I completely forgot about my Wattpad audience! (or lack of it, but we move lmao.)
There's obviously been a lot happening, but please don't take my silence up till now on Wattpad as me not being active in general. In fact, I've been busy (and I hope you have been too.) Across my social media accounts and the internet, I've been helping to share information, sign petitions donate and aid in any way I can.
Because as a black person, my life matters. And I see my life in every single person who I see protesting and in every single black person who has lost their life as a result of racism, white supremacy and police brutality. My heart aches alongside all those who have lost their loved ones and alongside the black community who have suffered and continue to suffer through the hate and the systems that were not made for us. And I lend my voice and my hands and work alongside the black community, MY black community, as we work to create systems that will work for us. For all us.
But it's not something that we're meant to do alone. We can only achieve the equality we want when the gate-keepers and those who profit off the systems that profit off us join hands with us to demolish them. So to our allies, help amplify our voices and our pain and our discomfort and make sure that we're heard. Don't let any of this die down at any time and don't continue to stay silent and immobile, profiting from a system that only benefits you and not others.
There's a lot more to say, and a lot that I feel that I haven't said as well as I could have, but keep applying pressure.
(And to all my black brethren, if you need to take time out for yourself or it ever gets too much, do just that.)
I'll try to do more on Wattpad as well! I'm thinking up some stuff ;)
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