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It seems a whole lot of waking up is happening among people of whiteness. I am going to reserve my critical commenting on this phenomenon for another post and focus on the question that I keep seeing everywhere:

What can I do?
1. Listen to people of color share their experiences.

2. Educate yourself. That means reading books and connecting with anti-racist resources.
3. Pay reparations to individual POC that have expended their emotional labor dealing with your privilege. Pay reparations to POC institutions. Pay activists and content creators for your education.
4. Disrupt the racism that you see from your fellow people of whiteness. Tell people that they’re being racist. Refuse to entertain insensitive talk anywhere, including this app.
5. Get uncomfortable. Put yourself in situations with people who are not afraid to speak their truth to you.
6. Do the work. Dedicate time and energy to learning to deal with your whiteness. Since you were born, you have been exposed to a lot of negative ideas about people of color. It is going to take a lot of time to dismantle the things that you thought were normal and okay.
7. Be ready to be offended and to have your feelings hurt. People are tired of being oppressed and a lot of folks are gonna let you have it right now. Will you learn or will you retreat into comfort.
8. Listen to people of color who you might not necessarily agree with rather than defaulting to the same voices that don’t challenge whiteness.
9. Don’t demand emotional labor from your black, brown, and indigenous friends. Especially right now. Take whatever they have to offer and don’t make demands upon them.
10. Manage your white tears. Your eyes are being opened to the injustice in the world and that’s a good thing. But your black, brown, and indigenous friends should not have to wipe your tears when they’re too busy wiping their own.
And since people from FB keep emailing me and asking:

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Here’s how you can give one-time donations:

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So evidently this app needs a late night twitter thread from me telling y’all how NOT to act when you get called out for various -isms and -phobias.

So listen up humans, this is your guide for how not to show your behind when you get called on your BS.
1. Say sorry. That’s it. That’s the thing. Plan old sorry with no “if” qualifier. If you can name what you did, then name it and claim it.

Example: I’m sorry **for** the homophobic thing I said.

For is the keyword. For. Don’t say if. Ever.
2. If you don’t yet know or understand what you did, simply say sorry and offer a more robust apology later.

Example: I’m sorry. I will work to understand what I did so I can do better.

If you know what you did: I’m sorry for being homophobic. I will do better.
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I said: White people, if you want to be antiracist sit down and shut up for like three months so you can begin to speak from a place of knowledge.

What y’all heard: I don’t think that white people should be allies in racial justice work and y’all you’ll never do anything.
And to be clear, some of the folks not hearing are so-called allies. White people cant stand to have limits placed on what they can and can’t do. Y’all think that y’all are entitled to access and liberty within every space.

This is why we call y’all colonizers.
Y’all hop up into everything and claim it for yourself and expect everyone to work in service to YOU.

Y’all feel so freaking entitled to be an “ally” in the way that you want to be instead of what people are asking you to do to help.
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I’ve noticed that with every killing of an unarmed black person, there are white folks who decide that they want to “fight racism.”

I’m not here tryna kill your vibe, I’m happy you’re here, but it’s also time for some honesty. So let’s sit down and have a chat.
*gestures toward my kitchen table, where there’s a pot of hot water and tea bags waiting*

First of all, just because you’re new to the fight don’t mean that the fight is new. There are people who have been in this struggle a long time.
I encourage you, for the next three months to sit back and be quiet (and it should be much longer than that but I know that three months is about the maximum that whiteness can handle...but I’ll talk about that some other time).
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