I don’t know what to write exactly. There is still no words that feel right enough or to give its context justice. Right now it hurts, the cruelty, the ignorance and the complicity exercised by those choosing to be part of the bigger problem. Tomorrow and the month after and the years after, it will still hurt just the same. Nothing has changed since the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots. The cities still burn, the people are still mourning and continue to retaliate over the loss of yet another Black American killed at the hands of a white man.

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This is my peer-hero, @tamikadmallory. If you aren’t following her, you are failing to follow and support one of the single most consequential and courageous leaders in the world. ⁣ ⁣ This speech, delivered in Minneapolis, is the most important speech of 2020. ⁣ ⁣ When I ask you to follow her, I don’t just mean on IG or FB. I mean follow her leadership. She’s my leader. If you respect me, I follow her. ⁣ ⁣ We must defend and protect her. She has fought for us relentlessly for 20 years. Don’t tell me we don’t have leaders. You are romanticizing the past. ⁣ ⁣ She organized the largest march in the history of the world. Did you hear what I just said? ⁣ ⁣ Anyway, Tamika, I’m so proud of you and glad to know you. Also, everybody follow @UntilFreedom. I know the whole team there and would literally trust them with my life.

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What we can do now is to donate what we can to these important causes. If you are not in a position to donate funds, then please share these sites on your social media, email to friends, keep the conversations on racial discrimination going.

The Official George Floyd Memorial Fund: this will help his family with funeral and burial costs, mental and grief counseling, lodging and travel expenses for future court proceedings. Anything can help the Floyd family during this unexpected tragedy.
Minnesota Freedom Fund; Community based non-profit that pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for protestors under arrest.
Black Visions Collective: A black, trans, queer-led organization committed to dismantling the system of oppression and violence.
The Bail Project: National organization that provides free bail assistance, reunites families and restores the presumption of innocence.
Campaign Zero: Online platform and organization that utilizes research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.

Don’t let the media and the politicians dissuade your intentions and block your senses that it is all about the looting. It is not about the looters, the looting, the riots, it is about human lives that were taken away under cruel abuses of power. Remember that American history shows that this has been a systemic occurrence since the early times of segregation.

It’s important to not keep silent about this anymore. It is important to be fed up.