works for me...
Posted on 08/23/2016 7:25:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
It had existed as a phrase for some time, but it wasn’t until two black men died in the summer of 2014 that Black Lives Matter began to flicker to life as a Twitter hashtag.
The roots of the phrase are commonly traced to a July 2013 Facebook post by Alicia Garza, a California-based activist, but it appeared in the Twitter-friendly form #BlackLivesMatter only in fits and starts over the course of the following year, according to a Pew Research Center analysis on race and social media released this month.
The hashtag had a small, but sustained increase in use in the summer of 2014, when Michael Brown and Eric Garner died in encounters with the police, focusing a national discussion on race and policing and elevating a phrase that would define a movement.
“This is a very powerful example of how a hashtag now is attached to a movement, and a movement, in some ways, has grown around a hashtag — and a series of really painful and really powerful conversations are taking place in a brand-new space,” said Lee Rainie, director of internet, science and technology research at Pew.
The label appears to have lasting power, simmering like a low-grade fever on social media and roaring to life with every police killing of a black citizen and every racial protest that makes the news, informing the long-running national debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The nyt is no different than pravda.
I would like to rub them raw with a belt sander and #60 sand paper.
There’s nothing “new” about BLM - America has had gangs of thugs wandering around since the beginning.
I was going to say cheese grater. You know, make America grate again...
works for me...
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