Indoctrination Nation

long haul, folks. It has been a really difficult and tough several years. But I have to say that, you know, I long for the days, like I said yesterday in my conversation with Andrew, I long for the days when we were lamenting about the corporatization of Pride, when we were you know, having conversations about how companies can engage

in a more authentic way. That Pride doesn't end at the end of June, that it is something that you should be investing in all year long, that LGBTQ plus organizations people you know, need that investment, and that it isn't just like check the box that we can do more, right, Like, we can all do more and be better. And that's not where we are right now. We're not even in the we can be better and be more. It's like,

can we hold on to the bare fucking minimum? And so for me, this Pride season has been a mixed bag in a lot of real ways. I have felt really sad and really distraught at what I am seeing in the news every day, the attacks on trans youth,

the attacks on non gender conforming people. And I know that I've said this before, but it bears repeating that these attacks right are coming at a time when America was becoming more inclusive, more accepting, and more understanding, where people had critical thought around you know, why have we been fed this binary right? Like? How did we all

get roped into this? I mean I started having issues when my you know, younger cousins were being born and I was going into stores to just buy basic fucking toys like let me go get a teddy Bear? Why does a teddy Bear need to be pink or blue? Let me go get you know, a set of Legos? Why does the legos that are for boys, why are they primary colors but for girls. They're pastelle and I'm

only building princess castles like you are. You want to talk about indoctrinization, We are indoctrinated from birth about what your role is in our society. From birth. You come out of you to row and they slap a pink or blue hat on you. Now they have the you know, the white with the pink and blue stripes, but it's still the same thing. This is to designate a boy, and this is to designated girl. Leaving no room for self actualization number one and two, just leaving no room

for what that actually means. Again, you go to stores like Target and Walmart, and you're going and you're buying you know, baby shower gifts or what have you, and you're seeing onesies that say lady killer. You're seeing onesies that say, you know, I love to shop right, And who are the you like? I don't need to tell you who they are geared towards. So from a very young age, you're taught as a girl, what do you like? You like pink, you like fluffy things, you like strollers,

you like baking, you like jewelry. And if you don't measure up to what it is that society tells you that you're supposed to like and how you're supposed to look, well, then you're the problem, not society's dictation. And similarly, for boys, what are you told? Boys don't cry, you need to be tough, We don't hug, we don't you know, do girly things. That the feminization of anything is to be taken as an insult or an affront to your masculinity.

So to make sure that people don't think that that I'm a girl, or don't think that I am gay, right, and I use air quotes and don't think anything negatively about my masculinity, I must soup myself up right. And you know, when you think about the way the messages that we have taken in it's only in the last twenty sumid years that we're really starting to do a

deep reflection on the why. And I think that why trans and non binary people are such an affront to white evangelical Christians is because they don't want you to have critical thought, because then you start to question them.

You start to question the Bible, you start to question their interpretation of right from wrong, You start to question where their thoughts originated from right and how conflicting they are to with Jesus that is supposed to be right, loving and caring and accepting and doing all of this missionary work right. But your Bible tells you that you should discard people, you should hate people, you should shame people.

This shit just doesn't line up. But it only lines up if you go along with it, if you get along for the gut along. And so trans people and non binary people, by their very existence are questioning the systems that we've all been bought into because them saying,

you know what I do not. My feelings do not coincide with the gender that I have been assigned at birth, these expectations, these physical presence of myself, like, I am not aligned, And we should all have the power and the ability to say I do not feel aligned with myself. And if I do not feel aligned with myself, then

I can't give myself to anything. And if I am asking you to respect me, to respect my body, why should the response be anything other than Okay, whatever it is that you need, I can do because it's not that big of a lift. But that's beyond where we are. There is a attorney general in Kansas who has taken it upon himself to decide that trans people who had their birth identification and their licenses changed to match their

gender identity will go back, will be reversed. Doesn't matter how much it's going to cost the state for these fiscal loving Republicans. It's cruelty, is the point. And people, and he said had the fucking audacity to say, I don't think it's going to change anything. Fuck you, it's not changing anything for you. You're just looking for a fucking win. You're looking to have your name in the headlines. So for me, as I reflect on this month, it has been a lot of ups and downs. You know,

