Analysis: The Black Lives Matter Movement

The social justice teaching(SJT) of rights and responsibility, states that the Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved, only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency. My controversial issue that I chose was the Black Lives Matter movement and its major impact on our society. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people. The Black Lives Matter movement formed back in July of 2013 but has only increased its recognition into today’s media and society. The Black Lives Matter movement is noteworthy because the movement has intentionally extracted itself from the black religious community, while also utilizing the religious spaces, people, and ideologies as a part of its transformative work. By doing this, the movement itself is targeted rather than the whole Black religious community. This shows that the religious groups seem to be on the edge, or not involved with the movement. This is a powerful move for the Black religious community, for most of the young Black activists, they revolve their principles around issues of hierarchy, respectability,
Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behavior and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. The main background piece for Black Lives Matter is that the African-American community wants to be heard, and they want everyone else to realize that they deserve to have their rights to be protected as everyone else’s is