What Does Black Lives Matter

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Ironically, “Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or, were armed or threatening the officer with potentially lethal force.” “Alternatively, some believe that these statistics are

American has a legacy of the mistreatment and disenfranchisement of African Americans. The same bad treatment that many think only took place in the past is in fact still intact, it’s just presented in a new way. The mass incarceration of blacks in the Unites States can be attributed to the “racial hierarchy” that has always existed. The U.S contributes to about 5% of the worlds overall population, and about 25% of the worlds prison population (Holland 1), “if those rates reflected jail, probation and parole populations, the numbers would rise exponentially”(Griffith 9). Statics show that there is a chance that about 1 in 3 black males are expected end up in prison (Jacobson). Although, in terms of the entire United States population African Americans only make up about 13% (Prison Activist Resource Center. Racism Fact Sheets: “ Latinos and the Criminal Injustice System.” 2003). There is a huge number of African Americans involved in the criminal justice system in some way. The average person does not know about mass incarceration nor about the racism that is in just about every part of the criminal justice system. When most people think about racism their thoughts often drift to slavery or Jim Crow laws, but for most, they do not consider how the amount of African Americans in prison today could be due to bias or racism. A significant cause of mass incarceration is the same racism that produced the Jim Crow era.

population, they account for 29% of arrests, 38% of prisoners in state and federal facilities, 42% of death penalty cases, and 37% of executions (Crutchfield, D. Robert & Fernandes,April & Martinez, Jorge 2010). The “land of the free” is home to mass incarceration and 2,306,200 million prisoners in the world. The system did not become broken overtime but rather it was built that way from the very beginning. The minorities mainly the African Americans have always been victims of oppression throughout history beginning with slavery and it continued to happen in our own constitution. Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. worked very hard to have white individuals understand that blacks were just as human as they were and they deserved to have rights as well as other Americans as it said in our own constitution, but to have voiced such leadership in the black community was frowned upon and needed to be shut down very quickly. This topic of discussion can be argued on either side of the spectrum but we all know deep down the injustice that there is in our criminal justice system. “History is not stuff that happens by accident, we are the products of the history our ancestors choose, if we were white. If we are black we are products of the history that our ancestors did not choose for us” (Averick, Spence & Barish, Howard & DuVernay, Ava,

While racism might appear to be the primary cause of a higher proportion of African American deaths by police, when comparing that to crime rates and police encounters by African Americans, the proportional gap significantly lessens. According to “the counted” police shootings database by the guardian newspaper, police shootings of African Americans in 2016 make up around 25% even though they only make up 13% of the population. This one statistic has led many people from the general public, media, and scholars to attribute this as evidence for racism. What they fail to mention however, is that according to the FBI database on crimes committed by race in 2011, African Americans commit 28.4% of all crimes, 50% of homicides, 55.6% of robberies, and 33.6% of aggravated

"Five police officers died and seven were injured," because of the protest of Black Lives Matter. The United States is becoming a divided country because of racial issues. This country has been dealing with racism ever since 1776; when America became a country.

Curiously, when comparing those views with the views on how police deal with minorities in a survey shortly after the Ferguson shooting when about three fourths of blacks said the incident brought up important issues about race. When only about one third of whites thought the same. In yet another poll in which blacks told of less trust than whites in local police to treat both races equally. A majority of whites expressed a great deal or fair amount of trust in local police to treat blacks and whites

Blacks are the largest racial minority in the population. Racial profiling and discrimination blacks has been to restrict the number of people who were able to get jobs that would support a middle-class lifestyle. Prisoners also tend to be less educated. The average state prisoner, according to Tsai & Scommegna (2012) “has a 10th grade education, and about 70 percent have not completed high school.” Incarceration rates are significantly higher for blacks and Latinos than for whites. In 2010, according to Tsai & Scommegna (2012)“black men were incarcerated at a rate of 3,074 per 100,000 residents.” These results, in my opinion, shows that is still more work to be done to make and create jobs and education a priority in America.

In a beautiful sunny day in Huntington Beach in 2013, surfers gathered around for the annual US open of Surfing competition, but it ended in a rampage. In the article “U.S. Open of Surfing Turns into Riot,” the reporter, Mark Lukach, reported that the catalyst of the riot was a fight. However, with the majority being white young adults, the police force applied a soft approach protocol. Despite the fact that the police immediately responded to the riot throwing tear gas to disperse the crowd, the riot resulted with thousands of dollars of property damage and with only eight people arrested. How is it possible that only eight people get arrested out of hundreds portraying a disruptive behavior? On the other hand, after 5 days in curfew in

All RES on African Americans is damaging, each individual is affected differently and to place emphasize on one effect or another seems invalidating. People continue to feel hopeless and powerless and feel that prejudice, discrimination and inequity are things they must accept. One, black or white, is taught to not speak up about prejudice, discrimination and inequity which then leads to resentment, shame and self blame. And it is this never ending cycle then leads to isolation, self-destructive behaviors, suicide to name a few.

Their opinions are in article 1 is that minorities should be treated equally by white police officers. The opinion in article 2 is that it is so terrible that police officers are getting attacked and they need to have better relationships with each other.

“Black Lives Matter” —an intended progression in society without a hierarchy, merely marching forward by spur of the people. Started by three sisters who continue to keep the organization a chapter-based, left wing social justice operation, it can best be described as “Not a moment, but a movement” by those that follow it. The case that began this outcry involved a man —George Zimmerman— whom, according to Lizette Alvarez and Cara Buckley (2013), “was found not guilty [of] second-degree murder [and] was also acquitted of manslaughter, a lesser charge.” (para. 1). Since its initial start in 2013, the movement follows and protests against police brutality and civil injustice towards individuals of the Black minority; however, this is a prime example of hate breeding hate as the movement, has opened a new floodgate full of antipathy aimed towards the White-community and Law Enforcement Officials. In short, the initial idea of “Black Lives Matter” —which is to bring civil justice to the Black-community— is a good concept, but the execution by its adherents are, ironically, bigoted; the movement needs to either evolve its state of thought or disperse before it further segregates America.

A movement known as Black Lives Matter was created due to the injustices that minority men specifically African Ameircan. Black Lives Matter also known as BLM is an activist group that campaigns against violence and racism towards Black individuals (cite). BLM focuses on bring attention to things such as police brutaility, racial profiling and overall racial inequality that exists in society today. This movement gained exposure during the widely covered case of Trayvon Martin. On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed 17 year old trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was a neighborhoos watchman who called police to say that a suspicious man was walkinging around the neighborhood with a hood on. The police told Zimmerman to retreat back to

First off would like to stated what black lives matter means doesn’t mean that a black person is seen as better than anyone else but that we as a group are focusing on the issues that protein to black people. The fact that we have to explain ourselves to you means there a problem. Why should I have to beg for my life . to beg that my life matters. I am not 3/5s of a person. i traded my skin color for my freedom the moment I came into the world we are tired now were getting restless. Its 2016 but we still have to march against our own government. The only thing that has changed over the years is technology. Not the people as black people we are enslaved just the setting is different they are keeping it low so the younger generations can say

I have a short term and long term desired outcomes that I would like to achieve with my action plan. My short-term outcome would be to educate black Americans on the purpose behind Black Lives Matters. For black Americans to understand that black lives matters is not just about black who have been killed by the police but about black lives. My long term desired outcome of this action plan is for the movement to gain momentum and work towards the change in racial injustice. If the church is able to start participating in black lives matter events or host events they will be able to reach more people, and potentially a “snowball” effect could occur.