Black Lives Movement Analysis

Created in the crucible of Black Lives Matter is a new generation of young, African American organizers and activists, with experience in strategy development, tactics, decision-making under pressure, coalition building, and clarity about long range, radical goals, about their vision. They are savvy and wise, filled with love and caring for each other and for everyone who has suffered the terror of police violence: youth, their families and loved ones, allied people of color, trans and LGBTQ youth, native and Palestinian people, victims of police violence and whole communities (Dohrn, 2015).
A. Problems with Black Lives Movement
According to the Black Lives Movement, there are eleven misconceptions about the black lives movement. First, the
They also address safe and affordable housing, issues with food security and reproductive challenges affecting poor women of color and all people needing access to reproductive care. Many people that come to the movement come from places that have already been working on these issues. Fifth, the movement has no respect for elders. It is an intergenerational movement, that has had some criticisms from the older generation activist about tactics and strategies. There are all ages, from the young to the old, working in solidarity. Sixth, the black church has no role to play. local preachers and pastors like Rev. Traci Blackmon, Rev. Starsky Wilson, and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou has emerged as what I call “Movement Pastors.” With their radical theologies of inclusion and investment in preaching a revolutionary Jesus (a focus on the parts of scripture where Jesus challenges the Roman power structure rather than the parts about loving one’s enemies) and their willingness to think of the church beyond the bounds of a physical structure or traditional worship, they are reimaging what notions of faith and church look like, and radically transforming the idea of what the 21st-century black church should be. Seventh, the
First, there is a division within the movement. Anytime you have a group of people fighting for the same goal, but they can’t all necessarily come together, there’s going to be some roadblocks. Secondly, there are financial problems. It’s a tough existence, especially if you’re part of a newer group that needs money but doesn’t want to raise that money off tragedy. Smaller groups and organizations that were created shortly after the unrest in Ferguson are broke. They can’t hire competent staff. Many activists feel it is wrong to turn around and ask for money when yet another unarmed black person dies at the hands of state violence or from a gun-wielding white supremacist. Even if you need it, the consensus seems to be that it looks terrible. Third, there is the matter of the government watching the movement. The Department of Homeland Security is watching; so is a cybersecurity firm that labeled Black Lives Matter protesters “threat actors.” The government has always kept an eye on black people who used the Bill of Rights to fight for their rights. Fourth, one of the measures of Black Lives Matter’s success both as a movement and as a communications strategy is the many co-optations that has happened around it, the best known of which is #AllLivesMatter, the hashtag that is one-part rebuttal and one part cover up for those who find talking about black lives and black people