Dear Sustainability Community,
I come to you again. It’s been three years since writing my first article for GreenBiz, "Why diversity is the key to unlocking sustainability。" I provided a quick glimpse of the anxiety and pain that the black community feels daily and actionable steps that the sustainability community could take to advocate for diversity and stimulate unprecedented change.
I write to you again today with heavy grief and a set of earnest pleas:
作为可必威体育2018持续发展的专业人士，我们必须带领一个更具包容性，公平和安全的世界的所有培养。我们不仅要管事的环境，同时也探讨如何满足弱势群体的需求，并创造各种背景的人拥抱的共性，庆祝分歧和紧张愈合健康平台。如果不是我们，那是谁？
Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. Say their names. These are just a few of many precious lives ended tragically and prematurely by people sickened by the venom of racism. The victims were not dangerous. They were not threats. They were unarmed. In their final seconds, they were powerless and vulnerable, diminished to a point where a cry for mother was the only hope.
If you really want to be a part of the change, it’s time to get uncomfortable.
请知道这些故事并不新鲜。的y are just now being videotaped and disseminated globally across social media platforms. These narratives leave me and so many in my community numb, angry, speechless, depressed, traumatized, exhausted, afraid, emboldened and so on, all simultaneously. We have been crying out for centuries, for generations. We continue even today.
My good friend Joel Makower asked some poignant questions in his recentopen letter。Among them: What led you to this work in the first place? Was it to protect the unprotected? To ensure the well-being of future generations? To engender community resilience? To create solutions to big, seemingly intractable problems? Or maybe, simply, to make the world a better place?
I ask you to reflect with honesty on your answers to these questions.
If you really want to be a part of the change, it’s time to get uncomfortable. It’s time to expand your social and professional circles. It’s time to listen. It’s time to ask questions. It’s time to engage with empathy. It’s time to study how our nation has systemically oppressed, crippled and stolen from the black community. It’s time to explore the part you have played.
正如你对这场危机改变你的姿势，你的朋友，家人和同事可以看你笑。您可能需要游泳上游。我承认若隐若现的张力您可以在这两种截然不同的预测可以，但我向你保证，这是微不足道的并列，通过它我们的社会继续坚持世代痛苦。不过，我保证，你不会是一个人在你的新，反文化的宣传。
If you care — if you want to see justice, equity and restoration for my community, here are some actions you can take. Believe me. I encourage you to begin by picking one, two or more items from this list and leaning in wholeheartedly.
- Donate to your localNAACP章节，Black Lives Matterand theUnited Negro College Fund。
- Before voting, understand politicians’ positions on environmental and social justice as well as criminal justice reform. Hold elected officials accountable once in office.
- Fight against voter suppression and gerrymandering.
- Find and support black-owned businesses
- 推动公司雇用有色人种。请贵公司的人力资源管理部门聘请的颜色越来越多的人担任领导职务。召唤出工作场所的偏见和歧视，当它发生。推动真正具有包容性的工作场所。
- Watch moviesandread booksthat can help educate you on the black experience and race in America.
- Do research to better understand and process your own biases and privilege.
- Learn the difference betweenequality and equity。
- Stopappropriation。许多非黑的人享受社会货币和拥抱我们的文化要素的金融衍生利润，同时我们的贬值非常生活。
- 记住：沉默是致命的。地址朋友和家人谁传播的理想与种族主义和歧视的股价，无论多么微妙。
- If you witness racism and violence against, record and share the incident. Digital evidence can help protect us against people such asAmy Cooperwho weaponize racism, putting innocent black lives at risk.
I hope this list gives you actionable ways to get the ball rolling. Your voice and support hold weight and can go a long way in changing the narrative for my community. Don’t let the overwhelming number of ways to get involved hinder you from taking that first step toward real action.
For more ways to get involved, I encourage you to explore this robust article,"75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice,"通过科琳娜Shutack对中写的。
In closing, I believe in us. As a community of purpose-driven professionals, we have an opportunity to help lead the conversation and lean into actions that provide hope for a better future.
I would love to hear from you. You can find me at @jarami_bond onInstagram,TwitterandLinkedIn。
