We're Not Going Back to Sleep

this country right now. I want to talk about the encampments that are being built to force the administration of these universities Columbia and why you and others to divest from Israel. Now, first off, what I will say is that I don't condone violence, any violence of any sort. And I think that the reports that there have been violence are largely not from the students that have been setting up hence and taking over you know, halls and you know, community centers and what have you on campus.

So let us start there. What I will say for those that are like, oh, these young people don't know anything. This has been this conflict is seventy five years old, and like what have you. You know what's funny is that every generation is moved by young people. It's not the fucking old people who have all these things to lose their power, their privilege, write their purpose. It is

always the young people. The young people that are sitting in at lunch counters, the young people that are standing in front of tanks, the young people that are doing sit ins and marches and pushing the generation that is supposed to be leading them. Write the elder generations to do better by them because they're getting ready to inherit.

Write a hot, steaming pile of fucking trash. And so every generation has had young people who have born witness to those that are in power abuse that power for their own good right or for the good of their cronies, and build up their oligarchs right and build up their coffers, all at the expense of the collective. We now, what young people are recognizing now on these college campuses is exactly what the fuck their parents sent them to college for.

To think critically, to ask questions about the world around them and about the society that they are now going to be full adults in and participate in. And these young people are looking around and saying, you know what, capitalism seems like a fucking Ponzi scheme? Right? This all rise and grind and work till we're dead, and then we pay taxes. But our taxes go to things that we don't agree with or want or need. But we're told that this is how it's always been, so this

is how it will always be. And how dare you decide to raise your voice to push against the grain. This is why they want to take books out of the classroom. This is why they want to shut down libraries. This is why they want to take away TikTok because you see what happens when people get woke. What happens when people gain a level of consciousness is that they

are not easily put back to sleep. Now, how generations before have been put back to sleep, have been pacified if you will, Right, has been the allure, the mirage right of the American dream? Why do I call it a mirage? Well, dear friends, because the closer you get to it, the farther away it seems right that you realize that in order to have this dream, well, you have to succumb to a certain amount of debt in order to keep up with your neighbors, or in order to get a home in that cul de sac, or

to get a home all together. But how do you do that when now, right the very college that you're attending is somewhere in the six fuck figures. So whether your parents or your family have quote unquote good jobs, y'all are going into debt regardless, because who the fuck in this day and age has one hundred grand to come off of comfortably? Nobody but the rich, right, So

talk to me again about what we don't know. Well, what I know is that under Donald Trump, he added seven trillion dollars to the deficit so that he could give his friends greater tax breaks so that they could pay zero taxes in the same way that he does, because they're too smart, right, Because we have always equated somehow wealth with genius. No, we should equate super wealth with fucking greed and depravity, because that's what the fuck

it is. Because when you have motherfuckers sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars or billions of dollars and there are other people that can't afford to eat, there is something that is wrong with society, not something wrong with

those that are circling the drain of poverty. So these young people that are sitting around and they're saying, wait a minute, So you're telling me that my family, I am going into debt that I will never be able to work myself out of because I got to take the first good job that has healthcare attached to it, even though they're gonna underpay me and overwork me, because that's just how you climb up the corporate ladder. So they're supposed to want just sit there and watch as

their universities. No, they don't invest right in them. No, they send that money away just like our taxes. They're not investing in us. We got bridges that are crumbling. We got subway stations that are like a canal when it rains. Here in New York City. We have schools that have books and equipment from whether I was in middle school and high school. So tell me again about

how this country is investing in me. And you know what we want to talk about these folks, and let me let me let me say something that is going to be controversial, right. There have been several people that have burned themselves alive, self immolated right over the course of the last year, and we want to say that these people are crazy, right, We want to say, who would do such a thing? You know, who would do

such a thing? Desperate people, Desperate people that see a world around them that has gone absolutely fucking met And so in order to pause that world, to pause that crazy for a moment, they do an incredible, extraordinarily violent act to have us take pause and ask ourselves what

the fuck is going on? Right? They want to say that the man Max who just lit himself up in New York City outside of Donald Trump's trial, he threw up anti government pamphlets into the air that he had gotten increasingly erratic and spouting off things like the government is a Ponzi scheme? What did I just say at the top of this show? Show me where the fucking lie is. You pay into a system that doesn't pay

you back. You pay into a system that tells you that you have to spend forty fifty years grinding yourself for what ten years of a minuscule check, right that they don't even want to give you. That every generation that is getting set to retire is retiring by crossing their fingers and their toes. Do you know how many fucking advertisements come up on television about health care and life insurance and all of these things. Do you know what they don't do in other developed countries that do

you know why? Because they've invested in a social safety net, because they care about their people, because they know that the people are not just working for themselves, but they're working for the country. Right, so the country then owes them something. Not in America. No, we tell you that if you want what you put back, right, if you want what you put in back, we tell you right that you're lazy, that you're just looking for a handout.

