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Fade to black on Instagram. Without the violence that has erupted in some American cities, but with a reach that exceeds the borders of that country, the hashtags #TheShowMustBePaused ('The show must stop') and #BlackoutTuesday ('Blackout Tuesday') have brought together the mobilization against racial discrimination. The trigger, the recent death by suffocation of the African American George Floyd after being arrested by agent Derek Chauvin in images that have gone around the planet.
TV channels like MTV, music platforms like Spotify, and tech companies have fueled a second-to-hundreds protest by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. If large companies have announced donations to anti-racism organizations, ordinary users have joined in with a symbolic gesture: publish a simple black image on their social networks . It has become a huge virtual demonstration, with up to 20 million posts in just a few hours.
The initiative has been joined by other great NBA stars such as LeBron James and Stephen Curry, and swimmer Michael Phelps.
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But not only the athletes have spoken. The solidarity of cinema , embodied among other figures by Natalie Portman , has spread to Bollywood. And prominent figures in international music such as Rolling Stones, Madonna and Rihanna have released their black square on Tuesday.
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The initiative has also been joined by Spanish artists of great international projection such as Alejandro Sanz and Rosalía and the actress Paula Echevarría
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A Tuesday that will go down in history for having turned off the color of the brightest social network.
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