‘Employ Black People. Fund Black Entrepreneurs.’
Companies need to ensure we never go back to ‘normal’
Minneapolis is burning. Just like Ferguson burned. Just like Baltimore burned. Just like countless other cities before them, swallowed by the rage of black protestors fed up seeing the lives of our brothers and sisters robbed by racism.
We are fed up because we are forced to fight a pandemic amid a pandemic. We are being disproportionately killed by systemic and overt racism at the same time — and are expected to accept these deadly conditions. Crisis after crisis, crisis on top of crisis, we have marched, kneeled, lobbied, voted, and built our own spaces to find ways to navigate it all. And yet, we wake up each day, face the trauma and fight on.
Our rightful outrage and collective uproar have made it impossible for the world to ignore our struggles. The world — namely white people who have perpetuated the disparities that have held black Americans back for so long — must feel the pain and anger we feel when we witness black folks being mistreated in plain sight and black lives being taken so mercilessly.
It is time for non-black Americans, who have benefitted from a system that has always placed more value on their lives, to understand, speak up, and DO something about the institutionalized…
