1. Don’t call the cops
2. Unearth your internalized anti-Blackness
3. Challenge model minority myth, which is rooted in #2
4. Educate your family and friends on the injustice Black ppl face globally
5. Donate to orgs serving Black communities
6. Demand justice for #AhmaudArbery https://twitter.com/KalaMendoza/status/1258460108843110401
7. Demand justice for #SeanReed
8. Learn about so many innocent lives taken without justice: Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Stephon Clark, Botham Jean...and remember their stories
9. (for non-Brown documented Asians) Stay closer to the cops at protests to shield those vulnerable
10. Organize individual fundraisers
11. Send your Black friends and colleagues a text reminding them you’re they’re for them. Offer to hold space or to order them food
12. Follow their lead. Listen. Listen. Listen.
13. Stop AAVE and don’t share digital blackface giphys
14. Don’t ask Black people to educate you. Don’t put additional burden on them, not now, not ever
15. Call out systemic and interpersonal racism whenever you see it
16. Call out store owners following Black customers around
17. Call our doctors who minimize Black people’s pain
18. Follow more Black leaders on social media
19. Learn about Asian American activism in the U.S. It’s empowering and solidarity building
20. Build coalition rooted in solidarity and trust. Organize.

#AsiansForBlackLives #BLM
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