Aunt Al Did The Right Thing: Racial Injustice

For decades black Americans have been treated as animals, looked at as if they are monsters, and killed like bugs. Actions like Police brutality and racism is what caused Black Lives Matter. The creation of the Black Lives Matter was a response by the black community to give a voice to black Americans affected by the increase of wrongful deaths due to the law enforcements and vigilantes across the country. This has been going on for so long that it seems like we are stuck in the past. For years, even decades black Americans have had to live the struggle of being equal. Even when things are going good and we think we finally have the same rights, something happened to change that. It is time to shed a light on the real purpose of Black Lives Matter and why they are important to today's society.

2) Although in this day and age, racial segregation is not considered an 'official' problem, and there is no longer seperate lunch rooms and drinking fountains for black and white people. There is an seemingly increasing amount of outrage being expressed by the black community in America. The #BlackLivesMatter is a black empowerment movement, breaking down the walls of insitutaionalised racism and defying the heirachy that dictates white supremacy.

When you hear “Black Lives Matter” someone else will try to refute your argument with “All Lives Matter.” The context of “Black Lives Matter” is not that other lives don’t have worth. The context of “Black Lives Matter” is that the value of black lives remains under assault in the United States. When people say, “Black Lives Matter,” they are acknowledging an important context that involves several centuries of slavery, civil rights, mass incarceration and brutality. It highlights the value of black lives because historically, this country often ignored that value. The problem with saying “All Lives Matter,” it that it ignores the context. There is a difference between saying something is true and something is relevant. For example, it’s like going to a Cancer fundraiser and screaming ‘There are other diseases too!’ Or when a parent says,” I love my son,” you don’t say “What about your daughter? Don’t you love all your children?” When a person says, “Black Lives Matter” we should not say “All Lives Matter.” It is an attempt to diminish the ongoing reality of white supremacy in America. It’s a demeaning way of other people’s stories. And yes, some people associate themselves with #blacklivesmatter have called for police deaths. But the cries of few groups do not invalidate an entire

Over 100 years ago, the term slaves arose when blacks were separated from their families and freedom. They were forced into hard working labor and all rights obtained previously was confiscated by white individuals. Approximately 50 years ago, the Civil Rights movement was conducted in order to restore the equal rights under the American law. Currently, those of color are still constantly fighting to regain rights and justice that was seized from them years ago. Approximately 5 years ago, the Black Lives Matter movement became an active nationwide organization involved to protecting the lives of African Americans, all occurring due to the unjustifical death of Trayvon Martin. Unlike other civil rights movements, the Black Lives Matter

Today in the United States of America, there are many different people from many different ethnic backgrounds. The Black Lives Matters movement is stirring up racial separation, rather than promoting reasonable solutions. Their dishonest anti-police views are causing police everywhere to second guess themselves.

This call for racial justice by the NAACP was not unjustified by the actions of the country during this time. With the turn of the century many African Americans left the southeastern states their ancestors lived in and moved north. Despite the expectations of a better life many found themselves still in poverty, without work and, victims

As a result, other organizations such as Blue Lives Matters, and All Lives Matters erupted too. The Blue Lives Matters Movement was created to protect police officers and their families. The All Lives Matters Movement was established to ensure that all lives matter and not just black lives. The argument between Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter has been a heated discussion on social media for some time now. Indeed, all lives do matter, but the number of blacks killed from in the past five years says otherwise. Black Americans have a different experience than other races in the United States. Even though today, everyone in American are “supposedly” given the same opportunity to prosper, some hurdles are put into place for black Americans than any other race in the United States. Black Americans are more likely to get stopped by police than white Americans. Such acts as buying a house, car, or applying for a job position may be more difficult for an African American with the same credentials as a white American. People who do not understand how the Black Lives Matter Movement is an establishment to help aid the oppression of blacks without belittling other races are like that because they do not experience the “black experience” in America. Not to say that white people aren’t killed by policemen, but white Americans aren’t targeted by policemen. During the mass shooting of the church in Charleston, South Carolina committed by Dylann Roof, for example, he was labeled as “mentally ill”. When the shooting of the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut happened, the shooter was also labeled as “mentally ill”. When blacks are killed wrongfully, usually a picture of an old mugshot appears as the cover face. Surveillances and voice recordings of murders of unarmed blacks on national television are displayed. Officers involved in such cases received little

"No one will dispute that slavery and Jim Crow were horrible and inhumane; no one will dispute that discrimination still exists, though only a delusional person would deny that America has made radical, dramatic, inspiring progress in the last 40 years.” This is very true. Even though, slavery and segregation seem very far away, it hasn’t even been a century since these events. I think that our country is in the identification phase of helping African American. You watch the news, and they often exaggerate white on black crime. For awareness, this is great, however the image you get is somewhat deceiving. People, then make the assumption that our most of our white officers are racists, and we need to help out the community. So in my opinion, some people are protesting black lives matter for the wrong reasons. Moving forward, the African American community’s transgression needs to taken into consideration heavily. Many government moves have shown great promise, but where there is a good effect being produced, there is an inverse effect happening somewhere else.The United States have created many laws and bills to make this a better country, but “seven out of ten” times, African Americans get the short end of the

