Hands Up

While reading both, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell and “I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White People” by Brit Bennett that both of the authors are searching for ways to create a meaningful revolution where the roots of activism have evolved in today’s world. The attitudes criticized in Gladwell’s anthology entry are the acts to use social media as an advantage to activism, which is also strange because he also somewhat agrees with some ideas where social media can help. On the other hand Bennett’s blog post or article criticizes white people who delete friends from their social media or white people who say the right things but never perform the actions or at least that was how I viewed it. The attitudes praised by Bennett are the ones where you know what those other people’s intentions are so that you have an idea to avoid a poisonous snake when you see one. Where as Gladwell praises those who go out and make a difference in society, as he comes across as a “do or do not” type of person. When it comes to my opinion I agree with both of these authors ideas because they are genuine and they are what you expect out of people, but what you expect is not always what you may receive. The down part I have with Bennett’s praise is that you will meet two-faced people in life camouflaged in a good persons image, while the down part of Gladwell’s praise is that the doer’s may be in it for their image and image alone. Either way both ideas can work even the ideas they criticize can work because you never know what can get the people of today ticking. But if I may say so myself newsroom media and social media might provide the tick we as a country may need to revolutionize our world, just look at what happened with Eric Garner’s last words after a confrontation with police in New York. The media is powerful which is why do not agree with Gladwell as much as I could have because the revolution will be tweeted, youtube’d, IG’d, Facebook’d, blogged, periscoped, reported, snapped etc.