Looking Outwards – 08

Deray Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe start their talk talking about police violence. Before Twitter, no one was really aware of the police violence in America, and even if they were aware, there was lack of information as to where the police violence was happening as well as how the police were targeting certain individuals. These graphs and collective information wasn’t available to the public and when Twitter came out, certain protesters including Deray Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe started to use this to this platform to their advantage and answer these questions using “crowd – sourced” data. They start talking about how there is a strategy to convince people there’s a crisis is different than the strategy to solve the crisis. There is also a difference between being awoke and staying awoke. They called that the Prepared to Win. I admire their awareness on the issue and how they continue trying to fight for what they believe in. Their short quotes begin to help me understand the issue at a small scale but begin to understand what they are really trying to say. 

Link to Website (Deray Mckesson)

Link to Website (Samuel Sinyangwe)