1/ I see a lot of organizations & people highlighting the work of, or "standing with black ppl" in these hard times. Respectfully, if now is when you think to “highlight” or “check in on your black friend/coworker” you are apart of the problem.
2/If you’re an org, news, podcast, or otherwise and you don’t think about the disparities in American life in your daily work, don’t start now with the questions of how we got here? It’s in the statistics we live with, and ultimately are okay with.
3/And friends, don’t ask me if I’m okay. I’m not. Ask why you are okay with the disparities in American life cause if this one of the few times you’ve thought about it… then you are okay with it.
4/Ask me if I’m okay when you hear the @reveal story on Redlining, how black Americans are kept out of the prosperity of America via the government and big banks.
5/Ask me if I’m okay when you hear @priskaneely’s @reveal story on black maternal death rates. Black women 3 to 4 times more likely to die then white women.
apple.co/3cprs3x
apple.co/3cprs3x
6/Ask me if I’m okay when you read about black people being far more likely to be stopped by police in Cali
bit.ly/2AyX5Kv
bit.ly/2AyX5Kv
7/Ask me if I’m okay when you learn about the black poverty rate. bit.ly/3cktvWB and connect the dots ie Redlining and other factors.
8/Ask me if I’m okay after reading @nhannahjones lead #1619Project. "I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it." - Saidiya Hartman
9/ But please, don’t ask me if I’m okay while the fires are burning outside your window. I smells of naivety at best and self-preservation at worse. I am not okay, and never have been.
10/Don’t ask me if I’m angry all the time. Cause, yes, I am. Rather ask a deeper, more important question, why aren’t you?
When you get the answer, if you really care about how I am, do something about, or shut up.
When you get the answer, if you really care about how I am, do something about, or shut up.
