022: Abolish The Police

After a long hiatus from The Future Is a Mixtape, Jesse & Matt return to a more battered and broken world, whose lungs throb with phlegm while a new world is breathing hard and fast, demanding to be born. For this episode, our co-hosts discuss how the Old World Tragedy of Police Brutality is ripping into the New World Tragedy of COVID-19, and why these clashing tragedies have made the Old World no longer tolerable among an increasingly young, queer, multiracial, working class populace who have "nothing left to lose but their chains." While student debt, climate chaos, unemployment and the profit-seeking predations of private healthcare savage human solidarity, we hide in our homes, we question, dream, yearn, and now Americans are taking to the streets in the greatest uprising since 1968. What then must be done? In order to fully embrace a future of the Utopian Sphere, we must dismantle the twin seduction-myths that the police "protect us" and "prevent crime" (when they appear largely after the crime). Further still, we must realize that an institution designed for slave patrols and anti-union thuggery can no longer live in our New World of the Mixtape. As the Jim Crow adage goes, this "blue by day, white by night" institution has been—and will always be—a racist vector of domination, making any glorious and glowing future or radical liberation impossible. So this loaded gun of Patriarchy must lose its bullets and be melted by fire. Matt & Jesse chart a path on how we might best do that, while more importantly stepping back and listening in, as the Movement for Black Lives traces the first etchings of Police Abolishment.   Comprehensive show notes can be found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: [email protected] Twitter Instagram