Monarchy and White Supremacy

into mid terms, the monarchy and America's obsession. We talk about genocide and the fact that the monarchy not onlike the oath keepers, the three percenters and the Proud Boys are about fundamentally upholding white supremacy and what does it look like for having had a you know, seventy year reign of a monarch that was dressed up as femininity and fragility, right, and now that she has passed that there are countless nations who have been a part of

the commonwealth that are saying, we want the monarch removed from our money, we want to be sovereign, we want to be removed from this commonwealth. And I think that this is a refrain that we are going to see as the ripple effects continue to happen with the passing of the Queen and frankly, you know more in depth conversation about what they actually ruled over and where all of their fucking wealth came from. So I get into this and much much more with our friend the Reverend

Mark Thompson coming up next. Folks. You know that whenever I have the opportunity to chat with our friend the Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain, I am always thrilled because we get to get in real deep about what it is that we think that the Democratic Party is going to do. We're making the March fifty some odd days two midterms. Mark. First, sir, how are you doing? How have you been? I'm good, I'm good. How about you? You know I've been hanging in there.

I've been hanging in there. You know. I had my first bout of COVID after two years, two years of dodging it, two years of doing the my damnedest and the best that I could do. But thank God, my symptoms were mild. I got over it and now I feel partially invincible. I guess for the next for the next sixty days. UM, I want to talk to you. Glad it wasn't so severe. Yeah, I mean, you know, all I kept thinking to myself and all I kept saying, was thank God for doctors, thank God for the vaccine.

You know, it's kind of crazy to think that you have something inside of you that is killed over a million people, right, Um, And so that was kind of like, it's a it's a weird it's a weird feeling. It was a it was a jarring feeling. But you know, I'm grateful for science and the fact that you know, it felt like to me a bad allergy attack or you know, or a cold. But I want to talk to you about what we have seen. I guess your reflections first on the Biden administration summer, on the several

wins that this administration has had. You and I have talked about this before that this administration was not until recently moving with the sense of urgency, having the conversations that they needed to have, And so what are your reflections on this past summer and also, more importantly President Biden's speech with regard to the soul of the Nation. Well, I thought the speech was actually pretty progressive for him.

I even wondered whether or not you had helped to write the speech, you know, because it was something that was necessary. He was he was strong, but you know, I think that he was preaching to the choir. Although Hillary lost by about one hundred thousand votes spread across

the three states, that's not a lot of people. So if his Soul of the Nation's speech, if the January sixth investigation, if the current DJ investigation about classified documents, if those can touch that handful of just those one hundred thousand people, that can make a difference in election. You know, I've been talking to guests and one of the arguments has been, all, you know, people aren't going

to change. People's minds are made up, and it may be true, but there I think there's obviously always going to be a small percentage of people whose minds are going to change and who going to be impacted. And we're seeing it already. Biden's approval numbers are going up. So that is having an effect, and I don't think that's just from the Soul of the Soul Nation speech was cool, but that went everything. I mean, we've been seeing the other things that have been taking place in

the past few weeks. You know, inflation is still there, but it's it's coming down. Gas prices are coming down. All of these things are having an impact, and so I think the speech was good. I think some other things that have been happening are good, but I think the best, the thing that has been helping us more than any thing else has been the Republican response. The Dobb's decision has hurt them. You see republic look at in candidates scrubbing their support for the Job's decision, which

reverse row scrubbing their support off of their websites. And then Lindsey Graham, I was wondering if you called him that was a gift, you're gonna in at this hour suggest a federal ban on abortion. So so this is this is happening, and I think that that's having an impact on that critical demographic. Unfortunately, black voters, black women

voters aren't always alone the deciding factor in elections. In twenty sixteen, it was suburban, college educated away women, and I think that some of them are getting it, and if they don't, there really is no hope we're gonna find out what this country have made of. You've lost, women have lost privacy, women have lost bodily autonomy, and

there's more to come. And the only way to combat that is through with and through women voting in their best interests all women's best interests, not in the interests of anybody else, not in the interest of privileged white men, but in terms of restoring women's bodily autonomy. And I think that that happens. I think we're in good shape. You know, here's the thing that concerns me with regard to Lindsey Graham, right and the Senate Republicans, which is

