Don’t really need to see #MLK quotes today unless you are living and breathing the fight against anti-Black racism wherever you are. Good will on #MLKDay or any other day is grossly insufficient if you have a shallow understanding of the systems of racism at play. 1/9

In fact, as MLK said, this kind of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. So you must #dothework. Racism is embedded in every societal system. It is insidious and it takes time and effort to understand it and/or be critical of it 2/9

Black folks have to constantly do this work to fix a problem we didn’t create while we live in a system that is stacked against us so the least you can do is do that work as well. Doing that work is not simply soliciting feedback/perspectives or consulting with Black folks. 3/9

Doing the work is reading the work of #criticalrace scholars and mapping that on your social/professional location and then making systemic and ITERATIVE changes to the systems you are a part of. Simply reading “How to be an antiracist” is not enough. 4/9

Doing the work is not asking me who the critical race scholars are when you have google literally at your fingertips. There are no short cuts in anti-racism. What you dedicate your time to signals who you are. 5/9