Day #90 – Brutal

The last 24 hours have just been brutal. And I can’t even imagine what the next 72 hours are going to be like after this past week.

I have words. So many words.

I have tears. So many tears.

My words and tears are from a world of privilege. It is not time for my words.

GoFundMe for Martin Gugino – Support For Victim Of Police Brutality- Buffalo NY

I wish I didn’t watch the video.
I NEEDED to watch the video. https://t.co/j2muMhZWkc

— Jennifer L.S. Weber (@AllThingsJen) June 5, 2020

The police officers who walk by and do nothing as a fellow police officer knocks an old man to the ground, where he lies supine bleeding, are a great example of the sociological forces behind “How the Third Reich happened.”

— Jonathan “Boo and Vote” Cohn (@JonathanCohn) June 5, 2020

“If I change my mind now, does that make me a hypocrite?”

“No, it means you’re growing as a person.” #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/YBStxm27Bw

— B. Dave Walters: Cyber Revolutionary Truth Speaker (@BDaveWalters) June 5, 2020

It's a privilege to learn about
racism instead of experiencing
it your whole life.

— Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) June 3, 2020

Dear White America,
As difficult and disturbing as it is to see police officers using violent and excessive force to subdue peaceful protesters, do NOT look away! If these images make your blood boil… welcome to the struggle.

Sincerely,
Kunta pic.twitter.com/v5d8jUNOzD

— LeVar Burton (@levarburton) June 5, 2020

This #thread is for those of you struggling to comprehend that the recent murders are just a fraction of racial violence in the United States. We are protesting for #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor, #AhmaudArbery AND hundreds of years of oppression.

Let’s begin your history lesson. pic.twitter.com/BiO7EbCbLo

— Erica B. (@ericabuddington) May 30, 2020

Breonna Taylor would have turned 27 today.

Her friends and family remember her as a caring person, someone who loved her job in health care, playing cards with her aunts, falling asleep watching movies with friends.

“We was robbed,” said one friend.https://t.co/hcNM0zNIxm

— NPR (@NPR) June 5, 2020

just a reminder: black lives matter is not political. it’s human rights.

— ❂ gab⁷₈ ⟭⟬ ACAB (@fairybunhun) June 3, 2020

Read. https://t.co/eigVyw3piL

— Jennifer L.S. Weber (@AllThingsJen) June 2, 2020

Resistance is NOT a one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling, maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is surviving the day.

Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying every lane. We need all of them.

— ? (@Lindss_tastic) May 30, 2020

It is so exhausting being everybody’s one black friend right now

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 3, 2020

Don’t reach out to your black friends/acquaintances to ask how they are doing.

We’re busy.

— Roxanne (@JustMeWith) June 5, 2020

For anyone worried about talking to their white children right now—worried that their kid is too young for these conversations—I was 5 or 6 when my Dad told me “no matter what you do, some people will always hate you.” Black children don’t get to not understand racism.

— Tawny Newsome (@TrondyNewman) June 2, 2020

Pandemic doesn’t have an end, neither does systemic injustice. Both are forever fights.

The concept of either having an end or being temporary is rooted in abledness and whiteness—having the privilege of material means to no longer notice and to leave behind those who don’t.

— Tatiana Mac (@TatianaTMac) June 3, 2020

Hi if you have white privilege you can’t renounce or ditch it.

Entire systems and structures have been set up to give you unearned advantages. Many of the conditions of yr life, education, career, health, home, etc have unearned advantages.

Face this, AND do antiracist work.

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) June 3, 2020

This is no time to be silent. Speak up. Get involved. Be the change.

— Martin Luther King III (@OfficialMLK3) June 4, 2020

Google Doc of Anti-Racism Resources, updated with:

– Where to Donate
– Petitions to Sign
– Community Action Items
– Anti-Racism Resources
– Books & Readings
– Support Black-Owned Businesses

Black squares aren’t enough.https://t.co/mSzTQaOfdr

— Sarafina Nance (@starstrickenSF) June 3, 2020

The work is offline.
The work is online.
The work includes presence.
The work includes absence.
The work is virtual.
The work is in the streets.
The work is in legislative halls.
The work is in art.
The work is in policies.
The work is at the polls.
The work is where we are.

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) June 2, 2020

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