{"id":11449,"date":"2020-06-09T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/?p=11449"},"modified":"2020-06-09T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:51:18","slug":"speak-up-when-you-see-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/speak-up-when-you-see-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"The other reason to have an online platform: to speak up when you see injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Normally, I talk about how to build your platform\u00a0so that you can make more money with your ideas and digital products,\u00a0but the country is a terrible place right now,\u00a0and I want to talk about <strong>the other reason to build a platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p>We build platforms online so that we have a bigger voice so that our voices can be heard more.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>And when police brutality happens\u00a0and someone gets murdered by police and it takes over a week for that person to get arrested,\u00a0it&#8217;s our responsibility as white people,\u00a0as people of color, as people with voices to <strong>amplify them in support<\/strong>\u00a0of things that matter.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11449-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/media.publit.io\/file\/The-Other-Reason-to-Have-an-Online-Platform-To-Speak-Up-When-You-See-Injustice.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.publit.io\/file\/The-Other-Reason-to-Have-an-Online-Platform-To-Speak-Up-When-You-See-Injustice.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/media.publit.io\/file\/The-Other-Reason-to-Have-an-Online-Platform-To-Speak-Up-When-You-See-Injustice.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that murder is a matter of perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I can believe that people are trying to undermine\u00a0what the protesters and the rioters are doing by causing destruction to downtown properties\u00a0because then it changes the conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Nobody is for property destruction, right?\u00a0So then they get to quiet the voices that they don&#8217;t want to hear\u00a0because they can change the conversation.<\/p>\r\n<p>I have two little kids.\u00a0I want the world to be a place where they speak up, where they are allowed to speak up, where they feel like they can <strong>speak up\u00a0for people who can&#8217;t speak for themselves<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>In the past, I would have said that it was too hard, or that I didn&#8217;t want to say the wrong thing.<\/p>\r\n<p>But the only thing that allows evil to exist in the world\u00a0is when good people don&#8217;t say anything, and I&#8217;m tired of being quiet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be responsible for lifting up other voices.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I&#8217;m not doing it for a pat on the back.\u00a0I&#8217;m not doing it to speak for a community I&#8217;m not a part of.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I am part of the digital space, and as someone with a platform, no matter how small,\u00a0I&#8217;m not going to let it stand anymore. I&#8217;m going to speak up\u00a0when I hear something that I think is wrong, and I\u2019m going to make sure that other people know where I stand when it comes to racism.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I have my biases. I know that I do.\u00a0And I probably won&#8217;t be perfect,\u00a0but I&#8217;m going to do my best\u00a0and I&#8217;m going to make sure that I&#8217;m following more people on social media who don&#8217;t look like me. I&#8217;m retweeting the voices that need to be heard by more people.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>That is my commitment.<\/p>\r\n<p>I&#8217;m also donating money, but money doesn&#8217;t matter as much as the voices do.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>What can you do?<\/p>\r\n<p>Anything you can.\u00a0<strong>Anything you can<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t let perfect get in the way of doing something, doing anything.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The other thing you need to think about, the response that I see among other white people,\u00a0is that they don&#8217;t have any answers.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Well, we don&#8217;t have any answers for anything.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>You know, there&#8217;s no way to solve the income gap,\u00a0but I see lots of white women talking about that on Twitter.\u00a0And maybe <strong>the fact that we don&#8217;t know how to solve<\/strong> it is part of the reason\u00a0we need to be talking about it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>So don&#8217;t try to allow yourself to stay quiet\u00a0because you don&#8217;t want to whitewash people or you don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s your place.\u00a0It is your place. It is our place to speak up when we see something go wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>We are faced with opportunities to speak up or stay quiet\u00a0every time we are made uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I have friends who will tell me\u00a0when something I have said has come across\u00a0as tone-deaf, and you need those people in your life, too. You can just immediately delete something that people haven&#8217;t seen.<\/p>\r\n<p>I really think it&#8217;s time. It&#8217;s past time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I&#8217;m going to start shouting people out in every single video, blog post, or chance that I get.\u00a0The first person that you should be following, who is also in the marketing and digital space, is <a href=\"https:\/\/latishastyles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laticia Styles<\/a>.\u00a0She teaches people how to make money with their coaching, and she is a wonderful voice to listen to.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I talk about how to build your platform\u00a0so that you can make more money with your ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathleencelmins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}