Tumblr is a free microblogging site. According to Wikpedia, Tumblr hosts over 197.3 million blogs, more than 95 million posts are created on the site each day and "the service is most popular with the teen and college-aged user segments with half of Tumblr's visitor base being under the age of 25."
As soon as the news broke about the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson and the peaceful protest that followed, the kids were immediately all over what was happening there and they are staying on it.
Below the orange flourish is a scant sampling of the numerous posts about Ferguson. The kids are paying attention, they are angry, they are well aware of the historical context of these civil rights abuses and they are organizing and protesting.
Or as they put it. They #stay woke.
