The African-American Community 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.

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)”.

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.

The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the murder of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. About a year after Martin’s death, an 18 year-old unarmed male, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. That sparked weeks of protests. Years later, Asians, Latinos, and some whites joined in and realized how big of a problem this was becoming. As the years go by, the BLM Movement will keep growing and will not go

In 2013,George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges after wrongfully killing an innocent black teenager, Trayvon Martin. As a result, the Black Lives Matter movement,which started as a hashtag on twitter, emerged as the modern day civil rights movement. Over the past decade, BLM activists gave a new voice and platform to marginalised communities, especially the black community. They organized manifestations, protests and sit-ins that were very successful. For example, BLM organized demonstrations in Ferguson that caught national attention after another white officer wrongfully killed Michael Brown a year later. Black lives Matter’s agenda also included meetings and discussions with law enforcers on how to ameliorate policing in these communities.

The current political climate in America over the death of unarmed black men has led to our generation newest current civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter. The purpose of Black Lives Matter is “to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes...and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive”(Black Lives Matter). The Black Lives Matter movement seeks to achieve a society where African Americans don’t have to fear racial profiling, fear being killed by police officers, or to judge by the color skin and not by their character. This movement came after the death of Trayvon Martin

Over 100 years ago, the term slaves arose when blacks were separated from their families and freedom, then consequently forced into hard working labor for the white individuals’ benefit, confiscating all their rights. Approximately 50 years ago, the Civil Rights movement was conducted in order to restore the equal rights under the American law. Currently, those of color are still constantly fighting to regain rights and justice that were seized from them years ago. Roughly around 5 years ago, the Black Lives Matter movement became an active nationwide organization involved to protect the lives of African Americans, all occurring due to the unjustifical death of Trayvon Martin. Unlike other civil rights movements, the Black Lives Matter movement is intended to raise awareness of the police brutality, inequality, and racism which has

Because of the tragic shooting of Trayvon, three black women launched #BlackLivesMatter and it took the social media world by storm. As more black men and women were fatally shot by white police officers and justice never brought to the families of the deceased, protest began to spread like wildfire in cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Dallas. “Is My Son Next?’ posters waved high in the sky as the protesters chanted “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!” The movement helps move the conversation of the oppression mthat black lives to the mainstream media and showcases that these young men and women are not to be forgotten because of the color of their skin (“The Oppression of Black Lives is Borderless,”

A topic that I feel strongly about in todays culture is that of the black lives matter movement. I think that there is most definitely a problem of racism going on in our country right now, there are many cases of police attacks on black men that gives us good reason to connect it to racism. But personally I think the media blows up some issues way bigger than they need to. In some cases I think that some media engagements are making things worse. Such as when people go on air and make claims that are really just assumptions. I think that before so much information put out when no one really knows what actually happened is damaging to the situation. It can cause people to not become angry when there isn't a reason and cause damage to not only

Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, that speaks against racism , and violence towards black people. Black Lives Matter organization was founded by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza. Black Lives Matter originated in 2012. Over a period of time, the black lives movement has revolutionized the world regardless of the policies. This movement has been known for their acts of protest and their will to not give up. This movement shows the need for people to voice their beliefs and how they feel about injustice. For example, after the cold-blooded murder of Trayvon Martin, many questions were left unanswered. What was his rights? There has been so many traumatizing experiences that black people had to withstand

Isn’t amazing that still in the 21st century, African Americans still do not have equal rights in this day in age? Many African Americans are upset with the current way they are treated in the country. Black Lives Matter is an American movement supported by celebrities, which have encouraged the movement and its accomplishments, including the goal of seeing African Americans treated as equal. Take a look at the history of Black Lives Matter.

From the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the news outlets have played a huge role in how it is perceived by everyday Americans. Many Americans heavily rely on the news outlets to present them with a clear and accurate picture of a wide range of issues, especially the Black Lives Matter Movement. But what happens when the news outlets misrepresents the movement and what it stands for? Some interpretations of the movement argue that differential treatment of African Americans by the police cannot be ignored any longer, thus placing emphasis on police brutality and the injustice of the judicial system as a whole. Others argue that the valuing of black lives should start with the black community through the acknowledgement of “black

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.

There are many social movements to choose, support, or get behind. No matter what social movement you support, want to change, or what you’d like to see happen in this world this is an amazing quote from Rutgers Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor "The scarring consequences of decade after decade, group after group, strangers to each other, enemies even within the same land, separated by an architecture of segregation, an economy of inequality, a politics of polarization, a dogma of intolerance. We witness the loss of a new future, struck down. And we wonder aloud, what we can do differently". This speak volumes to me as I am frequently heard saying “when I rule the world things will be so different.” I understand I cannot rule the world but, what

When people form exclusive political alliances with others that share the same beliefs as they pertain to religion, race, gender, sexuality and social background this is what is defined as identity politics. Identity politics can be counter-intuitive in politics as both groups would achieve less given the intergroup hostility and oppression while attempting to gain an advantage at the other group’s expense. For instance, the Black Lives Matter movement manifested a division amongst the black and white races, the police and civilians, the democrats and republicans, and the privileged and penalized.