But when they transition [you calm down in your
grief because you realize that] they didn't leave you. Nobody
who loves you, even if
they hated you while they loved you, leaves you.
That's why
you transcend. That's why you know you love. That's why you know
you are better than
whatever garbage people try to shove down your throat. That is why
they will keep trying to
kill us but will never succeed. The soul— I don't even know what it
is— but Jonathan keeps
popping up. So, it's real. And that's good enough for me.
RW: I am honored to have
been in conversation with you and to figure out these very real
moments of struggle.
Your discernment and stream of consciousness are unmatched as one
of the most incredible
political theorists of our time. I am grateful for this opportunity
to talk to you.
JJ: I want to say one last
thing, and not because you said nice things about me: I love you,
Rebecca. I don't know
you. But I love you and that works. So, thank you.

[...]

US,
Britain and NATO backing Portugal likely facilitated Cabral’s
assassination in 1973. .
. I see [Amilcar Cabral] as an ancestor who reminds me that our
struggles are always international and that
anti-blackness is global. . . [In Return to the Source]
Cabral writes: “We recognize the devastations of lack
of clean water, adequate food and shelter. But the cause of
those deficits cannot be
remedied through policy. If so, then there is no need for
confrontation only
accommodations with colonialists and petitions for greater benefit
packages.”