i’m trying to be very careful about the information i post about what’s going on at the university of missouri b/c
black students are being threatened with violence and murder
in light of this, broadcasting the names and images of specific black students all over social media strikes me as counterproductive
and i’m not talking about student activists who have made the choice to be vocal and visible at this time
i’m talking about nineteen-year-olds using their personal social media accounts to tell their friends “i’m afraid for my life,” who should be allowed to do so without having their name and picture rack up tens of thousands of notes on tumblr in the name of “signal boosting”
black students are speaking to the press using pseudonyms because they fear retaliation and are afraid for their lives; please think about that before you reblog a tweet or facebook status with someone’s full name or picture in it
spreading personal information about individual black teenagers when their lives are literally at stake is not good allyship
