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Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

It’s black history month so as a black girl, I’d like to leave a few reminders for non-black people:

•Recognize the fact that many black people are a part of the LGBT community and that it’s not just white people who can be gay, bi, etc.

•Acknowledge the black men and women that have been victims of hate crimes

•Include black women in your feminism

•If a black person calls you out over something racist that you’ve said, don’t say “Well actually...” or “My black friend says...” Just don’t. If you’re getting called out for something, it’s for a reason.

•Don’t speak over us.

•Don’t act like you know better than we do about our own history and/or culture

Non-black people can rb but don’t add anything.

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