Hello and welcome to What is Not another episode of I Way with Shmeeta Jamil. I am going to be back next week

It just felt really inappropriate to put out a jovial mental health chat during what's happening in the world right now

So this is a time for non-black people just to shut the fuck up stop putting out content stop self promoting and just listen learn amplify black voices

artists writers activists and

And

Investigate our own lack of action. This shouldn't still be happening and

There's always been more that all of us could have done even with me, you know, I look at the fact that

Yes, I've donated and I've participated in black lives matter and I've posted the hashtag and I've amplified some black voices

Haven't done as much as I can because I think some part of me and I think a lot of people make this mistake thought well

I'm a person of color

So, you know because I've experienced violence or oppression or racial profiling. I get it

I understand our struggle is the same and therefore this isn't my responsibility to really work that hard to fix this

This is just on white people. I was wrong because all of us are benefiting from the system even just by living in a country

That was built by black people for white people for free. We are all somehow complicit and our silence is violence

And so we all need to figure out why we have been inactive and how that can change

This has to be the last time that something like this happens. It's outrageous

They're in 2020. They are still having to risk their lives and take to the streets just to ask to be allowed to breathe to have freedom to have basic human rights

Especially in the United States. I know this is a worldwide problem

And that's why we're seeing these protests pop up all over the world

But in the United States these people are being persecuted for having been kidnapped and brought over here

It's unimaginable the pain and

The trauma and the rage that that must ignite and so I stand in full support of all of the protests and I don't want to hear about the destruction

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