The Black Lives Matter movement is a waste of time, money, and political effort. The article, “The Flag is Drenched With Our Blood”, is all fluff. I understand people are very very very easily offended, but please, why are we still bringing up slavery? (I can feel the hate seeping through my computer). Written like an english essay, this article fails to mention as it does in the other, “Hard Data, Hollows Protests”, how most of the violence is blacks to blacks. How the statistics are taken in the slums of beaten down parts of cities all across the US. And in regards to police brutality only on the rarest of occasions do we see the abuse of power over manipulation and false accusations of the plaintiff. Even spoken in class, we discuss how

Whether there are homicides, riots, or any other cases of destruction, America has faced problems that we need to solve. A problem that America faces is the Black Lives Matter movement. Does this movement include violence and havoc? Absolutely! Black people who assume that their lives matter instead of anyone else’s are entitled. Not all African Americans are entitled, and there are black people who know that this movement is wrong. Derryck Green, a member of the national advisory council for the National Center is qualified to speak on this subject. He agrees that black lives matter like everyone else, but he thinks it is pathetic how many African Americans turn a peaceful protest to a violent one. This movement is misguided by many citizens in this country. Do you think you

Black lives matter is a movement that started after Trayvon Martin was murdered. George Zimmerman was the man who shot Trayvon, and George was found innocent. The movement sparked from this event and continued to grow as more and more events like the Trayvon Martin killing began to surface. The purpose of this movement is to end police brutality and racism against black men and women (Black Lives Matter, 2016). Police brutality is a major issue in the United States. Over the last few years, the media has brought more attention to this brutality than ever before. Many races believe that they are being targeted by police more often than others particularly black men. The media has brought so much attention to these crimes that people have formed organizations like Black lives matter, and people have started protesting after the events. Many people believe that all cops are racist, there are no good cops anymore, but that is simply not true. Police have a very hard job to do, and sometimes a few bad seeds can give an entire organization a bad reputation. Because of these peoples beliefs, many protests have occurred. Several of these protest have turned violent and became riots. These riots are hurting the communities physically and financially. During these riots, states bring in more police so that they can protect their citizens, but because people are so upset over this more innocent people are being killed. It doesn’t matter if a person is black, white, hispanic or asian,

First and foremost this post is NOT up for a debate I am expressing how I feel and any ignorance will be deleted and blocked.... Black lives matter was started for an awareness, just as any cancer awareness but you don't see anyone getting upset about them. How would you like for someone to try and stop the breast cancer walk and say "well all cancer matters"? That is a known fact but this is the one we are focused on right at that given minute. We as people are blinded by certain situations that go on that we don't typically see. How would you feel if you were in their shoes? How long did it take for a colored person to even have the opportunity to become president (and the list goes on)?? If it was the other way around, I would feel as if the world viewed me as not being good enough.

There is a problem stirring about in America right now: discrimination against black people. Even though the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was long ago, racism still seems to seep into American culture. Recently, many black people who were unarmed, have been slain by police officers all throughout the country. Some were either committing petty crimes such as Eric Garner, and some did not even commit any crimes whatsoever, like Freddie Gray. From these tragedies, rises a movement that has started protesting against the events that have been unfolding recently, and that movement is known by Black Lives Matter. The movement has since then become infamous for their ethics and the way they handle

This is a sensitive topic especially for America with the white supremacy, segregation, slavery, and the "freedom of speech." What I don't understand is why you continued to target me even when I partly agreed with you. People usually use insults as a defense mechanism and you're insulting and implying, TOO MUCH. 1) I'm not African-American. 2) But I am from America. 3) I ASKED WHAT IS WHITE LIVES FIGHTING FOR? *crickets* 4) There is this thing everyone learned in elementary school or as a kid: If you don't have anything to say, say nothing at all. At least I hope you learned that. Even if you don't support Black Lives Matter or White Lives Matter, I still want to know why you took your time to argue. What is your side since you emphasized

When you hear anybody say “black lives matter”, they are saying it for a reason. When they say “black lives matter”, they are trying to say that you can’t just take advantage of black people and do bad things to them, even if they do little things wrong. So many people are stereotyping black people because the small amount of black people who do things wrong and some news station tells everybody what they did wrong, but there is the vast majority of black lives who are actually trying to do something with their life. So these people are just trying to say that a black life is just as good as any other life, whether if it’s an white life, an mexican life, an asian life, and the many many other lives out there, they are all the same.