Sen. Tiara Mack: Unashamed & Unembarrassed

fucking polls this time. Like, the reality is people in this country are suffering, right. They're suffering because they are losing rights left in right, and they don't know what to do about it. That they're dollar is no longer stretching as far as it used to. That while we're seeing gas prices received, inflation is still at an all

time high. And you know, the fact is Republicans are a terror group, a terrorist organization that is receiving very little pushback at the state and local and federal level for the actions that they are taking to oppress people, particularly LGBTQ people, particularly women and people with UTERUSS particularly black people, and this Democratic Party Joe, which Joe Biden is the leader of, is doing fairly little to show that they have the ovaries to get this shit done.

So here's where I am. You know, I talked about this last week that I received a lot of pushback and a lot of fucking just nastiness on social media.

So I appreciate those of you who had reached out and DMed and you know, left comments to uplift me, because I will say that my spirits were indeed quite low last week, that you know, and it wasn't low because necessarily I take what trolls say, and I'm not saying that it was all trolls, because there were people who were actual, real people who were like, I'm on following you because you know, you're not a cheerleader for the Democratic Party. And what I will say is read

my fucking bio. I never said I was. I am not a spokesperson for the Biden administration. I am not a spokesperson for the DNC. But I'm not going to sit around and say that Joe Biden is doing a bang up job when in fact I don't think so. And if you can't take what your party is saying to you about how you need to change course. Then how are you going to go up against Republicans that don't give a fuck about truth, don't give a fuck about science, and frankly, don't give a fuck about safety

or the constitution. So if you can't take the pressure that is coming at you from within your own party, how are you going to take on the white supremacist terrorist cult that is now the Republican Party. The reality here is, you know, there was pushback last week because a White House spokesperson who has since went to go spend more time with her family and I'm using air quotes, basically said that Biden is not going to acquiesce on abortion rights to appease a group of activists that are

quote unquote out of step with the Democratic Party. So the Biden administration thinks that their best bet to get people activated to vote in mid terms is to discredit and admonish the activists that are actually getting supplies and help on the ground to women and people with uteruses that need abortion. Right now, did I get that right? Because if that is your motherfucking tactic, then I might as well hand you the gun so you can shoot

yourself in the foot right literally. The reality here is that these numbers should worry this administration, and they should worry all of us because people are losing hope. And where do you get hope from. You get hope from messaging coupled with action, neither of which this Democratic Party

is doing right now. Case in point, Lawrence Tribe, famed lawyer, tweeted and said that Joe Biden does not need to ask his staff whether or not he can call a public health emergency for abortion right now, which by the way, would open up more funds through HHS for them to take considerable measures to protect the right to abortion in this country. And this is Lawrence fucking Tribe that is saying this. Forbes magazine wrote this, and I want to

read it verbatim. President Joe Biden said Sunday he has asked his staff to see if he has quote the authority to declare a public health emergency to address abortion access, a move that could release additional funding and give federal health officials more power to respond to state level abortion and restrictions. Following calls from progressive Democrats to take sweeping action to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. Folks, it's been over two weeks.

By the time that we get to the end of this week, it'll be three weeks since Rovie Wade was overturned. But it has been several fucking weeks, several months in fact, since we knew that this was coming on the horizon. So the question that infuriates me, and that many voters are asking themselves, is why was there no fucking plan when these scooby Doo fucking evil villains are organizing and play goddamn sight and they are literally announcing what their

fucking plans are. Why has there been no action that was taken. Why are we all standing around looking up at the sky saying I can't believe that this has happened. Now, I get that for the average American that is fucking shook, but not by this administration that should not have been caught off guard. But of course you would be caught off guard because you still have this fucking president believing that he can work with Republicans that literally wanted to

kill their own form of vice president last year. I want to read some key facts that Biden can take and these key facts that were put out this week with regard to what a public health emergency would do and with regard to the executive order that Joe Biden

has put in place. So one, a public health emergency is typically declared by the federal government following a natural disaster or infectious disease outbreak, and it gives the Department of Health and Human Services additional funding and flexibility to

respond to an emergency. Number two, Biden's executive order directs HHS to protect emergency medical care for pregnant people, but declaring an emergency could also give HHS Secretary Xavier Biserra the power to ensure healthcare providers can prescribe and dispense abortion medication out of state to patients whom home states have restricted abortion centers. For reproductive Rights, President Nancy Northrop

wrote in The Washington Post. This article goes on to say this White House, AIDS and HHS officials way declaring a public health emergency after the Supreme Court's ruling, but they decided against it at the time due to question about its effectiveness and possible legal challenges. Folks, And this

is the kind of shit that drives me crazy. Why the fuck were you waiting until Rove Wade was overturned, when in fact, the draft decision told you it was going to be overturned for you to figure out whether or not declaring a public health emergency would be the help that people would need. Because here's the deal, folks.

