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This is the girl who was shot to death because she sought help after a car accident.

From Color of Change

A jury has just found Theodore Wafer guilty on all counts for the murder of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was tragically killed when seeking help after a car accident in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, MI.

Wafer’s conviction is an incredibly important and rare moment of accountability for violence against Black women. Share the powerful above image to honor Renisha and help grow the movement to end violence against Black women.

She was murdered for the crime of seeking help while black.

Image and statement via Color of Change.

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I’m old. I’m tired. I’m cynical, because the way persons has act made me so.

When you look behind the scenes, Wafer’s defense boiled down to this: “But it was only a n****r”. That defense has been effective far too often; in the Jim Crow South, there would have been no trial. Recently, that defense worked for George Zimmerman, but it didn’t work this time. What about the next?

And don’t pretend ignorance of that fact. Denial is not ignorance; denial is abrogation of responsibility.