This week has been overwhelming. May was brought with additional knowledge that more innocent Black lives were taken with no investigation, arrests, or conviction. After years, decades, centuries of the senseless, racially motivated murders, people can only take so much.
With protests happening all over the country and world, which brought out counter-protests from White Supremacy groups, tension has boiled over.
Many people want to be educated, taught, and put their love forward into action and don't know the best way how. After talking to neighbors, friends, and co-workers, I asked a few simple things.
1. When you are invited to a Black event (or any culture), show up. SUPPORT. Be there. Learn and grow. If you can't make that particular event, watch the video later and promise yourself to attend something else in the future.
2. Put your love into action. VOTE for candidates that have anti-racist/anti-bias bills. Check out their pages. Have they mentioned anything about police reform or simply speak to how "violence is never the answer?" Vote, not just because of your party, but for change.
3. TEACH your children, grand-children, or any grandchildren in your life about what it means to be an ANTI-BIAS/ANTI-RACISM family. There are so many resources at your google fingertips. Here is just one: Books on the racism that you can read with your kids. Make it apart of your daily reading.
4. Put books, dolls, and PEOPLE in your lives. Find authors by Black and African-American. Find books with black characters. Watch movies with Black Actors.
Don't have any black friends? See #1.
5. Support Black owned businesses.
6. Push for an anti-bias/anti-racist curriculum in schools and Universities. We may bot be able to model what happens in the home, but we can reach students in our schools. Teachers must take the training like they take child abuse training. And not everyone will be able to teach the curriculum.
