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Black Eye on America - What Is Black Twitter?: The Daily ShowOne prominent feature of Twitter that's
Updated on Jan 13,2023
Black Eye on America - What Is Black Twitter?: The Daily Show
One prominent feature of Twitter that's still there,is one that you may not even have heard of.,Fortunately, Roy Wood Jr. has the lowdown.,♪ ♪,WOOD: You may or may not have heard of Black Twitter,, -but it's huge. -(glass breaking), And if you want to understand it, imagine a barbershop.,I know what you're thinking.,It's a barbershop, I'm a black dude,,we're about to do all the usual stuff.,LeBron James dunked on five crippled kids.,Man, shut your ass up.,Bootleg man, bootleg man.,-♪ ♪ -(whooping),The boy's ain't got no daddy, Marquis!,You got a daddy that love you!,Look, for decades, the black barbershop,has been the epicenter of black cultural discussion,, but the Internet has changed things.,Let me introduce you to Black Twitter.,-Black Twitter is an entire... -WOOD: (stutters),Nah, I think we need somebody more qualified., Let's go with Jamilah Lemieux. Executive, writer,, and, most importantly, black person.,Jamilah, what is Black Twitter?,It's just really an extension of how we communicate,in our neighborhoods, in our barbershops,,in our churches, in our schools. It is our village.,Think of Black Twitter as Harlem., Black folks made it cool, and now white people are trying to move in.,What we do on social media and, of course, we over-index,and use it more than anybody else and we use it on mobile,,which means we have it, you know,,by our side 24 hours a day.,WOOD: That's right-- while we make up just 12%, of the U.S. population,, 25% of American Twitter users are black., And they're three times more likely to post daily on Twitter, than white people. But that's not the only reason, Black Twitter's important., And if anybody can back it up,it's a brother wearing a hoodie and a Kangol, Elon James White.,One of the major parts of-of "Black Twitter",is the ability to force a conversation,that un... otherwise would be ignored.,#OscarsSoWhite made the Oscars more black.,You got Ferguson, Black Lives Matter,,Bring Back Our Girls...,Ferguson, when it first happened--,Mike Brown getting shot-- I knew about that,before it hit the news because I was seeing tweets,from St., uh, St. Louis and Ferguson,that his body hadn't been picked up yet.,Movements that once took weeks to mobilize,can come together in mere hours.,George Zimmerman, I believe,,would not have been arrested or-or tried at all,were it not for Black Twitter.,People love to say, "Oh, if Dr. King had Twitter,he would've got more accomplished.",Would he? How do you know he wouldn't have just been,up all night arguing with trolls?,(imitating woman's voice): Martin, come to bed.,Coretta, I can't. Malcolm X still poppin' off at the mouth.,I'll snatch the bow tie off his ass.,Black Twitter is just as complicated and nuanced,as the black community itself. Like, within Black Twitter,you still have an intellectual Twitter,,you have academics and then you have Hotep Twitter.,Whoa! Everybody don't like to called a Hotep., According to The Root, a Hotep is "a clueless parody, "of Afrocentricity, someone who's loudly, conspicuously,and obnoxiously pro-black," but I think that's a little harsh.,I prefer to call these brothers black enthusiasts.,That's why we got to be black,,do black, shop black, buy black,,date black, smoke blacks.,And, of course, you've got the Beyhive.,-One of them twins ain't even Jay Z's. -(door opens),Who's talking about Beyoncé?,LEMIEUX: No Beyoncé slander, shall survive.,She represents joy, for so many people, particularly black women.,She's on the wall with, Martin, Malcolm, Barack,, Beyoncé.,WOOD: Black Twitter's also the place to keep up, with the latest fashion, music and racial slurs.,Oof!,I have been called,every type of (bleep) on the planet.,"ER?",-"ER." "A?",-"A." -"AH?",-"AH." -"IGZ?",It's types of (bleep) I didn't know existed,until I got called them on Twitter.,Anybody can get it on Black Twitter, even if you're,in the NFL Hall of Fame. just ask Jerry Rice,, who thought it was all good to wear a fried chicken helmet, -in a Popeye's commercial. -LEMIEUX: I don't think, there's ever an excuse for a chicken helmet.,You decide to put on a chicken helmet,,that's between you and your god.,Sometimes people need to be shamed., Black Twitter has no qualms, about calling anybody out.,This is live footage of Jerry Rice,getting drug on Black Twitter.,-(clamoring) -Shame.,(bell rings),Shame.,And it's not just people.,Corporations try to be too cool and they get on,the wrong side of Black Twitter all the time, by doing things like using black slang to sell pancakes.,IHOP is one of those brands that's just done weird,,like, "pancakes on fleek.",Pancake man!,Pancakes on fleek!,It's like, you-you just don't throw "on fleek",behind something and call that, you know,,engaging with the culture.,Here'
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