The Scales of Justice

It's time.

For those of us born into privilege simply because of the tone our skin holds, it's time to get quiet.

To listen.

To receive.

To read, watch and become better educated.

To humbly drop our guard, to let go of our walls, to be willing to sit in the discomfort of hard conversations, to open our hearts and our wallets for those on the receiving end of prejudice and injustice, to support those who need to be heard and to allow them safe space in which to do so, to reach out our hands in solidarity and love, and to use your own voices, not for ourselves but to echo the needs of black community.

The time has come for these needs to be given center stage.

At last.

See below for some valuable resources and I'll leave you with this:

Let us not forget that the balanced scales represent justice.

Until the black community is treated with the same respect as the white community,

there is no justice.

Below are some important RESOURCES:

DONATE:

• Black Lives Matter

• George Floyd Memorial Fund

• Campaign Zero

• Rachel Cargle's The Loveland Foundation

FOLLOW:

• Rachel Cargle - a teacher & storyteller who explores conversation on race

• The Great Unlearn: https://www.instagram.com/thegreatunlearn/

• Alishia McCullough @blackandembodied Social Justice Warrior and co-creator of the #Amplifymelanatedvoices movement on social media

• Jessica Wilson @jessicawilson.msrd - Activist and co-creator of the #Amplifymelanatedvoices movement on social media

• Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How To Be An Antiracist and Director of the Antiracism Center

• Color of Change: https://www.instagram.com/colorofchange/

• Charlene Carruthers - founder of the Black Youth Project 100

• Brittany Packnett Cunningham - co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence, and a host of Pod Save The People

• Nikkolas Smith - the artist who created portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others

WATCH:

• The Hate U Give - a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America

• Becoming - a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour

• Dear White People - a Netflix series about being black at a predominantly white college

• Must watch documentaries here: http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/10-black-history-documentaries-to-watch/

READ:

• Must watch documentaries here: http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/10-black-history-documentaries-to-watch/

• Anti-racist reading lists here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html and here:

• https://www.elle.com/culture/books/g32687973/black-history-books-reading-list/

As always, my heart is with you.

xx

Cyia