Personal Narrative: Black Lives Matter

In the article “The Problem with Saying All Lives Matter”, Tyler Huckabee (2015) states that it’s decreasing the relevant of “All Black Lives” and represents a complete misunderstanding of the phrase “Black lives Matter. He acknowledges the view that people are not decreasing the relevant truth of “All Black Lives Matter”, but the emphasis of his argument is to educate people who don’t see the flaw and what the outcome of this movement may be in result. He provides an example of, a 17-year-old boy named Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot while he was walking back from a convenience store. Due to this incident, three women named Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi (Founders of BLM) began tweeting #blacklivesmatter, it had transformed

According to Central Florida Future “ Black Lives Matter is simply us saying,”Our lives are valid”.It is not the same as “Our lives are more important than yours”(Debouse and Ellison). When this movement was created it's not a movement for Black lives only matter, this movement is bringing attention to African-American lives do matter as well as everybody else's lives. The Christian Science Monitor states “Other supporters point out that responding to “Black Lives Matter” by saying “all lives matter” minimizes the problems faced by black Americans, and undercuts their message”(Fredrikson). Just by saying all lives matter, which they do, but the African-American folks feel they are excluded from all lives matter because if everybody's life did matter police and other people would not be victimizing the blacks as the bad guys. The attention people have brought to this movement is amazing because now more and more people are understanding and learning as to why is movement started and what is the reason they are doing it for. Celebrities such as Beyonce, Snoop Dogg and Stevie Wonder have brought attention to this movement by sharing their opinion on social media, interviews etc. In conclusion, Black Lives Matter has a valid reasoning to be a positive

Yes, All Lives Matter, but when people say “Black Lives Matter”, they are specifically talking about Black issues, not everyone's

I get the Black Lives Matter movement. I too have said that all lives matter, but in the current context, no lives matter more than black lives right now because they are right, far too many black lives have been taken unnecessarily. Many people have demonized the BLM movement because of the words of a few people who have threatened the lives of white

President Obama said, "When people say Black Lives Matter, that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter." On August of 2014, The Blacks Lives Matter movement began. Why the movement started was because of a white police officer shot a black man Michael Brown just 18 years old. They say it was because they thought he was pulling out a weapon. But, was it really because of a weapon or racial injustice. If it was just of racism and personal thoughts the man should not be a police officer if he puts other people in danger. Also, this is not the first time racism has taken place, not just now it was back in 1400´s. Racism takes place today when you walk down the street and you hear racism, or there is racism on social media. Why did blacks and whites become separate identities? Why did blacks begin to be treated not equal

they aren’t saying black lives are more important than white lives but rather that black citizens

People say that all lives matter instead of black lives matter but in certain situations that is incorrect. There have been many cases of police using

I don’t like talking about politics publically via social media, but since this is the only platform where I can express myself vividly without any interruptions or interventions by someone who is attempting to diminish or downgrade my personal opinion. People have the notion that “Black Lives Matter” means blue, white or all lives does NOT matter. That is simply not TRUE. Saying “Black Lives Matter” is trying to highlight that there is demonstrable evidence that black lives matter LESS than white lives to the criminal justice system ( and the America government as a whole). In other words, black lives does are not valued in comparison to white people. A lot of people are not familiarize with the judicial system in its entirety- how

But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity ; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored

I am sick of seeing black lives matter, blue lives matters. Post on Facebook. I really am. ALL LIVES MATTER, it doesn't matter if your black, white, blue or green, straight, gay, or bi, rich or homeless, male or female. You're life matters, at least to me it does.

Some folks say and support “Black Lives” and others, “All Lives”. As time go on, things take a turn ‘for the worse’. The ‘turn for the worse’ is due to the mindset of many people and the mass media. With time should come justice, peace and common ground on what is happening, but what if no one is supportive or have no knowledge of what is to come? The saying of “All Lives Matter” is deleterious and ruinous to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and support and to the black community by deteriorating their beliefs, livelihood, and mentality.

people feel that black lives don't matter, never did, and never will. Black men, and women have been

And there’s always a huge argument, with each and every person who just doesn’t get it. Nobody is saying a coloured race is important than every other one – they’re saying that some communities are being persecuted more than others, and that needs to change. But who cares, when the word “black” is all they recognize? “Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter”. Thank you,

I think all lives matter. I served in the military for over 12 years, which is the most diverse company you could think of. I worked with Asians, Hispanic people and African Americans and all of them at one point of another I either called them my brother, sister or even family. Not too long ago my brother in arms, who I served with for 4 years, recently was honorably discharge from the military. He moved back home to Atlanta, GA; and with all this killings and murders of black people, he joined the Black Lives Matter protests. It is very disturbing and painful for me to see, that he has to go through such event just to defend his rights and race, and fight for his freedom. On daily basis innocent people die whether they are black, Hispanic or white, All Lives Matter, but I also understand the issue that African American people have to deal with every day.

But it has been proven time and time again that black people do not measure up to white people. And that is where BLM emphasizes that all lives will indeed matter when black lives matter and that it is a proven fact that black people are at a greater risk of being killed by police than white people. If we say "All Lives Matter" it 's an outright erasure of all the sorrow, trauma, pain, tragedies, and PTSD that most black Americans face on a daily basis. A poem from Rankine, Claudia. “Don 't Let Me Be Lonely.” Citizen: an American Lyric, “Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it 's been a martyr for the American dream, it 's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that to happen, the time it takes to change a channel. But sadness is real because once it meant something real. It meant dignified, grave; it meant trustworthy; it meant exceptionally bad, deplorable, shameful; it meant massive, weighty, forming a compact body; it meant falling heavily; and it meant of a color: dark. It meant dark in color, to darken. It meant me. I felt sad.”