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Why Black Twitter is so Important

As I wrote about in this week’s discussion board, the Black Twitter culture is imperative to society. It has become a resource not only for those within the African American community who are struggling to have their voices heard, but it has also become an educational resource for those who might be ignorant of the struggles that this community has to face daily. This platform gives them a way to communicate all of the things that might be hushed from the rest of society (like certain hate crimes against their race, etc.), and provides a way for other people outside of their community to not only learn about what they have to go through, but also gives them the ability to help and put their two cents in. Black Twitter has done so many amazing things, from hyping up young struggling artists or entrepreneurs within their community to joining the rest of Twitter in a war to get someone fired or expelled from school for making racist comments. This community is in place to first of all, give African Americans a place to feel like home and a place where they can feel comfortable to speak freely on the internet, while also making sure to hold other people accountable for their actions-- something that might be a bit harder to accomplish at such a successful rate off of the internet. Basically, Twitter is as amazing and influential in people’s lives as it is mainly because Black Twitter (and communities similar to it) exist.

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Here’s a YouTube video I found that explains Black Twitter culture in depth for those who might not have ever heard of it or experienced it themselves. The importance of this community and their activism (and pure awesomeness) is explained.

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Here is an example of a meme that was created within Black Twitter. They took a super popular meme/reaction image (the one with the African American man holding the phone up to his ear), and joked about replacing it with a screenshot of the woman who was featured in one of the videos that went viral on Twitter about a racist white woman calling the cops on an African American family who was just trying to enjoy a nice barbeque. They are able to take their relevant issues within society and the way they are treated, and turn them into jokes, in turn making the issue go viral and teaching other people about the struggles they have to actually deal with in real life.

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'I think that they’re still hiring white people to tell our stories and saying, ‘Go out there and live among the natives and come back and tell us what you’ve found,’ instead of hiring the natives.'

April Reign, managing editor for Broadway Black, in an interview with Daily Beast

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Popeyes didn’t notice the opportunity to be found in responding to the Chick-fil-A tweet—until Black Twitter did.

I found a post about a super recent Twitter trend that really took the United States by storm-- the release of the new Popeyes chicken sandwich. The article talks about how (most likely white) members of the Popeyes marketing team tapped into the Black Twitter community in order to have them, unknowingly, help hype up the new sandwich. This hype ended up granting popeyes $23 million in marketing alone for this sandwich, and where was Black Twitter’s credit? Nowhere to be found.

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the most jarring thing my dad has ever told me is that we’re the new 60’s

when i asked him what he meant he said that he remembered being a kid in the 60’s, he remembered the long hair and the sex and the push against an older, less tolerant generation for freedom. he was born in 1955 so he wasn’t intimately involved in the progressiveness of it but he said he remembered always understanding the younger generation because they spoke to children like him, children that were being raised in restrictive households that were more prone to rebellion. flash forward to our generation and he’s floored, he’s shocked and a little bit scared because he sees the same passion in us, the same struggle and desire for change but this time he’s the older generation. we’re the new 60’s and he’s the establishment we’re trying to change. and it just strikes me how circular this world is, and how every once in a while a certain generation comes around with their radical, progressive agenda. and one day we’re going to wake up in the future and find ourselves face-to-face with a younger, more progressive generation and we’re going to have to decide if we’re still with them or if we’re the new establishment they’re fighting against