Did not realize until today that Cyntoia Brown had already been in prison for 15 years I thought this whole thing was recent and they had tried this 16 year old girl as an adult and sent her to prison last year or some shit she’s fucking 30 now she’s been imprisoned half her life I’m glad she’s getting out in August but I had no idea how much she had already lost
This reminds me of the blocked BLM hashtag post and the Brazilian protest posts that fly around every 9-15months. Issues of the recent past are frequently re-circulated, and I think it’s part of the general drop in media savvyness and internet research that plagues the modern internet.
This is why doing your own research on stuff you see on social media is so important.
No, it was that people simply missed the fact that while she was sixteen when it happened, a decade and a half had passed. The recent discussion of the case was circulating over the past few years because activists were working to get this woman clemecy. It wasn’t a past gone issue, or dated information.
You would know this if you had done your own research on stuff you see on social media. It’s important.