that it is clear to me. I mean, everyone you know has said, well, read the room. Clearly Republicans are not reading the room right now. You had the pushback in Kansas, you had the pushback in South Carolina, you had pushback, you know, in a number of states that we thought would be slam dunks, that they thought would

be slam dunks for their anti abortion legislation. But my thing, mark is that they're not concerned because they're not trying to win anybody's votes, right Like, they are so underhanded in their maneuvering that they know that they don't have to win these people's votes. They're about stealing elections or

calling fraud. And so my concern with Lindsay Graham is not so much that he is in reading the room, but that there's another strategy and plan that is in place, right, which is like, we are going to introduce this so that it's on the record and on the books, and then when the Senate flips over to Republican which may not be in this mid term because their candidates are trash, but it will be at some point that here it is, you know, on a silver platter, ready to go their

national abortion band. So I want to get your thoughts on the fact that Republicans for the last several decades haven't been trying to win anybody's votes. They haven't been trying to broaden their tent and so how do you battle against folks who are not interested? Didn't you in any which way? I mean, we saw what they did in Georgia, which is basically saying that, you know, the state legislature can overturn the will of the people because they want to. Yeah. No, that's a good point, and

I wonder that too. What does Lindsey Graham know that we don't know? But you know, it's interesting even Mitch McConnell didn't embrace what Lindsay Graham did. But you're right, there's a level of suppression. I've spoken with the Legal Defense Fund. There are a lot of fights and battles underway to prevent suppression, but the biggest defeat of suppression

is turnout. I think Lindsay and others are probably still banking on us not turning out, on our constituencies having a low turnout, which is typical for the mid terms. Frank Frankly, that's the history of the mid terms. So then the question becomes what will what will happen? But I think there's gonna be turned it. I think young women are registering in record numbers. People are going to turn out because they are seeing. You know, we were chicken little. We kept saying the sky is falling in

terms of row and nobody believed it. Now they believed and Hillary Clinton was the biggest chicken little of all and nobody wanted to hear that, and they turned her out and she was right. And all of us who were saying this was going to happen, we're right. We people just could not believe that this would happen, and it in fact has happened. So you're right. I think

they do have some tricks up their sleeve. We know we have a Supreme Court case upcoming that will potentially empower the state legislatures to do even more to undermine federal elections and put that in the power of these gerrymandered state legislatures. We've got to fight against that. That's why, you know, a lot of us voted for Barack Obama. That was the only thing we need to vote for.

But we got to get back in the habit if we if we ever were in the habit, we've got to get back in the habit of electing rather voting at the state level, because look at look at rowe. Even McConnell said, in reaction to Lindsey Graham stip the states, and even he said that, so folks voting in these state elections is very very important. Um. And this is this is where rubber Hits wrote, you know, I want to talk for a minute to um speaking of these Republicans.

A couple of weeks ago, it didn't make mainstream news, but a couple of weeks ago, thirty thousand names of the members of the oath Keepers were lead. The Anti Defamation League had them, has them up on their website. It was filled with if I am remembering correctly, Mark three hundred and seventy active law enforcement including sheriffs, one hundred active military personnel, eighty either current or running for

public office officials that were on this lift. This to me was a big deal, right because the Oathkeepers, the leaders of the Oath Keepers, are being held on sedition by the Department of Justice for their involvement and their strategy and planning on January sixth. How is it that the media doesn't pick up on this as if we

didn't just rip off the hoods of the KKK. This is the reason why, and that they would march down the streets, that they would wear this garb so that people wouldn't know that they were active police officers and judges and teachers and doctors, right right, right, well, because the queen, I mean, that's that's the priority right now. And I get it. This is the transition of probably one of the most powerful images and icons in white

supremacy for seven decades. Thank you, thank you, um. But I want to I want to qualify that the most seductive and distracting image when it comes to white supremacy, all right, because she's she's she's a woman, and she's a low lady that wants to tackle a low lady. I get it um and they know this might be a rap because even in Britain, folks ain't feeling King Charles,

and definitely on feeling Queen Camilla. So if there ever were an opportunity all these things related, I'll tide us up in a minute, folks, If there were ever an opportunity to abolish the monarchy, it is right now. In fact, you know, I think it would have been in Elizabeths and everyone's historical interests if she had declared that the monarchy would be abolished upon her passing, upon her death. But what purposes served? What it's not. It doesn't really

have any real power. It is symbolic. It is an upholding of a fairy tale white privilege, which is frankly damaging to us all because y'all by now, if y'all haven't figured it out, you know, there's no there are no prince Charmings. There is no Cinderella, no sleeping beauty. You know, most heads of households or women y'all still run around looking for Prince Charman. That's that's gone. Prince

Prince Charming is the major bread winner. The major bread winner most households is a woman these days and women are under tech. The Handmaid's Tale is the fiction that has come to life, not Cinderella, not Union, it Bees, not ripunzeled. But we still caught up in castles and whatnot.

