Sean Irving and his daughter supporting the BLM t-shirt
Sean Irving - our Program Manager on the Westside (and also a talented artist) - has designed a powerful shirt in honor of the BLM Movement and those continuing the fight for racial justice. We stand with our communities in this fight and you now have an opportunity to show your support.
All proceeds from the BLM T-Shirt will go to the family of Secoriea Turner - a Soccer in the Streets Westside youth player - who passed away earlier this month as she was gunned down in an act of senseless gun violence. We want to spread the message that violence is not the answer and to protect the youth in our communities. Read More Here
This is Sean’s personal message-
“I call this design The Path of Protest. I wanted to connect today's protest message of BLM to the long rich tradition of Black protest in America. I recreated an iconic picture of the Selma March at the bottom. I wanted to show older and more contemporary movements together to represent low long our call for freedom has gone unanswered. I also left all of the protest signs blank. One reason is there is a wide variety of deep messages that have come out of the Black community over hundreds of years. The blank signs also symbolize the fact that no matter how conservative or liberal, no matter how complex or simple our message, it has largely been ignored. Today those messages have been simplified to the lowest common denominator...Black Lives Matter! After hundreds of years of deep struggle and sacrifice, we arrive at 2020 still having to demand that our lives simply have value in America. Yet still, Black people move forward faithfully on the path toward freedom!” - Sean Irving