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Today is the born day of Toni Cade Bambara. As always, my sister comrade @AfroLez reminds us.

“We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships.”
- Toni Cade Bambara, author, activist. (March 25, 1939-Dec. 9, 1995)
The above quote is from one of my favourite essays written by anyone - On the Issue of Roles - and included in The Black Woman: An Anthology. It’s from 1969 essay and is brilliant and ever relevant. Toni Cade Bambara is brilliant and ever relevant.

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"If your house ain't in order you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than right here. The revolution ain't out there. Yet.” Toni Cade Bambara. From: On the Issue of Roles
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If governments/the State (as in nation) want to stay relevant, they should be saying “Everyone stay home, we will pay salaries and keep the economy afloat till it’s safe again to be out.”

That’s if the “economy” is for everyone.

For Trump & billionaires, the economy is for them
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As if it closed down. Pay attention to those who are KEEPING IT OPEN.

And understand this “economy” Trump et al are rushing to save doesn’t give a fuck about those who at great risk to their lives have been keeping America open

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