And I've talked to our friend Danielle Campamore, the abortion rights advocate and also writer at todayshow dot com, who has stated that every minute, every second that can be bought right for these people who are literally running up against the clocks in their state, is time that we cannot waste. And so why the fuck this administration would wait three weeks almost after this decision and a month and plus after the leak draft was put out to think about the ways in which they need to activate.

Is why the fuck Biden's numbers are low. So people want to tell me, no, Danielle's about the economy. It's about this, that and the other thing. And again I will say what I said on MSNBC a couple of weeks ago. There is no more pressing issue for people's kitchen table than whether or not they have enough money and resources to be able to feed the fucking mouths at that table. And if you are forced to birth yet another mouth that you cannot afford, you tell me

how that's not an economic issue. This administration, I know people don't love for me to say it needs to get their fucking shit together and actually should be paying attention to the polls and be concerned that ninety four percent of young people that are polled don't want Biden to run in twenty twenty four. So what does that mean for their turnout enthusiasm right for midterms and for twenty twenty four, it means that it's going to be fucking low. And guess what, we don't get another bide

at this apple. This is the last midterm election. This will be the last presidential election in twenty twenty four. If and when Republicans take power, because they are not looking back, they are not looking for negotiations, they will rewrite the rules, rewrite the constitution, call a constitutional convention, and I may be broadcasting from a cotton field near you.

That's the fucking reality on the ground. And it would be great if our administration would get on board with the urgency that it's being expressed by the constituents and the citizens across this country. Coming up next, my conversation with whom They're all Right has called controversial Senator Tara Mack from Rhode Island, who made headlines for twerking and then telling people that they need to get out and vote. Let me tell you something, folks, she is more than

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streaming on YouTube and Twitch. Folks, I am very excited to welcome to woka F Daily for the very first time Rhode Island State Senator Senator Tara Mack, who has made headlines right because this is what happens in the age of the inter net. For doing a video to get out the vote in your state, Senator Mac tworking and subsequently Fox News has come out with a target on you. There's been tons of pushback. You wrote a piece in Newsweek, and so I want you to tell us.

Just let's start from the beginning. What prompted the twrking video, and were you at all anticipating that there would be you know, backlash and not just like, oh h a fun like a fun funny video. So no, So to explain the video, I have to go back maybe like a week before that. I started my TikTok under my mac District sixth account to raise awareness after the overturning of Rovi Wade about access to abortion in the state.

Many people had no idea where to turn in my state, and they were saying things like, we must give our money to politicians, or we must fund this campaign, or let's start our own abortion fund. I'm an abortion funder. I've been a member of my state's abortion fund since twenty fifteen. I'm one of the board members, and I've

been working on issues for abortion access. I've worked on our state's twenty nineteen campaign to codify rob Wade, ensuring that Rhode Island will always have access to abortion no matter what happens federally. And I've been working currently on the Equity and Abortion coverage, which addresses the fact that one third of Rhode Islanders who are either state employees

or on Medicaid do not have access to abortion. And so i started that I believe it's my eighth video says I am trying to go viral to talk about abortion. I am trying to go viral. There might be some thirst traps, It's going to be Rhode Island specific, and I'm going to uplift body, autonomy and abortion. And so when I took those videos, the context was this is

it's a silly account. It talks a little bit about Rhode Island politics, the state of abortion access, what folks can do instead of donating to politicians, what they can do to ensure that their abortion fund in their local area is funded and because the need will be there, and also explaining some of the ways that blue states are not safe when it comes to abortion access. Many people are like, well, I live in Rhode Island and we just codified roh V. Wade so we don't have

to worry about access to abortion. That is extremely untrue. There are three hundred thousand Rhode Islanders at least who don't have access to abortion. And so when I created those videos, I think it's a series of three videos of me and my bathing suit with a small group of friends, and the first video says silly days off the second video is another video that says silly days off, and then the third one is the viral sensation of Tiara to working. So I did not expect it to

