#blacklivematter

[prettoh]

Vibes

[zachariahpaul]

Kargoya verdık dagıtıma cıktı bugun gelir 🤣🤣

[htfphoto]

BLM 🤝 SAH.

l.a. chinatown.

[radicalgraff]

Mural from the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon, July 2020

[swan-sims]

Innocent Black, Deaf Man Wrongfully Convicted

Notes from @simmersua:

Please do not make comments on Ricardo Harris’ writing skills. He captioned it himself. Some deaf people are affected by language deprivation because many hearing parents are unable to communicate with them.

The goal is 25K and it is currently at 3K. It has been up on the site for days. PLEASE do help this man out if you can! 

[DONATIONS]

1. Donation website

2. Cashapp - $kstarkssss

3. Paypal

4. Zelle -  [email protected] [UPDATES ON HIS SITUATION] https://www.facebook.com/Innocent-Deaf-Wrongfully-Convicted-Man-106061444455487

Click “keep reading” if you want to know why Ricardo Harris was wrongfully convicted. 

Ricardo Harris is an innocent African American Deaf man who has been imprisoned in Georgia since 2013 for a crime he did not commit. We are working to raise funds to try to pay to retain Attorney J.Scott Key to hopefully help free him. Ricardo was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison in July 2015. In January 2013, Ricardo was visiting his friends in Georgia on a winter break from college when he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time at a hotel. Ricardo went to the front desk receptionist and requested they call 911 but they refused to call for him. Ricardo then drove to the closest gas station and asked the cashier to call 911. The police arrived and communication breakdowns started immediately. Ricardo’s primary language is American Sign Language (ASL). Many of the errors in this case occurred because the Cobb County Police Department and Ricardo’s own attorney failed to provide qualified ASL-English interpreters for critical communication. Instead of providing qualified interpreters, Cobb County forced Ricardo to write in English and only provided an unqualified, uncertified former employee who knew basic signs. Ricardo’s attorney--who was disciplined for behavior in other client’s cases during the time he was representing Ricardo--also failed to provide effective communication for communication during critical communication. Ricardo’s trial attorney who the family paid $50,000 even allowed officers to continue questioning Ricardo with the unqualified employee and without the benefit of a qualified attorney to verify information. As a result, there were numerous misinterpretations and miscommunications during critical first communications. Without interpreters and effective communication, he could not participate in his own defense. All of this and much more was a violation of his civil and Constitutional rights. Ricardo would learn later that misinterpreted and written statements with police officers would be used against him in court. Officers in the court said that Ricardo repeatedly lied to officers during their interviews, stating that he changed his version of events several times. But this “changing of stories” is a clear example why violations of federal disability rights laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act require police to provide effective communication when interacting with deaf and disabled people. Ricardo has faced legal challenges largely due to communication barriers that are not recognized by police, lawyers or the courts. He has been in jail and prison with limited to no communication with his attorneys, advocates, and loved ones including a young child since 2013. Since his wrongful conviction, Ricardo and his family got another lawyer to work on his appeal for a new trial. In February 2019, Ricardo’s motion for a new trial was denied. After that denial, Ricardo’s appeal went to the Supreme Court of Georgia for review. In January 2020, the Georgia Supreme Court reviewed his case and upheld his conviction.Today, Ricardo still fights for his innocence. He is on a long wait list for help from the Georgia Innocence Project. Rather than wait for what may be years before the Georgia Innocence Project can possibly take on his case, Ricardo and his family are  exploring the option of filing a writ of habeas corpus. The cost of retaining an attorney to take on the habeas corpus case is typically a minimum of $25,000. Ricardo’s family has exhausted all the funds we have to pay for attorneys and legal fees. That is why we decided to set up this fundraiser with the goal to retain an attorney for the habeas corpus. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Every little bit helps in this fight. Please help us get his story out. Share this with your friends, families, co-workers, and anyone! Thanks so much for your time reading this story, and for your donations & support!Please follow this Facebook page where we will provide updates periodically. MORE ABOUT RICARDO 

Ricardo was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, and participated in the Army ROTC program. He was a star student having been involved with student organizations including served as Vice President of Ebony Club and community services outside the college including Vice President of a Head Start School program where his youngest daughter attended. He misses his family and his family wants him to return home. Copyright disclaimer: I do NOT own this video in the video. All rights belong to it's rightful owner/owner's. No copyright infringement intended.

