'If you want to show me that you're an ally, it's going to have to be rooted in acts of service,' Monáe said.
"I'm not settling for lip service," Monáe said."If you want to show me that you're an ally, it's going to have to be rooted in acts of service."
"It can't just be, 'We're going to march with you and do a hashtag,' it has to be rooted in justice as well. Systemic change has to be made," she said.movement, stressing that white people must hold honest conversations about racism and take direct action in order to bring about"systemic change" in a structurally racist, anti-Black society."I'm not settling for those who say that they're allies.
"For me and my people, for the Black community, this is not an exciting time. This isn't a time that we get to really reflect. We're dealing with a lot of trauma," Monáe said."We were dealing with COVID-19, which affects us disproportionately—if America sneezes, the Black community gets pneumonia—and now we're having to deal with the very color of our skin making us a target.
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