We are back after a long hiatus. Apologies to anyone who missed us!
If like many people, you are not sure what you can do, here are some meaningful things you can do to help fight inequalities and inequities.
- Read and educate yourself. Some of it will be uncomfortable and painful, but seek to know with an open mind.
- Check your own biases. Think about your interactions in the last six months. Are all your interactions contained within a homogeneous population? If so, do an honest introspection - do you have unconscious biases? How can you start breaking them down?
- If your first reaction to #blacklivesmatter is to respond with #alllivesmatter, pause for a minute, and think about why #blacklivesmatter makes you feel so threatened. Would you respond the same way, if someone said #kidslivesmatter or #veteranslivesmatter? If not, why does #blacklivesmatter make you so uncomfortable?
- If you are in a position to make hiring decisions, always ensure that your applicant pool has diversity. If you are always getting a homogenous group of candidates, check what is causing it.
- Talk to your children about race. Teach them about privilege. This is a great confrontational video to introduce the discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
- Donate to causes that help reduce inequalities.
- Lastly, to be silent is to be complicit. Speak your truth. Use your platforms to spread awareness. Some of these discussions are awkward, uncomfortable, and painful. Then so is getting killed for your skin color. So be brave for your fellow human beings.
