How You Can Help?

This picture above is a message that I got from my student and it broke my heart.  I am so tired!  On top of that, I am sad, angry, afraid, and most importantly as I mentioned before, tired.   Not tired from an absence of sleep, but tired of everything going on in our society.  The police brutality, the racism, and all things keeping us down must stop!  I am sorry to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and everyone else not mentioned who lost their life due to racism.  As a black man in America, I feel so drained.  This week, my productivity has been off, my attitude has been off, my everything has been off.   Several non-black people have reached out expressing their love and solidarity, plus I have also seen messages around social media wondering how allies can help us.  There is truly never a list that will cover every scenario but there is a lot that you can do.  God put it in my spirit to make this video about how allies can support black people during these times and most importantly, after these times.  Before you watch, I want to state a couple of things:

1. I do not speak for every black person with this video.
2. There are even more scenarios beyond what’s in this video.
3. I challenge you to share this with at least one person that is NOT black and have a conversation with them about what they can do to help.
4. If you watch this video and your first reaction is to take offense, I highly recommend you check your privilege. 
5. While you cannot change who you were, you can change who you are.  If this video moves you in any way to make a better choice moving forward, then it was worth it.

Moral of the story:  As a society, we are capable of better.  That’s all I have for you this week.  We are capable of better…

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