things you can do tomorrow

tomfjord:

shinjiikari:

• wear black or make some change in your wardrobe in honor of mike. wear a ribbon, wear a pin, something. be prepared to explain why.
• you know those quotes going around from to kill a mockingbird? print them out. post them in hallways and bathrooms and anywhere you can find space. make posters and cover your school walls.
• start a discussion in your history class, your current events class, bring it up and don’t let others forget it
• don’t stand for the fucking pledge

okay, fuck this to kill a mockingbird quote bullshit— 

respect the words pouring out from black lives

post up black words

Need a few?

• “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” - Stokely Carmichael
  
• “They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”— Malcolm X
• “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect” - W.E.B. Du Bois

You’re welcome. There are hundreds of thousands of other quotations you can choose from.

Black people have a voice.