The 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.

For the past few years, racial tensions have been on the rise. Although many actions have been taken to prevent these conflicts from occurring, African Americans are still being undervalued by the state. As more African Americans are being turned away with little to no assistance from the American government, anger and the desire for change increased among them. When Trayvon Martin’s murderer George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime, a great number of Americans were furious at the outcome. Three African American women named Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi expressed their view on a Facebook post titled “A Love Note to Black People” and it ends with “Our Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter” (“Black Lives Matter”). Thus, a new liberation movement for black people was born. The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter rapidly spread throughout social media, bringing awareness of the struggles of African Americans. The Black Lives Matter movement is a call to action to eradicate the dehumanization of African Americans that exists in American society. With the constant targeting of African Americans by the police and the unfair treatment in the criminal justice system, the Black Lives Matter movement is a necessity to combat racism.

#BlackLivesMatter is a movement that was started after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an African American from Sanford, Florida. This movement is an response to the anti-black racism in our country similar to the civil-rights movement. The activists for the Black Lives Matter movement took to social media to share their new slogan as a hashtag, “Black Lives Matter was created as new civil rights movement to fight against this new form of racism” (Morrison). The Black Lives Matter hashtag has become the banner for many organizations, and millions of individuals wanting change. This phenomenon seized the nation’s attention; social media played an integral role in shaping this and allowing individuals to dispute prevalent racism in America.

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

The Black Lives Matter movement brought the attention that discrimination is still existing today. With people like President Obama speaking on this issue, it is easy to see that even the most powerful people have been a victim of discrimination. In 2013, Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman for being an African American boy who just looked a little too suspicious while walking home. President Obama released a statement on the matter in the Rose Garden saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” (“From Trayvon Martin to black Lives Matter”) Discrimination has always been something African Americans faced, but hearing this from the President of the united states not only awakened the African Americans’ but It sparked a movement in the nation. The hashtag “#blacklivesmatter” shortly became a trend worldwide after the Zimmerman and Trayvon case. Obama went onto say that, “There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the

BLM or commonly known as Black Lives Matter had been established in 2012, which meant to stand against the allegedly racial inspired killings by police officers and other unlawful acts against minorities in this country. The murder of Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old African American teenager, started the influence behind the making of this group. BLM has gained a big following from all ethnic backgrounds in this country. BLM has become a positive movement among civil rights activists. Anyhow, although this group has put together to fight directly for the rights of African Americans, they also hindered the process of evolving positive outcomes by resorting to violence. The Black Lives Matter group has gained national headlines

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 started because African Americans were getting shot by white police for no reason. “So far this year, police have shot and killed 23 unarmed people, a higher rate than 2016, when 48 unarmed people were killed all year. Both years, about one in three of those people has been black” (The Washington Post). When Michael Brown was shot, a tweet was posted with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Then the hashtag went viral, many people started making a change that created protest’s mostly when trump was elected president because they needed to say the word beside spreading violence. Social media started

Black lives matter or BLM is a international movement that started in the African-American community that is against violence and racist systems against black people. The BLM movement has not achieved its purpose and it was a successful movement.

　　Black Lives Matter is formed by people who think the African-American are treated unfairly. The founders of Black Lives Matter are Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullers. Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement which originated in the United States. This activist movement is happening because the blacks are treated so poorly by the Caucasian polices in many different types of situations. A situation such as, if a Caucasian person robs something, they will be arrested calmly or slight harm. In comparison to a black person they would possibly be surrounded by a group of police or physically harmed. There are many people who are protesting fo those who were not served justice. Killers (mostly

Black Lives Matter, or BLM is a movement of protest against people who discriminate, who commit crimes, the people who have killed black people and have faced no charges for their actions. The Black Lives Matter movement originated in 2012 after the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, who of course, wasn’t charged for his crime. Although Zimmerman was not an officer of the law, the killing of Trayvon Martin was the last straw for a lot of people, which is where the Black Lives Matter movement was started.

A new hash tag emerged, #AllLivesMatter. For obvious reasons most would think that this hashtag was created to support the anti police brutality movement to society as a whole, though it was also used in the media to disregard the original reason for the hashtag that began the movement. Now we had people offended by the Black Lives Matter movement which some believed only favored the black race but disregarded everybody else’s need for protection. Though many missed the point to which the Black Lives Matter movement meant. In my opinion the movement was not to only focus on the blacks because of it being created by the black community, that would be selfish. Instead what the movement meant was to create efforts to address how targeted the black community is in this country and perhaps all over the world. Not to over shadow crimes of other racial groups as a

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.

Black Lives Matter, or BLM for short, is an activist group which originated in the states but has spread across large parts of the world, to protest the alleged systemic racism against white people. The movement has first seen acceptance after the shooting of black teen “Treyvon Martin” at the hands of George Michael Zimmerman on the 26th of February 2012. Following that event; the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was trending on several social media websites. The activist group was then officially founded on the 13 of July, 2013 by three African American community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomiti. At the time of its formation, BLM had seen broad acceptance, whether it being from African Americans, community leaders, celebrities, public figures and even the President himself who has invited BLM activist DeRay Mckesson, an outspoken civil rights activist, into the white house. Brittany Packnett, a Minneapolis-based Black Lives Matter activist and several others were also invited.