Member-only story
XOXO
Black Love Is More Revolutionary Than Ever
Love has sustained us through generations of systemic oppression
There is a movement sweeping the nation that will change the course of history. Amid a perfect storm of events, including a viral pandemic and the extrajudicial killings of unarmed Black people by the police, people in the United States have been activated in the fight for social change in a way some historians and elder activists say they have never seen or experienced before. Longtime activists are creating the spaces in which those newer to the fight can come and protest, educate themselves, and provide material resources to a fight that’s been going on for centuries. This is a moment.
People are tired. Black people, especially, are beyond exhausted from lifetimes of carrying the weight of racist tyranny. We are tired of being dehumanized. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. And yet we still continue to fight for liberation from racial oppression and freedom for our people. Every generation, a new cavalry of activists pick up the torch and take to the streets, continuing along the paths carved out by the freedom fighters before them. This work isn’t easy and can be downright debilitating; we need to hold onto whatever we have in our lives that is positive and…