go pretty. I didn't expect to go further than my community of Rhode Islanders, let alone become a national GOP campaign. But also, this is not the first time I've gone viral on the alt right. This is the second time that the alt right has tried to silence me and have tried to make me afraid of whatever power they think they have over a strong, opinionated, unapologetically black queer person that stands up for the causes that she believes in. I went viral back in February, and no one was

worried about my body. They were not worried about my safety, and they sure as hell weren't worried at about the policies when the alt right took my comprehensive queer inclusive, age appropriate pleasure based sexual Health bill that was also paired with the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights. When they took that bill and had thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people in bots and their troll farm

calling me a pedophile and a groomer. For months, no one, no one in Rhode Island, no one at the national level, reached out and said, tr are you okay? They didn't care about my mental health, they didn't care about my black my black queer self receiving those messages from hundreds of account to daily and no one reached out. No

one said this is a smear campaign. No one even stood firmly in the fact that everything that they were saying about my bill was completely untrue, was not rooted in their opposition, was not rooted in wanting to protect young people. It was not rooted in wanting to have inclusion. It was about creating a divisive topic for them to

mobilize their base. And so then when this video goes viral of my body, me having full agency and autonomy over my body, being proud of what my body can do, a headstand, of being on the beach, celebrating that I have a day off on America's Birthday, as I like to call it, the fact that they took my body and tried to make it a meme and tried to shame me and tried to degrade me. When no one was concerned about tr mac before, not my mental health,

not my wellness, not my body. They were more concerned about the idea that a liberated black queer person felt comfortable in her skin and felt that she could have a day off and felt that she could have liberation.

And so the conversation spiraling out of control online has only been able to help me uplift the issues that I care about further, talk about bodily autonomy and call attention to the ways in which the alt right and their supporters are trying to create a narrative and strategically target opinionated people on the left, including black people, including peer people, including one of color in office, and create

a hostile environment. So they think so that they create in themselves this idea or need to shrink and to shrug away from the issues, or not stand as firmly in their beliefs. But did that. I say, if they want to come after me, which they already have once twice and they'll probably be another, I am not afraid of their smear campaigns, and I'm not afraid of standing firmly in my belief that everything I stand for is

about people centered communities. And so I think more people on the left need to be paying attention to these tactics that they're using, because we see what they're doing. They're creating false campaigns, They're creating and mobilizing their base around these like inflammatory lies, and we are not fighting back, We are not pushing back on the reality that everything they stand for is um is regressing back to this idea that we can't have inclusive community. Well, let's talk

about that for a minute. Um, which is the pushback, right the ability to as I continue to say on you know, on social media, on all of my platforms, to fight fire with fire, which you know you're talking specifically at you know, as as you are running for reelection uh in Rhode Island. And I'm also you know, pulling back to think about the ways in which national U nationally Democrats are not fighting back against these tactics.

And so um, you know, senator tell me, like, what what do you perceive to be the best way to fight back to you know, because I am no longer in the camp of when they go low, uh, we go high. I love Michelle Obama and will will forever.

That was a tactic of a different time. I'm more like, when they go low, we scuba dive like I am beyond, and so, what are some of the ways in which you believe that we need to be fighting back at the national, state, and local level, And what are some of the tactics that you have implored that you have found successful in the fight that you're in right now. Yeah, one of the ways that I found successful is when they were repeatedly calling me a pedophile and a groomer.

I ignored all those comments. I didn't engage, and I pushed back, and I said comprehensive queer inclusive, pleasure based sexual health attation. More, I said comprehensive queer inclusive, age appropriate pleasure based sex side even more, when they're coming after me for t working upside down, I made it into a hashtag. I have more people now, I have

thousands of followers. I'm a Rhode Island State senitter and I represent twenty thousand people, and I now have people all across the country who were inspired by a young, unapologetically queer person saying the word abortion, not saying reprodictive health access, not saying choice, saying abortion, and saying that we should have access to abortion for every single person

in our communities. I'm also talking about trans flights, I'm talking about intersex rights, I'm talking about body autonomy for every single person in our communities. And they want me to back down. They want me to feel as if they can control my narrative. They want me to be afraid, they want me to fear their troll farm. And it's not working. And I'm saying it louder, and I'm saying it more proudly, and I'm bringing more people into my message. I have people who've reached out to me like I

would have never known about you. I would have never known that we had a senator in my state, and so wild it is, yes, and so it is. It is still something that I'm grappling with because we have waited too long to fight back. I really resonated with what you've said when you said when we got a scuba dive, like they are literally pulling all of the stops and we are watching. I've in my own state house, we have people who are not willing to stand firmly

