Following the shooting death of a Missouri teenager, Mike Brown above, who was just about to leave for college a couple of weeks before he was shot by police, violent protests broke out in his hometown.
Now that those riots have been ended by security agencies and the FBI have begun to investigate the shooting, protests have continued on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
On Twitter, the conversation has spawned a viral hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. According to the Root, Twitter user @CJ_Musick_Lawya created #IfTheyGunnedMeDown “to make a statement on how the media draws a biased narrative when it comes to telling the stories of black men and women.”
Check out some positive and negative comparison pictures being shared under this hashtag that is turning out to be more powerful than the originator could have imagined.
The following images not only tell a truthful story but also prove that we, as black people, know what our narrative is, but we are also not blind to the fact that the media will, of course, be biased in showing the truth. #IfTheyGunnedMeDown is not only a sad commentary on what it means to be black in America but also shows that in order to have our own narrative correctly reported, we have to do the reporting ourselves.
#MikeBrown - Unarmed Teenager Killed By Police Inspires #IfTheyGunnedMeDown Twitter Protests
No comments:
Post a Comment