As an organizer, how do you galvanize Black people around an economic, health, and spiritual agenda?
I think today, we should be concerned that we compartmentalize or we segment our realities when our reality should be joined. A lot of people today talk about the term “intersectionality.” But I use the term interdisciplinary as a concern about our healthcare and economics during this pandemic. And I think of those three things, the one thing that we need to focus on more is our economics. If you listened to all of Dr. King’s speeches, and particularly his last speech, he talks about the necessity for us to have collective work and responsibility to affect the income in our community. He was in Memphis because it was a sanitation strike of Black garbage workers, Black sanitation workers. And those issues of labor, those issues of how we not only go out and get a job but now so many of our young people, which I think is healthy, want to be entrepreneurs. Well, why do we want to be an entrepreneur? Is it just something self-serving? Or is it something to help us serve the community at large?