in the belief that our communities need action now. I was championing bills including an eviction moratorium, adjustments to our probation period, sexual seals of Ivery's Bill of Rights, sealing evictions for folks who have those on their records, and those bills did not get heard this year. I had bills that were introduced last year and had hearings and that were not heard because people were afraid that, Oh, well, Tiarra mac has already caused enough of stir, She's already

mobilized people against her, and we're afraid. And so to that, I say, what are you afraid of when you're standing up for your communities? Why are you afraid to stand firmly in all of your beliefs that what they are saying is not only very true, but it's not justified, and it's not the narrative that we want our young people to be living up to. And we should not shrink in the light of their criticisms and their fabricated attacks. We should not shrink when they have these platforms that

are literally misinformation. We need to push back continually and consistently, and we need more people, more allies to say this is ridiculous. I've had to create my own document. No one knows how to support a black queer woman in this moment, literally, no one. I have to create my own resources and sample tweets for what to say when someone calls Tarmac a pedophile, a groomer, something misogynistic, something

that's race based. You know, we have seen this tactic, right, this return to the eighties, right is what I refer to it as, because in the eighties we did not have in this nation the care and or consideration for LGBTQ people. I mean, the Reagan administration allowed people to die in the street from aids because they thought that it was God's will, because it was only at that

time affecting the gay community. And so, you know, we understand because these tactics are patterns that have historical roots in discrimination and oppression. And yet Democrats find themselves, whether at the state or local level or at the national level, seemed to be deers and headlights without the ability to

fight back. And we saw, you know, a significant push back by a state representative in Michigan who came out on the house floor, I don't know, on her house for if you remember that, where she came out against her Republican opponent for calling her a groomer. And she stood in her truth as a white suburban Christian mom who is a progressive right who believes, you know that women should have bodily autonomy minded right. I was, yeah,

I was raising the red flag. But because it's a white woman saying, look at what they're doing to me and say, oh, no, it's me, and they're like, well, they can't do that to our own people. But when it's a black queer woman saying, look at what the fuck they're saying about me, And I'm not saying I'm weak, I'm not saying that I need their protection, but I'm saying, like, why is it okay? And why is it viral news?

I had people sending me her video. They're like, this reminds me of you, and I was like, no, I remind me of me because they're giving her attention. They're not covering tr Matt. I got mails into my home from an unaddressed place in Michigan, and that fucking scared me. I'm like, okay, so my address legally wants to be on my website because I'm a public official, and folks now are radicalizes on the right and so many different platforms and so many different group chats, we already have

folks that don't believe that black people deserve rights. We have a growing narrative across our nation that LGBTQ plus people don't deserve their rights and are a direct harm to young people in communities in this Great American Convention

that some people have fabricated in their minds. And then we also have on that the attack on women, that women don't deserve autonomy over their body, the fact that people, queer people, trans people, non binary people don't deserve gender affirming care and pronouns and being addressed in ways that

feel authentic and affirming to them. And so being a black queer person experiencing all of those things in the faith in a public arena and having to say, I'm fucking shrug it off because I know exactly what they're doing, but having to explain to people I had to explain to the FBI or to the our state troopers um when they were making a um their case when I sent them the letter, they were like, well, how is it, How is it dangerous they're calling you a grumor how

is it dangerous that they're calling you a pedophile? And I'm like, do you not see that this is a tactic to literally stoke fear. It's the same as calling me the N word. It's the same thing. They are trying to belittle me. They are trying to create fear, and you know, but what what troubles me to on so many different levels is that, you know, we're going to these police outfits, right, who have never seen us

having the right complexion for the protection. Right, So you were going to these outlets to say, oh, look, I'm in harm's way, and they don't care because they literally put us in harm's way all the time. And what we are seeing by virtue of all of the coverage of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, these type of white supremacist groups, is that they have tentacles in every part of our government and every part of our agencies

and police, you know, departments across this country. And so, you know, senator, how do you one, how do you raise this to your people, to your twenty thousand constituents to understand the violence and the threat not just facing you, but people like you in the in their you know, and what they can do to activate Because what I still see is that we believe on this larger scale, or at least the voters believe that there is you know,

oh we're still having these ideological debates between Republicans and Democrats, and that's not the case. Right You have a rabid right wing call that it's taken hold at the state, local and national level, and then you have a Democratic party that in many ways is like fighting for survival because it doesn't have the tools and the equipment available to deal with the evil that we're being presented with.

