How you can help do your part…
I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand.
In support of the Black Lives Matter movement, we want to combine a comprehensive list of ways to help. It is important to stay conscious to this important conversation and continue to listen, learn, donate, sign petitions and EDUCATE ourselves on the gross inequality being experienced by members of the black community today. #BlackLivesMatter
A message from Biscuit Marketplace founder Tara Prendergast:
I feel overwhelmed, upset, mad, confused, scared, guilty… so many emotions at the recent killing of African American George Floyd….the one I may add, we could see.
I have been digesting what has happened, what is happening, and what has been happening to so many people not because they did something wrong, not because they caused harm or threat but because they were in a certain demographic.
This world is so far away from me in my lovely little bubble where I fear nothing, I feel no threat or have to respond to any form of racial or aggressive comments about who I am and what I look like.
And then I ask myself…
How does that feel?
What can it do to a person’s spirit and confidence?
How much anger and hate can this repeated treatment cause a percent of our population…
I don’t know what to say…
What is important?
Discussion.
I do not know how to help but surely recognition even if it feels minor in comparison to what is happening in the US, surely it is important to call it out and share how it feels.
Isn’t knowledge everything for us to make decisions and take actions that can help or understand a situation?
I don’t know what else to do but I know one thing…
Ignoring it feels wrong for me.
Tara x
Not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered with a few recommended resources listed below.
Books to read…
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
‘White Supremacy and me’ by Layla Saad
‘White Fragility’ By Robin DiAngelo.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Black Feminist Thoughts by Patricia Hill Collins
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Petitions to sign…
The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) are asking supporters to email senior Fine Gael Ministers with their proposals on keeping people seeking asylum safe during and after COVID-19:
Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/petitions/
Justice for George Floyd:
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd/u/26761203
End Direct Provision in Ireland:
And many more on Change.org following the link below:
https://www.change.org/search?q=black%20lives%20matter
Series and movies to watch…
13th – Netflix
Dear White People – Netflix
If Beale Street Could Talk – Hulu
King In The Wilderness – HBO
Selma
When They See Us – Netflix
Who Killed Malcom X? – Netflix
Podcasts to listen to…
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Echo Chamber hosted by Jade and Ez
‘Intersectionality Matters!’ hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Witness Black History’ by BBC World Service
Still Processing hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris
Floodlines from The Atlantic
Throughline from NPR
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