Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Movement

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.

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.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a loosely‐coordinated, nationwide movement dedicated to ending police brutality that rose to prominence in late 2014. It takes its name from a hashtag started by three Black feminist activists Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi but the movement and the hashtag are not identical (Freelon, McIlwain, & Clark, 2016). BLM has achieved national reputation through their online and offline organizing, obtaining extensive news media coverage and glowing references in music and entertainment television. Based on a horrendous incident that sparked a concern for a lot of Black people across the world, the sudden need for a social movement was born called BLM. Black Lives Matter is a national organization working for the validity of Black life and also working to rebuild the Black liberation movement. Black Lives Matter broadens the conversation and highlight the incidents around state violence to include the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state. This referring to the ways in which Black lives are deprived of basic human rights and dignity. According to the article The Murder of Walter Scott, which talks about race and class, “African Americans are less than 13% of the U.S. population yet they are nearly 50% of those killed by the police. North Charleston has a population of 104,000, 47% Black and the police force is 80% white (Miah, 2015)”.

Everyone sees the subject of police brutality as something that creates racial tension and divides us as a nation. I contest this argument because the truth is, the citizens of the United States are tired of seeing this issue and are UNITING to protest what is becoming a norm for Police. The most publicized organization that is attacking this issue at its source is comprised of people across the nation and the group is identified as “Black Lives Matter”. While there is no official

Social movements are vital to the establishment of our societies, and they way we are governed. Social movements help the less privileged band together to create a stronger voice among a sea of political correctness and unlawfully rule that the public supposedly have to abide by without question. Movements create this new form of platform that, if done successfully, are able to create a worldwide frenzy where people from across all walks of life, including politicians, academics, the less fortunate, the homeless, doctors, etc, are able to come together to create change, or to start to create change on a matter that is close to their hearts. One of these matters that has come up in recent years that has been an ongoing battle for centuries upon centuries is Black Lives Matter (Although named various things throughout time such as black civil rights). Black Lives Matter is a movement that started back in 2012 after George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime against a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin, and Trayvon was then put on trial for his own murder (Garza, A. 2014, p. 1.). This crime was just the tipping point for three women who wanted to see a change in the way black lives were/are treated. Black Lives Matter is one of the most important socio-political movements of our time, and this is why it is an important movement to connect with and understand. Throughout, I will be going through the strategies and the tactics Black Lives Matter advocates and cofounders have

In 2012, a movement started so called Black Lives Matter. It started after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and 17-year-old Trayvon was put on trial after his death for his own murder. This movement is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of black people by police and vigilantes. African-Americans horrible died after being turned away from hospitals reserved for whites. “Black Lives Matter” focuses mainly on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of police, as a matter of fact polices have gotten to the point of shooting them to death. It has been going on for years, Negros have been treated like trash, and they have been slaves for years in the early

Following World War I, a new, militant spirit of resistance and activism burgeoned among African-American citizens across the United States. Empowered by the sense that blacks had played a crucial role in the conflict, the descendants of freedmen returned home to fight for their own rights only to find persecution; this dire situation called for immediate, decisive action. During the interwar years, African Americans in the southwest Georgia Black Belt fought for community empowerment and, through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and numerous other political and labor-oriented groups, established a significant organizing tradition, thereby laying the

Even though America is the world dominating superpower and is known to intervene on behalf of the violation of human rights internationally, it fails to acknowledge and correct the flaws its legal and justice system present against its own citizens. African Americans have long been targeted by the police force and have been oppressed by the government before, as we are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement that occurred in 1955 due to segregation and discrimination. The system has justified racial profiling, specifically against African Americans, and granted those with authority the right to incarcerate or punish those they deem dangerous. The actions of the American government have given way to the increase incarceration of African Americans and have allowed white privilege to prevail in the justice system. The social movement Black Lives Matter, although recently acknowledged or recognized, is not based on a new issue but rather an old issue that is quickly reviving due to the injustices Black Americans are facing. In short, social movements are known as politics through other means. They occur when people take to the streets in order to have their voices heard by authority and feel as if they are unable to

