Non-black POC, your effort to dismantle anti-blackness starts w/ YOU & extends to your communities. If it only exists in posts condemning police sanctioned murder, it's a performance of activism, not a part of your daily work.

There is plenty you can commit to EVERY DAY:

1. Consider the ways you may have perpetuated anti-blackness; even choosing neutrality or non-action benefits the oppressor. Take responsibility. Work thru guilt w/o expecting black folks to atone it. Commit to self-confrontation as DAILY work

2. Have conversations at home abt the racism, colorism, & anti-blackness that perseveres in your communities, expose the internalized racism, chip away at the glorification of whiteness. Educate your families even when it’s difficult. Start with those closest to you & keep going.

3. STOP for the love of God saying the n-word. Don’t say it when you’re by yourself. Don’t say it while singing a song. & most importantly, check any non-black person around you who says it. that means your friends, cousins, siblings– don’t underestimate the power of pushing back

4. Understand is it not the work of the black community, your friends included, to educate, inform, and/or console you. Non-black POC benefit from the organizing & activism of black orgs and individuals every day. Stop relying on their labor & hold yourself accountable.

5. Read work by black writers and academics! James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, our more contemporary Roxane Gay (to name a few) have have all endured the labor of critical translation so that YOU CAN LEARN. You have the tools to inform yourself right at your fingertips.

6. READ WORK BY BLACK POETS! Nothing has allowed me to be a more understanding ally than engaging w the intimacy of the page.

Some books I recommend are: Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith, The Tradition by Jericho Brown, Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, Carnival by Alyesha Wise

7. If you have the means, donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, BLM movement, George Floyd’s official memorial fund, fundraisers for Ahmaud Arbery & Breonna Taylor.

Beyond money, give time, effort, kindness, support. give give give without expecting a single thing in return.