Black Lives Matter: Case Study

A necessary and common fight for equality has been one that has survived throughout all of man’s existence. Due to recent racial divide and the product of racial profiling, a movement has risen up to combat these common issues. The most recent and most well-covered is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Even though it has been lauded by some media sources and individuals as the next great movement to champion for civil rights, the Black Lives Matter movement is not the same as the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s nor is it likely to be as successful. If the Black Lives Matter Movement continues with discrepancies in ideology, lack of clear leadership, and trends of hate, the movement is doomed to fail.

In the United States, there has been many cases of Racial injustice. From the beginning of the start of the United States of America it was the injustice to the Native Americans being captured and used for slave labor while their bison be slaughtered for sportsmanship. But this paper is on the specific race of the African Americans. There are many races that have been racially profiled and ostracized by the English people. But the treatment that African Americans have endured even till this day is disheartening. African Americans have gone through enslavement during the early 1600’s to the mid 1800’s. Then the African Americans were obstructed by the Jim Crow laws creating the ‘Separate but Equal” propaganda during the late 1800’s into the 1960’s. After the abolishment of the Jim Crow Laws, people were considered equal until the recent actions of many police officers using deadly force on African American youths in the early 2000’s.

Imagine the idea of living in a society where you are segregated from your peers as a result of the colour of your skin. Envision living in a place that you no longer wish to call home because the people around you are being eradicated left right and center.

The deaths of unarmed African American males such as Michael Brown, spread across many social media platforms causing some people to fight for more rights for African Americans (Hafner). The Black Lives Matter movement was a major spark in kneeling during the National Anthem, as it brought the treatment of people to the media's attention and called for a resolution (Hafner). One athlete who quickly became involved with the protest was Colin Kaepernick, who decided to take a knee to raise awareness on the importance of African American lives (Sandritter). Colin began kneeling to use his fame to gain the attention of the media. He wanted to use his fame and gain attention in order to emphasize the treatment of African Americans across the country (Sandritter). As this protest continuously spreads across the country many people disagreed with the form of protest causing problems throughout the

The widely popular and controversial Black Lives Matter Movement not only draws attention to police brutality against black bodies, it also expose institutional racism seen within the public school system. Therefore, this movement becomes a valuable opportunity for both teachers and students to discuss race relations in classroom. So, how can classrooms benefit from and contribute to this movement? Studies show that if classrooms actively engage in relevant social issues teachers can improve the quality of instruction and actually maximizes students’ learning experience (Perlstein, 2002). A successful example of a revolution beginning in the classroom happened at the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School (OCS) established in 1971 (formerly

Colin Kaepernick’s protest gained national attention due to his position in the NFL. Realizing that his protest would reach a much wider audience than any regular citizen, he chose to demonstrate that something needed to be done about the

After what we heard about the brutality of police officers to the African-American community, Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement started by there strong women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. The movement first started in 2013, when a police officer brutally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old student in Florida. BLM movement was first started on the social network website Twitter by the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. I heard the whole keynote that was presented by Bobby Vaughn. Actually his last statement had an effect on me “All lives matter, black lives matter, LGBTQ lives matter, muslims lives matter.” It made me realize that it is not only my life or my family’s lives, but also every human being. We need to be treated equally

“We are outraged and heartbroken over today’s verdict,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the N.A.A.C.P. “We stand with Trayvon’s family and we are called to act. We will pursue civil rights charges with the Department of Justice, we will continue to fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state and we will not rest until racial profiling in all its form is outlawed.”

Black Lives Matter movement was began by three African-American women by the names of Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza began in response to seventeen year old Trayvon Martin’s murder, resulting in the accused, George Zimmerman being acquitted in July 2013, and to add insult to injury, by many, Trayvon Martin appeared to have been put on trial for his own murder by being portrayed as the aggressor leading the jury to believe this resulted in his death.

Colin Kaepernick started his protest by sitting down on the bench at the sidelines while the national anthem played. After that happen a veteran caught his attention and decided to say what he wanted to say to Colin Kaepernick so Colin invited

Black Lives Matter is a movement against violence and systemic racism toward black people. At least 102 unarmed black people were killed by cops in 2015. In the essay by Brent Staples, he explains in one of his paragraphs, that he knew a black journalist that was working on a story on a murderer. While the journalist was in his car, cops came to him at gunpoint thinking that ha was the murderer. This is what Brent wrote,” I never fared as badly as another black male journalist. He went to nearby Waukegan, Illinois, a couple of summers ago to work on a story about a murderer who was born there. Mistaking the reporter for the killer, police officers hauled him from his car at gunpoint and for his press credentials would probably have tried

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept across America. It 's branched out with chapters in over 31 cities and held rallies and boycotts across the United States(Sidner). The Black Lives Matter movement started with the outrage of the death of a young man. It continues to take over headlines and raise awareness on police brutality and inequality. However, the movement has met resistance from the All Lives Matter group. This group thinks that Black Lives Matter is a movement to express hatred towards other races. However, statistics, the views of fellow citizens, and the overall purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement, can prove that the movement wasn 't meant to express hate on other races and that we need to support the movement instead of going against it.

A close examination of the online representation of a fringe community or counterculture would be the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement is a community in America that has represented itself after all of the many innocent African American lives that have taken by law enforcement and the Caucasian male who went into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and opened fire on the members of the church. The Black Lives Matter movement has become a worldwide movement for those of the African American culture. According to the website, blacklivesmatter.com, “This is Not a Moment, but a Movement. #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our de-humanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes” (blacklivesmatter.com). A personal example I can provide was when I saw the movie “Straight Outta Compton.” This movie showed scenes of the police beating an African American male who was not doing anything wrong. The Caucasian policeman just thought he had the right to treat the

The titles of both songs are different, as is their composition. The 2003 version of the song has the title Where is the love, whereas the 2016 version is titled #WheresTheLove. The use of the hashtag in the title symbolizes the digital mindset that people in 2016 currently live in. The internet had not yet taken off in 2003 and there wasn’t an obsession with social media at this point. In 2016 everything is focused around the concept of instant information. When something significant happens in the U.S., the majority of people have that information in hand instantly through their handheld technologies. The increased use of technology has sparked a surge of social movement. This can be seen through multiple campaigns, one example would be the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement first began following the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of the officer who shot him. This movement began with a simple hashtag. Now in 2003 the hashtag was better known as a pound sign whereas in 2016 it is a classic trademark of social media platforms. The hashtag allows one’s beliefs to be categorized into a short statement. Supporters of the statement will then begin using the hashtag, thus causing a snowball effect. As the hashtag #blacklivesmatter began to swarm platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, awareness grew of the movement. “Social media has allowed its members to share documentary evidence of police abuse, spread activist messages, and

This article is looking at the case of gun shooting in Charlotte, The United States which makes Black Lives Matter step in. Black Lives Matter is a movement which rising up at this very moment. This movement is basically about the discrimination of race. Yet humans are equal with no discrimination. And every human in this word are having the thing called human right without looking at their religion, race, skin color, or another status. It stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or UDHR, article 2. But then, the shooting of Keith Scott, who was waiting for his child’s bus to arrive, by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department or CMPD make the society become cautious. The shooting become a violation of the human right because