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has not happened yet. But m folks, I want to alert you to a couple of stories that are not making the kind of press that I think that they should, particularly as the January sixth committee will rap, And honestly, we really don't know if this is actually this eighth hearing is a rap or it is a rap four right now, because what we have seen is that over the course of the last eight hearings, more information comes out, more people come forward, more testimony is given, and then boom,

another public hearing. We do know that the that the committee is up against the clock, given that if midterm elections go in the direction of Republicans, we know that this committee's work will be done and this committee will be disbanded and Republicans will proceed with a whole bunch of bullshit that probably looks like Benghazi on crack. So I want to bring to your attention a story that I found to be really troubling at science dot org.

And it is this The title of the Science Insider story is half of Americans anticipate a US civil war soon, half of those that were surveyed. And I want to bring you I'm going to read the first couple of paragraphs because I think that one, this is really fucking alarming. But it's also what we have been talking about on this show for quite some time, and particularly if you

were listening back to me. You know, four years ago, four five years ago, when Donald Trump first became president of the United States, I said that everything in the United States was going to get bloodier before it got better.

Lo and behold. I had no idea at the time that I was saying this that we would see it an insurrection, that we would see a rise in violence across this country, that we would have a pandemic and there would be a rise in gun sales, that racial resentment and racism would go through the roof, that all

of these things would happen. I thought, you know, that things would get really bad, but all of these things, that just the number of things that have happened over the last five years, in any one year would be historic. We've experienced more quote unquote history in this short time period than I think any other generation has in this country, and so we shouldn't when we see articles like the one I'm about to delve into, just shrug and say, oh, well,

that's hyperbolic. No it's not. And we've all experienced what happens when we ignore things the first fucking time around. So here it is. Violence can be seen to be everywhere in the United States, and political violence is in the spotlight with January six, twenty twenty one, it's insurrection as exhibit A. Now, a large study confirms one in five Americans. One in five Americans believes violence motivated by

political reason is at least sometimes justified. Nearly half expect a civil war, and many say they would trade democracy for a strong leader. A pre print posted found this is not a study that's meant to shock, says Rachel Kleinfeld, a political violence expert at the Carnegie Endowment for Interracial Peace who was not involved in the research, But it should be shocking. Firearm deaths in the United States grew by nearly forty three percent between twenty ten and twenty twenty,

and gun sales surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Garren written Mute, an emergency medicine physician and longtime gun violence researcher at the University of California, Davis, wondered what those trends pretend to civil unrest quote, sometimes being an er doc is like being in the bowman on the Titanic going look

at that iceberg. He and his colleague surveyed more than eighty six hundred adults in English and Spanish about their views on democracy in the United States, racial attitudes in the US society, and their own attitudes towards political violence. The respondents or part of the IPSOS Knowledge Panel, an online research panel that has been used widely, including by

whitten Mute for research on violence and firearm ownership. Although almost all respondents thought it's important right, it's important for the United States to remain a democracy, forty percent said having a strong leader is more important. Half expect a civil war in the United States in the next few years.

The fact that this is quote, the fact that basically half the country is expecting a civil war is just chilling, whitten Mute says, and many expect to take part if found in a situation where they think violence is justified to advance an important political objective. About one in five respondents think they will likely be armed with a gun. About seven percent of participants, which would correspond to about eighteen million US adults, said they would be willing to

kill a person in such situation. Folks, what in the entire fuck? Okay, it is one thing to read the

writing on the wall. It's one thing to rewatch throughout all of these hearings, how violent the insurrectionists were, how they were armed with knives and brass knuckles and guns and zip ties and just preparing right, as was stated by a Jason Hottentov from a former Proud Boy at the seventh hearing, that they were preparing for this insurrection to be the spark of a revolutionary war, to be the spark of a civil war, and they were prepared

as such. And so it should be alarming that this study that is done finds that forty percent of the country scent of those surveyed, not forty percent of the country. Let me say this again. Forty percent of those surveyed said that having quote a strong leader is more important than democracy. Now Here in the United states. We don't know anything other than the flawed democratic system that we have.

