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.

According to my text book, civil disobedience is the voluntarily breaking established laws based on one’s moral belief. I strongly believe that civil disobedience is never justified, regardless of the situation. Yes, something might be wrong according to your morals, but laws are in place to prevent chaos. All these events mentioned; war protesters, anti-abortion activist, Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter Movement, Charlottesville, Confederate statues, so on and so forth has created chaos throughout the United States.

The widely popular and controversial Black Lives Matter Movement not only draws attention to police brutality against black bodies, it also expose institutional racism seen within the public school system. Therefore, this movement becomes a valuable opportunity for both teachers and students to discuss race relations in classroom. So, how can classrooms benefit from and contribute to this movement? Studies show that if classrooms actively engage in relevant social issues teachers can improve the quality of instruction and actually maximizes students’ learning experience (Perlstein, 2002). A successful example of a revolution beginning in the classroom happened at the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School (OCS) established in 1971 (formerly

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.

In my research paper I will be addressing a movement known as “Black Lives Matter”. The topic of my paper will be discussing the oppression of African Americans in America. I will approach this topic by researching civil rights movements from the past that are similar to the current black lives matter movement. My research methods will include analyzing interviews from activist who participated in civil rights movement, reading articles and books for information on the topic. I will identify race issues in America between African Americans and whites. The goal of this research paper is to prove that the Black Lives Matter movement is the start of a new civil rights movement.

Black lives matter has become a great start to a new social justice movement across America. The support of this movement have grown ever so rapidly, since being founded in the summer of 2013. This social movement started the beginning of a fascinatingly new generational era of those represented in the black community, much of whom are the faces of society’s biggest victims of racial discrimination and oppression. The reason being is due to the fact of how this movement caught the public’s attention. That was through the power of the media, but most importantly social media. Many believe that cyberspace is what taints our generation’s mind by serving as a distraction which keeps us out of touch with realty. Though the founders of this movement

Have you heard about any peaceful protests turned violent recently? It’s statistically proven that the amount of riots have increased over the years. We often stop and ask ourselves why this is occurring, however we don’t go into extensive research as to why. We live in an era overwhelmed by violence and rage which is only expanding. Because racial profiling and police brutality has become such a major issue during recent time, the amount of riots have accumulated. Many mass rallies have occurred, per se the Black Lives Matter movement, the Rodney King riots, and the St. Louis protests.

In the early 1900’s Black unrest was starting to become permanent. African Americans across the US were realizing the situation they were in wasn’t right. They felt as though they needed to be treated equal and as actually people functioning in society. Leaders started to emerge such as W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. W.E.B DuBois was a scholar and political thinker who helped in finding the NAACP. He felt as though more Blacks needed to be educated in order to make a change. Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer who did the opposite of DuBois. He believed that Blacks should accept discrimination as it was and try and focus on bettering themselves. He believed that Blacks getting better education in areas such as industrial/farming

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

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

The Black Lives Matter movement is a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at the hands of police. It continues to gain public attention following to many incidents involving the deaths of unarmed black Americans during the encounter with the police. This issue is gaining widespread awareness from not only black but also white American adults, but attitudes about the movement vary considerably between groups.

Throughout the course of the month, we have as a class had several interesting discussions in relation to social inequality. The Black Live Matter movement and the different cases of shootings that has occurred recently have been one of the topics that we touched on in class. In the beginning of the month, when we were asked about our opinions and initial thoughts about the Black Lives Matter movement, one student mentioned the nowadays there are negative connotations regarding this movement instead of representing positivity and equality towards the lives of African Americans. I found this comment interesting because I also believe that there are several misconceptions regarding this matter. For example, many individuals still believe that

Black Lives Matter has been conducted for four years since 2013. Through the movement of Black Lives Matter make people pay more and more attention and improve the social status of blacks. Black Lives Matter already experienced eight stages of social movement which is the normal time, prove the failure of official institutions, ripening conditions, take-off, perceptions of failure, majority public opinion, success and continuing the struggle. Firstly, previously people did not pay great attention to the Black Lives Matter, however, in 2012. Martin was shot by neighbor George Zimmerman, Zimmerman was acquitted after a year and a half. After the event of three African-American women creates a ‘Black Lives Matter ‘slogan in the social media