Community Pulled Him Out of a Depression
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0:00A: I’m a Black person who’s grown up below the poverty line, but been in private schools. And so both not felt perfect in white spaces or perfect in Black spaces because I just don’t really understand either world. But nonetheless, I still persist. And I’m really falling in love with my Black experience and understanding that there is a world of people who are also negotiating what it means to find their way out of poverty. And I think that finding community in that experience has brought me out of a depression at a point that I really wasn’t happy about. And so I’d say for me, community is about finding a support where we can be emotionally vulnerable to acknowledge that we’re feeling lonely. But also it’s the, ideally the foundation for starting to coordinate to create new futures, which is why I’m in Web3. You know, I see the idea of building a DAO as looking at how do we start to create public goods? How do we start to create organizations where they value that we as community
