Blackout Tuesday Post
The idea behind blackout tuesday is to fill facebook twitter and instagram with black squares.
Blackout tuesday post. The team posted a blackouttuesday post to its twitter yesterday afternoon and was quickly roasted by all sorts of people up to and including the congresswoman representing new york s 14th. This is supposed to free up the time and space that s usually dedicated to mindlessly scrolling on. Lefists attacked the washington redskins blackout tuesday post and claimed the team is not doing enough to champion racial equality. If you d like to use a hashtag in.
The blackout is meant to mute non black voices so that black voices can be heard. Entertainment industry leaders started the idea as many others around the country picked up on it and shared their own black squares. Morrissey s blackout tuesday post totally backfired the smiths leader has close ties to racist far right political party for britain. Watson posted three simple black squares opposed to one.
Blackout tuesday was a social media event that aimed to drown out new content so people could speak and engage with community. On june 03 2020 1 19pm. People flooded instagram and twitter with simple black squares for the online show of solidarity dubbed blackout tuesday amid nationwide demonstrations against police brutality in the wake of. Following the death of george floyd an african american man who died while in minneapolis police custody on may 25 social media users took to instagram on june 2 to post a single black square to.
As rolling stone reports the campaign has resulted in some controversy but musicians including rihanna who also paused sales at fenty and drake joined the blackout on tuesday posting blank.