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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I was at a prison abolition talk, and a kid I organize with was super argumentative with the speakers and just way out of line. He went so far as to use the term (likely in some kind of Freudian slip) “you people” to a panel of mostly black women. Just super weird and off putting.

    So I talked to him after the panel event and I was telling him about what the abolition movement is and what it isn’t. Like he gets cops are bad, how the state uses prisons for slave labor, all that. I was encouraging him to actually engage with the topic and consider these big concepts, but his take at the end was “prisons will be here to stay until every banker is behind bars”.