What the death of Black Twitter Could Mean for Us
For many, Black Twitter is the premiere place for Black comedy, but it’s so much more than that. It’s the shared voice, the stage and the theater for us to speak with a unified front. What do we have that is similar? What will we ever have? Don’t forget, that Black Lives Matter began in 2013 as a a post by Alicia Garza which accelerated in popularity as a hashtag on Twitter by Patrisse Cullors in response to the aquittal of George Zimmerman of the murder of Trayvon Martin. #SayHerName was coined by the African American Policy Forum the following year to address similar fatal vigilante and state-sanctioned violence that happens to Black women and girls, yet we don’t know their names due to less media coverage. And like many of the trends and intellectual discourse that Black women create, these two hashtags have been conceptually bastardized and co-opted by white supremacists. #SayHerName has been recently used to uplift the name of Ashlii Babbitt- domestic terrorist who was neutralized in the Capitol building on January 6th. And there is no need to explain “Blue Lives Matter”, “All Lives Matter” and “White Lives Matter” which recently were slogans on shirts worn by Kanye West and Candace Owens.
Apart from mobilize entire movements, Black Twitter provided reciepts with time stamps that displayed the exact moment and instance in which novel content was created…
