BTR News: Dear Black People, Stop Playing With White People On Social Media

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A black woman made a “joke” on Twitter and got a reaction to her tweet from white people who found her “offensive”. She apparently made the same post on Facebook and got a similar reaction from white people and the moderators of that platform. She then makes a post on another platform created by a co-founder of Twitter called Medium and complained about being censored on the other two platforms and made accusations that she is a victim of the silencing of Black women. W. Kamau Bell promoted the post and asked people to get into their emotions over what should be a non-controversy all things considered. #CrackerBarrelGate

Sources: https://twitter.com/blacktalkradio/status/893901902240505856
https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/facebooks-complicity-in-the-silencing-of-black-women-e60c34434181

Scotty T. Reid has been writing and podcasting about social/political issues since 2007 and is the producer of several successful digital radio programs and the founder of the non-profit new media education organization Black Talk Media Project and the Black Talk Radio Network. He is part of the New Abolitionists Movement to abolish slavery in the United States as permitted by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution. He is a United States Army veteran, serving a tour in the Gulf War and one of the many descendants of American Revolutionary Samuel Rankin that still reside in Gaston County, North Carolina. He is also a descendant of Afro-Americans of North Carolina and the Cherokee tribes of Western North Carolina. He considers the Autobiography of Malcolm X to be the greatest influence on his life.

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