It is important that as you realize the reality of racial injustice in our world and seek how to participate in positive change that you DO NOT burden advocates already doing the work with your questions and feelings.

STEP ONE is taking ownership of your learning.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Follow advocates and organizers online and read their posts.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Share their posts on your timeline.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Cross mark" aria-label="Emoji: Cross mark"> Ask them questions without first engaging with their considerable body of work.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Cross mark" aria-label="Emoji: Cross mark"> Tag them in threads where problematic conversations are unfolding.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Read books written by people in a marginalized group.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❌" title="Cross mark" aria-label="Emoji: Cross mark"> Write books or create content where you earn money sharing about what you learned.

We need to center the marginalized in the work of liberation.

And because I KNOW you want a reading list…

Stamped from the Beginning and How to be an Antiracist by @DrIbram.

I’m Still Here by @austinchanning

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

While you wait for those books to arrive, follow these folks and support them on Patreon whereever possible.

@andrehenry
@aliciatcrosby
@ToriGlass
@iammickyjones
@austinchanning

Remember: your questions/comments/feedback are not needed right now! Start by learning & supporting.

I am not the fastest or first to respond in critical moments for many reasons. One is that I take the time to be careful and think about how to engage in a manner that does not center myself or my whiteness.

When in doubt, amplify someone else. I start with lots of retweets.