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Political strife
The pandemic was a hard time for everyone. Right before, there were moments and patches where it seemed that, as a country, we were years behind racial and socioeconomic. These issues continued on well through the pandemic and even to our present day. The American people were going through it and needed some means to survive. They needed a reminder that times were once good and that they would be good again. They needed hope. So I want to look and see what members of society ranging from 15-23 were doing to distract themselves and escape. I will take a look at what kept people going.
For the purpose of my research, I will look at the years ranging from 2018-2022. This is so I can get a general idea and collect data from times people can confidently recall. During these times, a lot of severe and significant events happened.
Timeline
2018
- BlackLivesMatter had been tweeted 30 million times in the span of a couple of years.
- The fifth-year anniversary of BLM and the death of Grechario Mack and Kenneth Ross Jr.
- Trump's presidency was at its height.
2019
- Rapper 21 Savage was detained by USA immigration agency ICE
- Oklahoma teenager Isaiah Lewis was shot and killed by police officers.
- End of the year, word of a pandemic in China of a highly contagious virus
2020
- Start of the global pandemic in March
- Death of Ruth Beder Ginsburg
- Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
- Thousand marched in London to show solidarity for their American counterparts.
- Breanna Taylor was killed in her home while sleeping due to cops having the wrong information and ignorantly shooting 27 bullets into her apartment complex as well as a neighboring one.
- Ahmaud Arbery was hunted by three white men and killed
- Amy Coney Barrett
2021
- Major police reform was taken after the cops who killed George Floyd were prosecuted
- 690 mass shootings
- Donald Trump incites an insurrection due to losing the election the previous year
- Duante Wright was killed in the Brooklyn center by police who were trying to Tase him.
2022
- Uvalde school shooting
- 600+ mass shootings; second highest record in a year.
- Gas prices went higher than ever
- Start of recession
- Elon Musk bought Twitter
With these times being so hard, people will need some sort of outlet, right? The events I presented were just half of what happened. The United States of America has been facing political strife for quite some time. Political polarization has become a significant issue that often leads to conflicts. Times are stressful, so I want to see what people do to destress. What trends and Social Media were on the rise this time? What trends were teenage girls doing in their rooms to drown out the noise?
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