DeRay Mckesson on How Twitter Saved Black Lives

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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From the creation of #BlackLivesMatter to the first permanent ban, DeRay Mckesson has been at the center of some of Twitter’s highest highs and some of its lowest lows. He joins Jon to talk about how online activism has changed since the 2014 Ferguson protests, discuss how to win people over offline, and make the case that Twitter can be a tool for good.

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0:00.0	You had this great tweet from 2015 that I still think about some time.
0:02.7	You said Twitter is home, Facebook is grandma's house, Snapchat is your best friend's house,
0:07.8	Tumblr is the computer lab, Instagram is 24-7 prom.
0:11.8	Do you think, you know, what, six years later,
0:14.2	do all those comparisons still apply and are there any new categories?
0:19.0	I think Twitter to me is still home.
0:20.4	I think Instagram is definitely 24-7 prom.
0:23.8	It's like, why is this, why?
0:25.4	But it's prom with video now.
0:26.6	So that is, there was no video back then.
0:28.4	That's true.
0:28.9	Facebook is definitely still grandma's house.
0:30.4	Tumblr is non-existent, so it's home.
0:32.2	Yeah, that's good.
0:32.7	That'd be different.
0:33.4	By Tumblr.
0:35.0	I'm John Fabro.
0:36.0	Welcome to offline.
0:40.5	Hey, everyone.
0:41.5	Our guest this week is my friend, Duray McKesson, a civil rights activist who also hosts
0:45.6	Pod Save the People right here on Crooked Media.
0:48.9	I will admit that so far, there's been a bias in the show towards guests and discussions that
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