Black Lives Matter
The lives of my friends and fellow humans are more important than anything else in the world, so it’s important to educate myself (and hopefully others) about how to become antiracist and take action to change systems.
This note is a collection of Black voices with occasional thoughts of my own. We must confront ourselves. It’s as simple as that.
One thing I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since first waking up in 2014: The land of the free is such a lie.
We all need to become comfortable owning and learning from our internalized racism, which includes taking responsibility for any racist actions and rhetoric. We each need to admit when we are being racist and then put in the work to understand and dismantle our racist ideologies and tendencies.
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It’s one of the foundations for the division and ignorance tearing at America today — the white history curriculum masquerading as American history — no matter how well-meaning, woke or supportive we think we are.
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