Stop closing your eyes, stop scrolling past, stop thinking itβs not your problem.
Iβm a white person and might be talking especially to white people out there not being enough aware. Itβs the time we say stop, and we need to stop standing still, itβs not aΒ βBlack Peopleβs problemβ, itβs not a problemΒ βout of our communityβ, itβs 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 thatβs sitting inside all of us and in our everyday lives. We need to be all on one side, so there wonβt be sides anymore.
Iβve been following all the recent news since the George Floyd murder and Iβve found some good stuff to stay informed, understand whatβs 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 youβre signing for. Weβre 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 wonβt go to associations but to them to βsupport the causeβ 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 whatβs 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 arrestΒ (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, TexasΒ (thatβs the full protest video, she speaks at minute 27.27 + other videosΒ 1, 2)
Police being the real violent ones:
-Β verbal/physical aggression towards a peaceful protestorΒ
-Β showing palpable excitement like itβs 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 wonβt go after him
Korey Wise, victim of systemic racism and convicted in 1989, protestingΒ
Nice things:
- Police officers joining protests in New JerseyΒ & 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:Β 1Β +Β 2 (the woman speaking at 1.25 broke me in tears)Β +Β 3
- White people barrier in defense of black protestors from police
+ understand and recognize your privilege, hear the call to action toΒ not just be not-racist, but BE ANTI-RACIST:
Rihannaβs NAACP speech that calls for unity, solidarity and not considering all black peopleβs problems as their own only:Β βImagine what we could do, TOGETHERβ
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 youβre not personally involved
cherryemojigirl via TikTok on white privilege
Comparing whitesβ privilege and black peopleβs lives
Whites protesting for haircuts // Black People protesting for THEIR LIVES
You donβt need to be Black to feel outraged
Ava DuVernayβs call to action
Major proof of media being white-controlled
6 years ago it was still the same, nothing changed
Itβs not only America. Itβs a plague affecting the whole world. (example)
Donβt go for #AllLivesMatter, your life matters, Black peopleβs lives are not being treated as human lives, theyβre being murdered with bare hands or shot for doing something that would cost a 1-day-in-jail max for a white person. Thatβs to that we need to focus the support and solidarity and protests and asks for justice, because theyβre 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 MitchellΒ and many others who donβt deserve to be forgotten.
Itβs 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: itβs not whites and blacks, it has to be people AGAINST racism.Β Itβs JUSTICE, itβs EQUALITY, RIGHTS that Black people deserve as theyβre humans like all the other people and have nothing less than them.
