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I don’t believe in astrology but I believe in this!

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Please share and sign this petition, please do this for justice.

Change.org

Sign the Petition

Ending Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B9BJixqhP0F/?i

It’s finally happening.

chop was a bastion of safety and freedom. we cannot let them take this silently.

i dont normally post about this shit mainly because tumblr was supposed to be a place for me to go to escape, but at this point i dont think i can keep that up.

URGENT: Dustin Higgs, an innocent black man on death row, is set to be executed January 15.

His official white house petition, started December 11, only has 4,060 signatures. These petitions are required to be governmentally acknowledged if they get 100,000 signatures in 30 days.

In short: we have 4 days until the petition closes and 8 days until he is killed.

Please, please, PLEASE reblog this and share with as many people as you possibly can.

NOTE: White House petitions require signature verification with a link sent via email

More links:

Save Dustin J. Higgs Website

Action Network Petition

Change.org petition

Twitter thread

EDIT: This petition is now closed. thank you to everybody who signed and shared. if there are any updates on his situation, I’ll be sure to update this post.

since the petition didn’t reach it’s goal, here are some other things you can do

(cred: soyouwanttotalkabout on Instagram)

This fight isn’t over. please continue doing all you can to prevent this murder.

when are we gonna realize that these change dot org petitions are typically nothing more than performative activism that allows people who are unaffected (usually white people) to do the bare minimum and then pat ourselves on the back for being so involved and doing the right thing and standing up for people?

source

Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests

The children and grandchildren of immigrants have joined the Black Lives Matter movement, but they often have to explain to their parents why change is necessary

“The argument began as soon as Charlie Mai and his brother, Henry, announced their plans to attend a Black Lives Matter protest that evening in D.C. Their father was not having it.

Glenn Mai, a retired FBI agent, had been raised in Dallas by Chinese immigrants who had taught him that he would succeed if he just worked hard.

“Chinese culture is very much about working within the system,” Glenn, 54, said, and during decades in law enforcement, he’d come to believe the system worked.

His son, Charlie, 24, took a different view. “My father deeply believes that everyone has a fair chance, which is just basically untrue,” said Charlie, an artist who fled New York for his family’s home in Northern Virginia because of the pandemic. “It’s very Asian to me, that view that if everyone just works hard, then everything will turn out right for them. I’m definitely a little reactive to that because I think that’s delusional.”

Read the full piece here