Not only are those old keepers faces not revealed to the extent that they should be, but what also is not being revealed for the sake of white supremacy is how many countries are wanting to remove now that she's gone. Britain is the head of state. I heard the Jamaicans on my show, like, what kind of image are you giving young black girls in Jamaica when they exchange currency in money and it's got a white woman on the right. We are at the dawn of a new age. They

are fighting the little Mermaid. They don't want the sister. She's under a tech. We can't even have a black little mermaid. This is this is what we're what we're up against, and unfortunately they are. Those are the mainstream media who again want to air on the side of not appearing too liberal or two they are. They have rabbit ears for their charge. Liberal media. There's no, it's not liberal. Nobody's not. We see, we see what's happening with CNN right, you see, you see, you see what

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you get your podcast. New episodes every Tuesday. I'm happy that you brought up the Monarch because I will tell you that I did multiple videos that I have done as of late because I am just outdone. I'm out done with the coverage in the United States as if every cable network is BBC. I understand the consistent coverage in the areas that are part of the quote unquote Commonwealth by all means go off. But if my memory serves me correct, then Pilgrims came here because they were

fleeing the monarch. Right they bastardize indigenous populations and the Native Americans here because they were fleeing and decided that they did not want to pay those taxes. They I believe that there was an entire war right with regard

to the separation from the United Kingdom. So I'm confused at the consistent pageantry, celebrity, and white supremacy that's celebrated here that isn't even placed into context because I said that even in her death, there was an opportunity and there is an opportunity to talk about genocide, to talk about what sovereignty actually looks like, right, to talk about the fact that their wealth, their billions and billions of dollars, is stolen, it is theft, and there is an opportunity

even these people that say, oh, they don't have any power. A microphone is power. Calling people to sit to have conversation is power. None of what she had done except to sit with except to sit with crown jewels on her head that are stolen from India, from African nations right over centuries. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Um. The coverage though, let's be honest, the mainstream media is as insensitive and

racist and non liberal as it is frugal. Okay, putting that focus on Britain during this period of morning don't cost you much money, you know, because because not really, because that's not plane tickets you're buying for reporters ago other parts of the country. That's not other money you're spending to do stand up cameras and locations. You just plug into that DBC or that Sky News feed or the Royal Family Channel feed and you're good. You know,

that's that's the gift that keeps on giving. It's like, you know, lawn ordint on TV all the time, y'all, because it's expensive, it's cheap. That's a cheap thing to produce. And so that's what networks do. So yeah, we ain't got to spend a whole lot of money. We just plug into this feed. Let this run for ten days. I want everybody to be clear about that. So they're getting they're getting the imagery and they're you know, saving a few dollars. And they know people are caught up

in the pageantry. No, the bricks got it. They they know how to lay somebody out. Now, all the pomp and circumstances. It's fascinating to watch. I'll be honest with you, I've never seen a jaguar hurst, all right, And so I was like, whoa mother got a jaguar hurt? So, y'all. Daniel was my time. Y'all get me a jaguar hurt too. I've seen that jaguar hurt that makes you look at it all his own. I just go and look at that if you don't do nothing else. So they know

how to lay it out. And that's the distraction from reality, distraction into fantasy. And for the media in this country as well as around the world, it's it's it's cheap. You know. It gives everybody a little kind of a paid vacation. Well, you know, I ain't got to be in these streets cover nothing that's going on over here. I can take a little break, I can get a little breather. Um. But you're so right, though, mark about the distraction though, because all of this, this is what

it is, right, because that's what celebrity is. You steal other people's generational wealth, and then you make up worship. You make them worship your royalty, you make them worth worship your your bloodline. And and it is, you know, in a white supremacist system. We all live in other contradictions every day. Even those of us who are black like folk come on with us and they super black.

