Hello, this is Chris Foster, family physician from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I'm Cleveland Piggott, family physician from the University of Colorado and Aurora, Colorado.

And I'm Christina Johnson, family physician from Overlook Family Medicine Residency Program in Summit, New Jersey.

We're here to share our essay, Dear White People,

published in the January, February 2021 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.

We are living in unprecedented times. While the world is grappling with COVID-19,

we find the horrors of racism looming equally large as we, yet again, confront third debts in the center of the new cycle of black and brown people from police bias and brutality.

Those of us who have been championing anti-racism and justice work and bearing the burden of the minority tax had been overwhelmed by sudden ask from our well-intentioned

white colleagues of how to best respond.

In the tone of the Netflix series, Dear White People, we further emphasize that we are not

alone in trying to reach out to you, our white colleagues and leaders.

Please hear our story and heed our call to

action. Dear white people, we come to you as family physicians on the front line, caring for the

most vulnerable in our communities, as educators teaching the best and the brightest, as scientists seeking novel ways to achieve health equity,

as parents of children of all different hues, as survivors of an unjust world,

and as leaders who have been fighting for social justice for decades.

We are tired.

Those of us who are people of color are as unsurprised as we are

outraged over the murders of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmad Arbery, Rashad Brooks,

and so, so many more unarmed black and brown people.

Although the world now shares in our revulsion towards the pandemic of systemic and individual anti-black racism,

many of us carry the lived experience of centuries-old endemic racism.

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