Can we solve a problem with the same energy that created it?I don't think we end hate by meeting it with hate.I think love is required. We must love ourselves and one another.Self-love because we white people are not used to seeing ourselves in a negative light around issues of race and equity. If we say things and get it wrong or are afraid to say things and get it wrong - we need self-love to cope with the difficult emotions that are going to arise.Standing up for the right is a thankless job fraught with opportunities for hard learning.In order to keep moving forward, I have to have enough love to take responsibility, to repair (internally or externally), to have compassion (for myself or others) that I will not proceed. To heal, we need love.Reading ResourcesTa-Nehisi Coates’ article, The Case for ReparationsVan Jones’ article, “Black People ‘Loot’ Food..White People ‘Find’ Food”BooksThe New Jim Crow, Michelle AlexanderCaught, Marie GottschalkBetween the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhite Fragility, Robin DiAngeloMe and White Supremacy, by Layla F. SaadUprooting Racism, How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul KivelShelly Tochluk, Witnessing WhitenessRace and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, Derald Wing SueSo You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma OluoWhere to give money or time:NAACPSouthern Poverty Law CenterDream DefendersBlack Youth Project 100National Bail Fund