But when they work, they don't do nothing right when there's racism happening right in their in their own jobs. And it's the same with everyone else. Women, progressive women voted for a man that talked about grabbing the pussy.

That's a contradiction. So now people are worshiping a woman who oversaw, and it's really it's it's as sinister is with her ancestors and those who colonized Africa, all right, her ancestors, she played a role in in softening the level of accountability and reparations that the newly independent colonies with demand because she was sweet, and she was so pretty, and she was a standard. You can't attack no white

woman like that. You can't. Now if now, if it had been you know, her father or her father's father, then folks might have wanted to mix it up a little bit more. But nobody wanted to be impolite. They used her in her image to grow around the world, even when these countries were breaking off from the British Empire. They used her image of womanhood and frailty all right, to give to change the image of Britain during that time.

And so that's not by accident either. And I think we have to know what these what these things mean and what they are now. Obviously there has been some aoing coverage of January sixth and the other piece, and I think that's important. People are getting that. But nobody is going to be like us and draw a relationship between what the oath keepers were doing white supremacy and what the British monarchy has done since the beginning of

time white supremacy. Britain didn't colonize well other than these states. This was the only place here in America. Well, let me put it this way. There were white who were under the colonies here in America, but that's it. They came here to colonize a place that was inhabited by people of color. All these Australia. Australia's even talking about taking the queen off the money and removing her a head of state or now the king m Australia is a black nation, all right. The people in Australia who

were white, of those who immigrated from Europe. It's an indigenous nation. Australia, India, most of Africa, the Caribbean jau was. I'm gonna showed it. So I don't want to get de Bunin's gonna show you ull some real quick, Megan Marko. The reason Charles didn't have no problem with his son marrying a sister is because the majority of the fifty six nations in the common Wealth of not all of them,

are nations of color. So this is it. If Britain's gonna stay relevant, they got to appeal and appeas to these countries of colors. So we got to have some adversity in the royal family. So what with looking up, y'all, what was Megan's dress made out of? You think she picked that? The dress had designs of all fifty six Commonwealth nations national flowers. Now, Daniel, you're gonna get married, Why you won't flowers of all these other nations? I ain't gonna do with you. But that was the politics

of it. That's why when Charles went to Barbados, they became independent. They don't want to be associated with it. They went to Commonwealth. Charles went to Barbados for the handoff like his mother used to do, to make sure everything's smooth and want to kind of rain term relationship. You're leaving the Commonwealth and basically handed over queen ship from his mother. Charles did from Elizabeth to Rihanna practically crown Rihanna the queen. But what a lot of people

don't know, Harry is always like the sisters. I like, ain't knowing neces to like the sisters. God blessed the sisters, you know, Oh God, I mean, I can't follow nobody for that. But he at one time was interested in Rihanna. They tried to pursue a dating type of situation and it didn't work out. But see if that had happened, and she's representing a country like Barbados, that would have

gone even further to show up this commonwealth. They want to keep this together and see there's money, there's an exchange in resources. Jamaican's told me when they went. And so they went down to the cribbin Harry. Now, Harry, William and Kate got protested at to cancel a lot of events. Right when they go to these countries, those nations have to pay for their visits, pay for the security, and they're not they don't invite them. They weren't invited

to come to Jamaica. We're coming to Jamaica, y'all got to pay for it. People are sick of that. So when you look at that. What the oath keepers do and what they continue to do, is perpetuate a modern day version of empire and supremacy. That's what the Civil War was all about, and they want to bring it back, they want to redo it. We've got to stand against it. And if it took we've been saying this too, we've

been blow in the face. But if it took the Dob's decision to wake everybody up, if it takes what happened on January sixth to wake everybody up, if it takes what many believe, even some of Donald Trump's friends believe is his indictment around classified documents, then that's what it takes. And so be it. It is what Donald

Trumps say, It is what it is. You know, it's so interesting, Mark, because the thing is that you that you make, that you make plain with regard to the United Kingdom, with regard to Megan Marcole, it was a missed opportunity, right because when they have the opportunity to stand together as a family to say we are we stand and against racism in any in any of its forms. This is now a member of our family and our party, they didn't do that. Right, they hung her out to dry,

which is why she had to flee back. I mean, when you are fleeing the UK to come back to America because America is less racive like that to me was just jarring, an eye opening. But the thing that the last question that I have for you here though, is this is that just as cable news hasn't been able to read the room and recognize that people are over the monarchy, right, the people, the billion plus people that watched Megan and Harry get married, and I wasn't.

