We Will Not Go Back

that has been missing from the Biden campaign. I am seeing the energy that we have been desperately needed to get people engaged in this existential election. And you know, you all know that I was a supporter of Joe Biden not stepping aside because of the deep fear that I had that Democrats were going to do what it is that they've always been good at, which is eating their own and turning what should have been an easy

move into something that devolved into chaos. But Lord Jesus, am I fucking happy that as of the time of this recording, countless countless Democrats institutions, you know, organizations, have come out following Joe Biden's full throated endorsement of Kamala

Harris to back her. It is extraordinary. First of all, the amount of money that is said to have been raised, according to Act Blue that I think maybe in triple figures in terms of the millions of grassroots donations that poured in following the announcement that there were forty four

thousand black women that gathered on a Zoom call. The Zoom call was so big that the organizer, Joe Taika Edie of Win with Black Women, had to get on the phone with the president of Zoom and say we need more capacity and in that time raised a million and a half dollars and other commitments. I mean, the forces folks are coming together, and folks are gathering, and I feel like we can once ag again set our sights on what seems so distant before, which is actually

fucking winning. I also want to say that we cannot understate the courage, the patriotism that it took Joe Biden. Whether or not he was pushed. I didn't like the airing of dirty laundry and the things that were being said about him in public. I don't think that he deserved it. However, the fact is that Joe Biden did what Donald Trump would never ever ever do, which has put his country above his ego and his belief that only he alone could get the job done. In beating

Donald Trump. The best thing that Joe Biden did, I believe, for his legacy was to step aside and say she got next. And you know, I will tell you I will recall this memory to you all because it came back to me when the announcement came out on Sunday. That on Sunday, I did MSNBC for a hot minute, you know, giving my take on the announcement and where

things stood. And I realized that five years prior, when then candidate Kamala Harris announced her bid for the presidency, I was on the set of MSNBC, and the sense of pride and excitement that I had in that moment was overwhelming. Right because I grew up reading about the great Shirley you know who's campaign in the seventies set the stage for that moment that another black woman, so many decades later would come out and say I can

do this job. And so to think right now, and I may get a little bit choked up to think right now that in three and a half months we have the opportunity to have not only our first woman president, but our first Black woman, our first Asian woman president is extraordinary. I mean to think, friends, like, let's just dream for a moment, write something that I have not been able to do because I've been riddled with so many nightmares, so many sleepless nights, as I know that

so many of you have. But let's just dream for a moment what the poetic justice would look and feel like that white supremacy, fascism, patriarchy would be beat back and down by a black woman, and the wave of support for democracy and for her that would usher us over the finish line, that we could beat that motherfucker down for once and for all, right, because one would have to understand that this is Donald Trump, not white supremacy. As I said back in twenty sixteen, this is Donald

Trump's last stand. Because understand that if Donald Trump were to become President of the United States again, that if he would ever leave office, which I don't believe that he fucking would, he would be older than Joe Biden is now. So we know for certain that if we gather and organize with the vigor and the persistence and

the commitment to resist their bloodthirst for authoritarianism. If we are able to do that, we never have to hear the name Donald J. Trump again as it is associated with running for president, because that motherfucker will be too

fucking old. And we already know that he is showing the signs that people felt so necessary to put into the spotlight for Joe Biden, but seemingly ignore Donald Trump falling asleep at his own convention, Donald Trump falling asleep at his own court hearings, right, Donald Trump messing up names and stuttering and not walking as great as he used to. That we ignore all of those things as it pertains to him, but we also know, good goddamn well, then in a few more years, he's going to look

and sound his age. So if we are able to knock down their messiah, right, the victory that we will feel for having beat him twice and knowing that the truth of the matter is that Project twenty twenty five, as I've said so many times, is just going to turn into Project twenty twenty eight. The billionaire backers of this white supremacist patriarchal blueprint are not going to go away.

They'll just find new person but what I also know to be true is that that person won't have the same charisma or cult like captivating effect on the masses in the way that Donald Trump has. And why do I say that, because not one of the people that ran against him this time around even came fucking close.

So it is much more likely that you will find that whoever comes in his steed will embody the same values, but they'll just switch up their tone, which may not garner as much cult like fixation as Donald Trump has been able to amass over the last eight years. So what we have in front of us, friends right now is a profound opportunity to do away with Donald J. Fucking Trump, and let it be done by a black woman that is going to prosecute the case against this man.

As Vice President Kamala Harris has put out, I've prosecuted sex offenders, Donald Trump is one. I've prosecuted frauds and fraudulent universities. Donald Trump ran one the people that she spent as a DA and later as an Attorney general fighting against Donald Trump embodies, So she ain't new to this. She is true to this and.

have seeded patriotism to these motherfuckers. We have ceded the flag to them. And I said, they don't know what it's like to bleed for this country because their ancestors bled others for this country. They don't know what it means to fight and to persist when discriminatory policies are put in your way like boulders, year after year, generation

after generation. We do. They want this country to go back to the nineteenth century where only white cis hetero property owning men had voice and power in this democracy. Vice President Harris, her candidacy right now is a commitment to the fact that we will not go back because she is representative of the future of what this country

is going to look like. You see, we have been talking about for so long that the demographics of this country are shifting that by the time that we get to and probably sooner than twenty fifty, the majority of this country will be people of color, will be people that look like Vice President Kamala Harris. It is one of the things that has spurred the resurgence of white supremacy.

