Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Freedom is never voluntarily
given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed". If there
were a sentiment that marked 2015's year of black resistance this would
be it—alongside the now iconic term #BlackLivesMatter.
Throughout the year, on what seemed like a daily basis, innocent black people went from being ordinary folks to #hashtags at the speed of a bullet.
Many wondered, as the list of those memorialized
by Black twitter grew to heartbreaking lengths, if the state of
violence against black bodies was being ramped up across the country. Or
with the advent of social media, these abuses no longer stayed within
the confines of long neglected neighborhoods and communities, many of
which have been historically targeted by racism and police harassment.
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