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The teacher has provided a very thoughtful analysis of issues that must be addressed BEFORE we can SAFELY reopen PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I want all nonblack people to watch this video, especially white people.

This is the best video IMO that displays the depth of what it feels like to be Black in the midst of white supremacy.

This is the rage that burns in so many Black people and eats at us when it is not sufficiently soothed by our self restraint and years of learning to cope with and sit with us. This is the pain that shortens Black people’s very lives, that we smother each day. This is the justified yet unjustly ignored anger we have learned to hold and to aim and to deal with without breaking (too much).

This is the fire that those of you who are just showing up on the scene are learning to sit beside.

When you ask us ‘how we’re doing’, understand that this is the real core of it, every single day, and we have had to learn to laugh, to sing, to dance, to work, to grieve, to heal around heavy, heavy pain. I don’t get the feeling that y’all are expecting nor could you handle if we answered you like this. But I do feel like you should already know how we’re doing: we’re Black.

So y’all, sit with this video for a hot minute.

@BeingCharisBlog: This pandemic is making possible a ton of accessibility measures y'all said would never work before.

Lots of you have never listened to disabled people and it shows.

@twitchyspoonie: So I just found out my local community college is making accommodations for any student with coronavirus that they couldn't make for me while I was there with my chronic illness and I'm just a little salty.

I also wonder how much more easily this would be contained if people had just listened to chronically ill people all along. Many people don't have enough sick days and can't risk less school attendance already, so it was a disaster waiting to happen.

@BlondeHistorian: As a disabled person it hurts to see all the adjustments that we’ve been denied suddenly be made available because non-disabled people might get sick.

But we will remember, we see you & your ableism.

So next time you deny us accommodations, we will say "but during Coronavirus?"

@slooterman: Thinking about when I got pushed out of one of my first jobs.

I asked to telecommute until my cancer treatment was over, because I knew the stress was making me tic/stim in ways that were distracting or even distressing to coworkers.

"Telecommuting is only for senior staff."

@Sblahov: CW #COVIDー19 I'm chronically ill & had to fight for medical accommodations in work & school settings for over a decade. I deal with guilt regularly about my needs. I wasn't prepared for how I would feel seeing ableds now embrace the accommodations they've fought me on for years.

@jelenawoehr: All these tele-meetings you’re having? All the people you’re exchanging documents with by email instead of sitting down together? All the socializing remotely instead of nights out?

Consider offering those options all the time, disability exists even when there’s no scary virus

@karriehiggins: Are you seeing a pattern here?

When disabled people NEED an accommodation, we are denied & gaslit.

When abled people are affected, suddenly "impossible" things like a livestream are doable.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (MARCH 8, 2020)

Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:

“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”

“I might like a lawyer.”

“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”

“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”

“How long until my lawyer gets here?”

And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”

Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:

1) “Am I free to leave?”

It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.

2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”

Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.

3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.

Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.

The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy. 

Putting it all together:

Ask: “Am I free to leave?”

If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.

Finally, a very important disclaimer: