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It doesn’t get any simpler than this. No one sai

It doesn’t get any simpler than this. No one said, “ONLY Black Lives Matter.” So, I’ll say it again: UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER—THE WAY WHITE LIVES SEEM TO MATTER—THERE WILL BE NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE. That’s the fire we need to put out now and until we do, nothing else matters. ⠀
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It’s a tough pill for a privileged white person—who may say, “I have no problem with black people; I love *insert Black author, artist, rapper, etc.* I’m not racist.”—to swallow but it’s fucking true. And ask yourself if you know the difference between “not being racist” and being “anti-racist.” I didn’t know the difference, and I had to do some inside work to get it. I’m still doing it. ⠀
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It’s uncomfortable looking at your own privileges, and I thought that since I have Deaf parents, I knew all I needed to know about oppression, discrimination, and marginalized communities because I grew up in one and saw my parents get shit on day after day and I had to interpret that discrimination AS IT WAS HAPPENING. It was bullshit. AND STILL!! (We have a “person” in the White House who I’ve never seen with an ASL interpreter near him, let alone a CDI. Not once. Let that sit with you.) ⠀
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Anyway, I thought, “I know oppression. I don’t need to do any other inside work there.” WRONG. I do. Maybe we all do. I’m hopeful that this helps some people (me too) look in that REALLY FUCKING UNCOMFORTABLE MIRROR and have the heart to just LISTEN without interrupting, without replying, without biases, prejudices, and preconceived thought patterns. Let’s unlearn what the systems in place have taught us; Yoda style. If you can’t, or won’t, ask yourself why.⠀
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#blacklivesmatter #unlearnwhatyouhavelearned #bewithlistening #amplifymelanatedvoices #antiracism #acodawhogetsit #coda #exjw #deafparents #oppression #discrimination #uncomfortablemirror

I’m ashamed to say that I don’t know much abou

I’m ashamed to say that I don’t know much about Black history. In 603 public schools—where it’s predominantly white—I don’t recall learning a whole lot (then again was I paying attention in school)? 🤷‍♀️ Aside from that reason I heard a term that sounded appropriate for the way I was raised (as a j-dub/JW); it was “trained neutrality” as in “don’t vote, don’t get involved...etc.” So shamefully, I didn’t and made a habit out of it. That stops now. 🛑
It’s never too late to get educated and I’m humble enough to say I need help here and I’m willing to be schooled. In case you also need some resources, here are a few I found. 🖤
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#antiracism #learningfrommyownbullshit #supportblackauthors #supportblackwriters #fucktrainedneutrality #exjw #amplifymelanatedvoices #blacklivesmatter #blm

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This is my brother. Not my “someone joined our f

This is my brother. Not my “someone joined our family and is sorta like my brother” but my BROTHER. He was adopted when I was four and it’s a long, beautiful story; his adoption brought two families together, making it bigger and better. His life matters. And until ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER the way white lives seem to matter, there is no justice. No peace.

Picasso said, “every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” And fellow author and friend, @jacobnordby wrote, “we’re in chaos now because of long-standing imbalances in the systems: social, financial, ecological, etc....what we will create remains to be seen but it’s unavoidable that we’re dismantling many imbalanced things for now.” •
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