If you have visited other countries that are under communism, that are under a monarch, that are under varied forms of government, and you actually talk to those people, they would tell you how vastly different it is to live in a country where you no longer have a voice an opinion, where you no longer are protected in the actions that you take against your government. And I'm not talking about an armed fucking insurrection. I'm talking about peaceful protests,

the right to assemble. To think of people saying that they would rather have a quote strong leader, then democracy is chilling, But pretty much coincides with what we have seen over the past five years with the destruction of our democracy by the Republican Party, the rise of Trump and Trumpism, and the belief that he alone can fix it. Right. But what these people, I believe don't really get, because of course we don't teach civics in any real understanding.

I don't think that they really understand fundamentally what it means to take away democracy and put in place one person that gets to make a decision, right, and what happens to the country what happens to agencies, what happens to those social safety nets, what happens to your ability. Let's just say you lose your job, as many did

during the pandemic, to get unemployment again. These are products of what it means to function inside of a democracy where the government is set up to help the people, not help themselves. And what we know to be true by virtue of the patterns of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes and fascism around the globe is that it never actually ends well, right, but that these people rise into power at a time when there is such chaos on the ground that people are just looking for anything that will

relieve their pain. Well, let's look at the plans that Republicans have had in place right in order to sew unease, in order to sew upheaval of our political norms, so that they can create the conditions and the climate that would have a Donald Trump, a Ron Desantists type come in, as said quote unquote President. But what we know to be true is that these people are organizing in plain sight.

They have been continuing along with their coup after their foot soldiers have been picked up by the Department of Justice, but that they have no qualms about going back to right the roots of violence in order to get their

job done. So what should be alarming is that when you look at Republican obstructionism, when you look at what the Supreme Court has done with regard to a state's ability to create its own gun laws, when you look about the erosion of reproductive rights and the ability to have an abortion, when you look at stories which I will cover one another one which is a Walgreens worker in Wisconsin said that he would not sell a customer

condoms because it was against his religious practice. I do not understand how people understand that a democracy, when we talk about freedom of religion, is not the freedom to weaponize your religion against other people who do not subscribe to the religion that you have. It means that you who can, in fact, do worship however you see fit and however you would like your family to see fit. But that does not mean right that you get to

turn around and weaponize that religion against other people. Similarly, so with the understanding of white supremacy and patriarchy in this country and how it has been weaponized against people of color, against black people in particular, against non Christians, in particular, as a way to safeguard white people from

any course correction, from any responsibility and accountability. So long as you continue to villainize, criminalize, and oppress those that don't look like you, pray like you, love like you, so on and so forth. So as the country in so many ways is dealing with a rising cases of violence, I think that one of the things that was also said here is this quote. The findings are scary, but

not surprising. Kurt Braddock, who studies the psychology of extremist communication at American University, wrote to an email in Science. In recent years, he says the United States has seen an increase in individual willingness to engage in violence. Homicides in cities increased forty four percent forty four percent between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, for instance, an attitude, he says, is likely to spill into the political sphere. Well,

why has violence increased? It isn't because people have become more violent. It is because our resources have become more limited. Right, You're talking about inner cities where every single day we're hearing about inflation, every single day we're hearing about the housing crisis and the renters crisis right where people are literally being put out of their homes and onto the street because they can no longer afford to live because their paychecks, if they still in fact have a job,

are not going as far as they used to. But the increases in mortgages and rents continue to in and yet you have the same needs that you did, but the resources that you have no longer stretched that far. And if we are continuing to in this country provide let's say what the Biden administration did this week with their quote unquote Law and Safety Plan, which is once again award thirty seven billion dollars to law enforcement to

add one hundred thousand new cops on the street. Well, as far as I know, cops don't help put food on the fucking table. That money which Joe Biden is always hell bent on fund the police, fund the police. The police don't prevent crime, and they don't help support any of the ways in which people in this country are suffering from mental health and emotional instability because of

the compounded crises that we are in. So if you're not going to get to the heart of the problem, but then you're going to continue to throw money after the bad people who cause more problems than they actually solve. Like, how do you think that we are going to get anywhere other than the place that we are headed, which is no good right, which is rising anxiety, depression, stress, joblessness or inflation right, increased prices, homelessness, drug use, all

of these things are on the rise. But we find that the most important thing to do is throw more money, throw good money after bad as it pertains to law enforcement. Right. So you know, in this report, basically what it's saying is that there's a reason for our nervousness. There's a reason that we are so at that we're so uneasy, right, and it's the fact that things continue to get worse.

