A new Black Deaf Group have released a video showing other BSL users how to sign Black Lives Matter.
The video, which discusses the options the group looked at and the final signs, has gone viral, clocking up over 100,000 views, nearly 8000 likes and over 4000 retweets.
You can watch the video, signed by Deaf actor, director and producer David Ellington below. (Please click here if the video does not appear).
Attention to BSL users. For the signs for Black Lives Matter, we, Black Deaf Group, prefers the sign for ‘matter’ as important. One finger represents us as human being with value. And it signifies one life, therefore it is important to stay alive and fight for equal. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/su51je88sZ
— DavidEllington (@davidellingt_n) June 17, 2020
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Mary
June 18, 2020
I have seen signs used a lot in the wrong context. I’m sure I am guilty of that myself.
In the Black Lives Matter, the sign for matter should of course be the sign for ‘important’ because that’s the meaning. Using the sign ‘matter’ is the wrong context, in this situation