I didn't write this, but it needs to be repeated,a lot.

Your black friend is trying to be ok.

Your Black friend in the past 30 days has watched a Black man get shot dead while jogging (Ahmaud Arbery), a Black woman get shot dead while sleeping (Breona Taylor), a white women weaponize a black man’s race by calling the police and falsifying potentially harmful claims (Christian Cooper), the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Just to be clear your black friends feel this way all the time. These stories are not new. We hear them a lot and then we go to work and do our jobs and try to be good people, wives, moms, dads, friends and citizens. So I also just ask that you don’t pretend like this is new to them because it feels newer to you

Your Black friend is trying to be ok.

Please don't ask us about the looting.

Please don't chastise us about the rioting.

Please don't tell us that all lives matter.

Please don't minimize our fear.

Please don't bring up Black on Black crime.

Please don't ask "What about Chicago?"

Please don't say "if you'd just act like (A Wildly Successful Black Person... Usually Oprah, Obama, Colin Powell, Denzel or Will Smith)".

Please don't judge us.

Your Black friend is trying to be ok.

See your Black friend for ALL that they are.

Listen to your Black friend.

Empathize with your Black friend.

Support your Black friend.

Value your Black friend’s energy, time, space and experience.

Pray for your Black friend.

Pray with your Black friend.

Just let your Black friend know you really care.

Your Black friend will remember who truly had their back during this difficult time. They will remember who was more concerned about a looted Target. They will remember you posting a thinly veiled and racially offensive meme. They will remember you calling looters "Savages". They will remember your silence about their Black life and the Black Lives of others.

It's real easy.

Do whatever you can to help your Black friend out because your Black friend is trying to be ok.....

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Thanks, Zee!