BLM & Police Brutality in the 2010s made Black people across the globe think they had authority to speak loudly on race issues they never gave a fukk about
Exactly.
After the murder of Trayvon martin and especially after the murder of Mike Brown who officially kickstarted the BLM movement(financed by the powers that be, the pro-LGBTQIA blm is not a legit grassroots movement led and controlled by legit and credible black men who really care about the black community ) suddenly you saw black folks pretending to be pro black militants everywhere on social media. Speaking loudly on racial, political and social issues that affect people of African descent. And acting like they were for the cause from jump street.
Before 2012 most of these people weren’t on that type of time. Social media was not ubiquitous in our lives like it is now back then and most importantly, it was not trendy or cool to be a pro black militant. Talking pro black stuff didn’t give you clout, likes, followers and attention back then. You were simply ignored and dismissed. All of them reformed wenches turned militants don’t know who Mumia Abu Jamal is, don’t know the Jena 6, the London race riot in 2011, etc.
In the mid-late 1990s and especially the materialistic/consumerist decade of the 2000s, interest in black political/social causes were in an all time low. You really think that during the height of the ringtone/party/gangster rap era people were racially/politically/socially conscious