Demi Lovato Memorializes Breonna Taylor And Speaks Out Against White Privilege

Last week, right after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman, Demi Lovato posted in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. She also directed her fellow white people to do more. "Do not let your discomfort surrounding social issues prevent you from speaking up for those IN DANGER," she wrote. "And reality is, up until this Aids in averting Fully - THE BLACK COMMUNITY WILL CONTINUE TO Stay in DANGER. DO YOUR PART."


Since then, her social pages have been full of re-shared informational resources for activism and racial justice, including the pyramid of white supremacy, different funds and actionable ways you could support the movement, and even a plea to not mark black-square Instagram posts on Blackout Tuesday with the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag (so as not to bury valuable resources).


Today (June 3), Lovato shared another critical asset: statistics on how to honor Breonna Taylor — a Black girls shot to death by police in her Louisville house in March — on Friday, June 5, which would have been Taylor's 27th birthday.


"It's Breonna Taylor's birthday this Friday," Lovato wrote on Twitter. "She was a EMT on the frontlines while in corona. Around midnight on March 13th police broke down her door and shot her 8 times, no evidence of a crime was uncovered." Her Instagram post has more context about Taylor from the original post which Lovato shared, including that Taylor's preference colors were blue and purple and that she loved the music of Kevin Gates.


For her birthday, the call to action suggests writing to the governor of Kentucky on Breonna's behalf. "The most underserved demographic In the United States is black girls, we cannot permit them to forget Breonna," the message reads.


Lovato also posted a longer message through the a series of slides that addressed the upgrading of the charge against Derek Chauvin, the officer who knelt on Floyd's neck up until he was dead, from third degree murder to second degree murder and the charging of the three other officers on the scene with aiding and abetting second degree murder. "White people: PLEASE HELP FIGHT THIS GOOD FIGHT. The Black community NEEDS YOU!!!!"


She also addressed Black followers, fans, family member, co-workers, and others in her life, along with those reading the message. "I hate my white privilege," she wrote. "It feels gross.. Like having blood cash or something. Yet I plan to use it to change things in whichever way I can."


Check out the whole posts above, and visit Lovato's IG page — where she's also reposted voter information plus a supportive explainer on systemic racism — for more.