It wasn't long after Washington, D.C.-based columnist and commentator Roland Martin's "Send the National Guard to Chicago" piece was published on The Daily Beast before Twitter users took to the hashtag #FixingChicago (and later #FixChicago) to offer their own alternative visions for how to combat the shootings, which have particularly plagued Chicago's predominantly minority west and south sides. Activist and writer Mikki Kendall initiated the hashtag.
#FixingChicago looks like keeping schools, clinics, transit and ER's open.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago looks like job programs, access to quality low cost grocery options, health and dental care.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago looks like affordable housing, transit options, & quality educational options for low income families.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago looks like a minimum wage that is a living wage so low income parents don't need two jobs just to survive.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 9, 2014 Many others quickly followed suit:
#FixingChicago means looking at citizens of the city as human beings and not just abstract, nameless, faceless figures.
— Britt Julious (@britticisms) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago means people in Chicago need to stop accepting that certain parts of the city as bad and hopeless.
— kevin house (@kevin_house) July 10, 2014
#FixingChicago means offering more affordable decent housing with in-community grocery stores with affordable fresh food
— JP Fairfield™ (@isitis) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago means building community gardens and teaching people how to grow their own healthy food
— KeshRue (@KeshRue) July 10, 2014
#FixingChicago means crime prevention that doesn't just mean locking up more kids.
— Kenzo Shibata (@KenzoShibata) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago means "jobs are up" matters as much as "crime is down"
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) July 9, 2014
#fixingchicago redistribute tax $ equally to each school. Build new schools, provide funding to more teachers of color. Reduce cost of needs
— Ife (@FreedomLVRFilms) July 10, 2014
#FixingChicago means stop slashing funding towards special education programs and allow mentally challenged individuals to excel.
— Notorious LIV (@GracingTheWorld) July 10, 2014
The media can help in #FixingChicago by not glorifying the gun violence to the point that it is synonymous with Chicago.
— Janel Bailey (@janelatwork) July 9, 2014
How about any developer who wants to use a downtown TIF has to first build in Englewood, Roseland or Washington Heights? #FixingChicago
— Scott Smith (@ourmaninchicago) July 10, 2014
#FixingChicago means investigating the pipeline of illegal guns back to the suppliers. No Black owned firearm manufacturers exists.
— Jerry G! (@JerryLEADS) July 9, 2014
#fixingchicago means we stop giving $100,000,000 to private institutions to build sport arenas and give it to students to get an education.
— Mushroom Man (@AndyNorgate) July 10, 2014
A new mayor would be only a small part of #FixingChicago, but probably a necessary one.
— Joe Macaré (@joemacare) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago includes ensuring the integrity of our PD aligns with public safety and not with profiling or harassment.
— Kyle Urbashich (@kyleurb) July 9, 2014
#FixingChicago means being our own advocates for social change. Time to put the marching boots back on. More to it than banning guns. #pocbf
— Black FreeThinkers (@BlkFreeThinkers) July 9, 2014
#fixingchicago spread resources across all 50 wards. Develop tiny home communities to create affordable housing across city.
— Windy City Times (@WindyCityTimes1) July 9, 2014
Go back 2 decades when these kids are are being shot were born, then find out what was missing or different! History lesson 4 #FixingChicago
— Rookie (@Rookie_Chi) July 10, 2014
#fixingchicago WON'T happen if they "reopen closed prisons" because structural inequality still isn't being addressed.
— Stewart Scott (@godjustchillout) July 10, 2014 The hashtag campaign recalls the efforts of Chicago hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper, who pushed a #SaveChicago hashtag over Twitter to promote peace over last Memorial Day weekend. The city ended up going a rare 42 hours without any shooting incidents, though the streak ended with a series of shootings that wounded 12 people over a period of 10 hours.
Twitter activism has had a big impact in the past. Shortly after her racism scandal broke, celebrity chef Paula Deen's #PaulasBestDishes hashtag was taken over by Twitter users, contributing to her very public downfall. Juror B37 in the George Zimmerman trial also arguably has Black Twitter to thank for losing her book deal with agent Sharlene Martin, who was inundated with angry messages until plans were canceled.
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