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.