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How Young White People Can Help
Educate your older relatives.
As a young white person, I’ve been unsure about the most impactful way to support the BlackLivesMatter movement. There are no protests near me, and Instagramming a black square seems more like a PR move instead of activism.
Amplifying black perspectives, donating to relevant causes, calling your representatives, peacefully protesting, and simply listening are some of the best courses of action available to everyone.
But I think young white people have another avenue to create change. More so than anyone else, we are uniquely positioned to reach old white people, the demographic most resistant to progress.
We need to talk to our relatives.
Across the country, police are blatantly and gratuitously instigating violence with unarmed American citizens. Never before has the lawlessness of the police been so widely broadcasted. On social media, at least.
Unlike our generation, older generations still depend on legacy media to get informed. Unfortunately, the news mostly shows them images of looting, riots, and chaos. They’re not on Twitter, seeing the same things as us.
Evidently, mainstream (and right wing) news media cannot be solely relied upon to accurately frame the events that are…