No one seems to be making a plan for how they get better, and they continue to fund the same shit that actually causes more pain that it takes away. So how do we envision that we're not headed to some type of really horrific war, which the way I

think will most likely coincide with the next presidential election. Right, So, if Republicans take back the House and the Senate take back Congress launch their bullshit, which they will do, then we head into an unprotected presidential election that we know will be rigged. We know what the states are already planning and who have organized. How do we not think

that violence is going to ensue? And if in that entire time we have a Department of Justice that continues to look away from white supremist extremist violence, that continues to not do anything in terms of holding the people, the architects, including Donald Trump, responsible right for the insurrection, then we continue to get more of the same and more of the same. Of this kind of same is not going to be able to be stomached by the

people of this country, so we should all be concerned. Lastly, I want to bring your attention to this story and this comes. I will read a few lines from our friend Danielle Campamore, who we have on this show to talk about abortion. This is what Danielle wrote at today dot com and the article is a drugstore worker refused to sell his partner condoms. Now now he's scheduled a vasectomy. Here it is after a clerk at a national chain refused to sell a couple condoms because of religious conviction.

The man scheduled a vasectomy. Nate Pence, who lives in Minnesota, was shopping at a Walgreens in Hayward, Wisconsin with his partner Jess. As Jess was checking out, Pence says the cashier refused to sell her condoms. We went to Hayward to get some growth series at a stop at Walgreens because we had just left Jess's birth control at home. As Jess was checking out, cashier John told her he couldn't sell her condoms because it goes against my faith.

In another tweet, Pence said that his partner told the clerk for her desire to purchase condoms was none of his business. I can get a manager here. Do you want me to finish checking these things? Not from you? So. Pence also shared a screenshot of a complaint his partner made to the store after they were prompted to describe

their recent experience. In a statement to NBC News, a Walgreen spokesperson said that the company's policies are designed to ensure we meet the needs of our patients and customers while respecting the religious and moral beliefs of our team members. The instances are rare, however, when a team member has a moral or religious conviction about completing a transaction, they are required to refer the customer to another employee or manager on duty who will complete the transaction, which is

what occurred in this statement. This is absolute bullshit and mayhem right, and this is all coming on the heels of the reversal of Rob Wade in the Dab's decision that came down from the Supreme Court, the desire that for Republicans who voted against the codification of birth control into law, right to make sure that you don't have shit like this happened, because this isn't again about abortion,

it is about control. Because not selling condoms goes against your religious beliefs, then you shouldn't be working out a fucking place that sells them. How about that, right, because the place also sells a whole host of things like beer and this, that and the other thing. You don't get as an employee to cherry pick what it is that you do. If you have that kind of religious conviction,

then go work out a fucking church. Right, Like, this is the shit that really begins to grade on my nerves and all of our nerves when we're like, you again, have the right to practice whatever religion it is that you want, but you do not have the right to force the rest of us to abide by your religious principles. That is not what it means to have religious freedom. But this country, along with many other rights are just flying out the window. So who knows will will be

a couple of months from now. Coming up next, friends, I'm very excited to welcome to woka F for the first time w Kamal Bell, who is the author of a new book work book, anti racist activity book called Do the Work, along with Kate Shots and we get into a discussion of what it means to really be an anti racist and for those people who say that they want to do something, here is the something that

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Slates Political Gapfest New episodes every Thursday, Folks. I am very excited to welcome to Willkate f Daily for the very first time. W Camal Bell, who you all know as a comedian as a straight Shooter on CNN Emmy Award winning show and the new author of Do the Work, An Anti racist activity book along with Kate Chats come out.

