Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or queer,
or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that
knowledge, we need a different operational base to recreate the world.
It is not going to be a celebrity savior. Never was, never will be. If
you're in a religious tradition that is millennia-old, consider how the
last savior went out. It was always going to be bloody. It was always
going to be traumatic. But there's a beauty to facing the reality of our
lives. Not our lives as they're broken apart, written about and then
sold back to us in academic or celebrity discourse. But our lives as we
understand them. The most important thing is showing up. Showing up and
learning how to live by and with others, learning how to reinvent
ourselves in this increasing wasteland. That's the good life.
Foreword by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
