Following the recent deaths of Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott – two black men who died in separate incidents at the hands of the police – Kelela has taken to Instagram to talk blackness and white privilege.

“Tired of white people telling me what I should and shouldn’t feel,” the singer wrote. “People who are not black need to be listening (not talking or making suggestions) right now... When you talk before listening, you undermine the racism and hatred that we’ve experienced for years that would inform the solutions we’ve already come up with.”

She asked white people to listen to their black peers about how they can support them during this time of violence and race-motivated brutality. “Google ‘white privilege’ and learn about it,” she added.

Concluding her note, Kelela said: “I think it’s time for white people to own the about-face and complacency they are a part of every day. One of my mentors (that happens to be white) once said that racism isn’t POC’s problem to solve. That if we want white supremacy to be over, white people would have to give up the power/privilege.”

Read parts one and two of her note on Instagram below.