Just after Memorial Day, we were watching people all over the world standing up in response to the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department by declaring, once again, for everyone to hear: Black. Lives. Matter.

We didn't know if we could do a show on that topic. We didn't know if we could have a conversation about something so incredibly fraught with potential to alienate, hurt, and put a potential wedge between the genouis, the storyteller and the baffoon whose conversations drive this podcast.

So we agreed, to just talk. Record some thoughts.

And then, as people started to forget, and the protests, although they continued, were loosing media coverage and helping all the streights to forget that the United States is awash in systemic white supremicy and racist policies, a kenosha police officer fired seven shots into the back of Jacob Blake.

And so we thought it would make sense to release our formative thoughts on the topic, recorded back when we were a baby podcast, just getting our feet wet and trying to feel our way out.

Mini Topics:

• Nick enjoys the television program “Dave” on the FX Network.
• Gabe wants someone to paint his gold house.

Cover art courtesy of Taymazavalley on Flickr, who published this photo on Flickr using a Creative Commons liscence. Cool!

Links:

• Abolish Policing – Critical Resistance — Policing is a social relationship made up of a set of practices that are empowered by the state to enforce law and social control through the use of force.
• Abolish the police: What does it really mean? - Vox — “I’m sorry that the fight for justice and inequality could not be more convenient for political timetables, but it isn’t.”
• Download CR's Abolitionist Tooklit — Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex; edited by the CR10 Publishing Collective, 2008.

Mini Topics:

• Gabe talks about his dog and how very very special he is.
  
• Nkenge tells the story of responding to racists head on.
  

Links:

• BREWS | The Peak