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- We need to organize to dismantle the racist structures
on a local level.
- We need to protest at the racist monuments in our cities
and dismantle them.
- We need to set up housing initiatives for black and brown
people. (housing group for
black/brown in Berlin)
- We need to address diet and exercise.
- Mental health.
- Financial literacy
- Intersectionality
- Trans/homophobia
- Rape culture
- Relationship counselling
- Black/brown self-defence classes for men and especially
women
If they put their knee on our necks, we put our foot on the
gas.
If I’ve learned anything in this age of information; the
truth will always come to light. The real question is, which
side of history do you want to be on? We still have a long
way to go in the fight for equality; I hope we can heal as
a people when that day comes and walk down that road
ahead, hand in hand.
“And they are lucky, that what black people are looking for
is equality, and not revenge” - Kimberly Jones We need to
shift the narrative. Too often, we’ve been passive, allowing
the media to call us “looters” but white folks “survivors.”
We need black ownership. We need black book clubs and
businesses outside of just barbershops and hair salons.
We can’t wait for our oppressor to unlock the cage for us,
otherwise, we’ll enter into a world of freedom which, unbeknownst
to us, is just a larger cage.
We aren’t thugs or criminals or hoodrats or ghetto. We
are kings, queens, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. We
are librarians and bus drivers; we’re essential workers;
we’re nurses and teachers and pilots. We need to paint
our own history going forward or we’ll be forever fated
to repeat our past.
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