Please, people. When somebody says the name of a person wrongly, horribly killed by the U.S. government or by state or local police, there’s no need to rush in with another name. This isn’t a contest.
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@heidilifeldman we had a paper on the #SayTheirNames hashtag for Black victims of police violence -- for some, it is a way of explaining that this a pattern of systemic injustice, lest people think of these as isolated incidents https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9833594/
@janeadams I understand the strategy and I really appreciate the paper (thx for sharing). Unfortunately, if we survive this Republican Fascist federal occupation of American cities we will probably need a similar strategy for the protesters, protectors, and observers the federal forces will have killed. We already need such a strategy for the names of the people the Trump regime has disappeared without due process. 1/2
@janeadams I believe that all lethal streams of injustice - against black people, against opponents of the Republican Fascist occupation of cities, against deportees, against the women murdered through domestic violence the state could prevent and prosecute - are profound and horrid. Saying the names of each and every victim regularly and often is important. But we aren’t ever going to be able to say all their names at once. 2/2