Garrison Davis

we don't have anywhere to go to.

Nobody is supporting us.

Because again, one side just wants to rob us from our resources and steal a narrative to push their own agenda.

But then the other side is completely denying or calling us all these horrible things to also steal our narrative, right?

So it has been really frustrating and scary and...

isolating yeah it has been a lot to the point where i think i mean do i even have a place in the world of nobody wants to hear my voice so it has been very difficult right yeah yeah yeah very disheartening but then yeah like if that's why i i told you about the baseball thing recently it was

kind of like a positive thing like uh uh because one of the good things about that game is that people were finally like getting to know us and how we're actually good people and and that was kind of like a pick me up after how horrible life has been since january 3rd so yeah

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like people obviously like undervalue sport or I think they do.

I wrote a book about sport and anti-fascism.

So I'm kind of predisposed to this, this position, but like these moments of joy are really important.

And God knows the world tries to rob us of joy at the moment.

So we should embrace them and enjoy them and not feel like we have, we're like obliged to be sad because of all the sadness in our worlds.

Yeah.

I think something you said there struck home with me are two things.

I guess let's address the first one.

It is fundamentally a colonial impulse to steal someone's narrative and assume that they're incapable of speaking for themselves, so you must speak for them, right?

That is something that I have seen not just now, but for years about Venezuela, right?

It must have been really frustrating to see this kind of