How Everyday People can help racial justice on Black History Month with Gin Hammond

The way that I would encourage people to contribute to the fight for everyday justice is to think about either the people that you already know or communities that you know are around you, but maybe you haven’t meshed with them yet. You know, maybe think about what are the practical needs?So, for example my brother bravely posted something and he said, Hey, if you are afraid of ICE, And you need groceries picked up things like that. Let me know, contact me and I’ll do that, right?And I talked to somebody who called me from New York and she said I don’t want the Stasi knowing about what I want to do as a result of this message that you reposted from your brother.But I’m going to talk to people I know about picking up their kids from school. You know, and this way it breaks things down into small doable actions, but you do have to be careful.So, for example one of the responses to that Facebook post, I couldn’t believe it a person who’s an artist, too.So I was that much more shocked.She basically said, oh, where is it? Might have to cut and and come back to this. How do I even find a message?I don’t even know how to find messages that I’ve posted before. Because most of the time I don’t look back at like what people have commented or anything like that. But this one kept popping up weirdly on my phone.So I thought, what’s, what’s going on?Anyway, the person had said Hey, are you sure you want to do that? Because they’re going to be come dr*g dealers and k*dnappers if they stick around in our country and, and all kinds of ugly things like that. It was a real jaw dropper. And I like what one friend of mine did, which was she replied with an article debunking myths about the danger of immigrants. And again, that’s so dumb because this country, aside from the indigenous people who are already here, is made up of immigrants, you know?So… And it reminded me of the, you know, no, no Jews, no dogs or no Irish or, you know, whatever the group was that was made to be the scapegoat, the villain at that time, most likely for political reasons, right?I’m Gin Hammond and I’m Living IncogNegro. I’m glad you’re here and we’re on this journey together. Find me on instagram here.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.