Once you hear the same thing over and over again, it becomes much easier to tune it out and become desensitized.
If you’ve been on the internet in the last few months, you might have seen the phrase “Arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor” pop up a lot. Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old black woman who was shot eight times by police when they showed up at her and her boyfriend’s home with a no-knock warrant. Since her death and subsequent inaction when it comes to the arrests of the officers that killed her, people have been calling for justice.
— naf July 5, 2020 Recently Riverdale actress Lili Reinhart was in some hot water for this. She posted a topless photo on Instagram with the caption, “Now that my sideboob has gotten your attention, Breonna Taylor’s murderers have not been arrested. Demand justice.” This did not sit well with a lot of people as they thought it was tone deaf and also thought Reinhart was using Taylor’s death as an excuse to post her photo. Reinhart has since apologized and deleted the photo.
Memes are something that millennial and Generation Z grew up on and largely shaped the way in which we view the world. It makes sense that we turn things into memes, but it doesn’t make it right. The intentions might have been good at first, to spread awareness and visibility for her death and the cops who killed her.
The way y’all turned Breonna Taylor into memes... now a dance challenge? What’s not connecting? I’ve never seen y’all do this for the men, EVER.— 💫✨ July 7, 2020 It’s also worth noting that we haven’t seen this kind of memeification when it comes to black men who are victims of police brutality, only women. We need to ask ourselves why that is.
— Sarah Ellis🌻 July 8, 2020 It also makes her death and the movement look like a meme or a trend. And it’s not. The Black Lives Matter movement has been active since 2013, and it’s not going to stop after the news cycle is over. Black Lives Matter is not a trend, and treating it like it is makes it seem like the problem is just temporary. It might be for nonblack people, but it isn’t for the black people who are actually facing the problem.
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