Stop closing your eyes, stop scrolling past, stop thinking itās not your problem.
Iām a white person and might be talking especially to white people out there not being enough aware. Itās the time we say stop, and we need to stop standing still, itās not aĀ āBlack Peopleās problemā, itās not a problemĀ āout of our communityā, itās humanity and decency and rights to live and BREATHE not in constant fear. We have voices and privilege that somehow makes our voices worthier to whatever else? So we have to use it, to fight RACISM and SYSTEMIC RACISM thatās sitting inside all of us and in our everyday lives. We need to be all on one side, so there wonāt be sides anymore.
Iāve been following all the recent news since the George Floyd murder and Iāve found some good stuff to stay informed, understand whatās happening and start do something. I thought about sharing.
Please SIGN all these petitions and help demand JUSTICE for Black People that have been murdered and their names forgotten. All you need is 10 minutes of your time to sign all the petitions on both pages, every petition has a paragraph explaining the history of what happened to that black person and what youāre signing for. Weāre also talking about black children murdered, a pregnant black woman beaten causing the loss of her unborn baby.
Keep reading if you want to do more as you should.
If you can DONATE (not to change.org, donations wonāt go to associations but to them to āsupport the causeā but you better donate to help the protestors and/or the victims), TEXT or CALL asking for justice and help bring awareness and justice for Black People.
STAY INFORMED on whatās happening (by @utenas).
Other ways to support/be an ally (by @calmholland).
Stand with #BlackLivesMatter.
Enough to be silent. Make posts, talk to people, raise awareness and learn.
George Floyd NOT resisting the arrestĀ (no death scene)
The real person that George Floyd was
Tamika Mallory speech and urgent call for justice
Killer Mike speech to ATL
The Tyler Merritt Project: Before You Call The Cops
Atlanta protest before the police showed up causing violence
Brooklyn protest before NYPD incited violence
Beverly Hills peacefully protests before LAPD arrives
Protest are being PEACEFUL until cops show up
Cop getting replace because he was crying/showing sympathy for protestors
Woman named Latonya speaks peacefully in a protest in Austin, TexasĀ (thatās the full protest video, she speaks at minute 27.27 + other videosĀ 1, 2)
Police being the real violent ones:
-Ā verbal/physical aggression towards a peaceful protestorĀ
-Ā showing palpable excitement like itās a fucking game
- acting violent towards protestors
- shooting rubber bullets against journalists/reporters
- pepper-spraying an elected official black woman
- attacking with a bicycle a harmless woman, sparkling violence
- attacking peaceful protesters who are sitting harmless on the street
- LAPD beating a peaceful protester
- more videos of violent cops at #BlackLivesMatter protests
- actor/activist Kendrick Sampson being beaten for defending a protester
- white policeman maced and pepper-sprayed a 10-years-old child
Police beating Black harmless People (a man and a woman, a child)
Black autistic man needing to be identified so white cops wonāt go after him
Korey Wise, victim of systemic racism and convicted in 1989, protestingĀ
Nice things:
- Police officers joining protests in New JerseyĀ & Miami
- Hispanic/Latino people showing support for Black People
- White old woman and black man meeting in a store
- Black woman twerking to the police
- Atlanta Chief of Police Department (named Erica) actually listening protestors:Ā 1Ā +Ā 2 (the woman speaking at 1.25 broke me in tears)Ā +Ā 3
- White people barrier in defense of black protestors from police
+ understand and recognize your privilege, hear the call to action toĀ not just be not-racist, but BE ANTI-RACIST:
Rihannaās NAACP speech that calls for unity, solidarity and not considering all black peopleās problems as their own only:Ā āImagine what we could do, TOGETHERā
Billie Eilish callout to white privilege
Jane Elliot speech on white privilege and conscious silence towards racist attitudes and behaviours
A Guide to White Privilege by Courtney Ahn
Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because youāre not personally involved
cherryemojigirl via TikTok on white privilege
Comparing whitesā privilege and black peopleās lives
Whites protesting for haircuts // Black People protesting for THEIR LIVES
You donāt need to be Black to feel outraged
Ava DuVernayās call to action
Major proof of media being white-controlled
6 years ago it was still the same, nothing changed
Itās not only America. Itās a plague affecting the whole world. (example)
Donāt go for #AllLivesMatter, your life matters, Black peopleās lives are not being treated as human lives, theyāre being murdered with bare hands or shot for doing something that would cost a 1-day-in-jail max for a white person. Thatās to that we need to focus the support and solidarity and protests and asks for justice, because theyāre the ones being killed and mistreated, not whites. #BLACKLIVESMATTER
Sandra Bland whose mugshot was taken when she was already dead
Layleen Polanco (black transgender woman, 27, found dead in police custody)
Breonna Taylor (shot 8 times in Louisville in her home, March 13, 2020)
Tony McDade (black trans man, killed a few days ago in Tallahassee)
Marsha P. Johnson (black trans woman who fought for LGBTQ)
Willie Simmons (serving 38 years for a 9$ robbery)
Malik Williams (man on wheelchair, shot 86 times on Dec. 31, 2019)
Nia Wilson (murdered by a white supremacist)
#JusticeForFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, #JusticeForBreonna
George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Samuel Dubose, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Terrence Crutcher, REGIS KORCHINSKI-PAQUET, Tony McDade, Ira Latrell, Christopher MitchellĀ and many others who donāt deserve to be forgotten.
Itās not Black People vs. White People.
Black People are fighting for their rights to BREATHE and LIVE day after day without the fear they could be the next. Put yourself in their shoes: itās not whites and blacks, it has to be people AGAINST racism.Ā Itās JUSTICE, itās EQUALITY, RIGHTS that Black people deserve as theyāre humans like all the other people and have nothing less than them.
