):
we could to save this democracy and it worked. And
then the future is about making sure that Project twenty
twenty five doesn't turn into Project twenty twenty eight, doesn't
turn into Project twenty thirty two, doesn't turn into anything
but ash. I want these people beaten so bad they
(12:35):
don't show their face in public. I want them beaten
so bad. And I want all of these insurrectionist members
that are still walking the halls and are still passing policy,
I want them to lose. I want America to send
a message that you're hateful, misogynistic, anti woman, anti trans,
(13:01):
anti black, anti people of color, anti immigrant, anti migrant,
anti anti anti anti, ain't welcome here and we are
not going to tolerate it. I want us to be victorious,
like the people of France and the people of the
UK that woke up and they said not today, not today.
(13:26):
I don't want these people to be able ever again
to gather the type of steam and momentum that they
have been able to do over the last eight years.
I want to cut them off at the fucking knees.
I want to pull it up from the root. Their
days are numbered because people across this country do not
(13:52):
want the America that they are trying to sell. We
don't want the lie, we don't want the bullshit, we
don't want your fucking Felon. You can go ahead and
go worship him him in a federal prison, because that
is where I want Donald Trump to find himself after
he's been beaten. I want the cases renewed. I want
(14:14):
fresh eyes and fresh judges. We are not going to
make the same mistake that Merrit Garland made in this administration.
There won't be a Merit Garland in this Harris administration.
I want fighters. I want people that know about repair,
because repair doesn't come from ignoring things. Repair doesn't come
(14:39):
from sweeping shit under the rug. Repair comes with accountability.
And for these motherfuckers, accountability should look like prison should
look like you're inability to hold office. Let me tell
you something. I am overwhelmed and overcome with energy. Like
(15:03):
I'm saying, people can lead from a place of fear,
but it doesn't have the same vibe, energy spirit as
leading people from a place of hope. There's a post
I put on my page yesterday where my sister actually
(15:23):
had sent me a image, and it's the Obama Yes
we Can image, except it shows the four pictures. Under
Obama's picture, it says hope under Trump's picture, it says
hate under Biden's picture, it says heal, and under Harris's picture,
it says grow, and that couldn't be more perfect. Obama
(15:50):
made us hope, He made us believe that, yes we can.
I remember the images coming out of his rallies that
just were growing, growing in size. Do you all remember
when he went to Europe. I think he might have
been in Germany and it was like nothing I'd ever
seen before. The amount of people, it was insane. That's
(16:14):
what I want to see. Vice President Harris is getting
ready to hit the road, go face to face, in
toe to toe with everyday Americans to plead her case
as to why we should get behind the prosecutor rather
than the felon. And there are so many people that
want to talk about her record as a prosecutor. Folks,
(16:38):
her job was to put people in jail, and I
want to tell you that she put less people in
jail than is being rumored. She also worked on recidivism
and creating programs that would actually keep people from coming
back into the system. No one is perfect, but we're
(16:59):
not looking for right now because what we are battling
is evil like we have never seen. Well, we have
seen it, but not in modern times. It's so funny
right now to you know, there are jd Vance gave
his first speech. I mean it was giving Jeb Bush
(17:22):
please clap. You have seen other speeches be given. I
think that there was one. Let me see if I
can pull it up by some state representative who then
had to issue an apology because you know, he was
doing a little thing like calling for a civil war
if Donald Trump doesn't win. I don't know if I
(17:45):
can find it, but Hillary Clinton has tweeted. She tweeted
the interview between jd Vance. I think this is from
a while ago jd Vance and Tucker Carlson where he's
talking about you know, unmarried, childless women, and it's just like,
give me a break, right, like, honestly, give me a break.
(18:09):
I'm trying to see if I can find the video
because it was Joe Biden who retweeted it, this terrible
video and said like this is actually not who we are.
Ah here it is. This terrible man in Middletown, Ohio
gets on the stage at a Trump rally and he's
(18:33):
talking about the fact that I think his name is
Lang or something like that, talking about the fact that
we're gonna have a civil war. And if you don't,
and you can go and you can see it at
Joe Biden, not at Potus. You can see it at
Joe Biden. It's so disgusting. And he had to come
(18:53):
out and apologize and say, oh, the words that I said,
they're not aligned with my truth. And after the assassination attempt,
and I'm like, the words that you said are not
aligned with your truth. Motherfucker. You said it. You weren't
force faid it. Nobody told you to go out there
and start raw, raw, rawing about violence. That if Donald
(19:16):
Trump loses, we're going to take the country back by
civil war. Is that right? You all tried that once.
It didn't work. So I want us to sit in
this hopefulness. I want it to grow. The only way
that it stops is if we stop it. So find
(19:36):
yourself in your community, a place to phone bank, a
place to text bank, a place to knock on doors, donate,
hold roundtable discussions. Particularly, like I said yesterday, white women
Shannon Watts. By the time you guys listen to this,
she may have already done her win with white women
(19:57):
right because she is trying to do her part as
a white woman to organize other white women to do
the opposite of what happened in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen.
Everyone has a role, everyone has a responsibility. Find out
what yours is, double and triple down on it. We
are going to win this thing, and we are going
(20:18):
to win it so fucking well, and we're going to
put this country back together again and better than it was.
That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke
af AS, always, power to the people and to all
the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.
Host
Danielle Moodie
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.