Global network Ghana ThinkTank is hitting the streets of New York in October with a series of street signs carrying hard-hitting messages. The forceful project intends to shock people into truly considering their position in the #BlackLivesMatter movement and deduct whether or not they might be complicit in the deep-rooted racism that is hurting America. All of the signs contain playful yet pointed messages aimed at pedestrians, many of them carrying the signifiers of brutality and oppression, such as surveillance cameras or hands drawn in the "STOP" position.

We spoke to Christopher Robbins, one of the founders of Ghana ThinkTank, about the impact that he hopes the project will have on New Yorkers. He told Dazed: "I hope that people will respond to this piece by considering the ways they may be a part of the unequal application of laws or systems according to race, and to consider what roles they can play in the Black Lives Matter movement, whatever their background or race."

Carmen Montoya, another member of the multi-voiced activist network, also explained her ambitions for the project and the genesis of the work. "The original signs were about revealing something in a social
and legal blind spot," she said. "They emerged from on the street conversations about racial profiling and individuals’ interactions with local police. These most recent signs are also about this in a sense that they emerged from conversations about what is missing from the debate around police abuse of power, racialized privilege and a racist legal system. We asked participants to talk to each other and to question themselves about how they may be contributing to the propagation of an abusive system along a spectrum from inadvertent ignorance to willful complicity."

"One thing that I think is very important about the signs is the private conversations that they provoke. This invisible groundswell of ideas is the stuff of change." These signs are set to hit the streets in around a month’s time.