Making Polluters Pay: Practical Strategies for Community Benefits

this is such good conversation.

And I have so many like, I'm like, I have my cue cards here, but I'm like, okay, one more follow up to that point, right? Because when we talk about like, how do you meet the moment, right? Because we so often, I feel like, And I think we've mentioned this before on the show.

We talk about our historical figures, right? We talk about our MLKs.

We talk about our Ella Bakers.

We talk about...

Happy Malcolm X Day.

Hello.

Happy Malcolm X Day.

We talk about our Fannie Lou Hamers.

We talk about all of these historical figures who met the moment in their time.

And we forget that you may be ours, right?

No, not maybe.

You are, you gotta be.

It necessitates.

The time necessitates that you be ours, right? And not even necessarily to say for the sake of critical acclaim or fame or making the history books, but that they weren't looking for acclaim, they were meeting the moment, right? And so it's important that we be mindful, right? That nobody is going to walk up to your door, knock on your door, And pull you out to community to do the work that need be done.

Right.

And we have to meet the work with the same vigor, with the same audacity.

Because when I say the audacity,

literally the courage, it is.

That's the word.

We

have to meet justice with the same audacity that they meet bigotry.

That's right.

Come on.

Like that really is like that.