Still Not Okay A Word From Ty (Part 3): What We Can Do Now (Action Without Waiting for Permission)

If you’re reading this and thinking, “Okay Ty, I hear you — but what do we do?”

here are real, practical lanes that don’t require everybody to agree on everything.

Before we get into the list, we have to name the double standard:

Other people can sue, organize, lobby, and build power — and it’s treated as normal.

But when Black people do it, it gets treated like a threat.

That’s why “What can we do?” is always tied to “What will they allow us to do?” — and why we have to build in ways that don’t depend on permission.

1) Rebuild community on purpose

Not “we should link up sometime.” I mean infrastructure:

• Mutual aid that’s consistent, not just crisis-based

• Community meetings (online counts)

• Resource lists (jobs, housing, legal, mental health)

• Skill-sharing (grant writing, budgeting, organizing, media) sharing stop gatekeeping or charging for every single thing that can help or better your community

2) Pick one lane and get organized

We don’t need one giant perfect plan to start. We need coordinated action in lanes where harm is ongoing and provable:

• Housing discrimination and appraisals

• Workplace discrimination and pay disparities

• Maternal health and Black women’s outcomes

• Policing, surveillance, and civil rights violations

• Environmental racism

3) Document everything (like we’re building a case)

Receipts matter:

• Keep emails, letters, denials, screenshots

• Write down dates, names, locations

• Track patterns (who, what, when, how often)

Even if you never go to court, documentation creates power.

4) Support the people already doing the work

There are attorneys, organizers, and institutions already fighting pieces of this. They need funding, volunteers, research help, community trust, and people willing to show up consistently.

5) Build economic protection

The system hits us in the wallet on purpose. So part of resistance is:

• Supporting Black-owned businesses intentionally

• Cooperative buying (group discounts, shared resources)

• Financial literacy that’s real (credit, taxes, business structure)

• Teaching our kids what the system won’t

6) Stop letting them isolate us

Isolation is how people get picked off. Connection is how we stay human.

Even if you can’t “organize a movement,” you can join a group, host a monthly check-in, share resources, and show up for someone else.

Small circles become networks.

I’m not saying this is easy. I’m saying it’s necessary.

We are one of the most influential, most copied, most imitated, most impactful people on earth — and also one of the most used.

So we don’t need another moment. We need a rebuild. We need community. We need connection. And we need to stop waiting for permission to protect ourselves.

Talk to me in the comments

• What’s one lane you’re willing to commit to for the next 30 days?

• What resources do you wish existed in your city (jobs, legal, mental health, housing)?

• If a real coalition formed, would you support it?

It’s a whole new world — So be particular & Move accordingly ,Still not okay, but still here Peace and Blessings