Discrimination, segregation,racism, oppression,and injustice in the court of law are things my generation’s ancestors went through and today most of us to be truthful. Black Lives Matter is not just a phrase to say we are superior to other races or we are better. It really depends on who you talk to see what Black Lives Matter means. Black Lives Matter is a movement that represents black people matter too. This movement came about with all the traumatic things that has been happening to African Americans. Hopefully I will not have to experience any of these things. The uproar of Black Lives Matter was really brought on with all of the police brutality that has been happening to majority African American people that has been killed by white
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
Over 100 years ago, the term slaves arose when blacks were separated from their families and freedom. They were forced into hard working labor and all rights obtained previously was confiscated by white individuals. 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 was seized from them years ago. Approximately 5 years ago, the Black Lives Matter movement became an active nationwide organization involved to protecting the lives of African Americans, all occurring due to the unjustifical death of Trayvon Martin. Unlike other civil rights movements, the Black Lives Matter
In spite of the fact that Black Lives Matter sends a clear message that African Americans are being targeted in America, some disagree with the movement's approach and its exclusion of other ethnic groups. Former editor and columnist for USA Today, Barbara Reynolds, uses the Washington Post to share her views toward Black Lives Matter movement. In her article, she expresses "I support BLM's cause, but not its approach." She illustrates on how BLM's approach is remotely defying and disgraceful to proven methods of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's nonviolent tradition. As a former civil rights activist, Reynolds feels like BLM opposes the structure of peaceful protesting in regards to BLM's "demonstration peppered with hate speeches, profanity, and
2016 has not reached the end of its year, and yet there is already an accumulation of controversy questioning modern movements' civility in today's society. Undoubtedly the most popularly controversial of all modern movements, however, is the Black Lives Matter movement. While they are a vocal group advocating against police brutality in concern of the well-being for fellow African Americans, their reputation does not exactly agree with this ideal. In other words, their methods of advocating appears to be rather aggressive, which especially targets police officers. Civility has become an alarmingly nonexistent concept in modern movements, and the Black Lives Matter must bring civility in order to save their purpose, as well as their reasoning
People formed black lives matter to defend the rights and lives of black people who still suffer from the atrocities of racism. “Black Lives Matter is an activist movement that was formed to campaign against racism and what its members consider police brutality against African Americans.(Murphy)” People have joined together around the world to protect themselves against what they believe to be police brutality. The movement have caused people of every race to join together and protest for their rights. Black Lives Matter does not focus on one person as their leader so there is no one above anyone in the group. “Black Lives Matter does not center on a single visible leader, but encourages the leadership of all of its members.(Murphy)” In Black Lives Matter everyone works together and encourages everyone to be a leader. Black Lives Matter encourages people to work together and be their own leader. The people of the organization have protests to disrupt political meetings and events to show to the government how committed they are. “The movement has staged hundreds of demonstrations around the world and has attracted attention for disrupting government meetings and political events.(Murphy)” The people of the movement have shown much courage standing up to police and even having meetings during political events. The members show
“We are outraged and heartbroken over today’s verdict,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the N.A.A.C.P. “We stand with Trayvon’s family and we are called to act. We will pursue civil rights charges with the Department of Justice, we will continue to fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state and we will not rest until racial profiling in all its form is outlawed.”
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.
A controversial topic brings up both good and bad opinions from others. It is a disagreement typically when prolonged, public and heated. A controversial topic can affect society as a whole because of everyone’s different opinions and reactions to certain topics. The Black Lives Matter movement created controversy between different mind groups who agree and disagree with their movement campaign.
Black Lives Matter is a remarkable commitment that goes past extrajudicial killings of Black individuals by police and vigilantes. Black Lives Matter began online shortly after the not-guilty verdict in the killing of Trayvon Martin, and it ported over to the streets not long after the killing of Michael Brown. Black Lives Matter is a movement, and cry for racial justice. When we say Black Lives Matter, we are expanding the discussion around state viciousness to incorporate the greater part of the courses in which Black individuals are deliberately left feeble on account of the state. We are discussing the routes in which Black lives are denied our fundamental human rights and respect.
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
As a child, growing up you are taught that in America everyone regardless of race has certain civil liberties and freedoms that many of our ancestors fought for and paid with their lives. But as you age and grow wiser, you face the fact that many of us are still discriminated tormented and even killed because of their race.You come to the realization that black people today are not truly free. The Black Lives Matter organization has proved to the nation that black people are far from true equality and freedom. They fight against the institutionalized racism and oppression of black people that continues to plague our society today by speaking out and protesting against the cruel ways Black people continue to be treated. The movement breaks the
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.
Why did the Black Lives Matter movement begin? How did it come about? Is systematic oppression towards blacks a real enough issue in the United States in order for them to raise concern? Along with police brutality? And discrimination? They simply cannot just be made up concepts. For that reason, Black Lives Matter was coincidentally created. Black Lives Matter is a social movement that desires to bring attention that black lives matter, too. I believe the movement wants to acknowledge that black people too deserve the justice they are currently not receiving. The Black Lives Matter movement, being as pro-black as it is, does not and will never mean another race is valued less than that of a black life. The movement simply wants to gain
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.
Racism has been around for ages; it’s just something that we can never put in our rearview mirror. Even when we thought that the racial prejudism was over in the 60’s when the Jim Crow laws were lifted, they weren’t. We are now seeing that here within the past few years. It has something to do with “almost 90 percent of white people being bias towards white people instead of black people” (Article 31). The racism has grown to hatred from both the black community and white community towards each other. What was once white people having a dying hatred towards black people has gone to black people having hatred towards the white community, including all police officers; we can see this hatred through the Black Lives Matter movement.