This is Who They Are

One year since a white supremacist put together in an entire oh, I don't know, manifesto that kind of red light gave Fox News segment or rundown or maybe a guest of Tucker Carlson decided to leave his home and drive about two hours or so to a densely populated black area in Buffalo, New York, where they would be

gathered on a Saturday morning, right nonchalantly shopping for the weekend. Grandmother's, uncles, father's mother's old people, young people, middle aged folks just trying to live their lives, and a white supremacist would find his way to that grocery store that he had done recon work over and take out ten people. Now, in my humble opinion, there have been too many incidents that we have just become numb to shrug off because they happen all the time, and mass shootings are one

of those instances. But mass shootings, particularly at the hands of white supremacists, we just take as par for the course. In America, the thing that has been on the rise that the FBI wrote a report on about roughly ten years ago, has been the threat of white domestic terrorism

has been the threat of white supremacy. Two our democracy has been the increase in violence right against communities of color, against Jewish folks, against Muslim people, against Asian folks, against black people, Latin X, queer people, trans people, in particular, everyone who is not presenting as white, cis, hetero, and

often times male. Now, the killing in Buffalo was so horrific and stark, and it reminded me of the killing that took place at Mother Emmanuel Church in South Carolina, where nine parishioners, in the midst of prayer, in opening up their house of worship to Dylan Rufe would die because he saw fit to sit down with black people in prayer and take out their lives. Why because he's a white supremacist that was radicalized through what you know.

This is the thing too, folks, is that we consistently talk about the radicalization of these you know, of these white boys, and frankly, there is no better place to get radicalized than on Fox. There's no better place to get radicalized than in the state of Florida that's being run by a complete white supremacist fascist. There's no better place to be radicalized than in Texas, right, that is being run by a white supremacist fascist. Greg Abbott, you

don't need to go to the dark Web. You don't need to go to the dark corners of the Internet in order to find groups that are ideologically aligned with white supremacy. They are organizing and are allowed to stand right out in the open. So, folks, on the year anniversary, right of this mass shooting that took place in Buffalo, what happened over the weekend, Well, it wasn't just Mother's

Day weekend. It also wasn't just my father's birthday. And you know, caught up in the celebrations of you know, another year granted, and you know, being grateful for the kind of mother that I have but you know, as I tell you all the time, I try my very best not to watch the news on the weekends. I

don't even really watch the news. If I'm going to be on the news, I read articles, right, because there is a purposeful, emotional mental cleansing that takes place for me as soon as I turn off the microphone on any given day. It's why I tell you all to do the very same. I have, you know, rituals that I kind of moved through as a way to cleanse

myself of what I've been steeped in. It's the way that I keep myself emotionally and energetically cleansed right so that I'm no longer attaching myself to the hatred, that I'm no longer attaching myself to de vitriol that's being put in my face on a regular basis, and that I'm trying to analyze for all of you. But to my dismay, I accidentally turned on the news on Sunday evening. And what do I see on Sunday evening? I see video.

I don't know if it was live, because I don't know if this march that took place by the quote unquote Patriot Front in Washington, DC. Whether or not it happened on Saturday or Sunday, I can't recall at this time. But what I can't tell you is that these white men who had face coverings on, looking like they had pulled white athletic socks over their faces, and they had sunglasses on, you know, because they're so proud to be white supremacts, they hide their faces. But traditionally, why do

why do white supremacts? Why do KKK members and Nazis and what and so forth. Well, the Nazis didn't hide their faces, right because they owned and operated everything, so they were proud to be doing what they were doing. But in this country is more often than not that KKK and white supremact organizations hide their faces. And why

is that? Oh, because they know that in their hearts, if they actually have them, or wherever in the place of where their heart is, they know that mainstream does not accept the language and the ideology of wiping out

entire religions, races, orientations, and so forth. That these people oftentimes find themselves in law enforcement positions as judges, doctors, dentists, right in positions where they are actually supposed to be a credible, active member of society, and so they cover their faces so that they can profess their hatred right in broad daylight, but by being able to then keep

their jobs. And so for me, you know, my call out to white supremaist motherfuckers that I'm sure don't listen to that show is take off your hood covering bro right punk, out your chest right, show the people who you are, because you're so bold and you're so bad right that you all need to be in locked formation because one on one you're nothing more than a bunch

of in cell punks. Because I made the joke on my other show on The New Abnormal that you know, these folks have to be part of the in cell community. You know, the ones that are afraid of women because they've never had a date and never been in These are the hetero ones, right, because the closeted ones, you know, they just hate and bash gay folks and trans folks. But nonetheless you know that they need to be in mass right because they are pathetic human beings as individuals.

