By Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II
Take care of yourself, take necessary precautions so we can take care of one another. When you can, help others, especially poor and low wealth people who can’t afford basics. Take seriously the need to push our government to do what the community can’t—guarantee free testing, paid sick leave, basic income and healthcare for those who need it.
Take the initiative to demand that this country do some things now that it should have done long ago, such as guarantee healthcare, a basic income, and safe housing for all Americans.
Take time to register and vote, because we can see clearly that when we have the wrong leadership, bad situations can easily become worse through negligence and lies.
Take a collective oath that we won’t be silent anymore. When we get a handle on this virus, we won’t return to our apathy that has for far too long ignored the moral crisis of poverty and the racial disparities that mark American inequality.
Take time in this moment to let it change your insight forever, so that from now on we can see how connected we are, how frail we are, and how easily our lives can be disrupted.
We cannot go back to business as usual.
Excerpt from Repairers of the Breach Blog Post, March 13