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Anti-Racism & Speaking Up is Necessary.
June 2020 decolonized your mind, get rest, and get back into action. #blacklivesmatter.
This month began with painful struggles, injustice brought by police brutality, and realizations that most of us have a lot of internal, traumas and dark traits that we need to work on. Some people benefit and are complicit to this madness; harbouring the idea that their race is superior. If you are rooting for the former president of the USA you are secretly or very vocal that you are a narcissistic, sexist and racist. Period.
We have to and need to re-learn how to be human again. Let that sink in for a minute.
We need to collectively work together to hold each other accountable for actions and things done to people just because of our skin color.
We need to acknowledge that Environmental racism is very real, Racism, police brutality, injustice and discriminations are their own form of viruses in our minds. These ideologies have been constructed and even designed as “necessary” by our own education system for many centuries now.
It’s WRONG! We need to educate ourselves.
There are a lot of human rights being violated, in all forms, inflicted by police brutality around the world. We are too preoccupied with being right and not changing our virus racist mentality. By reflecting on our own biases, and by questioning what we had embedded in our minds since we were young, we can evolve to be a better human. It’s difficult work to look from within and recognize that we have work to do on ourselves. Because is easy to look the other way. Some people are privileged by benefiting from the suffering of others. In other words, called ignorance.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.”
— Donald Miller
The actions and demands of the people, the families of their love one’s murder deserve justice and the realization that most people of color (especially Black, Brown, Latinos, Indigenous,) are the most affected by Covid-19; they are not safe during these times either.
Those who are different are being murdered, solely based on their skin color, sexual preferences, and gender. There is a lurking, sexist…