So how do you, as your campaigning on the myriad of assaults and issues, raise the alarm to your own constituency. Is there something that we know that folks on the national level can learn from. What it is that have activated your own constituents in Rhode Island. Yeah, and I still struggle with that question every day. But one thing that I've been doing on the doors is raising awareness. We have folks in Rhode Island who've been in office

since before I was born. I'd be the thirty year incumbent. I'm supporting another candidate in reconcentis who's going against another thirty plus year incumbent. Our Senate president in Rhode Island who has been in the Senate for thirty seven years. We have stronghold in communities and folks are saying, well, the same old, but same old has not got us chained. These are the same people who are upholding the norms

and narratives. And because I've gotten to the State House and I've pushed back and I've voted no when I needed to, and I've stood up and said I'm not voting for that, and I've gone to our prisons. I've taken a tour of our adult correctional facility and I've

said this place is not safe. They tried to say it is clean, it is quiet, and I'm like people who are being abused and in a space that is literally designed to break the psyche, that doesn't It can be clean, it can be quiet, it is still abuse. And we have to raise that flag every single time.

And then when people say, well, we're not going to get be able to pass the equity and abortion coverageack to get the coverage for the thirty three percent of Rode Islanders who don't have it, and I say, why, We've got twenty three sponsors. We have twenty three out of thirty eight centers in the Chamber who say we want this to pass. But because we have three powerful people in leadership, they determine what bills go to the

floor and what bills do not. Yea, they determined that my bills, the ones that were heard last year when I wasn't a problem, and the ones that are being heard that were not heard this year because TRRA MAC is a problem. They didn't make it pass that. They didn't make it pass committee, they didn't make it to a committee floor, let alone the floor for a full vote. And so I'm teaching people and educating them because another thing that folks don't realize is that we have so

much power in the General Assembly. And that's another reason why I've created those tiktoks. We have judges that are appointed to these commissions who are just high school friends of current senter. We have people who are appointed to commissions to determine our environmental impact developing our port that are leading to environmental racism and the highest asthma rates in the country in a predominantly black and brown community.

We're assigning more people who side with the fossil fuel corporations to be on those committees and appoint new new places that are going to be major polluters into our backyards. We're appointing people to redevelop the highway district that will determine for the next twenty fifty years what our urban corps looks like and who it caters to, and what are affordable housing looks like and what housing looks like around those areas. We're appointing people to boards for jerrymandering,

literally creating their own districts. We appointed so many political insiders to our redistricting committee, and the public didn't even know. These are not people who were elected. These are not people who have a public face or have a public persona. Oftentimes they have no name, they have no resume, they have no public track record that you that you can follow. They have nothing that you can say, who is this person and what do they stand for? Because they're invisible names.

But then they have so much power in our states and we appoint them, and so by telling people and showing people that we can take that power back, we can use their own game against them. We have a blueprint. They have showed us the blueprint. Take power at the local and state level to create an overwhelming majority so that we can get the state and the community help that we need. We have the blueprint. We know exactly

what to do. But we're unwilling to do that because some people do not want to concede power on the left, some people are not truly on the side of the left, and some people do not realize that black and brown voices are sick and fucking tired of waiting for change incrementalism. There is no time for incrementalism anymore. Being told to compromise for what my right to my body, to my right to take hast, right to food, my right to

a living wage. I won't fucking concede that. And so when people say that we need to work together and we need to build, I'm like, no, y'all work with me, Work with the left, and work with the people who ran because they were tired of the current leaders we had.

Work with the people who have seen their communities literally struggle for generation after generation, who don't see any hope in the system, who know that their politicians literally do not care about them because they do not know what it's like to be a low income black or brown person or a queer person who faces many realities across this nation. So those are all the ways that we have to do better, and I'm trying to do better.

Civic engagement, trying to mobilize people and show them that there is real power in our voices, there is real power in our numbers, and with people coming into our steakhouses and taking that space and taking the air away from the folks who don't want to move, even if

they are quote unquote on our side. Let me ask you this last question, which is, you know we have polls coming out that and I trust me, I believe that polls are akin to reading tea leaves right, So take with them, you know, with a grain of salt. But the reality is that people are tired, They are depressed, they have anxiety, they are stressed the fuck out. There is inflation, everything costs more, and their money is not

going as far as it used to. How what what do you say to that voter, to that Democratic voter, right, whether it's in your state, as we're looking at midterm elections nationally, as we're headed into a which will probably be our last presidential election um in these United States? So what do you say to that? Not even disgruntled. I just think that people are beat down, right, So

