Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Podstream studios here in Times Square. Folks, it seems as if our bipartisan negotiations around police reform have done exactly what we all knew it was going to do, which is completely and totally combust Why is that, Well, because we like to protect killer cops in the United States, and it really doesn't matter what party you are a part of.
We like to believe that Democrats want to do the quote unquote right thing and have qualified immunity, meaning that you know, we don't just believe police officers when they say that they feared for their lives, so we don't just believe police reports and that you can actually be criminally held liable for the death of someone that you
have killed. But you see in the United States, which you know, grew its police force out of the slave catchers, it doesn't surprise me that then when we finally have a another national killing of an unarmed black person, as we did in the summer of twenty twenty right on the CUSP, right, we had Ahmad Aubrey, then we had George Floyd. Then in the mixed Brionna Taylor and so many others that were killed in that summer of uprisings, we would say, we need to reform the police, we
need to defund the police. And you know, we've had conversations about the Carcerol Cohn with the authors of that book last week. Well here's what happened this week. Senator Corey Booker and Senator Tim Scott, both Black senators, one on one side and one on the wrong side. Their talks fell apart, folks, and Corey Booker released this statement that I want to read to you. And you know, here's the thing. I adore Cory Booker. I think that
he's a great senator. I think that he has a great vision of who this country could be right if in fact we did the right things. If in fact, every time we had an opportunity to take ten steps forward, we wouldn't decide to take forty five steps back. But that's what we do all the time. But this is what he said about the bipartisan right. We love to throw this fucking word around as if we are not trying to negotiate with a group of domestic terrorists, but
alas let me read the statement. America has a serious problem when it comes to discriminatory policing and excessive and deadly force used against communities of color. We can't properly honor the lives of the victims of this violence if we don't take meaningful steps to prevent future violence and
deaths from occurring and make our communities safer. We made it clear from the beginning of our negotiations that a bill must ensure true accountability, transparency, and the policing standards necessary to bring an end to horrific incidents of violence Americans are routinely seeing, like the murder of George Floyd.
After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a bipartisan deal, it remains out of reach right now, even after working collaboratively with and securing the support of policing groups like the Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs of Police for our proposals. Unfortunately, even with this law enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still too wide a golf with our negotiating partners, and we
face significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal. The time has come to explore all other options to achieve meaningful and common sense policing reform. I will not stop fighting until we achieve change that keeps our communities and police officers safe. I got to tell you that reading that statement by Cory Booker, I wish it wasn't filled with
so many euphemisms. I wish that Cory Booker would just tell the truth right, because I feel like we should be living in a time of radical honesty and radical transparency, which is this. Republicans love police. However, they don't give a fuck about the one hundred and sixty five police officers that were harmed on one six in the insurrection. They don't care about the four police officers that testified
about their post traumatic disorder. They don't care about the police officers that took their own lives right after the unrelenting pressure of what happened on one six. You know, those police officers they could give a fuck about. Who they do love, however, are the Derek Chauvin's of the world. Right. They love those police officers that, you know, according to Donald Trump, can rough people up a little bit. You know, just just do that a little bit. When you put
him into the back of the car. Don't be too nice. That's what Donald Trump said in twenty seventeen to a group of Suffolk County police officers on Long Island. Do you know what was returned after he said that? Laughter? Laughter from a largely white police force. This is the police force of my youth, right because I grew up in Suffolk County. So to see them giggle at the idea of harming a citizen who pays their salary is wild.
But to believe that after headline after headline, hashtag after hashtag stories of how police officers turned off body cameras, how they have beaten and abused their badges, how Derek Chauvin is now standing trial again for another time because had he been stopped the first time he put a knee on the neck of a fourteen year old black boy, maybe George Floyd would still be alive today. But you see what police departments love, and what Republicans love even
more are cover ups. They love to tell us that good cops exist, except I wonder where the fuck they are, because we never seemed to see any good cops around. All we do is see more and more press conferences about how hard it is to be a cop, and now hard it is to distinguish these things, and that you know, we us give them more leeway what to have public hangings, public beatings, what to be able to be on horseback and using whips like border patrol. We
have no system of accountability in this country. It is why police continue to do harm to communities of color because they know that they can. Because much in the earlier conversation about critical race theory and the understanding of where these systems and policies and policing come from, we like to pretend that there is no connection to slavery and the slave trade. We like to believe that it is just, you know, the norm to see the loss of black life because you know they had it coming.
