Black Twitter Is Laughing Racism to Death
The only adequate response is ridicule
One morning in April of this year, a woman in my city saw two men using a coal-fired barbecue in an area of a park designated for non-charcoal fires. She called the police. But this was Oakland, California — so the woman who called the police was white, and the people having the barbecue were black.
Unfortunately for this woman, a local environmental consultant, almost all of her encounter with the alleged offenders, witnesses, and Oakland police was captured on video. And this video set in motion a series of events that would bring her face-to-face with the full force of Black social media activism. She was just the latest in a string of white people caught on video either during or immediately after calling the police to report African Americans actively engaged in what Black Twitter users have dubbed #LivingWhileBlack.
#LivingWhileBlack means all those activities deemed perfectly acceptable by anyone else but viewed as criminal when undertaken by someone who is Black.
#LivingWhileBlack means all those activities deemed perfectly acceptable by anyone else but viewed as criminal when undertaken by someone who is Black. A student…
