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Ask Amy: Recovering addict feels hounded by dreams

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I have invited them to rallies and to help out at five separate NAACP events.

They always have an excuse not to engage.

We all go to churches with all-white congregations and send our children to (all-white) private schools.

I am starting to make some efforts to try to bring about change.

They only showboat with signs that they bought from Staples.

Any suggestions?

 

– Cheesed in Cambridge, MA

Dear Cheesed: You should probably stop trying to drag your three friends into allyship. They are obviously not interested in doing this with you. Stop asking.

The institutions you belong to (your church, and the school your children attend) might be good places for you to try to continue your advocacy.

You could start an activist reading group and/or connect with Black (or at least less-white) institutions in other neighborhoods to offer support and allyship, or to simply spend time with and listen to the stories and lessons offered by people whose experience moving through this world might be radically different from your own.

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