This is about Black Lives Matter and obliterating racism in America.

It’s available in distraction-free( – no ads) PDF for my patrons, related here. It’s also at the end of this upright for people who benefit from be made available to PDF ‘. If you want to hear me reading this, precisely sounds the link below.

We’re trying to build an America that is united, an America that is good for all of her people, is right to all of her people.

Building that America, constructing just, equitable, desiring, informed, spiritually-developed parishes, isn’t so much about saying the perfect thing, about starting the perfect statements of support.

It’s not so much about dotting the’ i’s and cover the’ t’s( although, don’t get me wrong, those are good to do ).

Building the America that we want is about the millions of selects that we acquire in our day-to-day.

It’s about who we choose to friend.

It’s about who we turn to when we need help.

It’s about who we want our kids to go to school with.

It’s about who we want our their children to bring home.

It’s about the smiles we dedicate, the empathy we have.

Empathy being born from associate, it’s also about the link we see that we have with one another.

It’s about where we choose to live, the seats and places in which we call our own.

It’s about who we hire.

It’s about the premises we constitute, and perhaps challenging the beliefs that we don’t want to make.

It’s about the media we devour, the movies we watch, the music we listen to, the artistry we embrace.

I’m not a perfect being and I have a lot to learn

I don’t want to exude some vibe here that I have the answers and that I’m doing all that.

Because I don’t and I’m not.

But I will tell you this: I part of our efforts to stir highly conscious choices.

I consciously moved my babies from a exceedingly, exceedingly white-hot locality because I wanted them to grow up with people who didn’t look like them.

I did not settled my adolescents in the “best” academies because the ” best” institutions were too white and, in two cases, were not disability-inclusive. I won’t send two of my kids to a school that won’t take one of my kids.

And I won’t send any of my kids to a school that is not indeed racially diverse.

Moving back to Hawai’i wasn’t just because I grew up here; it’s also because I knew that if I make my kids here, they would have the opportunity to grow up in a situate in which being of mingled race is the norm.

I’m telling you this only to illustrate that we’re making intentional tiny alternatives the working day, every day. Our lives are perpetual choices, and each pick that we see contributes to the whole.

We’ve all had selects to sit quietly while injustice or unfairnes carried out in our sphere.

We have all had options to act or not.

While I belief statements of solidarity with the Black community and acknowledgement that Black lives stuff are important, I thoughts moving the sing is where it counts.

The stroll is going to be long.

Racism is a cancer that is borne through countless avenues.

It’s is enshrined in every facet of the American system, and just as it takes time( and usually sorenes) to remove cancer from a body, it’s going to take time( and maybe ache) to remove the scourge of intolerance from America.

black lives matter: beyond the hashtaga sign says “recognizing racism in America” and a white person is visibly exhausted having climbed the hill behind, but then facing the person is a MUCH MUCH large mound. person or persons with dark-brown surface station forward and on that MUCH LARGER hill a indicate is posted which speaks “doing something about it”

Links to Listen& Learn:

Below are joins and resources that I’ve seen online and have collected for my personal learning and use. I envisaged I’d discuss the matter here; hopefully they are of use to others reading.

Many of them have “white” in the name, like” things for white people to do”- the focus in all of this is on white people, because white people effected this, and the vast majority of white people in America tend to be ignorant about the depth of the oppression, racism, systemic injustice and imbalance.

They are really good meanings: immense rolls of marvelous ways to learn and understand, and indices of ways to walk the talk.

Since this is going to be a long walk, I’m trying to focus on two things that been talking to me, and lent them to my schedule. Consistent focus, consistent motion, even if it’s small, will lead to change.

1. #BlackDisabledLivesMatter

2. 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle( Beyond the Street )

3. Resources for Talking About Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids

4. Anti-Racism Source for White People

5. Beyond the Street: Accessible Copy

6. Where to Donate to Help Black People with Disability

7. 75 Things White People Can Do to Help Racial Justice

8. Alice Wong has pulled together so many resources that focus on being pitch-black and incapacitated

Alice Wong’s Twitter Thread

Everything that follows is copy/ pasted from a very useful post from Alice Wong on Facebook:

Here are a few links to work by Black disabled people, ways to support them, and a few cases other reserves 😛 TAGEND

1) A 2016 essay by Britney Wilson

#BlackDisabledLivesMatter Why we need to talk about both hasten and disability benefits how to handle police brutality.

https :// www.thenation.com / …/ archi …/ blackdisabledlivesmatter/

You can also check out my interrogation with Britney for the Disability Visibility Podcast https :// disabilityvisibilityproject.com / …/ ep-5 0-disabled-l …/

2) By Dustin Gibson& Keri Gray 😛 TAGEND

We Can’t Breathe: The Deaf& Disabled Margin of Police Brutality Project( video and toolkit)

https :// www.dustinpgibson.com/ offerings/ wecantbreathe

3) By Vilissa K. Thompson 😛 TAGEND

Being a Black Disabled Woman Is An Act of Defiance: Remembering #KorrynGaines

http :// www.rampyourvoice.com/ black-disabled-woman-act-defi …/

You can support Vilissa on Patreon: https :// www.patreon.com/ RampYourVoice

4) Follow and support the work of Talila A. Lewis and Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities- HEARD

https :// behearddc.org

HEARD created and maintains the only national database of deafen, hard of hearing and deaf-blind detainees& prisoners.

#DisabilitySolidarity #DeafInPrison

5) The writing and cultural slog of Leroy Moore such as his volume Black Disabled Ancestors: https :// www.poorpress.net/ product- …/ black-disabled-ancestors

And a 2015 documentary 😛 TAGEND

Where Is Hope- The Art of Murder Police Brutality Against People With Disability https :// www.kanopy.com / …/ where-hope-art-murder-police-bruta…

6) Statement on police brutality by Sins Invalid from 2014 😛 TAGEND

“… our the organizations and heads are not controllable and cannot ever comply — this must be understood. Our bodies and subconscious are not criminal. We are unique and we celebrate our complexities .”

https :// www.sinsinvalid.org / …/ sins-invalid-statement-on-pol…

7) Follow& substantiate Teighlor McGee the make of the private FB group Black Disability Collective https :// www.facebook.com/ radicals/ blackdisabilitycollective/? ref= share

If you have the makes brace Teighlor’s labor: Venmo: Teighlor-McGee

8) Read this case by Leon Ford a disabled activist and survivor of police brutality 😛 TAGEND

” This is what it’s like to be a young black person in America. Frightened and fearless, dead and living, hopeless and hopeful, either dying to live or living to die .”

https :// medium.com / …/ america-whooped-my-ass-and-i-smile-e8 8…

Two other aids 😛 TAGEND

If you have the aims, gift to a community bail fund. You can find a national directory from the National Bail Fund Network

https :// www.communityjusticeexchange.org/ nbfn-directory

You can download& read this e-book from, free until 6/5

“Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States”

Edited by Joe Macare, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price

Foreword by Alicia Garza

https :// www.haymarketbooks.org / …/ 952 -who-do-you-serve-who-d…

h/ t Diane Wiener for sharing the link

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