How two friends started a hashtag race war

[Jazzy]

How did two friends from Florida start a US-wide race debate on twitter?

Daniel Brack, who is white, and Josh Prickett, who is black, started tweeting each other using the hashtags, #IfIWasWhite and #IfIWasBlack. It started with jokes at each other's expense but to their surprise, it kick-started a heated discussion on race across the US.

#BBCtrending investigates.

Your thoughts?

 

[Jkage]

The power of Twitter...

It's like the Venezuela issue going on right now, Twitter is being used as a form of uncensored journalism as their gov't seems to be censoring what's going on over there from what I've read.