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“‘BlackTwitter’: a very large, vocal. Aggressive social media group of mainly black Americans who collectively leap on any perceived racial insult or bias to expel their indignation.”
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Two issues are currently causing #BlackTwitter to react right now:
One inspired by the emotional last 24 hours where rapper Nicki Minaj took @ MTV regarding their choice for 2015’s MTV VMA nod for Video of the Year choosing Taylor’s popular “Bad Blood” video (just released May 2015) over Nicki’s long-running, highly buzzed, popular, and controversial: “Anaconda” (released August 2014).
Minaj asserted that MTVs racially biased in decision (over merit and other statistical consideration).
Secondly, #BlackTwitter is reactive right now in considering yet another crime of police brutality has occurred upon yet, another black person-this time a woman: Sandra Bland)-leaving many left with this wave becoming an epidemic.
That being the case, up (yet again) went the trending topic and hashtag: #BlackLivesMatter to which Piers took it upon himself and rebutted: #ALLIVESMATTER.
That’s when all hell broke loose.
Piers explained his case:
By coincidence, I myself also ran foul of Black Twitter yesterday when I responded to
