In his book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson says the following:
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.
In the realm of the social media universe, #BlackLivesMatter has produced electric cries, comments, declarations and insights in geotags throughout the world. It was born in 2012 after the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
Two years later, the hashtag lives primarily as a vehicle to discuss and mobilize civil disobedience activities to address the extrajudicial use of force and increasing militarization of local police departments in communities of color.
But the phrase has evolved into something more. #BlackLivesMatter has been used as a conduit to discuss failed responses to Ebola virus outbreaks and malaria outbreaks, South African divestment in the 1980s, the prison-industrial complex, Boko Haram, forced child labor, Muslim identity in the trans-Altantic slave trade, allied support in South Korea, women’s rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iran’s opinions on supporting oppressed people around the world.
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