Hello, well-read family and Into the Biscuit family. I'm going to put this at the beginning of both

podcast this week. There's been some talk online about what to do with your content

this week. There was a trend called Blackout Tuesday that I always understood to mean

don't post your little dick jokes. Don't post your songs about taking your girl down to the river that you should be entirely

focused on this moment in history and the issues surrounding it specifically racism,

black lives matter, and police brutality.

But a lot of people took it to mean, apparently,

that out of respect for those issues we should be completely silent.

We have, as you know by listening to this episode right now, chosen not to do that, and I think everyone should choose not to do that.

Blackout Tuesday was never meant to be everybody be quiet. It was meant to be

everybody amplify black voices. Fill the space with black voices.

Fill the space with black voices.

Don't leave the space.

So what follows is our experiences, protesting, and a conversation about what needs to happen

and we're not doing that to put ourselves in place of black people and black voices

we're doing that because this is a white space for the most part if you're

listening right now just percentage-wise you're white and we're trying to both help you and

give you information and thoughts and perhaps conversation starters with your own family

and we are trying to convict you to do those things. That being said, there is an essay written by my friend Jerry Brown.

It is on my Twitter, my Instagram, and my Facebook page that I would challenge you all to read.

And it's an open letter to white women who keep asking what they can do to combat racism.

I believe she addresses it to white women because she as a woman is often asked by white women.

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