Black Lives Matter
Hello,
George Floyd’s funeral was this week and in addition to the wider civil rights movement that’s happening all over the world, I don’t feel it’s the right time to be sharing silly pontifications, so I’m postponing this week’s Thought Dumpling until next Thursday out of respect.
In its place, I’d like to share some resources that an African-American colleague of mine shared in an email to 1500 people late last week. Before sharing the below list of actions, he said that even picking 2-3 things from this list would go a long way to helping the cause, and it seems like a small ask considering everything going on right now.
Even if it’s picking up a book or watching a documentary, it all helps.
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Call, Text or Tweet Your Mayor to reduce police brutality (5 min)
Go too www.8cantwait.org and search for your city. This site lists which of the 8 policies that your city has enacted that have been shown to reduce police brutality by 72%. These policies don’t require passing laws, the mayor can choose to enact them whenever they see fit.
Call, Tweet or Email your Mayor (feel free to use email template here)
Donate (2 min)
NAACP Legal Defense Fund here
Black Lives Matter here
Split donation between 70 different bail funds here
Get Educated (1.5 hours to several hours)
Read a book by a black author and buy from a black-owned book store that ships nationwide. Here
Watch a documentary - 13th (Netflix), I Am Not Your Negro (Prime Video), Central Park Five (Prime), 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (HBO)
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Black Lives Matter.
Allan