See How Harry Styles Is Supporting Black Lives Matter
Harry Styles is standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter by donating money to help bail out arrested participants of the peaceful protests.
Like Chrissy Teigen, who vouched to donate $200,000 for participants who needed to be bailed out after massive protests, Harry Styles is contributing to the same cause.
I’m donating to help post bail for arrested organizers.
Look inwards, educate yourself and others.
LISTEN, READ, SHARE, DONATE and VOTE.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) May 30, 2020
Styles urged society to become anti-racist, as opposed to simply ‘not racist,’ and acknowledged that every day, he experiences white privilege within our society. Styles also noted that he does not fear for his life as a white man and that no one, regardless of their skin color, should be afraid either.
I do things every day without fear, because I am privileged, and I am privileged every day because I am white.
Being not racist is not enough, we must be anti racist.
Social change is enacted when a society mobilizes.
I stand in solidarity with all of those protesting. pic.twitter.com/45MSXAWEJl— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) May 30, 2020
While Styles does have the advantage of such a massive platform, we must remember that we can also contribute to the ongoing activism without platforms of the same size. What matters is that all of us do our part in ending systemic racism by educating ourselves and others.
I am an incoming junior at the UCLA College of Letters and Science. Through my love and appreciation for literature, social justice, feminism, public speaking, and writing, I am planning on pursuing a career in immigration and public interest law. I want to help those who are either the victims of the system or discrimination because I wholeheartedly believe that the purpose of my life is to help others and take cases that nobody else is willing to take.
