Hey, white people! If you're like me, you feel kind of hamstrung about how to make a difference in moving this country to a place where black kids don't have to be given "the talk." You're sympathetic but you truly don't know how to help.
Well, here's an idea for you. You could grab two of your white friends who are as disgusted as you are at the grand jury fiasco in Ferguson and you could go to a local intersection that gets decent traffic. You could each hold up a sign. One sign could say, "Black lives matter." Another could say, "No justice, no peace." The third could say, "Justice matters."
You could do this for one hour this coming Saturday, the 6th of December. If you want to do it and don't have time to make signs, you could post here and I bet we could arrange a convenient way for you to get signs.
You might feel like that would be an uncomfortable thing to do, standing on a street corner and all that, but I bet if you tried it you'd find that you actually CAN do something to move this country away from its penchant for shooting first and covering up later.
If you're in, if you can do signs, hold signs, recruit people, whatever you can do would be cool. This is something white people can actually do that can make an actual difference. There's a time to reflect, there's a time to preach ... and there's a time to act. Now is the time to act.
Feel free to contact me via private message if you wish.
I just posted this on my FB page and in other local arenas but I thought I'd share it with the DK world, too. I urge all the white people who are reading this and feel helpless to help to consider the suggestion given here.