Gugu Mbatha-Raw posts tribute to George Floyd

[ms_mmelissa]

https://instagram.com/p/CAw5VyJg8cT

• British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw showed a time lapse of the portrait she made of murder victim George Floyd
• Floyd was brutally murdered on May 25th by the police. Footage of his murder was captured by an eye witness and has since gone viral
• Derek Chauvin, the officer directly responsible for his death was arrested

Comments

[syntheses]

The public response (especially on twitter) is something that has to be seen to be believed. Seeing electronic musicians who never rly step in to talk about politics (in 2017 Jai Wolf and Ghastly got into it bc Ghastly's feelings got ass pained when Jai Wolf said ppl who stan trump were undeniably racist or something like that) donate and match each other's 1,000$ donations when they haven't been touring and making money for months now is amazing. Even fucking Ghastly donated 1K$ and has been vocal about things (although the way he got dragged last time probably woke something up in him too)

On that note, the minnesota bail fund said they had enough money and were trying to encourage ppl to donate to different organizations! I was going to donate to them today, but then I saw ppl in Louisville also asking for funds and relief for their protests for Breana Taylor so I donated to them too which you can do here (beneath is my donation just in case anyone on ONTD can match or needed to be inspired)

[analievelyn]

yes!! loiusville needs coins, too, right?

and arizona, too!

[syntheses]

i actually haven't heard of arizona but yeah, Louisville needs funds especially since 7 protesters were shot. I saw tweets passing around that MN freedom fund was requesting things go to towards other organizations in need. They didn't have the Louisville one up, but someone else posted a link to it!

[doubtmars]

Thank you for sharing this. Just donated.

[talklikelions]

Oh shit I donated last night. I got confused about who needed it the most bc I had already taken my sleep meds 🙄

Thanks for the link, I’ll donate to them too!

[syntheses]

it's okay! i was going to donate to minnesota last night but fell asleep incredibly stoned and drunk with my debit card in my hand. I woke up this morning to learn that was not the most urgent of needs!