A thread and RT. 1/ For my white Facebook friends wringing their hands not knowing what to do, let me share with you what I think should be a reassuring message, which is that there’s a lot we can do. https://twitter.com/bakedbynature/status/1265675627325243393

2/ Our friends and colleagues and family and community members of color have BEEN telling us about racism for a long time, and they shouldn’t have to be alone in doing so. My personal experience is that as a teen and young woman, I was shaped profoundly by friendship with and

3/ reading the works of people of color, and by *direct confrontation by and teaching by* my white anti-racist friends.

That is, my white friends in college and beyond cared enough to say to me, “L, I think that assumption is coming from a racist place” or