Black people tried to tell y all about Trump. So yeah, we ve got jokes now.
There s a longstanding legacy of Black people laughing to keep from crying while just trying to survive in a country founded on their dehumanization.
The irony of the violent insurrection on the Capitol was not lost on Black Twitter. Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty: Twitter
Jan. 12, 2021, 7:01 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 13, 2021, 1:38 AM UTC
By the evening of Jan. 6, after a day of breaking news coverage of unmasked and armed supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol with little to no resistance from police or security, the phrase “Black Twitter” began trending with more than 1 million mentions amid an avalanche of jokes and clapbacks.
Keri Hilson joins Bow Wow as being one of the most frequently battered musicians of the modern era.
The Atlanta-born “Pretty Girl Rock” singer got trounced on social media, yet again, after making the statement on Saturday, Jan. 9, that shutting down Donald Trump’s Twitter account permanently is “dangerous.”
Hilson, 38, told her 2.5 million followers in an Instagram story that we are being subjected to arbitrary “censorship,” according to
The Jasmine Brand which captured the post before it was automatically deleted.
“This may be funny. But it is a little dangerous, too,” Hilson explained about her position. “A democracy must include freedom of speech.”