So this blog is basically me venting about this trending topic that has made it on twitter #whitepeoplestink
This morning I'm browsing through my timeline and I kept seeing my black followers laugh and joke about it. I'm sorry to be a party stopper but I found it very problematic. So I posted on my twitter...
"I can't believe #whitepeoplestink is a trending topic
but if #blackpeoplestink was a trending topic...call
Al Sharpton."
Some random follower responded with,
"Considering the crappy stereotypical TT's that end up on twitter all the time,
"blackpeoplestink is mild for example
(#itaintrape, #hoodhoe, #thingsblackgirldo, #uncletomreporter)"
So what she's telling me is because of all the stereotypical trending topics aimed towards black people what's so wrong with lashing back against white people with #whitepeoplestink????????
ASSUMING that "white" people even started those trending topics makes a ASS out of YOU and ME.
When on my very own timeline my followers were laughing and joking about #thingsblackgirlsdo, #itaintrape and #hoodhoe.
Trendistic, which ranks Twitter trends, marked the most popular trend one day as #hoodhoes (and its similar tag, #hoodhoe). For 16 hours, users tweeted their definitions of a "hood hoe":
"If you only get paid when yo baby daddy get paid #hoodhoe"
"I like #hoodhoe they get a discount on they rent and they always got food in the fridge foodstamps lol"
"#hoodhoe emergency kit= leggings, track glue, cab phone number, ebt card, rush visa card, boost mobile phone and pre paid legal"
The fact that #hoodhoes was a hot talking point for 16 hours lets us know that people are co-signing and spreading the message, especially BLACK YOUTH.
All it takes to start up a trending topic is a famous person with a lot of followers. When Lil Duval (BLACK comedian) started #itaintrape. He was able to spread his misogynistic statements and allow others to get in on the action. Let me remind you he has over a million followers...80 percent of his followers are young, black teenagers.
"#itaintrape if you pay for it first …
"#itaintrape if I fly u in"
"#itaintrape if I bout you popcorn and a drink … then u Didnt eat it"
The violent tweets inspired by Lil Duval were condemned by the masses, but there were more than enough people who helped spread his ignorance and create a "black Twitter" for the day.
So you tell me whose building these stereotypes on twitter...
The same person sitting on their computer and phone tweeting and re-tweeting the ignorance made by themselves or by someone else.
But I refuse to support ignorance by joining in #whitepeoplestink, by me joining in that rant I'm giving someone permission to come back at me ...at my race.
Remember in the playground you go back and forth with your school mate calling each other names?
Why are we playing that game on a social networking site with our race, shit...with our oppressors.
Don't you see who these "racist" trending topics mostly target though...whose the laughing stock of twitter?
BLACK FEMALES
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, top trending topics included #mlk, #mlkday and #ihaveadream. At least for one day positivity and not ignorance was spread on twitter.
CAN WE GROW UP?
Tweet smart ...don't be LITERALLY a follower.