we just celebrated on June twenty sixth. What was it? Let me think, let me do the math in my head, the seven year anniversary of marriage equality, which is so incredible, Right, it's been seventy years. But what do we know about the Supreme Court with the decisions that they've been making and the one that they just made this week, that

doesn't mean shit. Precedent doesn't matter to this court. So this court is going to be known for the Roberts Court, all of the rights that they've taken away from Americans in this country, all of the rights of bodily, autonomy, of affirmative action that allowed for decades for campuses in this country, for education, for workplaces to become more diverse. Right, And what every single report has said is that diversity is good for the bottom line. It's also good for

the country. But now the Supreme Court, just in the same way that they overturned a woman's right to choose, they have now overturned college emissions ability to use race as one of the reasons that they would admit people into school. And it was beautiful. I will say this that the descent that was offered up by Justice Katansi Brown Jackson just encompasses the way that I feel, and I want to read it for all of you. She wrote this in the twenty nine page descent with let

Them Eat Cake obliviousness. Today the majority pulls the ripcord and announces colorblindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real world problems.

No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race linked legal barriers are gone on, race still matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today's ruling makes things worse, not better. The best that can be said of the majorities perspective is that it precedes ostrich like from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism. No, it won't. To saying bullshit that Justice Roberts said when he gutted the Voting Rights Act, Oh,

we have moved past race in America. And then right after that ruling, what did all of the racist ass states do right who were under preclearance that in order to change their voting rules they needed to go and go through illegal proceeding in order to get the okay to make sure that it wasn't racist. What happened after that is the same fucking thing that happened when they reverse Roe v. Wade, everything just reverts back. The clock

went back to the nineteen fifties. Here in America was nineteen seventy four, right nineteen seventy three that Roe v. Wade was passed. Right, Affirmative action has been around for four decades. Similarly, so, every bit of progress that had been made in my fucking lifetime is now erased by a weaponized grif thing asked criminalized Supreme Court that the Democrats don't have the fucking backbone or the fucking ovaries to do dick about. When asked by a reporter after

his speech, Right, what did Joe Biden say? Is this a rogue Supreme Court? He said, it's not a normal Supreme Court? Well, you're the president of the United States. What the fuck you gonna do about it? You're not asking the Department of Justice to investigate? Right, Oh, it's separate and I don't want to seem But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the perception is, because they are always going to perceive you as doing something that you

shouldn't be doing. So why not just do the right thing? Why not speak out so that the people who voted for you know that they're on you, You're on their side. Don't tell me about separation when they are trying to reinstill right that there is no separation of church and state. I'm just waiting. I'm looking at the countdown clock until slavery comes back, and people will say, well, Clarence Thomas, will you know, never go along with that. Well, he

already has his massa. His name is Harlan Crowe, right, he just prays that he will continue to be benevolent. But let me tell you, good, good people, that nothing is protected, nothing is safe, There is no precedent. This is their America. I was not eager to find out what it was going to be like to live inside

of Jim Crow and segregation. But albeit, we're gonna find the fuck out, aren't we, Because that's where we're headed, where companies no longer have to hire people of color or meet any benchmark, and there will be no legal recourse, so black and brown people will be stuck in the invisible cast system that is racism and discrimination in America.

I hope the fifty three percent of white women, when there are more white women that have benefited from affirmative action than any other group, I hope they feel good today. You know, Ugh, we're in a really dark and dangerous place, and I would love to tell you that I believe that good will win out. But this is not a DC comics This is not Marvel, you know, this is not a fairy tale where good wins out in the end and we just have to, you know, ride the

bad times. I don't think that good is going to weigh out in the end, you know. I after the decision came down, frankly, I burst into tiers two and three times. And this is not me being hyperbolic, Like America is being destroyed right before our eyes by people that have been bought and sold by white Cis head billionaires, and no one is doing anything about it. Right, they're calling these things ethic violations when they're not ethics violations.

They're bribes, their bribes to do exactly what it is that they've done. You were brought in to overturn Roe v. Wade. You were brought in to demolish the Voting Rights Actor. You were brought in to demolish affirmative action. You were brought in to make certain that white cis hetero men remain on top, and that there is no legal recourse for anybody else to make an inch or headway in anywhere. That's where we are. So when folks are talking about, oh, all we need to do is vote, well, I did

not vote for any of those justices. Right, we vote for the president of the United States, and because fifty three percent of white women didn't want to vote for one of their own, Donald Trump, a man that has been twice indicted, right is guilty of defamation and libel for sexual assault, and you know, is a national security threat. Got to pick three Supreme Court justices. The man is illegitimate as a human. The least we could do is fucking investigate those justices. But no, we don't do that.

