Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd says though experts once thought the internet would help destroy racial barriers, “all of the divisions that exist in every day life, including those by race and class, actually re-emerge online”.
The internet was once considered a great equaliser, a platform that could bring strangers together, even across racial boundaries. But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites.
Micro-blogging website Twitter has seen an upsurge in traffic from Hispanic and African-American audiences. These groups now claim about 30% of the site’s user base, according to third-party statistics website Quantcast.com.
Meanwhile, white users claim 90% of US traffic on Pinterest.com, while Tumblr.com has seen an over-representation of Asian Americans as of late.
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Social media cannot fix racial divides that are being reinforced by mainstream television media via Multiculturalist propaganda. Multi-culti has been pushed on the American public for at least 40 years now, creating a separation of cultures instead of a more analogous society where everyone is encouraged to assimilated into the same culture. Multiculturalism essentially “Balkanizes” the United States, and its done by the media as a means to play the different racial populations against other for many different purposes – ratings boosts, marketing and politics. It’s a tool of manipulation, not of tolerance. In fact, thanks to Multi-culti, intolerance is an an all-time high.
Social Media _has_ helped the races get along better since its inception due to sharing information and cultural media (music, videos, etc) but we will not truly be “equal” until we are encouraged to tolerate others without regard to skin color. Until the American public and the media (on all platforms) figures out what true “color blindness” really is, there will always be a problem.