And these folks talking about they will not replace us, and these folks talking about tainting the blood of this nation because they are trying to revitalize white supremacy in the way that it was so prevalent in the nineteenth and in the twentieth century. They're marching down streets in Tennessee and other places, trying to conjure fear but also conjuring how they plan to govern through a place of weaponization,

fear mongering, and oppression. While the RNC circus wanted us to believe that, oh, Donald Trump is just a doting grandpa who loves to grab women by the pussy. So, miss me with the bullshit, I don't care how many fucking grandkids you wanted to tout up on that stage to tell some fucking you know sob story of Donald Trump's some heartening. I just know him as grandpa, bitch. You don't know him at all. He don't even know his own kids, right, like, miss me with it. But

folks are falling for it because it was compelling. But now you really do have somebody who is high the ability to articulate the truth of what we are seeing and what we know. Donald Trump hates women, Donald Trump hates people of color, Donald Trump hates black people. Donald Trump hates poor people. And if you're a billionaire, anyone who isn't is poor. Donald Trump sat a bunch of gas and oil CEOs down at mar A Lago and said, give me a billion dollars and I'll overturn whatever regulations

Joe Biden has put in place. It would be the greatest grifting presidency that we've ever seen. Do me a favor, though, on steroids. The American people know what to expect this time around, but it will be worse because we've lived through it. And so while they wanted to hide pieces of their agenda because they know that it's not popular, Vice President Kamala Harris has the ability to bring that

to the forefront. One of my favorite things that are being circulated right now, and if you haven't seen it, I've retweeted it recently, is Hillary Clinton just posted the clip of then Senator Kamala Harris questioning Brett kavanag during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. You know, the one where she basically made him freak out, cry and start screaming when she asked a simple question to open up with was do you know of any laws in this country

that dictate male reproduction that control men's bodies? And after stumbling, I don't know what you mean. If you want to ask me a direct question, she go let me restate it, because you clearly can't hear me questioning. Then let us know exactly what we were dealing with, foreshadowing to what we would lose. But a handful of years later, abortion access. She knows men like Donald Trump, She's put them in jail.

And my hope is that she and the surrogates of the Democratic Party now rally around her, build a fortress around her, because we know the misogyn noir that is headed her way is going to be like a tsunami of vitriol. But they're ready because I've said this before. I said it on my other podcast, The New Abnormal. I said, the thing about folks lamenting about what's coming

is that black women are always prepared. Every time we leave our house, there is a layer of armor that is put on because of the mass aggressions than the microaggressions that we receive on a daily basis, whether it's on social media, in the workplace, from television, et cetera, et cetera. It comes at us from all angles. We are not new to this and what America thinks about

Black women. But I'll tell you what, don't ever fucking bet against us, because we don't lose, particularly when we organize and link arms like we are known to do, and like what was done within hours of that announcement. Three and a half months, folks is going to feel probably like three and a half centuries, we are going to go through it. So I urge all of us to take the hopefulness, the strength that we are gaining, regaining in this moment. Plant it, water it, grow it,

because we are going to need it. Every single fucking one of us has a stake in this election. We need to act like we do. We need to donate. If you have the ability to donate, if you have the time to volunteer, volunteer. It's time to knock on doors. It's time to make phone calls. It's time to text, it's time to donate, it's time to organize voter registrations.

It's time to hold right. If you are a white woman and you are listening to this right now, I want you to be gathering, doing salons at your homes, hosting events right. I want white women to put in the fucking work that they did not put in in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. More white women voted for Donald Trump in twenty twenty than they did in twenty sixteen. So I need those right that are listening to me now to do the work and it it doesn't mean

just donating. And I want to pull up someone who I respect so much, who is Shannon Watts. And Shannon is the founder of Mom's Demand and the co founder of every Town, and she has been on this show before. I've interviewed her a couple of times, and she said this. Following the announcement of VP Harris as the top of the ticket, she tweeted this, fellow white women, I've spent the last decade organizing you, and I know firsthand the impact you can have when you use your economic and

political power for good. This must be the election when a majority of us help elect the first woman, a black woman president. That means, as Brittany Pacnett Cunningham, another guest of this show, has said, your whiteness will not sit you from what the patriarchy has in store for you. Electing the vice president will help save you and heal the nation. Since the nineteen fifties, a majority of white women have voted for the GOP candidate in all but

two presidential elections. It's not enough to be a part of the forty seven percent of white women who vote for VP Harris. You play a key role in persuading the other fifty three percent. And she goes on. She goes on to tell folks that like you need to do the work right. She said, it's not enough to just send a donation, host a fundraiser. It's not enough to just vote. Join door knocking and phone banking events

every week. It's not enough to support the VP. Silently push back on every person who tells you a black woman can't get elected. Have the conversations. You are the best messenger to convince other white women who to vote for and n why your relationships with your white family members and friends are fertile ground for transformation and conversion. Start persuading, use your privilege for good. Tap into the resources you can access and unleash to help the VP.

Can you get a rally permit? Can you rent a venue? Can you become an influencer online or in your community? Think about all the ways you can use your access to help elect the VP. Be in it for the long haul. That that is what allyship looks like. That is what commitment to justice looks like. She gave concrete ways for white women to do the work that black women always do. And so if you are listening to me, I beg you to listen to Shannon Watts. Figure out

what you can do, organize, do it every week. We got three and a half months, and for the first time in a long time, my dear friends, I believe that We have a fighting fucking chance if we all get to work. That is it for me today. Dear friends on wok af As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.