❌Don't expect your black and brown friends to do your emotional labour. ✅If you need to unpack your rage and sadness, do that with your WHITE friends. Then figure out what action you can take together to be better allies.
✅Use this site to follow Black and Brown individuals & orgs. Amplify their experience and knowledge, us your material privilege to support their work. Don't ask questions that you could Google, but listen to the content they're openly sharing in the public sphere.
A (UKcentric list) of people to follow starts with these top minds and organisers. Feel free to reply and tag other groups, orgs, or links to projects that need support

@khankfarza @kwalkeronline @WanjiKelbert @AyeishaTS @Jo_zinaC @KelseyMxMo @Aviah_Sarah_Day @guppikb @itmeNoni
❌NEVER take credit for the intellectual property of Black or Brown minds

None of this content is my original thoughts

This is compiled by a white person for white people based on conversations with, or things I've read, from others in response to the murder of #GeorgeFloyd
✅Say their names. Read this thread by @illh0eminati of lives lost in the UK and read it out loud. https://twitter.com/illh0eminati/status/1266441604170223617
If you want to talk to young people about the police but don’t know where to start, check this ✅ 🔥thread by @WanjiKelbert

https://twitter.com/wanjikelbert/status/1266707533928050694?s=21 https://twitter.com/wanjikelbert/status/1266707533928050694
Black people are disproportionately dying of coronavirus. If you’re a UK white person shouting #BlackLivesMatter   today, that means staying at home tomorrow when lockdown lifts. Solidarity is an action not a slogan
✅Some more practical acts of solidarity white people can take in this thread by @LukeEdeNoronha https://twitter.com/LukeEdeNoronha/status/1266710428891127808
You can follow @AnnaVickerstaff.
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