[mecheslavsky]

STOP IT

George Floyd was killed with a terrible disregard from police - and that is what we call racism. And we, in Russia, support your protest. But people gone weird blaming others if they're not spreading awareness. Ordinary people or celebrities - protest ruins relations with every silent-in-publicity man. The freedom of speech means the right to say, yes. But world forgot, that it is also the right to keep silent. But, as far as celebrities are "a rich white man", people decide them to be obligated to speak due to big audience - that's wrong. That is also discrimination. Becoming rich & successful and being white isn't the promise to react on each world problem. Everyone has their limits to support, to protests, to fight injustice and so on. When I say every - I mean celebrities too. What's more terrifying for me, there're quite a small list of celebs who are blamed for their silence. I even have known about tragedies from the celeb-blaming twit. Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sebastian Stan, Ryan Reynolds and others - I checked their accounts and found nothing about the tragedy in Minnesota, and I saw people persistently but politely ask them to speak out in support of black people. But, surprisingly, people also aggressively blame Sebastian Stan for silence. Those who called themselves "Seb's fan" started the wave of cancelling him, hating and distrusting in aggressive, crudely written posts&twits. How could be this named? I say. That's another injustice against the innocent. Let's stop it. Let's do what really matters: let's help those who need it.

[diva-dynasty]

I’m Black & PROUD!✊🏽🖤

Disclaimer:Person in pic is not me. I did take these pictures above & below.

I HOPE 🤞🏽 for a better FUTURE!

[quixol]

Hi all, I’m Mara, a mod at Quixol.

Today is Juneteenth, the anniversary of the announcement of federal emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. It is often considered the freeing of the last enslaved people, but it is important to mention that in the US, slavery still legally exists in our prison system with the 13th Ammendment.

In honor of Juneteenth, and protests against police brutality (which specifically targets Black people), I have donated the entirety of my tax return totaling $889 (rounded to $900) to a variety of Black-led organizations and individuals. I am asking the Quixol community to join me, by collectively matching my donation. Meaning, that we would like to collectively double that $900 to raise $1,800. There are over 200 members in our Discord server, so if everybody were to donate $10, we could easily surpass that. We ask that you donate directly to a cause or an individual, and send your donation receipt to a staff member. To incentivize donations, if you donate a minimum of $5, Quixol staff is offering a ticket for a customized armor stand. More info on the tickets can be found on this page: (x).

I am glad that Quixol is a place we can be vocal about racial justice, but we can, and we MUST do better. All of us. We must uplift and celebrate the lives of all Black people in our communities, and we must be actively anti-racist. We must have the hard conversations with our friends and families and here in Quixol. As a non-Black person of color, my experiences with racism are incomparable to the injustices faced by Black people here in the US and globally. While I speak mainly about the US, this is a global issue. To quote Jasmine Richards, who has run the Black Lives Matter chapter in my area since 2015, (#BLMDENA) “this is a movement, not a moment.” To encourage sustained support, Quixol will be continuing these donations monthly.

I’ve included a list of resources and places to donate but I also encourage you to do your own research. This is a limited list. I welcome you to share with us any places or individuals you would also like to uplift. I have specifically found organizations and groups that are specifically Black-led, or are vocally intersectional for BIPOC with Black people in leadership roles.

I’d also like to point out that many of the links I include often include reclaimed slurs in their titles, or in click-thru links. If it is a word that I, Mara, can reclaim, I have not censored it, though some may have had to be abbreviated for Tumblr’s content rules. Personally I feel that the work being shared is too important to exclude, even if it is typically against Quixol rules. However, I have also made it a point not to share links with graphic images or videos that show violence against Black people. There is no need to share or spread those images, and doing so causes more harm. I have tried to limit any written descriptions of violence, and provide as much warning as possible.

Donate to Black Trans Groups (This is a compilation list and not every site has been reviewed. Please make sure the groups are still taking donations) 

Atlanta Solidarity Fund 

Black and Pink (You can also navigate to your local chapter)

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (Which includes the following 3 groups) 

Black Transmen Inc

Black Transwomen Inc

Black Trans Mx

Black Trans Media

Black Trans Travel Fund 

Black SWers Collective

Disabled In Action Atlanta Chapter

Homeless Black Trans Women Fund 

House of Griffin-Gracy

Krip-Hop Nation (Leroy Moore)

Kween Culture Initiative

Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle

My Sistah's House Memphis

The Okra Project

Radical Death Studies

Sylvia Rivera Law Project

SWers Outreach Project USA (You can also navigate to local chapters)

SWOP Behind Bars

Trans Justice Funding Project

Trans Women of Color Collective

Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network Fund 

Not specific to Black racial justice, but should also be considered:

Indigenous Anarchist Federation

Never Again Action