Fellow white people, just because you don’t understand or haven’t seen it or experienced it personally, doesn’t mean it isn’t real. After 2016, everyone raced to read “Hillbilly Elegy” to understand disgruntled white people who voted for Trump. Are you doing the same now?

Are you reading Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zoe’s Neale Hurston? Are you reading the autobiographies or Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X and working your way through this list? https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/204842963/1357692923

Are you going to seek out black history museums when the lockdown is lifted? Are you following @MsPackyetti @jbouie @AdamSerwer @JamilSmith @nhannahjones @JoyAnnReid @Travon and many other amazing black voices on this platform?

This is not an admonition but a call to action. If you don’t understand something, that’s on you. Fix that. Educate yourself.