Ally Basic Training Supplement: Don’t Be An Ass

If you can’t express your support for a candidate without also being extra racist, you are failing. Return to Step 1.

#BowDownBernie? No, #GrowUpBLM. Stop heckling and bullying! http://t.co/StZSHkjdKI #BernieSanders #BernieinSeattle #BlackLivesMatter #racism

— Eric Stetson (@EricStetson) August 9, 2015

If your response to #BlackLivesMatter is any variation of all lives mattering you sound like this:

Changing #blacklivesmatter to #AllLivesMatter is like… (Vine by @ILLCapitano94) https://t.co/tY2D03b86w

— joni (@lifeontrial) August 1, 2015

and you’re failing. Return to Step 1.

If you think that the proper response to any of the above is to rush toward my comments section with ill-conceived confidence to explain your truly true truth.

Fucking stop. Return to Step 1.

Instead, be this guy and others like him who raise up Black voices and Black issues.

#FergusonTaughtMe that "black on black crime" is a myth pic.twitter.com/TpuSu6o7wf

— VeryWhiteGuy (@VeryWhiteGuy) August 9, 2015

#FergusonTaughtMe that "wait for the facts" & "due process" when it comes to killer cops is a myth pic.twitter.com/NDQgfV6uk5

— VeryWhiteGuy (@VeryWhiteGuy) August 9, 2015