Trevor Ellerbrock

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#TimeForChange

What has America become?

We have reached the #CriticalPoint.

A constant battle of #Who’sRight when #YouDon’tKnowTheOtherSide.

We have an #AmericanProblem.

#RacismStillExists and its time for #eqality.

It’s time to #StopTheViolence.

It’s time for #PeacefulProtests.

It’s time to #PutOutTheFire.

Are we going to let #DrKing’s work go dow.n the drain?

Did he #DieForAGoodCause?

We need to become more understanding.

Come together.

#KnowBothSidesBeforeTakingAStance.

#BecomeEducated.

It’s time for #Equality.

It’s time for #WorldPeace.

#It’s #TimeForChange.

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Memes...driving the internet one day at a time.

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Koritha Mitchell

“There’s no right way to protest your own dehumanization and your community’s destruction, especially when your country insists that there’s nothing violent, uncivilized, and un-American about how it routinely dehumanizes and destroys certain populations.”

I found this point to hit home hard for me. This paragraph is so strong, she says that constantly, people of color are criticized on the way in which they protest. As if there is a “right” and “acceptable” way. I can say that if i were in this position, it would be so defeating. There is not “right” way, and due to the injustice that these racial groups face, they should be able to protest however they want…without anyone saying anything.

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I agree that they have every right to protest when they want. But do it without destroying. I feel like some protests just give some the motivation to riot and loot and not actually try to accomplish anything.

[stojanovski8-deactivated2018050]

“I know the police love their ridiculous unnecessary military equipment, so heres another patronizing test…Let’s take it all away from them, and IF they can make it through a whole month without killing a single unarmed black man, then and only then they can get their fucking toys back.”

-Ferguson, Oliver

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Can’t help but like John Oliver’s way of putting this. The ridiculous clips and information about how easy it is for police to get military equipment they are not at all trained to use.

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Many wore T-shirts pro-claiming “I am Mike Brown” and held signs calling for the need to “Indict America.” These demonstrations led social media users to claim that “#Ferguson is everywhere,” emphasizing the connection between online and offline forms of protest.

Bonilla and Rosa, #Ferguson (via acrawf12)

To me, ranting on Twitter isn’t a form of expression it’s just annoying. But it’s interesting how these two professors somehow make it more than just people going off to their followers. 

(via nataliemkunce)

Couldn’t agree more.

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People love to claim, you have to be calm as you protest, you have to speak in a way that the powerful will respect, you have to dress in a way that doesn’t alienate people. But following such rules does not matter. There’s no right way to protest your own dehumanization and your community’s destruction, especially when your country insists that there’s nothing violent, uncivilized, and un-American about how it routinely dehumanizes and destroys certain populations.

Koritha Mitchell

Violent protests have done nothing to help the matter besides bring more negativity to the situation.

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You could also learn how thousands of users were reacting to the numerous posts. In the era of transistor radios and television sets, one did not necessarily know what listeners or viewers yelled back at their machines, but on Twitter one can get a sense of individual responses to mediatized events.

Bonilla & Rosa

At times the instantaneous reactions are helpful in getting the word out and addressing problems that need to be brought up, social media sometimes blows events out of proportion and pours fuel on a fire that was already raging. Social media I feel has taken an issue that should have been a one time racial issue that was solved and turned it into an era of who can catch the next police officer making a mistake in judgement and turn it into a racial issue, when that may not always be the case.

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Breathe out, breathe in American oxygen Every breath I breathe Chasin' this American Dream

Rihanna, American Oxygen

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The mayor cannot say there had never been a sense of racial tension here because that sentence has not been true anywhere on this earth.

John Oliver

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Seized from the everyday and thrust, unadorned, against the page, these moments transcend individual experience, conveying the particular racism of twenty-first-century America, as well as the tunnel of history from which it emerges.

Meara Sharma, Blackness as the Second Person

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Do you feel hurt because it's the "all black people look the same" moment, or because you are confused with another after being so close to this other?

Citizen

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Dear white people. You know what? Nevermind

Dear White People

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Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.

Dear White People

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“flimsy white fork to snap in half. dispose of me.”

- Franny Choi 

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Quite the metaphor from Choi

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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars. Child support? Do you know anything about your people?

Ross Gay (via jmacksey)

Nothing like this sterotype..

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you want to eat me out. right. what does it taste likeyou want to eat me right out of these jeans

Franny Choi

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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars. Child support? Do you know anything about your people?

Ross Gay

This statement is comical. Why would this be what you look for in a man.