We can’t underestimate what experiences we have will lead to later on. And I see that people are really open to many more radical solutions for things. The era of climate change, and pandemics, and just stuff that we need to address around violence in our communities, we have to be prepared. I think there’s probably a whole generation of people who have gone through this year who are just thinking differently about community, and thinking differently about what is government supposed to do, right? 

Like government is supposed to cut your checks back to you when there’s a crisis going on. And even when there’s not a crisis going on, right? Government shouldn’t be putting all its resources in bombing other countries and declaring war on certain populations domestically; it should be actually doing the things like 20 times more than what it’s been doing. It should cut monthly survival checks and allow people to stay home during a pandemic; it should provide people with food if they need it; it should provide people with free health care and free housing. These are the things! Why have a government if that’s not what the government is doing?

And that the money that the government is using is public money. It’s our money. We are to do with it what we want for ourselves for the well-being of our communities and our family and the world. That’s what I’m seeing! I’m seeing people allowing themselves to think differently, and to think radically about the world in which we want to live and trying to prefigure that world now.

 

Mariame Kaba 

on Intercepted