But you see those fucking millionaires and billionaires that are lined up around right, the IRS and the Department of Treasury, What the fuck do you think that they're getting? The only one making out right are the millionaires and billionaires because they right have lawyers that weave them in and out of the fucking loopholes. The rest of us that loopholes a fucking noose. So miss me with the bullshit

about oh, it's conspiracy, is it right? Is it a conspiracy to start putting the dots together, start connecting them and seeing the greater picture that no one is looking out for the betterment, for the expansion of a middle class. That the right, right, and they're war on DEI and critical race theory is taking away scholarships left and right for black students, knowing that in many ways that's the

way that black and brown people get a higher education. Right, you want to cut financial aid, you want to cut away so what are you creating a permanent fucking working class, So that you remind right, these honorary black folks and brown folks what their position is in America, which is on the bottom. You remind women what their position is, right, which is at home with their legs open and their

mouths fucking shut. So you want to tell me again that these young people that are waking up to the realities that are going on around them, You want to tell me then I'll know what they're talking about. You want to tell me that they should shut up and just go back to school and learn how great America is. Nah, I don't think so. We've seen this routine before, right where the government gets to decide who the enemy is, the oppressor gets to decide who the enemy is. Do

you know what the enemy really is? Consciousness? That's why the right went to war on woke. Everything is woke, This is wo blah blah blah, because they want fucking sheep, right, they want you to be part of the herd. And so any time that there are breaks, right, that there is a divergence from the parade of work and sleep and work and sleep and taxes and death. Anytime that there is a break that people want to make in that cycle, Oh, they're gonna come in and drop the

hammer down. Police are gonna line up. They got more police presence, right to push back again, some fucking eighteen, nineteen and twenty year olds. Where the fuck were the police on January sixth? Right, where was that militarized presence on January sixth when the real danger and the real fucking threat came. So you want to tell people that

they're stupid. You want to tell us don't connect the docs, right, because the picture that we're seeing is too fucking scary that when we start to ask questions, you tell us that we're conspiracy theorists. You tell us that we're hysterical, that we're being hyperbolic. Oh, it won't be that bad, Give me a fucking break. The only people that are making sense right now are the students on these college campuses.

Because I'm telling you that sitting down every single day, putting on this microphone right trying to make sense of the absolute maddening crazy that we are living in right now, and then going about my day and pretending all is okay. That's what's fucking nuts. Not deciding to sit down and fucking stop and say, you know what, Almost thirty five

thousand people have been murdered. Babies have been blown up, Hospitals have been blown up, people are being starved to death, are being cut out of their mother's wounds without any fucking medication. But we're supposed to go on like, all is okay. Do you know what got me last week? Y'o and I talked about this, but I'm gonna talk about it again. It was the act of self immolation that the reporters witnessed. You're looking at these people, You're

seeing the horror on their faces. Near feet away from them, a man downses himself in an accelerant and lights himself on fire. They report on it and then go right back to talking about Donald Trump. Lord, have mercy the humanity. I don't blame them. Those reporters right, because they're doing what they've been trained to do. What about the rest of us? Do we take pause? Do we take a

minute and recognize what the fuck is going on? So these young people who are being arrested in mass who are being thrown out of school, who are risking their futures, they're the ones that are gonna lead us to the other side. They're the ones with courage. They're the ones with the grit, with the readiness understanding that we are at a situation. We are at a moment, dear friends, when we don't have anything left to lose. Do you

know what I'm saying? Accept more right? People keep telling me, well, you know, how, how are you telling people to vote for Biden? And how when when all of this is going on in this administrator. Let me tell you something about this administration. It ain't my fucking favorite. Anybody who listens to me knows that the decisions that they are making are going to cost us our democracy. But like I have been saying since the fucking beginning, I'm not

voting for Joe Biden. I'm voting for myself. Right, I'm voting for another four years to hang the fuck on to give us more time to figure out how to stomp out fucking white supremacy extremism in this country. I am voting to bide time. I'm not voting for by Den. Do you understand there is a huge difference between those things. Multiple things can be true at the same fucking time. We are at a breaking point in this country and

in this world. The old systems are not holding. There is so much questioning going on that they want to take away our ability to communicate and share information with one another. They want to do so under the guise of oh the Chinese spy. Talk to me about the Patriot Act. Talk to me about Meta, talk to me about Google. Talk to me about the fucking phone that I'm recording this video on spy on us. The United States has been spying on us since forever. Talk to

the Black Panthers. Talk to Martin Luther King Junior. Talk to Malcolm X. The CIA and the FBI have been ben infiltrating any liberation movements. They don't infiltrate white supremacists because they are the white supremaists, so they're surely as hell not going to take down their own. But any time that there is a movement that is growing and gaining steam in this country that is about interlocking arms

and issues and focus. Oh, they snuff it out. So right now, they're gonna tell you that all these kids on these college campuses that are setting up these encampments, that they're terrorists, that they're anti Semitic. You know why they're doing that so that you stop listening to them, so that when you see them brutalize, you say, oh, it serves them good. They've done it to black people all our fucking lives. Call us animals, call us savages, call us thugs, call us dangerous, so that when we

are taken down right, Oh, it is about safety. Don't fall for the ropodope, folks, because this country, this corporatized mainstream media, they are on some bullshit, and that bullshit is about misinformation, diverting your attention and giving you that tranquilizer of Oh, if you're good, you too can claim the American dream. If you're good, maybe we'll cancel your student loan debt. If you're good, maybe you'll get that

good job. Right, And then you have the folks that are sitting in their cul desects, sitting in their homes, and they're saying, oh, these kids these days, you know, they're lazy, they're this, they're that. When I was their age, when you were their age, what a home costs five dollars. Your bosses used to give you raises because you got your wives pregnant. We're not the same folks. All I have to say is that they are working over time, double time, and triple time to put you back to sleep.

Stay woke. That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af AS, always power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.