Black Lives Matter 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.

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.

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

Black Lives Matter is an African-American movement that is fighting against racial discrimination against Black Americans and police brutality. This

The black lives matter movement has been in the news is a major social movement since Mike Brown was shot in Ferguson Missouri. Since that event, there have been many spin-offs to the black lives matter cause. White lives matter, blue lives matter, and Hispanic lives matter. This has become a more divisive idea instead of being a cause that can invoke change. Given my background and personal experience, all lives matter; even the ones that wear bulletproof vests and guns on their hip.

In the wake of the 2014 grand jury decision to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the death of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown, social media activists from around the world vented their anger and sadness about the result with the Black Lives Matter hashtag. While there were many documented cases of police brutality before Michael Brown’s death, this was the one that truly popularized the Black Lives Matter Movement (Acosta). The Black Lives Matter movement is “working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise” (About), as well as highlighting the contributions Black lives have made to society.

Words can either help the cause or bring further confusion, which in the end destroys the solution to that issue. Kenneth Burke once stated “Rhetoric is the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actions in other humans” (Pitchford, Aug 31 2016) The very way something is stated can either bring forth the support and encouragement needed or cause a major divide amongst those who want a change and those who don’t perceive the issue as a real problem. The media does a great job of taking issues and flipping the mission statements of many groups to gather a response from others. This phenomenon is known as miscommunication, which happens on the daily with anyone who uses words to communicate ones views and understandings.

Since America was founded, African Americans have been treated unfairly. This was changed drastically when slavery was abolished and even more when they got Civil Rights. Despite change and triumph, to this day there are still setbacks and the need for equality is as prominent as it has ever been. Because of this, movements like #BlackLivesMatter are necessary and progressive. Black Lives Matter is not a racist movement and is necessary to the fight for equality.

When a subculture enters into a society, most of the time their core values are not seen as important to the dominant group. The subculture’s values have a lower chance of being understood and their beliefs will always be blocked out as well as be pushed away. Take the Blavk Lives matter movement for example. Black Lives Matter not only increased African American unity, it was created to promote the importance of African American lives since lately they have been seen as not being important. In my opinion, ever since this movement was created and increased, there has been more hate toward the African American people. When the movement was first created is talked down upon by dominant groups and those people ever truly understood the meaning of this. In fact there has always been controversy over the movements meaning. People who were not a part of African American culture believed that were only promoting black lives and no one else. Instead African Americans were tired of their lives being taken away without much reason. The Black Lives Matter movement would be the result of a subculture coming together to broadcast to society their core values.

The Black Lives Matter movement has been floating through social media for many years now. According to the official Black Lives Matter website “Black Lives Matter is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. We are working to rebuild the Black liberation movement.”  The movement was formed against law enforcement officers murdering African Americans because of fear. Black Lives Matter was created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, a group of activists who are now close friends.The movement was created in 2012 after George Zimmerman was found innocent for the murder of Trayvon Martin. There were many unlawful crimes involving police officers killing African Americans that have affected the supporters of Black Lives Matter.

The foundations of the identity of the United States of America are rooted protest. Protest has led to the development of the ideal democracy we pride ourselves on as a nation. Many other countries impose governmental limitations on how much resistance you can give to the status quo of that nation, however, the freedom to express yourself as you see fit is a right truly taken for granted in the United States. A protest is defined as “an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid”. Protests have led to some of the most renowned changes and moments in U.S. history. This includes, but is not limited to, the abolition of slavery, the right

I thought this topic was very interesting in how they looked at the Black Lives matter movement. This podcast has me thinking about how the activists in the Black Lives Matter movement can maybe become lobbyist after hearing what the individuals on the podcast mentioned. I feel like they take on the position as lobbyist but they are more aggressive but not in a bad way. I know many that see the Black lives matter movement as sometimes being rude. For instance, the whole Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton incidents that recently occurred while they were campaigning. The Black Live Matter activist are more so trying to get their voices heard rather than how over the years everyone listens but yet nothing really gets accomplished. Recently, I

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 cannons have silenced, the veterans are long passed. Nothing but the cemeteries, stoic headstones a melancholy reminder, remain. The country is once again at peace, at least, one would assume. By keeping the memory of the Civil War and what it stands for alive, we are guaranteeing that a like issue will never present itself again. And yet, it already has. The separate and combined issues of racism, intolerance and lack of communication are discussed daily in every newspaper, countrywide. To change that, school systems need to address the root of those issues in our nation by discussing the Civil War, thus educating the future generations of adults on how to fix the problems they have grown up witnessing. It is critical that students learn

Considering the financial environment and condition of Ferguson, Missouri city officials faced a series of constraints both financially and politically. Although following the death of Brown, there was little to no change in the make-up of the city council members, the police chief and several police officers left the department. In addition to this loss of much needed staff, protests lead by members of the Black Lives Matter movement continued to lead a growing number of protests throughout the city. As previously mentioned, Missouri’s Governor, Jay Nixon approved the joining of forces for Missouri State Highway Patrol, St. Louis County Police, and St. Louis Metropolitan Police. This collaboration included an additional 5,000 hours of training