More Discourteous Than Savages Summary

One of the the most controversial topics of discussion in our nation is the Black Lives Matter movement. This movement has sparked up immensely because of the President in office right now, Donald Trump, and many events transpiring around the nation. The country is at separation between the people who think that Black Lives Matter is a real issue and the people who think it is not. Without a doubt, people need to be considered equally, no matter what is said at the end of the day. America was founded on the idea that every man that walks on the soil will have just as equal opportunities as the next, no matter the race. Three essential reasons people are determined to fight for this cause is to end job discrimination, stop police brutality, and gain equal rights within society.

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.

One individual who believes civility is very significant is P. M. Forni, who wrote the essay, “What is Civility?” to validate his opinion. As a teacher, Forni believes when teachers choose not to teach their students basic civility components, they are failing and that his students should be kind people when it comes to other peoples’ feelings. Also, he believes teaching his students civility is very important and only a positive outcome for them. He first gives each of his students the opportunity during a workshop, to state what they believe civility is and some gave answers like care, consideration, justice, tolerance, etiquette, and tact (Forni 455). He states that doing even the simplest things like saying “please” and “thank you”, and

Martin Luther King Jr.’s effective policy of non-violence. Furthermore, the “Black Lives Matter” movement’s disruptive protest and impassionate public mission statement speeches about the persistent purpose of racial inequality have been disconcerting to many Americans who wonder what the real message for this new generation of civil rights protests are, and if their arguments, tactics, and cause is effective and productive to inciting change. To many times their stances have appeared contradictory and hate filled because of their lack of specific purpose and a central governing body. Responding to this criticism, Black Lives Matter leaders assert this is, “not your grandfather’s civil-rights movement,” to distinguish its tactics and its philosophy from those of nineteen-sixties-style activism. However, despite insinuating they are not typical of older civil rights movements they frequently allude to past civil rights

Barbara Reynolds writes in “It’s Hard for Me to Get Behind Black Lives Matter” about a massive disconnect between here generation and that of the Black Lives Matter movement. She explains how the civil rights generation of the 60’s would love to get behind and support BLM but their strategy is devastating to their movement. Reynolds explains that if the BLM group wishes to be taken seriously then they must heed the advice of the older wiser generations who have lived through this. The times may be different but the messages are all to similar says Reynolds, but a leader is needed to drive home that message for BLM.

In the reading of Brent Staples’s essay and viewing of Clint Smith’s Ted Talk, the Black Lives Matter movement is justified. In Brent Staples’s essay, he never directly states the words “black lives matter”, but if it had been a movement at the time, he would have. “The black lives matter movement was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year-old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder” (blacklives.atter.com/about/). “Black men trade tales like this all the time,” says Staples’ as he talks about one of his reporter friends being mistaken for the killer on a case he was working on. This is just one of the many examples Mr. Staples gives to describe his

Harris County sheriff, Ron Hickman makes this statement at a press conference after a police officer was brutally murdered. “At any point when the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, coldblooded assassinations of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control. We’ve heard ‘black lives matter.’ All lives matter. Well, cops lives matter too. So why don’t we just drop the qualifier and just say ‘lives matter,’ and take that to the bank.” With this statement Hickman is insinuating that black people never protested for peace amongst all races. During the civil rights movement (1954-68) leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall fought for equal rights and to stop the senseless race killing. But as we fast forward 50 years later it seems like we nearly fighting the same battle. So when we say black lives matter, yes we mean only black because it seems to have been forgotten, or never learned. Recently though the movement has come under scrutiny and has been labeled by some as a hate group. I believe BLM is not a terrorist group instead due to all the years of turmoil and hardships it’s about time we fought back to stop the killing and discriminating of black people.

As said before, I am originally from Massachusetts and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. When I came to Georgia, people acted differently than what I was most used to. Because of that, I have a different perspective on the “Black Lives Matter” movement. I love black people so don’t get me wrong here. I just believe that other things should be done in our black communities to stop having to deal with our people dying for no valuable reason every day. I feel like the “Black Lives Matter” movement is just a big blame game. I say this because all we are doing is blaming people “white” race for killing our people. Even though this may be true in some way, there are things that we can do as a race apart of this movement to stop our people from even coming in situations where we could possibly end up dying. There are things that we can do to prevent these problems, like holding programs and mentorships that teach our youth what to do when approached by a police officer. We also need to find ways to get our people out of gangs, selling drugs, doing drugs, and getting into jail. We need to teach our youth to grow up and become successful and not just have the goal of making it to their sixteenth birthday or graduating high school. They should learn how to become successful business owners and not just work for others their entire lives. As a part of this movement, we need to also take

The BLM movement is trying to make their race more important. The BLM movement isn’t trying to let any race partake in their situation. President Trump says this "How can you apologize when you say 'Black Lives Matter,' which is true, 'White Lives Matter,' which is true, 'All Lives Matter,' which is true," Trump asked. "And then they [Black Lives Matter activists] get angry because you said 'white' and 'all' - 'We don't want you to mention that”(Trump). This is showing how black people don't want other people to butt into what they have going on, just like one of my peers said “Why go to a breast cancer walk, and protest about brain cancer”. I feel as if this is selfish in many ways you should speak about anything in everything. Nothing should be left out just because one's not as important then the other, every race should be publicized just like how the BLM movement is.

Civility in the workplace is a mirror of the behavior exhibited in society as a whole. Civility is defined as behavior wherein the respect that is shown toward another person, makes that person feel valued, a beneficiary of mutual respect, effective communication,

Back when Martin Luther King Junior ran the Black Lives Matter movement, the protesters on the other side were not peaceful. It took the lives of many brave and amazing black lives in order for racism to be destructed in America. I am convinced that if you want something to get done truly in America, protests cannot be the only thing to be done.

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.

On November 16th, 2015, a gathering of nearly 150 Black Lives Matter advocates traversed into Dartmouth Hall in New Hampshire, shouting belligerent phrases at the students. The students were assaulted and they received colossal amounts of racial slurs from the activists. Those activists compromised their own safety as well as the safety of innocent students over a freedom they don’t believe they had been granted. In cases like that, those people believed that the freedom they desired was more important than their own safety as well as others safety. Moreover, a decent amount of these people feel they are unsafe because of the lack of their own

the focus of Black Lives Matter is being articulated less as a demand for specific civil or political rights, and more as a broader claim for “black humanity.” Martin Luther King also used the language of human rights to internationalize the issue of racial inequality in the United States. BLM movement is following in king’s footsteps, taking a stance and demanding action. Both movements fight for freedom but in ways that seem to be opposite of the other, one in love, and one in hate.

Black Lives Matter which began as a hashtag, moved the black lives matter from a hashtag to the streets. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within some Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black, keeping straight cisgender Black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all. Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements. It is a tactic to (re)build the Black liberation movement (Black Lives matter, 2016). The movement has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment. Neither police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement. which has confounded the politicians and the news media, accustomed as they are to using the same old scripts to discuss race and protest without challenge (Petersen-Smith, 2015). According to the founders, Black Lives Matter, addresses the ways in which Black people are deprived of our basic human rights and dignity. It is an acknowledgement Black poverty and genocide is state violence.