I have waited to write this post because I knew I need to do more work to understand white supremacy, white privilege, systemic racism, white fragility and subtle racism.

The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Tony McDade (if you are not familiar with him please read about him here because Black Trans Lives matter too) are unjust and tragic. I’ve found myself asking what I can do to help and how can I affect positive change. The truth is that it should have never taken these events to push me to take action in the first place. The loss of innocent Black people at the hands of the police due to excessive force and racism is nothing new, but it is unacceptable. As a society, we have for too long turned a blind eye.