![]() ![]() I am currently at a stage where I’m trying to center myself around BIPOC lives and figure out what that looks like and think of real tangible ways I can make differences from hiring BIPOC to record on records, tour with, work with and for, speaking out when I see shit even if it’s scary, not calling the police for any reason even though “they’ve always been fine to me“ (IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU). How else do you learn unless you fall on your face a few times. ![]() It is important for people to know that making mistakes is good. ![]() I’ve spent most of 2020 in learning mode. The prison industrial complex is the new slavery. We no longer use hateful and racist language, but we’ve found other words to supplement the hate. Maybe we aren’t hanging people in the streets like we used to, but the police are killing them instead. My wife and I feel it would be dangerous to continue the perpetuation of that, so we’ve been talking openly and in great detail about racism in this country and what it looks like today. I was raised by white people who never had to look at any of this because it didn’t affect them. So awareness is the first step, and action is the next. The band Justin sings in, Motion City Soundtrack, got the opportunity to be featured as the music group on Wits, a couple of weeks ago. There is so much information out there, but most white people haven’t had to look for it because they benefit from the system. To keep it as simple as I can, I think if you do nothing with your reach and platform, then you are complicit in the continuation of the systemic racism our country was founded upon and still rewards. I don’t think you have enough room for me to share all my thoughts on this subject. ![]()
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