But when I turned on the news and I see this on the year anniversary right of marking of ten black people being murdered for doing nothing other than being in the right place at the wrong time. Then I hear that our President Joe Biden was at Howard University over that same weekend last weekend, giving a commencement speech, and in that commencement speech, he said that white supremacy is the greatest threat facing our country. Ding ding ding

ding ding. Yeah, the FBI found that out over a decade ago, but that report was hidden, right, It wasn't investigated, it wasn't excavated. Why because Republicans at that time said, oh, you're going to harm our base. Here's the thing, a really valid question, which is why don't we have domestic terrorism laws on the books. Why do we try and contort our laws in order to be able to charge these people in the first place. Why, as a hate group, which is what the Patriot Front is, are you allowed

to march any good goddamn place and not be arrested. Right? So, here's the thing, because many of those same people, right, are the ones that are creating the laws in the first place, are the ones that are elected officials and that are sitting in office. And so we don't have domestic terrorism laws because the ones that are writing the laws are oftentimes affiliated with domestic terrorism. That's why Donald Trump told the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers to stand

back and stand by. That's why Roger Stone had his own private security with the Proud Boys. And on the day of the Stop the Steal that many were detailed of the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers to quote unquote protect. Those are Republican members that were standing up on that stage directing people to sack our democracy and trash our

Capitol building. So until we actually create laws that are specific about who these groups are and what they stand for, and that by even marching in public that this is not your right to assembly, that you are seeking to terrorize and threaten groups of people should get you an automatic fucking arrectest. But this is where we have to do the hard work of actually digging in and realizing who these people are. They're all cut from the same

fucking cloth, you know. Honoring the ten victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, Reverend Al Sharpton spoke this weekend and he called white supremacy and racism in America a theestering wound. And how does a wound fester? Right? It may scab over, but it's still not healed underneath, right, And why isn't it healed? Because it was never really treated. Because you see, when you have deep wounds, you have

to clean them out. You have to go win. You have to get the dirt out, get the dead skin out, spray it down, disinfect it, let it air a little bit, and then depending on the depth, you either patch it up or you sew it up. And I would argue that America's wound is surgical. But we continue and have continued, not just now, because the shit that we have to understand that it's happening, whether it's happening in Florida or Texas, or Alabama or Tennessee. This shit is not new. It

is never new. All Republicans, ever do is regurgitate history, use the same tactics, the same patterns, in order to get the result that you didn't get initially. These people wanted. Think about how fucking dumb you wanted a white supremacist ruled nation, right, But you want to bring in enslaved black people to do your work. Right? If white people are so great, then why aren't you doing your own fucking work? Oh, because we're too smart to do that.

Uh huh, and then what was once referred to as chattel human beings that are actually acknowledged as said human beings. And because you live in a place of fragility and fear, which is why you had to concoct the notion of white supremacy to begin with, you need to create policies and roadblocks that disallow these people to be able to achieve so that you can have your self fulfilling prophecy. Oh, well,

you see, their neighborhoods are filled with crime. Well, you never created policies that would actually allow for those neighborhoods to have good schools, to offer jobs, to have sidewalks, to have trees, to have community centers. Right. Businesses were allowed not to invest into certain communities. Rite and just

bring you check cashing places and liquor stores. Right. The government was able to say, oh, yeah, we believe in free public education, but then not invest in schools and buildings and curriculum that would allow all people to be able to succeed. So you see, it was always a self fulfilling prophecy that black people are not worth anything. And then you can have the belief that that's why

we don't invest. But you see all of this, friends, I say, you have to really look not that deep because it comes from a place of fragility and fear and scarcity, This idea that there is not enough, this idea that these people are less than. Well, if we're so less then right, then why do you need to create additional barriers? If we're not going to succeed anyhow? Right, because you're not as smart and not as agile, and not as this and that as that, then why do