We're not even investigating Clarence Thomas. And all that shit is now out in the open. Thank god for journalism as it remains right now, because the next decision is gonna come down and is gonna gut the ability to have free speech in this country and a free press. These are not hyperbolic statements. I said this back in twenty sixteen before the election, that if Donald Trump became president of the United States, it was the beginning of

the end of America. This is where we are, and people still scratching their heads like thinking that we're going to operate as normal. None of this is fucking normal. But they're lulling us into believing that, like Oh, elections are fair and people still have a voice. No, you don't. You don't have as much of a voice as Paul Singer or Harland Crowe, the billionaires that bought members of

the Supreme Court. You don't have as much of a voice or as much of a sway as Donald Trump, who, if anybody else had as much evidence against them, would already be in jail and would not be out on anybody's bond, and would have gotten mug shots done. So don't talk to me about equity and justice in America. That is a misconception. It is a fabrication. So here we are, you know, at the end of Pride Month, right on the cusp of the fourth of July high

which is to celebrate America's independence from Great Britain. And I'm like, America doesn't even know who it is or who it wants to be. It's been filled with so much fairytale euphemism and lies. I don't know what there is to fucking celebrate. In three years, America is supposed to turn two hundred and fifty years old, and I don't even know if twelve months from now we're going to have a democracy. I don't know if twelve months from now we won't have slavery back. We're already reinstituting

child labor laws. Greg gabbittt just passed legislation that denies workers' water breaks. It's as hot as the devil's ass in Texas right now. There are places that are hitting one hundred and twenty five degrees and this motherfucker saw fit to pass legislation to make sure that people don't have to have water breaks. Are you crazy? This is where we are, and it isn't just Texas, it isn't just Florida,

it is everywhere. The final nail in the coffin of America, as you know, it is a twenty twenty four election. That's when they have finished the job. But frankly, I don't know if twelve months from now, from this, even this fucking moment, if there's gonna be anything worth saving. We're in such hard times and I am not gonna pretend to you ahead of you know, a holiday where a lot of people travel and take the week off and what have you, that like all is hunky dory.

It's not staying positive, staying in joy, staying balanced is like a full time fucking job at this point. You know, I am doing the very that's that I can, and I still break down because I don't even have kids.

But I can't imagine looking at your children and thinking that they have a future in this country, particularly if they're black or brown, particularly if they're queer, Like, how are you looking at your kids and telling them that, like they can be anything that they want to be when you have a Supreme Court and an entire Republican Party that is going to ensure that they are nothing more than what they want them to be, which is

of service to them. I don't know, folks, I you know, I really I am struggling, as I know that many of you are as well. I don't know. All I can say is that we need to take some time to rest as a holiday approaches, and you know, take really good care of ourselves because my own emotional and mental health is kind of hanging on by a thread.

I'm spending trying to spend at least ninety minutes outside a day to connect with nature, to just move my body, to look out at the water and see something that is greater than myself, because right now the world, this country feels very small like suffocating for many of us who live at the intersection of multiple identities. We are being told that we need to go back into the closet,

that we need to step off the curb. When you know, miss white so and so or mister white so and so passes, that we don't matter right, that we shouldn't exist, And that is a really tough pill to swallow and try and slap a smile on your face and keep your head up day in and day out. Yeah, take good care of each other and yourselves, because we're really in for a very, very long long haul. That is

it for me today, dear friends. On this wok F coming up for the holiday week, I'm really excited about wok F cookout, where we're bringing in some of our faves to have conversations about liberty, about justice, about equity and freedom and what that means to us in these

perilous times. And so I hope that you all, while resting by a pool or at a beach, or taking a walk, or gardening or playing with your PEPs or your kids, you know, take a listen and shout me out on the socials, or if you are a Patreon and you're watching this video right now, shout me out in the comment sections, but I'm saying fuck it to everything, to all things. This whole show was one giant, just bucket to where we are right now as always, dear friends,

Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck. Take care.