No More Black Targets
Award: Yellow Pencil
Yellow Pencil / Art Direction / Art Direction for Poster Advertising / 2017
Young black men are 3X more likely to be shot by trained shooters than their white peers. A disturbing potential correlation: The most popular target for shooters to learn to use their firearm is a black silhouette. Unconscious bias can be deadly.
That is, shooters weren't just faster to fire at black targets;they were more likely to fire at them. This petition seeks to eliminate the use of the most popular target for shooters to learn to use their firearm: a menacing black silhouette.
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