I want to understand from your vantage point, why you think that now, Other than the fact that the world is collapsing, our democracy is dying, and white supremacies at an all time high and black people get murdered in the street on a regular basis, why is now the right time for this book. Well, I'm gonna quote somebody I heard who say democracy is dying and white supremacies at an all time high. I'm a quote a wary, wise person named Danielle who who said that. So you

know this book was written too. We started writing this book two years ago in the middle of of after George Floyd was murdered and there was all and Brianna Taylor by the police and and there was racial reckonings in the streets and protests, and the publisher was like, I wish we could release it now, and it was like, don't worry, racism will still be here when we're ready to release it. And we didn't know January sixth was coming. We didn't know that Donald Trump was going to say

the election was stolen was coming. We didn't know that we would still be dealing with COVID misinformation and news misinformation. So it's it's always the time to come back racism in America, you know. I, well, I love the book because one I am a person of a certain generation who loved Highlights, as I mentioned in another interview that you did, and you say it's it's said it expressly in the book that you know, this is for white people. And so I want to ask you, you know, as somebody.

And by the way, I'll tell you that when you're show first aired on CNN, I was actually quite concerned for you traveling around the country, so you and my wife both Yeah, right, I was concerned about you traveling around the country and wondering, Oh my god, I hope

that he's safe. I hope they have security. I hope he'll be Well when you say that this book is you know, is for white people and obviously anybody else that wants to read it, how do you anticipate getting white people who continue to say what can I do and what should I do to actually, you know, use this as as a guide. Well, here's the thing. It's like I always compare this to like working out or exercising.

If you walk into the gym and you get a smoothie and you go sit in the hot tub, and you go into the workout room and you look around and see all the machines are taken and you go home. Yes, you went to the gym, but you did not indeed workout. And so we all know when we're bull when we're bsing ourselves about doing the work. And so a lot of white folks when they say what can I do, We're gonna hand you a book that tells you exactly what you can do, and we're gonna lead you through it.

And the book was co written by Kate Shots and so, a white woman who speaks white people very fluently. And so we're gonna lead you through this step by step, and we're gonna and we're gonna make it fun, which it shouldn't necessarily have to be fun, but we're gonna

make it fun. We've hired over fifteen different black, Indigenous, Latin x Asian American artists of color to make these things, and we're gonna have all sorts of different fun ways to do this so that it will be more irresistible, as we say the revolution should be to do this. And we're also gonna list things you can do in your neighborhood, in your community to get the work done. If at that point you don't want to do it, then you're really saying I don't want to do the work.

I want to live in a white supremacy society. And also also, we're not the only book that has ever tried to get people to do this work. There's many different amazing anti racist books. We just felt like there's a way in which this is not being handled and we want to help contribute to this discussion, you know, through work on this book over the last two years

and then work on your show on CNN. What are some of the most surprising things that have come up for you with regard to dealing with varied opinions of white people, some who are alarmingly racist and outwardly so, and then others that are actually are also racist but think that they are progressive or think, you know, um, that they don't have a quote racist bone in their body. Um what? What? What has come up for for you

over the past several years. When I hear people say they don't have a racist bone in their body, I'm like, oh, you must be boneless then, so like, uh so, the idea being that this we still live in a country that thought that there was a good response to George Floyd's murder by the police and Branna Taylor's killing by police, was making Juneteenth a federal holiday, like that was the thing we were asking for. That, Oh, that's you just

wanted another day off work. And we still live in a country that not only that, this year, all these things went around where people were sitting out like flyers for Juneteenth celebrations that had nothing but white people on it, or people were saying for Juneteenth, we're gonna have a watermelon, you know, ice cream cream freedom, Yeah. Yeah. Major corporations, you know, Walmart is making Juneteenth ice cream or whatever

or selling Juneteenth ice cream. The idea being like people are still very confused about what the work is, and so for us, it's like this is no different than when you bought your peloton and it said all right, today's day one and and then and it's gonna tell you you've been doing it this many weeks in a row, which needs you're actually do getting a benefit from this. You need to put this in your Google calendar. You

