Economic anxiety is washing white folks floors for pennies ‘cause your father was lynched, trying desperately to avoid the man of the house so you don’t end up pregnant against your will.
Economic anxiety is hiding under your girlfriends bed while social workers check to make sure there is no man in the house so she can get food for your children & keep housing. You tried to get warehouse work but Black men aren’t allowed in the union.
Economic anxiety is trying to keep your grandma’s house in the family when the taxes go up 100% because a Starbucks opens down the street.
Economic anxiety is 90k in student loans to get your family to middle class and still having 5 figures of debt when your own children go off to college.
But we didn’t kidnap a governor or shoot up a school or drag fathers out of their beds in front of their children or shoot sleeping women in their beds.
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