"We are here as white community members to ask other white community members to join us in doing the uncomfortable, difficult, and unending work of dismantling white supremacy and all oppression, and creating a community that we ALL want to live in. BIPOC folks cannot and should not do this work alone, and WE can’t do it alone either.

We are also here as white, cis gender women to— as Loretta Ross, the reproductive justice pioneer puts it— call out and call in other white women, and acknowledge and fight back against our 'purity and protection' being used as a defense for the abuse and lynching of Black men. White patriarchy does not protect us, it only protects itself.

We also must voice that all white people benefit from white supremacy no matter what your grandparents or great grandparents did or did not do. We are all responsible for helping dismantle these racist systems, not so we can pat ourselves on the back, but because it is just. This is a lifelong commitment that each of us need to make. You may be exhausted, you may want to shut off the news, you may want to turn away but our BIPOC neighbors don’t have that ability. Do not let your anti-racism work slow down just because your timeline has, we must demand there is no going back to a “normal” that is comfortable for us and deadly for all others. We call upon you to acknowledge that white supremacy hurts all people, including white people.