Dear Black friends,
I love you, am listening to you, grieve with you, and support you. I repent of my silence and my apathy, and promise to dive into the hard work of unlearning the white supremacist script I've read all my life, and to fight alongside you. Your lives, your success, your flourishing, and your right to joy matter.
Love, Lisa
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We are all complicit in the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of our country's existence. I'm praying that more of us will listen— without the "what about"s or "but"s or "actually"s to drown out the pain of our black brothers and sisters. If you're unsure where to start with this, here are some links I've been pondering the past couple weeks. This is barely scratching the surface, but it's a start.
Articles:
Why You Need to Stop Saying "All Lives Matter" by Rachel Cargle (her website is also full of excellent resources)
In Defense of Black Life by Soul Fire Farms— includes dozens of links for further reading and support
Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist by Leah Thomas
Racism is Killing the Planet by Hop Hopkins
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo— the original article that the author later expanded into a book
Environmental Racism and the Zero Waste Movement by Polly Barks
Instagram Accounts (you don't have to have an account to scroll through the photos):
Please feel free to share your favorite resources in the comments below!
Love, Lisa
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