you need to double down? Because everything is about projection when it comes to white supremacists and these fascist regimes, because if you are so great, you don't need to stand on somebody else's neck because standing ten toes down, they're not going to be able to beat you. Nohow. So I don't understand why we never just call out the bullshit, right Like, why we never just call out the lie and air it the fuck out. No, we continue to pretend that all is well, all is equal,

all is fine. We were post racial, but we don't want to have the real story that we're here because of the continued, the continued white lash over the last decade plus from a black man having the audacity too lawfully achieve the highest office of the land, not once, but twice. So, folks, you know, when I look at one story after the other, and I'm going to get

to Daniel Penny in a moment. And Daniel Penny is the white former marine, twenty four years old, formerly marine, finally charged with manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely. So I'll get to that in a minute. That became a national story. It happened on a New York City subway.

When I look at all of these stories, folks, I realize, and you know that Reverend Al Sharpton is right that if America really was serious about its future, about its democracy, that now would be the time that we are looking to excavate the wound, that we are looking to clear it all and air it all out so that we can actually get to a place of healing generations upon

generations from now. We've clearly done some work because I am a black queer woman that has a political podcast right that is speaking freely as of now about how we actually better this nation that would have never been heard of fifty years ago. Let alone, let's be honest,

twenty years ago, thirty years ago. So I want us to understand that, you know, we have a real problem and the reason why we have these inflection points around white supremacies because you don't talk about white supremacy, because all we've been taught is the rose colored glasses version of America. Why are white people so upset these days

because they are grappling with the truth. America can be both a place right that offers democracy and happiness and all of these things, and be fertile ground for white supremacy and fascism and hate. I don't think that we will ever get rid of discrimination and racism and anti semitism and homophobia and transphobia. That's not the goal because that would be an impossible one to meet. But the

real goal is that you make it uncomfortable. You make it uncomfortable for these people to exist in the mainstream. You make it a monetary issue, right, you make it

a quote unquote polite society issue. We were there and then the election or appointment, if we want to be real about the twenty sixteen election, the appointment of Donald Trump had progress stopped dead in its tracks, and all the work that we had done to get to a place where it was no longer appropriate could have people lose their jobs for being a racist and misogynist, a sexual harass or all of these things. Now Donald Trump

made that right again. That's what he made great. In eight years, we wiped away the progress that had been made in this country to see people as people, to respect all people as human beings, to have dignity and respect inside of our institutions, to be teaching our children the truth about the founding of this nation, not so that they hate it, but that so they realize that they are part of this larger story of each generation's

responsibility to make this country better. And you see, we were getting so close, which is why you are seeing this type of backlash. Because if we weren't making progress, folks, Aron DeSantis wouldn't exist, the Greg Abbott wouldn't exist, a Marshery Tale of Green wouldn't exist. A Lauren Bobert or Donald Trump I said in twenty sixteen that this was this is we are living inside of white supremacy's last stand.

That does not mean that I think it's going to be over in my lifetime or yours, but it means that we are seeing the truth that more people are conscious. More people are woke than have ever been before, at any time before, and they are running fucking scared. So this is a reminder when you see story after story and you get that lump in your throat and you begin to feel overwhelmed, like we're never going to be

able to stop this. Take your ego out of the work, because once you realize that we may never see the rainbow the pot of gold in our lifetimes, it doesn't stop us from trying to create a better world with what it is that we have, what it is that we've been given, the shoulders that we're standing on. It takes the stress out of it because it's like I can only do what I can do with the short

time on this planet that I am granted. But it is not about us living a quote unquote care free life or living inside of a utopia of our own creation. That's what our ego wants us to drive towards. It is about the collective we humanity, and what are we each doing to create a better world. Because the reason why we are in this backlash, the reason why we are experiencing this whitelash, is because they can taste their end. There is never more fear than when people feel like

they are backed up against the wall. And that is where white supremacy is. We may not see its complete end, but each and every single one of us, regardless of our hue, regardless of our identity, if we believe in humanity, equity and justice truly, then we all have work to do, continued work to do, not working ourselves to death, not working ourselves into a frenzy, into exhaustion. But every day we have work to do so that we our lives

are about planting seeds. Consider ourselves right, the farmers of justice. Our work is to plant the seeds, not necessary really eat the fruit. That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke a f as always Power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.