This is what black Twitter really thinks of #BlackMonday
The hashtag may be for a good cause, but Twitter isn't coming to the party, and it's all because of how it has been used.
Where was your #Blackmonday when the banks were exposed for currency manipulation? Where was your outrage then? A meme uploaded to Twitter.
Black Monday was meant to be a day set aside to protest against the Cabinet reshuffle that took place last week Thursday.
Five ministers were chopped from Cabinet by President Jacob Zuma, including Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas. This led to the creation of the hashtag, Black Monday, on social media in protest of the reshuffle. The public was called upon to show solidarity and wear black to show their disapproval of Zuma’s decisions.
But on Twitter, the discussion around Black Monday turned into a debate on how such movements are only created to support causes that are seen as being on the side of white monopoly capital. Some argue that the issue of land redistribution still hasn’t received enough attention nor have any causes or social media campaigns been aligned to it.
See tweets about Black Monday below
Somewhere in Sandton our mothers are busy ironing those black clothes for their baas for #BlackMonday π°
— FreePalestineπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈ (@fatimaktw) April 2, 2017
No #blackMonday for Nqobile Nzuza.None 4 Andries Tatane& Kwezi;banks,construction companies,bread companies theft. No #Blackmonday 4Marikana
— #MamaSobukweTurns90 (@hueyPorleyn) April 3, 2017
Funny how Apartheid beneficiaries are now suddenly the moral compass of SA #Blackmonday pic.twitter.com/QUD9oPRCY7
— πΉππππππ πΆππππππ (@Jeandre_Goliath) April 2, 2017
This #blackmonday can totally miss me. Where was the energy when it came to racial, economic and spatial equality. Nah fam.
— 3000 (@_intore) April 2, 2017
Don't ask me what I'm gonna do with the land. I just want the land ππππ pic.twitter.com/IOSqn1Ej9v
— Khotsofalangπ π (@RK_Mayekisa) April 2, 2017
#BlackMonday for whom! We're not going to protest for the protection of white supremacy lets address the land and inequalities first.
— Mute (@Mphozesta) April 2, 2017
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