[] [] [] >> Please read the entire description. <3 << [] [] [] [ Please see the comment section. ] [Content Warning for project and comment section violence, death, police, transphobia, effects of violence such as injuries/screaming, and other potentially disturbing topics. ] [ Petitions linked at the end of the Instructions! <3 ] Each of the names of someone who died at the hands of the police is the name of a person: a person with family, a person with friends, a person with a future ahead of them. A person who experienced moments of sadness and others of joy. A person who deserved to live. Each of the names of someone who was brutalized by police and survived is the name of a person: a person who deserves to live without trauma, without fearing those who are supposedly meant to protect the people, without worrying about their safety from the police. Each of the names in this project is the name of a person. Saying their names without remembering their humanity would be pointless. Remembering them as how they died or how they were harmed and not as how they lived is incomplete and perhaps even harmful. Please say their names, but know that those are not empty names, not syllables strewn together into an endless list of victims. Please say their names, but also remember them as people. <3 • Please note that adding information about the victims' / survivors' lives is currently a work in progress. // Introduction // Hello, everyone. <3 I wanted to help raise awareness about the issue of police brutality by creating a project in which you can learn more about its victims, as well as to value Black Lives. // A few important notes // The title, "#saytheirnames," is meant to give a general idea of what the project is about. I am in no way trying to say that, for example, the killings of Freddie Gray and Patrick Bailey are the same, or that George Floyd and Jeremy Lett died in the same circumstances. Each incident was very different, and you can learn more about what happened to each person by clicking on their name in the project, using the sources I used (see the "Notes & Credits"), and / or doing your own research. What the names included in this project do have in common is that they are names of Black people killed or injured by police or towards whom police used force, or (in cases in which the cause of their death was disputed) that died in police custody, generating discussions on whether the officers used excessive force against them or acted improperly in the episode surrounding their death. Note that "police" may not only refer to actual police officers, but also sheriff's deputies: in general, law enforcement. Moreover, I ask you to not take this project to be a depiction of everything the Black Lives Matter movement is fighting for. BLM has focused on some of these cases more than on others, and hasn't fought for some at all (for example, cases that occurred far before the movement as we know it today was even born, though of course forms of activism for social justice were already in place), and it fights for more than "just" recognition of those that died or were severely harmed at the hands of police and for the officers responsible for their deaths or their harm to be held accountable. At least how I understand it, BLM fights not only for that, but also for a deep change in the way policing works in this country, and it fights against the white supremacy that has been built into law enforcement. Lastly, I would like to point out that this project is also dedicated to remembering the many lives that have been lost or hurt at the hands of law enforcement. Out of respect towards the so many Black lives that were ended or hurt by police, please note that this project is not an invitation to dispute whether their deaths, their injuries, or the uses of force against them were "justified" (though I can't stop you from doing so, and you do have a right to free speech), as I hope we can at the very least all agree that all such incidents are tragedies. This project is meant to spread love, not hate. // Instructions // • Please press the green flag. • Click / tap on each name to learn more about the victim. º Click / tap the black button in the bottom right corner to go back to the page with the names. • Click / tap on the button "M A N Y M O R E . . ." to go to the next page, and on the button ". . . M A N Y M O R E" to return to the previous page. // Also // This is a very serious project, but I attempted to make sure it was in accordance with the Scratch Community Guidelines. See the "Notes and Credits" for the sources I used, which you can use to learn more about each victim. <3 NOTE: the names are in no particular order, though the order *may* have been influenced by the order in which I found out about them. // Petitions // For a list of petitions to fight for justice that I've found and put together, see the following link: https://ouronlinewebsite.wixsite.com/saytheirnames/petitions .
Coding, text (with use of sources, there are some quotes taken directly, and those parts are in quotes), etc. by @mam27. <3 [ * Please note that not all the information may be fully updated since I shared the project. ] // Sources (in no particular order) // Note: Various sources used to learn of the names themselves. I learned of some of the names from the studio https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/26830759/ and others from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vl4I0weXPU&t=24s, as well as others from source 0 - 2 (I then learned more about each victim through the sources linked below). [] For sources, see the following link, where I listed those I used: https://ouronlinewebsite.wixsite.com/saytheirnames . // Other credits // • Music: "Glory," by Common and John Legend. • I used a Google reference for the Black Power fist in the thumbnail. • I saw the black-yellow color scheme be used elsewhere for the Black Lives Matter movement. • The #saytheirnames was not invented by me. I saw it be used elsewhere in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, and thought of using it here partly due to a studio I know of called #sayhername (link to that studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27212082/projects/.) • The font is from Scratch.
