Zaid Ahmed
Patrisse Cullors
Black Youth Project 100 (National)
Links
1. https://www.juvconsulting.com/our-team/
2. Take the #SheSafeWeSafe pledge! - Action Network
Quotes
1. “Make Art for the rest of us"
2. “but something was still missing for me"
3.“You can’t be a revolutionary today without a television set – it’s as important as a gun! Every guerilla must know how to use the terrain of culture that he is trying to destroy!”.
Black Lives matter. That is nothing but a statement that we should all understand and believe. I believe every living soul, being, and organism deserves the opportunity to life, and freedom. However, African American lives have been threatened for way too long. Families, children, fathers and mothers can all be torn apart because of an "incident" that shouldn't have even been a possibility. Yet, some people who are well aware of color, look and view colored people nothing but less than them like they aren't human at all. It is sickening to always hear about an unfortunate incident due to police brutality to colored victims. These deaths have been on-going, to the point that many understand that unfortunately there will always be black victims because even though we speak and preach about it, IT IS NOT ENOUGH. Thankfully there are people put there willing to stand up while everyone is kneeling, willing to speak up while everyone is silent, willing to look while everyone else turns a blind eye. These people are heroes! They can easily just live their lives but refuse to see anymore victims due police brutality. Some of those people are Zaid Ahmed , Patrisse Cullors and the one I used is a protest program that started in 2013 called BYP 100. Zaid Ahmed is an American-Muslim-Bangladeshi student, entrepreneur, and speaker who founded his company “JUV Consulting back in 2016. This gentleman is of 21 years of age, which means he started his website when he was only 16! This showed me the amount of ambition someone can have to not only solve but to end a problem. Instead of communicating what is going on or protesting it, he created a website that teens.. Yes, teens can take part in by signing up to join the blog. His idea was to focus on the ‘Gen Z’ generation by educating them of what is going on and to end this oblivious hate for color. Patrisse Cullors is also another activist who created the hashtag that is now trending a lot “Blacklivesmatter” in 2013. In 2013, teens and young adults of my age and generations didn't imagine how cruel people that live in this world could be, or all the unforgiving actions that colored people including families have endured. Yet, Patrisse was listening, listening to the families crying in pain and asking for revenge on those who murdered their loved ones and destroyed their family. She decided after making that hashtag to continue on and become an educator/speaker on this topic, traveling and speaking change into existence to the young minds all over the world. She is also an advocate for LGBTQ rights. Lastly , my favorite one is the BYP 100. BYP stands for ‘Black Youth Project which started after George Zimmerman in his trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin’. Their page is organized yet insightful. They have their page setup to provide more links to the issues you would like to learn about. All of the issues are to inform us about how important the black community is. They also have a pledge page (Take the #SheSafeWeSafe pledge! - Action Network )where people sign a pledge to understand the safety of black women. To vow to help and protect them too. All of these activists have created projects that help the BLM protest in some way or form. Referring back to the Guerilla Girls, they had a quote that I am in love with and it states “Make Art for the rest of us”. This is powerful to me because they introduce a way of creativity to an activist, on how they can make a difference and in the same way make it beautiful not just to the eye but to the soul. Even though I felt like I made a slight difference last project but remembering those victims who have died in the past, Kimberly Drew once stated “but something was still missing for me”. She said this sentence and eventually found out what was missing and it was her heart moving tumbler that brings awareness to underground black artists. Which is why I will focus my project (twitter page) to have it focusing on Gen z. This brought more attention and made the young more aware unlike we were back then. This is very important because our generation is the future and the only way to kill racism is by ending that perception people are taught of colored people, and to only view them like a human. I will also try to make my twitter interactive because making a subject more welcoming for viewers will build more of a fan base than fully understands that these murders are inhumane and nothing else. I will also posting women victims who have experienced such things. Colored women are also colored which makes them a target to those who are supposed to protect us, yet hunt us and take our family away from us. Like the guerilla girls stated “You can’t be a revolutionary today without a television set – it’s as important as a gun! Every guerilla must know how to use the terrain of culture that he is trying to destroy!”. If I don’t add women to my page then they might feel a sense of safety since it's mainly men victims. But WOMEN ARE VICTIMS TOO! Communicating it may not be enough, which is why I will be adding pictures and imagery of those women victims. Another activist that inspired to even start my twitter page was Kimberly Drew. She is an American art curator and writer. At a young age she started a tumblr page that she now has several volunteers that help her with. This tumblr page contains Colored artists with displayed talents and artwork that she exposes in order to bring the artist awareness. She decided to reveal to the world through her many followers that, African Americans, are brilliantly artistic. Which even though she is not focusing her energy on ending racism, she tries to show the world how beautiful colored people are. Finally, Guerrilla girls, who are a group of guerrilla masked women, have taken charge internationally exposing how men undermined women, viewing them as of less value of men. Even though, this connected to my BlM movement, their creativity of the mask was beautiful. They once said in an interview, "you will be surprised what you will hear from people when wearing a mask can make it easier to speak your mind and hear others too". By creating this twitter page, I have avoided putting by name behind it, so people don't feel discouraged to speak up about the subject.
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