Saying you, your business, or your event are "diverse", "inclusive", and "accepting of all people" when the large majority of you are white, cis, straight, young, able-bodied people does not make your statement true. It makes you PERFORMATIVE.

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James Baldwin

It is CLASSIST to claim that $40,000+ for a van/vanbuild is cheap. You don't have to break the bank in order to hit the road. #vanlife

🤚🏾STOP calling yourself an ally. It is NOT your place to declare if you are an ally for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, the LGBTQ+ and so on. That is for THEM to decide - not you.

Claiming "Vegan food IS accessible" is classist.

HOW TO APOLOGIZE: 1) Say specifically what you're sorry for 2) Explain WHY you did/said what you did 3) Say what you will do differently moving forward 4) Don't repeat these habits! 5) Help other people from making the same mistakes

“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in between safe space of ‘not racist.’ The claim of ‘not racist’ neutrality is a mask for racism.” -Ibram X. Kendi

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions." -James Baldwin

"Peace cannot exist without justice. Justice cannot exist without fairness. Fairness cannot exist without development. Development cannot exist without democracy. Democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples." -Rigoberta Menchu

In 2016, 5,712 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous woman and girls were reported. ONLY 116 of them were logged in DOJ database. Source: Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, CSVANW

A 2013 study in Ferguson, MO found Black drivers were searched more and TWICE as likely to be arrested than White drivers. Despite the higher rate of stops/ searches for Black drivers, police found more contraband (drugs and guns) on White drivers. -The Sentencing Project

There’s a big difference between Cultural Assimilation and Cultural Appropriation.

We are capable of building community anywhere— not just at church or at work, but also in the “ethnic” hair care section of the stores, in elevators, and other random places where we take the opportunity to simply say, “I see you.” -Austin Channing Brown

I hope that you see yourself represented.

J.E.D.I. translates, in the social justice space, as Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

“I see you.” ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊🏾

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