need to put this in your spreadsheet. However you do your work generally in every other aspect of your life. You need to put this on your posted notes, on your to do list. The book has to do lists. You need to know who your local representatives are when they're running for reelection. You need to know what side of the issues they're on. You need to do. This needs to be embedded as a part of your life. The same with the other things that are really important

to you are embedded in your life. You know. One of the things that I think is also really interesting about the timing of your book too, is that it comes, you know, during a political climate when you have Republicans and read states for instance, that are working overtime to erase any um vision, story, narrative outside of a white sis hetero quote unquote Christian mail lens. And you know, I wonder, you know, do you believe that it is through through education that we can bridge this gap? That

it is through like active understanding. You know. One of the things that I liked a lot was when you just start off in the beginning and it's like you're on your we're all living on stolen land. So let's you know, let's let's let's start. Let's start with the with the basics, do you think that education and obviously what we're seeing is the desire to gas to continue to gaslight White America into believing that they are exceptional, is the key to kind of to moving us past

the place that we're in. Education is a part of the key. I think education is a part of the because you know, if you if you have the facts but you don't do anything with the information, then it's not actually as helpful as as you know. It's you're basically it's still in an uneducated place. The education is supposed to get you to knowledge. So for example, if you at some point with a kid or will touch fire or something hot and go, okay, I shouldn't touch

that anymore because that's hot. Well, America, we have a situation where we are constantly learning, but it's not changing our behaviors. We're still touching the hot fire, or we're still watching other people that's the hot fire and the idea being that. Like so, education is a part of it, but it's the very it's one of the very basic parts of it. Once you have the knowledge, what are you going to do? So even in our landing knowledgement section,

just because you know you're a Native land. That doesn't mean you've connected with the Native communities in your area. That doesn't mean you know their history just because you know the name of the native land. I'm in Oakland, I'm on a loaning territory. That doesn't mean that I'm in constant conversation or in constant community with them. And so that's why the book is important. It's about action. It's about like, now that you know this, what do

you do next? You know, I am part of I guess probably a cadre of black folks who have worked across movements and you know, activism and in politics, who are exhausted by you know, by quote unquote teaching white people to be better than they show themselves to be. And there is a part of being black in this country where we're all, you know, at some stage in our life some type of ambassador for blackness. Right, So

what do you what do you say? You know, I'm certain that people have probably said to you, you know, come out like just let them be. Why you know, why don't you go rest, Why don't you don't do something you know, other than being you know, the emotional type of shirpuf for what supremacy. So what do you think? What do you say to that? Well, I would say, this is this is something I've chosen to be my job. So I understand that this is that this is the

position in men. I'm I'm one of my professional jobs is to be a lot of white people's only black friend. So I understand that that's the job. And I would say, therefore, use me as that resource, not that black lady at work who's just trying to get through a day. I mean this book in large part, I think, certainly, I think black people would get something out of it. Even

if you are an activist. There are things in here you don't know, or things you might be inspired to do, or things that you might find funny, and you can share that with other people. But it's also communion as a helpful link to share with your white co workers when they go. But I don't understand why black people are blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Here, read this book, do this work. Then once you do that, maybe you can come back to me and have a

more informed conversation. So I would say, black folks, I'm not saying you need to buy this book for those people. But you can at least send them the linked so that they can buy this book, or you can, or you can go to your job and go, look, I'm tired of having these conversations with all these white people around here. Why don't why don't you? Why doesn't my job buy these books and have all these people do this work so I can at least just live my life. Yeah,

I think that that's right. I mean I do find in so many different places that people have worked or I've worked throughout my life where that has always been the de facto right, like oh, you're said black person in this space, so you will be the one that is my liaison to all things black, and having to say I am one but one black person, I am not the representative right for black nation, Like this is not how this works. I was not the elected. Yeah,

I mean I think about it. I think how many times black people have had to go to work and explain Kanye West to white people. I don't even want to explain. I don't want to explain Kanye West exactly, but we've had to because Kanye West did something, we had to go to work the next day and have a press conference about what we thought about what Kanye West said, did, tweeted, didn't tweet, deleted, instagrammed, because people go, what was that? What do you think Kanye? He's running for?