what what? What? What? In you know, what what message do you think would resonate to get folks to the polls in a way to see that like there is still a mustard seed of hope somewhere to hold onto. I say my campaign slogan hope in action. We must always have hope, but we have to have the audacity and the bravery to put that hope into action. Every single day, I have been literally beat down, and luckily I have a really great uh support system. I have

a therapist. I play rugby, so I'm allowed to hit people legally when I want to. I crochet, I do all. I do all the things that I need to do and take care of myself, but it's fucking hard. I have a full time job outside outside of being a

state legislator. So when people say my voice doesn't matter, I say, I had hope that it would matter, and I won, and I'm working on these issues and in my community, I have at least ten candidates that I'm mentoring and getting them into office and having them build up to replace the existing power structures. So when people say, well, it doesn't matter, I'm like, it will matter. And that's why we need new voices. Do young voices, black people,

queer people, Latino people. We need so many new voices in different people in those spaces, and I have hope that this next generation is tired the fact that I was trking upside down, and it broke the Internet, and it broke the minds of people who were afraid to see a liberated black, queer person whose body has been told its entire life that it is, that it's sex, literally said, and they weren't listening to my message before.

And now people are coming to my platform like I just knew you was a twerking senator, and now you have things to say. You can do both what Yeah, they're saying, there's so much hope in seeing someone who is not backing down, who is not saying sorry. They wanted me to be ashamed, they wanted me to be embarrassed, and they wanted to take away whatever sense of empowerment they thought they could take from me. And to that, I said, fuck no, I'm a twerk on anyway. I'm

going to fight anyway. I'm going to say abortion, Louder, I'm going to say trans writes Louder. I'm going to say, protect our intersects, youth, Louder, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, abolish the police. I'm going to say, defend our communities. I'm going to say all of the things that I believe in strongly, more convincingly, and I'm

going to bring people into that camp. I've been on the doors, I've been knocking, and it is hard for people to see that hope, but to see people who are still invested, and to see people who are actually fighting and who have whatever little results that we can get, who are saying that this system is broken and we need more voices. It can't just be one of us. It has to be all of us running. And that's one of the things that I think the Democratic Party also has missed. We have to have so many new

voices coming in and taking those seats. It's not about one win, it's not about two wins. It's not about the federal level. Like I've said this in a different interview, but like fuck being the next AOC, Be the next AOC in your town government, be the next AOC in your state legislature, be the next change maker in your community. Because that's what it goes down to. We're not getting shit done up at the federal level, and it's coming down to states making sure their communities are taking care

of that, they have the resources that they need. And so when people say, well, donate to this cause, like donate to this campaign, do that, I'm like, start your own fucking campaign. Let's do it. People were like, let's fund, let's go send our money to politicians who support abortion. No, don't donate to politicians. Donate to an abortion fund. That's where it's going to matter, matter who wins that next election, abortion still is not going to be guaranteed for the

people who need it most. And so trying to build that distrust in the system and that inherent belief that we can have a whole new system in people. It is hard, it is ruling. But by doing the work and showing up every day with authenticity, with love, and with hope for people, I think that is what inspires and that is what motivates people to see that there is changed because we have people who are not backing down.

And yes, it is hard, and at times I has a black person every felt safe in the United States, Like if you have like let me know your secret, but like don't feel safe, don't feel love, don't feel cared for, and don't feel community. But I'm showing up for it anyway, Senator TIERA. Mack, You're fantastic. I am really glad that you made the time to join Woke.

I hope that you will come back because you know, I am looking for energy, I am looking for hope, I am looking for something someone somewhere, all of those peoples to let us know that this fight is not over. And you were one of those people. You were one of those warriors on the front lines. And fuck them if they are going to be doing their advertisements with aar fifteens and all of this like violence and bullshit, you can absolutely to work as much as you God

damn well please and absolutely should. So we here on Woke AF appreciate you, thank you, and we'll hope you come back soon. 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 from the Emmy Award winning series. Together, they use comedy to tackle current topics from gentrification to gun laws and take a closer look at how and why these topics matter. Listen to Beyond the Scenes from the Daily Show with Trevor Noah on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast, New episodes every Tuesday. That is it for me today here on Woke App as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

get woke and stay woke as fuck. Get a 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 from the Emmy Award winning series. Together, they use comedy to tackle current topics from gentrification to gun laws and take a closer

look at how and why these topics matter. Listen to Beyond the Scenes from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. New episodes every Tuesday.