100% agree with the anger & frustration to call out non-Black POC communities for not being in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> But I have a theory of why many POC are afraid to speak out/not educated on the topic & that is rooted deeply in the flaws of our educational system:

Schools were NEVER meant for us BIPOC to succeed in. Schools have hxstorically been a place of social death. Boarding schools for Indigenous people is one example of how this country STRIPPED away their culture and erased all sense of identity. "Kill the Indian. Save the Man"

For too long we have been miseducated & brainwashed by the hidden curriculum of white supremacy. When did your teachers ever provided lessons that reflected YOUR identity?This country centers its standards of the white man(Not discrediting work of Ethnic Studies & SJ educators)

These standards celebrate Manifest Destiny, imperialism, genocide, slavery. Then they teach Civil Rights Movement as a token unit trying to convince us that we live in a post-racist society. We have been socialized to care about ourselves to "pull ourselves up by our bootstraps."

Many non-Black POC have been siding w/ the oppressors because our education has taught us how to be white!! A state of colonial mentality, where we care mainly about ourselves over communities. Many people didnt have radical transformative teachers to talk about these issues

We need to decolonize whiteness in schools in order provides young people with a critical consciousness to recognize the connections of oppressive injustices throughout hxstory and how we need to be about social activism. Learning doesnt just happen just in a classroom!!