So we are regularly in the position of having to be the spokesperson for our people and not get paid for it, Like our jobs don't give us an extra ten percent bonus just for being black at work. Oh god, that is something that I could get behind in campaign for UM. You know, how do you by virtue? You know, you have selected this as your path to be this kind of guy, to explore in so many ways, you know, to get people to be better. How do you and

how do you take care of yourself? Do you ever get to a point come out where no, seriously where you're just like, you know, I'm laughing because I don't do it. I don't do a great job of it. That's why I'm laughing, Not because the questions I'm like,

I should start taking care of myself. I mean, these are again, these are conversations with me and my wife have all the time where she's right, like, we need to carve out time in your schedule, you need to take more breaks, you need to go on vacation by yourself. Like She's like, you need to get away, and I'm always like, okay, but let me do one more thing before I do that. Let me get one more thing, because I am aware that my time in the spotlight is limited by nature of the fact of how this

business works. As me and my friend, my best friend Jason's aid in high school strike while the iron is lukewarm, you can't always wait for the iron to heat up. And so the idea being that I get that sometimes my career is in a moment where I just need to make the most out of what I have because there's so much more as at stake than me in my career. It's actually and I feel like that this is the you know, the least I can do with being a black person with a platform is to regularly

be engaged in anti racism work. So the last couple weeks ago, I was on CNN promoting United Shades, and at the same time, I wore a shirt that said I will aid in a abortion as a way to let people know I also stand on this platform too. I wore a shirt on CNN while I was promoting United Shades that from the Acou that said trans people belong as a way to understand I'm also down for this too. I feel like I have to multi multitask

my fights against depression. So the idea being like, so I can always do a better job of taking care of myself, I need to prioritize that I need to take those walks I'm talking about. I got a peloton over here that is basically a coat hanger. So I'm always trying to engage in ways to take better care of myself. But it's just, you know, you think about Martin Luther King Jr. And just the fact that if you look at pictures of him, he looked like he was sixty years old and he was in his thirties.

He died at thirty nine, and he looked like you can see literally the weight of what he's doing way on him. You can same thing with Malcolm X. It's like you can see the weight of this work. But who am I to complain because I'm in a way more privileged position than those two now, and you know, and that is fair. But there is something there is actually a real term for it, and it's called weathering, right.

It is the weathering that happens on black bodies, both emotionally, physically and spiritually, in all of the avenues that we carry. And so I think that it's important even though, yes, you come from a place of privilege and you have an amazing platform that you're using. By virtue of you doing things that take care of you gives other people

around you permission to do the same. So you're My wife will be like when she hears this, she'll be doing this, She'll be doing the snaps like I try to tell him that, I want to say, thank you for doing the work right here with me. I appreciate that. Wonderful. So what last question for you? What are your hopes? What are your hopes with this book, with your continued work with United Shades, you know, the hope of where

we get to next. You know, I think it's I mean, I think I feel like I want to think about my career. I think about like musicians I'm fans of, Like you know, when Public Enemy wrote fight the Power, they didn't want you to stop fighting the power when the song ended. They wanted you to continue to fight the power. So for me, this book is just a way to sort of learn how to engage in this work.

So my hope is that if you read the work and you do the work, and you fill out all the forms and got all the teas and learn all the things that you understand, that once the book is done, that you're still doing the work, that becoming an anti racist becomes a regular part of your life at the

very least. I just hope it makes your conversations about racism and white and supremacies smarter and not in more and better informs that when people say things that are ridiculous about critical race, they are you able to be like, no, no, no no, that's not actually what you're talking about. That's not correct what you're saying. W come out, Bell, Thank you so much. Thank you for the work that you're doing.

Thank you for writing this book and doing the work that black the rest of us are too fucking tired to do and shouldn't have to do because you've got other things to do and shouldn't have to do. But genuinely appreciate you and your time. Thank you very much.

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