I've been struggling with how to tweet about this for most of the day, but I just have to say what I'm going to say and hope.
Today is the start of #Pride2020. And the country — in particular black and brown folks — are hurting so badly right now.
I was going to start Pride off with a story about how I realized my own inherent bias recently and corrected it, it seems even more poignant now:
So. Off to Photoshop I went, and I created this, instead. And now I want to share it with you. You can find the originals here:
- GIF: https://www.daveyshafik.com/~davey/pride/raise-pride.gif
- PSD: https://www.daveyshafik.com/~davey/pride/raise-pride.psd
Do with them as you wish, so long as it's for love.
There was a message in the Lyft Slack about Pride-related activites, somebody reacted with 🙌, so, I reacted with a custom emoji I created when I started — :raise-pride: — and immediately noticed in contrast that I had used an image of my 🙌🏼, rather than the “default" yellow. 😳