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a person with a dream and a bad attitude.
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It’s Pride month, and we can’t talk about LGBTQ+ rights without owing the entire foundation of Pride to Black LGBTQ+ community members who stood up first. You may have heard how Martha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, was central to the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, but she wasn’t alone. Our Black community members fought back against an aggressive police raid of Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ safe haven in NYC. This is not new, and it’s not enough to only say Black Lives Matter. If you believe no one should be endlessly persecuted and afraid due to their very existence, speak up. Beyond donating and signing petitions on the NAACP, BLM, and local websites dedicated to Black activism, there are so many ways to take action: You can start from within your personal community, breaking down racism you see in everyday speech. You can demand law enforcement to cease their militarized aggression immediately, particularly how they target Black people no matter who they are as individual HUMAN BEINGS. You can educate yourself on how to be anti-racist, because avoiding being actively racist isn’t enough. If you are white, don’t make the conversation about yourself when you talk about racism, instead you can listen to others’ personal experiences. Have a private conversation with yourself about how you are contributing to racism and how that can change. Change starts from within you. You don’t have to announce the ways you’re racist. Instead, going forward, change the ways you have stayed silent while our fellow humans are suffering just for existing. Ask yourself questions. Find out why your response to “Black Lives Matter” is “All Lives Matter,” which is usually an avoidance technique — what makes it so difficult for you to say the words BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. and what can you do to change that conflict within yourself? It’s okay to be awkward or uncomfortable, as long as we put in the effort — especially as members of the LGBTQ+ community because the effort has already been put in for us. Racism is a GLOBAL problem, not just the USA. No one is exempt from change. If you believe everyone’s lives are worth living and matter, make it known. #blacklivesmatter

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