Welcome to PSA Thursday, a weekly bonus segment of the Affordable Care

Podcast in which we explore how to manage money, work, and life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

This has been an exceptionally painful week.

We at the Affordable Care Podcast have muted the podcast thus far this week in support of the Amplify

Melanated Voices Movement, the Amplify Black Voices Movement, and in support of the show must be paused movement.

We have assembled a list of resources that highlight a variety of books, websites, podcast, nonprofit organizations, and GoFundMe campaigns that I would like to direct your attention to in lieu of our normal programming.

These resources can be found at affordanything.com slash PSA Thursday.

Now this podcast, as I say in every episode introduction, is dedicated to two questions.

First, what are your priorities? Second, how do you align your limited resources, including your time, your money, your energy, and your attention to the things that matter most?

If dismantling systemic racism and social and economic injustice is a priority to you, as it is to me, then the challenge that we as a community face is answering that tough question.

We've identified the priority. Now, how can we align our money, time, and energy to support that priority?

I have very intentionally designed affordanything to be a nonpartisan platform. All major party affiliations are welcome here. All the religions are welcome here. All people who have love in their heart are welcome here.

Notice that I used the word nonpartisan. There is a difference between something being political, meaning it concerns policy change and it relates to the public affairs of a nation, and something being partisan, which in the US means that the perspectives are split among party lines.

A thing can be political without being partisan, and I do not think that being anti-murder and anti-racism is a partisan issue.

I don't see this as a partisan issue. I see this as a moral issue, as a spiritual issue, and as a human issue. I see this as a basic human rights issue.

When people are getting murdered because of the color of their skin, I don't think it's a stretch to be anti-murder. I don't see that as partisan. Black lives matter.

And that is not a partisan issue, or at least it shouldn't be. You can align with any political party you want. You can have any opinion you want about the ideal capital gains tax rate, or about the allocation of federal highway funding.

I'm not going to take a stance on that, but I am opposed to murder. I am opposed to brutality. I am opposed to systemic racism and economic injustice.

And if that is a controversial issue, or if that is viewed as a partisan stance, then I don't know what to tell you, because I don't see this as partisan, I see this as human.

This is about treating our fellow human beings with basic human decency.

If you're a long time listener, you know that I am a former newspaper reporter. And as a podcaster, I am a current member of the media, the digital podcast media, the financial media.

As a member of the media, I am disturbed by seeing how many journalists have been threatened and attacked and hurt, just for doing their jobs, just for reporting on the scene.

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