How does the “remix” and “back in the day”/ “old school narratives” inform an Afrofuturistic approach to activism and rhetorical performance? What is the theoretical work of the “remix?”

I believe that the "remix" and “back in the day”/ “old school narratives”  in the modern context eludes to the younger generations (people born in the 90s-present) of black life taking the concepts within black activism from the Civil Rights Movement and before and reinterpreting and using these same concepts of black activism and tailoring them to fit modern platforms, needs, and situations that these concepts would need to be used in today's situations such as police brutality, discrimination in the workplace, mass incarceration, and other forms of systemic racism that still arise to this day despite the fight for civil rights in the sixties.   The messages that black activism is based upon are also easier to bring awareness to due to the availability different forms of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram that make the art of spreading the same messages that were used and preached 50+ years ago during the Civil Rights Movement and further explaining how the same messages and issues still apply today, but either in different forms or in slightly different situations.

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