In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient bends toward freedom, the wide open world, making unexpected “experimental” decisions, taking unconventional jobs and overstaying a student visa, all the while being also hardworking, dependable, modeling. What Jabari makes clear is how much his love for others, and desire for economic, environmental, racial and gender justice for all motivates his politics and teaching but also, how much he is willing to walk into a powerful and unscripted future to attain those goals.
