The Least We Can Do
Look. I sat down last night to write some bullshit post about reality TV or cleaning products or whatever was on my checklist for the day. And I just couldn’t do it. Life has been tough for the past few months, but watching everything that has gone down this past week has been brutal. And I’m not here to complain because I don’t get to complain. I am here to say that as much as I proclaim allyship (and mean it from the bottom of my heart), I haven’t done enough. I’m not doing enough. And shit is scary right now and we’re in the middle of the pandemic and I’m sure a lot of us good intentioned souls are throwing our hands up like what can we do (note: please don’t ask your POC friends what you can do-it’s not their job to educate you). And I don’t have all the answers, I can tell you that much right now. But here are some good first steps:
Donate to the following organizations, whatever amount you can:
Reclaim the Block: https://secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHBy0MKXTIcQ2
Black Visions Collective: https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2
North Star Health Collective: https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate
Louisville Community Bail Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/
Educate yourself (I’ve ordered each of these books to read myself, these are affiliate links, and whatever I make from sales of these books from this site, I will donate to one of the above causes):
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
And just to reiterate, this is the bare minimum, the least we can do. I am committed to learning more and doing more, and hopefully you are too.
