Portrait of self-hatred of Farhad Manjoo aka @fmanjoo of Slate.com

By Ziti
The Black Urban Times

     Mr.Manjoo, your lack of insightful writing is typical of a person of your "non-white" background, who hates their the fact that they have more melanin. Your avi on twitter says a lot. You say it yourself "While you begin to see some nonblack faces after a trending topic hits Twitter's home page, the early participants in these tags are almost all black." You make the entire slate.com look foolish with your talk about "blacktags." A hashtag is a hashtag, would you be offended if we called your hashtags "oiltags,sandtags,or islamictags"? I think so.

 
You Mr. Manjoo are the typical "non-white" as you call yourself, afraid to tell us your race I guess, who wants to put black users of social technology in a nonsensical box. 

             You fail to bring to light how Sean Combs's use of twitter helped bring them publicity and how professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal's tweets are hilariious and used in late-night talk shows. Yes there are hashtags, on any given day that might say #dontexpectmeto, started by an african-american male, but then as you yourself say becomes popular amongst other non-whites and white twitter users.
The fact is that black twitter users come up with popular hashtags more than your average twitter user. You fail to make the connective insight that these hashtags are memes that could set the tone for how we use twitter in the near future.
If you're the tech writer over at slate.com, they better check your resume, because you're missing of the big picture of black twitter users show how you have the lack of writing prowess and insight to intelligently explain how people come up with hashtags that transcend race.


           Your lack of research is evident and proves that this article was written without truly understsanding the power of African-americans on twitter, and if you as a writer are too lazy to research your subject before writing about the topic, then go back to your off-shore customer service job that's typical of someone like a "Manjoo" works at..or am I just a meme away from saying #thingssomeonelikemanjoowrites.
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