025: The Era of Truth, Reckoning, Reparations and Transformation

To build a better mixtape for the future, Matt & Jesse transition from diagramming how the George Floyd uprisings can move beyond defunding the police (and abolishing it entirely), and instead look at how this movement could lead to larger more long-term transformations. The demand first met must include a long-sought Truth & Reckoning Commission, which has not only happened in South Africa (and more recently Canada), but has occurred in 41 other nations and counting—all of which shows how this is not a dancing unicorn demand in a nation that largely ignores demands from below; there is a vital and visceral need for this commission to surface in the here and now. Our co-hosts will then talk about how this Commission can ramp up to justly deserved reparations for America's Twin Sins: the enslavement and genocide of Native & Black folks during the era of settler-colonialism, the lawfare and warfare of Jim Crow and the continued racist sadism of the State as COVID-19 ravages Black & Native communities across a country. While many Americans are faced with celebrating this 4th of July without fireworks or freedom, Jesse & Matt acknowledge how white folks' entrapment in their homes has built a secret solidarity with the lives of African Americans, who have been geographically and economically trapped by centuries of racial capitalism, and who have neither felt freedom nor fireworks in a nation-state that denies their right to breathe or exist. And lastly, money—our shared, mass hallucination—will be questioned and reimagined in order to create a new understanding of what "value" must include, so that we can firmly seed a future of what's so rightly deserved. To stand up, we must fight back; as the Black Communist & poet, Claude McKay, once wrote: "If we must die, let it not be like hogs / Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot [. . .] we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"   Comprehensive show notes can be found at thefutureisamixtape.com   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: [email protected] Facebook Twitter Instagram