While watching 2025 unfold, I was keenly aware that the little sliver of democracy this country had was being annihilated with daily explosions of purposeful harm, injustice, etc. And having more information at our fingertips makes it easier, rather than harder, to end an empire right in front of our faces. While drowning in an ocean of misinformation, “Rome is burning” and we don’t even know it. But what’s clear is that this Project 2025 madness was meant to do us maximum harm, while we sleep through the destruction.
Ironically, that destruction spotlighted our superpower, escape hatch, and plan of action for a more empowering 2026. More and more, we’re waking up to the fact that no one’s coming to save us but us. The result: pockets of Blackfolk relying on those Kwanzaa principles (unity, self-determination, creativity, etc.) to not only survive but thrive. We’ve been reconnecting with community, buying Black, investing in wellness, and centering our own Black selves. Keeping up and expanding that self-determining energy will mean, even with more challenges coming, still we’ll rise. That’s whassup in 2026.
