Less than 48 hours after his expulsion, Teen Vogue speaks to Justin Jones (brotherjones_) about what's next and the youth movement that he's advocating for: 'Young people are so much more powerful than anybody with a title.'
: I know you often organize with religious communities. Where do you derive your faith and hope from? How do you keep going?Faith in in the beloved community, faith in this vision of a future that we want future generations to grow up in, faith in something that is more powerful than than a political authority. An example is that this [Republican] supermajority thought that they were the most powerful thing, that they had ultimate authority.
No matter what happens in this time, I think what gives me faith is this hope in Gen Z, in this movement of young people who are saying that we're going to do something that has never been done in America, which is a multiracial democracy; which is protecting our community without the need to militarize our police departments without the need to criminalize and target people; which is putting the lives of youth over the profit of interests like the NRA.
There's so much trauma in our community, because every time there's been a tragedy the grief of our people, of these young people, has just been brushed to the side. I just hope people realize that this is the space we're organizing in. But amidst that grief, amidst all evidence that these these extremists who have hijacked our government want to portray, people are still getting into good trouble.
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