Dear White people who made commitments to racial justice in the spring and summer of 2020 after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others:
I'm here fifteen months later to hold you accountable to your commitments.
Have you done what you said you were going to do? Have you changed how you act, how you think, how you speak, how you treat people?
Have you evolved your consciousness? Have you developed your racial fluency? Have you educated yourself?
Have you fundamentally changed who you are?
Because if you're like most White people, who you were in the fight for racial justice before the spring and summer of 2020 wasn't good enough.
Your inaction, ignorance, "neutrality," and privilege were actively harming Black people and other people of color.
Your old boys' networks, your abuses of power, your invulnerability, your lack of courage and curiosity, your performative empathy and compassion were contributing to the perpetuation of systemic racism and White supremacy.
So, fifteen months later, are you showing up differently? Now that you know better, are you doing better? Are you honoring your commitments?
Are you engaging with Black humanity?
Or are you still upholding the status quo you've been upholding for hundreds of years?