politics

You maintain a relative state of readiness for anything and when something like this happens, you pounce and milk it for all you can.

In Kwame Ture's autobiography, he has a quote from an organizer who said that you stay ready so you don't have to get ready. It's the same exact thing that orgs need to completely internalize. If you're waiting for the revolutionary moment^TM^ to come before acting, you will be nowhere close to seizing the opportunity when it actually happens. The George Floyd uprising was a revolutionary moment. And absolutely no org was even close to turning that opportunity into something far greater than what it turned out. Now imagine if there was an org on par with the BPP at its height in 2020 that simultaneously had the ability to wage war against the pigs on top of providing political education that inoculate the masses from the cringey recuperation shit that the Democrats successfully pulled off.