"Forget the liberal or conservative. Are you for right or are you for wrong? Are you for humanity or are you not? Are you for brown people to be treated fairly or are you not?"
– D.L. Hughley
If your social justice work is not centered in elevating the humanity of all people – and especially people who are on the receiving end of most social injustice – then you're not really doing social justice work.
If your social justice work is not motivated by love and regard for other human beings, then you're not really doing social justice work.
If your social justice work doesn't recognize the need to heal intergenerational racialized (and other) trauma, then you're not really doing social justice work.
If your social justice work is trying to reimagine and reconstruct more equitable systems, but is not centered in a strong sense of community, then you're not really doing social justice work.
We fight for social justice because we know and can see and can experience so much social injustice.
For every racist, narcissistic, dismissive, privileged, arrogant, powerful White person who is not interested or willing to entertain any of these approaches, there are plenty of others who are, and who will come together to affect positive change.
We just have to be determined to make it happen.