It's always, well, why was he holding a cell phone in his own backyard? To his ear, It's always why were they sitting in a car, Why were they walking home at the hood on? Why were they playing on a playground, Why were they asleep in their own fucking bad Why were they going to it for a jog
in their own neighborhood. But we never asked the police or the white vigilante, why is it that black people are not able to roam free in this country where they were emancipated right centuries ago because the residue and I don't even want to call the residue because that would presume that most of the bad stuff is gone. No, it is not. It is just morphed and taken different forms.
But we wanted to believe that in light of this horrific killing that we saw with George Floyd, that something must be done, but nothing ever is Just like earlier this week, Madam Vice President said when asked about their horrific photos of patient migrants being beaten, we'll have to investigate that. What the fuck is your investigation going to
turn up? Currently? Right now, multiple police departments are under investigation by the Department of Justice because you know, they have a series of abuses while they continue to get federal funding. And by federal funding, I mean your tax dollars. They collect our money so that they can build up their arsenals so that they can then turn them on the American public, but particularly the black and brown American public, because why do we need to be over policed, Well,
because we're riddled with crime. And why do you think that, Oh, because our communities are suppressed and oppressed with poverty. And why is that? Oh, because there is no investment that is given into those places. And oh well why is that? Well, you know, when your grandfathers and great grandfathers are able to get loans to buy homes and start businesses. You know, our ancestors were denied that. And so then how does that all build on to where the fuck we are today?
So is it a surprise that the talks broke down? Is it a surprise that we can't come to the table to make sure that klu klux Klan members in blue police uniforms and badges can't just run a muck and kill every black person that they see, all claiming that they're fearful. I am exhausted by the performance that we have been fed that somehow we can spend months twirling around while more people are turned into hashtags. There's no fear from police officers that they'll lose their jobs.
There's no fear from police officers that their whole districts will be shut down, and they're funding rerouted to Let's say, oh, I don't know the public school system, or community investment, or healthcare or any of those things. No, because as long as we can continue to feed the lie that defunding the police means that people will be less safe, while I ask you go into those communities that are over policed and under resource and ask them how fucking
safe they feel. Police don't stop crime, they cause it, and they show up after the fact. That is a pattern. You can read that in any report and study. It's a disgrace that we've wasted so much time on something that we knew was never going to happen to begin with. It's why when we watched as a nation the trial of Derek Chauvin, where like, oh my god, withholding bated breath, finally somebody is going to be held accountable. And then that motherfucker had the audacity to try and appeal. We
saw you. But what they love to feed us in the mainstream media is that you know, he is one bad apple. He is one bad apple from a spoiled orchard that reaches across from sea to shining sea. In this country. Nothing will be done about the other Derek Chauvin's of the world, because you know, there was a breakdown in our bipartisan performative action. I am so over trying to negotiate with Republicans, trying to negotiate with these
domestic terrorists to do anything. Mitch McConnell came out again this week. My one mission is to stop Joe Biden. Know your one mission is to stop America, full stop. Period. This isn't democrat versus Republican, this isn't any of that.
These evil, cruel, white supremist, misogynist, racist people. They believe that they can steal their country back from the grips of anti racism, from the grips of progress, and that is what they will do, and that is what we continue to allow them to do without any critical, massive, organized pushback. They'll keep going until there is nothing left unless we take some notes from the young people in Central York and decide that we've had enough and that
their voices are not representative of us. And it is not one march and done. It is strategic and unrelenting pushing forward, challenge the mansions and the cinemas. I don't give a fuck if they lose their seats and are replaced with the Republicans for the short term. What I am interested in is the long term preservation of our democracy, which is on a crash course right now, a collision course with white supremacy, and it seems that there are
no breaks to be found anywhere. We are the breaks, dear friends, It is up to us to do something about the destructive forces that are at play right now and stop pretending that any one of them are on our side when we know it to be untrue. That is it for today's woga F Daily Podcast. To hear more from me, including five full hour long shows every single week, exclusive guest interviews, and more. Support me on Patreon at Patreon dot com, slash WOGAF Power to the
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