Race & Identity
Instagram Removes Post Checking In On Black Women In Wake Of Nia Wilson's Slaying After It's Flagged As Hate Speech
After realizing the mistake, the social media platform reinstated the post.
But her Instagram post was considered hate speech by the community guidelines set by the social media platform.
"The space under the post (commented, replies) is exclusively for women of color," Cargle wrote. "Exclusively. No white women, no men."
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“Instagram has a heavy track record of taking down posts by people of color in order to maintain the comfort and satisfaction of their white community,” Cargle told HuffPost via email. “When black people report posts we get nowhere near the type of quick and efficient responses, in fact, we are often turned away saying that our concerns are not valid when we bring racist, problematic posts to their attention,” she added.
In the wake of the removal, Cargle made another post relaying her devastation to the post having been removed:
"I have yet to cry about all the aggression that has happened to me over the last 24 hours, but this ripped my heart to shreds, and I am in tears... There were hundreds of comments of black women being seen and heard by their peers, being loved and cared for by their sisters, being consoled and loved exactly as they needed it," she wrote in part.
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BART police apprehended Cowell Monday, July 23, at another station. Cowell has had a history of violence and criminal track record.
Cargle's post, which now has nearly 5,700 likes and dozens upon dozens of comments, pointed out how American society often forgets about the well-being of black women. When they speak up, society works overtime to silence them again.