An ASL interpreter's message: Black Lives Matter
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Rorri Burton, an American Sign Language interpreter who has been working for Los Angeles County, breaks down how to sign “Black Lives Matter” in ASL and explains why not everyone signs it the same way.
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The sad thing is that I would like to share this video with my colleagues who are deaf, but even though this video is about deaf people is not captioned. So they are left out again.
They must have incorporated them. I have captions on mine.
I wish this entire video had closed captioning
My daughter is deaf and as a family we use asl, I’m happy to learn how to sign blm!! And I promise you as a non African American I will sign black with only one finger, keep up what you do for the deaf culture salute!!
I watched your video and greatly inspired. I am an interpreter at Antioch Baptist Church North. I have no idea why God bestowed this skill unto me, but my love, my passion is interpreting for the hearing impaired.
I'm quite taken aback by her statement! She signs the word for white person wrong first of all! I'm in the Deaf culture I was raised in the Deaf culture and both my parents were born Deaf! My mother went to Bruce Street School for the Deaf in Newark New Jersey and then continued her education at Trenton School for the Deaf in Trenton New Jersey! My father went to school for the Deaf in Pennsylvania! I am in the Deaf community as well I am a CODA Children of Deaf Adults! I have never seen racism in my culture nor my community! Are you kidding me? When a Deaf person meets another Deaf person, I can guarantee you that they are not looking at anything.... you could be a purple alligator they are just happy they met someone to sign with! Believe me Deaf people can go on for hours and hours communicating with each other! I remember as kids my siblings and I would say Mommy and Daddy are still in there talking? 😩
And the same goes with me when I meet a Deaf person, forget about it.... we're just signing our lives away! 😂 So what this interpreter is saying, it is news to me! Being Deaf is a very lonely world and very isolated as well.
I remember as a child, my mother kept in touch with all of her Deaf friends from school my mother always got together with her friends and their husbands and my dad and yes, there were a lot of us CODA'S that play together! I grew up in a very multicultural Deaf community and I am proud to be a CODA and I thank my parents for giving me the gift of sign language!
And one last thing growing up was hard having two parents that were Deaf we have to become the parents because we have to do all there talking for them! I was born in the 60s... I saw my parents being made fun of and as well being taken advantage of many times calling them deaf and dumb as well as making fun of their voices! I always watch out for Deaf people! I could tell within seconds if someone is Deaf! There have been times that I myself use the Deaf card and I saw the reactions on a hearing person face as though I might have this contagious disease! Just learn how to say hi in American Sign language or how are you? A Deaf person would really appreciate that! Just careful because you might be there for hours with them just signing your life away 🤣! ✌🏼✌🏼🤟🤟🤟
And to The interpreter please don't divide us Deaf Black against Deaf Whites we're just Plain old Deafies.... Godspeed ✌🏼🤟
I've been looking for this for a while now! Most of the things I'd seen shared only showed how to say Black Lives Matter in fingerspelling. I'm so happy to finally know how to sign it, and how to sign it in a way that's respectful.
Lol really
Have you guys considered putting close captions on this????? Like wtf??
Girl we love you 🙏🏾
Iconic! Thank you for doing this work!
Love what you are doing! Thank you for helping those that can not hear the truth! Thank you for your services!😁👍Be well stay safe and God bless you and your family.
Great video. Thank you for sharing your perspective!
Such a powerful piece.
BRAVO! (Yes I’m shouting!) Thank you and could you possibly make a short video teaching us slowly how use important phrases! I stand with you; no justice no peace; we shall overcome [today]
You want to speak of justice, where's the justice for Secoriea Turner?
The only thing america will overcome is the stupidity of blm and and Antifa. Nothing but terrorists attacking innocent people. The scum of the earth
Thank you so much for this informative video! I had seen infographics showing the variations but without these explanations. Very helpful
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We protect peaceful protest
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾waving
Awesome 🤟🏾❤️
This is beautiful!!! This is news!
What if I believe that you all are being played, in so many ways? You are being used. By whom, you tube will not let me speak their name. Or I would tell you.
And how does a person that's not white sign "White" out of respect? I have been learning how to sign to help others & I see how you signed Black out of respect & BLM but how do I correctly sign that everybody's life is ESSENTIAL & do I sign African American or Black? Thank you!!
Thank you, Rorri, for your guidance in how to honor the community. Hugs
Defund Police.
Cut 50%.
I just saw her on the news, texting, scratching her weave and her back, while Mayor Garcetti was giving an update of the impact of COVID-19 on the city. They cut her camera off, then when it came back on, she was talking on the phone. 🤦🏾♂️
George who Home Depot😲😷😵😬
I am a professional sign interpreter...you are just an interpreter. Stay out of politics and stop taking sides and one day you might be a professional.
And you're white, shut up and listen. Human rights are not politics.
As a "professional" interpreter, I would have hoped you'd had some education and understanding about what it means to be in solidarity with Deaf communities facing intersectional oppression. Yikes. Scary to see this comment as it indicates your lack of both understanding intersectional systems of oppression and basics of interpreter professionalism, as well as sorely lacking cultural humility skills--all of which ought to be central to the professional interpreting identity. I think Rorri Burton, on the other hand, shows so much grace as she uses her power as a hearing person to amplify the Deaf community!
@@sarahhoops3918 Thank you for your intelligent, sensitive response. I was a professional certified ASL interpreter for 20 plus years. We are allies as part of the Deaf Community, especially for intersectional racism/audism when we are acting as an independent agent. Rorri Burton is professional when on the job, and is free to speak her mind and stand for what she believes when she is not working. I am grateful for Rorri and her signing skills and power as a Black hearing person and ally to the Black Community and the Deaf Community. Thank you Rorri.
If she's not a professional, then why is she one of the main interpreters fo the Los Angeles Mayor's office and the LA County Public Health office? She's been on my TV this entire pandemic. Or are you just assuming she isn't a professional because she is Black and being vocal about Black Lives Matter? Maybe you need to step back and think about your prejudiced assumptions. I know several people, including myself, who have been fascinated watching Rorri interpret because she has so much style and expression.
Well said! I am a CODA.... I'm in the culture I'm in the community! Here we go someone trying to divide the culture and their communities! I have to get the CODA Brothers involved 😂✌🏼🤟
Y'ALL JUST SHOUTING IN THE STREET Y'ALL NOT TAKING NO LIVES,THE COPS ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT Y'ALL BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING TO ANYONE Y'ALL JUST YELLING
Ok El Segundo Times, ENOUGH of the virtue signaling. We get it, you’re all woke heroes. 🤮👎🏼🤮
HOW DO YOU SIGN ALL LIVES MATTER?
Why would you want to sign such a racist thing?