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\u201cYour generation has shaken the world, the entire world!\u201d a 71-year old Mission native told me. \u201cWhat is happening is even more powerful than the civil rights era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pandemic has highlighted the inequities of this country and put them under a microscope.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While some could treat the quarantine like a vacation, others lost jobs and homes. The poor, Black, immigrant and undocumented populations have been abandoned, being forced even further underground, doing anything to make a dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But of this dire need came a camaraderie. Even if only mildly, we were forced to abandon the individualistic creed of the nation and be compatriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The death of George Floyd was a catalyst. It was the water that broke the dam, the straw that broke America\u2019s back. The wall of silence fell and millions chose to speak truth to power. Millions screamed his last words, \u201cI CAN\u2019T BREATHE.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The souls of our ancestors awoke our dormant spirits and we sprung to action. The entire nation now seemed to be lit up with the fires of love and rage that only are understood by those seeking change.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revolution is an act of love. Love causes us to act, even in a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thank everyone who has gone to a rally, put a sign in their window, brought down a statue, or screamed \u201cfuck you\u201d to a cop. Thanks to those who have been beaten and arrested, shot with tear gas and rubber bullets, to those who sit in cells now and those who lost their lives over these last few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those efforts will not go unnoticed. Because of them, I have hope when I had none.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u00a0remember the feeling of uncertainty at the beginning of the shelter in place order.\u00a0 I am a musician, a San Francisco native, \u201ca twenty something\u201d recent graduate of SFSU, father of two.\u00a0 A week before the COVID-19 quarantine, while I was on a plane coming back from a gig, I worried that I had the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":44648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18445],"class_list":["post-44647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n