I've always just wanted to buy my friends dinner, cover their overdue bills if they got stuck, help out with groceries if needed. I've had times in my life when I was both the friend w help and the friend who needed help. It's actually why I know mutual Aid is how we will survive
I want the kind of money that lets me show up for my people. Even if I can’t fix everything, i want to at least soften the moment. To send food. To send transport fare. To send ice-cream money on a hard day.
I’m tired of only saying “sorry.”
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
"The only way in which a society can live for any length of time without violent strife is by establishing social justice, and social justice appears to each man to be injustice if he is persuaded that he is superior to his neighbors."
- Bertrand Russell