Pushkin.

This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Hey everyone. Since March I have started most of these shows the same way with the hope and a wish

I hope that you are staying safe, a wish for good health, as the numbers continue to rise across the country, especially here in Los Angeles and my hometown of Chicago. Those hopes and

wishes feel a little insufficient. They feel like words. They feel almost hollow. I don't know how we got here. Well, maybe that's not

entirely true. Maybe you and I both know how we arrived at this critical juncture. But to give 2020 any more oxygen or

mental space feels like a defeat, doesn't it?

Of course we know how we got here.

Poor leadership, a pervasive distrust of our medical officials,

a faction of people who believe it's their God-given right to live their life as if it has no bearing

on anyone else's. We got here because COVID is not fatigued like we are and with 292,447 Americans now dead.

We continue to wonder, how do we keep moving forward. How do we keep moving forward

when a number I read on a page on Friday night is going to be inaccurate by the time you are

listening to this on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday or whenever you listen.

How do we keep moving forward? or Monday or Tuesday or whenever you listen.

How do we keep moving forward?

I come back to this question over and over again

while sitting with Janaya FutureCon

because at the heart of 2020 on top of the pandemic is the

fight for racial justice from the killings of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor to the defund the police movement,

much of the cultural dialogue has focused on race.

The summer saw mass protesting in cities across the country and around the world and at the forefront of these efforts was Janaya

a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto and an international ambassador for the movement.

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