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Analysis Of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Along with BLM’s extensive action since 2012, their coupled agenda can address the issues of today. A movement cannot have an agenda without leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. is seen by many as a symbol of leadership for the fight for racial equality. Local leaders and organizations of the BLM include Black Youth Project 100, the Dream Defenders, the Organization for Black Struggle, Hands Up United, Millennial Activists United, and the Black Lives Matter national network (“11 Major Misconceptions”). This allows for them to demonstrate that the movement is bigger than any one person and is open to anyone who is committed to working towards freedom. Next, the movement has an extensive agenda. Since the earliest days of the movement in…show more content…
Those who insist on talking about black-on-black crime frequently fail to acknowledge that most crime is interracial. Ninety-three percent of black murder victims are killed by other black people. And is it also the same for whites, eighty-four percent of white murder victims are killed by other white people (“11 Major Misconceptions”). Those who focus on black-on-black crime use it as a diversionary tactic to take down the BLM movement by suggesting that black people do not have the right to be outraged about police violence in vulnerable black communities. The BLM movement acknowledges the crime problem but refuses to locate that the crime problem is a problem of black pathology. Black people are inherently more violent or be involved in more crime than other groups. But black people are more disproportionately poorer, more likely to be targeted by police and arrested, and more likely to attend poorer or failing schools (“11 Major Misconceptions”). Nearly 90 % of documented uses of force by the Ferguson Police Department were used on African-Americans and every documented use of a police canine bite involved African-Americans. Blacks are more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops even after controlling for non-race based variables such as the reason the vehicle stop was initiated (Makarechi). In addition, these social indicators place blacks at greater risk of being a victim of a crime or a
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