SXSW 2010: How to be Black

Baratunde Thurston touches on the black online experience (if there is such a thing) included memes, statistics on usage patterns, popular destinations and issues of representation. For example, are black people as represented among the creators, developers and builders of our future or are we more consumer oriented than average?

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[xCheezyNoodlesx]

@ghostfacee No. just no. I may be 14 but I know that the amount of melanin in your skin does not affect who you are as a person. When I see people saying things like that it just makes me feel sad. But I guess I'll have to ignore it since it still seems like there are still so many people like you.

[xCheezyNoodlesx]

@ghostfacee No, I will not watch the Sunday cartoons :P But I just don't understand how what your saying makes any sense. So if you walk down the street and see a black person, do you disregard them? Do you think they're worth less just because of where they come from? "You wish it weren't so, but it just is." Just is? Are you making this up or something? I'm latina and I know plenty of black people. Their personalities aren't any different from that of white people. :)

[ashnburt11]

soooo that had nothin to do with the title....

[tmkkids]

thumb up if u hate racists

[8s8lw8d]

Replace the word "black" with "white" and think of how fast this guy would be censored, decried, slandered. Get over the color, brother, and be a person.

[donmick]

Why are you seeking to further divide "folk"? Yes you are bringing to light some issues of modern culture with" lip and ass" enlargements, but by identifying that to be a black supremiacy idea of the future will just create further divides. What about the large amount of black women who straighten their hair? or even dye it blonde? No one is coming up saying blacks want to be white. But now people like you want to create new divides in saying "black is the new white" in terms of culture.

[panthakurai]

Yo I'm black AND I keep certain opinions to myself tho. (phew I need some protein now) ^_^

[LordRumaj]

Biggie Smalls is the Illest

[DAKODA65]

@sk8ordie2134 dont!! youll never go back!!

[DAKODA65]

ignorant black people think there different and use it against us, good thing mentally challenged kids dont

[aliyahlili]

@hsibo2 it show is

[SoPhIaJoHnNyBoYzZ]

dick