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Luvvie Ajay has a new book coming out in September, it should be pretty successful, as Ajay is a very popular blogger. I was searching youtube for a good video of her for her webpage. I found a really good video to use, but I also found the video below where Luvvie describes the "power" Black women have on Twitter. I hear about the power Black women supposedly have on Twitter all the time. The reality is that this so called power is a myth, because power comes from ownership, and Black women don't own Twitter. In fact, if Black women are truly the dominant users of Twitter; then they are being exploited because they are not being paid anything in exchange for the wealth the create for Twitter Inc.

A lot of people confuse "community organizer" with "community activist". Community activists are generally the people you see on the street protesting, feeding the homeless, and generally being vocal about the issues. On the other hand a community organizer does just that..... They are typically professionals (professors, lawyers, ect.....) or recent college graduates who use their intellectual and professional skills to help organize the community around a common cause. They generally work behind the scene and are often the liason between the activists on the front lines and the establishment who have the power to change the policies ill-affecting the community. With his nuanced and relatively suppressed personality, Obama never took me as an "activist" but I definately could see him an an organizer.

Yes, and the real benefit of YouTube is the service they provide for videos including embedding. In the early days hosting your own videos was expensive, and YouTube made it possible to share videos on your website and with others. Today hosting videos is cheap, but youtube gets you videos seen by more people that hosting them on your site alone. YouTube adds value to the WWW, where most other social media platforms attempt to horde and extract value from the WWW.