When President Lincoln abolished slavery, it didn’t stop. Black’s were discriminated and hated upon and this is when Jim Crow Laws were established. The southern's wanted a way to keep the blacks enslaved. They weren’t able to use the same public facilities as whites, had to walk through the backdoor, and most couldn’t vote. Through the 1950s and 1960s, African-Americans wanted to gain equal rights. This began with the Civil Rights movement. Today we are seeing history repeat itself. Black Lives Matter was established in July 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. It was created to ensure the protection of black, transgender, women, and undocumented people. Black Lives Matter stands up for police brutality and misconduct

Imagine being black in America, hearing the siren of a law enforcement vehicle, with the flashing lights of red, and blue prevailing though your back window. What do you do? How do you act? Knowing that simple traffic stops like this can turn for the worse with just one false move. Recently, some African Americans, whom was unarmed, was killed by law enforcement officers for absolutely no justifiable reason. Even though the frequency of police officers killing unarmed black men is lower than the past years, social media brings it to light with the visual of the actual footage of these men being killed. These incidents of officers killing unarmed black men have been happening for the longest now; the only thing that change is that now we have camcorders that show us the incidents happening. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States, is comparable to the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement but includes diverse motivations and mindsets.

The controversy surrounding Black Lives Matter has been ongoing for some time now, but the intensity has be increased over the last few years. Many people support the Black Lives Matter movement and agrees with what it represent for the lives that have been taken and the family that are yet and still dealing with the aftermath. When discussing the movement many people have felt offended with the phrase Black Lives Matter because they feel that all lives matter. It is clear that the statement is true but there are certain problems that are happening within the African American communities that are not relatable with other communities. According to “The Washington Post,” a black person is killed extrajudicially every 28 hours, and Black men between the ages nineteen and twenty-five are the group most at risk to be gunned down by police. Therefore, the criticisms towards the Black Lives Matter movement should stop because it doesn’t single out the fact that all lives matter but focuses on the injustice done to African Americans.

If you’ve been living in anywhere but specifically America during the past three to four years, you most likely have heard of the statement Black Lives Matter. The movement began in the wake of the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman after the Florida shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenage boy. Co-founded by three black activist : Alicia Garza, Patrisse, and Opal Tometi(blacklivesmatter.com), the Black Lives Matter movement has become an empowering movement that has spread and is still awareness and bringing a change to racism. All Lives Matter is something we all know. We know no human being deserves to be wrongfully murdered or treated with unnecessary disrespect. This is what

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.

The movement “Black Lives Matter” is as a protest that campaigns against violence, systematic racism, and injustice to the African-American community. The Black Lives Matter moment is not implying that black lives matter as in superior to all other races but due to police misconduct, and their excessive use of force that are taking the lives of this specific race. The color of your skin should not dictate if you lose your life, but unfortunately if you are African-American you are more likely to lose your life to the hands of a police officer than if you were Caucasian. There are innocent African-American men, young African-American boys and girls, and African-American women, some pregnant, being shot right in front of their loved ones by police officers and justice is not being served in these cases. The overall role of police in America is to protect and to serve, however police officers are abusing their power, not following proper protocol and are playing the “victims” in situations that were simple as a traffic stop that somehow turned into a police officer taking the life of an innocent person. The family’s that are left

Unfortunately, it appears that the United States is still dealing with racial issues that seem to be negatively affecting people’s everyday life, especially the people of color. In the year 2016 alone, 963 people have been fatally shot by the police throughout the United States. Although 266 people were black out of 1093 people, “the black male aged 15-34 were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by law enforcement last year”. Likewise, there have been hundreds of incidents where black people have been ill-treated by police even for crimes they did not commit. It is also true that majority of black communities in the U.S are much less privileged than the white community in terms of access to health care, education, housing and job opportunities. Therefore, in recent years the world has witnessed numerous movements such as the “black lives matter” and the protest by the professional athletes.