Dear Ruth Hayes, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, La TaSha B. Levy and other Black studies students targeted by the vapid, intellectually empty and bullying arguments of Naomi Schaefer Riley: We the undersigned wish you to know that we support your work and your presence in the academy and in the public sphere. We believe that your ideas, in your research and in your efforts to expand our understanding of black life in the history and present of the United States is critical to a richer, more democratic future. Stay strong! Believe in your work. Know that at the end of the difficult work of writing a dissertation is a world of people who will not understand what it is you do. But also know that there is a community of people who will see its value and bravery and want to support the work you have started. Some of them, many of them, will be included in the undersigned,