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RACISM + SOCIAL MEDIA
How The “I Had a White Friend” Hashtag Took The Internet By Storm
Black people are spilling the beans about fair-weather friends
Right now, #IHadAWhiteFriend is trending on Twitter, and some of the responses might be pretty shocking for White people. So, as with any trend, you're probably wondering who rolled the snowball down the hill. Michael Harriot, a critically acclaimed poet and journalist who lovingly says he's from the Southside of Wakanda, kicked off the trend. Now, Black folks are exposing the White fair-weather friend-from-hell experiences that they've been bottling up all year.
But this trend was in response to Patricia Morgan's tweet about losing a Black friend to Critical Race Theory. She described her friend as "hostile and unpleasant," and claims that her Black friend is only acting this way because critical race theory allegedly divides us. I would love to hear what her friend has to say about this.
