last week a huge stir was created around a question posed by a journalist at slate magazine?  the title, how black people use twitter, was enough alone to create a frenzy.  earlier this week i posted a response to the article that was posted on the globalhue web site.  you can check it out here.  but here’s a snippet to get you started:

“Blacks are serial trendsetters and probably spend more time proactively trying to create Twitter trends. We should not be surprised to learn that a segment of the Black population is setting trends in the online space because Blacks have generated many of the ideas that have become a part of pop culture in the offline space. This is not an accidental reality. Blacks have a well-established history of consistently developing new trends that are adopted by the mainstream, which is a direct product of the Black experience.  It is ultimately the product of what happened when Blacks had their African traditional tribal cultures systematically ripped away…” read more

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