All Lives Matter (BLM) Movement Analysis

This written task is based around the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement which originated in the African-American community as a response to the violence and racism that was occurring towards them. The campaign’s mission is to create a society where black people are given as equal of an importance as others. I was inspired by an image of a diverse group of people, with the caption “All Lives Matter” (ALM) on Facebook. ALM is a campaign created by people who found BLM offensive, misunderstanding that the aim is to prioritize black lives above all others. ALM attempts to counter that claim by stating that police lives were also lost in the violence, and it was not only a “black tragedy”. This debate began because many people who were not African-American