97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

 

97 things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack (originally published Aug 13, 2017, but updated continually).

 

This may seem like a daunting number of actions, and it is! Taken a couple at a time, there are important ways white people can educate themselves and take action for racial justice.  Here are three items from the list showing ways to connect. The full list gives a wide range of immediate and long-term actions—check it out!

 

1. Check out the Black Lives Matter chapter in your area, on their website (Boston website:  https://blacklivesmatterboston.org/) where you can sign up for their newsletter and sign up to volunteer.  And check out their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/BlmBoston/) where you can find a calendar of events, videos of past events, and links to other activist organizations.

See also https://time.com/5848318/black-lives-matter-activists-tactics/.

2. Discover what indigenous land you’re living on by looking that this map and research the groups that occupied that land before you did. Find out what local activism those groups are doing and give your money and time to those efforts.

3. Understand and share what “defund the police” really means. It’s about a new, smarter approach to public safety, wherein we demilitarize the police and allocate resources into education, social services, and other root causes of crimes. What we’re doing now isn’t working — There are so many innocent people who have been harassed or killed by the police unjustly, and nearly every Black American has experienced some form of harassment by the police. Some good resources for this are this video by BLM , this Washington Post article and this Facebook post.