Black Lives Matter Research Paper
Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. 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. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and perceived racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism. The originators of the hashtag, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, are working to rebuild the movement. In 2013, the movement began with
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Black Lives Matter was catalyzed due to the efforts of Alicia Graza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community. BLM campaigns against violence and systemic racism of racial profiling, police brutality, and perceived racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. For a group that started with a hashtag in 2012 after shooting death of Trayon Martin in Florida, it has grown into a social juggernaut. It has changed the way people talk about police brutality and …show more content…
A majority of the African American community feels as if absolute equality and freedoms are not yet at hand, for them and those that will come after them. “The majority of Americans haven’t embraced the activist’s message or strategies, fewer than a third of Americans said Black Lives Matter focuses on real issues of racial discrimination while 55 percent said movement distracts from those issues, according to a September PBS News Hour/Marist poll.” Another poll conducted that month by NBC News and Wall Street Journal found that 32 percent of Americans had mostly positive views of the movement, while 29 percent had mostly negative views and 39 percent were neutral.” This country has a history of disapproving of civil rights protest and demonstrations. There are remarkable differences between the civil rights movement and The Black Lives Matter, including approaches to protests and grass roots organizing. To ensure equal rights and some meaningful policy change still has yet to be
Black Lives Matter was catalyzed due to the efforts of Alicia Graza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community. BLM campaigns against violence and systemic racism of racial profiling, police brutality, and perceived racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. For a group that started with a hashtag in 2012 after shooting death of Trayon Martin in Florida, it has grown into a social juggernaut. It has changed the way people talk about police brutality and …show more content…
A majority of the African American community feels as if absolute equality and freedoms are not yet at hand, for them and those that will come after them. “The majority of Americans haven’t embraced the activist’s message or strategies, fewer than a third of Americans said Black Lives Matter focuses on real issues of racial discrimination while 55 percent said movement distracts from those issues, according to a September PBS News Hour/Marist poll.” Another poll conducted that month by NBC News and Wall Street Journal found that 32 percent of Americans had mostly positive views of the movement, while 29 percent had mostly negative views and 39 percent were neutral.” This country has a history of disapproving of civil rights protest and demonstrations. There are remarkable differences between the civil rights movement and The Black Lives Matter, including approaches to protests and grass roots organizing. To ensure equal rights and some meaningful policy change still has yet to be