I was one of them. The world and society has changed so greatly in just a handful of years. Right. We've seen an attempted coup. We have seen you know, oath keepers and proud boys and three percenters marching in our streets. Again, we have seen a rise in political violence, and there are so many more people who are seeing on social media from the Commonwealth places and you know,

from the United States, that are just done. Do you think, though, that all the things that we have experienced and continue to experience at the hands of white supremacists that are now that is now synonymous with the Republican Party is enough to hold the line because that's all we're trying to do right now. We're just trying to hold the line. Do you think it's enough? I think so. I think it's happening. I mean, of course we'll know in a couple of months or in less than two months, but

we really have nothing else to fight with. I think again that the right is doing a lot of our work for us. I hope that we are prepared for all the little tricks that are planned for November. And let me tell you something. It's it's significant for Nancy Pelosi to say what she said. She believes, she's announced she's expecting pickups in the house. That's a bold statement coming from someone like her. Now here's our other problem, though, y'all,

this is this is family business. This is what we got to deal with as voters, as a community of progressives. If we say we're losing, our side tends to get discouraged and not vote. We don't step up. Sometimes we get discouraged. If we say we're winning, our side says, oh, well we're good and I don't need to go vote. That's own pathology we got to work on. We really need some group therapy for all progressives and Democrats and liberals, because you know, we we we do that no matter what.

We've got to make this second nature. Yeah, it's a big deal too, that married Garland finally has the courage to step up and do something he didn't want to. No good married Garland. So that says a lot and and and again, I hope we don't need a lot of people. We just need those few, these those independents, those women, those white women in suburban college es, kitty white women, especially those you who voted for Donald Trump, those who have any regard for the rule of law.

Was Donald Trump or spot? Look if Danielle now in the White House, you know, we might have stolen some artwork or some channa, some stuff we can sell you. What do you do with nucleus secrets? We can't say, we don't know nobody we can sell those two. The only people who can do something with that and sell it are those who are in the business of espionage. Right if I had some nuclear secrets, Danielle, Danielle, could I call you, Hey, Danielle, I got these nuclear secrets.

You know who we can get them to. You wouldn't know who to call. We would know who to call We don't know nobody who would know, nobody who to call. But someone who's in that business knows Donald Trumps has been a spy. And hopefully that point gets over. So you put January six together and they're gonna have more hearings leading up to November. That is. Look at the prosecutions, Look at the subpoenas for those involved in January six. Look at the documents that Donald Trump stole, which you

shouldn't have. Look at what is happening to women's bodily autonomy. Yes, it's about abortion rights, it's about privacy, but it is about bally autonomy. Back to the Queen, her ancestors revoked the bodily agency and autonomy of women of color, indigenous women in this country. That's where it all got started. And when they brought us over here as enslaved people, they did the same thing, and not just to women but also to men. Men were fondled and raped on

the auction block. So this has this has a history. If it had stopped then it wouldn't have gotten as far as it's gotten today. But this is the same white supremacist mentality that wants to keep that alive. And if we don't seize this opportunity. Just like you said, they didn't see the opportunity to protect Megan Markle. They didn't do a thing. Even if the family didn't attack her, they were quiet while she was being attacked by the mean.

We cannot be quiet in the face of this reverse, this going back in time to the subjugation of women or any human beings. When it comes to our freedoms, our rights, our bodies, our votes, we can't afford to go back. We can't allow ourselves to go back. The fairy tale is lou Mermaid is black now, y'all fair tales, op. Reverend Mark Thompson, As always, we appreciate your candor, your insights, your analysis, every time that you make space to join us on Woke A f appreciate you, dear friend. I

appreciate you as well. Thank you, Daniel gad bless you. That is it for me today, dear folks on Woke FP Daily as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck, Get up behind the scenes. Look at Comedy Central's The Daily Show on Beyond the Scenes, an original podcast from the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Every week, host Roy Wood Junior goes deeper with the notable guests and experts

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