The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade at the hands of police have sparked nationwide protests as people call out the systemic racism and police brutality in our country.
And while the Black Lives Matter movement is not new, the message that Black lives matter is central to the issues happening right now. Whether you've tried speaking to your non-Black family about systemic racism before or avoided it for fear of having a "difficult" conversation, it's clear that right now, it's more important than ever to have a frank discussion with the people in your life.
Race can be a tricky conversation to talk about, particularly if you're privileged or sheltered enough not to think about it all the time. But you shouldn't let this temporary discomfort get in the way of speaking up.
To help guide you, we asked four experts to put together a script of exactly what to say in response to certain common (and problematic) refrains.
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