From one piece Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People with friends of other races should show up when injustice hits those friends’ communitiesTheir words
I mean, how many of us in this room have colleagues and partners and friends from other races, sexes, religions? Show of hands. Well, they want to break bread with you, right? They like you? Well, then this is their problem, too. So when we’re marching and protesting and posting about the Michael Brown juniors and Atatiana Jeffersons of the World, tell your friends to pull up.
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The world can only be fixed together: injustice against women, Black people or the poor is everyone’s problemTheir words
we can only fix this world together. We can’t do it divided. I cannot emphasize that enough. We can’t let the de-sensitivity seep in. The, “If it’s your problem, then it’s not mine; It’s a woman’s problem; It’s a black people problem; It’s a poor people problem.”