It’s “a show of community and solidarity, exclusively posting and reblogging pics, gifs, videos, selfies of Black people.”
Today, 6 March, is the first ever BlackOut Day.
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According to the co-creator of the event – Tumblr user expect-the-greatest – it's about "celebrating the beauty of Blackness", something he describes as being of "the UTMOST importance."
In his own words: "I got inspired to propose Blackout day after thinking "Damn, I'm not seeing enough Black people on my dash". Of course I see a constant amount of Black celebrities but what about the regular people? Where is their shine? When I proposed it, I thought people would think it was a good idea, but not actually go through with implementing it. Luckily people wanted to get behind the idea, and @recklessthottie created the #Blackout tag.
And the images have been diverse, in terms of sexual identity, religion, age, body shape and size and geographical location. Many of them have incredibly moving words attached. And all of them have one thing in common: The subjects of the photos are black.
