1.) PROTEST
a. Go out, raise your voice, raise your fist, and let the world know that BLACK LIVES WILL ALWAYS MATTER!
1. Be Organized
2. Find heavily affected areas by Police Brutality
3. Do not back down
2.) MENTORSHIP
a. THE YOUTH! Let us not forget they have to eventually grow up! This movement is not about millennials, but about the next generation.
1. Whenever you can, take the time to visit a school and educate the young people about who they are, where they come from, and how the system has been designed to see their failure.
2. Encourage them to read, attend college, GRADUATE and create things for themselves so that they can have streams of revenue to support their families and community.
3. If we forget to lift up the youth, the cycle will continue.
4. PARENTS! Go to the PTA meetings! Show you student that you care enough about what is going on in the educational system and they will care too!
3.) SUPPORT/CREATE BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES
a. Understand that with this, WE as an entire Black race have to have a system of checks and balances in place.
1. We have to create an economic flow system that shows/proves that the support of these businesses goes back into our community.
2. These business (especially Black ones) still have to pay a great deal of their money to the government because they are usually small.
3. We have to know the rotation of money since the government has it claws deep in our community.
4. Let us take the time, go to these businesses and have these discussions, get our community/government leaders on board, start our own economy, STABILIZE it, and then really start retracting our monies from these big corporations.
4.) KNOW YOURSELF AND YOUR WORTH
a. It is regressive of us to fight and exclaim that our Black lives matter if we do not know ourselves.
1. START reading and seeking information for yourself.
2. Do not allow media to dictate who you are, where you come from, and where you should be going.
3. Educate yourself through research and engage in healthy conversation on the subject matter before flying off the handle and posting the first thing you see.
4. Find likeminded friends and take the time to uplift one another.
5. DISREGARD ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE, RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA, and any other destructive propaganda presented in day to day actions of society.
This is NOT a competition between us. We should be one another’s biggest cheerleaders. Support your brothers and sisters in any endeavor he/she may pursue as long as it is for the betterment of self and the community at large.
To White Allies:
If you stand on the front line, that gives us more time to plan and take action without being targeted.
